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A new four-part docuseries will delve into the history and behind-the-scenes make-up of Saturday Night Live as the sketch show celebrates its 50th anniversary.

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night will premiere on Jan. 16 on Peacock, and it’ll feature over 60 contributors, including many SNL alumni. The four episodes will each center around a different topic as a way of examining the show’s legacy and how it comes together each week.

Episode one, for instance, is called “Five Minutes” and will center around the SNL audition process (prospective cast members,...

For 50 years, Saturday Night Live has been a catchphrase factory, churning out funny turns of phrase that get repeated ad nauseam in middle-school cafeterias and corporate team-building retreats. That’s the problem with catchphrases — one that makes you laugh when you first hear it might make you throttle someone when it’s repeated for the 10,000th time.

Here are the five overused SNL catchphrases that have caused the most forehead veins to throb…

1 More Cowbell!

“More cowbell” has made lives miserable from everyone to fans at sports arenas to Christopher Walken to the members of Blue Öyster Cult. Will Ferrell told Jimmy Fallon he went to see Walken years later in a play. “And he’s like, ‘You know, you’ve ruined my life. People during the curtain call bring cowbells and ring them.’”

As for Blue Öyster Cult, the oft-repeated sketch forced the band to change up their live shows.

Legendary film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert were known for their passionate discussions about movies, whether they were raving about arthouse offerings like My Dinner with Andre or fiercely debating the artistic merits of Home Alone 3.

But what about TV?

Well, apart from that time that they reviewed an episode of Saturday Night Live during the episode, the famous duo didn’t really discuss TV shows. But that all changed thanks to one very special animated series: The Critic. Al Jean and Mike Reiss’ underrated primetime cartoon chronicled the life of a portly New York film critic and TV host Jay Sherman (voiced by Jon Lovitz) who routinely trashed Hollywood blockbusters such as Scent of a Wolfman and Dennis the Menace II Society.

So, naturally, Siskel and Ebert took note of The Critic. They then took the highly unusual step of reviewing it on a 1994 episode of their show,...

Actor Gilles Marini blasted into the public consciousness in 2008 with his role in block-buster film “Sex and The City 2” as Samantha’s neighbour. He has also appeared in numerous prime-time shows such as Ugly Betty and Dirty Sexy Money amongst others. He has recently secured a permanent role in the hit show, Brothers and Sisters.

Gilles believes in using his celebrity for good, saying ‘The small amount of power that we have in this business – it would be silly not to do something positive for the world…. I would not want to do this job at all if you don’t at least do that’.

After losing his father to cancer at a young age, Gilles has become an active supporter of numerous cancer charities. These include the Jackson Memorial Foundation, which supports International Kids Fund and Holtz Children’s Hospital, the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund and the Carol M.

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My Old Ass is a coming-of-age sci-fi comedy-drama film written and directed by Megan Park. The Prime Video film follows Elliott, an 18-year-old who takes mushrooms on her birthday and comes face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old. Soon, she is contacted by her older self who gives her life advice which makes Elliott forces to rethink everything from family to love. My Old Ass stars Maisy Stella, Percy Hynes White, Maddie Ziegler, Kerrice Brooks, and Aubrey Plaza. So, if you loved the coming-of-age drama, comedic tone, and compelling characters in My Old Ass here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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The Map of Tiny Perfect Things is a sci-fi romantic comedy-drama film directed by Ian Samuels from a screenplay by Lev Grossman. Based on Grossman...

This article contains mild spoilers for "The Simpsons" season 36 episode "Desperately Seeking Lisa."

"The Simpsons" season 36 is well underway, and the longest-running American animated show is still going strong. Sure, it may not have an all-time best episode airing weekly and it is no longer revolutionizing comedy and animation as we know it, but it is still impressive that "The Simpsons" is delivering entertaining episodes after so many years. Also impressive is that the animated sitcom can still deliver cool new bits of lore for Springfield and its surroundings, like how Sideshow Bob is now wealthy after starting a rake business or revealing how Homer manages to mess up at his job without causing a nuclear meltdown every day.

Similarly, the third episode of season 36 of "The Simpsons," titled "Desperately Seeking Lisa," has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it Easter egg teasing the in-universe return of a fan-favorite musical gag.

In the episode, Lisa...

Since its beginning in 1975, Saturday Night Live has excelled at political impressions. They've been around for every Presidential election for decades, not to mention scores of political figures who have come and gone. Sometimes, you get an actor doing an okay impression, but other times, SNL crafts an impression so huge that it becomes a national sensation.

