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Mark this down as another advancement in the name of online videos. NBC not only got around to posting last weekend's SNL Digital Short featuring host Neil Patrick Harris and the SNL cast "performing" the theme song from Doogie Howser, M.D., but the Hulu page for SNL (for non-Hulu-viewing nations, …
If you enjoyed watching "The Live" online comedy series this summer as much as I did, then you'll be pleased as punchline to know that director Seth Meyers and writers Bill Hader and Simon Rich will talk about the SNL side project with a live screening and Q&A tonight at …
Nothing like a holiday break to get everyone back on the same page and ready with some funny sketches to open 2009's Saturday Night Live. Right? For the most part: Yes. What better way to start a new year, then, than by letting the new young kid in the cast, …
Sunday's Arts section of The New York Times gives the full, fluffy profile treatment to Kristen Wiig, anointing her the new reigning female comedian of the moment on Saturday Night Live, with a quick sidebar glance at the other women on the show: Casey Wilson, Michaela Watkins and Abby Elliott, …
Note to selves: If you make blind jokes about a person, he or she may not see the humor in it (literally or figuratively), but know that someone will pass the jokes along to that person, and that person will not be amused. Even if that person is New York …
So, the last new Saturday Night Live of 2008 is the 11th episode of the fall, and thinking back to 2007-2008, the shortened Writers Guild strike season only provided for 12 new SNLs, so they've done a lot just since September. SNL doesn't normally do produce this much new sketch …
You ever go on vacation and think, when I get back to work, I'm going to be relaxed, refreshed, ready and rarin' to go with even more gusto then before, but then you get back to work and find a week's worth of emails and junk mail and meetings to …
Abby Elliott, the 21-year-old newbie on the cast of Saturday Night Live, hasn't gotten much airtime in her first two weeks — vomiting in an SNL Digital Short, carrying a clapboard to set up the Beyonce-Justin Timberlake dance sketch, a line in last week's Thanksgiving dinner sketch — but that's …
Here is a newly surfaced video from Saturday Night Live featuring a recent blast from the past, with Bill Hader, Will Forte and guest host Josh Brolin having fun in an office setting calling each other "Fart Face." Is it silly? Yes. Is it sophomoric? Maybe. Is there another layer …
Want to see and hear a little more from one of the new Saturday Night Live cast members, Michaela Watkins? Sure you do! Here is Watkins, backstage with Fred Armisen after last weekend's show. If you cannot see Hulu (you foreigners, you), then try NBC's SNL site.