Dec. 5, 2016
Emma Stone Joins the ‘SNL’ Three-Timers Club
Emma Stone is clearly a gifted comic actress, but she’s yet to find a role that shows the depth of her skills, humor-wise (except maybe […]
Nov. 21, 2016
Kristen Wiig Finds a Few Things to be Thankful For on ‘SNL’
Kristen Wiig is a damn delight so, inevitably, this episode was good. But it could have been greater! There were a couple of season […]
Nov. 14, 2016
Dave Chappelle Dropped Some Truth (With a Little Help From Chris Rock) on […]
No matter which way the election went, there was no doubt that Dave Chappelle would be the perfect host for the first post-election episode […]
Nov. 7, 2016
Benedict Cumberbatch Brought His Calming Charms to the Last ‘SNL’ Before […]
SNL has spent plenty of time tearing apart this year’s crop of presidential candidates and all the crazy shit they’ve gotten into, but this […]
Oct. 24, 2016
Tom Hanks Saves Halloween on ‘SNL’
In such divisive times, it’s nice to spend a Saturday night with a universally loved father figure like Tom Hanks, who delivered plenty of […]
Oct. 17, 2016
Emily Blunt Gets Happy on ‘SNL’
Let’s get right into it: this week’s episode was pretty good, a solid 7 on a 1-10 scale and a generally fun bunch of sketches (predictably) […]
Oct. 10, 2016
Are You Not Entertained?: Lin-Manuel Miranda Sings His Way Through ‘SNL’
Another week, another batch of insane political scandals for SNL to cover – at this point, Trump’s basically delivering the scripts himself. […]
Oct. 3, 2016
‘SNL’ Started the Season Strong with Host Margot Robbie and Lots of Trump […]
Last November, then-hopeful presidential nominee Donald Trump was invited to host SNL, and the resulting episode was unsettlingly upbeat; […]
Sept. 29, 2016
What to Look Forward to in ‘SNL’ Season 42
Season 42 of Saturday Night Live debuts this weekend with three (and a half?) new featured players, a massively overhauled writers’ room, and […]
Aug. 12, 2016
Tegan And Sara’s Latest Video Features Animation From ‘BoJack Horseman’s […] Animator, designer, and comedy-adjacent artist Lisa Hanawalt is the woman behind BoJack Horseman’s unique, beautiful, and slightly bizarre […]
Aug. 12, 2016
‘Futurama’s Billy West Reading Trump Quotes as Zapp Brannigan Is Perfect
At this point, people poking fun at Trump don’t even need a punchline – the quotes from the campaign trail that read, verbatim, like […]
Aug. 11, 2016
‘People’ Asks Samantha Bee, Kate McKinnon, Tracee Ellis Ross and More: Why […] Finally tackling the problem we’re all too scared to talk about, People magazine has assembled a team of comics to answer the controversial […]
Aug. 11, 2016
Watch the First Episode of Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher’s New Sitcom […] Standups, live show co-hosts, and real-life married couple Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher have turned their careers into material for their […]
Aug. 11, 2016
Season 3 of Colin Quinn’s ‘Cop Show’ Is Online Now
Colin Quinn’s Cop Show is back with a dramatic third season, featuring special guests Seth Meyers, Irina Shayk, Jim Norton, Bobby Kelly, […]
Aug. 11, 2016
HBO’s ‘High Maintenance’ Gets a New Trailer Everyone’s favorite heartfelt, hilarious stoner comedy – hit web series High Maintenance – is heading to HBO soon, and its got a new trailer […]
Aug. 11, 2016
Sean Patton Pretends to Smoke Crack on ‘Party Legends’ Standup Sean Patton talks about going home with the most insane fan ever in this exclusive clip from tonight’s Party Legends. Patton’s story […]
Aug. 11, 2016
Here Are Six Quick Teasers for Donald Glover’s New FX Series, ‘Atlanta’ Actor, writer, and rapper Donald Glover has a diverse array of accomplishments under his belt, from working on beloved comedies like 30 Rock […]
