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Saturday Night Live

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Mean Girls Paint Swastikas, Leave Poop at Foe's Northridge Home: Jon Lovitz to The Rescue

    Three mean girls who admitted to painting swastikas and leaving what is apparently dog poop on the front walkway of a foe's Northridge home were kicked out of high school, according to none other than former Saturday Night Live star Jon Lovitz. He tweeted the sweet news this week after defending th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 22, 2012

    Alan Zweibel

    Three mean girls who admitted to painting swastikas and leaving what is apparently dog poop on the front walkway of a foe's Northridge home were kicked out of high school, according to none other than former Saturday Night Live star Jon Lovitz. He tweeted the sweet news this week after defending th ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    January 26, 2012

    SNL Stars Whose Careers Have Done a 180

    Three mean girls who admitted to painting swastikas and leaving what is apparently dog poop on the front walkway of a foe's Northridge home were kicked out of high school, according to none other than former Saturday Night Live star Jon Lovitz. He tweeted the sweet news this week after defending th ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    January 26, 2012

    Victoria Jackson's Excellent Tea Party Adventure

    Three mean girls who admitted to painting swastikas and leaving what is apparently dog poop on the front walkway of a foe's Northridge home were kicked out of high school, according to none other than former Saturday Night Live star Jon Lovitz. He tweeted the sweet news this week after defending th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    Victoria Jackson Joins the Tea Party: Five Saturday Night Live Alums Who Have Taken Career 180s

    Flickr/89AKurtNot so funny anymore: former SNLer Victoria Jackson joined the Tea Party because she enjoys Snapple.​ Careers after Saturday Night Live aren't as easy as you think. For those alums who haven't reached Adam Sandler-level box office heights or thrived in sitcom character roles -- ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2012

    Weeds' Wunderkind

    Flickr/89AKurtNot so funny anymore: former SNLer Victoria Jackson joined the Tea Party because she enjoys Snapple.​ Careers after Saturday Night Live aren't as easy as you think. For those alums who haven't reached Adam Sandler-level box office heights or thrived in sitcom character roles -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2011

    Joe Bodolai: SNL, 'Wayne's World' Writer Found Dead in Hollywood Hotel; Suicide Likely

    Ah, the sad life of the writer. And just think, this guy was successful: What does that say about the rest of us? Joe Bodolai, an onetime member of Saturday Night Live's famed writers' table and the reported author of the first draft of the hit movie Wayne's World was found dead in Hollywood Monday ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    LinA In LA Party Picks: SNL's Stefon Ain't Got Nothin' On Us

    ​Anybody's who's ever watched Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" and reads this column knows the flamboyant nightlife reporter, Stefon (played by Bill Hader), and yours truly have similar sensibilities when it comes to colorful clubbing. Midget pirate parties ... white trash drag queen hoe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Uptight Mom Group Protests Schweddy Balls

    Ben & Jerry's​Have you been looking long and hard for your Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls, only to go home with ice-cream blue balls instead? Us too. Last month, we told you about the official launch of the limited-release flavor. The B&J scoop shops always seem to be sold out, and we've never s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 16, 2011

    How Crazy is This?

    Ben & Jerry's​Have you been looking long and hard for your Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls, only to go home with ice-cream blue balls instead? Us too. Last month, we told you about the official launch of the limited-release flavor. The B&J scoop shops always seem to be sold out, and we've never s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 2, 2011

    This Headline Was Entirely Improvised!

    Ben & Jerry's​Have you been looking long and hard for your Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls, only to go home with ice-cream blue balls instead? Us too. Last month, we told you about the official launch of the limited-release flavor. The B&J scoop shops always seem to be sold out, and we've never s ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    May 12, 2011

    Bridesmaids Review

    Ben & Jerry's​Have you been looking long and hard for your Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls, only to go home with ice-cream blue balls instead? Us too. Last month, we told you about the official launch of the limited-release flavor. The B&J scoop shops always seem to be sold out, and we've never s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Tina Fey and Steve Martin Discuss Comedy, Palin and Fey's New Memoir Bossypants

    Jena ArdellTiny Fey and Steve Martin share a few laughs with the audience.​ "The first thing I am going to do is something that Dave Barry, the great comedy writer, said never to do unless you have medical records from a doctor and a medical report from the hospital, and that is ask a woman i ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 7, 2011

    Who's Your Housewife?

