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Live from New York and a Ben & Jerry‘s scoop shop near you, it’s new Saturday Night Live flavors! Lazy Sunday: Vanilla cake batter ice cream base with chocolate and yellow cupcake pieces & a chocolate frosting swirl. Inspired by The Lonely Island’s digital smash hit for SNL with the …
Jon Lovitz is singing for his supper this summer. And he’s not pathologically lying about it this time. Nor is he ACTING! Lovitz is one of the competitors in ABC’s summer celebreality stunt, Sing Your Face Off, which debuts Saturday night with back-to-back episodes from 9 to 11 p.m. Eastern/Pacific. …
Jay-Z has 99 problems. Jay Pharoah has problems, too. His are, well, mostly about missing Sandra. Starting his summer break from SNL off fresh with some new rhymes and beats, here is the music video for “Problems,” by Jay Pharoah. Comes to us courtesy of Above Average, the webseries division …
Season finales of Saturday Night Live are more often than not equal parts graduation and reunion for each year’s class of cast members. Even more so, when a former cast member of SNL returns home to host. This year, this 39th season, came to a close with even more at …
For the first episode of their webseries chat show, “Let’s Talk About Something More Interesting,” Milana Vayntrub and Stevie Nelson sat down with comedy sketch group Good Neighbor in 2011. Vayntrub and Nelson asked the fellas — Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney and Nick Rutherford — a bunch of questions regarding …
If at first your Saturday Night Live sketch does not succeed in making the cut for broadcast on NBC, try, try again. Or wait until you leave the show and your former colleague and head writer has his own platform — in which case, here’s Late Night with Seth Meyers …
Look. C’mon. I know it says Andrew Garfield was hosting Saturday Night Live, and yet, it felt like he wasn’t. Not that his name conjures up live sketch comedy anyhow, but seriously, Emma Stone sure hung around quite a bit to help him through the monologue and other sketches. Fun …
Noël Wells made an immediate first impression in her Saturday Night Live debut in September. Standing out from the pack of new cast members — all of whom were teasingly introduced by host Tina Fey in the season-premiere’s monologue — Wells stepped forward in the very next moment, a digital …
When Michael Che abruptly cancelled his planned Edinburgh run for this summer, he told fans he had good reason for it. That reason? Che will start work in June as the newest correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He’ll finish his first full season as a …
700 Sundays debuted on a Saturday night on HBO. Not that it matters. Because Billy Crystal’s one-man show spans seven decades and all seven days of the week, looking back on a long and storied career. The title refers to the approximate number of days Crystal knew his father before …
