Comedy fans let forth a hearty hurrah earlier this year when Brooklyn Nine-Nine was saved from cancellation by NBC, the very same network where star Andy Samberg came of age on Saturday Night Live. While one might imagine this would be a cheery reunion for the Lonely Island member and his formative network, it turns…
Pairing up Tina and Tammy always makes for a magical combination. “Sleeping With the Frenemy” pulls them together in one of the most hilarious and compelling ways yet when Tina has to give Tammy the words to say to an out-of-town cutie (Andy Samberg plays the BFOT or boy from out of town). Tina always tries her best…
In her 12-years-later second hosting gig on last night’s Saturday Night Live, it was perhaps unavoidable that Natalie Portman would reprise her 2006 image-shattering rap performance. Sure, Andy Samberg and his Lonely Island co-creators Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone are long gone from SNL (Samberg did pop by for a…
With so many new series popping up on streaming services and DVD, it gets harder and harder to keep up with recent shows, much less the all-time classics. With TV Club 10, we point you toward the 10 episodes that best represent a TV series, classic or modern. They might not be the 10 best episodes, but they’re the 10…
The 2005 Saturday Night Live “Taco Town” skit is a great example of the show’s escalating commercial absurdity, thanks to Andy Samberg’s wonderfully enthusiastic idiot-guy faces and the surprising level of detail in their invented 15-flavor taco monstrosity. Ostensibly a riff on Taco Bell’s Double Decker Taco, which…
Here’s what’s up in the world of television for Friday, July 7 and Saturday, July 8. All times are Eastern.
At one point in Tour De Pharmacy, the second of Andy Samberg and company’s sports mockumentaries (following 2015’s absurdist tennis-centric 7 Days In Hell), Kevin Bacon appears as Ditmer Klerken, former head of the UCI, the world governing body responsible for overseeing the Tour De France and drug-testing all its…
HBO dropped a trailer and a release date for Andy Samberg’s next sports mockumentary today, announcing that Tour De Pharmacy—the follow-up to Samberg’s bizarre and wonderful tennis spoof 7 Days In Hell—will land on the network on July 8. Meanwhile, the trailer lays out the film’s premise pretty blatantly, with Maya…
A day before the Academy would accidentally put a picture of someone who is very much not dead in its In Memoriam tribute, Andy Samberg took the stage at the Film Independent Spirit Awards to honor those who haven’t yet bitten the dust with an Eddie Vedder impression. The bit is exactly as weird as it sounds, with…
Let’s hope Matt Damon is still high off Manchester By The Sea’s Oscar wins, because Syfy has some bad news for him: the network’s canceled Incorporated after just one season. This comes from Deadline, which notes the sci-fi thriller just wrapped its first season a month ago. The series was created by Self/Less scribes…
The Oscars may have come and gone—some even slipping right out of a recipient’s grasp—but that doesn’t mean awards season is over. We mean, it mostly is, but there are certainly other accolades to be distributed, other cinematic achievements to be lauded. Take the All Def Movie Awards, a Russell Simmons creation,…
Billy Eichner just might love Hollywood more than anyone else on the planet, but now he’s decided to take a break from screaming at New Yorkers about celebrities to actually try and save the movie industry. To do that, he’s enlisted the help of Andy Samberg to pitch people on some new characters and brands that could…
Things didn’t work out especially well the last time The Lonely Island boys produced a TV show, but that’s not going to stop them from trying again. According to Variety, Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer are going to be producing a new comedy series from comedian Chris Garcia through their Party Over…
“Homecoming” works—mostly—because it’s first and foremost an episode of New Girl. Schmidt returns to New York, “the bosom of Lady Liberty!” (or, as Jess calls it, “the city of garbage water and pizza trash”) to accept his high school’s Distinguished Alum award, and to rub his success in his peers’ faces. Winston and…
When it comes to Captain Raymond Holt (Andre Braugher), anything resembling sarcasm does not fly. The New Girl staff learned that when writing the Brooklyn Nine-Nine crossover airing tonight on Fox. “On our show, Holt has said that ‘sarcasm is the coward’s lie,’ and that he isn’t sarcastic,” Brooklyn Nine-Nine …
Billy Eichner returns for a fifth season of cacophonous querying as TruTV’s funniest field reporter. The Billy On The Street host races around Manhattan once more in this new trailer, pouncing upon passersby to ask them to distinguish between toast and ghosts, and also wonder about what Andrew Garfield finds funny (…
In half a dozen Warner Bros. cartoons in the 1940s and 1950s, plots are set in motion by the mistakes of a drunken stork, which is supposed to deliver babies but sometimes winds up delivering, say, Bugs Bunny to a family of gorillas. The 2016 Warner Bros. cartoon Storks focuses more intently on these winged creatures’…
When The A.V. Club was at this summer’s Television Critics Association press tour, we sought out Brooklyn Nine-Nine co-star Joe Lo Truglio for a discussion about the show’s fourth season. Specifically, we wanted to talk about the casting of Ken Marino—Lo Truglio’s frequent collaborator and fellow member of The…
Andy Samberg is heading back to HBO for another sports-based mockumentary, this time bringing his love of big characters and cartoon orgies to the world of professional cycling. Samberg is reuniting with his 7 Days In Hell writing partner Murray Miller and director Jake Szymanski for the upcoming Tour De Pharmacy.
Saturday Night Live veteran Andy Samberg has been doing a lot of press lately for Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, his new film with the comedy-music team The Lonely Island. So when Outside contacted him with an offer to do some bird-watching at California’s Franklin Canyon Park, he had only two words: “Fuck yeah.”…
