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Kevin Nealon is on tour and that’s news to us.The former “Saturday Night Live” Weekend Update anchor has 17 gigs lined up from October through April 2024.That includes not one, not two, not three, not four but five (!) stand-up comedy shows at Rochester, NY’s Comedy at the Carlson from Nov. 9-11.And if you’re wondering if the 69-year-old comic and “Weeds” star still has chops, this Instagram clip where he riffs on “what one can do in Springfield, MO” proves that, yeah, he does.Want to go to a show?As of now, tickets are available for all upcoming headlining spots on Nealon’s 2023-24 calendar.Some are quite cheap too.At the time of publication, we spotted seats going for as low as $22 before fees on Vivid Seats.To be fair, that price is a bit of an outlier.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor If anyone should be able to engineer a reunion of “Saturday Night Live” alumni, it should be Dan Aykroyd. A member of the show’s first cast of “Not Ready for Prime-Time Players,” Aykroyd was also among the first to jump from “SNL” to Hollywood and continues to tour with a band based on The Blues Brothers group he and John Belushi originated on the NBC mainstay.

There was a very emotional moment at the very end of this weekend’s Saturday Night Live.

was pumped up to learn he’d inspired “Saturday Night Live” stars Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon what would become one of the late night comedy show’s most notable sketches.“Master of Disguise” star Carvey, 68, and “Weeds” alum Nealon, 69, had a recurring skit on the late night series back in the late 1980s, focused on two enthusiastic Austrian bodybuilders named Hans and Franz — alluding to Schwarzenegger’s nationality and iconic muscular physique.The former governor of California, 76, revealed recently his appreciation for the sketches — and how they helped American viewers become accustomed to his thick accent.Schwarzenegger spoke with Carvey and co-host David Spade on a recent installment of the duo’s Fly on the Wall podcast, where he called the classic “SNL” bits “heaven.”“You have to understand that when I first wanted to get into acting, one of the first things they said was, ‘This won’t work,'” the “Terminator” star recalled.“No one in America has ever made it that had an accent. No one could be a leading man or anything like this.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix on Monday morning unveiled Verified Stand-Up, a new series featuring short sets from 10 comedians that’s set to premiere globally on November 28. Rising comedians that perform in the two-parter, filmed at Webster Hall in New York City, include Asif Ali, Dulcé Sloan, Gianmarco Soresi, Isiah Kelly, Leslie Liao, Nimesh Patel, Robby Hoffman, Rosebud Baker, Sabrina Wu, and Vanessa Gonzalez.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Former Electus CEO and Shine International prexy Chris Grant has launched a new distribution company, Osmosis Global, which he will unwrap in time for next week’s Mipcom conference. Investor and entrepreneur Marc Pierce is backing the new venture.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix on Thursday morning unveiled Improv: 60 and Still Standing, a comedy special celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Improv comedy clubs, which will premiere globally on the streamer November 7th.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is a fan of Conan O’Brien’s work. In an appearance on the podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,” Schwarzenegger encouraged O’Brien to star in a scrapped movie about two bodybuilder brothers that was first featured on Saturday Night Live. Arnold Schwarzenegger says Trump’s self-reported weight is a lie; shares some fitness tipsArnold Schwarzenegger discusses Maria Shriver and their continued supportO’Brien read lines from the unproduced screenplay in a previous episode of his podcast.

Fox Nation has scheduled a comedy special with Rob Schneider for June 18 titled Rob Schneider: Woke Up in America.

EXCLUSIVE: Showtime is looking to bring back two of its signature comedy series, Nurse Jackie and Weeds. Both hail from Lionsgate Television.

Kaley Cuoco is having a renewed outlook on her charity work after welcoming her daughter, Matilda, with boyfriend Tom Pelphrey. The star sat down with ET's Cassie DiLaura alongside Courteney Cox over the weekend at the star-studded Rock4EB! fundraiser at a private residence in Malibu, California, which benefits the Epidermolysis Bullosa Medical Research Foundation, the volunteer-only nonprofit funder of research for EB, a rare and life-threatening disease of the skin, as it seeks to find a cure. EB is characterized by blister formation after minor trauma to the skin and scarring and disfiguring of the skin and internal organs.

EXCLUSIVE: Hans and Franz, the popular Saturday Night Live bodybuilding sketch that was set to be turned into a movie, is being revisited as a podcast.

Cheers to this one. Dan Ackroyd will tend bar for — or, rather, host — A History of the World in Six Glasses, a six-part comedic docuseries coming to Fox Nation early next year. The show also features fellow Saturday Night Live alums Jim Belushi, Jon Lovitz, and Kevin Nealon along with Cheers stalwart George Wendt.

John Mayer is honoring his late friend Bob Saget.

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Scottish actress Karen Gillan is to star in another blockbuster - this time as an aimless millennial who confronts her mother's early-onset of Alzheimer's.

EXCLUSIVE: Karen Gillan (Thor: Love and Thunder) will star opposite Margaret Sophie Stein (Bullets Over Broadway), Jermaine Fowler (Sorry to Bother You), Kevin Nealon (SNL) and Talia Balsam (Divorce) in the Lisa Steen-directed comedy Late Bloomers from We’re Doin’ Great and Park Pictures, which has wrapped production in Brooklyn, NY.