The best impressions are so famous that they can overwhelm the actual political figure being lampooned. Often, these politicians will pop up on SNL to confront their imposter and give them a stamp of approval. Not all of them are top-notch (their various takes on Donald Trump have been tricky), but these rank as the best SNL political impersonations over the last 50 years, and how you can always count on the show to nail some hilarious takes on famous political figures past and present.

Honorable mentions: Dan Aykroyd as Jimmy Carter, Jon Lovitz as Mike Dukakis,...

The general consensus on "The Simpsons" is that it started to go downhill somewhere between seasons 7 and 10. Some fans will argue that the first ten years are the real golden age, while others will point to season 3 to 7 as the real sweet spot. Either way, almost all fans will surely agree that "The Simpsons" stopped being good at some point.

For those superfans who remember buying the DVD box sets just to listen intently to the commentary tracks (this writer may or may not be included in that group), you might recall the season 10 episode "Monty Can't Buy Me Love" as a real hinge moment for the series. I distinctly remember then-showrunner Mike Scully having to sweat through the commentary track while a palpable sense of disappointment slowly built. This was, after all, the episode where Mr. Burns travels to Scotland and actually captures the Loch Ness monster, bringing the...

Dana Carvey is having a blast now that he’s once again an unofficial cast member of Saturday Night Live. He’s appeared on every episode in Season 50 so far, not only breaking out his Joe Biden impression (which seems to have caught on) but hamming it up in other sketches as well. While he’s in the Big Apple, it’s a great time to catch up with old friends, he told David Spade on the Superfly podcast. “I could have a boozy lunch or a boozy dinner with some friend every day.”

One guy who’s never been known to turn down a boozy lunch? Jon Lovitz, a comic whose tenure at SNL largely overlapped with Carvey’s. He popped up at 30 Rock for the Ariana Grande rehearsals, a visit that went longer than promised.

“Hello?” said Spade, imitating Lovitz’s nasal lilt. “I’m available for sketches.

Though it’s something of a backhanded paean to its eponymous city in question, the most enjoyable element to “Lost & Found in Cleveland” is its locations, locations, locations — cinematographer Davon Slininger’s widescreen images provide an appealing selective tour of a burg the film presents as quaintly lagging well behind the times. Otherwise, this slick if uninspired first feature for actors turned writer-directors Marisa Guterman and Keith Gerchak offers a pleasant-enough ensemble seriocomedy that straddles the terrains of Richard Curtis and Christopher Guest, without approaching either’s high points. The Newport Beach Fest world premiere’s familiar faces and story beats seem best suited to home viewing.

An opening montage to the retro pop of Bobby Darin singing “Artificial Flowers” — an incongruously brassy, “Mack the Knife”-like arrangement of a depressing slum-tragedy lyric from 1960 Broadway musical “Tenderloin” — introduces the characters, as well as a sense that this midwestern metropolis’ growth stalled some decades ago.

Some movies take circuitous routes to production. It all, as we like to say, starts on the page, and sometimes all you have on that page is a pitch -- a basic idea centered on a killer hook. And that pitch can go through various permutations as different producers, writers, directors, and stars become attached and unattached. Take "Bad Boys" for instance. Long before Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer teamed up-and-coming filmmaker Michael Bay with the then unproven-at-the-box-office duo of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, the project was intended to be a broad two-hander comedy starring "Saturday Night Live" veterans Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz. Hard to imagine a four-film-and-counting franchise blossoming out of that.

Something in the same vein almost happened with Michael Mann's "Collateral." The moody Los Angeles thriller starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx is considered by many to be one of the director's finest films...

Dana Carvey is revealing how he ended up playing a 100-year-old version of Jennifer Coolidge during a Saturday Night Live sketch last week.

The comedian, who has been portraying Joe Biden since season 50 of the NBC sketch comedy show kicked off last month, recently said on Superfly, the spinoff series of his and David Spade’s Fly on the Wall podcast, that he has to learn his impression of the beloved actress last minute.

“They threw it at me Thursday night,” Carvey, who was originally a castmember on SNL from 1986 to 1993, said. “They explained to me that the character was like a Snow White thing, that my Jennifer Coolidge had been trapped in the mirror for 100’s of years.”

The sketch titled “Maybelline” saw Chloe Fineman’s Jennifer Coolidge getting help putting on “Maybelline Super Stay Long Wear Liquid Lip Color” from the Jennifer Coolidge reflection in her mirror, played by host Ariana Grande.

Dana Carvey has learned to remain nimble every week on Saturday Night Live Season 50.

Two weeks prior, he thought on his feet for an unplanned ice cream shenanigan featuring Maya Rudolph, and last week, the Joe Biden impersonator was tapped as a last-minute Jennifer Coolidge doppelganger for a sketch featuring Chloe Fineman and Ariana Grande. It was a gig he relished, even if he perhaps didn’t understand its absurdist elements.

