Ariana Grande pulled out of Saturday Night Live’s season 44 premiere this weekend because she’s having a “tough month.” According to Us Weekly, Lorne Michaels told James Andrew Miller on his podcast Origins that Kanye West was tapped to replace Grande after she dropped out. “We had Ariana drop out for emotional reasons two days ago,” Michaels said on the episode released Thursday. “That’s our premiere, and then Kanye West stepped up, and he’ll be there. Read More...
Ira Glass: ‘It started as a joke and then become a reality.’ Photograph: Larry Busacca/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenIra Glass: ‘It started as a joke and then become a reality.’ Photograph: Larry Busacca/Getty ImagesRadioAfter two decades hosting influential radio show This American Life, Ira Glass reflects on what he’s learned about fear, marriage, politics and storytelling
Ira Glass is speaking to me ahead of the final four performances of Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host, the most bizarre live show a radio host has ever put together. Read More...
Team Coco has done a solid job lately of unearthing classic Conan O’Brien clips from the archives at just the right time. Last August, they uploaded, right before the school year began, the 1997 Late Night episode where O’Brien had a full audience of kids. For Halloween, they released the “Skelevision” episode from 2006. Then, following the news of Terry Jones’s death in January, they released a clip of O’Brien’s interview with the Monty Python member from 1994. Read More...
