EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias and Ryan McPartlin are set as series regulars in Hungry, NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot, starring and executive produced by Demi Lovato. Additionally, multi-Emmy-winning sitcom director James Burrows will direct the pilot, which comes from Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner’s Hazy Mills, SB Projects and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio
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On tonight’s episode of Saturday Night Live, former NFL player Peyton Manning stopped by the Weekend Update desk under the guise of discussing this weekend’s playoff games, but ended up spending most of his segment gushing about his obsession with the Netflix series Emily in Paris. After introducing the Hall of Fame quarterback and two-time Super
General Mark R. Naird and his motley crew of space experts get a second chance to prove themselves in the Season 2 trailer of Netflix’s Space Force. On Thursday the streamer dropped the trailer for the comedy that stars Steve Carell, Jimmy O. Yang, John Malkovich, Ben Schwartz and more. Season 2 picks up with
Tonight on Saturday Night Live, Weekend Update‘s anchors addressed topics ranging from the death of Robert Durst, to the latest in the Prince Andrew Scandal, and a Sesame Street feud between Elmo and the pet rock Rocco. It was anchor Colin Jost who pointed out that Durst, “the New York real estate heir who murdered
Ant-Man star Paul Rudd will host Saturday Night Live for the fifth time this weekend but, in the promo for the upcoming show, that’s not the five-timers club he’s exciting about joining. When he reveals its nature, musical host Charli XCX is less than impressed, while castmember Ego Nwodim is happy for him. Neither, however,
Tonight on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the host goes over a historic moment in U.S. politics that happened right before Thanksgiving. “I’m grateful that on Friday history was made because Joe Biden temporarily transferred power to vice president Kamala Harris.” This transfer of power is due to sitting President Biden going under anesthesia
Cultural milestones are worth celebrating, but Simu Liu and Bowen Yang’s Saturday Night Live sketch pokes fun at how far they can go. The Shang-Chi star and the Emmy-nominated SNL cast member came together to reflect on what a notable night it was for Asian representation for the NBC sketch show. Not too long after,
ABC has pulled back the curtain on the third installment of its Live in Front of a Studio Audience franchise. Jimmy Kimmel announced on his late-night show Thursday that the 90-minute special will re-create episodes of comedies Diff’rent Strokes and its spinoff The Facts of Life. The live event will air at from 8-9:30 p.m.
Tonight on SNL, Weekend Update‘s anchors covered topics ranging from the end of Britney Spears’ conservatorship, to developments in the feud between Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson, to an interesting new business venture on the part of DJ Khaled. “A judge on Friday officially ended Britney Spears’ conservatorship after 13 years,” co-anchor Michael Che said
Tonight on SNL, Weekend Update‘s anchors welcomed Ice Cube (Kenan Thompson) to the desk to discuss reports that he’d exited Sony comedy Oh Hell No after declining to get the Covid-19 vaccine. Cube sported a full beard, noting that he’s going through “a gangster lumberjack phase,” only to have his feet held to the fire
Tonight’s episode of Saturday Night Live saw longtime cast member Tracy Morgan return in a brief cameo. He appeared alongside Bowen Yang, Chris Redd, host Kieran Culkin, Andrew Dismukes and Alex Moffat in a sketch set in a men’s restroom, which saw office co-workers exchanging banal small talk and jokes, before breaking off to make
EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has picked up to pilot half-hour family comedy Camp Friends (working title). The project, which was put in development by the WarnerMedia streamer earlier this year, is written by Lauren Herstik (American Vandal, Pearson) and produced by Adam Goodman for Invisible Narratives and Jax Media. The comedy revolves around four lifelong “camp friends”
ABC is looking ahead to 2022 with a slew of premiere dates for a reality staple, the swan song of a popular sitcom, two new series, one limited series and several other returning shows. One of the rookies, workplace comedy Abbott Elementary, will get an early-season bow at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 7. The show will
On tonight’s Halloween episode of Saturday Night Live, Jason Sudeikis returned to Weekend Update to reprise his role as The Devil, catching co-anchor Colin Jost up on the latest in his life. Jost noted that it has been four or five years since The Devil last graced the desk at Studio 8H. “It’s because I’ve been
EXCLUSIVE: Jo Koy will bring more of his humor to Netflix as he sets his fourth stand-up special with the streaming giant. Set to premiere sometime in 2022, Koy will film the special, currently untitled, on March 25th and 26th at The Forum in Los Angeles. Koy made his Netflix stand-up debut in 2017 with