“It was kind of an acid-y, esoteric sketch,” Carvey said on a recent episode of his Superfly podcast co-hosted with David Spade. “I still don’t quite understand it, but that was fun.”

He recounted that he had never appeared in drag before, not counting his previous SNL appearance as Church Lady. “They threw it at me Thursday night, and I just thought, in my age group, I never really was in drag because Church Lady, whatever you think she is,...

This September, Paramount+ is bringing you a ton of entertainment with the highly anticipated new season of the crime drama series Tulsa King starring Sylvester Stallone and the horrifying psychological thriller film Apartment 7A. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Paramount+ this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 5 best films coming to Paramount+ in September 2024 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Big (September 1)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 98%

Big is a fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Penny Marshall from a screenplay co-written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg. The 1988 film revolves around Josh Baskin, a young boy who wishes to get bigger in size to a fortune-telling machine, and when the next day he wakes up he discovers that his wish has been fulfilled. Big stars Tom Hanks in the lead role with David Moscow,...

Maybe Matt Groening was saying “boo-urns.”

Back in the 1990s, comedy shows collaborating to make crowd-pleasing crossover episodes was all the rage. Friends and Mad About You connected their comedy universes via Phoebe’s twin sister Ursula. Steve Urkel from Family Matters crashed the Tanner household in a Full House episode. The Jeffersons appeared on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air twice — that’s double the visits of Will’s dad. While these kinds of very special episodes may not have been the most artistically inspired publicity stunts, these marketing department’s delights certainly weren’t anything worthy of shame or derision, let alone a full-scale press tour from either show’s creator as they disowned the project like it’s a nefarious failson who committed treason against the crown. That is, unless you ask Groening.

Leading up to the airing of the iconic Season Six Simpsons episode “A Star Is Burns,...

Robert Downey Jr. is currently at the peak of Hollywood fame but he had a humble beginning in the industry. He kickstarted his career on Broadway as a teen actor and actively pursued a mainstream film role since 1983. His first lead role came only in 1987 with the movie The Pick-up Artist. During this period, he became part of the new, younger cast hired for Saturday Night Live in 1985.

Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in Avengers: Infinity War | Credits: Marvel Studios

While SNL is a career starter for many talented artists, Downey Jr.’s appearance in the show is not something that often comes up in discussions. It is because that ‘Downey Jr. season’ was one of the worst seasons of the show. Most of the cast, including the Iron Man actor, was replaced after that season.

Robert Downey Jr.’s SNL Role Made Him Realize For the First Time...

Lots of comics have beef with other comics but how many can claim multiple physical fights with funny co-stars?

That’s why we have to take off our hats to Chevy Chase, the guy who made Chris Columbus flee National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, scared off super-fan Kevin Smith from a Fletch revival and had his shoulder dislocated in a tussle with Community co-star Joel McHale. Chase is also the undisputed king of Saturday Night Live beef, angering generations of comedians with his a-hole behavior.

Here are five times Chase royally pissed off SNL cast members during show week…

1 John Belushi

According to Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, one of the show’s writers noticed that “within two-thirds of the first year, it began to seem that Chevy was more worried about his next cold opening than about being part of the team.”

John Belushi also noticed.

Ego Nwodim claims that a lot of people are intimidated by her boss, Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels — but she’s not one of them. “I know people are scared of him, but ain’t nothing to be scared of,” Nwodim told Interview.

“What a curious man,” Nwodim explained. “I get flowers from him for my birthday every year, and I’m like, the man knows how to charm a woman.” But Nwodim's most telling statement about her relationship with SNL's head honcho? “One time I slipped up and called him Daddy Lorne to his face.”

Before you make the call to NBC Human Resources, know that SNL cast members have had daddy issues with Michaels for decades. “I read a thing in the Times about Tina Fey and she said something like, ‘Well, you really want to please Daddy,’ with regard to Lorne,” said original Saturday Night Live...

Have you ever witnessed a rollercoaster that makes the stomach plummet and the heart soar, all in the same breath? Well, Charlie Sheen’s love life mirrors exactly that—a thrilling, unpredictable adventure with twists & turns that defy the odds. Given up on love or simply safeguarding his heart from another strikeout, the Platoon actor, 58, has once made headlines, refusing to walk down the aisle with Natalie Kenly, his former partner who loved him dearly.

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Back in 2011, he shared the spotlight with his goddesses, among them model-graphic designer Natalie Kenly, who claimed to have fallen for Sheen’s intellectual charm. Despite the stars aligning in their cosmic cradle, the actor, with the frankness of a baseball player batting zero for three in the game of matrimony, decided not to swing, dodging what he jokingly dubbed a “golden sombrero”.

