Normally the rotating networks who host the Emmy Awards each fall use it as an opportunity to showcase their star late-night talk-show host. NBC has done that before for both Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers. For 2018, though, they’re going with Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update duo of Colin Jost and Michael Che, who’ll co-host […]
Continue ReadingCongrats to Hasan Minhaj, Issa Rae, John Oliver, and the staffs at SNL and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, for you’re all now Peabody Award winners! Five of this year’s nine recipients came from the comedy world (six if you count Bob Odenkirk’s Better Call Saul!) The Peabody Awards will celebrate the winners May 19, 2018, […]
Continue ReadingAfter 26 years of releasing his movies at Paramount Pictures, Lorne Michaels and Universal have announced a first-look production deal for their new comedy Baby Nurse starring Leslie Jones and Colin Jost. The film stars Jones as “a special agent assigned to the most humbling undercover role in the history of the FBI.” In addition to […]
Continue ReadingDays after announcing that Donald Glover would be hosting Saturday Night Live on May 5, the show announced that the two episodes after that — the final two of the 43rd season — will be hosted by Amy Schumer and Tina Fey, respectively. Schumer first hosted SNL in 2015 to positive reviews. Fey began working at […]
Continue ReadingPhoto: Will Heath/NBC John Mulaney has been putting up #tbt pics of his SNL years all week, and he has barely aged. And although his face has remained that of an ageless lifesize doll, Mulaney has grown a lot as a performer. When he did “I Love It” on Update back in his writer days, […]
Continue ReadingForget about his live Mulvaney intro from Darrell Hammond (they fixed it in post!), stand-up comedian and former Saturday Night Live writer John Mulaney made a triumphant return to the sketch comedy showcase on April 14, 2018. “Some of the best years of my life. To be hosting here is just surreal. I mean, I […]
Continue ReadingYears in the making, the National Comedy Center will celebrate its grand opening this August in Jamestown, New York — just time for the annual Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, which will include appearances and performances by Lily Tomlin, Amy Schumer, and Dan Aykroyd with other original members of Saturday Night Live. Tickets will go on […]
Continue ReadingCARDI B IS PREGNANT!!!! Also there was some live comedy. There episodes of SNL where the musical guest, for one reason or another, outshines the host. The best sketch of Larry David’s latest episode had more Miley Cyrus than him in it. But sometimes the musician is just more newsworthy. Usually in a bad way […]
Continue ReadingBlack Panther star Chadwick Boseman makes his Saturday Night Live hosting debut tomorrow night with musical guest Cardi B, and the show released a round of promos this week to get you excited. In the above clip, Boseman is joined by Cardi Bi and cast member/Boseman’s new director Leslie Jones, and in the promo below, […]
Continue ReadingJohn Mulaney is heading back to Saturday Night Live next month, this time to make his hosting debut. The show just confirmed that Mulaney will host SNL on April 14th just a few weeks before his new standup special Kid Gorgeous at Radio City debuts on Netflix. He’ll be joined by musical guest Jack White. […]
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