SNL: Saturday Night Live

By Jen Chung After news that Goldman Sachs (and Citigroup) received 200 swine flu vaccines out of 5,400 requested, which is the same amount as Memorial Sloan-Kettering received for its 27,000+ request for its workers, Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update decided to tap into the populist outrage. W...

By Ben Yakas For the next two months, Bon Jovi will become the pseudo-mascot of NBC, "appearing (exclusively!) on a wide range of NBC broadcast and cable channels" to promote his band's new album, and "along the way, he [will] be hosting Saturday Night Live, doing sports, doing news, basking in James...

By Jen Chung Was James Franco getting ready for his return to TV (he's got a General Hospital stint coming up) by appearing on Saturday Night Live? Of course, in the "What Up With That?" skit, about a BET show that answers the issues of today with soul, Franco didn't actually have any lines but he looked p...

By Jen Carlson It's been a year since Tina Fey's spot-on version of Sarah Palin hit the small screen on Saturday Night Live, and now word is she's bringing it back this season... maybe. Now if only Amy Poehler would return with her mad rap skillz, and Levi Johnston would join in to promote his Playgirl cover.

By Billy Parker Last week's season premiere of Saturday Night Live may have had America's Most Overhyped Sexpot Megan Fox as host, but this week's second episode ended up being the true Ladies Night, with divas in full force. Host Ryan Reynolds did that thing you do when your spouse is an even bigger star th...

By Billy Parker The good news for Big Terrific co-host Jenny Slate is that the morning after her Saturday Night Live debut, everyone is talking about her ad-libbing skills. The bad news is that the talk is around whether Slate might be fired or punished after accidentally dropping an F-bomb on the show's s...

By Jen Carlson Ryan Adams has come a long way since singing "New York, New York" on the Saturday Night Live stage in post-9/11 2001, or for that matter, since his alt-country band Whiskeytown. Currently married to Mandy Moore, contributing to the Awl and showing artwork around town, the ambitious multi...

By Billy Parker Brooklyn comedy" might officially be (back) on the map today with news that comedian Jenny Slate will join the cast of Saturday Night Live when it premieres with Megan Fox and U2 September 26th. Slate is best known around town as the co-host of Big Terrific, the weekly free stand-up show tha...

By Billy Parker So I went and picked up the kid and sort of forgot all about it and when I dropped him off, the mom was like, "Are you okay?" Then she played me the whole message that was like me running and crying. First week in New York—it was a big wake up call.

By Billy Parker After the jump is video of the band pulling out the classic move of playing an old, beloved hit for their second song ("Maps") as well as a couple of Weekend Update character bits. Hader and Fred Armisen play a gay couple from the Garden State celebrating their recent political victories and...

By Jeff Baum Despite a staggered start with the release of It's Blitz, which resulted in a rushed digital release pushed out to compete with the leaks, the band's schedule seems to be back on track now. The physical release of the critically acclaimed album hit last week, and this weekend, the band is ma...

By Jen Carlson All Weekend // Various Times // Caroline's [1626 Broadway] // $28 Saturday // 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. // Federal Hall [26 Wall St] // Free Saturday // 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. // Brooklyn Botanic Garden [1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn] // Free with flyer on this page

By NYC_Billy Vanity Fair’s January cover story is on “America’s New Sweetheart” Tina Fey and (being Vanity Fair and all) it primarily focuses on how Fey transformed from being the frumpy 25-year-old virgin who one agent assumed was having an affair with Lorne Michaels to the sexy librarian The New Yo...

By Billy Parker If SNL couldn't find a way to live up to their promise "to have Michael Phelps shirtless in every sketch" earlier this year, it seemed a little more likely that they could get us some Shirts-Off Time with good sport Paul Rudd hosting last night. They went even further than that in the digital s...

By NYC_Billy After Monday night's two hour SNL election special, the show returns in two weeks with the promising combo of Paul Rudd hosting with Beyonce as musical guest. After the jump is Fey and McCain's opener, Affleck's Olbermann and a View sketch stolen by Fred Armisen as Joy Behar.

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 John Del Signore WILL FORTE, as an AIDE enters and whispers in BUSH's ear) TINA FEY AS GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN – "So nice to meet you, Mr. President. I've seen you on TV." DARRELL HAMMOND as SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN is brought in, struggling with JASON SUDEIKIS as TODD PALIN in a snowsuit.)

By NYC_Billy It's been a long time since one cast member on Saturday Night Live has grabbed almost all the attention focused on the show and Tina Fey technically isn't even a cast member right now. But for the third time in four weeks since the show returned, Fey was front and center in the opening sketch as...

By John Del Signore It's a long way from MASH to Ocean's 13, but Brooklyn's own Elliott Gould is still in the game, doing everything from the voice of God in the animated Ten Commandments to a forthcoming movie called The Deal, in which he shares the screen with William H. Macy and LL Cool J. The six-time host of Sat...

By nyc_arts_john The magic begins tonight with the exclusive premiere of ostensible comedy Baby Mama, which you probably won’t be able to get into – no big deal if you’ve joined the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler boycott over their perceived SNL Clinton cheerleading. The Village Voice, which has Poehler on the co...

By Jen Carlson Ever since Saturday Night Live returned in February, it's been hard to tell which candidate they're favoring. Lorne Michaels is putting his money on McCain (saying he has a "real affection" for him), but the show's spotlight is on Clinton and Obama (the former having appeared herself).

By Jen Carlson In between campaign stops for March 4th primaries, Hillary Clinton put on a happy face about the recent Saturday Night Live skits that aired during the show's return last week, adding that "it's so nice to be a fashion icon at my age" (video here). Last night the SNL troupe was at it again with...

By Jen Carlson A familiar face to the SNL stage, Tina Fey, returned last night taking over hosting duties. Her monologue focused on the reason the show has been absent for so long, the writers' strike. Steve Martin joined her, himself having hosted about 14 times. Watch in the clip below:

By arts_jen Less than two weeks after the writers' strike has come to an end, and sixteen weeks after the show went dark, Saturday Night Live makes its return this weekend. Everyone is checking in with the troupe to see what they missed most, and it's no surprise that it's been the chance to chime in on the...

By Jen Carlson We sort of slept through this season of Saturday Night Live. Sure it had its moments, but the show still isn't what it used to be (even Rainn Wilson couldn't revive it for a night). The best thing to happen in recent years has been Andy Samberg and the Digital Shorts (what did you think of last nig...

By Jen Carlson Afterwards, I mill around the 5th floor among the assembled VIPs. A smattering of SNL castmembers is just over there. Rock stars in the corner. It’s been fun. I’m grateful for the chance to peer behind the curtain for a few days but I’m so looking forward to a return to normalcy. I want to wake up eac...