Saturday Night Live alums Kristen Wiig, Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell, and Chevy Chase are among the comedians making special appearances within the sketch show’s 50th anniversary special. SNL50: The Anniversary Special will also feature appearances from Amy Poehler, Andy Samberg, Chris Rock, Fred Armisen, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin, …
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Martin Short earned his Saturday Night Live Five-Timers Club jacket, joined on stage by several other past recipients, including Alec Baldwin, John Mulaney and Emma Stone. First on screen during the cold open were Tom Hanks and Paul Rudd, who introduced Short. “What a surprise that I’ve known about all …
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Former SNL cast member Kristen Wiig joined the show’s “five-timers club” on Saturday, with her monologue featuring appearances by a number of other former hosts, some of whom haven’t had that gig five times but wore jackets of their own nonetheless. Wiig, whose most recent Saturday Night Live appearance was …
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In the first episode of the new Apple comedy series Palm Royale, Kristen Wiig‘s Maxine tells a long, rambling story to Dinah (Leslie Bibb), a wealthy woman she’s trying to befriend. An impatient Dinah tells her, “I have lost the thread here, Maxine.” Dinah is meant to be one of …
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The Golden Globe Awards got a new look this year. Gone is the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a weird cabal of foreign journalists who love nothing more than accepting gifts and hobnobbing/taking selfies with talent. That shadowy outfit disbanded last year in the wake of scandal. Now, the Golden Globes …
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