Did you know you could submit a writing packet to Saturday Night Live right this very minute? Yes, you! My friends tipped me off to this site that welcomes writing submissions for SNL until July 15, 2019. If you can meet the July 15 deadline and submit…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonThe Saturday Night Live writer has skill but hits bum notes and wanders into incoherence at the endIt takes more than a few smart routines to make a show. I left Boston comic and Saturday Night Live writer Sam Jay’s UK debut in no d…
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Bill Hader truly loves Dateline NBC and its star correspondent, Keith Morrison. Hader knows years-old stories from Dateline verbatim, and says in this clip for Sunday Today, that he would walk the halls of Saturday Night Live just slipping into Morriso…
Continue ReadingIt’s really an absurd Saturday Night Live sketch with a ridiculously catchy song. It also manages to descends into more… MORE
The definitive ranking of Saturday Night Live’s “What’s Up With That?” sketches appea…
This weekend Paul Rudd hosts the season 44 finale of Saturday Night Live. He’s ready for his mission whatever it… MORE
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Well, this is it folks. After 12 years of being the highest rated sitcom on television The Big Bang theory… MORE
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Happy Birthday to Kenan Thompson! Thompson, 41 today and the longest-tenured cast member ever on Saturday Night Live, will add a primetime sitcom to his resume. NBC has ordered The Kenan Show. He began his TV career as a teenager with Nickelodeon’…
Continue ReadingThis weekend Emma Thompson is hosting Saturday Night Live and cast member, Kate McKinnon just happens to be a superfan… MORE
Kate McKinnon recruits The Jonas Brothers to entertain Emma Thompson on this weekend’s “Saturday Night L…
The death of the SNL star 30 years ago robbed the industry of one its finest voices – but not before she had blazed a trail for women such as Tina Fey to followThere is no shortage of excellent critical writing about the US comedy scene in the 80s, and…
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