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This May, two similar yet tonally completely different sketch series premiered on HBO and HBO Max from the orbit of Saturday Night Live. And now we’ll be able to see what Michael Che and Sam Jay have to say with a second season! Today HBO Max announced the renewal of …
Another of the original writers for Saturday Night Live has died. Anne Beatts, who was the first woman hired to help edit The National Lampoon, and after SNL went on to create the cult sitcom Square Pegs, died Wednesday. Beatts was 74. Her former colleague, SNL’s Laraine Newman, confirmed the …
An update from The Peoples Improv Theater! Today The PIT announced the first 20 recipients of the program’s new SNL Scholarships. Applicants will receive: 5 classes from across The PIT’s remote classes offerings for NYC-based applicants, 3 classes for Chapel Hill-based applicants. A monthly check-in meeting with The PIT to …
Sixteen minutes! Smoking inside during COVID! Dave Chappelle gave zero fucks tonight, delivering the monologue after the 2020 election, returning to SNL four years after he had hosted in the wake of Trump’s 2016 win. Lots of things to talk about, but Chappelle first focused on his own heritage, namely …
John Mulaney returned to host SNL for a fourth time, and this time coincided with Halloween, and the weekend before the 2020 presidential election. Mulaney had jokes about voting, but not about Halloween to share in his monologue. I’ll give you my full thoughts in my full episode recap for …
In the build-up to season 46 of Saturday Night Live, NBC announced that the sketch-comedy TV institution would be partnering with select comedy theaters and schools across the country to offer scholarships. Now we’re starting to see how that’ll look, and it looks like each of the four institutions involved …
After three decades of stand-up comedy, Bill Burr finally landed “a lifelong dream” by hosting Saturday Night Live in October 2020. He covered familiar themes from his catalog, updated for today. Among them: Earth’s overpopulation, and the audacity of white women. Suffice it to say, people who weren’t familiar with …
Chris Rock hosted the season 46 premiere of Saturday Night Live, and set the tone for his eight-minute monologue, emerging from the traditional entry wearing a mask as the SNL house band was safely behind two plexiglass partitions. Rock quickly de-masked, though, holding it for the monologue, and letting us …
Even a head writer for Saturday Night Live knows certain comedy sketches won’t fly on live television on NBC, even late at night. So Michael Che is starting his own sketch comedy series for HBO Max. It’s still untitled, but the Untitled Michael Che Project has a six-episode order, with each episode …
For more than 30 years, we’ve seen Wally Feresten emerge from time to time, from just off-camera to on camera, as the longtime cue card guy for Saturday Night Live (as well as NBC’s Late Night franchise). When TV went into quarantine in March, and resumed broadcasting from home, that …
