Tag: Saturday Night Live
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Good Burger 2 Teaser Trailer Brings Kenan Thompson And Kel Mitchell Back Together
In the 1990s, Nickelodeon created a sketch comedy show called “All That,” an absurdist half-hour that was the kid’s answer to “Saturday Night Live.” The series ran for 10 seasons and served as the launchpad for performers like Nick Cannon, Amanda Bynes, Josh Server, Katrina Johnson, Lori Beth Denberg, Danny Tamberelli, Kel Mitchell, and the…
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‘Please Don’t Destroy’ Movie Images: The Comedy Trio Search for Treasure
The latest stars to transition from Saturday Night Live to movies are the trio of Please Don’t Destroy with their debut feature Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain. Martin Herlihy, Ben Marshall, and John Higgins better known by their sketch comedy group are bringing their signature absurdity, and chaos to the upcoming movie,…
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‘The Treasure Of Foggy Mountain’ First Look: Please Don’t Destroy’s New Comedy Film Arrives On Peacock In November
While the overall quality of newer seasons of “Saturday Night Live” is debatable, most people will agree that the digital segments, primarily those from the comedy troupe, Please Don’t Destroy, are still pretty great. So, it’s exciting to see the Please Don’t Destroy guys get a chance to actually spin off into their own feature…
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When Bill Hader Worked on a Season of ‘South Park’
Hilarious and multi-talented, Bill Hader has come a long way in the last two decades. After breaking through as one of his generation’s stars on Saturday Night Live, the Oklahoma native successfully segued to film acting and, as of 2018, has been reaching new heights of acclaim both in front of and behind the camera…
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One of ‘SNL’s Least Popular Movies Is Actually One of the Best
Saturday Night Live has a long history of creating characters that went on to become pop culture icons. If they became big enough, some of them were even turned into feature films. The results of expanding an SNL sketch or idea into a movie like MacGruber or The Blues Brothers have wildly varied. While The…
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Adam Sandler and His Daughters Join Forces on Screen in Netflix’s ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ Trailer
Adam Sandler and the rest of his family are front and center in the first official trailer for Netflix’s “You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah,” streaming Aug. 25 on the platform.The film is an adaptation of Fiona Rosenbloom’s coming-of-age novel of the same name. Stacy Friedman and Lydia Katz have been best…
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Chevy Chase Had The Opportunity To Be Indiana Jones, Forrest Gump, And Santa Claus
How do you solve a problem like Chevy Chase? Throughout his lengthy career, the actor has had a long, troubled history of acting like a jerk to nearly everyone he’s worked with, from the infamous backstage fight he had with Bill Murray upon leaving Saturday Night Live to his much-publicized feud with showrunner Dan Harmon…
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How Paul Reubens Saved Pee-Wee’s Playhouse From An Animated Fate
“Pee-wee’s Playhouse” was an anomaly. It premiered a year after the surprise box office success of Tim Burton’s “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,” and, like “The Pee-wee Herman Show” before it, seemed to be strictly kids’ stuff. But Paul Reubens’ overgrown child act uniquely appealed to the inner brat in all of us. It wasn’t like Looney…
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The Dark Pee-Wee Herman Movie That Never Made It To The Big Screen
Paul Reubens’ Pee-wee Herman wasn’t always kid friendly.My introduction to the most lovable dweeb in the history of dweebs came via “The Pee-wee Herman Show,” the stage show that, in 1981, announced Reubens as the most inventively bizarre comedic talent since Ernie Kovacs. The production caught fire at Los Angeles’ Groundlings theater, and eventually moved…
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10 Best Will Ferrell Movies, According to Rotten Tomatoes
Will Ferrell has been a pillar of comedy since the ’90s when he appeared on Saturday Night Live. Over the years, he has proven his quality as an actor, moving outside the realm of comedies and into dramas. His films have often not shown love from critics or sites like Rotten Tomatoes, though his movies…