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Saturday Night Live sent its Weekend Update team of Michael Che and Colin Jost out to Cleveland to help MSNBC’s coverage of the 2016 Republican National Convention with a special live midnight edition of their newsy joke segment tonight. But Kate McKinnon made an appearance, too, and quickly reasserted herself …
Desperate times call for desperate measures. The Emmy Awards announced nominees last week for the first time in some 16 years not naming Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert. On Monday night, both returned to late-night TV in glorious measure. Stephen Colbert teased Stewart’s appearance on The Late Show, but it …
Joshua D. Fischer began interviewing famous fun and funny folks for the blog, Bedford + Bowery. After talking to a couple dozen such people, Fischer decided to expand his project into a book. “Meet The Regulars” finds Fischer meeting people at their favorite spots in Brooklyn — 41 interviews, 123 photos, …
The Kennedy Center announced today that it’ll award Bill Murray the 2016 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Said Murray in a statement: “I believe Mark Twain has rolled over in his grave so much for so long, that this news won’t disturb his peace.” And from Kennedy Center President Deborah …
Phil Hartman was “The Glue” that held together the all-time greatest cast among several generations of famous funny comedians on Saturday Night Live over the past 41 years. So Hartman’s death at 49, murdered by his third wife in his sleep on May 28, 1998, brought a brilliant career so suddenly …
In his second time hosting Saturday Night Live, Drake went meta for his monologue, not only acknowledging how much of his work inspires memes, but also giving meme-makers more to work with thanks to a brief impersonation of memes as he delivered a rap on memes. Roll the meme!
Brie Larson hosted Saturday Night Live for the Mother’s Day weekend episode, but SNL star Dana Carvey returned in a bit of a surprise to open the show this weekend with his holy mother of a favorite sketch from the 1980s, The Church Lady’s “Church Chat” talk show. Well, isn’t …
Saturday Night Live has mocked advertising and our relationship with it over 41 seasons. From the first season’s Bass-O-Matic, down through the years from Mom Jeans to Bad Idea Jeans, Schmitts Gay beer and Colon Blow cereal. But now, for every fake ad SNL may air after the guest host’s monologue …
On TV last night, NBC broadcast a special tribute episode of Saturday Night Live for Prince — who died unexpectedly Thursday at 57 — including sketches of Fred Armisen impersonating Prince alongside Maya Rudolph as Beyonce. Over on HBO, Beyonce was dropping a surprise album of music videos. As for Rudolph, she was …
With a major Democratic presidential candidate debate in Brooklyn on Thursday night, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus hosting Saturday Night Live on Saturday, how could SNL not reunite Dreyfus with her Seinfeld co-creator? That the show did so right up front wasn’t a surprise, nor that Larry David returned once more to …
