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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 Len Berman The first baseball awards. Oakland closer Andrew Bailey is the American League Rookie of the Year. Florida outfielder Chris Coghlan is the NL winner. 3. Taking a Knee 4. You're Kidding Right? 5. 20/20 Hindsight Bonus Birthday: Live from New York! SNL creator Lorne Michaels. 65.

By Geoffrey Dunn While not nearly as garbled as some of Palin's more memorable "word salads" (so delightfully parodied by Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live), Going Rogue, written by Palin with evangelical author Lynn Vincent, is both uneven in its composition and erratic in its argumentation. It is also ri...

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 Marshall Fine I'll admit to a personal bias against Dan Aykroyd, who's built a career on mediocre-to-worse movies in the 30-plus years since he debuted on Saturday Night Live. His filmography is jam-packed with drek and his continued viability as a film performer baffles me. I guess I consider Aykroyd i...

By The Huffington Post News Editors In her forthcoming book, "Going Rogue," that capacity is never more evident then when Palin travels to New York for a taping of "Saturday Night Live." The then-vice presidential candidate writes that she refused to shake Oliver Stone's hand because of the director's leftist political l...

By Richard Laermer Megan Fox is in it to win it. She fits whatever bill gets handed her, and in the oddly edited magazine piece she was given plenty of space to try out whatever thought-bubble her people could jot down. Fox openly opines about the lies she told newsstand magazines, about her calling "Transforme...

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 Mike Ragogna MR: How did that come about? RR: Tina Nole, my executive producer, came on board in February, and Shelley Osterberger, the associate producer, came on during the summer. MR: You sort of were introduced to America through your Saturday Night Live appearance in 1986, right?

By The Huffington Post News Editors Taylor Swift hosted SNL last night, and got in on the "Twilight" fun by teaming up with Andy Samberg and crew to bring us the world premiere of the "Firelight" trailer. In the sketch, Taylor falls in love with a Frankenstein (aka a "frank") despite the pressure from her normal world.

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 The Huffington Post News Editors Saturday Night Live" opened last night with a sketch lampooning Fox News's election coverage. Yes, the 2009 elections dominated cable news coverage consisted of exactly two gubernatorial races and two congressional seats, but that didn't stop Fox News from spinning it as a referendum...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Jason Sudeikis appeared on "Late Night" yesterday and revealed to former cast member Jimmy Fallon his pitches for this week's host of "SNL" Taylor Swift. The young Kanye-interuptee will be both host and musical guest on Saturday and (if Jason has his way) it will be terrible. WATCH:

By Bill Donius This is clearly an important time for our country as we attempt to resolve many issues that we have not successfully dealt with as a country. I heard President Obama state that we must win the hearts and minds of Americans to effect social change.

By Mark Joseph George Bush's mangled syntax and general awkwardness was all Dana Carvey needed to mock him effectively as he did here. Then there was Will Ferrell smartly capturing George W. Bush's cowboy impatience and less than perfect command of the English language here.

By Dan Vickrey Those who question the President now on issues of the Economy-War-Health Care and Gay Rights should look closely at his intent. To my eye it seems clear that this president is someone who has a to do list (like many of us do) and has prioritized everything on it and is checking away. Obama also s...

By Darell Hammond KaBOOM! family and friends gathered around their televisions last night to view the newest episode of the NBC show “Parks and Recreation,” starring Saturday Night Live veteran Amy Poehler.  It was great fun to be able to see the work KaBOOM! does highlighted in such a hilarious episode,...

By Jon Chattman Your song titles off this album are interesting and come with an emotional wallop. Do you think song titles mean anything? I think it means something. There's a freedom of something that doesn't have a fixed identity... there's a finality to it. I find it freeing.

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...

By Barry Michael Cooper Morgan waxes movingly for each and every day he gets above ground, and showers effusive praise on Martin Lawrence -- who gave Morgan his first shot on network television -- Chris Rock, Alex Baldwin, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels (who hired Morgan as a cast member in 1996), an...

By The Huffington Post News Team Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson made a special guest appearance on "Saturday Night Live" this week to reprise his role as "The Rock Obama." This was... Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson made a special guest appearance on "Saturday Night Live" this week to reprise his role as "The Rock Obama." This was by far t...

By Meredith C. Carroll My best shot at being the Young Other Woman came and went in the mid 1990s. For a short time I did some side work as a personal assistant to a cast member on Saturday Night Live. As part of the gig, it was necessary for me to be involved in almost all aspects of his life, including spending time at his...

By Dr. Judith Rich As Americans, we cannot fully appreciate how the rest of the world must have felt during the past eight years of the Bush administration with a questionably-recovered alcoholic, ex-drug addict cowboy at the helm of the most powerful military on the face of the earth. Recall Bush landing o...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Take, for instance, former Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson, who warned that Obama - like Hitler - "killed the weak, the sick, the old, and babies and races/religions he didn't like. Hitler also controlled the media."

By Michael Moore I'm listening to Lady Gaga," I say as I remove just one of the ear buds. I know not this Lady Gaga, but her performance last week on SNL was fascinating. The pilots would like to see you in the cockpit when we land," she says with a southern drawl.

