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New York Post
07-08-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
‘SNL' alum Ana Gasteyer has a mini tour lined up. Get tickets today
Vivid Seats is the New York Post's official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. The woman who brought the world 'Delicious Dish,' Martha Stewart and Bobbi Mohan-Culp is tackling her most difficult role yet later this year. Starting this December, 'Saturday Night Live' icon Ana Gasteyer will hit the road as herself. As of now, the wily character actress and singer only has a pair of shows lined up. One is scheduled to take place at New York City's Town Hall on Monday, Dec. 15. Advertisement Then, in early 2026, she'll headline at Walnut Creek, CA's Lesher Center for the Arts on Friday, Feb. 20. At the Town Hall gig, the 'American Auto' star will perform favorites from her 2019 album 'Sugar and Booze,' which features seasonal favorites and holiday originals. Critics raved once the record was released. ''Were Frank, Dino or Sammy still with us, any or all would pounce on the delightfully swaggering title track,' The LA Times gushed. 'The 'SNL' alumna Gasteyer puts her considerable vocal chops to work here to marvelous effect on this ebullient big-band jazz effort.' There's no word on what the Walnut Creek will consist of as now but we have reason to believe it will be a gas based on Gasteyer's near perfect track record. Advertisement If you'd like to attend either show, tickets are available for both Gasteyer gigs as of today. Over the past few months, the whip-smart comedienne has kept busy wowing audiences in 'SNL50' where she reprised a few of her most iconic characters — including a show-stopping turn alongside Will Ferrell as the ultra-wholesome Culps at the Radio City concert — and at Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers' 'Las Culturistas Culture Awards.' Need to see her live? For more information on all things Ana Gasteyer, we have everything you need to know and more about the upcoming below. Ana Gasteyer tour schedule 2025-26 Advertisement A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to buy tickets can be found here: Ana Gasteyer upcoming projects According to IMDb, the gifted Gasteyer just has one project in the works. Here's a quick summary of the forthcoming film. You Deserve Each Other follows an engaged couple who have fallen out of love and try to sabotage each other into calling off their wedding, only to fall back in love in the process. Meghann Fahy, Justin Long, Kyle MacLachlan, Hope Davis and Penn Badgley round out the stacked ensemble. 'SNL' alum on tour Advertisement Gasteyer not headed to a venue near you soon? No need to worry. You can catch a number of iconic 'SNLers' on the road this year. Here are just five of our favorite 'Not Ready For Primetime Players' you won't want to miss, umm, live. • Martin Short with Steve Martin • Leslie Jones • Melissa Villaseñor • Sarah Sherman • Janeane Garofalo Advertisement Who else is performing outside of Studio 8H in the near future? Take a look at our list of all 'Saturday Night Live' cast members on tour in 2025 to find the show for you. This article was written by Matt Levy, New York Post live events reporter. Levy stays up-to-date on all the latest tour announcements from your favorite musical artists and comedians, as well as Broadway openings, sporting events and more live shows – and finds great ticket prices online. Since he started his tenure at the Post in 2022, Levy has reviewed a Bruce Springsteen concert and interviewed Melissa Villaseñor of SNL fame, to name a few. Please note that deals can expire, and all prices are subject to change
Yahoo
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘SNL's' Anniversary Gift to NBC: Classic Sketches Turned Into Commercials, Including The Californians and Please Don't Destroy
In 'Saturday Night Live's' first year on air, Chevy Chase was among the cast members who took part in live ads for Polaroid camera, all during certain commercial breaks. On Sunday, cast members who appear in a red-carpet pre-event ahead of the show's 50th anniversary special will see a lot more from sponsors. Volkswagen will drop off attendees at the site. Allstate will sponsor an on-screen countdown clock, letting viewers know how much time is left before the main event starts. Capital One will back a 'fan pit' where onlookers can watch as various luminaries walk by. And Maybelline will host a 'Last Look Lounge' where celebrities can touch up before going in front of the paparazzi. In the weeks leading up to Sunday's event, NBC viewers have seen other interesting efforts, including a Capital One ad featuring Ana Gasteyer and Molly Shannon reprising their 'SNL' roles as the host of the inadvertently saucy public-radio program 'Delicious Dish,' or the 'Please Don't Destroy' trio in a chaotic spot for Allstate. More from Variety Lorne Michaels Said 'SNL' Is 