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It was a massively star-studded affair at the SNL50: The Anniversary Special on Sunday evening (February 16) held at Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center in New York City.

Saturday Night Live celebrated it’s 50th anniversary with hundreds of stars who have appeared on the show over the years.

From music stars like Lady Gaga, Sabrina Carpenter and Cher, to actors like Ayo Edebiri, Emma Stone and Anya Taylor-Joy.

Keep reading to find out more…

The late-night sketch show’s special featured many returning sketches, with past and present SNL cast members reprising their characters, and even several celebrities who have hosted reprising their characters!

We have gathered every celebrity, cast member and more’s looks from the red carpet and you can see over 200 below…

Abby Elliott

Adam & Jackie Sandler

Adria Arjona & Jason Momoa

Aidy Bryant

Alex & Hilaria Baldwin

Alex Moffat & Caroline Kingsley Moffat

Al Franken

Al Sharpton

Amelia Dimoldenberg...

NBC celebrated Saturday Night Live on Friday night with over three hours of music history on SNL50: The Homecoming Concert. The special hosted by Emmy winner Jimmy Fallon streamed live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City and is now available to stream on Peacock.

Musical acts included Arcade Fire, Backstreet Boys, Bad Bunny, Bonnie Raitt, Brandi Carlile, Brittany Howard, Cher, Chris Martin, Dave Grohl, David Byrne, Devo, Eddie Vedder, Jack White, Jelly Roll, Lady Gaga, Lauryn Hill, Miley Cyrus, Mumford & Sons, Post Malone, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Robyn, Snoop Dogg, St. Vincent, the B-52s, the Roots, and Wyclef Jean. Surprise comedy musical performances included Bill Murray, Paul Shaffer, Andy Samberg, Chris Parnell, Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph, Fred Armisen, and Tracy Morgan.

But that doesn’t end the festivities. Sunday night’s SNL50: The Anniversary Special will switch over from mostly music to almost...

Tim Allen’s classic ‘90s sitcom/anti-drug psyop Home Improvement is now available on Netflix for everyone to… “enjoy” feels like the wrong word.

The show’s new streaming availability has at least been leading some viewers to make new discoveries concerning the show, and not just because we can now freeze frame any scene we like to try and catch a glimmer of co-star Patricia Heaton’s deep resentment of her wildly overpaid TV husband.

Someone has just discovered a hilarious meta-joke within the show — but it was almost certainly a complete accident.

In the Season Four episode “Talk to Me,” Allen was joined by guest stars Dave Chappelle and Jim Breuer, forming the perfect trifecta of comedians who currently specialize in promoting garbage opinions. The pre-fame Dave and Jim played, well, “Dave” and “Jim,” two Tool Time audience members who are having relationship problems and end up being...

Saturday Night Live’s upcoming 50th anniversary special will no doubt bring back a number of past characters, as long as they weren’t played by Joe Piscopo or Jim Breuer, we assume. The show doesn’t air until February, but SNL’s nostalgia-fest has already begun. Yes, two beloved cast members just revived two beloved SNL characters — but it was all in the service of promoting a credit card company.

Molly Shannon and Ana Gasteyer’s soft-spoken “Delicious Dish” hosts are best known for the time they interviewed Pete Schweddy about his coveted balls.

Then, of course, there was the time the pair went to town on Florence Dusty’s yeasty muffins.

And now they’re back! And they’re hawking credit cards! Margaret Jo McCullen and Teri Rialto just showed up in a commercial for Capital One, interviewing the company’s celebrity spokesman, Samuel L. Jackson. Weirdly, the ad takes place,...

At first glance, “Martha Stewart’s Home for the Holidays” appeared to be a promo for a regular Martha Stewart special — until the subtitle popped up that read, “Topless Christmas Special.” From there, Stewart did a variety of normal, Martha Stewart-type things, like setting a holiday table and making beeswax candles. The only difference was that she was nude from the waist up, with a black censor bar covering her breasts.

Starring Ana Gasteyer as Stewart, “Martha Stewart’s Home for the Holidays: Topless Christmas Special,” is one of SNL’s most beloved holiday sketches. It was co-written by Gasteyer and writer Norm Hiscock, the latter of whom recently jumped on the phone with me to talk about the making of a true holiday classic.

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‘I’ll Do It If She’s Topless’

The way the sketch began was that Ana Gasteyer was looking to do a sketch with Martha Stewart.

Jenny Slate is an acclaimed author, a hilarious stand-up comedian, a movie star, and she’s lent her voice to all-time great animated shows like Bob’s Burgers and Big Mouth, not to mention the Oscar-nominated Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. And oh, she was also briefly on some sketch series that airs on Saturday nights. Kind of like Mad TV, except live and based out of New York.