Love Unreturned:...

Movies always go through a number of changes between an idea in the shower to streaming from your couch, whether minor (your protagonist now wears leather jackets instead of tweed suits) to major (he’s also a wild stunt man instead of a quiet professor). It’s not uncommon, for example, to lighten up some dark source material for a broader audience, so you know when the opposite occurs — a comedy becomes a heavy drama or high-stakes thriller — some choices were made.

5 Alien

We’re usually relegated to merely imagining what a movie might have been like if it had been taken in a different direction, but in the case of Alien, we can see it. It started as Dark Star (which itself started as John Carpenter’s USC master’s thesis), a comedy featuring an alien very obviously made out of a beach ball. “I went away from Dark Star...

Sports halls of fame feature a handful of athletes — Sandy Koufax, Gale Sayers, Pete Maravich — who achieved undeniable excellence before their careers were cut short by injury or tragedy. But what if Koufax had pitched another eight seasons of so-so baseball? Would he still be considered an all-time great?

Here are 6 sitcoms that got off to Hall-of-Fame starts but delivered mediocre laughs as the seasons wore on — and on and on…

1 Roseanne

The first few seasons were like nothing else on television (at least since The Honeymooners), depicting a working-class family made up of cast members who resembled the people watching the show. But as the show’s titular star assumed more and more control, Roseanne grew increasingly bizarre. It went completely off the rails in Season Nine, with the Connors winning the lottery and whooping it up in decidedly non-Connor fashion. When the season’s final episode revealed that...

According to regular Adam Sandler co-star Nick Swardson, getting a role in one of the Sandman’s movies is roughly equivalent to him calling you up to join a game of pick-up basketball. (Sandler might do that too.) Take, for example, the time Swardson was cast in Just Go With It alongside Jennifer Aniston.

“Sandler called me, I remember exactly where I was,” Swardson told David Spade and Dana Carvey on their Fly on the Wall podcast. “I was at Baby Blues BBQ in Venice, and Sandler calls me and he goes, ‘Hey, what are you doing?’ And I go, ‘I’m having dinner. Why? What’s up?’ And he goes, ‘Can you do a German accent?’ And I go, ‘What? Like this?’”

Here Swardson said something unintelligible in Germanic gibberish.

“And (Sandler) goes, ‘Okay, perfect. Call you tomorrow.’”

The next day, Sandler called back as promised. “We’re doing a movie in Hawaii.

Add Beck Bennett to the list of Saturday Night Live stars populating superhero movies. James Gunn recently announced that Bennett would appear in his new Superman film as Steve Lombard, a loudmouthed sportswriter who lives to torment Clark Kent.

Bennett is just the latest SNL star to find his way into the Marvel and DC cinematic universes, too. Here are other SNL vets who suited up for super action…

1 Robert Downey Jr.

The undisputed king of this list, Downey spent a tortured year as an SNL cast member when he was only 21. “I learned so much in that year about what I wasn’t,” he told the Off-Camera Show’s Sam Jones. “I was not somebody who was going to do impressions. I was somebody who was very ill-suited for rapid-fire sketch comedy.”

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Downey rebounded from his SNL failures (and other ‘80s and ‘90s misadventures) before becoming the...

Other than acute behind-the-scenes anxiety, one of Saturday Night Live’s longest-running traditions is the “Five-Timers Club,” a prestigious clique for celebrities who have hosted the show at least five times.

But it turns out it’s all a lie. Wake up sheeple!

The Five-Timers Club obviously began as a joke, part of Tom Hanks’ opening monologue during his fifth SNL appearance in 1990. The mere suggestion that hosting SNL five times was a benchmark worthy of a membership card, a luxurious robe and access to “one of the most exclusive clubs in the world” was meant to be laughable. I mean, the first sketch literally finds Jon Lovitz taking lunch orders and throwing out Ralph Nader.

According to Robert Smigel, the inspiration for the sketch, which he co-wrote for Conan O’Brien, was Hanks’ impression of Lorne Michaels waxing poetically about what it’s like to host SNL each time. “I...

A Family Affair is Netflix’s latest rom-com directed by Richard Lagravenese from a screenplay by Carrie Solomon. The Netflix film follows the story of Zara, a young woman with aspirations of becoming a film producer, but currently, she works as an assistant for a self-obsessed and childish movie star, Chris Cole. While Zara hates her job and boss, she still tolerates them, but things get worse when she finds out that her mother and boss are romantically involved. A Family Affair has an amazing cast, including Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, Joey King, and Kathy Bates. So, if you loved the romance, banter, and hijinks of A Family Affair, here are some similar romcoms you could watch next.

