SNL hires Nick Rutherford to reunite, write with his Good Neighbor mates
by A season after hiring three-fourths of the sketch group Good Neighbor, two as cast members and one as a director of their digital shorts, Saturday …
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SNL’s Hans and Franz pump up Green Bay QB Aaron Rodgers for new Discount Double-Check ad
When the Green Bay Packers take on the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks tonight to open the 2014 NFL season, Packers QB Aaron Rodgers …
SNL’s 40th anniversary includes State Farm partnership bringing back Hans & Franz, Richmeister for NFL ads with Aaron Rodgers
To say this year’s State Farm “Discount Double Check” TV campaign is copying what worked for them last year isn’t saying it all. Say “makin’ …
R.I.P. Don Pardo, 1918-2014
Don Pardo was such a fixture of Saturday Night Live that it’ll even take creating executive producer Lorne Michaels a few years still to catch …
John Milhiser’s year on SNL: “It was the year I felt the least funny”
Just after getting fired from Saturday Night Live, cast member John Milhiser kept his date as a talk-show guest for Running Late with Scott Rogowsky …
Steve Hofstetter wins late-night Saturday trial with FOX for his stand-up showcase, “Laughs”
The first time I heard about Steve Hofstetter, he was promoting a cure for The Cable Guy? Was it Prilosec? Was it Netflix? Who knows …
Noel Wells, John Milhiser also one-and-done, out of SNL; Nasim Pedrad leaves for “Mulaney” on FOX
We all knew it wouldn’t last. Saturday Night Live enjoyed its largest cast in more than two decades for season 39, but with the coming …
Brooks Wheelan fired after one season on Saturday Night Live
Brooks Wheelan was a last-minute addition to the cast of Saturday Night Live, originally hired on last summer as a writer. On Monday, after a …
66th Primetime Emmy Nominations in Comedy
Here are your nominees for 2014 Emmy Awards in TV comedy. Will update with more categories and breakdowns, but for now, congrats to all! Making …
Sneak Peek! Meet NBC’s “Untitled Sketch Comedy Pilot” Primetime Players
Forty years ago, NBC assembled a group of “Not Ready For Prime-Time Players” for a live televised sketch comedy show on Saturday nights. Can they …