The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Noël Wells made an immediate first impression in her Saturday Night Live debut in September. Standing out from the pack of new cast members — all of whom were teasingly introduced by host Tina Fey in the season-premiere’s monologue — Wells stepped forward in the very next moment, a digital …
When Michael Che abruptly cancelled his planned Edinburgh run for this summer, he told fans he had good reason for it. That reason? Che will start work in June as the newest correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He’ll finish his first full season as a …
Sometimes it feels as if Saturday Night Live‘s dirty little secrets aren’t secret any longer. If they ever were. And I’m not talking about the infamous cocaine-fueled writing sessions of the original cast and staff of the late 1970s, either. No. The dirtier secret of SNL is that 39 seasons …
Kate McKinnon is the star of Saturday Night Live. Anna Kendrick has superstar talent. Tell me something I don’t know! Because now you know. Well, here’s something. A guy I work with at another thing got closer to Kendrick on TV and in life than I ever have, and that …
Blink and you missed it! It doesn’t have a premiere date on FOX yet, but Mulaney, the starring sitcom vehicle for stand-up comedian John Mulaney, debuted the first clip from its first six episodes on Thursday night’s Late Night with Seth Meyers on NBC. Meyers introduced Mulaney with a clip …
Here’s another Saturday Night Live sketch with host Louis C.K. that didn’t make it past Saturday night’s dress rehearsal. One man’s space junk is another man’s space hunk, am I right? This sketch, “Space Encounter,” takes the Star Trek motif, puts CK in Klingon get-ups or whatnot — they never …
The beauty of Saturday Night Live remains right there in its title. No matter how much funnier and slicker the pre-taped sketch videos for SNL may be in any given week, and there have been more of them in the past year, too — the things that can happen or …
Saturday Night Live just released an extended blooper reel of sorts, as it shows the extended takes of Bobby Moynihan’s scenes in the 12 Years A Slave audition sketch video. Worth it just for the priceless laughing and smiling fits it brings on in Vanessa Bayer as one of the …
This wasn’t so much a sketch from last weekend’s Saturday Night Live, insomuch as it’s a re-enactment of an actual backstage encounter cast member Vanessa Bayer had with her colleagues and host Lena Dunham. So let’s set this clip up. Bayer learned a new dance move for Beyonce’s song, “Partition,” …
Look. Sometimes you’re not anywhere near home or a TV on a Saturday night, nor even Sunday night, after you’ve seen several cast members of Saturday Night Live at a comedy festival, and then it’s Monday morning and you’re about to see and hear Lena Dunham give a keynote speech …
