For the second week in a row, Saturday Night Live has taken a break from a cold open with Trump. This week also shied away from politics with the exception of an appearance by Pete Davidson as Michael Avenatti in an episode of MSNBC’s Lockup. Taking place in a jail cell in Chino Correctional Facility, we are…

Sony Pictures Classics paid $5 million for rights to the quirky Kyle Mooney-starring Brigsby Bear after it bowed at Sundance this year. After a stop at the Cannes Critics’ Week sidebar it’s now ramping up for a July 28 theatrical release by unveiling the official trailer ahead of its afternoon appearance in Hall H at C…

Brigsby Bear, the Dave McCary-directed film that Sony Pictures Classics acquired of out Sundance this year for $5 million, now has a teaser trailer. The film, which stars SNL‘s Kyle Mooney, Claire Danes, Mark Hamill, Greg Kinnear, Matt Walsh and Michaela Watkins, was written by Kevin Costello. SPC has set a July 28…

It's not often that a high-school friendship blossoms into a successful professional relationship, but writer-director Dave McCary and his best friend Kyle Mooney have pulled it off. After college, the duo founded Los Angeles-based sketch comedy group Good Neighbor (with Beck Bennett and Nick Rutherford), developed a…

Saturday Night Live cast members got personal this week, pretend and otherwise. Pete Davidson, two months after happily announcing his real-life defeat of a years-long marijuana dependence, dropped by Weekend Update for a progress report (still sober, very bored), while Leslie Jones and Kyle Mooney took their…

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired world rights to the Dave McCary-directed Brigsby Bear. Scripted by Kevin Costello and Kyle Mooney (Saturday Night Live), the film premiered Monday at the Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Eccles Theatre. The film stars Mooney, Claire Danes, Mark Hamill, Greg…

Longtime Saturday Night Live collaborators Kyle Mooney and Dave McCary have come to the Sundance Film Festival with Brigsby Bear, McCary's feature directorial debut. Written by Mooney and Kevin Costello, the film stars Mooney as James, the sole viewer of a children's television program, Brigsby Bear Adventures. When…

Well it took some doing — a full-on effort, one can only surmise, by everyone in the writers’ room — but last night’s Russell Crowe-hosted SNL was the rattiest, tattiest, rock-bottom crummiest Saturday Night Live of all time. OK, that low bar has been set, and re-set, more often than Donald Trump’s policy on anything…

Musical  guests on Saturday Night Live don’t always get a chance to shine outside their two slotted numbers, but Kanye West nearly stole the show from host Melissa McCarthy last night with some extracurricular appearances. Not only did his numbers blow everyone away with a roster of guests led by Chance the Rapper…