The 35th season Saturday Night Live premieres this weekend and everyone’s favorite outspoken stunner is taking over hosting duties in a last ditch effort to save her critically-panned slasher flick from box office annihilation.
Celebrities like Masi Oka, Donald Fison, Olivia Wilde, and Jon Hamm are lending their famous voices to the rousing debate over national health care reform by joining FunnyOrDie co-creator Will Ferrell in a public service announcement protecting the “interests of insurance companies.”
After all, if you misspell a word on a claim, do you really deserve surgery?
NBC’s veteran sketch comedy series will be missing a pair of familiar faces when it returns to The Peacock Network later this month. Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson will not return to the long-running comedy show, The New York Times has learned.
Saturday Night Live will kick off its fall season with two new cast members.
Jenny Slate and Nasim Pedrad — a pair of comedians with ties to the renowned Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre — have joined the show, according to reports.
Slate previously partnered with Gabe Liedman for the comedy show “Gabe & Jenny.” Pedrad, born in Tehran, Iran, once starred in a one-woman show, “Me, Myself & Iran.”
The 35th season of Saturday Night Live premieres Sept. 26, with a two-hour show hosted by Jennifer’s Body star Megan Fox and featuring musical guests U2.
One New Jersey woman has heard enough mother-in-law jokes from the lips of her estranged daughter-in-law. Professional comedian Sunda Croonquist is sounding off on being sued by her in-laws, after making fun of the clan in her racy stand-up routine.
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Talk about feuding with the in-laws! Comedienne Sunda Croonquist is making headlines after her in-laws filed a lawsuit against her for making jokes about them in her 15-year-old R-rated stand-up routine.
The lawsuit was filed by mother-in-law Ruth Zafrin, her daughter, Shelley Edelman, and Shelley’s husband, Neil, and claims Sunda is spreading false, defamatory and racist lies, The Associated Press reports.
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30 Rock star Tracy Morgan has filed for divorce from his high school sweetheart.
The 40-year-old comedian has been separated from wife Sabina for eight years, The New York Daily News reports. Sabina filed for divorce in 2008.
“I have to divorce him. I still have feelings for him, but the marriage is over.I’m having my lawyer file the divorce papers. I gave him every opportunity since August to stay in the marriage, but he’s failed.It’s terrible that he’s drinking again. He knows he shouldn’t be doing that for so many reasons, his health especially,” she said at the time.
They couple later reconciled after Tracy promised to get a handle on his addiction to alcohol. According to paperwork filed in New York City on Friday, they have been married for 23 years and have three sons together.
“Basically they were divorced without the paperwork,” a friend of the star told the tab. “It seems like he has had a different girlfriend every five months or so. In the past three years, I’ve met three girlfriends.”
Last month, Tracy was nominated for his first Emmy for his role as Tracy Jordan on the NBC comedy.
Comedians Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow joined the ladies of The View on the sofa Thursday talk about their new movie Funny People. The comedy-drama hits theaters this Friday, July 31.
Don’t look for Joan Rivers to be a guest on Jay Leno’s new talk show anytime soon.
The potty-mouthed comedienne ripped Leno and his upcoming 10PM series on NBC during a public press junket on Wednesday.
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Comedian Will Ferrell is close to sealing a deal to revive his on-screen anchorman Ron Burgundy in a sequel to his hit 2004 film, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
“The odds are good. We’re going to talk to all the guys next week – Steve Carrell, Paul Rudd and everybody else – to see if it’s feasible to do it, because everybody’s at different places right now, with totally different schedules,” Will says.
“Hopefully we can start filming in a couple of years.”
