Sentences with phrase «night live character»

For those of us who remember satirist and now Senator Al Franken's Saturday Night Live character Stuart Smalley in a mock self - help show called «Daily Affirmation With Stuart Smalley,» it rings of «I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and gosh darnit, people like me.»

Just a couple of months ago, Lorne Michaels revealed that there were serious discussions being held about the possibility of a movie based on MacGruber, Will Forte's Saturday Night Live character parodying the»80s TV show MacGyver.

Will Forte transfers his Saturday Night Live character to the big screen but forgets to bring along what made those sketches so hilarious.

Tom Hanks returns as Saturday Night Live character David S. Pumpkins in a brand - new Halloween special — check out the new trailer.

One person said, «It's Pat,» referring to the Saturday Night Live character whose gender was always a mystery.

There have been a number of Saturday Night Live characters that starred in their own movies over the years.

Not exact matches

While Colbert's Late Show has consistently ranked second in the ratings behind NBC's The Tonight Show, Monday night's live return of both Stewart and the Colbert Report character did manage to boost the show's ratings for at least one night.

That was the daily affirmation of Stuart Smalley, Al Franken's defining character (you know, before he became a U.S. Senator) from Saturday Night Live's 1991 season.

Its second top post, posted to the subreddit r / BlackPeopleGifs, is a clip taken from the episode of Saturday Night Live immediately after the 2016 election, in which Dave Chappelle expresses mock incredulity at a character who says that «America is racist.»

This weekend, «Saturday Night Live» featured a classic character during the show's soft open.

Last night, Milo Ventimiglia, star of the hit drama This Is Us, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and of course, his character Jack's untimely death came up.

These films were in stark contrast from Scorsese's work at the time, the character study of a live - at - home, celebrity - obsessed comedian with delusions of grandeur in King of Comedy and the «one crazy night in Soho» comedy After Hours — both of which met tepid results.

In one «Saturday Night Live» skit, a character portraying Jesus goes into the Broncos» locker room saying he doesn't want to have to «bail out» the team every week and praising their upcoming foe, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, as a «miracle worker.»

Series creator Peter Berg has a knack for bringing working class characters to life (Deepwater Horizon, Patriots Day, Hell or High Water), and Friday Night Lights may be the most authentic work of his storied Hollywood career.

Mayim Bialik as Amy Farrah Fowler in The Big Bang Theory Kathryn Joosten as Karen McCluskey in Desperate Housewives Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy in Modern Family Sofia Vergara as Gloria Delgado - Pritchett in Modern Family Merritt Wever as Zoey Barkow in Nurse Jackie Kristen Wiig as various characters in Saturday Night Live

Ed O'Neill as Jay Pritchett in Modern Family Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell Pritchett in Modern Family Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy in Modern Family Eric Stonestreet as Cameron Tucker in Modern Family Max Greenfield as Schmidt in New Girl Bill Hader as various characters in Saturday Night Live

(Jon Lovitz would later create a similar character with the same name on Saturday Night Live, but Dad beat him to it by about a quarter of a century.)

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Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara said the «colorful, coded term» was «apparently lifted from an episode of «The Sopranos»» in which a character lost 45 «boxes of ziti» — or $ 45,000 — during an all - night poker game with players including the real - life Frank Sinatra Jr..

Zegna's ambitous «A Rose Reborn» directed by Park Chan - wook made our list, as did Alexander Wang's funny Autumn / Winter campaign film, featuring Chris Kattan as Mango, a character from the American comedy show Saturday Night Live.

An acoustic - based, late - night journey focusing on social and political bummers and characters who've been battered by life.

Gamora (Zoe Saldana: I Kill Giants, Live by Night) gets a meaty chunk of story, too, though it might feel that way only because she has not been a character explored in much depth before, so there's lots to learn about her.

Announcing that the 1996 - 1997 season of Roseanne would be his last, Goodman limited himself to infrequent appearances on the series, his absences explained away as a by - product of a heart attack suffered by his character at the end of the previous season.After making his 10th appearance on Saturday Night Live (2000), Goodman could be seen playing a red - faced bible salesman in director Joel Coen's award winning O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000), and participated in Garry Shandling's film debut What Planet Are You From?

Unfortunately, actor Patrick Fugit (Almost Famous) gives the character a silly fake - German accent reminiscent of Mike Myers» artsy, posturing Dieter from Saturday Night Live.

What ensues is an all - night odyssey with two characters, one needing to make a change in his life, the other questioning how to stop changing.

It's Craig who provides his sister with the services of a night nanny, Tully (Mackenzie Davis), and once the young woman enters Marlo's life, the film's secondary characters fade into the background and remain there.

