John Mulaney Joins Seth Meyers’ ‘Late Night’ as Staff Writer

John Mulaney got into some hot water with the government recently.

John Mulaney on Tuesday dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where he revealed that the Secret Service opened a file on him after a joke he did on Saturday Night Live. The comic and former SNL writer hosted the show twice this year, the first time in late February.

A Little Late with Lilly Singh will look a little different when it returns in January with a new set and a whole team behind the scenes.

Throughout the seventh season of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver introduced a running bit about actor Adam Driver. In nearly every episode he would admit his obsession with Driver and talked about the wildly inappropriate — and creepy — things he would want the Star Wars actor to do to him.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAn unlikely guest turned up amid the dozens of Broadway actors, “Today” hosts and other celebrities who regularly take part in NBC’s annual broadcast of “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.”In a two-minute ad from Comcast, actor Steve Carell took a turn at playing Santa Claus, part of an emerging tradition that has the Philadelphia cable-and-entertainment giant hoping to capture attention during the annual event, telecast on the network it owns.

Maybe Amy Adams should stick to acting.

pardoned a turkey on Tuesday, and The Late Show turned that into a dark, Thelma and Louise-themed comedy. Yes, Seth Meyers said at Late Night, "Trump today presided over the annual Thanksgiving White House turkey pardon — though the Southern District of New York reminded the turkey that he could still be prosecuted for state crimes." The pardoned turkey, Corn, was "a lucky, lucky bird — to have a better legal team than the president," Stephen Colbert joked at The Late Show.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsJoe Biden, despite Donald Trump’s efforts to delegitimize the results of the 2020 Presidential election, is still the president-elect. While the former reality television star continues to spew widely-disputed claims about voter fraud on social media, Trump’s far from alone in his efforts.On Monday late night hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers took shots at the president’s legal team.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAnother media outlet is getting ready to vie for fans of sentimental stories in the industry’s massive holiday-programming wars.Fox Nation, the streaming-video hub that is part of Fox News Media, will launch its first holiday movie, “Christmas in the Rockies,” later this week, part of a new holiday salvo that is expected to include two other projects, “Christmas on the Range” and “Christmas on the Coast.” “Rockies” will be available on Fox Nation starting

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Blindspot) has been tapped for a new series regular role opposite John Krasinski in the upcoming third season of Prime Video’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, a co-production of Amazon Studios, Paramount Television Studios and Skydance Television.Jean-Baptiste will play Elizabeth Wright, the Chief of Station.

All children should like Paddington 2, but Hugh Grant has revealed that he had to do some convincing to get his own kids on board.The 60-year-old star was asked about his role as thespian baddie Phoenix Buchanan in an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers to promote his new thriller miniseries The Undoing.Grant declared that director Paul King “made a masterpiece” with Paddington 2 and that he was “proud to be in it”.When Meyers spoke about how much his own family had enjoyed it, Grant

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, took to Twitter late Thursday to rip President Trump, saying the president had failed to make “even a plausible case of widespread fraud or conspiracy before a court of law” pertaining to the 2020 presidential election.

Rachel Bloom might just take the award for most optimistic mother in labour.

following an acrimonious departure from the network.O’Brien’s popular travel specials, “Conan Without Borders” — which has visited such far-flung locales as Greenland, Korea (including the Joint Security Area, or JSA, separating North and South Korea), Cuba, Ghana and Qatar — will continue on TBS.“Twenty-eight years is a monumental achievement in late-night television,” said Brett Weitz, general manager of TNT, TBS and truTV.

TMZ reported that he had turned down the idea of isolating together with the other house members somewhere in Colorado or Montana, as he thought the series depended on the activities and experiences its stars had in LA.He even reportedly offered to delay filming until after a coronavirus vaccine had been released, though it's unlikely that MTV would have found that to be much of a concession.The rebooted show's makeup will have changed a bit as it heads into season two.The newest cast member,

“The Blues Brothers” is 40 years old, and Dan Aykroyd still has stories to tell.

announced two new holiday-themed episodes which will air on Comedy Central later this year. He also hosted “SNL” twice this year, first back in February during Season 45 and most recently on Halloween.Of course, what put him on the map was his stint as a writer on “SNL from 2008-2018.