Even though her time at Saturday Night Live was fleeting, and she’s done so much great work since then, Slate seems to get asked about the show quite a bit. Most recently, she appeared on the podcast The Last Laugh with Matt Wilstein, and the host couldn’t help but point out that it’s been 15 years since Slate’s lone season of SNL began.

Given that so much time has passed, Wilstein asked whether or not Slate is able...

Comic and podcaster Marc Maron is calling out his peers who use their positions to drive what he terms “the new fascism” just a day after right-wing comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made racist and sexist jokes at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally.

Other comics also slammed Hinchcliffe who, among other things, called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage.”

Tweeted Michael Ian Black, “I think America just found its next Jim Breuer!”

Maron’s statement, posted in full on his Wtf With Marc Maron website and shared in part on social media, did not specifically name Hinchcliffe, but the message seems clear.

Writes Maron: “The anti-woke flank of the new fascism is being driven almost exclusively by comics, my peers. Whether or not they are self-serving or true believers in the new fascism is unimportant. They are of the movement. Whether they see themselves as acolytes or just comics doesn’t matter.

Comedians generally don’t have good experiences opening for music acts but don’t count Jim Breuer among that group. He seems thrilled to have been the opener for his heroes Metallica even though the heavy metal legends had an unusual request for the comedian: Don’t do comedy.

When Metallica made its initial ask about Breuer working as the band’s opening act, the comic was stoked, he told Alabama news outlet Al.com. But he wasn’t necessarily expecting the follow-up request that he not do stand-up. The comic didn’t get it. If he didn’t tell jokes, then what would he do? “Sort of just entertain the crowd before we come up. You know, like maybe shoot off T-shirts and stuff like that.”

Ask a comedian not to do comedy? Breuer needed clarification, so he sought out the counsel of drummer Lars Ulrich: “Jim, you’ve...

The Biden administration announced this week that it’s taking broad actions to stop Russian schemes designed to influence the 2024 elections. As part of the effort, it’s shutting down a company called Social Design Agency, “which the Treasury Department previously sanctioned for allegedly running fake news sites in Europe on behalf of the Russian government.”

The government released Social Design Agency internal documents that detail its plans to influence the election, including spreading disinformation in swing states and monitoring the accounts of people it considers “influencers,” including comedians. That caught the attention of Redditor cannonfunk who posed a question to the r/StandUpComedy subreddit: “The Russians are actively targeting comedians who might be easily bribed to spread their propaganda. Who do you think was on the list?”

Here are the most likely candidates — at least according to the number of r/StandUpComedy upvotes received for each nomination. A reminder...

Warning: This article contains descriptions of self-harm.

Saturday Night Live has undoubtedly aired a number of sketches that verged on tastelessness, up to and including the time Oscar-winner Tom Hanks laid down a groovy track about how he doesn’t want anyone to mutilate his junk. Or the sketch in which Prince Charles gets transmogrified into a tampon. And the less said about “Canteen Boy” the better.

Far surpassing those sketches in terms of questionable taste, SNL arguably crossed a big line back in 1997 during an episode hosted by Rob Lowe, with musical guests The Spice Girls.

Normally, an episode featuring the villain from Wayne’s World and the girl group who gave us “Wannabe” would be a decidedly lighthearted affair. But right from the jump, the show decided to wade into controversial waters, with a cold open focused on the Heaven’s Gate death cult.

Just two weeks before the episode aired,...

Legendary daytime talk show host Phil Donahue passed away last night at the age of 88 after a long illness. Donahue practically invented many conventions that are now talk-show staples, such as walking into the audience and interacting with its members. As his show took off in the 1970s, he also tackled issues that no other talk show dared touch. “If there had been no Phil Donahue Show, there would be no Oprah Winfrey show,” Winfrey said in 2002. “He was the first to acknowledge that women are interested in more than mascara tips and cake recipes — that we’re intelligent, we’re concerned about the world around us and we want the best possible lives for ourselves.”

Donahue’s signature cadence, dramatic mannerisms and audience interactions not only made for engaging TV but a go-to impression for three generations of Saturday Night Live cast members.

Joe Piscopo’s version in 1982 was...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery? Easy to say until you’re the one Saturday Night Live is mocking.

What happens when SNL impressionists are forced to reckon with the consequences of their comedy? Lucky for the comics, most spoofed celebrities enjoy being in on the joke. But as you’ll see in these five examples, that isn’t always the case…

1 Jim Breuer and Joe Pesci

If you don’t count Goat Boy — and who does, really? — Joe Pesci was Breuer’s most popular character. Breuer played him nine times as host of the fictional Joe Pesci Show, portraying the actor as the Mafia goon he played in movies like Goodfellas.

