The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Look, just because Facebook helped convince Lorne Michaels that Betty White could host Saturday Night Live in her 80s (with a little help from several former SNL ladies), that doesn't mean everybody else should be mounting a campaign to host the show. Which is where Cookie Monster comes in. Cookie …
Jay Pharoah is a very confident young man. And yet he is still a young man. Both of those things were plainly evident as Pharoah became one of the quickest SNL hires to get a sit-down with David Letterman on last night's Late Show. If you were hoping to learn …
In a season in which multiple blogs have accused SNL of lifting sketch ideas from other shows and sites, here is evidence that parallel thinking goes both ways, parallel speaking. Funny or Die has a new "exclusive" video today of British hottie Kelly Brook advertising a product to help the …
Hey kids, just in time for Thanksgiving, but not in time to make it into last night's live episode of SNL, the show presented the "Thanksgivies," awards handed out to various family members for ruining Thanksgiving dinner. Categories included: Best Guilt Trip, Most Uncomfortable Grace, Best Drunken Revelation, and Lifetime …
We've been up, we've been down, but we are strong, heartache to heartache we stand, ready to recap another episode of Saturday Night Live. Anne Hathaway gets her second chance to host the show. She's a lovely young actress, who in her new movie that comes out this month, takes …
Why does this season of Saturday Night Live feel like it's just missing a certain something? Or is it a certain someone? Cannot put my finger on it. Each week this fall, critics have pointed fingers at the show, claiming it lifted a sketch premise from this place or that …
The folks at Access Hollywood asked Denzel Washington on the red carpet for his new movie, Unstoppable, what he thought about comedian Jay Pharoah's impersonation of Denzel on SNL. His answer may surprise you. Roll it!
Since it has been statistically proven that people love statistics about Saturday Night Live, let's figure out how strongly SNL feels about the women of SNL, as depicted last night on the NBC two-hour special, The Women of SNL. Because not all women of SNL are created equal. Apparently. By …
Face it. When you heard Jon Hamm was hosting with Rihanna on Oct. 30, 2010, you figured this was a slam-dunk of a Saturday Night Live. Set the DVR, because even if you did happen to be in front of a television on Saturday night, you'd want to relive the …
Vanessa Bayer is a featured cast member on Saturday Night Live this season. Three years ago, she was just another single face on Comcast's Dating on Demand. If you were in Chicago in 2007, you could have looked her up on your cable TV as sassy2 and asked her out …