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ComedyNerd at @cracked, former contributor guy at @TheOnion. Co-author of Deck Z and The Giant Smugglers. Larry Dallas on television's Three's Company.

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10 Weekend Update Jokes That Might Get Colin Jost and Michael Che Fired

6 days ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

Forget those rumors about Colin Jost and Michael Che leaving Saturday Night Live at season’s end. If they keep it up with these censor-shattering punchlines, they might not make it to next week’s season finale. Here are 10 Weekend Update jokes that come so close to crossing the line that somebody might be looking for a new job…1 JOST: The Vatican has selected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who is from the South Side of Chicago, to be the new Pope.
8 of the Dirtiest Jokes from ‘SNL’s Sleazy Waiter Mother’s Day Sketch

6 days ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

SNL has a long history of sketches featuring skeezy waiters. The best example is probably Dana Carvey making sweet love to Kirstie Alley’s face in the Il Cantore sketch back in 1991. Alley deserved combat pay for the lashing she took from Carvey’s overly amorous tongue. Host Walter Goggins, shirt unbuttoned to his navel, took on the role of the horny waiter this week. His Albee is looking for love on Mother’s Day, doing his best to romance two moms out for brunch with their adult sons.
Cecily Strong Returns to 'SNL' As Wine-Spewing Jeanine Pirro

6 days ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

Just one month after giving birth to her first daughter, Cecily Strong made her triumphant return to Saturday Night Live in the same way she left the show a few seasons back: boozing it up as Jeanine Pirro. With Donald Trump appointing Pirro as U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C. this week, Strong’s return was nearly guaranteed. And she didn’t disappoint. Strong/Pirro immediately broke open her briefcase — er, her cozy for her Merlot-zy — and got to drinking.
Johnny Carson Exposed and Embarrassed a Famous ‘Psychic’ on National TV

6 days ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

Before Johnny Carson was a comedian, he was The Great Carsoni, the 14-year-old magician who entertained youthful audiences in Nebraska for $3 a show. While he ultimately took a different route into show business, he maintained a lifelong interest in magic and how illusionists performed their tricks. But there was a big difference between magicians and so-called psychics, a new breed of entertainer becoming popular in the 1970s.
‘Leave It to Beaver’s Barbara Billingsley Had No Patience for ‘Roseanne’

1 week ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

Barbara Billingsley, the actress who played mom June Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver, wasn’t nearly as generous with the compliments as Eddie Haskell, the neighborhood suck-up who was always trying to get in her good graces.
Here’s the Will Forte Audition Sketch That Was Too Raunchy for ‘SNL’

1 week ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

“Mike Schur, who wrote for SNL and The Office before creating Parks and Rec and many other TV shows, told me something eye-opening,” Pablo Torre said this week on his Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast. “Mike told me that out of all of the SNL auditions he has ever seen — all of which happen to occur in front of the show’s creator Lorne Michaels — nobody has ever made him laugh harder than Will Forte.” Forte almost avoided the audition altogether, the comic revealed this week on Torre’s show.
Here Are A Couple of Things That Irritate Nice Guy Nate Bargatze

1 week ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

Nate Bargatze insists he’s not necessarily “the nicest guy in comedy,” as he was dubbed by The Atlantic a few years back. “I’m not a perfect person,” he recently told People. Oh yeah, Mr. Imperfect? Then what gets under your skin? “I wasn’t a fan of the ‘Let’s goooo!’ phase,” he confessed. “If it were little kids, I didn’t care.
Here’s Why Natasha Lyonne Hasn’t Seen Most of Her ‘American Pie’ Movies

1 week ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

Natasha Lyonne has assembled a killer lineup of celebrity guest stars for the second season of Poker Face, but her memory of past collaborations isn’t nearly as impressive. Case in point: She doesn’t remember working with John Cho, the actor who appeared in multiple comedy movies with Lyonne. “I think that he’s maybe in some of the American Pies,” she guessed while speaking to Deadline.
‘SNL’s Father Guido Sarducci Returns With Shocking Predictions About Next Pope

1 week ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

After retreating from the public eye for nearly 15 years, Father Guido Sarducci appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night to share his insights on the election of the new Pope. As the senior gossip columnist for the Vatican newspaper, a one-time Saturday Night Live regular and the alter ego of comedian/writer Don Novello, Sarducci is uniquely positioned to comment on the conclave happening in Rome to anoint a successor to Pope Francis.
‘SNL’ Fans Are Lobbying for These Cast Members to Take Over Weekend Update

1 week ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

Colin Jost and Michael Che haven’t hung up their Weekend Update blazers yet, but rumors abound that the longest-running fake-news anchors in Saturday Night Live history are about to ride off into the sunset. Fans on the r/LiveFromNewYork subreddit definitely aren’t waiting for Jost and Che to turn in their resignation letters, already lobbying for the cast members they believe should replace them.