“I grew up with some characters so I know that world exists,” Breuer explained on the Opie & Anthony Show. And when Pesci showed up for a cameo on SNL, he lived up to that reputation during a backstage visit with Breuer.

“Abba Zabba, you my only friend!” Imagine they made a Half Baked 2. That sounds like a slam dunk, right? After all, the original didn’t set the box office on fire, but it’s presumably made a mint on home video. Well, it looks like Universal finally pulled the trigger on a Half Baked 2, but of the original cast, the only person to return is Rachel True, who played the love interest, Mary Jane. Yes folks, it happened, and the sequel, Half Baked: Totally High, is going straight to Blu-ray, with an April 16th release date.

All this begs the question, why, twenty-five years later, make a Half Baked sequel without either Dave Chappelle, an infinitely bigger star now than he was in 1998, and Jim Breuer? Chappelle, I kind of get – the man is busy and would probably cost millions and millions to get, but Jim Breuer? Could...

Get ready for an action-packed episode of “Bone Collector” as Season 16 Episode 8, titled “Them Gobblers,” hits the screens on Outd. In this exciting installment, viewers are in for a treat as Theo Von, Caleb Pressley, Cole Holcomb, Jim Breuer, and Ira Dean take center stage for an unforgettable Turkey Camp experience.

Expect nothing short of entertainment as these dynamic personalities bring their unique flair and expertise to the hunting grounds. From hilarious banter to adrenaline-pumping hunts, “Them Gobblers” promises an exhilarating ride for all outdoor enthusiasts.

As the Bone Collector crew sets out on their turkey-hunting adventure, viewers can anticipate thrilling encounters, heart-pounding moments, and plenty of surprises along the way. Whether you’re a seasoned hunter or a newcomer to the sport, this episode is sure to captivate and inspire.

Don’t miss out on the excitement! Tune in to Outd on Sunday, March 17, 2024, at 8:30 Pm to join Theo Von,...

Dana Carvey has returned to co-hosting duties on Fly and the Wall, his podcast with fellow Saturday Night Live alum David Spade, following the November death of his son Dex.

Fly on the Wall broke the typical interview format – in which Carvey and Spade interview comedians, many of whom have ties to SNL – to celebrate the occasion, delivering a special shorter episode titled “Welcome Back Dana!” On the episode, Carvey expressed his gratitude to everyone that reached out to show their support, saying, “If you’re listening to our podcast, you probably know about my family’s loss…I just wanted to say that the amount of outpouring online and emailing and people I still haven’t been able to call back is incredible.”

When deciding how and when to return to Fly on the Wall, Carvey – who said he continues to ride the “pain train” – made it clear that...

The Disney Channel series Liv and Maddie was a TV show that was popular since its first season. It premiered in 2013, and the series continued until its fourth season, which gave a good closure to the story.

The story focuses on Liv, who’s an actress who returned home after starring in a TV show in Hollywood, and Maddie, her twin sister, a basketball player. During the series, there were several things that made the project interesting, such as Dove Cameron playing the titular roles of Liv and Maddie. In addition, the episodes were cut as a documentary or reality show, where the characters talk off-stage about the events of the series.

What Happened in Season 4 of Liv and Maddie?

Season 4 of Liv and Maddie was also called Live and Maddie: Cali Style. It follows the story of the Rooney twins, who moved to California to live in their aunt's...

The long-awaited sequel to the 1998 stoner comedy cult hit Half Baked has at last been given an official title alongside an R rating. According to Filmratings.com, Half Baked 2 will go by the full title Half Baked: Totally High and has been rated R for “for drug use throughout, sexual content, language, graphic nudity and some violence.” So pretty much exactly what you’d expect from a follow-up to the Dave Chappelle and Jim Breuer-led comedy. Apart from the maybe the violence...

First announced back in 2019, Half Baked: Totally High will be something of a legacy sequel to the beloved stoner outing. Rather than bringing back original stars Dave Chappelle and Jim Breuer as Thurgood Jenkins aka Sir Smoka Lot and Brian respectively, Half Baked: Totally High will instead follow the exploits of Sir Smoka Lot’s son, Jr, and his best friends Miles and Cori. This new...

The upcoming stoner comedy sequel Half Baked 2 will feature Rachel True reprising her original role. True played Mary Jane Potman in the 1998 film Half Baked, which starred Dave Chappelle, Jim Breuer, Harland Williams, and Guillermo Díaz, as a group of friends who love smoking weed. She is the love interest for Chappelle's character Thurgood, which presents a problem considering the fact that - despite her suggestive name - she is vehemently anti-drug.