Aug. 11, 2016
Jordan Klepper and Roy Wood Jr. Invent Their Own Trumped-Up Olympic Games […] While the summer Olympics are heating up in Rio, The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper and Roy Wood Jr. are busy monitoring their new favorite […]
Aug. 11, 2016
Jim Gaffigan Joins Mike O’Brien in a New ‘7 Minutes in Heaven’ We’ve been blessed with another very special episode of Mike O’Brien’s 7 Minutes in Heaven! In this edition, skin care advocate Jim Gaffigan […]
Aug. 10, 2016
Connor Ratliff Is Running For President (Again)
Four years ago, Splitsider covered the presidential campaign of Connor Ratliff, then a cast member on public access hit The Chris Gethard […]
Aug. 10, 2016
Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome Talk ‘Another Period’ With Trevor Noah Stars and creators of Another Period, Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome, visited The Daily Show to talk about the instinctual nature of […]
Aug. 10, 2016
Mindy Kaling Is Rumored to Be Joining the Cast of ‘Oceans 8’
On the heels of news that Sony’s female-led Ghostbusters reboot has been a slow burner at the box office, Warner Brothers has released […]
Aug. 10, 2016
Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland Release Improvised ‘Rick & Morty’ Minisode The third season of Rick & Morty premieres this fall, but series creators Dan Harmon (Community) and Justin Roiland know how hard the […]
Aug. 10, 2016
‘Ghostbusters’ Reboot Unlikely to Score Sequel After Box Office Losses
Congratulations, internet, you did it! Following the months-long outrage campaign against this summer’s projected smash hit, the […]
Aug. 9, 2016
truTV Announces 15-City ‘Adam Ruins Everything’ Tour
Adam Conover is going on the road, ruining the election for voters across the country with the first ever Adam Ruins Everything live […]
Aug. 9, 2016
Festival Supreme Announces Weird Al, Patton Oswalt, Flight of the […]
Festival Supreme, the comedy party curated by Jack Black and Kyle Gass of Tenacious D, has announced the lineup for its fourth annual fest, […]
Aug. 9, 2016
Rachel Blooms Ruins the Red Carpet on ‘Adam Ruins Everything’ Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star Rachel Bloom guests on an upcoming episode of truTV’s Adam Ruins Everything, exposing the “I woke up like this” […]
Aug. 9, 2016
‘The Simpsons’ to Air Very First Hour-Long Episode
It’s hard to imagine there’s anything The Simpsons hasn’t done in its 27 seasons on air, but believe it or not, there’s another first coming: […]
Aug. 9, 2016
Kyle Kinane, Cameron Esposito, Garfunkel & Oates to Headline High Plains […]
Denver’s High Plains Comedy Festival has announced its 2016 lineup, and it’s their biggest one yet, with headliners Kyle Kinane, Cameron […]
Aug. 9, 2016
Trevor Noah Totally Loses It When Trump Accidentally Says ‘Titties’ The Daily Show takes on Trump’s ongoing assertions that the upcoming election will probably be rigged by giving some historical background on […]
Aug. 9, 2016
Taran Killam, Jay Pharoah and Jon Rudnitsky Are Leaving ‘Saturday Night […]
Saturday Night Live is making some big changes: as the show prepares to enter its 42nd season, news has broken that longtime cast members […]
Aug. 8, 2016
Brie Larson to Direct and Star in Comedy ‘Unicorn Store’
Actress Brie Larson is set to make her directorial debut with indie comedy Unicorn Store. Larson, who’s also producing the project, will play […]
Aug. 8, 2016
Tawny Newsome Rounds Out Cast of BET’s ‘Comedy Get Down’
Earlier this year, BET announced Comedy Get Down, a new series from the standup supergroup of George Lopez, Cedric the Entertainer, D.L […]
Aug. 8, 2016
