The former SNL writer and star of HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay will compete against another Sam—Sam Seder, who hosted the pilot episodes of two earlier attempts to bring HIGNFY to US audiences.
Cracked.com’s Brian VanHooker caught up with the writers behind the 2004 segment that Conan O’Brien once declared he wanted played at his funeral.
As JM McNab writes, SNL‘s 50th might have been even more of a superspreader event if Michaels had had his way.
“I don’t like taking pictures of it,” Mulaney explains to someone on the phone in this week’s fever dream promo (that’s what we’re calling these). “It looks like a puzzle.”
The NBC late-night show paid tribute to the women on its staff Monday on social media.
Gethard, whose own show was a precurssor to Mulaney’s, says he “really loves” Everybody’s Live, but has one word of advice after seeing the host struggling to hear his callers. “Let’s get John an in-ear monitor,” Gethard posted this morning.
As The Washington Post’s Travis M. Andrews reports, O’Hara originally agreed to be honored but declined shortly after Trump’s election win, citing a scheduling issue. [via TV Tattle]
