Esther's Alumna Joins 'SNL' Cast

Former Follies performer Noël Wells debuts in season premiere tonight

"...she's the first alum to make the leap to SNL...."

Sept. 28, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Former 'SNL' Writer Tom Schiller on His TV Roots

'Nothing Lasts Forever' director recalls his favorite sketches

"...Lasts Forever, which was never released despite appearances by SNL stars Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd...."

Dec. 20, 2012 Screens Post by Ashley Moreno

Devon Walker Brings Lone Star State Laughs to SNL and Moontower Just for Laughs

Walker, Texas Comic

"...where, in a bit of kismet, he met future SNL castmate Andrew Dismukes. Walker took a break to focus..."

April 14, 2023 Arts Feature by Valerie Lopez

SNL alum Noël Wells' Mr. Roosevelt

Indie comedy digs deep into Austin social mores

"...to Los Angeles because I wanted to get on SNL. I thought once I established myself there comedically, then..."

March 10, 2017 Screens Feature by Michael Agresta

Ferrell and Fey on Thursday 'SNL'

Hey, who needs Time Warner and KXAN when you have "Newsdesk"?

"...last night was Thursday. NBC has been doing special SNLs on Thursdays, but of course most of Austin wouldn't..."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

The Ladies Man

"...unfortunately more padding here than in any other three SNL spinoffs combined. The premise, that Leon is so over..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Learning Curve

Bill Hader on his schooling in comedy at SNL

"...kid, Stefon – have earned him the adulation of SNL fans everywhere and one of the few Emmy nominations..."

April 19, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dirty Work

"...of fat-guy charm, in this, his final celluloid screed. SNL buddy Sandler cameos as well -- as the devil,..."

June 19, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Interview: Jim Breuer

The 'SNL' alum bleats about the show, stand-up, and Metallica

"...airwaves since the late Nineties, but comedian and former SNL cast member Jim Breuer hasn’t been eating tin cans..."

March 14, 2014 Arts Post by Russ Espinoza

Live From New York!

Forty years of a landmark show should yield more than an 82-minute doc

"...too, in Live From New York!, a portrait of SNL at 40, but in inverse: 82 minutes isn’t nearly..."

June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

MacGruber

Here's an idea that hasn't been tried in a few years: Turn a Saturday Night Live skit into a feature film.

"...of toilet-bowl cleaner. MacGruber (played in the film by SNL regular Forte) apes MacGyver's long hair and lumberjack look,..."

May 28, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Baby Mama

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler skewer motherhood but make sure that nothing gets terribly burnt.

"...whole solar system of eccentrics revolves, including Fey’s former SNL cast mate Poehler as Angie, a lower-class brat whom..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Waterboy

"...certainly rejoice that Sandler is back to his old SNL tricks; others might note that the whole thing feels..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'This Is Where I Belong'

How smarts and gumption took Noël Wells from Esther's to 'SNL'

"...approving tweet from the subject herself). Wells' path to SNL began in Austin on Sixth Street, where she performed..."

April 25, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Night at the Roxbury

"...with the premise. The Butabi Brothers (Ferrell and Kattan), SNL's mongoose-necked, rayon-suited disco commandos, are now the subject of..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Tommy Boy

As a mismatched pair, Farley and Spade have their comic moments, with the big galoot playing off the little jerk.

"...has to live up to. (For example, one recent SNL venture, It's Pat ,was deemed so unreleasable that it..."

April 7, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Coneheads

"...the cast are a number of past and present SNL alumni, including a manic, mammoth Chris Farley as Connie's..."

July 30, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Yesterday

Imagine a world without the Beatles ... then imagine a better film

"...as personified by an odious music executive played by SNL's Kate McKinnon, doesn’t qualify as satire. It barely qualifies..."

June 28, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Get Hard

Send this one directly to comedy jail

"...making the same goofy faces he first introduced on SNL ages ago. This is uninspired stuff at best. Do..."

March 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nebraska

Woody is a man of few words who might not be all there, but Bruce Dern is all there and that's more than good enough for us.

"...of a teepee into an expression of constant distress, SNL alum Forte is a surprising fount of melancholy and..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

I Think I Love My Wife

Who would have ever guessed that Chris Rock would be the guy to film an American remake of Eric Rohmer's meditation on fidelity, Chloe in the Afternoon?

"...break open the human experience with comic pathos. Onetime SNL regular, Rock is known as the voice of a..."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Click

Click is a message movie whose real message isn't "Stop and Smell the Roses, Jackass," but "How to Manipulate the Audience in 12 E-Z Steps."

"...No such luck. Written by Sandler's stable of former SNL scribes and directed by Waterboy's Coraci, Click, with its..."

June 23, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Elf

Will Ferrell's Elf is a new way to spell fun.

"...which the whole movie depends on his performance, former SNLer Ferrell demonstrates that he’s the one to call when..."

Nov. 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Analyze That

"...up the sort of labored gags that give most ex-SNL cast-member outings their familiar patina. De Niro can now..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hot Chick

"...will just scratch their heads before dismissing the former SNLer's box-office popularity as one of the ultimate ineffabilities of..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Corky Romano

"...Chris Penn, Vinessa Shaw, Peter Falk and Chris Kattan. SNL cast member Chris Kattan should have been in silent..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Rat Race

"...Mexico. Directed by Airplane!'s Jerry Zucker and written by SNL and David Letterman alum Andy Breckman, Rat Race is..."

Aug. 17, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Animal

"...recent Tomcats, and without the often annoying smirk of SNL cohort Adam Sandler's films. Debuting director Greenfield keeps things..."

June 8, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Emperor's New Groove

"...riff of truly epic proportions, allowing the diminutive, blond ex-SNL star a chance to really unleash the hounds of..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Air Bud: Golden Receiver

"...plays the comedic elements broadly, with the likes of SNL alum Dunn and Anzilotti as a pair of Boris..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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