Saturday Night Live changed for good once Andy Samberg and the Lonely Island crew arrived on the scene. Suddenly the show wasn’t quite as live, with the group’s Digital Shorts showing up every week and […]
We all have our red flags — maybe you refuse to associate with anyone who admits to enjoying Limp Bizkit, while your big brother doesn’t mind but will escort you from the premises if you ask […]
Are you normal, or do you have an entirely one-sided grudge against an actor who will never know you exist and didn’t really do anything wrong aside from annoy you one too many times? Maybe they’re just […]
Last summer, I ran down a list of the best podcasts hosted by current or former members of Saturday Night Live, so it only makes sense that I’d eventually get to the genre’s worst. Since the federal […]
Even more than two decades after it ended, Seinfeld still boasts a number of perplexing mysteries that persist to this day, like whatever happened to George’s unnamed brother? Where does Kramer get all his money? And why […]
There’s no bigger kingmaker in comedy than Saturday Night Live, the show that turned complete unknowns like Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, Bill Murray and Kristen Wiig into superstars. But the same magic wand that […]
“Forgettable” is a tricky word, mostly used as a fancy synonym for “not good.” The very act of description means you haven’t forgotten it, but you could find yourself with the ability to forget. Provided you […]
There wasn’t anything funny about the 2014 accident in which a Walmart truck crashed into a limo carrying Tracy Morgan and his friends. Comedian James McNair was killed in the incident, and Morgan and three others […]
Some French guy once said it’s impossible to make an anti-war movie, and to be fair, that was in 1973, so he hadn’t seen Apocalypse Now yet. Still, he had a point. It’s just really, really hard to […]
Nearly every sitcom catchphrase ever has followed the same trajectory. While some writers have had the audacity of trying to manufacture a character’s catchphrase from the start, their origins are usually accidental — it’s just […]
Controversial fake rubber noses aside, Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro is one of the most critically-acclaimed films of the year, and is currently nominated for seven Academy Awards. But just think of how many more Oscars it […]
Everyone’s got their cinematic blind spots, movies that are universally beloved that you just haven’t gotten around to watching yet. Usually, once you do, you simply say to yourself, “I see why everyone liked that,” and […]
According to a cursory Google search, there are a grand total of 67 places in America known as Springfield. Yet, The Simpsons doesn’t take place in any of them. While Matt Groening named the town Springfield after Springfield, […]
Movies are a two-way street. It might feel like you’re just passively absorbing the sights and sounds of Tom Cruise’s latest death wish, but what you bring to the film is just as important as what […]
A lot of famous performers have been booted off of Saturday Night Live over the years — from Norm Macdonald, to Jenny Slate, to Adam Sandler and Chris Farley. Which may seem pretty cold-hearted and foolish, but that’s […]
You might recognize some of the faces that show up on Saturday Night Live without ever knowing the names that go with them. Take “School Hypnotist,” one of my favorite sketches from the Ayo Edebiri show — […]
Even in an age when plot spoilers are treated like stray bullets, there are certain unspoken agreements between movie and moviegoer regarding what to expect when you walk into a theater. A Disney movie isn’t going to […]
The Greatest Night In Pop, the new Netflix documentary about the making of “We Are the World” has everyone nostalgic for those 80’s music team-ups to benefit good causes. That song was itself inspired by […]
Shane Gillis will go down in Saturday Night Live history for one of the strangest trajectories in the show’s history — from new cast member hire to unceremonious firing before appearing in a single show to […]
In March 1951, a new comic called Dennis the Menace debuted in the U.S. That very week, a different comic about a different mischievous boy debuted in Britain, and it was also called Dennis the […]