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Breaking News: Penn Alum Joins Cast of Saturday Night Live! (VIDEO)
It has just been announced that Penn Alum Vanessa Bayer (C’04, Bloomers) is one of three new cast members of the upcoming 36th season of Saturday Night Live! (source) Like many SNL castmates, Vanessa comes from doing Chicago’s Second City. Per her bio on the Second City website, “The Cleveland native was director of Bloomers […]
Penn Alumni You Should Know About Vol. 23
Welcome back. Summer’s practically here and as usual we’ve got some juicy news and some great upcoming networking events – so lets jump in! Use these new tabs below to easily navigate between sections of this issue:
Penn Alumni You Should Know About Vol. 22
By Rafael Friedan, Matt Rosler and Erini Mantis Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome. It’s another volume of Penn Alumni You Should Know About. Grab a comfortable chair and put on your reading glasses. It’s reading time. Before we dive in, we wanted to share this awesome video below from Penn’s Communications Office. We bet you’ve never seen […]
Seth Meyers Loves His Bloomers
In honor of his final show on Saturday Night Live, Seth Meyers’ cast mates and co-writers made a video to send him off. It’s full of memories and anecdotes that are sure to have made Seth cry. But most important is Vanessa Bayer’s (C’04, Bloomers, Friars) tribute, in which she makes several different references to […]
SNL Penn alum asked Lorne Michaels…what?
Last week, SNL (and Penn alum) Vanessa Bayer (C’04) was the commencement speaker at Annenberg’s undergraduate graduation ceremony. After the jump, watch the speech, find out about Vanessa’s path from Penn to SNL, which group at Penn passed on the “Bayer magic”, and why she didn’t really want to get a role in a Planters Peanut […]
News flash, this Penn alum is crazy
If you saw SNL this weekend, you would have seen that Penn alum Vanessa Bayer (C’04) went downright “phrazy”. After the jump watch her 6 second bit which I thought you all needed to see! In the sketch below, “the Original Kings of Catchphrase Comedy are back and bringing the house down with laughter.” Watch […]