Per Deadline, Half Baked 2 has just wrapped production in Baton Rouge. The film, which will be released non-theatrically in 2023, has announced that True (who is perhaps known for her role in the 1996 teen film The Craft) officially reprised the role of Mary Jane. So far, she is the only returning cast member who has been confirmed to appear in a major role, though Williams is also set to make a special appearance.

Related: Bill & Ted vs. Wayne's World:...

Exclusive: Half Baked 2, the sequel to the 1998 cult comedy, has finished production in Baton Rouge, LA with Rachel True reprising her role as Mary Jane in the Universal 1440 Entertainment title. Also joining the cast is Maze Runner‘s Dexter Darden, as well as Moses Storm, Ramona Young (Never Have I Ever), Ash Santos (True Story), Joel Courtney, and David Koechner and his best friends Miles (Storm) and Cori (Young) as they search for the money to bury their other best friend Bruce (Courtney), who died from smoking the most powerful joint in the world. Michael Tiddes directs off a script by Justin Hires. Pic is produced by Griff Furst.

“We are thrilled to announce the next chapter in Half Baked, with new characters and a hilarious story that is sure to satisfy followers of the original film while attracting a whole new generation of fans,” said Glenn Ross, General Manager and Executive Vice President, Universal 1440 Entertainment. “The sequel features a talented young cast alongside Rachel True reprising her role as the fan-favorite ‘Mary Jane.’ We can’t wait to show audiences where the story goes from here.”

Half Baked 2 will debut on non-theatrical platforms worldwide next year from Universal 1440 Entertainment, a production arm of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. The original 1998 movie, which also starred Dave Chappelle and Jim Breuer, grossed 17.4M at the domestic box office.

“Saturday Night Live” is trying to replenish its ranks after many of its best-known cast members have signaled they intend to leave the show.

The venerable NBC late-night program has enlisted four new featured players for its 48th season, a move that will lend some ballast to the cast after mainstays like Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant decided to leave. In many years, “”Saturday Night Live”” taps two or three new players per season, so four is more than the show typically brings on board.

The four new featured players include Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker. Hernandez, who bills himself as a writer, comedian and producer, is a Cuban-Dominican stand-up who has opened for Tim Dillon, Jim Breuer, Mark Viera, Gilbert Gottfried and others. Kearney is a Chicago-based comic. Longfellow, who hails from Arizona, has done stand up in Los Angeles. And Walker, who has made...

Spoiler Alert: Do not read ahead if you have not watched “The Masked Singer” Season 6, Episode 6, “Time Warp,” which aired October 20 on Fox.

It’s been thirty years since he was making copies on “Saturday Night Live.” Now, Rob Schneider has been revealed as the Hamster — Hamming it up, the Ham-star, the Hamsterminator, Masked Over My Hammy, Hams-i-Am, M.C. Hamster — on Fox’s “The Masked Singer.” Schneider had been disguised as the Hamster, but was unmasked at the end of the sixth episode of Season 6, “Time Warp.”

“It’s the most fun I’ve ever had on television,” Schneider told Variety. “Without the pressure of being on ‘Saturday Night Live’ or carrying a sitcom, it was the most fun for TV. I think ten years ago, I would have done better at it, hold a note a little bit better. But they have a vocal coach, and it does help.

Group A returned to “The Masked Singer” stage on Wednesday night after temporarily sitting out last week so Group B could perform. At the start of this week’s “House Party” episode, Bull and Skunk were the only original celebs from Group A still in the competition, and they were joined by two wildcards from last time (Hamster and Baby), plus one spicy new wildcard (Pepper). So who ended up receiving the lowest number of votes and having to unmask in front of America?

See ‘The Masked Singer’ reveals for all seasons: Celebrities and costumes through the years

Below, read our minute-by-minute “The Masked Singer” recap of Season 6, Episode 4, titled “House Party,” to find out what happened Wednesday, October 6 at 8:00 p.m. Et/Pt. Then be sure to sound off in the comments section about your favorite costumed characters on Fox’s reality TV show and who you think...

Aarp is no stranger to producing video content.

The non-profit’s in-house production company Aarp Studios premiered the six-episode “Date My Grandma” on its YouTube channel last year. Don Rickles’ final project before he passed away in 2017 was Aarp’s “Dinner With Don,” a web talk show in which the legendary comedian interviewed his famous friends, including Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Poehler and Marissa Tomei.

