Tag: SNL
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Dana Carvey And Mike Myers Hated Filming One Of Wayne’s World’s Most Famous Scenes
If you were a kid in the early 1990s, you were probably a fan of Mike Myers and Dana Carvey in the “Saturday Night Live” sketch “Wayne’s World.” Myers played Wayne Campbell, a metal fan who shot a cable access show in his mom’s basement with his buddy Garth Algar (Dana Carvey). The bit spawned…
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Melissa McCarthy Wore Chris Farley’s Actual Matt Foley Jacket For Her SNL Tribute
Chris Farley was a comic genius. The “Saturday Night Live” comedian brought us incredible characters like the dancer auditioning for Chippendale’s with Patrick Swayze, one of the Gap Girls, Todd O’Connor from Bill Swerski’s Superfans, and of course, Matt Foley, the motivational speaker who lives in a van down by the river. Farley, who passed…
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David Spade Almost Wrote A Saturday Night Live Gap Girls Movie With Chris Farley & Adam Sandler
Since 1980, the weekly sketch show “Saturday Night Live” has produced eleven feature films based on its characters. “The Blues Brothers” was released in 1980 and remains one of our favorite “SNL” movies (though it’s debatable how much of an “SNL” movie it is with no Lorne Michaels attached). It was another 12 years before…
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Billy Crystal Was Cut From Saturday Night Live’s First Episode, And It Didn’t Go Over Well
We’re approaching five decades of the NBC sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live.” The not-ready-for-primetime players actually were ready, with dozens of them going on to have huge TV and film careers. Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Richard Pryor, Lily Tomlin, Adam Sandler, Martin Short, Will Ferrell, Eddie Murphy, Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, Kate…
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Andy Samberg’s Saturday Night Live Audition Prepared Him For The Pressure Of The Show
Andy Samberg was living the dream of many young comedy writers when he nabbed an audition for “Saturday Night Live,” but the work doesn’t stop once you get in front of series creator Lorne Michaels. Samberg was already nervous to try out for SNL, but his anxiety mounted when producers threw a last-minute twist at…
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‘SNL’: Woody Harrelson Leads Comedic Musical “By Yourself”
Saturday Night Live returned this weekend with a bang thanks to host Woody Harrelson. The actor, now a part of SNL’s “Five-Timers Club”, delivered sketch after sketch of gut-busting comedy. If you’re a fan of musical parodies, particularly of the Broadway variety, then “Musical Promo” will have you laughing up a storm with a premise…
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Woody Harrelson Spoofs ‘The Whale’ on ‘SNL’: ‘I Gained 450 Pounds in 6 Months’ — Watch
If there’s one awards season movie that lends most easily to parody, it may be Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale.” It stars Brendan Fraser as an obese online English teacher, with the now-Oscar-nominated actor wearing a quite-heavy fat suit to play the role, coming to terms with the looming end of his life.And so, of course,…
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That Time Pedro Pascal Was On ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’
The love for Pedro Pascal has hit a milestone with his hosting gig on Saturday Night Live, his popularity only expanding. Hearing him guffaw, which is the only way to describe it, when he breaks character is practically a sigh of relief for fans who usually see him be incredibly somber in dramatic roles. In…
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Pedro Pascal Brings ‘Last Of Us’ Energy To Mario In ‘SNL’s’ ‘Mario Kart’ Parody Trailer
I think we can all mostly agree that “Saturday Night Live” is, by and large, pretty unwatchable. This isn’t totally the fault of the writers, performers, and crew working on the series. But if you have a two-hour show with loads of live sketches that are written and performed within a week, there are bound…
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Pedro Pascal Can’t Help But Crack Up In A Mostly Satisfying Episode Of Saturday Night Live
Pedro Pascal is the talk of the town right now. Not only has the actor skyrocketed in fame and admiration since taking on the title role in the “Star Wars” series “The Mandalorian,” but he’s garnering even more love and acclaim thanks to his leading role in HBO’s adaptation of the beloved video game “The Last…