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Kyle Mooney has worked as a cast member on Saturday Night Live for six seasons now, but he’s not getting on air nearly as much as he used to. Which makes his short video about a new cast member struggling to make it on air that much more meta, knowing …
Idris Elba hosted Saturday Night Live, and in his monologue, he fondly remembered working “down the street” from Rockefeller Center, two avenues west at 49th Street and Broadway. As the bouncer/doorman at Carolines on Broadway. Fun fact! Elba told us now in 2019: “This is really amazing. I mean, you …
John Mulaney hosted his second Saturday Night Live this weekend, and made sure it very much centered on its and his home of New York City. Straight from the monologue, which referenced specific cross streets, the sounds of the subway system, new police sirens, and a Woody Allen sighting. Mulaney’s …
Last summer, The Lonely Island performed live in concert for their first time as a band at Comedy Central’s Clusterfest in San Francisco. This summer, they’re going on their first tour. Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone today announced their first ever multi-city tour, kicking off on June 15 …
Here’s an interesting development for fans/followers of Saturday Night Live. SNL’s Weekend Update is reproducing! More specifically, the people who write and produce Weekend Update are now also going to write and produce an animated series called Alien News Desk for Syfy, starring SNL vet Will Forte and current cast …
Darrell Hammond started carving out a career for himself with voiceover work in Orlando after graduating from the University of Florida in the late 1970s. More than a decade later, a chance Clinton impersonation during a performance at Carolines scored him his fateful third-times-the-charm audition for Saturday Night Live in 1995. And …
Pete Davidson had himself quite a summer, eh? I mean, look at his hair! Oh, wait. That’s not what everyone talked about when talking about Pete this summer. I suppose we’ll let Pete explain in the season 44 premiere of Saturday Night Live.
Congrats to Ego Nwodim! Saturday Night Live has announced hiring Nwodim as a new cast member for Season 44, which begins next week. From her bio at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles: Ego Nwodim is an actor-writer-improviser-cupcake connoisseur from Baltimore, MD. After graduating from the University of …
Of the three new cast members to join Saturday Night Live last year, two of them made lasting impressions and successfully launched new characters on the long-running late-night variety showcase during season 43. So it should come as no surprise to anyone watching, then, that the third won’t be coming …
Chris Redd experienced a breakout summer in 2016, first as a scene-stealer in the The Lonely Island’s movie Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, then as a New Face at Montreal’s Just For Laughs, and finally as an almost-hire at Saturday Night Live. My bad on that almost part. (Understatement) Except …
