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Molly Shannon and Jimmy Fallon had a cry-off during the actress’s “Tonight Show” appearance Wednesday.

Black-ish‘s Jenifer Lewis is set as a lead alongside Vanessa Bayer and Molly Shannon in Bayer’s half-hour Showtime comedy series I Love This for You.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJenifer Lewis has joined the upcoming Showtime comedy series “I Love This For You.”Lewis joins previously announced series lead Vanessa Bayer and cast members Molly Shannon, Paul James, Ayden Mayeri, Matt Rogers, and Punam Patel.Inspired by Bayer’s own story of overcoming childhood leukemia, the series centers on Joanna Gold (Bayer) who dreams of becoming a host at a home-shopping channel.

(CNN)One of Molly Shannon's most famous "Saturday Night Live" characters was awkward, clumsy, Catholic school student Mary Katherine Gallagher.In an interview with Los Angeles Times, Shannon explained how the character came to be after a tragic car accident resulted in the death of her mother, sister and cousin when the actress was 4 years old."I was very heartbroken and very sad and just trying to hold it all together as a kid," she said.

“I was very heartbroken and very sad and just trying to hold it all together as a kid,” Molly Shannon told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published Sunday (Aug. 22.) Molly, 56, spoke candidly about the childhood car accident that killed most of her family.

Molly Shannon is opening up about losing her family.

Molly Shannon is opening up about losing her mother, younger sister and cousin in a tragic car accident when she was just 4 years old.

Cary and Brooke Dubek are back!

After a very long hiatus following its first season, “The Other Two” is finally debuting its second season later this month. And today, HBO Max — the new home of the former Comedy Central series — has released the trailer for the upcoming episodes, which see siblings Cary (Drew Tarver) and Brooke (Heléne Yorke) play second fiddle yet again, but this time not to their famous brother, Chase Dubek (Case Walker).

What happens when the definition of success suddenly changes? Two siblings are learning what it means to move on from prominence in “The Other Two.” The comedy series returns for a second season, and this time another character is finding her chance at fame. Now a popular talk show host, Pat’s own rise to stardom is challenging how an entire family feels about being in the spotlight.

will return for a second season. HBO announced on Tuesday that Mike White’s hit series has been renewed ahead of its season 1 finale, which airs on Sunday, Aug.

It’s just barbecue sauce! Wet Hot American Summer opened to less than stellar reviews in 2001, but it became a cult classic anyway — and spawned a Netflix spinoff, too.

, Australian actor Murray Bartlett is back on HBO in Mike White’s dramedy and social satire,, as the much put-upon Hawaiian resort manager Armond.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeShowtime has picked up the half-hour comedy series “I Love This For You,” based on former “Saturday Night Live” star Vanessa Bayer’s own story of overcoming childhood leukemia. Bayer co-created the series and will executive producer and star in it.Fellow “SNL” alum Molly Shannon will also star, while Cybill Shepherd, who had originally signed on to star opposite Bayer and Shannon, has departed the project.

Showtime has picked up to series I Love This For You, Vanessa Bayer’s half-hour comedy pilot, written by and starring Bayer.

Euphoria actor spent three months during the pandemic at the . “It was beautiful and we got all the pools to ourselves and just hung out,” Sweeney tells Glamour.

Connie Britton looks ravishing in a red suit at the premiere of The White Lotus held at Bel-Air Bay Club on July 07, 2021 in Pacific Palisades, Calif.

Is it the season to lampoon and satirize the new-age-y, resort, vacation industrial complex? You do have “Nine Perfect Strangers” coming up, Hulu‘s mini-series about attendees at a boutique health-and-wellness spa that promises rejuvenation and a healthier lifestyle, and now HBO has “The White Lotus.” Set in Hawaii and from writer/director Mike White, who returns to HBO after creating the critically-acclaimed series, “Enlightened,” “The White Lotus” is about a serenity-now-finding resort and all

From writer/director/creator Mike White (HBO’s “Enlightened”) comes HBO’s six-episode limited series “The White Lotus,” a social satire set at an exclusive Hawaiian resort.

EXCLUSIVE: Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Alessandro Nivola, Molly Shannon and Lil Rel Howery are set to star in Spin Me Round, an indie comedy directed by Jeff Baena from a script he wrote with Brie. Pic will be produced by the Duplass Brothers Productions and Limelight, the latter of which is fully financing the picture. Production begins next month in Italy.

Rest in peace, Houston Tumlin. The former child actor died by suicide on Tuesday, according to multiple reports. He was 28.

reports. He was 28. Tumlin was known for his role as Walker Bobby, the son of Will Ferrell's character Ricky Bobby, in the 2006 comedy, The movie — which also starred John C.

Haley Bosselman editorHouston Tumlin, known for his role in “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” as a young actor, has died. He was 28.In his only role as an actor, Tumlin played Walker Bobby, the 10-year-old son of Will Ferrell’s main character Ricky Bobby.

EXCLUSIVE: Punam Patel, who starred in Netflix comedy Special, and Matt Rogers, the host of HBO Max’s dog grooming competition series Haute Dog, have joined I Love This For You, Showtime’s Vanessa Bayer comedy pilot.

, but she’s been working on television since she was a tween, appearing alongside Nick Kroll on the, Molly Shannon in and the cast of before eventually breaking out with the short-lived 2018 NBC series . Not only that, but she’s been a trailblazer for LGBTQ representation ever since she came out as transgender in a 2018 essay written for magazine. Only 17 at the time, it made her one the youngest and most visible transgender performers onscreen.

EXCLUSIVE: Ayden Mayeri, who has appeared in Amazon’s Homecoming and Fox’s New Girl, is to star in I Love This For You, Showtime’s Vanessa Bayer comedy pilot.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Paul James (Soundtrack) is set as a series regular opposite Vanessa Bayer, Molly Shannon and Cybill Shepherd in Bayer’s half-hour Showtime comedy pilot I Love This for You (fka Big Deal).Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersCo-created and executive produced by Bayer and Jeremy Beiler (Saturday Night Live), I Love This for You is a grounded comedy in which Bayer plays a character, inspired by her own past, who overcame childhood

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Cybill Shepherd is set as a lead opposite Vanessa Bayer and Molly Shannon in Bayer’s half-hour Showtime comedy pilot I Love This For You (fka Big Deal).Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersCo-created and executive produced by Bayer and Jeremy Beiler (Saturday Night Live), I Love This For You is a grounded comedy in which Bayer plays a character, inspired by her own past, who overcame childhood leukemia to achieve her lifelong

Film, TV, and music producer Hal Willner died at age 64 this week with symptoms consistent with COVID-19. Willner was a long-time producer of Saturday Night Live’s music sketches and produced records for Lou Reed. In a tribute to their late colleague, several stars from SNL’s history paid tribute to Willner by singing the chorus of Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day.” Watch it happen below.

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Molly Shannon has signed on to the Showtime half-hour comedy pilot “Big Deal,” Variety has learned.

The magic of television really is something speical when it comes to just how sneaky producer turned author Liz Astrof, 49, had to be over the years.