Sasheer Zamata deserves a summer off — after just under four seasons as a Saturday Night Live cast member (check out some… MORE
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All this month, Montreal comedy festival Just For Laughs is hosting hundreds of shows in theaters across the Canadian city,… MORE
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Other than a mere year of overlap on Saturday Night Live (which produced one of the greatest sketches of all time, “Short Shorts for the USA”) and mostly isolated screen time in the no-one-knows-what-it-means-but-it’s-provocative Blades of Glory, Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler have never performed together in a proper two-hander. Which is no laughing matter […]
Continue ReadingIn an interview with CNN, actor Alec Baldwin has confirmed he’ll be returning to Saturday Night Live this fall, to reprise his… MORE
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In an interview with CNN, actor Alec Baldwin has confirmed he’ll be returning to Saturday Night Live this fall, to reprise his… MORE
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Last night, two ex-Saturday Night Live stars — and ex-“Weekend Update” co-hosts — reunited to reminisce and recreate one of their… MORE
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Last night, two ex-Saturday Night Live stars — and ex-“Weekend Update” co-hosts — reunited to reminisce and recreate one of their… MORE
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The US actor, standup and author on her new film, Gifted, rescuing her career after being fired from Saturday Night Live, inspirational women and the terrifying situation in the White House
Jenny Slate, 35, is an American comedian, actor and author. The middle of three sisters, with a ceramicist mother and poet father, she was raised in Milton, Massachusetts. While at Columbia University, Slate performed standup and improv. Moving to Los Angeles with then-husband, director Dean Fleischer-Camp (they’ve since amicably divorced), Slate joined Saturday Night Live in 2009, but accidentally swore in her first episode and was fired after one season. A stop-motion short animation made with Fleischer-Camp, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, became a viral hit, leading to New York Times bestseller children’s books and plans for a feature-length movie.
With her distinctive voice, Slate featured in Zootopia and The Secret Life of Pets. On television, she appeared in Parks and Recreation, Married and Girls. Her performance in Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child, playing a comic navigating a pregnancy termination, won her awards including the Critics’ Choice award for best actress in a comedy. Slate stars in another Robespierre film, Landline, due out in the summer. In her latest film, Gifted, she plays a teacher who becomes involved with a man (Chris Evans) caring for his maths prodigy niece (Mckenna Grace).
Continue ReadingThe Friday before last, I noticed that my Twitter feed was suddenly really mad at Bill Maher. This wasn’t exactly anything new; he caught the ire of many people earlier this year when he had “alt-right” figure Milo Yiannopoulos on his show, and in general, courting controversy is kind of his thing. So, when I […]
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