    Jena ArdellTiny Fey and Steve Martin share a few laughs with the audience.​ "The first thing I am going to do is something that Dave Barry, the great comedy writer, said never to do unless you have medical records from a doctor and a medical report from the hospital, and that is ask a woman i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    Top 6 Controversial TV Appearances By Bands, in Honor of Odd Future Playing Fallon Tonight

    ​The ever controversial Odd Future (OFWGKTA) rap collective is set to perform tonight on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. We're not sure what this means, but we imagine a certain amount of destruction, danger and disrespect will be involved. (At least, we hope.) Earlier today, Roots drummer Quest ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 20, 2011

    IDIOTS ON PARADE!

    ​The ever controversial Odd Future (OFWGKTA) rap collective is set to perform tonight on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. We're not sure what this means, but we imagine a certain amount of destruction, danger and disrespect will be involved. (At least, we hope.) Earlier today, Roots drummer Quest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Lost Counterculture Film Featuring Anti-Comedy Guru Del Close and Rare MC5 Material to Be Released

    ​Ok, here's one for you lovers of the truly odd: Wild Eye Releasing and MVD Visual are pleased to announce the release of "GOLD: Before Woodstock. Beyond Reality." for North American distribution on July 27. Considered a 'lost' film for 40 years, GOLD has been found again... This is its firs ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 20, 2010

    MORE SHIT SOME DAD SAYS

    ​Ok, here's one for you lovers of the truly odd: Wild Eye Releasing and MVD Visual are pleased to announce the release of "GOLD: Before Woodstock. Beyond Reality." for North American distribution on July 27. Considered a 'lost' film for 40 years, GOLD has been found again... This is its firs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Top 10 Fictional T.V. Food and Drink

    Previously, we gave you our Top 10 Fictional Movie Food and Drink list. Now we're taking on the T.V. version. Not surprisingly, there were a lot of options to choose from and some of you, we're sure, will feel that a few of your favorites are missing (feel free to let us know). So with apologies in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    Al Franken Seeks Financial Affirmation In L.A.

    Al Fraken's Stuart Smalley character.​Minnesota U.S. Senator and onetime area resident Al Franken will be in town Friday for a fundraiser that will include "dinner, discussion and laughs" with the former comedian as well as fellow Saturday Night Live alums Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon, LAObser ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    The Bill Murray Movie You've Never Heard Of

    In today's print edition of the LA Weekly, I wrote a story on Tom Schiller's Nothing Lasts Forever, an amazing, never-released and rarely screened 1984 sci-fi comedy starring Zach Galligan from Gremlins, and Bill Murray as the operator of an intergalactic bus line that transports elderly tourists to ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 14, 2010

    LUCKY STRIKE

    In today's print edition of the LA Weekly, I wrote a story on Tom Schiller's Nothing Lasts Forever, an amazing, never-released and rarely screened 1984 sci-fi comedy starring Zach Galligan from Gremlins, and Bill Murray as the operator of an intergalactic bus line that transports elderly tourists to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2009

    Today in O-Face News: I'll Have What The Mars Volta's Omar Rodríguez-López Is Having!

    In the annals of "Guitar Face"--that pseudo-orgasmic grimace that some players pull-off, pretending they're playing something with the complexity of John Fahey when in fact they're running scales up and down really fast--there is a noble lineage going from the guy from Free to G.E. Smith (the SNL ba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2009

    'SNL' Brittany Murphy Spoof Pulled From Website

    Abby Elliott as Brittany Murphy on 'SNL.'​NBC apparently pulled the online clip of a Saturday Night Live spoof of Brittany Murphy from a site, Hulu, the network co-owns. The move on Monday came a day after the actress died following cardiac arrest at her home in the hills above the Sunset Stri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    This Ain't Your Dad's Sid and Nancy: Film Maverick Abel Ferrara Brings his Chelsea Hotel Documentary to LA

    ​About a year ago, cult NYC film director Abel Ferrara (Driller Killer, Ms. 45, the OG Bad Lieutenant, The Addiction, etc.) wrapped his indiepunk documentary on the legendary Chelsea Hotel. The film premiered at Cannes last year and is now being gradually unrolled across the US. Ferrara is com ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 15, 2009

    LOOK WHAT THE MAN'S DRAGGED IN

    ​About a year ago, cult NYC film director Abel Ferrara (Driller Killer, Ms. 45, the OG Bad Lieutenant, The Addiction, etc.) wrapped his indiepunk documentary on the legendary Chelsea Hotel. The film premiered at Cannes last year and is now being gradually unrolled across the US. Ferrara is com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    Where Is The Love for will.i.am aka Zuper Blahq?

