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Variety reported Thursday.The exits were announced after long-tenured stars Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon and Kyle Mooney announced their plans to leave the NBC institution in May.The depleted remaining cast will also be without senior producer Lindsay Shookus, who declined to take a new role on the show last month.“They’re shaking things up,” a source told Page Six at the time. Moffat and Villaseñor had both been with the show since 2016 and were known for their impressions of Eric Trump and Joe Biden, and Björk and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez respectively.Athari joined the show just last year as a featured player and was notable as the show’s first male performer of Middle Eastern descent.

EXCLUSIVE: The legendary 1972 Toronto production of the musical Godspell – a staging that launched the careers of Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Victor Garber, Paul Shaffer, Andrea Martin and Dave Thomas, among others – will be the subject of a feature length documentary exec produced by Judd Apatow.

Kim Matula has landed an exciting new movie role in the upcoming film SNL 1975 directed by Jason Reitman.

EXCLUSIVE: Ella Hunt, Emily Fairn and Kim Matula have joined Sony Pictures’ SNL 1975, which will be directed by Jason Reitman and is based on the real-life behind-the-scenes accounts of Saturday Night Live‘s opening night. Hunt will play Gilda Radner, Fairn will play Laraine Newman, and Matula will play Jane Curtin. The original screenplay is by Reitman and Gil Kenan.

Golden Globes took place this past Sunday, resulting in many viral moments. One of them was the close bond between Meryl Streep and Martin Short, who attended the awards together. The nature of their relationship is one that’s been questioned over the past couple of months, with there being some rumors claiming that the two are romantically involved.

told TMZ that he and “The Devil Wears Prada” actress are “just friends.” The two sparked dating rumors after they looked extra cozy at the 2024 Golden Globes. Fans took to X to post enthusiastically about this possible Hollywood romance. “My first tweet of the year is dedicated to the rumor that Meryl Streep and Martin Short may be an item.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor As the special-effects makeup chief for “Saturday Night Live,” Louie Zakarian often has interesting demands put on his time. He once transformed Kate McKinnon into an offbeat mermaid.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Vice TV has set the premiere date and released the trailer for “Dark Side of Comedy” Season 2, its “Dark Side” spinoff series that explores the behind-the-scenes stories of iconic comedians. Season 2 subjects include Robin Williams, Sam Kinison, Joan Rivers, Carlos Mencia, Phil Hartman, Tracy Morgan, the sitcom “Family Matters,” Ellen DeGeneres, Norm MacDonald and Gilda Radner.

Former “Saturday Night Live” star, Jane Curtin, was taken by surprise by the longstanding show’s humourless early episodes.

Jane Curtin is opening up about her days on Saturday Night Live.

Carla Renata Ingmar Bergman had Liv Ullmann. Woody Allen had Diane Keaton and Christopher Guest had Catherine O’Hara — that’s how actor John Michael Higgins summed up the stature of O’Hara’s work on screen with Guest and other top directors during a wide-ranging Q&A held Saturday as part of the sixth annual USC Comedy Festival. The Emmy-winning O’Hara was honored with the Jack Oakie and Victoria Horne Oakie Masters of Comedy Award at the festival, in recognition of her long, and often underrated, career in film, TV, stage and sketch comedy. The Okie Foundation honors the lives and work of two comedy legends, Jack Oakie and Victoria Horne Oakie. Jack Okie won a supporting actor Oscar for Charlie Chaplins’ 1940 satire “The Great Dictator.” Victoria Okie was a comedy trouper who had supporting roles (as Victoria Horne) in numerous films, most memorably opposite Jimmy Stewart in 1950’s “Harvey.”