Aarp Studios is now officially in the movie business with its first feature film “Care to Laugh,” a documentary that follows comedian Jesus Trejo as he builds his comedy career while taking care of his elderly parents. Th film made the festival rounds in 2018 and Aarp has teamed with distributor Gravitas Ventures to release the doc today on VOD.

“Aarp Studios is producing a variety of rich and compelling content,” Julie Getz, director of “Care to Laugh” and Aarp’s director of development for TV,...

A sequel to Dave Chappelle’s stoner comedy Half Baked has been on the cards since late last year and those plans won’t be going up in smoke, from the look of things. This week, the project was chosen as one of the recipients of the $40 million in tax credit allocated by the California Film Commission, which should help it move forward as planned.

According to MovieWeb, production on the sequel will need to begin in the next 180 days to make it eligible for the state tax credit. The same report also revealed some extra tidbits about the follow-up, confirming that it will take place in Los Angeles and follow the son of Chappelle’s Thurgood Jenkins from the first film.

Word of the new protagonist comes as no surprise, as Chappelle is not expected to be involved in Half Baked 2, having distanced himself from the first movie and...

Half Baked 2 is getting closer to becoming a reality. The sequel was among a dozen projects selected earlier this week to receive part of a $40 million in tax credit allocated by the California Film Commission. According to the state tax credit, production needs to begin within the next 180 days, and for Half Baked 2, that will take place in Los Angeles. It was revealed at the end of last year that MacGyver reboot star Justin Hires was putting together the screenplay for the sequel.

As for who will be involved in Half Baked 2, that is unclear at the moment. Dave Chappelle will more than likely have nothing to do with the project after revealing his disappointment in the first installment. In 2014, Chappelle said, "Half Baked didn't come out the way I wanted it to come out. I was real upset about that, cause it was a real cool script." He seems...

A sequel to the 1998 stoner comedy movie Half Baked is apparently in the works, as comedian Justin Hires has announced he is writing the screenplay for the project. An actor, musician, and comedian, Hires is perhaps best known for his starring role on MacGyver, though his interest in writing has also led him to penning Half Baked 2. "Excited to announce I'll be writing the sequel to Half Baked," Hires says on his Instagram account, confirming reported rumors of his involvement. He adds: "Yes I know the original is a classic and yes this sequel will be [fire] because I'm writing it. Oh yeah, I write screenplays too."

On his Instagram post, Justin Hires links to a story from Comedy Hype reporting on Hires' involvement with Half Baked 2. This seems to confirm there's some truth to the rumored storyline details from that article, giving us an idea of how the planned sequel will play out.

Exclusive: Rescue Me and Maron exec producer Jim Serpico has launched a record label that specializes in comedy and has set its first release with Saturday Night Live alum Jim Breuer.

Serpico, who previously ran Denis Leary’s indie Apostle Pictures, has launched Virtual Comedy Network Records (Vcn). The label will release its first recording, Jim Breuer Live From Portland, on April 5.

The album, which was recorded at Helium Comedy Club and features 14 brand new Breuer tracks, will be available across 100 digital platforms including Sirius Xm, Pandora, Spotify, and iTunes. It will see Breuer, who starred on SNL between 1995 and 1998 and also starred in Dave Chappelle’s stoner comedy flick Half Baked, share stories from his recent tour with Metallica, aging, and the best part about getting a colonoscopy. Breuer has done comedy specials for Comedy Central including Hardcore and Let’s Clear The Air as well as Epix’s...

Disney missed its chance to get Mark Hamill for a steal.

The company continues to profit from its $4.06 billion acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012, which brought Luke Skywalker back to the big screen (it's next film, Solo: A Star Wars Story is a month away).But in an under-the-radar <em>Saturday Night Live</em> sketch from 1997, the <em>Star Wars</em> actor was sold on the Shop at Home Network by hard-selling hosts Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan and Jim Breuer.

Dressed as Luke Skywalker from <em>Star Wars: A New Hope</em>, the gag was Hamill was kidnaped at gunpoint and brought to the network ...

Standup comedian Ralph O. “Ralphie” May died of cardiac arrest on Friday morning in Las Vegas, People confirms. He was 45.

“Ralphie had been battling pneumonia and had canceled a handful of dates over the last month in an effort to recover,” May’s manager said in a statement. “Earlier this morning at a private residence in Las Vegas his body was discovered, cause of death is cardiac arrest.

“Two days ago he won the Casino Comedian of the Year at the Global Gaming Expo and had performances throughout the remainder of 2017 as part of his residency at Harrah’s Las Vegas,...

Mark Harrison Oct 19, 2019

How a 1993 indie hit from Kevin Smith gave birth to an unlikely franchise...

This article comes from Den of Geek UK.