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The Idea of You is a romantic comedy film directed by Michael Showalter from a screenplay co-written by Showalter and Jennifer Westfeldt. Based...

Say this for Saturday Night Live — if performers don’t have the goods, they don’t stick around for long. A number of talented comics didn’t get asked back for even a second season, including future stars Sarah Silverman, Jenny Slate and Ben Stiller. But just because comics are good enough to earn multiple seasons doesn’t mean they can’t overstay their welcome. Here are four SNL performers who milked the show for all it was worth…

1 Kenan Thompson

Hear me out. Clearly, Thompson is an SNL Hall-of-Famer, logging more episodes and more sketches than anyone else in the show’s history. Bravo! But at this point, what does Thompson have left to prove?

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Thompson rarely develops recurring characters like Diondre Cole these days. Instead, he supports other cast members with the greatest comic reactions in the history of Studio 8H. A steady hand is always welcome,...

“You’ll see it! You’ll see it under this big W. You can’t miss it! A big, big, W!” And that’s just what Eddie Murphy is hoping to get with his planned remake of 1963 ensemble comedy classic It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. He has even started lining up the cast, dropping Martin Lawrence into the fold in the early stages.

Speaking with Entertainment Tonight, Murphy said, “I got this other idea for something with Martin. I’ve been developing it for years. Did you ever see a movie It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World? Well, I got a script, it will be delivered any minute now written by Jez Butterworth [Dial of Destiny, Ford v Ferrari] and I’m trying to do a remake of that movie.” He added, “It’s one of my favorite movies of all time and if I do it, if the script turns out right,...

You think Pete Davidson was young when he started on Saturday Night Live? He was 20, practically a grizzled veteran. So was been-there-done-that Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Eddie Murphy was 19 years old, but that still made him an experienced pro compared to Anthony Michael Hall, who got a job on SNL in 1985 before he was old enough to vote. The show was on practically past his bedtime.

“How do you get on Saturday Night Live at 17?” wondered Dana Carvey this week on the Fly on the Wall podcast. “Beat Eddie Murphy by two years!”

As it turns out, Hall didn’t even have to audition. “Eddie was a hero of mine, and I was literally in my mother’s apartment two years before watching him every weekend. I loved it,” Hall told Carvey and David Spade. Then the young actor killed it in John Hughes' comedies Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club. “After I had done those films,...

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It’s a home run with this hilarious and beloved comedy starring Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, and Madonna. With baseball lineups and locker rooms left empty during World War II, the newly-founded All-American Girls Baseball League brought talented women to the big leagues and fans to the stands. The indomitable Dottie Hinson (Davis) finds herself leading a rag-tag group of players who end up winning over the heart of their has-been coach, Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks). Lori Petty, Rosie O’Donnell and Jon Lovitz round out the all-star roster. Based on the true story of the pioneering women who blazed the trail for generations of athletes.

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“Let’s face it, I had a bad script,” director Michael Bay said on the commentary track of his debut feature film, Bad Boys. Bay isn’t wrong. Bad Boys relies on buddy comedy tropes already established in 1974’s Freebie and the Bean and 1982’s 48 Hrs., complete with nonsense plot points. “But I had real comic talent in my two stars.” Bay of course means Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. Drawn from the popular sitcoms Martin and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Lawrence and Smith saved the movie from the clunky script with their easy chemistry and comic timing.

At one point, however, Bad Boys had two very different stars in mind with a comic chemistry unlike that of Lawrence and Smith.

Live From Miami, It’s Saturday Night!

In the 1980s, there were no greater kingmakers than Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson. Not only did the super producers turn...

This article contains major spoilers for "Bad Boys: Ride or Die."

What does it mean to be a Bad Boy? That's the unasked question lingering over the "Bad Boys" franchise, but the question as well as the answer isn't as clear cut as it appears. After all, the title could be ironic, especially when Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz were originally slated to star in the first film. By the time the project morphed into Michael Bay's first feature starring then-tv sitcom stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, the title became a mission statement, where the film was going to (and eventually did) prove that these funnymen could be genuinely badass.

After "Bad Boys II," 2020's "Bad Boys For Life" appeared to be a swan song for Detectives Mike Lowry (Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Lawrence) as they faced the ravages of age as well as their checkered pasts, eventually...

The original Bad Boys debuted nearly 30 years ago, and even with a first-time director, two stars untested at the box office and a scramble to finish the script, nothing could handcuff the film’s success.

