SNL: Saturday Night Live

By Wendy Sachs Is there something deeper going on in our national psyche when our fascination with sexy, blood thirsty, teenage vampires coincides with a thirst for more Sarah? I missed Sarah Palin. I'm glad she's back. Seeing her frosted, teased coif, (albeit less brassy and pouffy than before) makes m...

By Matthew Philbin In it, viewers see a family at home as a saccharine-voiced narrator reminiscent of the one from the old “Mr. Bill” skit on “Saturday Night Live,” says, “A family shouldn't have to wait until Sunday to worship the Lord. Now you can go to church every day without leaving your home.”

By Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff Saturday Night Live 11:30 p.m., Channel 7 Last week’s episode was a bummer, and not because the writing was so weak. I really expected January Jones to surprise the world with comic chops she’d been keeping hidden on “Mad Men.’’ Boy, was I wrong. She was so half-hearted about performing in the sk...

By Brad Wilmouth Conservative filmmaker John Ziegler has previously demonstrated that some voters mistakenly believe that Palin actually said the words from the Saturday Night Live skit, as shown by his interviews with some Obama voters last year.

By The Huffington Post News Editors You betcha! Sarah Palin is back in the spotlight with the release of her new book "Going Rogue" and her appearance on "Oprah" today, but we here on the comedy page are most curious about whether or not this resurgence will warrant an appearance from the already-overworked Tina Fey on this w...

By Foster Kamer Sarah Palin writing a book was asking for trouble. Here it is. McCain campaign emails have leaked, and they're completely damning to the validity of the book's narrative. Involved: the "whack" Saturday Night Live, radio pranks, and McCain's campaign manager.

By Foster Kamer Standardized Responses for SNL Threads. 1. SNL is still on? 2. I might have to watch this SNL sometime. 3. SNL hasn't been funny since _____ (insert name) was president. 4. The Tina Fey era was the (Choose one:) Best/ Worst. 6. (Me, other Oldes:) Jane Curtin/ Dan Aykroyd - now there was a Weekend Update.

By Noel Sheppard In its opening sketch last night, NBC's "Saturday Night Live" mocked Vice President Joe Biden and healthcare reform. With the President out of the country for a week, Biden, played by Jason Sudeikis, has picked the lock on the Oval Office in order to get something big done while Obama is gon...

By The Huffington Post News Team SNL" Opened last night with sketch mocking Joe Biden, the Obama administration, and concessions they've made to get the health care bill passed. "The president... "SNL" Opened last night with sketch mocking Joe Biden, the Obama administration, and concessions they've made to get the heal...

By Annie Wu S35E06) There was a strange moment of nodding recognition at the end of the night, as I watched Jason Sudeikis and January Jones in the cloud-gazing sketch. Throughout, the man pauses to consider the woman's weird behavior and then concedes, "Ohh, you're a very pretty, pretty woman." Yup. T...

By tomoneil • Ken Tucker thought teen singing sensation Taylor Swift "proved to be this season’s best 'Saturday Night Live' host so far. Whether shrewdly letting her Kate Gosselin wig do most of the acting during a typically pungent parody of 'The View,' or gleefully screeching while wearing braces...

By Jesse At fourteen years old and eight feel tall, Taylor Swift became, I assume, one of the youngest and most towering celebrities to ever serve as both host and musical guest of Saturday Night Live. This should not be such rarified air; if this chick can do it, they should occasionally force other...

By The Huffington Post News Editors You might think I'd bring up Joe Jonas, that guy who broke up with me on the phone, but I'm not gonna mention him in my monologue. Hey Joe, I'm doing real well. Tonight, I'm hosting SNL but I'm not gonna brag about that in my monologue. La la la. Ha ha ha. La la la." WATCH: More on SNL

By Wendy I’m not sure Taylor Swift adds much to this Saturday Night Live/SNL “Scared Straight” sketch, but Kenan Thompson never fails to bring the funny in this bit. Extra bonus: Bill Hader loses it toward the end and starts cracking up – check out the video clip.

By Myles The rest of the show felt about as limp as SNL has been as of late. The opening sketch had some great line readings by Bill Hader and the clever mouth-shift (from left to right) from Kristen Wiig, the Swine Fever gag was overdone but clever enough, and Weekend Update had the always welcome retu...

