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EXCLUSIVE: Saturday Night Live alums Rachel Dratch and Ana Gasteyer have teamed to write, executive produce and star in A Clüsterfünke Christmas, described as “a celebratory parody of the corny and ubiquitous traditional TV movie holiday romance genre.” Vella Lovell (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Cheyenne Jackson (American Hor…

The growing coronavirus outbreak has been the biggest news story of the last seven days, and it was the dominating topic on Saturday Night Live, hosted by Daniel Craig. Following a coronavirus-themed Cold Open featuring now-former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, SNL brought back a cult favorite character, Rach…

Saturday Night Live’s cold opens have largely followed a formula for the past few years — tackling a big political story of the week and featuring a lot of A-list cameos. Tonight, SNL stayed political in the cold open with Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump but did not feature cameos besides a brief appearance by host Will…

EXCLUSIVE: Saturday Night Live alumna Rachel Dratch and Anthony Alabi (Family Reunion) are joining the recurring for the upcoming tenth season of Showtime’s hit dramedy Shameless. Dratch will play Paula, the corrupt parole officer for Ian (Cameron Monaghan) who uses her power over him and her other parolees to run an…

Amy Poehler is making her feature directorial debut in Wine Country, and she has taken it straight from her own life with a story about a group of 50-ish female friends who take a trip to Napa Valley to celebrate the occasion of one of the gang turning the big five-oh. This actually happened to Poehler, who also stars…

John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight kicked of with an opening sequence nod to Sunday’s “Hostus Ghostus” Oscars, taking place as he broadcast. Quickly recapping the week, as Melissa McCarthy was stealing the Hollywood awards ceremony and Spike Lee tried to do same after Green Book was named Best Picture, Oliver noted…

Nearly 10 years ago, Billy Crystal and writer Quinton Peeples started work on a screenplay they’d eventually call Have A Nice Day. Not terribly long in Hollywood development years, but eons removed from our current political climate. Performed and recorded (by Amazon’s Audible) as a staged Off Broadway reading last…

On a day when Alec Baldwin returned to both Saturday Night Live and the pages of The New York Times – the former a more joyful return, the latter seeing the newspaper rake the actor for his support of Woody Allen and James Toback – the women of SNL responded with grace and strength. In other words, they stole the…

Jimmy Fallon brought a couple of his best characters and impressions back to his old Saturday Night Live stomping grounds, chief among them a young John Travolta (this time facing off against his aging Travolta) and, in another sketch, Boston Sully, with his wicked Sox loyalty and chowder-thick Southie accent. First…

There is, as I say in my video review above, nothing imaginative about ABC's Imaginary Mary. Debuting tonight at 8:30 PM in a preview after The Goldbergs before moving to its regular Tuesday slot following Fresh Off The Boat on April 4, the sitcom from Goldbergs trio Adam F. Goldberg, David Guarascio and Happy Madison…

There are three great actresses whose names include “Mary” and “Louise,” each with a different spelling and all associated with the Manhattan Theatre Club, where the new comedy Ripcord will have its world premiere in the fall. Mary-Louise Parker, who recently earned triumphal reviews for her performance in Heisenberg…

Saturday Night Live alum Rachel Dratch has signed on as a series regular in Fox‘s half-hour pilot Dead Boss, from WBTV and Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment. An adaptation of the BBC3 series created by Sharon Horgan and Holly Walsh, Dead Boss is a comedic mystery that finds overachiever Helen Stephens (Jane…