In 1993, Kevin Smith made a movie. Clerks was shot in black and white over the course of three weeks, at night, in the convenience store where Smith worked during the day, on a shoestring budget of $27,575. Smith funded the film himself by dipping into his savings, selling all his comics and maxing out several credit cards.

Even though it became an indie phenomenon when it was picked up by Miramax (who gave it a new soundtrack using a post-production budget that was ten times the cost of principal photography) at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, it doesn't have 'franchise starter' written all over it.

Long considered a Gen X touchstone, Clerks is a funny and filthy slice of life movie, which equates a working day for Dante...

Mark Harrison Sep 28, 2017

How a 1994 indie hit from Kevin Smith gave birth to an unlikely franchise...

In 1993, Kevin Smith made a movie. Clerks was shot in black and white over the course of three weeks, at night, in the convenience store where Smith worked during the day, on a shoestring budget of $27,575. Smith funded the film himself by dipping into his savings, selling all his comics and maxing out several credit cards.

Even though it became an indie phenomenon when it was picked up by Bob and Harvey Weinstein's Miramax (who gave it a new soundtrack using a post-production budget that was ten times the cost of principal photography) at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, it doesn't have 'franchise starter' written all over it.

Long considered a Gen X touchstone, Clerks is a funny and filthy slice of life movie, which equates a working day for Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) to his namesake's Inferno.

For Trek fans, collectors, beer connoisseurs, and everyone in between, here comes Shmaltz Brewing Company's Star Trek Symbiosis, a collector's edition item to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Also in today's Horror Highlights: Rob Zombie's 13 Nights of Halloween, premiere details for Kindred Spirits and Evil Things, release details for both Screambox's Bloody Disgusting Collection and The Evil in Us, a look at the new comic book series Evolution, and guests from American Gods are set to attend Famous Monsters Halloween Convention.

Shmaltz Brewing Company's Star Trek Beer: Press Release: "Clifton Park, NY -- Wednesday, August 9, 2017 -- Shmaltz Brewing Company nationally rolls out its unique Collector's Edition release StarTrek Symbiosis® to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation. With an incredible debut at Comic-Con International (San Diego) and the official launch at the "Star Trek Las Vegas" convention, Star Trek Symbiosis® is...

Grammy-winning and platinum-selling rock band Train dropped a very star-studded music video on Friday for their second single “Drink Up,” off their 10th studio album a girl a bottle a boat.

The glorious video is set at NFL running back Marshawn Lynch’s wedding. When comedians Ken Jeong, George Lopez and Jim Breuer discover they’ve been left off the invite list, they think “it’s a great idea” to take matters into their own hands, put on their best suit and tie, and crash the nuptials alongside Train’s lead singer, Pat Monahan.

While the uninvited guests appear to...

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“Inherent Vice”

Who doesn’t want to watch detective Joaquin Phoenix stumbling around Los Angeles trying to solve the disappearance of his former girlfriend while fried out of his mind? “Inherent Vice” has a stoner protagonist so funny and oddly charming that he could be the proud face of 4/20. But a lot of what makes the movie such a perfect stoner film is how Paul Thomas Anderson filters Thomas Pynchon’s novel through his own hazy, stoned-out filter. Watching “Inherent Vice” provides the actual sensation of being spaced out. You’ll be laughing nonstop one minute and then scratching your head the next. Long stretches seem to fade into each other. When it comes to stoner movies, “Inherent Vice” is a new classic.

“Half Baked”

The seminal marijuana movie for many Generation Xers, 1998’s “Half Baked” also marked the...

In the next episode of Comedy Central’s “The Comedy Jam,” Mark Duplass teams up with Reo Speedwagon’s lead vocalist Kevin Cronin to perform the band’s 1984 hit “Can’t Fight This Feeling.” The new comedy and music series, created by Josh Adam Meyers and directed by Joel Gallen, premiered March 22.

The eight-episode weekly series is based on the special that aired back in August 2016 and the live shows in Los Angeles. Each episode features a different set of stand-up comedians performing in front of a live audience. They share a personal experience, which they relate to a hit song. After telling their story, the comedians sing the song backed by The Comedy Jam Band.

Read More: ‘Take Me’ Trailer: Taylor Schilling Gets Kidnapped in Netflix-Bound Duplass Brothers Production — Watch

“We have been working under the false impression that what comedians want most is to have television and digital...

The series finale of Disney Channel’s Liv and Maddie scattered the Rooney children to the winds, but not before addressing the one question about the show you didn’t even know you had.

