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, [...]
Zach Galifianakis was the guest on Wednesday night's episode of comedian Chris Gethard's self-titled public access/web show. You can watch the entire episode, which involved Gethard, Galifianakis, and company giving strangers haircuts live on air, above.
Here's the latest video from The Lonely Island. Called "Spring Break Anthem," it starts as one of Zach Galifianakis's Between Two Ferns videos with James Franco before breaking out into a full-on Spring Breakers parody Lonely Island music video. Between Two Ferns co-creator Scott Aukerman directed the Between Two Ferns part, while the Lonely Island guys directed the music video. Also, Ed Norton.
Tomorrow's SNL host Zach Galifianakis went on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night and told a bunch of fun stories about working on Tequila Willie's, living in a closet, hitchhiking, and, worst of all, the unsuccessful two weeks he spent writing on SNL.
Check out the rest of Zach Galifianakis's appearance below:
Brody Stevens is coming to TV. Comedy Central announced today that they've ordered 12 episodes of Brody Stevens: Enjoy It, a documentary series centered around the titular stand-up comedian, following him in the wake of a public mental breakdown. Brody Stevens: Enjoy It was a six-episode digital series for HBO, but Comedy Central has acquired the rights. Comedy Central will expand those six 15-minute episodes to a half-hour each and produce six new half-hour episodes. Stevens's longtime friend Zach Galifianakis will executive produce the show with Dean Fleischer-Camp (Marcel the Shell) directing. Comedy Central today launched a new digital series called Push and Believe, in which Brody Stevens [...]
Here's video of Hangover bros Zach Galifianakis and Ken Jeong performing together during a Los Angeles open mic in 1998. I bet that MC knows how to pronounce "Galifianakis" correctly now (maybe).
Comedian Chris Gethard's public access show has a big-time movie star dropping by this week: Zach Galifianakis. Gethard announced on The Chris Gethard Show's blog that the show will be handing out free haircuts on-air this week, despite the fact that nobody on the show knows how to cut hair, and that Galifianakis will be cutting strangers' hair right alongside Gethard and the rest of the gang. The show airs tomorrow at 11pm eastern online or on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network. It's really impressive and a testament to the strength and inventiveness of The Chris Gethard Show that they were able to book one of the biggest movie [...]
Here are Zach Galifianakis and Jason Sudeikis promoting this weekend's SNL, which Galifianakis is hosting with musical guest Of Monsters and Men – that is, unless Galifianakis and Sudeikis get into another fake fight and aren't able to fake patch things up.
Zach Galifianakis is returning to SNL. It was announced on air on this Saturday's episode that the comedian will host the show's next new episode on May 4th with Icelandic folk/pop group Of Monsters and Men serving as musical guest. This will be Galifianakis's third time hosting after doing so previously in 2010 and 2011. Prior to becoming a movie star, he served as a guest writer for SNL for two episodes in 2000. Galifianakis is hosting in promotion of The Hangover Part III, which comes out May 24th. SNL will be taking a four-week break after this weekend's Vince Vaughn episode. The Galifianakis show will be the [...]
Zach Galifianakis went on Conan last night and discussed what inspired his decision to quit drinking: an altercation that involved two 6'6" guys spitting in his face.
Zach Galifianakis was a guest on The Today Show this morning, and prior to his interview, he wandered on screen a couple times to interrupt the show. The first time, he walks past Natalie Morales texting on his phone in the background while she's reading the news. In the second, he interrupts a creepy segment where Martha Stewart talks to two dudes she met on an online dating site, bringing her flowers and saying he's her third suitor. Stewart tries to playfully insult him but can't seem to remember the names of any of his movies for the little joke she makes.
SNL works best when it hits a balance between structure and chaos. As a show that's broadcasted live after only a week of production time, chaos is pre-installed into the system. The show attempts to offset that chaos with as many safety nets as possible: a cast of multitalented actors, a writing staff that can turn out an abundance of material in a pressure-cooker environment, and one of the best crews in television. Over time, some of those safety nets turn into crutches that annoy the hard-core fans: recurring characters, sketches that rely too heavily on celebrity impersonation, talk show formats, etc. So periodically, the show will reintroduce a [...]
NBC announced an impressive roster of guests for this season's final episodes of SNL today. Kristen Wiig and Ben Affleck will be joining previously-announced Zach Galifianakis as hosts of the last string of episodes. Here's the lineups for those shows:
May 4th – Zach Galifianakis with musical guest Of Monsters and Men May 11th – Kristen Wiig with Vampire Weekend May 18th – Ben Affleck with Kanye West
This will be former cast member Kristen Wiig's first time hosting the show. She departed SNL last May after seven seasons to focus on her movie career. She is the first former cast member to host for the first time since [...]
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