Last weekend’s season premiere of Saturday Night Live had more misses than hits, but at least it scored with a pre-taped spoof about everyone’s favorite pop-up seasonal retailer, Spirit Halloween. “Since 1983, Spirit Halloween has been helping […]
In its 36th season premiere, The Simpsons employed a brilliant meta gimmick, giving audiences a taste of what an A.I.-generated series finale of the show would look like. On one level, it worked as a surface-level […]
Maybe you’ve noticed when you’ve parked a baby in front of the nearest screen to get even the smallest of breaks, but children’s movies and TV shows don’t tend to be masterpieces. They don’t have to […]
Saturday Night, the highly-anticipated new film from director Jason Reitman, chronicles the frenzied production of the very first episode of Saturday Night Live. Studio 8H was complete and utter chaos on the night of October 11, […]
Television is one of the few forms of narrative media that can extend a story for years without an end in sight. (What else do we have? Podcasts?) That’s a double-edged sword. On one hand, you […]
First season, third season, sixth season — it doesn’t matter. Showing up as a cast member to a new year of Saturday Night Live “just slaps you in the face,” Chloe Fineman confessed yesterday on Late Night […]
Japan has a reputation for weirdness. Maybe it’s because, tired of their reputation for honor and perfectionism, they launched a campaign called Cool Japan to let the outer world know about their crazy pop culture. […]
Ideally, art is supposed to make you feel — and not just the feeling that makes you scream, “Hell, yeah!” There’s a time and a place for lighthearted romcoms and light-brained action-adventures, but sometimes, they’re only good for popcorn […]
There was a time when parents dreaded their small children asking questions, for fear that they’d eventually ask, “Where do babies come from?” This ended with the rise of television, after which all kids knew […]
As Punkie Johnson, Molly Kearney and Chloe Troast know all too well, most departures from Saturday Night Live happen with little fanfare or recognition — a few paragraphs in The Hollywood Reporter during the show’s off-season and you’re gone […]
Ghost are invisible dead people all around us. “Ghosting” is also our word for when someone stops replying to you. Now, suppose we told you that ghosting isn’t named after ghosts, but instead that ghosts […]
One of the most inadvertently problematic episodes of The Simpsons found Homer reluctantly taking his family on a trip to New York City, purely in order to recover his car, which Barney abandoned at the bottom […]
Saturday Night Live just announced the first batch of hosts for its 50th season, which includes some pretty huge names like Jean Smart, Nate Bargatze, John Mulaney and Ariana Grande. Although the news probably came as […]
Here’s a question you’ve probably never thought too much about: Why do we like scary movies? Some experts believe it ironically soothes our anxieties. Watching our worst nightmares play out on the screen acts as a kind […]
Despite the fact that he no longer hosts The Tonight Show, or even the Sorry, Conan, I’m on at 10 P.M. Now Show, Jay Leno still has his fair share of devoted fans. After all, he continues […]
Are the tech geeks at Salesforce secretly comedy masochists? Last year, they invited Seth Meyers to drop by and rip them a new one. (Even after doing a bunch of research to prepare for the 2023 […]
Warning: This article contains descriptions of self-harm. While Monty Python remains beloved to this day, John Cleese isn’t without his share of adversaries — including one of his oldest friends and collaborators and the family of […]
Despite Mel Brooks gaining on his iconic 2000 Year Old Man character, age hasn’t stopped him from getting very hands-on with Spaceballs 2, according to star and screenwriter Josh Gad. “Mel is 98 years young, and I can’t […]
There are some places on the planet where things get weird. For instance, you ever heard of the Bermuda Triangle? Well, it turns out there’s nothing weird about that bit of the ocean at all […]
Oh baby. You’d think lugging around a developing human being for nine months would be plenty of work on its own. But history has shown us it’s possible to be pregnant and perform stellar sketch […]