It snuck up on us, didn't it? The end of SNL Season 38 brought along with it key staff changes, among them the upcoming departure of head writer Seth Meyers and the immediate departures of cast members Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, and (unofficially) Jason Sudeikis. Few people have shaped SNL over the past 8 years more than these men — Meyers with his leadership in the writers room and charm as Weekend Update host, and Hader, Armisen and Sudeikis as the cast's workhorses and loadbearing performers. Indeed, many pegged Season 38 as a "transitional year" in the wake of Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg leaving the show a year ago, [...]
Here's the trailer for Kristen Wiig's new movie Girl Most Likely (formerly titled Imogene). Scheduled to come out July 19th, it's a comedy that finds Wiig's character moving back in with her family after her career and relationship both fall apart at the same time. If you seen a lot of comedy movies, losing your significant other and job at the same time is what happens to people right before they get put into a big, life-changing situation.
"The show was seven years of my life and a six-day work week and you're constantly with your friends all day, all night. You sort of live and breathe the show. Then, when it's over, you kind of feel a little lost … It was definitely an adjustment, even just the hours and [no longer] being in New York."
- Kristen Wiig talking to Access Hollywood about her post-SNL life, which has been very busy.
As if playing Brick Tamland's love interest in Anchorman 2 weren't enough, Kristen Wiig has been added to the cast of another prestigious comedy franchise: Arrested Development. Wiig and Seth Rogen will both have cameos in the upcoming fourth season of AD, which debuts on Netflix in one big 14-episode batch sometime this May. Stop reading this now if you don't want some big spoilers… Vulture reports that Kristen Wiig will be playing a young Lucille Bluth in some kind of flashback sequence, which sounds pretty awesome. No word on who Seth Rogen is playing, but a young George Bluth seems like kind of a stretch. [...]
The Golden Globes were held last night, with hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler doing every bit as amazing as you'd expect them to and raising the bar sky high for next month's Oscars host Seth MacFarlane. Even with these two incredibly funny ladies hosting, the bulk of the awards show broadcast was still made up of boring awards show stuff with funny stuff from Poehler and Fey sprinkled throughout. The two highlights of the night were Fey and Poehler's opening monologue (above) and a bit by their SNL cohorts Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig (below), presenting an award. The combined 11 minutes from these two segments make up [...]