After a string of hits that included Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop and Top Gun, producing partners Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer began developing a buddy-cop script from George Gallo (Midnight Run) called Bulletproof Heart. Saturday Night Live standouts Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz were eyed to star, but Will Smith and Martin Lawrence ultimately landed the leads. (In 2013, Arsenio Hall told The Hollywood Reporter about his regret over having turned down Smith’s part: “Sometimes I made bad choices.”)

At the time, Smith and Lawrence were starring on the sitcoms The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Martin, respectively, and neither had led a studio movie. Making his feature directorial debut was Michael Bay, known for music videos and commercials.

“Freeze mother bitches!” What’s the all-time best buddy cop movie ever made? 48 Hrs? Lethal Weapon? Beverly Hills Cop? Rush Hour? The Nice Guys? In terms of story and dramatic action, any one of these titles warrants serious consideration. But when it comes to the onscreen rapport and natural chemistry between two stars in a buddy cop movie, it’s hard to beat 1995’s Bad Boys – the directorial debut of the divisive filmmaker Michael Bay. Sure, Bay has earned a rightful rep as a bold and boisterous music-video director turned filmmaker who favors big, dumb, pyrotechnic excesses over quality cinematic storytelling.

However, Bay does deserve at least a modicum of credit for pairing the comedic talents of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence together as Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett – two immensely likable Miami narcotics officers who trade crackling banter and witty one-liners whose onscreen partnership drives the engagement and entertainment level.

Just as no history of Saturday Night Live would be complete without mention of The Groundlings, it would be impossible to tell the story of The Groundlings without talking about the role SNL has played in their continued success. Which is exactly what the legendary improv and sketch comedy theater intends to do when it hosts a star-studded panel later this month.

On Friday, June 28, The Groundlings will welcome back a handful of alums who have made it big both on that Los Angeles stage as well as in the hallowed halls of Studio 8H.

The panel, which will be moderated by current Main Company member Josh Duvendeck, will bring together what the official calendar listing describes as “legends of SNL and The Groundlings,” including original Not Ready For Prime-Time Player Laraine Newman, Jon Lovitz, Cheri Oteri, Chris Parnell, Julia Sweeney, Taran Killam, and Will Forte (who will beam in...

When Saturday Night Live began, it wasn’t even called Saturday Night Live. That honor belonged to a rival variety show hosted by Howard Cosell that launched the same year on ABC primetime. Hence why the young, hungry, and immensely talented sketch comedians assembled in 1975 were dubbed the “Not Ready for Primetime Players.”

That earliest and now quasi-mythical first class of SNL alumni remain the only ones to hold that title. Perhaps this is because the joke stopped working after many of them proved more than capable of carrying a primetime television series. In fact, most of them went on to have successful careers on TV, the Broadway stage, and for the precious and most spectacular few… in the movies.

Ever since Chevy Chase exited SNL after its first season, the series has been viewed—sometimes to creator and producer Lorne Michaels and NBC executives’ consternation—as a launchpad for movie stardom.

Have you ever stopped to marvel at the wonders human talent can achieve? Take Tom Hanks’ example, whose popularity stems from his roles in major blockbusters like Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, and Saving Private Ryan, making him one of Hollywood’s top actors. But that is not the only thing the 67-year-old is good at; he is also a terrific voice actor and is equally adept at comedy and impersonation.

Tom Hanks in Catch Me If You Can

Since he first joined the five-timers club, he has hosted numerous episodes of Saturday Night Live in addition to making several cameos. In a sketch titled ‘The Stand-Ups’, which Hanks performed during his first Saturday Night Live hosting gig, stand-up comedians conversed backstage while using the same voices they did on stage.

In one of his former interviews, Hanks disclosed that he had given Jerry Seinfeld a call to obtain approval...

Comedian Jon Lovitz raised questions about the lack of outrage from Hollywood actors over the pro-Palestinian protests taking place at college campuses across the United States.

In an interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters on Jesse Waters Primetime, Lovitz, who is Jewish and outspoken about his conservative beliefs, expressed surprise that other actors weren’t being more vocal.

“People say, ‘Why are you speaking up? Why aren’t other people in Hollywood, who are way bigger names than me, not saying anything?'” Lovitz said. “And my answer is, I don’t know. I think either they’re afraid, or they’re afraid they’re going to lose… that it’ll hurt their business.”

Protests that demand a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas conflict have erupted on multiple college campuses in recent days and resulted in arrests, student suspensions and heightened police presence.

Columbia University gained national attention last week...

Lorne Michaels is an expert at celebrating the legacy of “Saturday Night Live.” The show’s creator has produced variety specials for the NBC program’s 15th anniversary, 25th anniversary and 40th anniversary, so the upcoming 50th season should have a highly entertaining spectacle. Nothing less than a three-hour event would be expected, but how else should “SNL” celebrate the golden anniversary season, which would begin in the autumn of 2024 and continue through May, 2025?

