Jolly old elf Martin Short is making it official — by joining Saturday Night Live’s Five-Timers Club on December 21, he’s also cementing his status as the show’s all-time Christmas Guy. Along with the season’s opener and […]
Have you seen one of those viral posts promising a Christmas Vacation sequel this holiday season? Could it be that Chevy Chase might electrocute himself once again in pursuit of being the jolliest house on the block? […]
Only 21 more shopping days until Festivus, for those who celebrate — and people really do. A change.org petition in 2022 lobbied to designate Frank Costanza’s Festivus as an official holiday, and frankly, it’s more celebrated than […]
Back in the day, you could just throw any old bullshit into the end credits of a movie. In fact, filmmakers were fond of splicing the funniest bad takes into the infinite scroll, because why not? […]
George Costanza is many things: a liar, a New York Yankee, a boyfriend dating way above his league. Oh, and he’s also a public urinator. In the Season Three episode “The Parking Garage,” both Jerry […]
Saturday Night Live’s upcoming 50th anniversary special will no doubt bring back a number of past characters, as long as they weren’t played by Joe Piscopo or Jim Breuer, we assume. The show doesn’t air […]
The biggest movie in the world right now is Wicked, the musical revisionist take on The Wizard of Oz that in no way includes James Franco and/or a CGI monkey voiced by Zach Braff. Wicked, of course, fills us […]
Comedians are unusual creatures in that they show affection through criticism, Jim Gaffigan said this week on the Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend podcast. It’s the conceit behind roast comedy — we only hurt the ones we […]
Action movies are decried as mindless backdrops for eating popcorn, but a good action scene can do just as much to move the story forward as a boring conversation. It can reveal character, change relationships, and it […]
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 […]
There are so many options you can take when you name a town. You can name it after some famous historical figure. Though, that’s bound to turn out poorly when you learn that that guy was […]
CGI this, CGI that. How about we see “gee, I don’t think a computer could have accomplished this” kind of effects in more movies? It’s amazing what digital effects can do these days, but you always […]
Just because his talk show is over doesn’t mean that Conan O’Brien has had to abandon all of his regular segments. While the Masturbating Bear is unlikely to make a return appearance any time soon, […]
When it comes down to it, nobody really thinks they’re a villain. Even the most evil character a storyteller could dream up isn’t walking around going, “Isn’t it wonderful how evil I am?” No, they legitimately […]
Ana Gasteyer figures she encountered only five a-holes in her six years at Saturday Night Live, she said this week on the Las Culturistas podcast. The way she could tell? “They would be like, ‘So-and-so is in the building, […]
Listen, we’re not saying that indie movies are bad. If anything, they’re often better than the soulless blockbusters built from the lowest common denominator in some conglomerate’s focus group. We’re just saying that, when nobody’s invested more […]
It’s no secret that some of us have been less than thrilled with Jimmy Fallon’s assorted money-making schemes these past several months. Throughout the spooky season, Fallon devoted a significant chunk of the show to hawking […]
“We should write dangerously,” Mel Brooks told the writers he assembled to create his classic comedy, Blazing Saddles. “That’s what this is all about.” The writers, including Brooks, Richard Pryor and Andrew Bergman, tried to push the envelope […]
If you tell a joke, and people take it too seriously, it might end with someone getting offended and you having to apologize. Occasionally, someone will write you out of their will. But there’s also […]
Early next year, Saturday Night Live will air a three-hour primetime special to celebrate its 50th anniversary, featuring celebrity guests and those surviving former SNL cast members who haven’t made Lorne Michaels’ enemies list — yet. But this […]