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 […]
According to some filthy apologists, characters in movies simply have to be dumb to advance the plot. We just have to suspend our disbelief that a human with a functioning brain could behave so illogically, because otherwise, the movie […]
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 […]
If you’re a fan of director Kevin Smith, you’ve probably seen movies like Clerks, Mallrats and Dogma, but one of his films has hardly been viewed by anyone at all (and, sadly, it isn’t Yoga Hosers). In 2022, Smith […]
Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David famously named a number of Seinfeld characters after real people, such as Larry’s neighbor Kenny Kramer, Jerry’s college friend Michael Costanza (who sued the show for $100 million) and producer Joe Davola […]
We all know the most infamously bad movies out there. Wikipedia keeps a running list of them. The whole gang is present and accounted for: Showgirls. The Room. Wait, That’s My Boy? Come on! That’s My Boy is funny! It’s got […]
It feels like the world steadily gets greedier, burying you in ever more fees. Usually, it’s because some price used to be low to lure you in, and now that they’ve switched to a normal […]
We’re hardly the first to point out that the roles for ordinary-looking schmoes have all but dried up. But however you feel about it, it’s often part of an actor’s job these days to be […]
“Just another day” of wearing a hog head around the office for Chevy Chase. “Some people ask me, what’s my day like?” Chase reveals in the latest installment of his sporadic, bizarre Instagram reels. The answer […]