'Nonpartisan' and 'You Can't Be Samantha Bee.' She Now Claps Back: He's 'Built a Career Out of Elevating the Loudest Guy in the Room' How Lorne Michaels' Biographer Convinced 'SNL' Chief to Reveal Rare View of Life Off-Camera NBC's 'The Hunting Party' Is a Sound Serial Killer Procedural With Sharp Twists: TV Review 'SNL' has long had a complex relationship with advertising. Advertisers covet the big, simultaneous crowds flocking to the screen to watch it, even as they recognize that there will be times when the show may make fun of them, as it has in years past with American Express, Olive Garden and Safelite (which in 2017 was able to convince the show to remove a parody that depicted one of the company's glass-repair specialists trying to hit on a customer's teenage daughter). Ties to 'SNL' have always been desirable, but often tough to obtain. Now, says Mark Marshall, chairman of NBCUniversal's global advertising and partnerships unit, brands are 'interacting with this iconic show in a new way.' Should 'SNL' fans expect to see sponsors lining up to insert their names into actual segments of the show? Probably not. But Lorne Michaels, the show's longtime executive producer, has allowed marketers to create deeper associations with the program than he has in the past, just as he has given cast members more leeway to appear in commercials themselves. To be sure, every episode of 'SNL' is filled with traditional TV pitches from T-Mobile, Apple and others, but Michaels has long guarded the program against being seen as mere wallpaper for Madison Avenue logos and slogans. To devise the recent ad deals, NBC started discussions months ahead of schedule. In March of 2023, Michaels made a presentation in Studio 8H, the longtime home of 'SNL' at NBC's New York headquarters, to around 100 advertisers about what to expect from the anniversary. At the time, NBC, um, sketched out plans for a series of retrospectives around 'SNL' as well as at least one documentary about the program. 'So many CMOs I talk to continue to say they want to do fewer, bigger, better integrations, and in order to do that, you really have to start earlier,' Marshall says. Executives at Capital One, which regularly uses humor in its array of 'What's In Your Wallet' commercials, thought the 'SNL' anniversary would be 'unique,' says Cynthia Epley, vice president of brand media at the company, who notes there are few TV events surfacing in the current era that can draw audiences across broadcast and digital, and still pull the gaze of multiple generations of viewers. The company was mindful that its ideas 'had to remain authentic to the program,' she adds, and happy to discover that Gasteyer and Shannon 'were willing to work with us' and interested in reviving their popular characters. Advertising alliances with 'SNL' in the past were largely of the one-and-done variety, certainly capturing attention, but then fading from the conversation. The show created three sketches in 2009 that had cast member Will Forte doing his 'MacGruber' character in what were essentially commercials for Pepsi. The spots appeared in ad breaks supporting a January 'SNL' broadcast, and one of them showed up in NBC's broadcast a day later of Super Bowl XLIII. In that same year, 'SNL' allowed Anheuser Busch InBev to purchase all the national ad time surrounding the program to hawk a brew called Bud Light Golden Wheat. In exchange, the beer-maker sponsored a series of never-before-aired comedy segments from the show's rehearsals during commercial breaks. These stunts certainly raised eyebrows, but advertisers are more interested in concepts that can be repeated over time — making more effective use of their massive ad budgets. One of the key points of the offering around 'SNL50,' says Marshall, is a commitment to make sure the show tie-ins are seen across NBC's portfolio of media properties. Now that NBC has built something for the 'SNL' anniversary, he says, the company would like to utilize the structure for other tentpoles. NBCUniversal plans to highlight NBC's 100th anniversary during the industry's next 'upfront' ad-sales cycle, when TV networks try to sell the bulk of their commercial inventory. A new 'BravoCon' live event is also in the works, he says. Both could benefit from an early process that allows for more planning. Getting advertisers involved more deeply in a program has other rewards. NBC expects 'record revenue' from ad sales tied to the 50th season of 'SNL,' Marshall says, 'and we have sold out every impression on every platform for the whole season.' The best thing about the sell-it-in-advance structure, he adds, is that it adds extra luster to something marketers cannot buy from anyone else. 'The only people who can sell an advertisement in 'SNL' work at NBCU.' Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week Grammy Predictions, From Beyoncé to Kendrick Lamar: Who Will Win? Who Should Win? What's Coming to Netflix in February 2025