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorDon Roy King, director of “Saturday Night Live” for more than 15 years, didn’t just work the show from behind the scenes, but he also guided an important landmark in the show’s history, passing the baton to Liz PatrickPatrick took over in 2021, but not before observing King in his element.No stranger to directing live television — she can count “Ellen” and “MTV Movie Awards” among her credits — this gig brought all her experience in music, sketches and handling last-minute changes together. Patrick worked closely with King, moving the show into a new era.Here, the directors share how they pulled off the transition.Liz Patrick: I’ve been a fan of the show since I was a kid. I used to try to stay up late and get my mom to let me watch it.

Naman Ramachandran White Horse Pictures, the production company behind recent documentaries about the Beatles, Lucille Ball and the Bee Gees, is producing another look at a legendary entertainer: Gene Wilder. Library Films’ Chris Smith, the filmmaker behind projects such as “Bad Vegan” and “100 Foot Wave,” is directing the documentary about the star of “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” and “Young Frankenstein,” which will be told through the perspective of Jordan Walker-Pearlman, the late actor’s nephew and a filmmaker in his own right.The documentary is produced in association with Sobey Road Entertainment and Harlem Hollywood.

gala honorees including Vanessa Bayer (also of “SNL”), Mandy Patinkin, Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield. The organization offered free services to young cancer patients and their families; its focus expanded during the pandemic, and it’s now known as the Red Door Community (an homage to the building’s famous entrance).“It’s been a great space where kids can play and the family can spend time together while experiencing cancer,” says the group’s CEO, Lily Safani.

Ghostbusters and Kindergarten Cop, has died at the age of 75.According to Reitman’s family, the filmmaker and producer died peacefully in his sleep on Saturday (February 12) night at his home in Montecito, California.“Our family is grieving the unexpected loss of a husband, father, and grandfather who taught us to always seek the magic in life,” Reitman’s children Jason, Catherine, and Caroline said in a joint statement.“We take comfort that his work as a filmmaker brought laughter and happiness to countless others around the world. While we mourn privately, we hope those who knew him through his films will remember him always.”Ernie Hudson, who played Winston Zeddemore in the 1984 film, wrote on Twitter: “I am deeply saddened by the loss of Ivan’ Reitman.

Keegan-Michael Key is making some big promises in advance of his SNL hosting gig this weekend.

Ethan Shanfeld Top female stars reflect on the “secret weapon” of being funny, their path to fame and their heroes in “Lifetime Presents Variety’s Power of Women: The Comedians,” which premiered Monday on Lifetime.The special featured interviews with  Michaela Coel, Mindy Kaling, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kate McKinnon, Maya Rudolph and Sofia Vergara, who were celebrated in the May 5 Power of Women edition of Variety.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorGilda Radner was worried no one would remember her.In 1988, as she grappled with ovarian cancer, Radner’s longtime friend and collaborator Alan Zweibel was persuading her to do a guest shot on his Showtime series “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show” one night as they walked along the sand in Santa Monica.Radner was hesitant.

Volkswagen ad that mocked Sen. Ted Kennedy's notorious car ride on Chappaquiddick Island.Anne Beatts.“She was witty, and she was good at editing.

LOS ANGELES -- If Laraine Newman recounted only her experiences as an original “Saturday Night Live” player — a storied ensemble that included Gilda Radner and John Belushi — she’d have plenty of memoir material.But she has other adventures to share in “May You Live in Interesting Times,” from the quirky — she studied mime in Paris with Marcel Marceau— to the questionable, including a teenage encounter with musician Johnny Winter.Wherever Newman’s newly released audiobook memoir takes us, it’s

Malina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesLaraine Newman was 23 years old when she was cherry-picked by Lorne Michaels to join the inaugural cast of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” in 1975, along with Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris and Dan Aykroyd. During her five-year tenure on the iconic show, Newman skyrocketed to fame for playing memorable characters such as Connie Conehead and Sheri the Valley Girl.

Bridesmaids” premiered a decade ago and became an undeniable box office smash.

company’s website, Alexander said he “failed to create an anti-racist environment wherein artists of color might thrive.

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Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy joined actor Jack McBrayer online on Thursday night to launch a new comedy live-stream series.

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