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By Brian Moylan Tina Fey gets fey lessons from Simon Doonan, creative director of Barneys New York, last night when the store unveiled its holiday windows that were inspired by Saturday Night Live. Image via Getty]

By Brian Moylan January Jones was offered a shot to prove that she's not the worst part of Mad Men when she hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend. She totally blew it. Will she be able to recover? Obscurity: She doesn't have to be an actress. Maybe she would be better suited as a lunch lady who mumbles to hersel...

By Brian Moylan Paul Kinsey Played By: Michael Gladis Last We Saw Him: Wishing Don had taken him instead of Peggy. Why Stay: There's not much else for him on the horizon. Why Leave: We have a feeling he doesn't want to, but if we're looking to streamline the cast, his peripheral character is an easy cut.

By Foster Kamer Wow, little bit of a short day. Or long, depending on what angle you look at it from, nahmean? Here's your open thread. There's a new Saturday Night Live tonight, and the house is nearing a health...

By Richard Rushfield • With turmoil afoot in the industry, Daily Variety editor Tim Gray forsees a chaotic awards season ahead, thanks to among other factors: changes at the helms of four of the major film companies, the expansion of the Oscar race to ten films, the 3D wild card and a series of previously off the...

By Pareene Did you know that while you have been bitching about stuff and giggling at that one lazy SNL sketch that Barack Obama has kinda quietly accomplished many good liberal things? The Wall Street Journal...

By Foster Kamer Last night, Saturday Night Live did a re-run of the fairly interesting Ryan Reynolds-hosted episode from earlier this month. In it was a skit with musical performer Lady Gaga and a Madonna cameo. But they re-aired the funnier, racier version.

By Brian Moylan Why does this misbehaving star deserve to be grounded? Well, after some early success in a Tomb Raider movie and the title role in the abysmal film adaptation of Phantom of the Opera, Butler and his abs starred in the surprise hit 300, grossing half a billion worldwide and making a legion of...

By Brian Moylan Last night, Tina Fey and company only logged 6.3 million viewers, which was down 25% from The Office which preceded it. It's also down almost a third in the adult demographic from the season debut last year, when Fey was hot off her stint as Sarah Palin on SNL. What happened? Well, there wasn't t...

By Richard Rushfield • Anheuser-Busch has signed a deal to be the sole and exclusive sponsor of this week's Saturday Night Live, buying out the entire ad space. The brewery will also be hosting sponsored watch parties of the branded episode around America. [LAT]

By Ryan Tate It's one of the ironies of Morgan's career that he's found bigger stardom as the star of a parody of Saturday Night Live than he ever did on the real thing. And in his upcoming book, I Am the New Black, he mentions who treated him like shit, namely then stars Chris Kattan and Cheri Oteri. Morgan wr...

By Brian Moylan December 12, 2009: NBC Announces Plans to Phase Out All Scripted Programming by 2014 October 12, 2010: The CW Surpasses NBC in Total Viewers September 14, 2014: Saturday Night Live Attracts 200,000 Viewers, Highest Total in Three Seasons

By Foster Kamer Ah, Saturday Night Live. You're back, and with you, you brought some new names, a huge gaffe on the first night, a much-ballyhooed guest star, Jesus, Ghandi, and every bar in Midtown East's favorite...

By Andrew Belonsky The world's absolutely abuzz over news about the Emmy Awards, which are kind of like television's Oscars and very important. In case you missed them, here are some things you should know about the winners, the losers and the critics.

Obama Disappointed By Fred Armisen's SNL Impersonations  NY Obama Not Impressed With SNL's Fred Armisen Impression (VIDEO) AlterNet Barack Obama thinks Fred Armisen's 'SNL' impression is improving Entertainment Weekly Obama: 'SNL' impression is better Digital Spy

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 NY Another installment of that SNL Weekend Update Thursdays will bounce along in the Thursday 8pm slot for a while, hoping to boost Parks & Recreation's 8:30 numbers. Once Community has, in theory, found its footing and the SNL outpost runs out of economy ...

By Richard Lawson The replacement show sounds sorta interesting. It's Community, a single-camera sitcom about community college starring the adorable and lovable and funny Joel McHale (from The Soup). Another installment of that SNL Weekend Update Thursdays will bounce along in the Thursday 8pm slot f...

By Foster Kamer Will Ferrell couldn't host SNL without getting around to Celebrity Jeopardy, though they pulled out two serious stops for this one: Tom Hanks as Tom Hanks, Norm McDonald as Burt Reynolds, and Darrell Hammond as Sean Connery, which is why we're here. Certainly not as great as of the CJ's of t...

By Ryan Tate Jimmy Fallon was mercifully blessed to have former Saturday Night Live/Weekend Update co-star Tina Fey on his second show. Still: He got Tina Fey on. For like 15 minutes, it felt like! So at least Fallon's viewers were laughing pretty hard too.

By Richard Jimmy Fallon, the hangdog comedian from Saturday Night Live and Fever Pitch, will be taking over Conan O'Brien's late night spot sometime next year. (Hamilton is really excited about his house band!) The actual start date won't be until March probably, but in the meantime Mr. Fallon will b...

By Alex Carnevale It's too bad Rudd doesn't do more sketch, as he's the anti-thesis of Jimmy Fallon: a total stage pro. He still shows up in the format from time to time, though. This video short was a key part of the VHS tape that the Stella comedy troupe — Michael Ian Black, David Wain, and Michael Showalter — wou...

By Pareene Did you watch Saturday Night Live? Ben Affleck was lame. John McCain was funny. Cindy McCain was the funniest(!). The ending was strangely awkward. But you know what wasn't as funny as it should've been? The Keith Olbermann sketch. Ben Affleck's "Keith Olbermann" impression was basically hi...

By Pareene Let's check in with famous and successful media critic Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post. What is Mr. Kurtz writing about today? The Monday after John McCain's much-discussed appearance on Saturday Night Live, his second of the general election campaign and coming just weeks after his...

By Alex Carnevale A: Yes, hello, Gov. Palin. A: I follow your campaigns closely with my special American adviser Johnny Hallyday, you know? P: Yes, good. A: I just love killing those animals. Mmm, mmm, take away life, that is so fun. I'd really love to go, so long as we don't bring along Vice-President Cheney.

By Richard Oh, swoon. Just when we thought we couldn't like him any more, Mad Men star Jon Hamm has to go and do a guest-spot on funniest show ever 30 Rock. As a potential love interest for Liz! So that's pretty great. He ably hosted Saturday Night Live last weekend, so we're confident he'll bring the funny. I...

By Ryan Tate The name should perhaps be changed to Saturday Night Streamed, suggests the Times' Brian Stelter, and he kinda has a point: The most memorable SNL sketches of the season were likely seen by more people online than on broadcast television. Tina Fey's debut impersonation of Sarah Palin was...

By Pareene Lorne Michaels Saturday Night Live seems better now that it has been since the early '90s (to us, of course), though really not that great. Still, Lorne's never-ending sketch show became suddenly relevant again this year with cable news networks endlessly replaying their politically t...

By Pareene Details of the sketch he'll appear in are scarce, though it will probably be toothless and unfunny, as all SNL political material tends to be. McCain might be funny, though! Presumably less wooden than Obama and Clinton were in their ...

On the whole, it seems that kids (and olds) have learned about as much about NPR house style from the SNL parodies as they have from the actual programming. Let's see... anemic tonal detachment? Check! Coffee house world music? Check! Subordinate clauses, apposition, and em-dashes? Ballin...