The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Season finales of Saturday Night Live are more often than not equal parts graduation and reunion for each year’s class of cast members. Even more so, when a former cast member of SNL returns home to host. This year, this 39th season, came to a close with even more at …
Maya Rudolph’s variety show pilot has a title, premiere date and guest list, all coming at us next month on NBC. The Maya Rudolph Show will debut at 10 p.m. Monday, May 19, 2014, with guests Kristen Bell, Andy Samberg, Fred Armisen, Craig Robinson, Sean Hayes and Chris Parnell, with …
When you think of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” America’s national anthem, you may think of sporting events and patriotic occasions both celebratory and solemn. But you probably don’t think of comedians singing it. That doesn’t mean funny people cannot or could not have the musical chops and gravitas to pull it …
Comedians have many opportunities to showcase their big-screen talents throughout the calendar year at film festivals around the world. We pay special attention to Sundance because it comes first in the year, each January, and with it the first best chance for any small independent film to find a larger …
Seth MacFarlane’s foul-mouthed teddy bear of a movie, Ted, has earned more than $500 million in box-office receipts around the world since hitting your nearby cineplex in June, despite its R rating by the MPAA. Remarkable? Certainly. But tops in the business? Not quite. Not yet. Top 10 Rated-R comedy …
A few days ago, actor Terry Crews popped up in a new series of videos on Funny or Die in character as President Camacho. Not President Barack Obama, but Camacho, a role Crews had played in Mike Judge’s 2006 film, Idiocracy. Why Idiocracy? And why now? Judge’s directorial big-screen follow-up …
Music fans excited to see the reunion of power-pop band That Dog last weekend in Los Angeles received a bonus treat at the Troubadour, as Maya Rudolph revealed she fronts a Prince cover band called Princess! Now we know that if Fred Armisen had ever faltered in his Saturday Night …
