Lorne Michaels
Martin Short on CanCon, comedy and the CSAs
After a show-stealing performance at the inaugural Canadian Screen Awards, Martin Short is returning as host for this year’s gala
Saturday Night Live’s latest hire should not be news. And yet …
Should a TV show be urged to take on certain performers because of a diversity-first mandate?
Hello, Jimmy Fallon, and hello, New York City
Jaime J. Weinman on what the programming changes mean for late night TV
In conversation: Shadowy Men’s Don Pyle
On playing hardball with HBO, saying no to the Pixies and what makes reunion shows work.
The genius of Justin Timberlake
How an ex-boy band Britney survivor dodged all the punchlines and got the last laugh
“Why Must You Deprive Us of These Movies, Mr. Michaels? Do You Hate Joy?”
Nathan Rabin has figured out why the world has sucked so much since 2000: it’s been that long since there was a feature film based on a Saturday Night Live character. That means that the last person to bring an SNL character to the big screen was Tim Meadows, as smooth-talking radio host Leon Phelps in The Ladies Man (not to be confused with the Jerry Lewis movie of the same name). Since then… nothing. Not even the Italian talk-show host.