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☆ 'Saturday Night Live': Steve Martin and Martin Short team up for hilarious 'Father of the Bride' skit
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Chloe Melas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Steve Martin and Martin Short brought the funny as co-hosts of “Saturday Night Live” this weekend. NBC/Getty Images Martin plays an IRS agent in a Coneheads skit in February 1977. NBC/Getty Images Martin and Dan Aykroyd, second from left, play the Festrunk brothers — "two wild and crazy guys" — in September 1977. NBC/Getty Images Martin performs with The Dirt Band, which was the show's musical guest when he hosted in January 1978. Alan Singer/NBC/Getty Images Martin puts a spin on traditional Christmas lists in his "A Holiday Wish" skit in 1986.

☆ Photos: Steve Martin as 'SNL' host
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

By Brook Joyner, CNNActor and comedian Steve Martin will host "Saturday Night Live" for the 16th time this weekend, joining longtime collaborator and former "SNL" cast member Martin Short. This will be the first time Martin has hosted since 2009. He is second to only Alec Baldwin for most appearances as host. Martin is the only person to ever host three times in one season, and he became a member of the coveted "Five-Timers Club" less than two years after his first hosting gig in 1976. He has also appeared as a special guest on the show more than a dozen times.

☆ 5 tips for taming travel tension over the holidays
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Dana Santas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

So, whether you’re driving to Grandma’s for Thanksgiving or flying to see family in another country, try the five tips below to reduce stress and tension so you can enjoy the holidays. Holiday travel can cause tension, but you can ease stress with strategies like mindful breathing and walking breaks. Stretch out the tensionLots of sitting during travel also means compressed side waist muscles, overused hip flexors and tight low-back muscles. In addition to changing your relationship with gravity to relieve tension, it’s important to get enough sleep. Using the five tips above will help keep travel tension at bay and your holiday spirits high.

☆ Jimmy Kimmel returns as host for the 95th Oscars
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Jimmy Kimmel is back as host of the 95th Oscars in 2023, marking the late-night star’s third time fronting the ceremony — which he last did five years ago. The “Jimmy Kimmel Live” host previously led the 2017 and 2018 telecasts, the former of which produced the famous “La La Land” and “Moonlight” best picture screw-up. “Being invited to host the Oscars for a third time is either a great honor or a trap,” Kimmel said in a statement. “Jimmy is the perfect host to help us recognize the incredible artists and films of our 95th Oscars,” Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy president Janet Yang said in a statement. Added Craig Erwich, president, ABC Entertainment, Hulu & Disney Branded Television Streaming Originals: “Having Jimmy Kimmel return to host ‘The Oscars’ is a dream come true.

Eight years after the show’s debut, the podcast circuit across all storytelling genres has never been more crowded or competitive. But in today’s oversaturated market, could any one show prove to be as singularly culture-shaping — influential enough to help free an imprisoned person? “I remember a time when I could keep up on new podcast series, but nowadays that seems virtually impossible,” he added. Cindy Ord / Getty Images file“Serial” is not the only podcast to have helped put more focus on a possible miscarriage of justice. In the years since, the stylistic tropes of true-crime podcasting have become all too easy to satirize.

☆ 'Only Murders in the Building' Season 2 review
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-28 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Understandably determined not to mess with success, “Only Murders in the Building” returns with a second season that self-consciously plays to its strengths, while layering the new mystery laid out by its cliffhanger ending on top of the old one. It’s every bit as breezy and fun, with lots of winking references to “Season 2” (the podcast, naturally, but you get the idea). While the show perhaps inevitably doesn’t feel quite as fresh this second time around, it gets plenty of mileage out of those small touches and the general obsession with true crime. You can indeed, which doesn’t prevent “Only Murders” from living up to its modestly scaled ambitions and once again knocking ‘em dead. “Only Murders in the Building” begins its second season June 28 on Hulu.

☆ S-a stins din viață actorul american Charles Grodin, cunoscut pentru rolul din comedia „Beethoven”,
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-19 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Actorul american Charles Grodin, cunoscut pentru rolurile din „Beethoven”, „Midnight Run” și „The Heartbreak Kid”, a murit la 86 de ani. Grodin a fost o figură populară la Hollywood, despre care s-a spus că vreme de decenii a stârnit hohote de râs cu rolurile sale, relatează BBC, citează digi24.ro. Unul dintre cele mai cunoscute roluri ale sale a fost cel din comedia de familie, „Beethoven”. Charles Grodin s-a născut în Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, și a renunţat la studiile de la Universitatea din Miami pentru a deveni actor. Pentru rolul din „The Heartbreak Kid”, a primit o nominalizare la Globurile de Aur pentru cel mai bun actor.

Persons: Charles Grodin, Beethoven, Grodin, Nicholas, Steve Martin, Roman Polanski, Robert De Niro . El, Paul Simon, Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Jay Leno Organizations: BBC, Universitatea din, Broadway, Valladolid International Film Locations: Hollywood, Wilton, Connecticut, SUA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Universitatea din Miami, Valladolid

☆ 14 people you didn't know had a Grammy
▼ + stars: | 2019-02-05 | by ( Zoë Miller | Talia Lakritz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Maya Angelou won three spoken word Grammys. Martin Luther King Jr. and Carrie Fisher were awarded posthumous spoken word Grammys. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementWhen you think of music's biggest night, you probably picture artists like Beyoncé and Paul McCartney, two of the top Grammy winners of all time. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Steve Martin, Maya Angelou, Martin Luther King Jr, Carrie Fisher, —, Paul McCartney, it's Organizations: Service, Recording Academy, Comedians, Business

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