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 […]
Bobby Cannavale Stars As A Stand-Up In New Heartfelt Road-Trip Dramedy, “Ezra”
After premiering this past year to critical acclaim & stellar reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival, Ezra, the new indie dramedy surrounding a stand-up comic raising his autistic son, has set a summer theatrical release date via Bleecker Street and has unveiled its first trailer for the heartfelt new movie. It features an impressively […]
Billy Crystal Honored By Rob Reiner, Meg Ryan & Friends At ‘Kennedy Center Honors’
Billy Crystal at the 46th Annual Kennedy Center Honors. Courtesy of The Kennedy Center. It was only a matter of time before comedian, actor & icon Billy Crystal would be recognized & honored by the Kennedy Center for his excellence achieved in comedy throughout his long & legendary career. That time finally arrived earlier this […]
Let’s binge watch Don Rickles’ final project, “Dinner With Don”
Watching these clips are both hilarious and extremely sad. Hilarious because Don Rickles is a bonafide legend, sad because we all know the comedy legend shuffled off this mortal coil this past April. Late last year, Rickles recorded a series with AARP called Dinner With Don in which he sat down with some of the […]
Dark comedies revisited: “The King Of Comedy”
The King Of Comedy. “It’s better to be king for a day, than schmuck for a lifetime.” These are the immortal words spoken by Rupert Pupkin as his final sendoff, thus concluding the biggest break he’s ever had. Such a cathartic moment, and you realize that this was it. This was everything in life that […]
Robert De Niro cracks jokes as an insult comic in the trailer for, “The Comedian”
The trailer for Robert De Niro’s new film, The Comedian has hit the web. As you can judge by the title, it’s a film in which De Niro portrays an aging insult comedian still in the game. Through his antics he meets a woman (Leslie Mann) a woman 30 years younger than him. He brings […]