The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Norm Macdonald is as straight a shooter of one-liners and longer punchline-laden jokes as there has ever been in stand-up comedy. It made his tenure as Weekend Update anchor stand out so much he was the only one fired from his Saturday Night Live gig midseason. It has made his …
I had a vision in the hours leading up to Saturday Night Live‘s massive SNL40 celebration on Sunday night of what it could be — a series of live tributes presented by past cast members and delivered to the current cast members onstage who have taken their torches and run …
In his new biography of SNL legend Phil Hartman out today, “You Might Remember Me: The Life and Times of Phil Hartman,” Chicago Sun-Times newspaper reporter Mike Thomas captures the man who represented “the glue” of Saturday Night Live during what many consider its greatest cast era of the late …
What did you do on your summer vacation? Michael Che — who left the Saturday Night Live writing staff in May to join The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as an on-air correspondent and hooked up with Funny or Die’s Oddball Festival for four tour stops in August — is …
Jay Baruchel is FXX’s newest leading man, starring in the upcoming Man Seeking Woman, ordered to a 10-episode season today by the cable network. Coming in 2015, Man Seeking Woman stars Baruchel as Josh Greenberg, “a naive romantic on a desperate quest for love” — based on Simon Rich’s book …
This picture has been making the Internet rounds again today, and since today is Thursday, let’s consider it #TBT and revisit the desk of Lorne Michaels at Saturday Night Live. This is how Michaels let his desk look for the December 2007 issue of Vanity Fair. How does it look …
When NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams announces your hiring, then you know you’ve arrived — no matter the job. Such was the case Monday night for comedian Sasheer Zamata, added to the cast of Saturday Night Live as a featured player. SNL is still on winter break, so Zamata …
For the past several years, Saturday Night Live always has pushed back against criticism about its lack of racial/ethnic diversity by claiming that it’s about the content of its comedy, and not the color of its cast members — and besides, Nasim Pedrad is Iranian. Well, Pedrad is bound for …
If you thought the timing of casting Kerry Washington as guest host of Saturday Night Live seemed suspicious when you first heard about it a couple of weeks ago, then seeing what happened live on Saturday night on NBC…wow. Just wow. Before you launch into your arguments about how SNL …
Congratulations to stand-up comedian John Mulaney, whose NBC pilot this year found a new life and a new home on FOX, as the latter network made a deal ordering Mulaney to series on Wednesday. It’s a semi-autobiographical multi-camera comedy, with at least six episodes to start, following Mulaney’s life as …
