SNL: Saturday Night Live

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...

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.

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 Kate Brandli Lady Gaga upstages the host in the second SNL episode.

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...

Starpulse.com Current Saturday Night Live cast member Fred Armisen and stand-up comedian and actor Demetri Martin (Taking Woodstock) also make hilarious appearances. ... Post-Mortem on Post GradTelevision Without Pity

Washington Post The actor and "Saturday Night Live" standout has morphed from an edgy, in your face talent to the cuddly star of movies like "Daddy Day Care" and this week's new comedy "Imagine That." He's still among the best "SNL" graduates the sketch show has ...

 NY Saturday Night Live star Fred Armisen plays KJ Nutt, the host of “Hobby Holes,” a show dedicated to finding fun and fascinating uses for random holes. Armisen’s fellow SNL alum Will Forte pops up for a split second during the entire season, ...

Is it like Lorne Michaels told Sarah Palin? “Honestly, not enough people know that show.” STEVE MURPHY: Not doing a parody of 30 Rock and instead doing a parody of Dateline is absurd. They had Tina Fey in the studio! She didn’t do Weekend Update, ...

 CA The Lonely Island is most well known for counting Andy Samberg of Saturday Night Live among its members. But Samberg's fellow SNL writers, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, also inhabit this Island. The trio have gained momentum thanks to their ...

By Jesse Like Martin’s current career, his latest SNL hosting gig was weirdly divided, though it didn’t appear to be his fault. Many moments harkened back to classic Martin/SNL bits of yore: his monologue, for example, which was, wow, an actual comedy monologue with actual jokes. That monologue,...

By rss@youtube.com (WritingHannah) Aladdin Clip: http://www.hulu.com/watch/53458/saturday-night-live-aladdin#s-p1-st-i0 Possible Pollen Naughtiness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skD2gyP1cCs Starwars Kid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBM854BTGL0 LOW Kid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eQ5yW...

By Cory!!(noreply@blogger.com) The first episode of Saturday Night Live was not Saturday Night Live. At the time, ABC had a variety show called Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell, so the show was called “NBC's Saturday Night”. There are great books that cover the buildup to the first show, but since this blog is both a re...

By Annie Wu Cold Open: Amy Poehler is back as Hillary Clinton! This also gave an excuse for Darrell Hammond to wander around in front of the camera again. Seriously, won't someone please let this man go home? I hope someone new plays Hillary Clinton soon, because A) Amy deserves a baby break and B) her Hi...

By davidw Saturday Night Live, which I have been watching since its first Saturday night, is the finest Tivo show around: Unwatchable live, but often excellent if watched with a fast forward button. And now that SNL is posting many of its segments online, I thought I’d save you those precious fast-f...

By Seth And while we're sure some of their best writers are gay, you know what might help even more? How about convincing Lorne Michaels to hire his first openly gay SNL cast member? (And Terry Sweeney doesn't count. That was the Dick Ebersol-produced season.) HAHAHA! Just kidding—we know that wil...

By Sherry Lipp This week marks Saturday Night Live’s first post-election episode. For weeks the show has been able to rely on plenty of material ripe for parody. Tina Fey’s turn as Sarah Palin gave the show its highest ratings in years. The big question is how will the show fare now that the election is over? A...

By Jesse You may have heard from various news outlets last week that Saturday Night Live recently hired two new, female cast members. If you hadn’t, you might not have noticed during Saturday’s Paul Rudd-hosted episode, unless you were paying close attention to the opening credits: that was one o...

I watched Saturday Night Live from its inception in the 70s, but over the years my attention went elsewhere. I have to admit that Dana Carvey and Eddie Murphy still seem like the new guys on SNL. So Tina Fey is absolutely foreign territory, and a bit intimidating. How dare the world move on! I was...

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/update-sen-mccain/805401/ I didn't get to see John McCain live on SNL last night, I wanted to watch it but didn't know he was on but passed out on the Sabres game. He started the show with Tina Fey on QVC since that is the only station he...

By John Del Signore As a child of Hollywood, Harry Shearer portrayed the original Eddie Haskell on Leave It To Beaver, appeared in Abbott & Costello Go To Mars, and after a stint at Harvard, eventually wound up on Saturday Night Live, where you can spot him in that legendary synchronized swimming sketch...

By Tempo Rating: Four stars. There must be something Tina Fey isn’t good at. Fey’s perky version of Gov. Sarah Palin helped make a resurgent “Saturday Night Live” must-see TV. Fey’s delightful show, “30 Rock” (8:30 p.m. Thursday, WMAQ-Ch. 5), won the best-comedy Emmy for the second time in September. And...

By Sherry Lipp This week, Saturday Night Live was thrown for a bit of a loop when pregnant cast member Amy Poehler went into labor only hours before show time. Poehler's unexpected absence may have meant less sketches for the night, but Coldplay fans got a bonus. The band performed a third song ("Yellow") a...

By Sarah Hepola As always, I loved Darrell Hammond as Bill Clinton, who stole the show with his brief rendition of the Simple Minds classic, "Don't You (Forget About Me)." Katharine Mieszkowski: Wow. If this is what we have to look forward to from "Saturday Night Live" during an Obama-Biden administratio...

