‘Saturday Night Live’ Writer Katie Rich Suspended Over Barron Trump Tweet 

Posted: January 23, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment
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 reports: Katie Rich, the writer for Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” who sparked a backlash with a tweet targeting President Donald Trump’s 10-year-old son Barron, is no longer working on NBC’s veteran late-nightsnl-logo

sketch comedy show. In an ill-conceived joke, she wrote on Friday — the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration attended by the boy — that “Barron will be this country’s first homeschool shooter.”

She deleted the tweet hours later, but the controversy already was swirling and did not subside over the weekend, with many demanding an apology and calling on NBC for the writer’s dismissal.

SNL has not commented on the issue, but a person familiar the situation tells Deadline that Rich was suspended from the show immediately after her tweet and the suspension is indefinite. She was not listed in the credits for the episode that aired on Saturday. Meanwhile, Read the rest of this entry »

[VIDEO] SNL: ‘The Bubble’

Posted: November 21, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

‘Where Life Continues for Progressive Americans as if the Election Never Happened’

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[VIDEO] ‘Saturday Night Live’ Documentary Trailer With Chris Rock, Tina Fey

Posted: April 11, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

For Variety,  writes: The first trailer for the documentary “Live From New York!” — which chronicles the iconic NBC sketch comedy show’s cultural and historical impact — has debuted, offering old footage from the series and a new look at the behind-the-scenes magic that goes into putting it on week to week.

“It’s the only form where everyone is necessary to the end. We don’t go on because we’re ready, we go on because it’s 11:30.”

— Creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels

“They said it would be a cross between ’60 Minutes’ and ‘Monty Python,’” former cast member Laraine Newman (1975-1980) says in the trailer. Read the rest of this entry »

[Photos] Sid Caesar: Your Show of Shows

Posted: February 13, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Art & Culture, History | Tags: , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Your Show of Shows

The legendary comedian is dead at 91 — but he leaves behind an extraordinary legacy

View the slide show — Sid Caesar — at TIME.com