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Her SNL Miley Cyrus Impression is like, “Pretty Cool” (VIDEO)

Last week, I posted screengrabs and videos from Vanessa Bayer’s (C’04, Bloomers) fantastic debut on “Saturday Night Live”. This week, we continue to see Vanessa’s talent unfold with an entire first sketch featuring Vanessa’s spot on impersonation of Miley Cyrus. After the jump check out the sketch for yourself! “On the first episode of Miley’s new […]

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Studio Ink Deal: Things Getting Sunnier for Sonny

Two former writers on “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” have signed an overall deal with Universal Media Studios. Sonny Lee (C’03, Penn Six, Full Measure, Penn Admissions) and Patrick Walsh have reached a one-year deal to develop comedy projects for the studio. The ICM-repped Lee and Walsh started in the business just four years ago […]

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Their Brilliant Mockumentary: “Dungeons and Dragons” Meets “Waiting for Guffman”

A bunch of Penn undergrads including some of the talented actors from Penn’s improv group Without a Net as well as some Drexel improv group students partnered together to create Wizards of West Philly, a mockumentary that can be best described as Dungeons and Dragons meets the TV stylings of “The Office” and/or the film […]

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Alumni Make History with Viral Videos

Two weeks ago I wrote a post about how Executive producers Todd Shotz (C’96) and Andrew Oldershaw (C’02), as well as writer/director Dan Kay (C’97) created four very viral “No on Prop 8” viral videos. This past week, in a first for an American political campaign, the NO on Prop 8 campaign paid to air […]

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Hey, Hey, Hey…he’s hosting this Penn festival

Click here to find out which TV and film star is hosting Mask and Wig’s 10th annual Intercollegiate Comedy Festival.Started in 1998 by Cloverfield associate producer Dave Baronoff (C’99, L’02, Mask and Wig), Mask and Wig is now celebrating its 10th annual Intercollegate Comedy Festival with host Kenan Thompson (Saturday Night Live, Nickelodeon’s All That, […]

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Adam Matta (C’96) brings his beatboxing stylings to Cornell!

I just got an update from beatboxer Adam Matta (C’96, Mask and Wig) and according to his website he will be “the new artist in residence at Cornell University’s Risley Hall and will be providing programming for the students who live there based around music, performance and visual art.” …Maybe Penn will bring Adam back […]

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