    Was it the addition of the comely Fergie Ferg? The Justin Timberlake collab? The Saturday Night Live parody? Or "My Humps"? As a native Angeleno, we can remember the days when the Black Eyed Peas were a local hip-hop/breakdancin' act with loads of club cred. Though it was a different direction, we ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 16, 2009

    Groundlings, in the Study, With the Candlestick

    Was it the addition of the comely Fergie Ferg? The Justin Timberlake collab? The Saturday Night Live parody? Or "My Humps"? As a native Angeleno, we can remember the days when the Black Eyed Peas were a local hip-hop/breakdancin' act with loads of club cred. Though it was a different direction, we ... More >>

  • News

    March 26, 2009

    NBC's Bad Sitcom, Lionsgate's Badass Battle and IATSE's Badly Handled Contract

    Was it the addition of the comely Fergie Ferg? The Justin Timberlake collab? The Saturday Night Live parody? Or "My Humps"? As a native Angeleno, we can remember the days when the Black Eyed Peas were a local hip-hop/breakdancin' act with loads of club cred. Though it was a different direction, we ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 12, 2009

    LIVE FROM BEVERLY HILLS, IT'S TOM DAVIS! AND LARAINE NEWMAN!

    Was it the addition of the comely Fergie Ferg? The Justin Timberlake collab? The Saturday Night Live parody? Or "My Humps"? As a native Angeleno, we can remember the days when the Black Eyed Peas were a local hip-hop/breakdancin' act with loads of club cred. Though it was a different direction, we ... More >>

  • LA Life

    March 12, 2009

    GO LA: Rum, Sodomy and John Waters’ Filthy World

    Plus plenty of high-brow, March 13-19

  • Film+TV

    January 1, 2009

    Top 10 New TV Shows From 2008: Hillary & Barack, Gavin & Stacey, Bernard & Doris

    The way we watched

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2008

    Shearer Fun

    Native Los Angeles satirist Harry Shearer turned 65 last week, giving us an opportunity to appreciate his body of wit that stretches from his days performing with radio's Credibility Gap sketch comedy group to writing for Saturday Night Live, Spy magazine and the Huffington Post. Most of us know him ... More >>

  • Stage

    November 27, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Woyzeck, Daddy's Dyin' Who's Got the Will

    Also, Kidnapped by Craigslist, and more

  • Calendar

    November 27, 2008

    Kidnapped by Craigslist

    Also, Kidnapped by Craigslist, and more

  • Calendar

    November 20, 2008

    Groundlings Special Lady Friend

    Also, Kidnapped by Craigslist, and more

  • LA Life

    August 28, 2008

    Garrett Morris

    Mr. Saturday Night

  • News

    August 14, 2008

    R.I.P. Bernie Brillstein

    They don't make 'em in Hollywood like him anymore

  • Film+TV

    December 13, 2007

    Striking TV: DVD Sets for a Season Without Writers

    Berlin Alexanderplatz, Twin Peaks, Johnny Carson, Larry Sanders and more

  • News

    November 15, 2007

    Some UTA Online All-Stars

    Including clips from Smosh, People-Food, We Need Girlfriends and more

  • Stage

    October 25, 2007

    Theater Reviews: Bunny Bunny, Eenie Meanie, Little Fish

    Also Mustang Sally, Glengarry Glen Ross and more

  • LA Life

    January 25, 2007

    ¡Ask a Mexican! Paperless Office Worker

    Also Mustang Sally, Glengarry Glen Ross and more

  • LA Life

    December 14, 2006

    ¡Ask a Mexican! Uncivil Torta

    Also Mustang Sally, Glengarry Glen Ross and more

  • Film+TV

    October 26, 2006

    Battle of the Network Stars

    It’s East Coast 30 Rock against the West Coast heavyweights of Studio 60

  • Film+TV

    December 15, 2005

    The Funniest Guy On TV

    It’s East Coast 30 Rock against the West Coast heavyweights of Studio 60

  • News

    November 17, 2005

    Give Me a Tall Ship and a Monkey to Steer Her By

    Tony Millionaire’s 21st-century Romanticism

  • Stage

    September 30, 2004

    30 Years off the Cuff

    How the Groundlings taught L.A. to laugh

  • Film+TV

    April 29, 2004

    Less Sugar, More Spice

    Mean Girls, though entertaining, could be meaner

  • Columns

    September 23, 1999

    No Fries; Chips

    Mean Girls, though entertaining, could be meaner

  • Film+TV

    February 18, 1999

    Home Girl

    Keeping the faith with Julia Sweeney

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