Matt Wilstein is a Senior Writer at Yahoo News. He covers a diverse range of topics including arts and entertainment, culture, and politics, with a particular focus on television, media, and notable figures such as Donald Trump and Jimmy Kimmel. His work has been featured in Yahoo News UK, Yahoo Movies Canada, Yahoo Sports UK, and The Daily Beast, among others.
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By: Matt Wilstein
Roy Wood Jr. 's new stand-up special Lonely Flowers starts—and ends—with the phrase “We ain't gonna make it.”
The portrait painted of Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels in a New Yorker profile is one of a relentless comedy genius who will not hesitate to mess with the heads of his talent if it means producing the results he wants.
Some Saturday Night Live fans may be up in arms over the show inviting Dave Chappelle back to host for a fourth time this coming weekend, despite his history of transphobic and even antisemitic jokes.
The actor wants the world to know that it's almost certainly not him they are communicating with on social media.
Pete Davidson says he felt like a failure at Saturday Night Live at the end of his first season as one of the youngest cast members in the show’s 50 year history. Davidson, who was just 20 when he joined the show in 2014, revealed that he requested a meeting with executive producer Lorne Michaels to directly ask to be let go. “After my first year, I actually called for a meeting with Lorne. I was like, ‘Please fire me,’” Davidson says in the new Peacock docuseries SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night. “
The former late-night host made his podcast co-host laugh through her tears in their first episode since the fires broke out.
The former late-night host did have to flee his home in the Pacific Palisades—but it was the fire across the city in Altadena that ended engulfing his longtime assistant and podcast co-host Sona Movsesian's house.
By: Matt Wilstein
· 3-min read There are few comedians more ready to take on the insane cast of characters that will surround Donald Trump in his second term than James Adomian.
Comedian James Adomian talks about his uncanny ability to channel MAGA’s most unhinged characters, from Elon Musk to Mike Lindell.
Jesse Eisenberg said that as an actor his job is to “understand your character, even if the character is a villain.” But things have changed.
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