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Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic / Getty Saturday Night Live Made a Mistake Hiring Shane Gillis
The news that the show had hired its first Chinese American cast member was quickly overshadowed by reports that another new hire had a history of racist remarks.
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NBC Saturday Night Live Loses One of Its Most Dynamic Stars
Leslie Jones’s departure comes just as the show enters a big election year, seemingly with few other cast shake-ups.
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Mathieu Bitton / Netflix The Fear in Dave Chappelle’s New Special
The comic’s Netflix show continues a chapter of work that whiffs less of irreverence than of irritation and unease.
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Universal Good Boys Goes Beyond the Dirty Jokes
Gene Stupnitsky’s new film, which follows three middle schoolers bumbling their way through a crazy night, balances raunchy humor with insight.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters / The Atlantic Aziz Ansari and the Physics of Moving Forward
In his new stand-up special, the comedian celebrates progress—but denigrates the work that progress requires.
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Emma McIntyre / Getty Hannah Gadsby’s Genius Follow-Up to Nanette
On her current tour, the star comedian is having a conspicuously great time making humorless subjects hilarious.
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NBC The SNL Finale Was a Mishmash of Everything the Show Needs to Fix
The send-off to Season 44 might end up functioning as a send-off to a particularly toothless era for Saturday Night Live.
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Jordin Althaus / E! Entertainment Busy Tonight Ended Just as Its Host Was Finding Her Voice
Busy Philipps exited the late-night lineup right when it felt like she’d finally arrived.
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Netflix The Raunchiest Women on TV Are Technically Birds
The new Netflix series Tuca & Bertie is a delightfully frenzied addition to the range of shows depicting female desire.
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NBC Adam Sandler Finally Returned to SNL—And He Delivered
One of the show’s most famous alumni hosted for the first time since departing in 1995, lending a pleasantly nostalgic air to an otherwise stagnant episode.
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NBC Saturday Night Live Finally Digs Into the College-Admissions Scandal
But rather than deepening its satire of the bizarre story, the show also went after the legal troubles of Julian Assange and Michael Avenatti.
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NBC Saturday Night Live Brings Back a Folksy and Handsy Joe Biden
Jason Sudeikis returned to satirize the likely presidential candidate as a “tactile politician” who’s simply out of touch with current norms.
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The CW How Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Revived the TV Musical—And Liberated Its Heroine
The CW show, which is ending after four seasons, gave new life to a genre that was losing ground on the small screen.
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Will Heath / NBC Saturday Night Live Wades Into the Chaos of the Mueller Report
“Well, this week made me feel insane.”
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Pop The Bombastic Matriarch of Schitt’s Creek
With her eccentric vocabulary and fashion sense, Moira Rose (played by Catherine O’Hara) deploys her words and her wardrobe as a kind of plumage.
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Ali Goldstein / Netflix One Day at a Time Taught Its Fans How to Say Goodbye
The beloved Netflix sitcom understood loss as an inevitability. But the show’s cancellation after three seasons is still difficult for many viewers to accept.
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NBC The Lackluster Return of Saturday Night Live Had One Real Standout Moment
A delightful “Weekend Update” appearance from John Mulaney and Pete Davidson gave a jolt of energy to an otherwise uninspired episode.
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Kevork Djansezian / Reuters The Leaked Louis C.K. Set Is Tragedy Masked as Comedy
A year ago, the comic promised to reflect on his behavior after admitting to sexual misconduct. Now he’s making jokes about the inconvenience of empathy.
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NBC The Saturday Night Live Sketch That Sums Up All Online Discourse
Matt Damon and Leslie Jones screaming at each other about the relative merits of Weezer was cleverer than it might sound.
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Annie Sullivan / Smithsonian John Leguizamo’s Required Reading for America
Inspired by his one-man show, Latin History for Morons, the comedian recommends three books that challenge one-sided narratives of the past.