Notaro, Morgan, Maron, Minchin, Maher and Many More to Headline New York […]
The New York Comedy Festival has announced a handful of headliners for this year’s 18th annual event, and they’re big, with Tig Notaro at […]
Aug. 8, 2016
Here’s the First Trailer for Woody Allen’s Amazon Series, ‘Crisis In Six […] Woody Allen’s latest project, an episodic series exclusively available on Amazon Prime, premieres September 30 as part of the digital network’s […]
Aug. 8, 2016
Hulu’s ‘Limelight’ to Document ‘The Dana Carvey Show’
Another update from the seemingly never-ending Television Critics Association summer press tour: Hulu has acquired Limelight, a documentary […]
Aug. 8, 2016
Mark Normand Shows He’s Still Got It on ‘The Late Show’ Mark Normand shows he’s still got it in his debut Late Show appearance, which aired last Friday. Normand’s ditched his favorite track jacket in […]
Aug. 8, 2016
Leslie Jones’ Infectious Enthusiasm For the Olympics Earned Her a Trip to […]
Leslie Jones hasn’t let her recent brush with Twitter trash-talkers keep her down – not only is she still online, she’s been posting a […]
Aug. 8, 2016
Get a Sneak Peek at ‘Transparent’ Season 3 The highly anticipated third season of Transparent is almost here, and we’ve finally got a trailer to tide us over til the award-winning show […]
Aug. 8, 2016
John Oliver Explains Exactly How You’re Ruining the News In one of Last Week Tonight’s most enlightening monologues, John Oliver explains the rapid decline of both print media and journalistic […]
Aug. 5, 2016
UCB Comedy Travels Through Time to Review the Year 2016 It’s “2016 Week” at UCB Comedy, a high-concept takeover by something called Stream H, “the premiere history channel of the 33rd century.” […]
Aug. 5, 2016
The Now Hear This Fest Brings 30+ of Your Favorite Podcasts Together
The first annual Now Hear This podcast festival is taking over Anaheim October 28-30, 2016, bringing together 30+ of the biggest podcasts in […]
Aug. 5, 2016
David Alan Grier Has Created a ‘Massa Class’ For Black Actors Recently on A&E’s Black And White – a talk show that explores racial politics through a no-holds-barred comedic lens – “legendary actor […]
Aug. 5, 2016
The Duplass Brothers Are Working on Yet Another HBO Show
HBO may have cancelled the Duplass brothers short-lived sitcom, Togetherness, earlier this year, but they haven’t had enough of the […]
Aug. 5, 2016
Maya Rudolph and Melissa McCarthy Are the ‘Life Of The Party’
Maya Rudolph has joined Life of the Party, Melissa McCarthy’s back-to-school comedy that’s slated for a spring 2018 release. Directed by […]
Aug. 4, 2016
Taran Killam’s ‘Brother Nature’ Trailer Is Finally Here Brother Nature, the highly anticipated film featuring a stacked cast of SNL favorites (Taran Killam, Bobby Moynihan, Kenan Thompson), acclaimed […]
Aug. 4, 2016
Owen Ellickson’s Trump Parody Twitter Feed Almost Makes This Nightmare […]
Over the past few weeks, writer/producer Owen Ellickson (The Office, Superstore, The King of Queens) has been Tweeting updates from the […]
Aug. 4, 2016
Fred Armisen Tells Us About His Favorite TV Show, ‘Tyrant’ Admitted TV junkie Fred Armisen has blessed us with another one of his Extremely Accurate TV Recaps. This time, the Late Night with Seth Meyers […]
Aug. 4, 2016
A Few Observations From Last Night’s ‘Late Show’ Monologue A few observations from last night’s Late Show monologue:
- The best way to explain things to Donald Trump – like why we’re not constantly […]
Aug. 4, 2016
Britney Spears Performs In Jimmy Kimmel’s Bedroom Frequent target of celebrity pranks Jimmy Kimmel lived out millions of teen dreams when Britney Spears snuck into his bedroom to perform a very […]
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