By Darcel Rockett No one really knows what to expect of Taylor Swift hosting "Saturday Night Live" (Nov.6).Let's be honest, the country singer is known for her tales of teen woes put to song, as opposed to comedy, so that's what the performer relied on in her opening monologue, appropriately titled "Monolog...

By Wendy Taylor Swift’s Saturday Night Live/SNL hosting gig (and musical act too!) had its highs and lows, but overall Swift did a pretty good job. Here’s the video clip for Taylor Swift’s SNL “Monologue Song (La La La),” which covers all the things you want to know about her – how Joe Jonas dumped her...

By Nicole Williams The country cutie and Best Female Video winner is slated to host this week's episode of Saturday Night Live. Swift, 19, who was asked to host the show over the summer, certainly has plenty of material to draw from when brainstorming skit ideas. "There are definitely some hilarious things th...

It's the name of the fusion restaurant where the staff of the show is brainstorming ways to reach America's midsection. It's a metaphor for the series as well, which has done so well among critics and Emmy voters, only to flag in the ratings. It's still pretty strong, though, and  caps what ha...

Wiig and Sudekis are extremely strong character actors and impressionists, and accordingly, they've been given a lot of screen time, but unfortunately, they are often stuck with very one-dimensional, go-nowhere sketches. So, seeing as though Wiig is probably one of the most simultan...

By Brad Wilmouth MICHELLE OBAMA: Well, Big Bird. OBAMA: No, Big Bird, I'm not. OBAMA: I'm sure, Big Bird. O'REILLY: Don't – me? I'm just asking, Chris. O'REILLY: So what we are learning is that CNN is analyzing Saturday Night Live. GUTFELD: It was actually funnier than a Saturday Night Live skit.

By Jesse But she’s a likable performer, and clearly game: witness her monologue, which consisted of Barrymore playing up her own valley-girl inflection so that cast members, impersonating real and fictional members of the Barrymore acting dynasty, could parody her. Barrymore didn’t have a lo...

University of Westfield Credit where credit is due, this was the ONLY decent part of the show tonight. How embarrassing is that -- that this was the ONLY thing worth watching tonight?! The mumble at the end by Jenny Slate was great and it was good to see the fringe cast members in on this sketch.

By Ed Martin I remember a time when F-bombs on Saturday Night Live resulted in the termination of the bombers. Who can forget that cold night in February... I remember a time when F-bombs on Saturday Night Live resulted in the termination of the bombers. Who can forget that cold night in February 1981 when th...

By Jesse Which brings us to the actual season premiere, after two thoroughly amusing Thursday go-rounds complete with semi-departed cast member Poehler, who’s well on her way to logging more post-departure screentime in her first year off than some cast members get while actually on the show. Y...

By Myles Saturday Night Live was last Fall’s biggest pop culture sensation. With Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin impression saving the show from a weak Obama impression, and Thursday timeslots building the show’s reputation, it built to some of its best numbers ever and its cache went beyond viral intern...

By Jason the TVaholic News & Notes Tonight, CBS has the 13th season premiere of 48 Hours Mystery. On cable tonight, Biography has the fifth season premiere of Ghostly Encounters, Syfy has the TV movie premiere of Children of the Corn, and TLC has the fourth season finale of Moving Up. In late night, NBC has the...

By Scott Mendelson 3) If you must do a Transformers sketch, wait till the second half of the show.  Normally I'd say avoid a Transformers sketch in general.  But Efron used his High School Musical character as a springboard for a bloody hysterical sketch about plummeting educational standards, so I can't vet...

By The Huffington Post News Editors This isn't Al Franken's first Supreme Court confirmation hearing. In 1991 he appeared in an opening sketch on "Saturday Night Live" that mocked Clarence Thomas's hearing and those involved. It featured Tim Meadows as Thomas and Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Kevin Nealon, Chris Farley and F...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Last Saturday Night—as countless unseen choppers flew overhead—a pair of maracas suddenly appeared in the capable hands of host Will Ferrell. Like magic. They gathered: Tom Hanks (on sax!), Paul Rudd, Anne Hathaway, Peggy and fellow SNL vets like Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Norm MacDona...

