Saturday Night Live #35.4 with Gerard Butler, Shakira
Who’s ready for a two-week vacation? Raise your hands, everybody! Some critics expect the SNL staff to have all of their funny material ready to go after a vacation because they’ve rested up, but that’s not how it works in real life. You get back from vacation and the first day you’re loaded up with […]
Looking Back At 10 Of SNL’s Best Political Cold Opens Over The Past 10 Years
Courtesy of NBC. Saturday Night Live has been at the helm of political comedy since its inception in 1975. Now in its 50th season, comedy fans are getting to experience the household sketch series as it coincides perfectly with the 2024 election. Retired SNL cast members and successful comedians have often flocked to studio 8H […]
Bill Hader & Duffy Boudreau To Develop New HBO Pilot
Courtesy of HBO. Bill Hader and Duffy Boudreau were childhood best friends, who managed to work together on some pretty high profile projects. The pair wrote multiple episodes of Documentary Now together, and later collaborated on Barry together. Now, they’re teaming up again for a new project. What we know so far about Bill Hader’s […]
Lorne Michaels To Be The Subject Of New Book “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live”
After 50 years on the air, Saturday Night Live is one of our landmark comedy institutions. At the center of that institution is Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer who oversees it to this day. However, Lorne has always been content to let the work speak for itself and remain in the shadow. As […]
15 Of The Best Buddy Comedy Movies Ranked
Before there was Deadpool & Wolverine, there was Bill & Ted, Jake & Elwood, Napoleon & Pedro, and even Shrek & Donkey. And what do all these classic & iconic characters have in common? They all fall within a subgenre of comedy movies that’ve paved the way for some of cinema’s most beloved characters known […]
A Breakdown Of Jiminy Glick’s Residency On “Jimmy Kimmel Live” By How Often He Made His Guests Crack
Courtesy of Disney. Photo credit: Randy Holmes. While Jimmy Kimmel began his annual summer vacation this past week, Martin Short as his hilarious character, Jiminy Glick, took over Kimmel’s place on Jimmy Kimmel Live as the show’s first rotating guest host for the summer to flex his improv skills & comedic genius. Via Short’s alter ego, […]
The 2023 Emmy Awards Nominations: All Your Comedy Favorites
This morning, the TV Academy announced the annual Emmy Award nominations, celebrating your TV favorites in 2022 and 2023. As usual, there were some surprises with the nominations. The biggest surprise came from Jury Duty. Everyone knew Barry, Ted Lasso, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Only Murders in the Building, The Bear, and Abbott Elementary would be […]
The definitive ranking of Saturday Night Live’s “What’s Up With That?” sketches
It’s a really absurd Saturday Night Live sketch with a ridiculously catchy song. It also manages to descend into more and more ridiculousness with each new airing. We’re talking about the Kenan Thompson sketch, “What’s Up With That?” Thompson came up with the idea of a talk show host so obsessed with his show’s theme […]
Bill Hader hunts to find the blend of drama and comedy for “Barry”
Photo: HBO Bill Hader is everywhere and seemingly capable of doing everything. Not only is he one of the most versatile performers to come out of Saturday Night Live, but also one of the most relatable. He has this neighborly quality where he just seems like the guy who you see wandering the aisles of […]
Watch the season 2 trailer for HBO’s “Barry”
Bill Hader is Barry, the title character of HBO’s breakout dark comedy Barry. A hitman trying to leave that world behind him and pursue his dream of acting in Hollywood. Season 2 seems to pick up shortly after the events of Season 1 which forced Barry to kill Detective Moss (Paula Newsome) in order to […]