VideosLiv and Maddie‘s Dove Cameron Recalls Her Favorite Guest Star of All Time

That’s right, I’m talking about the fourth wall-breaking confessionals, which have been a staple of the sitcom ever since it premiered in July 2013. You probably never wondered why the characters do them, but a reason was given during Friday’s finale — and, honestly, it was kind of brilliant.

Thanks to an inquisitive Dump Truck,...

Last March, director Kevin Smith revealed that he is making a sequel to his 1995 comedy Mallrats, with the filmmaker teasing the addition of practically every main cast member from the original movie. Last May, the filmmaker said that the sequel will be called MallBrats, and that he has a completed script, with another report from September revealing that shooting would begin in January 2016. That was the last we heard about the project, but during a new radio interview, the filmmaker revealed that this sequel has now transformered into a TV series.

Kevin Smith explained in a previous update that he would shoot Mallrats 2 at the Exton Square Mall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but as he revealed in a radio interview with Philadelphia's Wmmr, his plan hit a big snag. The director's agent originally told him that Universal would likely just let the rights to Mallrats go for the director to make a sequel.

Longtime AC/DC singer Brian Johnson felt that he was “kicked to the curb” by his bandmates after the band postponed a string of tour dates and announced that they would probably reschedule the shows with a guest vocalist. At least, that’s the word from comedian Jim Breuer, who detailed a conversation he had with Johnson at the singer’s home. On his podcast, Breuer recalled visiting Johnson at his Florida residence and finding Johnson in a grim mood. “He was depressed; I’ve never seen him down before,” Breuer recalled. “He wasn’t upset about his health; he...

Many in the hard rock world were shook all night long when word came out that AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson was told by doctors to stop touring immediately because he faces major hearing problems. But just days removed from this announcement, Johnson is changing his tune, and it's starting to look like he was booted from the band. According to Johnson’s friend, comedian and broadcaster Jim Breuer, the singer “feels like he just kind of got kicked to the curb.” Breuer broke the news during an interview on The Metal In Me podcast. Breuer added, “He was depressed. I’ve never seen him down before. He’s really depressed.” This is the second departure from the legendary band in recent years. In 2014, founding member and guitarist Malcolm Young had to retire due to dementia. Johnson joined AC/DC in 1980 following the death of the band’s then lead singer Bon Scott.

With Dirty Grandpa, we may have officially reached the point where a Robert De Niro impression is guaranteed to be more enjoyable than a Robert De Niro performance. Fortunately, the indisputable fact that he's one of the most iconic actors in movie history means that there's a ton of imitators out there.

If the man behind Travis Bickle, Jake La Motta and young Vito Corleone isn't quite as common a target as Christopher Walken or Al Pacino, that's only because he's a little bit harder to get right (watch the...

You may know that director Kevin Smith's first film Clerks spawned the Clerks animated TV series in 2000, although it only ran for one season. What you may not know is that, five years earlier, the indie hit was actually adapted for a live action TV pilot, starring Jim Breuer as Randall Graves and Andrew Lowery as Dante Hicks. The pilot was never picked up as a TV series, and now you can see why, since the full Clerks pilot has now surfaced online.

The pilot also features a few more faces you may recognize. Keri Russell, three years before starring on Felicity, plays Sandra, a tanning salon employee, with Rick Gomez, best known as Ada David Vasquez from FX's Justified, playing an ice cream parlor worker named Todd. Screenwriter Andr&#233 Nemec, who went on to write the fourth Mission: Impossible movie, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,...

Whether you like him or not, Kevin Smith made some big waves with his indie comedy Clerks back in 1994, and it launched the career that Smith still has today as an outspoken filmmaker, comic book writer and pop culture mouthpiece. Clerks led to a sequel back in 2006, with a third film potentially on the way after […]

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I have written previously in this space about my unabashed adoration of Howard Stern, but even casual fans know that the King of All Media's skillful long-form interviewing style is one of his most enduring qualities. He conducts hard-hitting interrogations that feel like casual conversations, leading normally guarded celebrities to offer revelations and opinions they would probably never utter in another forum. This year alone, he has helped draw out newsworthy bites from a number of big stars, and with 2015 more than half over, I thought I'd recap the wildest, most revealing quotes that have come out of Studio 69 in the past six months and change (with attendant clips). Here we go... 1. Jason Alexander tells the real story behind Susan's "Seinfeld" demise Date: June 3 Behind-the-scenes dish on famous TV shows never gets old, and Alexander's tidbit about actress Heidi Swedberg (who played George's ill-fated fiancee Susan) was particularly juicy. After...