On this week’s edition of Saturday Night Live, Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che covered a wide array of topics, ranging from the Jon Gruden scandal to the announcement of a bisexual Superman and beyond. Jost noted that Raiders head coach Gruden resigned “after the discovery of homophobic, misogynistic and racist emails he
Netflix engineer Tara Field has been reinstated after she criticized the company’s new Dave Chappelle special on Twitter. Netflix has maintained that her suspension had nothing to do with that criticism, but was rather about Field’s unauthorized attendance — and that of two other employees — at a high-level meeting. “It is absolutely untrue to
In a Saturday Night Live sketch that was cut for time from the season-opening broadcast, a dinner party featuring host Owen Wilson with cast members Kenan Thompson, Cecily Strong, Heidi Gardner, Alex Moffat, and Ego Nwodim disagrees on splitting a check. Of course, the traditional haggling over who had what/who owes what quickly descends into
Dave Chappelle is returning to Netflix with a new stand-up special, The Closer. Emmy-winning director Stan Lathan, who has directed all six of Chappelle’s Netflix specials, also returns to direct The Closer, which premieres globally on Netflix October 5. Billed as ‘the sixth chapter”, the special wraps up a body of work for Chappelle which
On tonight’s episode of Late Night With Stephen Colbert, Colbert celebrated the results of Arizona’s election audit, reaffirming Joe Biden’s victory in the state. The late-night host described this as “a crushing humiliation for the GOP,” before summoning Steve Kornacki, political correspondent for NBC News, claiming he’d been standing by since last November. Unfortunately, nearly 10
Late-night hosts across networks paid tribute on Tuesday to Norm Macdonald, who died earlier in the day, following a nine-year, private battle with cancer, at age 61. The most detailed and personal tribute came from the host of Late Night, Macdonald’s fellow Saturday Night Live alum Seth Meyers, who called him a “fantastic comedian.” “He was
The New York Comedy Festival is paying tribute to beloved comedian Norm Macdonald following his passing today at age 61 after a nine-month private battle with cancer. Macdonald had appeared at the festival numerous times over the years and he was scheduled to perform for the fest’s in-person return in November. He was set for
There was much cause for celebration on Monday’s episode of The Late Show, following New York City’s return to in-person schooling. “It’s an exciting day here,” said host Stephen Colbert. “For the first time in 18 months, kids can enjoy class without seeing their friends’ dads wandering behind them in boxers—if they’re lucky.” Naturally, Colbert noted,
Mal Z. Lawrence, whose defiantly old-school Borscht Belt stand-up comedy delighted audiences and happily surprised critics when the Catskills on Broadway revue became a hit in 1991, died Monday at a hospice facility in Delray Beach, Florida. He was 88. His death was announced to The New York Times by his talent agent Alison Chaplin.
When George Segal passed away this March, Wendi McLendon-Covey and her collaborators on ABC comedy series The Goldbergs were put in a difficult situation—unable to pay tribute to him in Season 8, given that they were days away from wrapping production. The series’ EP and star promises, though, that in Season 9, the beloved actor
Bill Maher took on the most valuable company in the world on Friday. He used his “New Rules” segment on Real Time to decry Apple’s announcement that it would soon scan users’ phones for child pornography. Maher said repeatedly that he was against pedophilia, but also against invasions of privacy. He called Apple’s move a
The New York Comedy Festival has set a lineup of 200 performers set to take the stage across the city’s five boroughs when the festival returns in-person in November. Among those performing are Vir Das, Tim Dillon, Colin Quinn, Michelle Wolf, Norm Macdonald, Megan Stalter, Ronny Chieng, Nick Kroll, ALOK, Marc Maron, Brian Regan, Bill
The second season of Freeform comedy Everything’s Gonna Be Okay will be its last, the network has confirmed. Creator-star Josh Thomas made the announcement via Twitter earlier this evening—thanking Freeform, who he said has been “a dream to work with – so cool and open and sincerely progressive. “I’m so grateful we got a platform to make
Tributes to Conan O’Brien, from the worlds of comedy, film, tv, music and politics, flooded the internet on Thursday, as the comedian’s TBS late-night talk show Conan aired its final episode. A number of them came from actors and comedians who grew up idolizing the Conan host, only to become guests on his shows. “As a
It’s thrilling to watch Lionsgate make a run at the box office top spot with The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, a grown-up comedy. Not a kiddie fantasy, like Peter Rabbit 2 or Cruella. Not a Covid-era placeholder, like The War With Grandpa, or a streaming event, like Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. But a rough, raucous, R-rated action