SNL writer Michael Patrick O'Brien has kindly agreed to answer a few questions about his first season writing for SNL.. do you have any questions you'd like to ask him?
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in 1990, there was an attempt to make an actual theatrical release called "The Saturday Night Live Movie," an anthology comedy film a la "Kentucky Fried Movie" that was aimed at satirizing the experience of going to the movies, written by an all-star cast of writers who have been associated with the show over the years.
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Mr. Meyers spoke recently to ArtsBeat about his ESPYs job, the intersection of sports and comedy on “Saturday Night Live,” and why Tiger Woods is like Senator John F. Kerry.
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Today Comedy Central is unveiling their new web talk show Portable Lounge. That's right, it's a TV show on the internet! What's next, a website on the lawnmower?
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SNL's Bobby Moynihan on the audition process, writing the Single Ladies sketch, and his blinding turn as Snooki.
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Lorne Michaels will receive the International Emmy Directorate Award at the 38th annual International Emmy Awards gala on Nov. 22 in New York City. The organizers of the award say they're honoring Michaels for founding "SNL," which "reinvented comedy on television and launched a generation of major film and TV stars."
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Tom Davis may be a scholar and a gentleman, or he may be neither of those things, but he was one of the original writers for Saturday Night Live, and he did live a full life, which he shared parts ...
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Simon Rich has a knack for making writers over 30 feel bad about ourselves. He was a published author at 22, followed that up by becoming the youngest Saturday Night Live writer ever, and at just 26 has just published his first full-length novel entitled Elliot Allagas. He recently swung through Toronto for a reading and q&a session, where he shared behind-the-scenes tidbits with SNL fans and had fellow writers pondering that, perhaps, we should work a tad harder.
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Colin Jost is a writing supervisor at Saturday Night Live, where he’s written since 2005. He’s also got a film Identity Theft in development) as well as Kappa Mikey , an animated series for Nickelodeon, under his belt.
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