NBC signed a 10-episode deal of Season 35 of Saturday Night Live. The first host of Season 35 will be Jessica Alba. She'll be hosting on November 14, 2009. The first 5 SNL hosts in November 2009 and the last in April 2010. Let NBC Press Conference will confirm this list above on June 2009. Season 35 o...

is a standup comic and writer for Saturday Night Live. His first comedy CD is The Top Part.

By The Huffington Post News Editors The sketch follows two party-goers (Andy Samberg and Bill Hader) as they describe the usual suspects at a lame party. While the adjectives are common (motherf**kers, sons of bitches, jokers, what's his face) the visuals are literal leading to the weirdest party-montage SNL has ever put...

By Jesse Unfortunately, yikes, the show went south after that; this was one of the weakest episodes of the season. Cooper was right in the middle of it, not quite as blandly smarmy as he is in most movies, but not displaying the skill you might expect of a Wet Hot American Summer alum, either.

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By Justin McCarthy JOY BEHAR: She tripped all over herself to be on "Saturday Night Live," made her trip to New York. Meanwhile she should be on "Meet the Press." She avoids that like the plague. [applause] But to do a little prompter reading "oh yeah, I’ll do that."

By Brent Baker Harder now to ridicule Palin? On FNC, Chris Wallace ended an interview with former Senator Fred Thompson: It may be harder for Tina Fey to mock her on Saturday Night Live, although, Lord knows, they'll try. Lengthier quotes from the post-VP debate coverage on Thursday night, October 2:

By Jesse Episode Grade: C+ I know a lot of people react to Saturday Night Live with vague dismissiveness: oh, is that still on? I haven’t really watched it since [Tina Fey/Will Ferrell/Adam Sandler/Dana Carvey/Eddie Murphy/Bill Murray/Chevy Chase] left. So while you can find breathless, fawni...

is an actor best known for his long stint on Saturday Night Live.  He's also appeared in films like Anchorman and recently, Kabluey.

Hilary Clinton on SNL "It Is Saturday Night" brett favre QB from NFL's Greenbay retires finally hillary wins texas, ohio and rhode island obama wins vermont and leads in delegates mccain clinches republican nomination GA's cynthia mckinney is running for prz with green party!! she was...

By Hartford Courant Word of progress in the TV writers' strike is good news, especially when "Saturday Night Live" is digging further and further back for its reruns. It was so old, the cast still included such long-gone cast members as Horatio Sanz, Finesse Williams, Tina Fey and Rachel Dratch. One featured m...

By Brian I’ve got to add SNL to my DVR, I haven’t watched it in years but there’s more and more funny clips from the show lately. I wonder what kind of ratings NBC is getting on Notre Dame games this season. I can’t imagine they’re recouping their investment, though I certainly have tuned in to enjoy a lit...

By Rob It's an easy laugh for SNL (God knows they need those), but it's a laugh nonetheless.

Writes and wrongs at Notre Dame  New York - Saturday Night Live actually spent a segment of this past week's show doing a mock NBC teaser for people to watch ND games, but instead of showing great ...

By Cameron Archer Let's get this out of the way. SNL in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation (May 6, 9-11 PM, NBC) has the same problems as SNL in the '80s had, albeit not as noticeably. Clips and musical guests still don't match the seasons. Not everyone from the 1990s versions of SNL offer interviews for the documentary...

By Cameron Archer It's funny how hosts of Saturday Night Live earn their reputations. Former SNL director Beth McCarthy-Miller holds Justin Timberlake up as her favourite guest. He was responsible for one of the stronger shows of the post-Ferrell period.Timberlake's first show still holds up as one of the...

Guests Roz Chast and Bill Hader.  Roz Chast is a long-time New Yorker cartoonist.  Bill Hader is a castmember of Saturday Night Live.

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By splangy@splangy.com Guests Fred Armisen and Brent Hoff. Fred Armisen is a star on Saturday Night Live, and he's really, really nice (funny, too). Brent Hoff is the editor of McSweeney's new DVD magazine, Wholphin. Also, music from the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players and a comedy sketch from Kasper Hause...

SNL star Amy Poehler called in to talk to Matt