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How important was Amy Poehler to the current success of Saturday Night Live? Poehler said she wouldn’t leave the show until she gave birth, and even though she clearly was ready to have her baby already, the show continued this past week to operate under the assumption she’d be there …
Before you head off for the weekend and whatever your plans may be, you should set your TV recording devices for the following new comedy programs this weekend:1) The new and improved Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins debuts tonight at 11 p.m. on VH1 2) The fourth and …
Well, well, well. SNL took off the gloves last night and went straight for the funny jugular, with Will Ferrell jump-starting the cold open sketch as President George W. Bush, trying his darnedest to offer a primetime endorsement to John McCain (Darrell Hammond) and Sarah Palin (Tina Fey), thereby letting …
No question that Saturday Night Live has been on a roll this fall, with increased ratings, buzz and nationwide attention, mostly thanks to the presidential campaign but also a little bit to how SNL bounced back from the writers strike. Last weekend’s show, which featured Republican VP candidate Alaska Gov. …
Here’s an extra couple of minutes of footage shot backstage last night before and during Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s visit to Saturday Night Live. I’m pretty sure that was a llama. Anyhoosiers. We also see Will Arnett was in the house, ostensibly to be with his soon-to-be baby mama Amy …
Sometimes a TV show becomes too tapped into the popular culture zeitgeist and gets caught up in it, and loses the sense of wonder that got everyone talking about it in the first place. Remember that sitcom about the woman who shared a NYC apartment with a gay guy, and …
Mere hours after Obama and McCain made jokey jokes at a fancy dinner that had global television reach, word comes down that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — you know, the lady who might be (vice) president — will appear on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live. The AP gets confirmation but …
If Thursday night’s second weekly edition of SNL’s Weekend Update Thursday seemed a little too quick and easy, well, then you saw what I saw, but let’s try to give them a break since they’re also trying to mount a full 90-minute edition of SNL on Saturday. And if that’s …
Remember way back when when Saturday Night Live and NBC got mad at fans for posting and redistributing videos from the show in a viral way like Lazy Sunday, then ultimately realized that they could benefit from viral video sharing, then last year began uploading and even promoting online video …
A fresh presidential debate and the first Weekend Update to get two commercial breaks easily filled Saturday Night Live‘s first live primetime edition of Weekend Update Thursday. They did not allow any photomographical operations inside the studio, and I resisted all temptations, so the best you get is this evidence …