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The good news for Big Terrific co-host Jenny Slate is that the morning after her debut, everyone is talking about her ad-libbing skills. The bad news is that the talk is around whether Slate might be fired or punished after accidentally dropping an F-bomb on the show's season premiere last night. You can see Slate immediately realize what she's just done in the clip below.

Big Terrific's Jenny Slate Will Join the Cast of SNL!

"Brooklyn comedy" might officially be (back) on the map today with news that comedian Jenny Slate will join the cast of Saturday Night Live when it premieres with Megan Fox and U2 September 26th. Slate is best known around town as the co-host of Big Terrific, the weekly free stand-up show that has been drawing big names into small spaces in Williamsburg for the last two years. Slate, who talked to us a couple months back, performed her show Dead Millionaire at the UCB Theater this past spring. With the other new cast member Nasim Pedrad having performed at UCB LA, the theater continues to show its dominance over the comedy scene this decade. Last year UCB's Bobby Moynihan (the pride of Yonkers) joined the cast and in recent years, the theater has funneled through Abby Elliott, Casey Wilson, Rob Riggle and of course, UCB founding member, Amy Poehler. As for Big Terrific, co-host Max Silvestri says, "Jenny will be back at Big T soon to tell lots of showbiz stories about what Megan Fox smells like and how Ted Danson always has mints handy or whatever."

Gabe Liedman and Jenny Slate, Comedians

Gabe Liedman and Jenny Slate are the saucy comic duo best known for co-hosting Williamsburg's signature weekly free stand-up show, Big Terrific, along with Max Silvestri. The show has moved on from the late Soundfix Lounge to its current home at Cameo, even closer to the Bedford L stop on North Sixth. Tonight they'll be celebrating Big Terrific's one-year anniversary with guests including Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal, Hannibal Buress and Sean Patton... Gabe and Jenny checked in with us to talk about the strange ways performers react to doing a show in the heart of Williamsburg, if there is a secret "positive comedy" movement currently taking place and just what a love triangle could be in store for the two of them and TI, set in a prison.

Max Silvestri can teach you how to use the internet, how to maximize your man style and, according to our research, about four other things. Each Thursday you can find him at Sound Fix for his Big Terrific comedy show (returning January 8th)—but he's also writing Top Chef recaps, hosting award shows, making videos for Details, entertaining Radiohead, and allegedly sitting in the basement of MoMA. He recently told us all about most of this.

Gabe and Jenny do it right. They get great line ups to lure you in, warm you up with some banter and dancing, and then blam! They hit you with their unique and funny sketches and videos . Gothamist sat down with the dynamic duo to see how they got started together and what makes Gabe and Jenny work so well.

Comedy Legends Live: The inimitable Carl Reiner speaks with Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Susie Essman. Reiner—comedian, actor, novelist and director— was a creator, writer and producer for The Dick Van Dyke Show. In 1999, he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor by the Kennedy Center and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. Come check out a legend.

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