I don't have a lot of friends who listen to "Howard Stern, and many of them are baffled by my obsession with the King of All Media. I suppose the fact that I'm a gay man has something to do with this, given that Howard is traditionally viewed as a straight-male icon. But I love him, I listen to every second of his show and I will continue to do so until he chooses to retire (a distinct looming possibility given that his contract with Sirius is up at the end of the year). I'll admit: I'm a latecomer to the Stern universe. I didn't become a regular listener until about six years ago (i.e. the very tail end of the Artie era) and missed out on the "Golden Age" terrestrial years -- though the claim that he was at his peak in the '80s and '90s is often made,...

Jim Breuer's new standup special "Comic Frenzy," which debuts on Epix tonight at 10 p.m. Est, focuses on some bracing themes: becoming your parents' caretaker, raising teenagers, and how to survive a heavy metal-themed cruise. In this exclusive clip from "Comic Frenzy," the "SNL" vet discusses why he likes the style of Dr. Kevorkian and wouldn't mind taking his practices into his own hands.  ...

With Jim Breuer releasing his second hour-long special, Comic Frenzy, tonight on Epix, what better person to talk to him than a fellow New York Metropolitan–area Saturday Night Live cast member, Pete Davidson? The two talk about doing stand-up while being on SNL, their annoying families, and Half Baked.Pete Davidson: So, first things first: Are you excited for your new special to be coming out on Epix?Jim Breuer: What I’m most excited about is it's one of the first things I did 100 percent on my own, meaning I bought the production, I wanted to do it at this place, so I booked the place, already sold it to the place I wanted to sell it to, got the director I wanted to do. I like that I can sell DVDs and I can make thousands of them for like a dollar. That’s awesome.

Welcome to Outrage Watch, HitFix's (almost) daily rundown of entertainment-related kerfuffles. Not anxious enough already? Get your fix of righteous indignation below, and stay posted for outrage updates throughout the week. Jim Breuer doesn't care about being ranked 139 out of 141 on Rolling Stone's infamous "SNL" cast ranking -- he just has a problem with Rs writer Rob Sheffield's tone. "I lost all respect for Rolling Stone, because I didn’t care about the list. It’s what that guy wrote about people," Breuer railed on Wednesday's "Howard Stern Show." "Like, there were cast members like, 'Oh this douchebag.' Like why would you -- people are just trying to make a living, and what kind of douche -- where are you at in your life -- that gives you the right to stand there and go, 'Number 134, this guy, I wish he would die.'" You can listen to Breuer's full comments below.

Jim Norton: Contextually Inadequate is returning to the Somerville Theatre in Boston, Ma, for his third consecutive Epix special, Norton takes on the twisted state of the 21st century. With his customarily caustic point-of-view, Norton tackles everything from Bill Cosby to nude photos to the firing of his radio co-host Anthony Cumia. Jim Norton: Contextually Inadequate premieres on April 24 at 10 Pm Et/Pt, 9 C only on Epix. Epix is known for its all-star roster of stand-up specials. Previous featured headliners include: Russell Brand, Dennis Miller, Lewis Black, Jenny McCarthy, Patton Oswalt, Louis C. K., Jim Norton, Tom Papa, Jim Jefferies, Sherri Shepherd, Jim Breuer and Eddie Izzard. Epix's commitment to the craft of comedy also includes the Epix Original Documentary "The Improv...

Epix recently announced that stand-up’s biggest and most off-the-wall comics Jim Norton, Jim Breuer and Lisa Lampanelli will star in three new hour-long Original Comedy Events beginning on April 24th, 2015. Jim Norton: Contextually Inadequate – World Television Premiere: Friday, April 24, at 10pm Et/Pt, 9C: Returning to the Somerville Theatre in Boston, Ma, for his third consecutive Epix special, Norton takes on the twisted state of the 21st century. With his customarily caustic point-of-view, Norton tackles everything from Bill Cosby to nude photos to the firing of his radio co-host Anthony Cumia. Join the conversation about Jim Norton: Contextually Inadequate on Twitter with #NortonOnEPIX. Jim Breuer: Comic Frenzy – World Television Premiere: Friday, May 29, at 10pm Et/Pt, 9C: Filmed...

Lisa Lampanelli, Jim Breuer and Jim Norton are starring in three hour-long stand-up specials airing this spring on Epix. Norton is up first, with his Contextually Inadequate special set to premiere on Friday, April 24, at 10 p.m. In his third Epix special, filmed at Boston's Somerville Theatre, Norton covers Bill Cosby and the firing of his Opie & Anthony co-host Anthony Cumia, among other topics. See more 'SNL' Castmembers: Exclusive Portraits of Mike Myers, Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg Saturday Night Live alum Breuer's Comic Frenzy, filmed at The Paramount in Huntington, N.Y., is set

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