Here is our exciting, fun suggestion for a way to go above and beyond for the live special. Over the course of a 20-22 episode season, NBC would certainly have almost every episode featuring the current cast along with hot guest hosts and musical guests. However, for the other five episodes spread out over several months, devote an entire 90 minutes to each previous decade. Invite back the biggest cast members from a decade along with well-known guest hosts and music stars.

So what can be said about Andy Dick that the paparazzi and nearly every Judge from West Virginia to Los Angeles hasn’t already said? He was once a rising star in the comedy world with lovably nerdy characters on hit TV series before his demons grabbed a hold of him and took him down an over 25 year path of endless headlines with his name often times preceding the word “arrested.” In those years, he has compiled more Mug Shots than Head Shots and went from Star on the Rise to Registered Sex Offender. Yeah, I don’t know how else to say this other than: Wtf Happened to Andy Dick?!

But as always we must begin at the beginning and the beginning began on his birthday, December 21, 1965 in Charleston, South Carolina. After graduating high school in the suburbs of Illinois, Andy would study at the famed Second City and...

Martin Lawrence and Will Smith play two Miami narcotics detectives, Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowery, in the Bad Boys franchise. The first film in the franchise was made in 1995 when Smith was still the young star from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. However, Lawrence was a major star at the time and it will surprise many fans to learn that he commanded a higher paycheck than Smith.

Martin Lawrence and Will Smith in Bad Boys

While Bad Boys received mixed reviews, Bad Boys II was a critical disappointment. However, audiences liked the third film, Bad Boys for Life, which resulted in Sony greenlighting a fourth film, set to be released in 2024 and titled Bad Boys: Ride or Die.

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I Can See Your Voice fans, we’ve got a fresh off the press preview for the new Season 3 Episode 5 episode titled Sports Night: Montell Jordan, Dwight Howard, Jon Lovitz, Cheryl Hines, Adrienne Bailon-Houghton!

Find out everything you need to know about the Sports Night: Montell Jordan, Dwight Howard, Jon Lovitz, Cheryl Hines, Adrienne Bailon-Houghton episode of I Can See Your Voice, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!

I Can See Your Voice Sports Night: Montell Jordan, Dwight Howard, Jon Lovitz, Cheryl Hines, Adrienne Bailon-Houghton Season 3 Episode 5 Preview

In the upcoming episode of “I Can See Your Voice” titled “Sports Night,” set to air on Fox at 8:00 Pm on January 31, 2024, viewers are in for a star-studded spectacle as celebrities from the worlds of music, sports, and comedy join the fun. Celebrity detectives Montell Jordan, Dwight Howard, and Jon Lovitz bring their...

In the upcoming episode of “See No Evil,” Season 9, titled “Body in a Barrel,” scheduled to air at 9:00 Pm on Wednesday, January 31, 2024, on Investigation Discovery, viewers are in for a chilling true-crime story that unfolds in San Diego. The episode revolves around the mysterious disappearance of 28-year-old musician Omar Medina in 2017.

As the plot thickens, the worst fears of Omar’s family come true when his lifeless body is discovered in a barrel floating in the bay. The investigation takes a riveting turn as law enforcement turns to surveillance footage, a crucial tool in tracking down the individuals responsible for this heinous crime. Expect a suspenseful and gripping narrative as “See No Evil” delves into the intricacies of the case, using surveillance technology to unravel the truth behind the “Body in a Barrel.”

Release Date & Time: 8:00 Pm Wednesday 31 January 2024 on Fox

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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.

But Aykroyd’s new project takes “SNL” formers to decidedly new terrain.

Aykroyd, Jim Belushi, Jon Lovitz, Kevin Nealon and “Cheers” alumni George Wendt (who made a name on “SNL” as the character Bob Swerski of the Chicago Superfans), have teamed up to lead subscribers of the streaming outlet Fox Nation through a history of drinking. In “A History of the World in Six Glasses,”which debuted this week, the comic sextuplet examines some of the political and cultural ramifications in the rise of beer,...

Do you want to have a drink? In a six-part docuseries, five comedy legends examine the cultural and historical impact of six of the most important beverages in the world: Beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and soda. Fox Nation’s “A History of the World in Six Glasses” will feature Dan Aykroyd, Jim Belushi, Jon Lovitz, Kevin Nealon, and “Cheers” star George Wendt as they chronicle the history of these six drinks and their respective impact on the world. The show premieres on the streaming service on Monday, Jan. 8. You can watch with a 7-Day Free Trial of Fox Nation.

