The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Sometimes it feels as if Saturday Night Live‘s dirty little secrets aren’t secret any longer. If they ever were. And I’m not talking about the infamous cocaine-fueled writing sessions of the original cast and staff of the late 1970s, either. No. The dirtier secret of SNL is that 39 seasons …
Kate McKinnon is the star of Saturday Night Live. Anna Kendrick has superstar talent. Tell me something I don’t know! Because now you know. Well, here’s something. A guy I work with at another thing got closer to Kendrick on TV and in life than I ever have, and that …
Blink and you missed it! It doesn’t have a premiere date on FOX yet, but Mulaney, the starring sitcom vehicle for stand-up comedian John Mulaney, debuted the first clip from its first six episodes on Thursday night’s Late Night with Seth Meyers on NBC. Meyers introduced Mulaney with a clip …
Here’s another Saturday Night Live sketch with host Louis C.K. that didn’t make it past Saturday night’s dress rehearsal. One man’s space junk is another man’s space hunk, am I right? This sketch, “Space Encounter,” takes the Star Trek motif, puts CK in Klingon get-ups or whatnot — they never …
It takes more than a good bass lick to join the Saturday Night Live band. It takes a good supportive laugh, too. In fact, the latter may take precedence, as this parody video proves — thanks to Flavorwire, which released this sketch by Daniel Ralston featuring musician Aimee Mann (who’s …
Saturday Night Live just released an extended blooper reel of sorts, as it shows the extended takes of Bobby Moynihan’s scenes in the 12 Years A Slave audition sketch video. Worth it just for the priceless laughing and smiling fits it brings on in Vanessa Bayer as one of the …
This wasn’t so much a sketch from last weekend’s Saturday Night Live, insomuch as it’s a re-enactment of an actual backstage encounter cast member Vanessa Bayer had with her colleagues and host Lena Dunham. So let’s set this clip up. Bayer learned a new dance move for Beyonce’s song, “Partition,” …
Saturday Night Live almost didn’t air at all on Saturday, starting 11 minutes late due to NHL hockey on NBC, but 11:41 p.m. Eastern still counts. So, count it! But what counts most when we look at Jim Parsons and his first time hosting SNL, and Colin Jost’s first time …
Michael Che was the first stand-up comedian to perform on Late Night with Seth Meyers, as seen on Friday night’s show. Che’s a writer for Saturday Night Live down the hall, where Meyers was his former boss until just this month. Here’s to happy reunions! Che talked taxes, politics, and …
Seth Meyers still works on the same floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza as Saturday Night Live, but for the first time since 2001, he’s not working on SNL any longer. So it’s not goodbye so much as it is good luck, as his SNL castmates paid tribute to their former …
