saturday night live
Will there ever be another comedy like Seinfeld?
Can John Mulaney’s comedy save the studio-audience sitcom? Can anyone?
Martin Short on CanCon, comedy and the CSAs
After a show-stealing performance at the inaugural Canadian Screen Awards, Martin Short is returning as host for this year’s gala
Started from the bottom, now he’s here: Drake wins SNL
The six buzziest talking points from the weekend and beyond
Hulu takes aim at Netflix, leaving Canadians sidelined
But we can’t legally access the service
Saturday Night Live’s latest hire should not be news. And yet …
Should a TV show be urged to take on certain performers because of a diversity-first mandate?
Newsmakers
Prince William plays doctor, Alanis Morissette goes to Broadway and Bailey the bison takes a ride
Martin Short set to host Canadian Screen Awards gala: ‘a hard laugh here, a soft laugh there’
… but first the beloved comedian fields our questions
Review: We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy
Some questions are inherently annoying: are we there yet? Is that seat taken? Are women funny? But is it better to ignore or engage with the children/moviegoers/magazine columnists who ask them? Marie Claire’s Kohen could not resist the urge to take on that last one, infamously explored by Christopher Hitchens in a 2007 Vanity Fair essay. Or rather, Kohen lets the women (and their male colleagues) answer.
REVIEW: Starting from happy
Book by Patricia Marx
He’s not just the token black guy
Wyatt Cenac of ‘The Daily Show’ is helping to kill off pigeonholing
Jonah Hill, almost a grown-up
Who knew there was a mature actor behind Judd Apatow’s walking fat joke?
Kristen Wiig is seriously annoying
Can’t the new female star of ‘Saturday Night Live’ come up with a likeable character or two?