The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Lots of comings and goings this summer inside 30 Rock’s offices and studios for Saturday Night Live. Long story short: Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson and Kyle Mooney bid adieu at the season 47 finale in May. In August, NBC revealed that Alex Moffat, Melissa Villasenor and Aristotle Athari …
Netflix is getting back into the business of producing half-hour comedy specials. Today the streaming giant announced the six-pack of stand-up comedians who’ll tape their half-hours for season three of The Standups. This new season will tape before live audiences in New York City this summer, and premiere on Netflix …
A year ago, most comedy clubs had shuttered for the pandemic, leaving stand-ups to go to whatever lengths to find live audiences, from parks to rooftops and anywhere in between where they could set up a microphone, an amplifier, and spaced seating. This summer? We haven’t outlasted the COVID-19 pandemic, …
By now, you’re well past used to seeing Saturday Night Live open cold at 11:30 p.m. Eastern with a political sketch lampooning Trump. Not this Saturday night. Instead, 10 cast members from SNL — Aidy Bryant, Kenan Thompson, Melissa Villaseñor, Mikey Day, Luke Null, Chris Redd, Kyle Mooney, Colin Jost, Beck …
For all of the talk about cast changes, stunt casting and the word that Saturday Night Live would have fewer ad time this year, the 42nd season premiere felt a bit underwhelming, didn’t it? That’s not to take anything away from the three new cast members. Mikey Day (promoted from …
Saturday Night Live has confirmed that it’s adding Melissa Villaseñor and Alex Moffat to the cast as featured players for season 42. I told you over the weekend that they were both finalists for the gig, along with Chris Redd, who had The Lonely Island vouching for him after his breakout …
What happens when comedians sit down with Lorne Michaels remains such an enigma shrouded in mystique that Marc Maron has made it a staple of his popular podcast. In fact, it’s one of the ultimate WTF moments in comedy. Does Lorne outright hire anyone for Saturday Night Live, or does …
The USA network not only announced that Freddie Prinze Jr. will host the upcoming first season of Dana Carvey’s televised comedy showcase showdown, First Impressions, but also revealed who’ll be competing to show off their best celebrity impersonations this May. They include at least two comedians who have made the …
Más Mejor, the new comedy channel by and for Latino comedians, has launched today. It comes from Broadway Video and puts two of that company’s famous Saturday Night Live alumni front and center: Horatio Sanz and Fred Armisen. And here they are in their “first” unboxing video as Cuban toy collectors. …
Melissa Villasenor, last seen by you on your TVs last summer on NBC’s America’s Got Talent (and last seen by Canadians in Montreal’s Just For Laughs shows last week), has unveiled a new impersonation. And it’s none other than new TV hitmaker and stand-up comedian Whitney Cummings. Check it out. …
