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Will Forte's developed quite an impressive career since leaving Saturday Night Live in 2012, including expanding his MacGyver parody recurring character MacGruber to not only the 2010 Rogue & Universal Pictures film of the same name but also the 2021 Peacock legacy sequel TV series The actor and comedian appeared on fellow SNL alum in[...]

Among his biggest signature projects stems from his Saturday Night Live days in the MacGyver parody MacGruber Playing the title character, the formula was kept simple He, a male, and a female partner are trapped in a confined space with a bomb, and it's up to MacGruber to disarm it before it goes off There's[...]

As per tradition for former Saturday Night Live cast members-turned-hosts, Will Forte brought back his most famous character in MacGruber While his Peacock TV series stays within the family at NBC Universal, the character returned to pristine form to the platform where he originated from with the long-running late-night series The recurring sketch's premise often[...]

Fair warning: MacGruber is shameless about its lack of nuance It falls victim to many other Saturday Night Live sketches-to-spinoffs where it feels like it just keeps hammering you with a recurring joke for a long period of time in hopes that it invites at least a chuckle Even if you cough, it declares that[...]

SyFy Wire lobbed that very question to the cast and crew of the Peacock action-comedy MacGruber, which in part is an homage to the 80's action films with a whole lot of (mostly juvenile) comedy. MACGRUBER — Pictured in this screengrab: (l-r) Kristen Wiig as Vicki St Elmo, Will Forte as MacGruber, Ryan Phillippe as Dixon[...]

With Peacock releasing the TV series adaptation of MacGruber, it manages to be on a path unlike any other skit on Saturday Night Live in its full circle There have been several theatrical adaptations of sketches most famously in Wayne's World, The Blues Brothers, Night at the Roxbury, Pat, Coneheads, and of course, MacGruber The[...]

This week, America's ultimate hero MacGruber (Will Forte) gets released from prison and onto our streaming screens with an eight-episode series return that finds "The Man with No Plan" having to save the world's collective butt one more time Our hero has been rotting in jail for over a decade (we'll get to that later)[...]

On December 16th, America's ultimate hero MacGruber (Will Forte) will is set to be released from prison and onto our streaming screens when his eight-episode series return makes its debut Our hero has been rotting in jail for over a decade because… well… we'll get to that in a minute But when a mysterious villain[...]

In ten days, America's ultimate hero and uber patriot MacGruber (Will Forte) will be unleashed onto streaming screens (and finally free from prison) when the eight-episode series makes its debut In the upcoming series, our heroes been rotting for over a decade because… well… we'll get to that But when a mysterious villain from his[...]

This December, America's ultimate hero and uber patriot MacGruber (Will Forte) is set to be released onto streaming screens when the eight-episode series makes its debut Unfortunately, he's being released from prison where he's been rotting for over a decade because… well… we'll get to that But when a mysterious villain from his past—Brigadier Commander[...]

MacGruber star Ryan Phillippe has a unique history with the franchise because the character he plays in Dixon Piper didn't originate from the original Saturday Night Live sketch that featured Will Forte as the title character and Kristen Wiig as his partner Vicki The original sketches found MacGruber, Vicki, and a random third person, usually[...]

A little more than a month after we learned who would be joining Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, and Ryan Phillippe on Peacock's eight-episode series MacGruber, we have some new names to add as well as a casting change to report First up, Billy Zane (True Story, Titanic) is joining the cast and replacing the previously-announced[...]

It's funny how the stars align sometimes with the upcoming Peacock action-comedy series MacGruber about to become a reality The Will Forte-MacGyver spoof has come a long way from its Saturday Night Live roots as a parody of the beloved 80s-90s ABC series starring Richard Dean Anderson The skits feature Forte as the title character[...]

Will Forte's (Flipped) MacGruber would be making its way to Peacock in 2021 with a series order of eight half-hour episodes And he wasn't returning alone, with Kristen Wiig and Ryan Phillippe reprising their respective roles as Vicki St Elmo (from SNL and the 2010 film) and Dixon Piper (from the film) Now we're learning[...]

That's right, Will Forte's (Flipped) MacGruber will be making its way to Peacock in 2021 with a series order of eight half-hour episodes With Forte reprising his role as well as taking an active role behind the camera, the series will be based on the original 2010 film and feature the original creative team behind[...]

What began as a spoof of MacGyver on NBC's Saturday Night Life in 2007 turned to its own cultural phenomenon in MacGruber Played by Will Forte, the skits introduced a comedic dynamic not thoroughly explored on the former ABC series, sidetracking Joined by Vicki (Kristen Wiig) and usually the SNL host as another character, MacGruber[...]

From a series of Saturday Night Live sketches to a 2010 feature adaptation to (now) a television series, MacGruber has caught the eye of NBC Universal's new streaming service Peacock Started as a MacGyver spoof, MacGruber (Will Forte) found himself always attempting to disarm explosive devices in the SNL sketches with obscure items The "crafty[...]

Gruesome but awesome. Beetlejuice gets a new Pop in July. #gallery-6 { margin: auto; } #gallery-6 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-6 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-6 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Elvira gets two Pop Keychains in August, including a red dress variant exclusive to Hot Topic. And finally, MacGyver is immortalized in Pop form! Does anyone else[...]