How to Watch 'A History of the World in Six Glasses' Premiere When: Monday, January 8, 2024 Where: Fox Nation Stream: Watch with a 7-Day Free Trial of Fox Nation. 7-Day Free Trial$5.99+ / month fox nation via fubo About 'A History of the World in Six Glasses' Premiere

For the whole of human history,...

Enjoy titles like Dennis Quaid’s ‘Top Combat Pilot,’ news content from top Fox personalities and much more with a Fox Nation subscription.

It appears as if Fox’s conservative-leaning lifestyle and entertainment platform is in the holiday spirit. Fox Nation is giving new customers an incredible deal. The streaming service is normally available for $5.99 per month or $64.99 per year, but for a limited time, you can save 60% on an annual subscription, paying just $19.99 for your next year! The platform does carry some news content from top Fox News personalities like Sean Hannity and Jesse Watters, but there’s much more on the platform, including titles like Dennis Quaid’s “Top Combat Pilot” and “Liberty or Death: Boston Tea Party,” hosted by Rob Lowe.

How to Get 1 Full Year of Fox Nation for Just $19.99 Click here to get the deal from Fox Nation. Click “Get Started,” and make sure you select the annual plan.

Fox Nation wants to get in on the streaming comedy boom that has largely been fomented by Netflix.

The Fox News streaming outlet plans to turn January into a comedy-themed month, one that is led by two stand-up concerts featuring Fox’s own talent as well as a new series about the history of drinking hosted by Dan Aykroyd and other alumni from “Saturday Night Live.”

Fox News may be known for snarky one-liners about liberals and Democrats, but it’s less known for comedy stylings, even with the satirical Greg Gutfeld leading a primetime program at 10 p.m. But Fox Nation, once largely seeded with programming that tackled news and politics, has been tilting at lifestyle and documentary programming for months. A month at Fox Nation might offer docu-series about national landmarks and parklands, or a suite of Clint Eastwood movies, all part of a bid to lure conservative...

There’s quite the list of celebrities appearing on I Can See Your Voice in Season 3, premiering Wednesday, January 3, 2024 at 8/7c, as celebrity detectives. TV Insider has learned exclusively that Fox‘s musical guessing game will welcome as panelists the following actors, athletes, comedians, musicians, and TV personalities: Lauren Alaina, Jimmie Allen, DeRay Davis, Gavin DeGraw, Kate Flannery, Ron Funches, Jennie Garth, Johnny Gill, Nikki Glaser, Todrick Hall, Tyler Hilton, Dwight Howard, Cheyenne Jackson, Penn Jillette, Montell Jordan, Chris Kirkpatrick, Maggie Lawson, NeNe Leakes, Thomas Lennon, Jon Lovitz, Maddie & Tae, Romeo Miller, Finesse Mitchell, Frankie Muniz, Melissa Peterman, Shawn Stockman, Lisa Ann Walter, Dionne Warwick, Michelle Williams, Porsha Williams Guobadia, and Carnie Wilson. Plus, check out our exclusive photo above. I Can See Your Voice Season 3 will also include all-new theme nights, such as Queen Night, Motown Night, and Diva’s Night. The competition show is hosted and executive produced by Ken Jeong.

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about lotsa shows including So You Think You Can Dance, For All Mankind, A Murder at the End of the World, Dancing With the Stars and more!

1 | Watching May December on Netflix, without a doubt the most burning question is: Did someone run out for more hot dogs, or had Gracie simply guessed wrong? Also, who of you predicted that Charles Melton would be the first Riverdale alum to garner Oscar buzz?

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That relationship quandary was at the heart of Magnum P.I. Season 5 Episode 17, and it made for a couple of entertaining cases, one comedic, one dramatic.

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This is a question with which couples who work and live together must navigate, so it's relevant to many viewers.

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Jon Lovitz (Saturday Night Live) puts in a guest starring appearance on NBC’s Magnum Pi season five episode 17, “Consciousness of Guilt.” After taking a three week break, episode 17 is set to air on Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at 9pm Et/Pt.

Jay Hernandez leads the cast as Thomas Magnum, Perdita Weeks is Juliet Higgins, Zachary Knighton stars as Orville ‘Rick’ Wright, Stephen Hill is Theodore ‘Tc’ Calvin, Amy Hill is Kumu, and Tim Kang plays Det. Gordon Katsumoto.

“Consciousness of Guilt” Plot: After a high-stakes homicide case falls apart at trial, Katsumoto asks Magnum to help him stop a killer from walking free. Higgins helps Jin Jeong with a mystery of his own.

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Magnum P.I. is a modern take on the classic series centering on Thomas Magnum,...