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Abby Elliott Leaves Saturday Night Live

In a surprising off-season announcement, comedy heiress Abby Elliott announced she won’t be returning to Saturday Night Live on September 15th. In 2008, Elliott—whose grandfather is comedy legend Bob Elliott and whose father, Chris Elliott, is an SNL alum—became one of the youngest cast members in the show’s history at age 21. She is the fourth performer to leave after last season’s finale, following Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg and possibly Jason Sudeikis. Read More

Comedy

The hottest new comedy blog is SplitSider! (NBC)

New York’s Hottest Nightclubs… Illustrated

Splitsider, the comedy blog edited by Adam Frucci and published by those nice folks over at The Awl, is usually great by default: there aren’t a lot of other straight-up humor blogs of any value on the web that aren’t Tumblrs owned by comedians, so the bar is set pretty low. Interviews with funny people, weekly concept pieces, some original writing, a tweet round-up, and boom: you’re the best source of comedy news on the Internet.

But once in awhile Mr. Frucci’s crew finds a truly inspired way to report on comedy trends, like having a bunch of illustrators interpret the horrific-sounding clubs described by Saturday Night Live‘s Nightlife Correspondent, Stefon. Read More