EXCLUSIVE: Yankerville’s beloved Crank Yankers are coming back for a new season. Comedy Central has set a July premiere date for a now officially-announced Season 7 of Crank Yankers, its Emmy-nominated series from Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Carolla and Daniel Kellison. The series will return with new back-to-back episodes on Wednesday, July 7 at 8 PM on Comedy Central. You can watch a teaser below.

Netflix released the comedy special Norm Macdonald secretly filmed before his death on May 30. The one-hour special features the last stand-up material Macdonald wrote and a discussion about the comedian from David Spade, Dave Chappelle, Conan O'Brien, David Letterman, Adam Sandler and Molly Shannon.

tweeted back at Jason Selvig of comedy duo “The Good Liars.” On Tuesday, Selvig posted a video of himself interviewing a woman wearing a Trump hat and sunglasses.“The guy that’s doing the stand-up job of trying to wake people up is an actor wearing a mask,” the unnamed woman said in the clip, which has amassed 1.8 million views.Oh dear. :^• https://t.co/DRF90clPC5“I mean, there’s several different people playing Joe Biden at this point,” she continues as Selvig shakes his head in disbelief.

EXCLUSIVE: Dana Carvey and David Spade have teamed up to launch their own weekly talk show podcast about Saturday Night Live.

Scarlett Johansson dazzles in a gold dress next to husband Colin Jost while arriving at the 2021 Kennedy Center Honors held at The Kennedy Center on Sunday evening (December 5) in Washington, DC.

Germans love David Hasselhoff.”That, for me, was the classic off-kilter Macdonald remark during his remarkable, too-short run on “Saturday Night Live” where, from 1993 to 1998, he was one the brightest stars on a show already nearing its 20th season — and going through one of its sporadic “dark times” (Translation: it was rarely funny … save for Norm and a few others including Will Ferrell, Kevin Nealon, Tim Meadows and Cheri Oteri).Macdonald, who died Tuesday at the age of 61, was reportedly

Kevin Nealon revealed he had a precious keepsake from his friend, late comedian Garry Shandling, stolen from his home.  The comedian and former "Saturday Night Live" cast member appeared for an in-person interview on Ellen DeGeneres' show earlier this week where he told the host that his California home was broken into while he and his family spent three months in Tennessee amid the coronavirus pandemic.  The star, 67, lamented not finding someone to watch his home while he was gone because a

Ellen DeGeneres welcomed Kevin Nealon to her daytime talk show, where the “SNL” alum had a special revelation about a dearly departed mutual friend: Garry Shandling.

Angelique Jackson In the new movie “Here Today,” Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish play an unlikely duo who form a May-December friendship. Off-screen, the comedy stars have grown just as close.In fact, when Haddish celebrated her bat mitzvah in late 2019 with a star-studded shindig, Crystal was in attendance alongside Wanda Sykes, Common, Jimmy Kimmel, Chelsea Handler, Kevin Nealon and Sarah Silverman.

Bethenny Frankel is well on her way to becoming a comedian.

TMZ reports that the former "SNL" funnyman wasn't home for a few days, and the thieves broke in while he was away.

Eli Countryman In today’s TV news roundup, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” introduces a Season 13 twist, and Karamo Brown, Tony Hawk and Leslie Jones are set to compete on “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune.”Contestants announced for “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune” will include Karamo Brown, Yvette Nicole Brown, Nicole Byer, Drew Carey, Rachael Leigh Cook, Jennie Garth, Chris Harrison, Teri Hatcher, Tony Hawk, Robert Herjavec, Leslie Jones, Jeannie Mai, Joel McHale, Maria Menounos, Chrissy Metz, Kevin Nealon, Patto

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Kevin Nealon is bringing his popular YouTube unscripted comedy series Hiking with Kevin to Television. TBS is developing a half-hour scripted adaptation which Nealon will headline and will co-create and executive produce with former Modern Family executive producer Danny Zuker.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersNealon created and hosts Hiking with Kevin, which has released more than 100 episodes on YouTube.

There’s a reason Owen Wilson has never hosted Saturday Night Live.

Owen Wilson joined Kevin Nealon on his digital series “Hiking with Kevin” where the two spoke about everything from “SNL” to his big Hollywood break.

Jeff Ross is the ultimate roastmaster.

It’s hard to imagine anyone but Matt LeBlanc portray the goofy, heartwarming Joey Tribbiani in Friends, but Courteney Cox, 55, had someone in mind: Timothée Chalamet, 24! “Who would you recast today on Friends?” comedian Kevin Nealon asked Courteney on the Feb. 27 episode of his Hiking with Kevin web series. “Is there anybody that stands out in your head?”

Who could play Monica, Rachel, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler and Ross in an actual Friends reboot today?

How you doin’? Courteney Cox has thought about her dream cast for a Friends reboot and she has one particular actor in mind for the role of Joey — Timothée Chalamet.