In an interview with Consequence leading up to her second turn serving as both host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live, Lady Gaga told us what makes the late-night sketch show so unique. “I’ve […]
A running gag in Monty Python’s Flying Circus found the show occasionally cutting away to old stock footage of an audience of elderly women tepidly applauding. Well, it turns out that this joke may have been […]
A lot of comedy fans love both Mel Brooks and Monty Python, and would presumably be thrilled if they all got along splendidly. Unfortunately, one of the very first meetings between the Blazing Saddles director and […]
Good news, everyone! This week The Art of Futurama: A Visual History of Matt Groening’s Cult Classic Animated Series hit store shelves. It features never-before-seen concept art, original drawings, a preface from Groening himself, and […]
It’s hard to fathom many sketch comedy series getting the sort of big screen biopic treatment that Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night offers. However, SNL is not your typical sketch comedy series. Now in its 50th […]
While we can’t easily ask the cast of the original Saturday Night Live about the show’s all-time greatest sketches, PEOPLE did the next best thing, getting the skinny from the cast of the new movie, Saturday Night. With 50 years of […]
Will Ferrell was fearless during his time on Saturday Night Live, with the “Janet Reno’s Dance Party” sketches among his most popular, where much of the humor came from him performing as a woman. As […]
Ready for a nonstop assault on your sports senses as media coverage of the 2024 Summer Olympics begins this week? There’s no better way to stretch your comedy calves than this series of Saturday Night Live sketches […]
It’s one of Saturday Night Live’s eternal mysteries. You watch a mediocre live show on Saturday night and shrug — the writers just couldn’t come up with any good stuff this week. Then Monday comes and SNL drops […]
Kristen Wiig is a first ballot entrant in Saturday Night Live’s Hall of Fame, a supremely talented and charismatic comic who was one of the show’s most consistently reliable cast members during her seven-year run […]
Superman is soaring back to the forefront. A new iteration of the Man of Steel is coming from Warner Bros, which made a splashy acquisition at Sundance of the documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story. […]
Saturday Night Live / NBC Ahead of the Madame Web release from Marvel where Dakota Johnson stars as the eponymous character alongside Sydney Sweeney who will appear as Julia Carpenter, Dakota Johnson found time to […]
The science of Saturday Night Live analytics has taken off in recent years, with multiple social media accounts breaking down minutiae like cast member airtime, celebrity cameo appearances, and five-timer host stats. Now @snlyltics has shared a […]
Since its inception in 1975, Saturday Night Live (SNL) has not just been a show; it’s been a breeding ground for comedy legends and a true cultural touchstone. The sketches, often a mirror to society, […]
Hey ‘90s kids! Slap on those bracelets, sign on to AOL Instant Messenger and sit back for nine of the most ‘90s SNL sketches of the ‘90s! Most of these haven’t aged well — as […]
Cut-for-time sketches on SNL are an eternal mystery. Oh, we get why sketches are trimmed from the live show — Lorne Michaels always brings more bits than he needs to the dress rehearsal, then makes […]
Megan Thee Stallion pulled double duty on Saturday Night Live this weekend, hosting the show for the first time and performing three songs from her latest album Traumazine. As part of her hosting gig, Megan kicked […]
Shared from nerdist.com When Key & Peele hit TV on January 31, 2012, it brought sketch comedy that was both universal and specific. There was something that everyone could laugh or relate to, but there […]