Why didn't he prep to play the comedy legend?

Naturally Lorne Michaels is a key player in this SNL origin movie.

See what critics are saying about Saturday Night, the dramatized account of the 90 minutes leading up to SNL's first episode.

Jason Reitman will take us back to the early days of Saturday Night Live with his upcoming R-rated comedy.

Jason Reitman is giving us an inside look at the origins of one of the most influential comedy series with SNL 1975.

Pete Davidson wants to be sedated.

Let's all go to the movies... at least from the comfort of our couches.

This week's HBO Saturday Night Movie is a bizarre one.

Grab your popcorn and find a place on the couch because we're watching the HBO Saturday Night Movie...

https://youtu.be/6F-zXgmT10c October means it's time for spooky toons! We've covered our fair share of supposedly scary (but usually just silly) cartoons on the podcast over the years, but somehow we missed out on an all-time classic: The 90s animated series The Addams Family! This ooky, kooky, mysterious, and spooky series came at a time when interest in the titular family -- Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, and Puglsey, with Uncle Fester, Lurch, Thing, Cousin It, and Grandmama -- was running high. The cartoon was released in between the live-action The Addams Family movie and its sequel, …

https://youtu.be/Sey39EbnQBY Listen / download here: Today, I'm not just bringing you the latest episode of our long-running animation podcast Saturday Mourning Cartoons, I'm bringing you a very special and personal project. After 6 years and well over 300 episodes, our little animation-fandom podcast has finally made its own original animation in the nightmarish and hilarious IRONFACE. We made this short animated teaser trailer for the ongoing Kickstarter campaign -- of which I'm the manager and community liaison -- as a proof of concept for what the franchise could look like as an animated series. It …

Chris Rock has been tapped the 46th season premiere of Saturday Night Live on Oct. 3. The comedian will be joined in Studio 8H by musical guest Megan Thee Stallion. Megan Thee Stallion has never appeared on SNL before but her latest album, Suga, has garnered over 900 million streams to date thanks to the popular single "Savage," so she has more than earned this exciting opportunity, and I think she's well-paired with Rock. The episode will mark Rock's third time as host, and it couldn't come at a better time, seeing as how the new …

https://youtu.be/fN08fRVRWwQ Listen / download here: It's back to the park we go in this week's cartoon review with Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous. The new Dreamworks Animation series, now streaming on Netflix, takes a different approach to storytelling for the continuation of the late Michael Crichton's phenomenal franchise, powered by Universal. Rather than focusing on an elite team of adult trainers, scientists, and covert spies, this version makes their characters a little more kid-friendly ... even if the carnivorous dinosaurs and rampaging giants are as dangerous as ever. But how does the new animated series compare …

Saturday Night Live, the long-running sketch comedy show that still allegedly has full-time castmembers despite all evidence to the contrary, just announced that Jim Carrey will be playing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in the upcoming 46th season. SNL is gearing up for a return to Studio 8H after a unique season shot from home, one that just happens to land in the middle of possibly the most batfuck insane election season of all time. Here's SNL creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels, speaking to Vulture, on how the show landed Carrey. “There was some interest on …

I found the SNL At Home episodes to be curious, and often successful, experiments. Without the big, broad, brightly lit traditions of Studio 8H and live audiences cackling, the cast and crew of Saturday Night Live were left to their own devices to create comedy with whatever was around them, revealing inadvertently which of the cast had experience and confidence creating their own content. But now, tradition takes over again. SNL's 46th season premiere date has been announced — alongside the news it will be returning to the studio for live broadcast. [caption id="attachment_763206" align="alignright" width="360"] Image …

https://youtu.be/dpMpaHm_O8k Listen / download here: If you want to see a bunch of powerful comic book superheroes team up to fend off extraterrestrial threats to our home planet, there's no better place to look than Marvel's Avengers Defenders of the Earth! This 1986 animated series from King Features, with development by Marvel and production from a trio of overseas studios including Toei Animation, united the bigger-than-life heroes of King Features Syndicate. Flash Gordon, Phantom, Mandrake the Magician, and Lothar joined forces to defend Earth (hence the name) from the villainous intents of Ming the …

https://youtu.be/eauDD6nXznQ Listen / download here: Glitch Techs Season 2 arrived on Netflix just last week. This new batch of 10 half-hour episodes continues the adventures of glitch-hunters Miko and Five and their all-star team of Hinobi technicians. New relationships will be explored, new insight into families and friends will be revealed, and tons of pop culture and video game Easter eggs will be scattered all over the place, virtual and IRL. But how does Season 2 compare to the fantastic first season released earlier this year? As gamers from a certain generation, there's a …

https://youtu.be/8Z6hoRyOXoc Listen download here: It's rare that we absolutely shred a cartoon on our weekly animation podcast, but it's also (thankfully) rare that shows like Hoops make it all the way to a finished, widely distributed production. I guess that's the price we play for today's ubiquitous streaming services; little to no standards and practices allows artists to deliver some cutting-edge animation you wouldn't normally get on network, cable, or premium TV, but it also lacks a quality filter. That's where we come in. From Ben Hoffman and featuring the …

Zack Snyder has released a Snyder Cut teaser for his cut of Justice League, previewing a full trailer that will be debuting this Saturday during the virtual fan event DC Fandome. Snyder gets his own panel for “The Snyder Cut” during the big event, during which the filmmaker will field questions and a few “surprise guests” as he discusses his cut of Justice League that’s currently being worked on for release in 2021 on HBO Max. Indeed, for those wholly unaware, Snyder directed principal photography for Justice League but stepped away during post-production to deal with a personal …

https://youtu.be/PQ9-7_O26Uk Listen / download here: DreamWorks delivers more Tales of Arcadia animated action in Wizards, the closing chapter of Guillermo del Toro & Co's excellent, action-packed, fantasy franchise. (Except it's not really the closing chapter; there's a movie coming out in 2021 that aims to resolve everything the 10-episode Netflix season didn't quite tie off with a bow.) But how exactly does the magic-focused series stack up when compared with fellow Tales, 3Below and Trollhunters? You can check out our own Drew Taylor's review here for one opinion, and …