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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 …
Previously only available as an exclusive to subscribers of Howl, the WTF with Marc Maron podcast has just made its special roundup episode, “Lorne Stories,” available to everyone else, too. The two-hour collection, “Lorne Stories,” features experiences with Saturday Night Live creator and guru Lorne Michaels, as told to Marc …
Will Forte and Kristen Schaal star in FOX sitcom The Last Man on Earth (which Forte created), and they celebrated the second-season finale with a screening at The Paley Center for Media in New York City. But first, they stopped on the red carpet to talk to me about how they …
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, The Last Man on Earth — recounted an old, very NSFW bit he used to run with while a member of Los Angeles sketch group, …
Comedy Central’s biennial special event all-star fundraiser, Night of Too Many Stars, returns on Sunday night with plenty of pre-taped stunts and a live telethon and celebrity phone bank — as always, hosted by The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart and organized by Robert Smigel. You’ll see the likes of Steve …
Remember when CollegeHumor was just a website by college kids for college kids? Oh, the #TBT of it all. The kids of CollegeHumor may have grown up, expanded, moved into TV and film, but they’re still focused on making new, weird videos for people of all ages to enjoy. On …
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 …
FOX is not going to let animation dominate Sunday nights any longer in 2014. Sure, there will be three looney toons on the night this fall — Bob’s Burgers, The Simpsons and Family Guy. But they’ll be separated by the reigning Golden Globe winner in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, as well as …
NBC let 30 Rock go meta last night, as its second time doing double-duty live shows (one for the Eastern and Central time zones, and one for the West Coast) found the fake show-within-a-show debating the merits of continuing with live shows for TGS. That allowed Kenneth the NBC Page …
The 34th season of Saturday Night Live certainly brought a lot of buzz and attention back to the show, and Lorne Michaels and company celebrated the end of that year with a bang that included plenty of starpower and nostalgia, plus a heavily implied farewell to Darrell Hammond, who completed …
