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Not content to be hoarding only 80% of the world's comedians, the Secret Policeman's Ball has added Eddie Izzard, Chris O'Dowd, Taran Killam, Bobby Moynihan, Jay Pharoah, Liam Neeson, Matt Berry, Jimmy Carr, Tim Roth and Burmese comedian Maung Thura Zarganar to the lineup. Phew. Boy, if this event were any more star-studded it would be the clear, deepening night sky viewed from the middle of a lonely country field, amirite?

To honor the UCB's 15 years in NYC and the opening of UCBeast, New York Mag checked in with about 50 alumni of the many-headed comedy hydra, who discuss everything from the troupe's guerilla improv days in Chicago (Horatio Sanz: "My idea was, 'How awesome would it be to be arrested in front of this audience, and have them thinking, Did they plan this? How did they get that cop car? What’s going on?'”) to the process of bringing long-form to NYC (Rob Corddry: "In 90 minutes, they changed how I felt and thought about comedy. It was punk rock — super dirty and loose.") Says Amy Poehler, [...]

Apparently, SNL's Bobby Moynihan will be participating in MTV's Snooki-themed New Year's Eve show, and here's the proof: two poofs for the price of one. It's sort of terrifying! Add this one to the list of people savaged by SNL impersonators meeting their mockers.

As regular fans of The Chris Gethard Show know, "Checking in With Alyssa" features call-ins from 16-year-old Alyssa. On this week's episode, though, Alyssa was in town, and Gethard put together a fantastically star-studded hour just for her, including visits from Joe Mande, CollegeHumor's Jeff Rubin, Grizz Chapman, 30 Rock writer Kay Cannon, Zachary Levi from Chuck, Jack McBrayer, and SNL's Bobby Moynihan. Oh, and a letter and Subway footlong from Jon Glaser of Delocated, a call-in from Seth Meyers on the west coast, and a video tour of Liz Lemon's office from Tina Fey (how awesome is it that there's a picture of Amy Poehler in [...]

Kristen Wiig and Elijah Wood will star in Revenge For Jolly!, leading a fantastic-sounding cast that also includes Adam Brody, Kevin Corrigan, Garret Dillahunt, Bobby Moynihan, and Gillian Jacobs. The black comedy follows a man seeking vengeance for the death of his dog "who was killed under confusing and suspicious circumstances." Which is great, because no one can look confused like Garret Dillahunt (as Burt on Raising Hope) and Elijah Wood (as…every role he's ever played). Sounds promising.

In honor of Thanksgiving week, here's the Black Friday sketch from this weekend's best-of-the-season SNL episode. "Sponsored by Four Loko, America's premiere hillbilly and cholo fuel!"

Remember this sketch from this weekend's SNL, in which one Janet Peckinpaugh seduces Tom Brady by describing herself as a "flesh cube"? So does the real life Janet Peckinpaugh, a former NBC news anchor and unsuccessful candidate for Congress. She's a pretty good sport about it, saying that she enjoyed the sketch once she saw it (but hasn't watched SNL live since "ten years ago when it stopped being funny." Oh, Janet). Fun game: try to watch this campaign ad and not imagine her saying "I'm a small businessperson, journalist, mom, and every bank teller in the world, just squished together":

This is Charlie on Parole, a short film by Kevin Mead and Paul Briganti starring TJ Miller and featuring Bobby Moynihan, Joe Wengert and Molly Ryman, amongst others. Rather than go the festival route, the producers of the film decided to put it online and see where it went. So here it is! It tells the story of Charlie, played by Miller, a recent ex-con who finds acclimating to the outside world to be a bit difficult. At over 22 minutes, it's long by internet video standards, but hey, consider it a great excuse to prove to yourself that you haven't completely destroyed your attention span.

SNL's Bobby Moynihan joined the guys at Hype Men, a podcast about hip hop, to talk about his experiences on the show: "One of the weirdest moments of my entire life was probably doing that Beyonce sketch and then immediately walking offstage in a leotard and heels and meeting Jay-Z for the first time. I had just finished grinding with his wife inappropriately, and he just looked at me and shook his head. I can't tell if it was a laugh or just like 'you look like a gay pear.' And then he just walked away."