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Tag: SNL

Amy Schumer’s first Saturday Night Live monologue
Saturday Night Live / TV

Amy Schumer’s first Saturday Night Live monologue

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyOctober 12, 2015October 12, 2015

Amy Schumer’s first monologue as host of Saturday Night Live (because Lorne Michaels and company surely will invite her back again) provided not only a flurry …

Horatio Sanz, Fred Armisen help launch new Broadway Video outpost for Latino comedy: Mas Mejor
TV / Video

Horatio Sanz, Fred Armisen help launch new Broadway Video outpost for Latino comedy: Mas Mejor

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthySeptember 30, 2015October 2, 2015

Former Saturday Night Live stars Horatio Sanz and Fred Armisen are helping their boss’s Broadway Video maintain some sense of diversity by incubating young Latino …

James Adomian’s Bernie Sanders impersonation takes over @midnight
TV / Video

James Adomian’s Bernie Sanders impersonation takes over @midnight

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthySeptember 18, 2015

Donald Trump impersonations are a dime a dozen, although, obviously any Trump impersonator or The Donald himself would tell you that’s worth billions of dimes. …

TV

2015 Creative Arts Emmy Awards winners in comedy

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthySeptember 14, 2015September 14, 2015

The Television Academy has so many categories and nominees to honor each year that it holds two separate ceremonies, naming winners this past weekend in …

Saturday Night Live hires Jon Rudnitsky as featured cast member for Season 41
Saturday Night Live / TV

Saturday Night Live hires Jon Rudnitsky as featured cast member for Season 41

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 31, 2015August 31, 20151

Saturday Night Live has done it again, plucking a “New Face” from Montreal’s Just For Laughs in July to join its cast come September, hiring …

Humorous homages, deep laughs: From SNL to IFC and “Documentary Now!”
TV

Humorous homages, deep laughs: From SNL to IFC and “Documentary Now!”

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 20, 2015August 20, 2015

It’s no secret that some of Saturday Night Live‘s most striking work in recent years has not come via live TV, but come alive via …

Tracy Morgan’s TV comeback will commence by hosting SNL!
Saturday Night Live / TV

Tracy Morgan’s TV comeback will commence by hosting SNL!

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 17, 2015

In this summer of Schumer, the only thing that can eclipse the announcement by Saturday Night Live today that Amy Schumer will make her hosting …

KFC replaces Darrell Hammond with Norm Macdonald as Colonel Sanders in new commercials
Video

KFC replaces Darrell Hammond with Norm Macdonald as Colonel Sanders in new commercials

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 17, 2015August 17, 20151

Just a few months after Kentucky Fried Chicken revived its famous founding father, Colonel Sanders, via Saturday Night Live‘s Darrell Hammond, the fast-food chicken giant …

Review: Jay Pharoah, “Can I Be Me?” on Showtime
CDs/DVDs / Reviews / TV

Review: Jay Pharoah, “Can I Be Me?” on Showtime

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 1, 2015

Despite portraying the President of the United States for several years on network television via Saturday Night Live, and singlehandedly winning the MTV Video Music …

R.I.P. George Coe (1929-2015)
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R.I.P. George Coe (1929-2015)

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJuly 21, 20151

George Coe appeared in multiple episodes with the original cast of Saturday Night Live, but only credited as a ‘Not Ready for Prime Time Player” …

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