Woohoo! It only took 500k fans on Facebook and massive media coverage to make Lorne Michaels and the folks at SNL approach Betty White to host the show in April. According to Michael Ausiello at EW that there is a deal in the works to get Betty White to host the late night program. But, [...]
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When Saturday Night Live is on, its on and the past two weeks have been pretty darn near classic episodes. Last week Jon Hamm visited and helped make one of the funniest episodes in years, with his skit as newly inaugurated Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown and in a perfect Digital Short with him as a [...]
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Sadly, tonight marked Conan O’Brien’s last night behind the desk of “The Tonight Show” and I’m not going to lie, I got teary eyed. After all the nonsense and all the snark going around the past couple of weeks regarding NBC’s Late Night Wars 2.0, there is something to be said about the goodbye O’Brien [...]
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Just after I finally finished my long post all about the debacle going on at NBC, Conan O’Brien released a heartfelt statement, which outlines his next steps. O’Brien explained that he knew about the possible switch since last Thursday and that if NBC does indeed move “The Jay Leno Show” to 11:35PM, he will no [...]
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Ever since I received Dear Andy Kaufman, I Hate Your Guts! its been difficult to put the coffee table-style book down. The book is a collection of passionate hate mail, counter offers and hysterical polaroids Kaufman received in response to his “misogynistic” request to the women of America to wrestle. Kaufman, best known for his [...]
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New York is easily the epicenter of comedy, with hundreds of one liners being delivered to drunk crowds on a nightly basis. And this city becomes a comedy lovers’ wet dream this weekend with the annual New York Comedy Festival. There are over 100 performances this weekend, from the big names like Tracy Morgan, Patton [...]
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As NASA was spending $79 million this morning crashing space crafts into the moon in search of water ice, the world was making the necessary bombing the moon jokes. Unfortunately, it was too late since Mr. Show, the brilliant sketch comedy program from David Cross and Bob Odenkirk, already mocked this topic years before this [...]
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There are few things as classic as the National Lampoon’s Vacation flicks. Well other than that hot mess that took place in Las Vegas, of course. But really I am not sure if there is anything that quite captured the hilarity that comes along with dragging teenagers along for a vacation or the despair that [...]
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As I have said way too many times already, 2009 is the year of Zach Galifianakis. Can you explain any other reason why a hot Oscar winning actress like Charlize Theron would allow herself to be interviewed between two ferns? Yes, Theron found herself on the hysterical web series, Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, [...]
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Kristen Schal can sell me on anything and her recurring appearances on “The Daily Show” have been some of the funniest stuff I have seen in a while. Last night, she stopped by to give her opinion on the recent anti-Burka statements made by the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy. Apparently, Sarkozy [...]
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