By Chez Pazienza I don't think Charlie Kaufman himself could've dreamed up a more Victor/Victorian mobius strip of meta-fiction than Saturday Night Live sticking the real Sarah Palin into her old red skirt suit to play Tina Fey playing Sarah Palin.

By Christopher Rosen This has been a bellwether month for Lorne Michaels. Not only has Saturday Night Live seen its ratings rise some 161 percent from a year ago, but Mr. Michaels has been doing more interviews than the political figures his show regularly mocks. Lorne actually has talking points now! Seriously...

By terry Ah, finally, "Saturday Night Live" has snagged her. After weeks of poking fun at GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the sketch show has booked her for an appearance this weekend (which we can see at 11:30 p.m. Saturday on WBIR, Channel 10), the Associated Press is reporting. No deta...

By M.J. Rosenberg One of the best ways to gauge the state of public opinion is to watch the late night comedy shows and see what comedians like Jon Stewart and the SNL team are joking about. This year the Jewish community's supposed... <p>One of the best ways to gauge the state of public opinion is t...

lt;p>It might seem that the confusingly named "Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday" made its debut tonight simply because the show has become used to spending just two days or less turning a political debate into a sketch.</p> <p><br />So the first sketc...

What would happen if "Sarah Palin" came face to face with Sarah Palin at 30 Rock Plaza? Possibilities are endless, as you can see, and bet whatever you have left after the market crash that this Thursday on NBC, the greatest face-off of the season may well take place on the primetime edition...

By michael While Tina Fey's third appearance on Saturday Night Live spoofing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin wasn't quite as hysterical as her first two, it was still pretty hilarious and, even better, nailed Palin's hypocrisy when it comes to "tolerating" gays. Tina Fey as Sarah Palin

By John Mayer I used to love SNL during its heyday in the late-90's, when Chris Kattan was on, but now it's completely unwatchable. Some of you might think my review is less than objective, because of this sketch they did: Maybe I should ghost write for SNL. Lord knows, they need all the help they can get.)

By Geoffrey Dickens OBAMA: Thank you Fredericksburg! MITCHELL: McCain on ABC. BEGIN "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" CLIP] TINA FEY AS SARAH PALIN: Katie I'd like to use one of my lifelines. AMY POEHLER AS KATIE COURIC: You don't have any lifelines. ACTUAL CLIP OF PALIN PLAYED SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH FEY CLIP]

Just as Sarah Palin has excited the Republican base, so has it excited the "Saturday Night Live" season. People are still talking about Tina Fey's impersonation of the vice presidential candidate last week, but for tonight's show the opening sketch starred the top of the ticket: Darrell...

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...

By Jason the TVaholic Saturday Night Live (E!): Repeat. An old episode with host Lindsay Lohan with musical guest Usher replays. Other Options The Andromeda Strain (A&E): Repeat. The four-hour miniseries replays twice tonight. A deadly pathogen from a U.S. satellite is spreading through Utah and a reporter...

By Danny Miller The after-party was held at some ultra-hip restaurant in Chelsea and was packed. In addition to the “Saturday Night Live” cast and crew, many stars of other NBC shows were in attendance including cast members from “30 Rock” and “The Office.” We didn’t get home until 4 am.

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Late Night, Saturday Night Live, Celebrities Contrary to many, many reports that have been circulating this past week (including one from TV Guide's Michael Ausiello a few days ago), Maya Rudolph has indeed left Saturday Night Live. The news is confirmed by NBC.

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 Drew Barrymore is probably one of the less notable Saturday Night Live hosts to join the mythical Five Timers' Club. Her first hosting stint is infamous for her being the youngest person ever to host Saturday Night Live. Since then, her episodes have been more or less nondescript. It's not li...

By Cameron Archer When it comes to Saturday Night Live, the comments from Blogcritics readers are following a certain formula. There's at least one negative comment towards SNL in general every week I review the show, usually words to the effect of "Why is this show still on the air?" or "Where's the edge?" M...

By Cameron Archer I like Saturday Night Live's tastes in hosts more this season. The show doesn't stray too far from the mainstream in picking most of them - no one should expect otherwise from one of the longest-running television shows currently on air - but there's more of a focus on people who might do well...

By Cameron Archer No opening tirade here, aside from the fact that Classic Saturday Night Live no longer airs on NBC All Night (as of January 2007, anyway.) That's not a bad thing. The reruns were getting to the point where every episode from five or six years ago was considered classic. Don't get me wrong, some o...

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...

By Cameron Archer I might be too hard on Maya Rudolph as I've actually enjoyed her performances lately. I ride her pretty hard and I think I'm overreacting in doing so. Her Whitney Houston this week was solid. I don't like her as much as I do cast members like Will Forte or Jason Sudeikis, but she does have a good ran...

By Nick Schweitzer What do you get when you cross the late 1990s television series Sports Night with Saturday Night Live? You get Aaron Sorkin's newest creation, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. If you watched Sports Night and enjoyed it, then you'll probably like Studio 60. And if you didn't like Sorkin's earli...

By Richard Marcus Long before Saturday Night Live was on the air the words "Live from New York City" had implications in my household that had nothing to do with comedy. With my parents plunked in front of the stereo for four hours, options for entertainment were limited in these pre cable and home computer on...