The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In a press release this morning, NBC confirmed that Zach Galifianakis would return to host Saturday Night Live on March 12, with musical guest Jessie J. Galifianakis hosted last season, performing stand-up for his monologue and also shaving his beard for a sketch. Lorne Michaels also revealed overnight that Elton …
Credit Bill Hader for giving John Mulaney credit throughout this panel chat on tonight's Late Show with David Letterman, as Hader cracks up explaining how he cracks up whenever he performs the "Stefon" character on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update. "I've laughed every — dress and air — I've laughed …
There's so much news going on in the world, you guys, and a cable news network that's on 24/7 can only cover so much of it. Especially when you carve out three minutes at midday for an awkward live interview from MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer, featuring Saturday Night Live's Kenan …
For the first time in almost two decades, Mike Myers joined Dana Carvey on the Saturday Night Live stage to reunite for a Wayne's World sketch. Wayne's World! Party time! Excellent! But first: A special note. SNL's cold open began with a voiceover from the late Phil Hartman. While the live …
For those nostalgic for early 1990s SNL, the return of Dana Carvey as host would bring back memories, but Justin Bieber wasn't even alive during those years — which makes it that much more awkward to hear Carvey as the Church Lady get all hot and bothered over him. Then …
As we become more and more interconnected by the series of tubes that contains the wires that shuttles the data that makes up the World Wide Web, it must be that much more difficult to come up with an idea that somebody else hasn't already thought up and posted up …
Having already posted two big SNL sketches from last weekend on Saturday night, I wanted to step back from the show and come back to it later. So here we are. Later. Within a few seconds of watching Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's alternate response to President Obama's State of …
The Lonely Island unveiled their latest music video and song for their upcoming second album, with the creeptastic "The Creep," featuring the boys — Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone — in suits and pencil-thin mustaches. They crept and lept across the dance floor in various situations, until they were …
Facebook founder-turned-billionaire Mark Zuckerberg proved he had a sense of humor — and proved Friday's rumors correct — by showing up for a cameo during the monologue on Saturday Night Live. Zuckerberg read his cue cards like any true SNL first-timer, first backstage with Lorne Michaels complaining about how Andy …
Gwyneth Paltrow has hosted before. Remember when everyone made a big deal because Ben Affleck made a surprise cameo, and when we learned that Paltrow and Maya Rudolph were besties? Well, in 2011, Affleck isn't walking through that door, and it's doubtful that Rudolph is walking through that door, either. …