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 […]
If you missed SNL on Saturday night you missed seeing Penn alum Vanessa Bayer’s (C’04, Bloomers) enthusiastic energy and smile planted in a good number of sketches. In fact, her face was the first to open the show in a sketch where she played a secretary announcing Christine O’Donnell’s arrival at the Republican National Committee […]
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 […]
Recently, comic, producer and casting director Lesley Wolff (C’93, Bloomers), appeared on the Laughing Matters Panel at the SAG Foundation and was dishing out advice about what actors and comics should do with what they send to casting directors. After the jump watch this clip where Lesley talks about a big trap actors and comics […]
Today, film producer Alison Greenspan (C’94, Bloomers) debuts her film Ramona and Beezus to the world. And it’s quite a story on how Alison was able to convince the 94 year old popular childhood author Beverly Cleary to approve. More after the jump! Per an article in “The Globe and the Mail“, “I know that […]
It’s the story of a Gentile who wants to marry a Jewish girl-so he’ll never have to make another decision. While it sounds like it could be a Mask and Wig show plot, it’s actually something that’s now movie bound! Click here for more of this show’s shpiel and the alum producing it… If you […]