What makes a good Oscar host?
Hosting the Oscars is as thankless a task as performing the halftime show at the Super Bowl. Sure, it’s an honor to be…
Steve Martin channels a ranting Roger Stone for Saturday Night Live's cold open
What with lifelong dirty tricks expert, Donald Trump advisor and longtime associate, and aging cosplayer Roger Stone…
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Steve Martin and Martin Short bring broad comedy and minimal banjo to Netflix
Here’s the most important thing to know about Steve Martin and Martin Short’s new Netflix comedy special: There are…
Steve Martin and Martin Short are still actual best friends
If there is one universally accepted truth, it’s that celebrities are not real people and we should stop relying on them
Sterling K. Brown is dead-set on remaking SNL's opening credits
Sterling K. Brown stars in two of the most talked-about properties of 2018: NBC’s tearjerker (and Crock Pot enemy) This…
Martin Short and Steve Martin did a very good job filming a promo for their Netflix special
Most performers like to put on a fancy show even when they’re promoting a fancy show, which seems like it must be very…
Steve Martin gave at least two Oscar-worthy performances in All Of Me
Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable…
Exclusive: Steve Martin And The Steep Canyon Rangers release a charming video for “Santa Fe”
As many are aware, Steve Martin the legendary comedian is also a banjo player, an instrument he used in his earliest…
Bill Hader and Cecily Strong star in Steve Martin’s new music video
Steve Martin has just released a thoroughly charming video for his thoroughly charming new single, “Caroline,” off his…
Steve Martin is finally ready to teach you how to be a comedy genius, too
Following in the footsteps of Werner Herzog, Shonda Rhimes, Deadmaus, and a dozen more celebrities who’ve stepped into…
David Mamet toned it down for the screen in The Spanish Prisoner
One week a month, Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week:…
Rhiannon Giddens becomes first woman of color to win Steve Martin banjo prize
Rhiannon Giddens, vocalist-banjoist-fiddlist of the old time music band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, has been awarded…
One Father Of The Bride superfan can now buy the house where it all happened
There’s only so many times a person can watch Father Of The Bride before that immersive sensation of being there in the…
Comedians pay tribute to their friend Garry Shandling
Garry Shandling’s death at the age of 66 on Thursday caught his fans off guard. And nowhere is the man’s loss more…
Steve Martin returned to stand-up last night (and you missed it)
Last night, those attending a Jerry Seinfeld stand-up performance in New York got one of the most unexpected treats a…
Surely you can’t be serious: 16 movie parodies that still hold up
Parody films are ephemeral by nature. Take Fifty Shades Of Black, the Marlon Wayans Fifty Shades Of Grey parody that…
President Obama to hitch a ride in the season premiere of Comedians In Cars
Perhaps anxious to showcase the host’s witty repartee with Will Ferrell, Crackle has moved up the premiere date for…
Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin’s ’80s body-swap comedy All Of Me is coming to TV
“All Of Me/Why not remake All Of Me?”
In 1976, Steve Martin performed stand-up for an audience of dogs
Like Bill Murray, Steve Martin pretty much made his bones by being both funny and up for anything. Take, for instance,…
A beginner’s guide to Steve Martin’s eclectic, groundbreaking career
Steve Martin has been a part of pop culture for so long, and a force in so many mediums, that the best way into his…