Bill Hader
Bill Hader’s ‘The Cat in the Hat’ Lands March 2026 Release in Theaters
Bill Hader is learning how to meow. Warner Bros. announced Monday it will release its animated event pic The Cat in the Hat — based on the beloved Dr. Seuss tale — in theaters on March 6, 2026. It also revealed the movie’s voice cast for the first time. Hader, who will play The Cat, […]
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Seth Meyers Talks Movie About Bill Hader’s ‘SNL’ Character Stefon That Never Got Made
Seth Meyers has revealed that a potential movie about Bill Hader’s fan-favorite Saturday Night Live persona Stefon never got made. During a recent appearance on the Las Culturistas podcast, he told hosts Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers that “there was a moment in time where the idea of a ‘Stefon’ script was being discussed.” He […]
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‘Barry’ Star Bill Hader Looks Back on Final Season, Details His Biggest Film Influences: “The Most Obvious Is the Coen Brothers”
The fourth and final season of Barry was unlike its previous three, with the HBO comedy becoming darker and deadlier as hitman Barry Berkman (co-creator Bill Hader) reaches his endgame. Yet the Television Academy’s love for the show didn’t waver; after winning nine Emmys in its first three seasons — including lead actor wins for […]
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Bill Murray, Ben Stiller and 30 More ‘Saturday Night Live’ Castmembers Who Became Movie and TV Stars
From bees, “wild and crazy” guys and cheeseburger-slinging cooks to “Wayne’s World” hosts, Spartan cheerleaders, “two a-holes,” “Californians” and songs about Chanukah, wishing it was Christmas today, chopping broccoli and a gift in the form of a certain body part in a box, Saturday Night Live has featured multiple memorable sketches over its nearly 50-year […]
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Critic’s Notebook: Bleak Series Finale Brings ‘Barry’ to a Satisfyingly Unsatisfying Close
The final episode of Bill Hader and Alec Berg's hitman dramedy finally gives its character the hero's journey he's been reaching for this whole time. Sort of.
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Henry Winkler on That ‘Barry’ Series Finale Shocker: “I Was Speechless”
[This story contains major spoilers from the series finale of Barry, “Wow.”] In the end, it wasn’t the Chechen mob or the FBI who finally took down the outlaw assassin Barry Berkman; it was (second spoiler warning!) Henry Winkler’s Gene M. Cousineau. Of course, Cousineau thought he had already done this when he set up […]
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Bill Hader Says Larry David Told Him That ‘Barry’ Should Have Ended With Season 3’s Pivotal Moment
Bill Hader’s Emmy-winning HBO series Barry is airing its fourth and final season, but it sounds like Larry David felt that last year would have been a pretty good time to end the show. During a preview clip from Hader’s appearance on a new episode of the Conan Needs a Friend podcast that is released […]
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Bill Hader on That ‘Barry’ Time Jump and Shadowing the ‘Better Call Saul’ Writers
[This story contains spoilers for Barry season four, episode five, “Tricky Legacies.”] Barry star Bill Hader didn’t care how Barry and Sally got to where they were going; his only concern was that they were there. Written and directed by Hader, the fifth episode of Barry’s final season confirms that the ending of episode four […]
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‘Barry’ Star Sarah Goldberg on Sally’s Point of No Return: “It’s the Final Nail in the Coffin”
[This story contains spoilers for Barry season four, episode four, “It Takes a Psycho.”] For Sally Reed, it’s all or nothing. Now that the first half of Barry’s final season is in the books, Sarah Goldberg is looking back on the events that led to Sally’s shocking decision to go on the run with Barry, […]
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Bill Hader Says He Will Not Sign ‘Star Wars’ Merchandise: “Autograph People Don’t Like Me”
Bill Hader is opening up about what initially led him to stop giving autographs on Star Wars merchandise. The Barry actor, who is credited as a voice consultant for droid BB-8 with comedian Ben Schwartz in 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, told Josh Horowitz on a recent episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast that “Autograph people […]
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Bill Hader Wants to Direct Movies in His Post-‘Barry’ Future, Has “Ideas That I’m Knocking Around”
With Barry‘s fourth and final season now in the can and starting to roll out on HBO, Bill Hader has his sights set on the next goal: directing a movie. “I would do a feature, for sure. [Barry writer and co-executive producer] Duffy Boudreau and I have written something, but there’s also things that I’ve […]
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‘Barry’ Star Henry Winkler on That Poor Judgment in Final Season Opener: “Gene Is an A**hole”
[This story contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Barry season four.] Justice just wasn’t enough for Gene Cousineau. In the season three finale of Barry, Henry Winkler’s character and Jim Moss (Robert Wisdom) had Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) dead to rights for the attempted murder of Moss, as well as his previous murder […]
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