Updates on the First SNL Scholarships
by We’re getting our first wave of winners from the new scholarship program that Saturday Night Live has introduced in partnership with four of the biggest …
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About The Saturday Night Live Scholarships with The Second City, The Groundlings, The PIT and THe UCB
In the build-up to season 46 of Saturday Night Live, NBC announced that the sketch-comedy TV institution would be partnering with select comedy theaters and …
Episode #249: Lyric Lewis
A classically trained theater major who grew up in New Orleans and Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Lyric Lewis took her degree from Syracuse and headed straight …
Episode #174: Heather Anne Campbell
Heather Anne Campbell is one of America’s great improvisers. She has studied under the legendary Del Close in Chicago, performed overseas with Boom Chicago in …
R.I.P. Gary Austin, founder of The Groundlings (1941-2017)
Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, there were two places to go to find the best sketch comedians and improvising funny people in America: …
Jimmy Fallon owed money to The Groundlings when he got hired on Saturday Night Live
Mike Birbiglia says that his new movie about an improv group, Don’t Think Twice, uses plenty of real-life influences and anecdotes. Jimmy Fallon’s life isn’t …
On promoting diversity in improv comedy
When Viola Davis accepted her Emmy Award last night for Outstanding Lead Actress in a TV drama series, she said: “The only thing that separates …
Life lessons in comedy and show business from Stephanie Courtney, aka “Flo” from the Progressive commercials
In 2007, Stephanie Courtney was a regular performer with The Groundlings and booking small parts in TV commercials, but you likely had no idea who …
SXSW 2015: Will Forte sings his “Gold Man” theme from The Groundlings that helped him land SNL
During Monday’s SXSW panel on “Creating the Shows That We Like,” Will Forte — co-creator and showrunner on the new FOX series he stars in, …
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Nickelodeon taps Tony Cavalero from The Groundlings to lead “School of Rock” TV series adaptation
Congrats to Groundlings main company member Tony Cavalero, who will star in the upcoming TV adaptation of School of Rock for Nickelodeon. “I am so honored to …