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Saturday Night Live at 40: The Best of SNL Decade by Decade

February 13, 2015 Ryan Berenz

Saturday Night Live and I were born in 1975, and we grew up together. My first TV memory is from 1978 and Steve Martin’s Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber, prescribing a liberal bloodletting to all who entered his shop. (A 3-year-old watching SNL? Take that up with my mom.) Back in my day, we didn’t have on-demand video or smartphones to watch SNL. We had to watch it live on TV or we taped it with a VCR and had to FF through A. Whitney Brown’s commentary so we could finally watch Jon Lovitz’s Annoying Man. That’s the way it […]

What’s “Odd” is new again: Matthew Perry reboots The Odd Couple for CBS

February 13, 2015 Ryan Berenz

One could excuse Matthew Perry if he feels snakebit. Since Friends disbanded in 2004, Perry has led respectable but ultimately rejected efforts in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Mr. Sunshine and Go On. Fortunately, Perry’s latest project, a sitcom reboot of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, has a few things going for it that his previous attempts did not. It’s got a solid foundation of well-known source material from the 1968 Jack Lemmon/Walter Matthau film and the 1970s Tony Randall/Jack Klugman TV series. It’s got an incredibly simple premise. And it’s on CBS, who’s giving it a plum premiere […]

5 Questions with Baby Daddy’s Derek Theler

February 13, 2015 Kellie Freeze

Derek Theler plays charming hockey player Danny Wheeler on the ABC Family’s comedy, Baby Daddy. In a special two-part crossover event, General Hospital’s Kelly Monaco guest starred on the Feb. 4 episode of Baby Daddy and on Feb. 13, Theler and co-star Melissa Peterman will star on the Valentine’s Day episode of General Hospital. At the end of my chat with Monaco and Theler about the double swap, Theler shared that the soap’s rapid pace was a challenge, but that the experience taught him to be a “smaller” actor. Then he answered our 5 Questions… 1. You’re at a magazine rack and […]

#SNL40: Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special on NBC Sunday

February 11, 2015 Ryan Berenz

Remember Mike Myers’ Middle-Aged Man character on Saturday Night Live? (“You’re looking at my gut, aren’t you? Well, I’m working on it!”) SNL is celebrating its own middle-age milestone with a live, three-hour Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special on NBC Sunday, Feb. 15, beginning at 8pm ET, featuring clips from the most memorable sketches and appearances by esteemed SNL alumni and special guests. The special begins with a red-carpet show Sunday at 7pm ET on NBC. Live From New York, It’s #SNL40 Saturday Night Live and I were born in 1975, and we grew up together. My first TV […]

Jon Stewart leaving “The Daily Show”

February 11, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

Jon Stewart stunned his fans, and media watchers in general, last night when he announced to his studio audience for that night’s taping of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show that he will be leaving as host. Stewart has hosted The Daily Show since 1999, when he replaced Craig Kilborn. He will be leaving later this year (plans are still being worked out exactly when, according to Stewart’s announcement. Stewart also indicated he has no immediate plans). Stewart’s departure comes in the wake of Comedy Central also saying goodbye recently to Stephen Colbert, who first became widely known on The Daily Show before spinning off into his […]

Jane the Virgin Chapter 13 Recap: Zazo Is Alive?!

February 10, 2015 StayTuned Staff

On Chapter Thirteen of Jane the Virgin, things go from amazing to horrifying quickly for Jane. It’s two days before her graduation and instead of getting ready for the celebration, Jane is faced with yet another dramatic life decision. Rafael and Jane go in for their 3-D ultrasound to see how the baby is doing and hopefully learn the sex of their child, even though Jane is almost one hundred percent certain it’s a girl. The couple are excited to learn how the baby is doing until the doctor comes in with horrible news. He tells Rafael and Jane that the baby’s […]

Better Call Saul episode 2 recap: Crunch time!

February 9, 2015 Lori Acken

The first lesson of Better Call Saul! episode 2, “Mijo,” is that you do not call Tuco Salamanca’s grandma a “biznatch.” You do not. You can call the cops. You can demand dinero. But you do not. Call. Grandma. Biznatch. For Breaking Bad fans, this goes without saying. For those of you new to Tuco and his business methods, this episode is all about where it lands you. We backtrack a few moments from the conclusion of last night’s series premiere. With the twins towering behind her and everyone looking hard at Tuco, Abuelita whimpers with worry. Tuco sends her up to watch […]

Better Call Saul! premiere recap: Did you ground yourself?

February 8, 2015 Lori Acken

Turns out Breaking Bad’s fallen jurist Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) wasn’t just a’kiddin’ when he offered this assessment of his future before climbing into Ed the Extractor’s van in the series’ penultimate episode: “Best case scenario, I’m managing a Cinnabon in Omaha.” In the black-and-white opening moments of Better Call Saul!, Odenkirk’s new AMC series from Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, we discover that that is just exactly where Goodman ended up — massaging giant wads of dough into sticky, high-cal treats and looking entirely unconvinced that his wire rims, hefty mustache and expanding bald spot can mask his identity from whatever […]

Shameless Season 5, Episode 5: “Rite of Passage” recap

February 8, 2015 Karen Ruud

Marriage, $121,000 benders, fight club, drug dealings, infidelity, parents approval and craziness all prevailed last week. Here’s what happened this week on Shameless Season 5, Episode 5: “Rite of Passage” Warning: get your hanky ready, there are some tearjerker moments this week. Well, at least for me. Frank: After last week’s expensive bender, Frank is trying to crash at the Gallagher house. Sammi moves her broken trailer on to the lot next door. Some strange man, who turns out to be a realtor, comes up while Sammi is trying to keep up with her now decrepit trailer and informs her […]

“Laff Mobb’s We Got Next” Presents Season 2 of Clean Stand-up Showcase

February 4, 2015 Kellie Freeze

If you like comedy, but hate swearing, ASPiRE Network’s second season of Laff Mobb’s We Got Next returns on Feb. 4 with you in mind. The popular weekly stand-up comedy showcase delivers eight new episodes starring 16 of the freshest voices in comedy. Hosted by Bob Sumner and filmed before a live audience at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood, California. The series proves that you don’t have to work “blue” to make ’em roar! In Season 2, the weekly series takes viewers back into the “Clean Comedy Lab” of Bob Sumner (co-creator/co-executive producer of HBO’s Russell Simmons’ Def […]