Twenty - five years after the book «Friday Night Lights» exposed the raw grit of big time high school football Sharyn Alfonsi revisits some of its true - life characters in Odessa, Texas, and watches this year's team chase a dream.

Plus, twenty - five years after «Friday Night Lights» exposed the grit of big time high school football Sharyn Alfonsi revisits some of its true - life characters in Odessa, Texas, and watches this year's team chase a dream.

60 Minutes Sports, Season 2015, Episode 9: Revisiting some of the true - life characters from «Friday Night Lights» - 25 years on.

As a filmmaker, why undermine the tenuous «reality» of your characters by reducing them to pawns in cartoonish sequences that would be more appropriate in a Saturday Night Live skit?

Now that we had the Oscars last night, it is time to gather a list of games that enhanced their storytelling by featuring real - life actors, actresses and other celebrities — not just as voice actors, but sometimes even as the main characters.

In the scheme of Lehane's pulp narrative he is, in fact, a white savior, and while various critics and a few ordinary citizens are busy throwing that condemnation at the Ryan Gosling character in «La La Land,» a charge that makes little sense in the context of the movie itself (vanilla is one thing; white savior is a different flavor) here in «Live by Night» we have a serious case of the white saviors.

By Todd Gilchrist HollywoodNews.com: Looking back at the last few years, Jonah Hill has been busy: he's played 12 different characters in just the three years since he starred in Superbad, written for an episode of Saturday Night Live (in which he appeared), and executive produced Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno.

He further expanded by saying, «I was learning quite a lot more about it last night, and it is going to be looking very much at the earlier lives of all our characters.

The cover story, «Grade B — But Choice,» is devoted to an obscure 1934 musical called «Young and Beautiful,» featuring «budding starlets, grade - A character actors, grade - B musical numbers, a pair of vaudevillians, a look behind the scenes of Hollywood, bogus appearances by Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and a script by Dore Schary» [later famous as a producer of films such as «Crossfire,» «Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,» «They Live By Night» and «The Red Badge of Courage»].

Actually, I was hoping that in this day and age of Camryn Manheim dedicating her Emmy trophy to all the fat girls everywhere that Molly Shannon's popular Catholic schoolgirl character from Saturday Night Live, Mary Katherine Gallagher, would do this movie for all the awkward girls in the world.

Before Dana Carvey brought his many wacky characters to «Saturday Night Live,» he was a standup comedian with enough hilarious impressions to book the job.

Night In The Woods takes on serious themes of life as a college dropout in a small Midwestern town through a refreshingly original narrative, endearing characters, and an art style to match.

Stars Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are much beloved for their iconic TV characters, longtime «Saturday Night Live» writer Paula Pell contributes the screenplay, and «Pitch Perfect» director Jason Moore takes on helming duties.

It's baffling that Affleck continues to play the least interesting character in movies he chooses to direct, and yet throughout Live by Night, he's surrounded by other characters that feel far more deserving of our attention.

Leading the cast of crazy characters is veteran Saturday Night Live actor, Jason Sudeikis as David.

A few years back, when «Night of the Living Dead» - redolent zombie movies started popping up like, well, zombies, there was a joke among movie mavens who were past masters of the genre, to the effect of «Haven't the characters in these zombie movies ever seen any... zombie movies?

Throughout Live by Night Joe encounters more interesting, colorful characters.

Most twentysomethings think they'll live forever, but the one - night stroll through Vienna of young Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) is marked by both the filmmaker's and the characters» constant awareness that their time, both here and on earth, is limited.

«The first 10 minutes of the season, this season, takes place in a very eerie macabre way on election night and there's something terrible that happens in the lives of our characters on election night as they're watching it all go down.

In 1980, at the age of 19, he joined the cast of «Saturday Night Live,» becoming the show's youngest cast member to that point, and bringing to life many of the show's most memorable characters.

If Walsh and Bowen didn't provide enough laughs as petty background characters, McCarthy's feature is also lifted by a very funny supporting cast including Maya Rudolph as Deanna's blunt best friend, Saturday Night Live's Heidi Gardner as a creepy roommate and Jessie Ennis and Gillian Jacobs (both of whom showcased their dry humor on Netflix's Love) as Maddie's sorority sisters.

Paul Reubens first reawakened this Herman back in 2011 in a Saturday Night Live sketch with Andy Samberg and has since leant his voice to cartoon representations of said character with the intent of also then reawakening a new (and some old) fan base.

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The campaign ads are ramped up to such an extreme level, I found myself wishing «Saturday Night Live» would have created them, instead of a film where you are supposed to be attached to the characters.