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Apr. 18, 2014
Jay Chandrasekhar Gives an Update on the ‘Super Troopers’ Sequel “I’m a student of sequels and I know what they did wrong when you see them. Usually what they try to do is make them glitzier and broader and […]
By Megh Wright
Apr. 16, 2014
Jon Stewart on John Oliver: ‘My preference would have been that I have him […] “Obviously, look, my preference would have been that I have him forever. But I also know that’s not how it works here. We get these really […]
By Megh Wright
Apr. 15, 2014
‘The New York Times’ Says Jerry Seinfeld Is Failing to Pay It Forward “Mr. Seinfeld, more than most, could use his show to give a platform to comics needing discovery. Instead, he packs it with fellow stars. They […]
By Megh Wright
Apr. 11, 2014
Ivan Reitman on How ‘Ghostbusters III’ Will Compare to the Original “Generally, people are always cynical about these things because at their heart they start as financial desires by a studio. But there are […]
By Megh Wright
Apr. 10, 2014
David Letterman Gives Stephen Colbert His ‘Late Show’ Blessing “Stephen has always been a real friend to me. I’m very excited for him, and I’m flattered that CBS chose him. I also happen to know they wanted […]
By Megh Wright
Apr. 8, 2014
‘Late Night’ Writer Amber Ruffin: Key and Peele Are ‘Destroying Black […] “Key and Peele have done more for black America than anyone would be willing to give them credit for. They forced the people who see black […]
By Megh Wright
Apr. 3, 2014
John Oliver Calls Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert the ‘High-Water Mark for […] “One of the laziest stereotypes that British people have of Americans is that they don’t get irony. And that has never been true and it’s […]
By Megh Wright
Apr. 2, 2014
Pamela Adlon Looks Back on Louis C.K.’s TV Marriage Proposal “I remember Louie called me from a comedy club in Peoria, Illinois, and he said, ‘Please don’t do that other show. You have to play my wife on […]
By Megh Wright
Mar. 24, 2014
Scott Thompson Describes a Cut ‘Kids in the Hall’ Sketch About Big Packages “Yes, one called ‘Baskets’ by me and Kevin. We were reporters with enormous genitals who worked for a newspaper that was only concerned with […]
By Megh Wright
Mar. 21, 2014
Louis C.K. Says He Doesn’t Intend to Be a Wholesale Comedy Mogul “I’m not going to become some mogul, putting out wholesale chunks of comedy. If I find something I haven’t seen, that’s unique, and I could get […]
By Megh Wright
Mar. 19, 2014
Amy Poehler Calls ‘Parks and Rec’ the Best Job She’s Ever Had “Mike and I knew each other at SNL and he just said a very simple thing to me when he was pitching me the show and the idea of the show, which […]
By Megh Wright
Mar. 12, 2014
Amy Poehler: ‘Movies Are Dumb, and TV Is Awesome’ “Movies are dumb, and TV is awesome. If we take away anything from the night, let’s all remember that TV is better than film and everybody […]
By Megh Wright
Mar. 11, 2014
Paul Feig on Producing the ‘Peanuts’ Movie: ‘It’s My ‘Star Wars’’ “This one is really exciting for me. I like to say it’s my Star Wars. To get the opportunity to help guide that along is really a thrill … […]
By Megh Wright
Feb. 25, 2014
President Obama Pays Tribute to Fellow Chicagoan Harold Ramis “When we watched his movies … we didn’t just laugh until it hurt. We questioned authority. We identified with the outsider. We rooted for the […]
By Megh Wright
Feb. 24, 2014
Patton Oswalt Names His Dream Comedy-to-Drama Crossovers “Something gritty. Something early-70s. Boston. Icy grime. Low-stakes larceny, with her psyche as collateral. I don’t think there’s anything […]
By Megh Wright
Feb. 19, 2014
Check Out a Complete Retrospective of Bill Murray’s Career “Murray contains multitudes, and at least one of those multitudes is a sad old man. It’s also further evidence that time has not diminished […]
By Megh Wright
Feb. 7, 2014
Matt Damon Approves of Matt Damon in ‘Team America: World Police’ “I thought it was brilliant! I mean, I never understood it, and then I heard an interview with them and they said the puppet came in looking […]
By Megh Wright
Feb. 5, 2014
‘Broad City’s Ilana Glazer on the Importance of Viewer Quality Over […] “During the web series we were never viral. It was always just the quality of viewers. We just started to get a response from our community – […]
By Megh Wright
Feb. 3, 2014
Lorne Michaels Gives Post-’SNL’ Career Advice to ‘New York’ Magazine “The advice I give most often is, build a bridge to the next thing. When it’s solid enough, walk across it. Don’t go because somebody promised […]
By Megh Wright
Jan. 31, 2014
Check Out Cameron Esposito’s New ‘A.V. Club’ Column “Now, I understand that for many of you this wouldn’t be a big deal. For me, this was heart-stopping, and her arrival brought up the question: […]
By Megh Wright
Jan. 31, 2014
Andre Braugher on Transitioning from Drama to Comedy on ‘Brooklyn […] “I’m never going to be an improv comedian; I just don’t have that thing that Joe Lo Truglio and Chelsea Peretti and Andy have. There’s a muscle […]
By Megh Wright
Jan. 29, 2014
Bill Hader, Will Forte, Cecily Strong, and Bobby Moynihan Reminisce About […] “When I did the very last Stefon, he gave me a hug -– and we’re hugging when it ends and you can see we’re kind of talking to each other. What […]
By Megh Wright
Jan. 24, 2014
Lorne Michaels on Jimmy Fallon: ‘There is no job for Jimmy after this.’ “It’s not lost on Fallon that Tonight, if all goes well, will be his last job, the one that will see him through the next 20 to 30 years. There […]
By Megh Wright
Jan. 22, 2014
Steve Coogan on Risk-Taking in Comedy “As we all get older, self-deprecating humour tends to be the way forward really. If you can’t laugh at the inevitability of mortality, then […]
By Megh Wright
Jan. 9, 2014
Jessica Williams Comments on ‘The Daily Show’s Diversity “As far as diversity’s concerned, there’s me, there’s Al Madrigal, there’s Aasif Mandvi. But I’m not walking around feeling black all the time. […]
By Megh Wright
Sept. 2, 2010
Happy 9/02/10! It’s 9/02/10, or 90210 day. The internet is littered with crap about the show today, but this story by comedian Dave Holmes about a very […]
By Adam Frucci
Sept. 2, 2010
IT’S SO TRUE UGH I’M MOVING TO LA Ah, The Onion: “Other incidents that prompted citizens to pick up and leave included the sight of garbage bags stacked 5 feet high on the […]
By Adam Frucci