The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What do you get the First Lady who turns 50? How about a woman almost half her age who can make fun of her on Saturday Night Live? It took until now for SNL to hire a cast member who could impersonate Michelle Obama, and we’ll likely see Sasheer Zamata …
Bobby Moynihan stars in the upcoming FX animated series, Chozen, which brought him on a promotional visit Thursday to Late Show with David Letterman. But Letterman also wanted to know just how Moynihan got on Saturday Night Live to begin with; for starters, performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre for …
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 …
Less than one week into 2014 and it’s already a big year for Seth Meyers. The former head writer of Saturday Night Live and soon-to-be former SNL Weekend Update anchor showed us on Sunday that he’s not moving all that far when he takes over Late Night on Feb. 24, …
The Christmas holiday edition of Saturday Night Live usually offers something special for viewers and cast alike — from the big-time surprise celebrity cameos, to Christmas cheer, to the now-traditional post-SNL all-skate on the rink outside 30 Rock at Rockefeller Plaza. Add in a host who’s not only a cherished …
John Goodman has hosted Saturday Night Live for 13 times. Thirteen times! And it was just Friday the 13th! How could we be so lucky? And yet, hard not to believe that this episode of SNL would not be overshadowed by news about casting for SNL, stunt cameos on SNL, …
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 …
With promotion overload this week featuring the cast of Anchorman 2, and Paul Rudd already hosting this weekend’s Saturday Night Live, and the fact that the movie stars and was written/directed by SNL alums, it was beyond inevitable that we’d see some crossover last Saturday night. We did. And then …
Hey, what’s the biggest movie in America this weekend? The new Hunger Games? Great. Let’s get the star of that to host Saturday Night Live. What, Jennifer Lawrence isn’t available again? Let’s get the other guy. How about the other other guy. The one who appeals to teen girls. The …
Here’s a sketch that didn’t make the cut after dress rehearsal to air live on Saturday Night Live this past weekend. Lady Gaga takes the helm quite literally in “Female Sea Captains,” a sketch set “centuries ago” in Portsbridge, Conn., in a little-known era when all the male sailors fell …