By Rachel Sklar I have always had an appreciation for the mean machines, bred at an early age by Michelle Pfeiffer in Grease 2. The SNL sketch "Biker Chick Chat" from the season opener of Saturday Night Live got a lot of attention thanks to newcomer Jenny Slate's F-bomb. But what didn't get attention: the fri...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Jon Stewart began his show last night by skewering CNN for fact checking a "Saturday Night Live" skit in which Fred Armisen (playing Barack Obama) claimed to have done "nothing" since taking office. In this hard hitting report, CNN found that while many of the president's initiatives hav...

By Michael Solis And it seemed as though Obama truly was listening. Later that evening during a speech before the Human Rights Campaign, Obama began with a direct appeal to a speculative yet hopeful audience of LGBT individuals. So in the end who was it that I chose to meet, you may find yourself asking. Gaga or...

By Mark Green Nobel (Sur)Prize: Words Matter Mark Green A last word on how Obama didn't "earn" his Nobel Prize. Reading the near unanimous commentary about how Obama... Nobel (Sur)Prize: Words Matter Mark Green A last word on how Obama didn't "earn" his Nobel Prize.

By The Huffington Post News Editors Saturday Night Live" opened last night with a sketch mocking the president's good fortune, starting with his Nobel Peace Prize win: Of course, despite the president's Peace Prize win, he did come into office saddled with an economic crisis and two wars, which, if he were truly as lucky as...

By Jarrett Murphy Outer borough whites, who were key to electing Ed Koch three times and Giuliani twice, were crucial to Bloomberg, too, even if this mayor has also attracted significant support from blacks and Latinos. Rudy Giuliani was once in a hilarious Saturday Night Live skit where he donned a wig and...

By Nancy Snow Last week late-night television’s Saturday Night Live was spoofing the president for accomplishing “nada, nothing.” And who can forget the Friday surprise when Rio de Janiero triumphed over Obama’s hometown.  We’re still waiting to hear what the commander-in-chief decides about tro...

By The Huffington Post News Team The prize seems not just premature but embarrassing," wrote Mark Krikorian, also on The National Review, "this just reinforces the Saturday Night Live meme that Obama has done nothing. This really might be his Carter whacking-the-bunny-rabbit moment."

By Aubrey Sarvis You know the days of DADT are numbered when the president's inaction on opening up the military (among other things) makes it to NBC's "Saturday Night Live" and is the frequent object of ridicule on Rachel Maddow's show. Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.), veteran of Iraq and lead sponsor of H.R. 1283...

By John Eskow So in one way it's been a tremendous journey from Saturday Night Live to the Senate floor, from dissing Kissinger to defending veterans, from Gilda Radner to Jamie Lee Jones; but in another way it's simply the graceful trajectory of one man's conscience.

By Wayne Besen The administration should be concerned about the growing perception that the president is all talk and no action. During the primaries, Hillary Clinton portrayed him as a slick salesman who could not follow through on his grandiose promises. In the general election, John McCain said Oba...

By Giles Slade Surrounded by so many ruthless s.o.b.'s, newbie Obama needs to steer a careful course through this complex passage where so many rocks meet the pounding surf. A wrong move in the wars, the economy, or in health-care will have disastrous consequences that will rattle down the coming decades l...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Martin Short, making an unannounced appearance, playfully plopped himself in Martin's lap. Halderman, a producer for the true-crime show "48 Hours Mystery," pleaded not guilty last week to extortion charges. Associated Press Entertainment Writer Jake Coyle contributed to this repo...

By Barrett Brown The Point: If ACORN is a criminal enterprise, then so are plenty of other things that the gang at PW would probably not want to see referred to as a criminal organization. Incidentally, ACORN is indeed kind of a criminal enterprise insomuch as that it is an enterprise with several employees...

By Rachel Sklar Short-term, the buzz will get people tuning in -- Who's the host? Who's the musical guest? Might this be one of the fifty episodes where Justin Timberlake cameos?). Long term, though, the repeat viewer will be drawn in by the quality, too (think "SNL isn't funny" vs. "Bill Hader/Andy Samber...

By RJ Eskow That's right. Not only Sarah Palin, but most of the American Right thinks they're living in a 1980s adventure flick. Here's a theory: Most people, especially people in public life, subconsciously write a 'script' for their lives and then behave accordingly.

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...

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By Huff TV Married D.C. power couple James Carville and May Matalin returned to their bickering, if loving ways Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union with John... Married D.C. power couple James Carville and May Matalin returned to their bickering, if loving ways Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union with John...

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 Greg Mitchell Men have a slightly more favorable opinion of Palin than women -- 41 percent vs. 36 percent. "If McCain was hoping to boost his share of the women's vote, it didn't work," Holland said. And USA Today/Gallup has just released its post-Palin poll showing that Obama has widened his lead from four...

By The Huffington Post News Team ST. PAUL, Minn. — Al Franken ascended Tuesday from the hallowed ranks of former "Saturday Night Live" comedians to an even more exclusive club, outlasting... ST. PAUL, Minn. — Al Franken ascended Tuesday from the hallowed ranks of former "Saturday Night Live" comedians to an even more exclusiv...

By Shannyn Moore 10) Last September, a skit on Saturday Night Live suggested incest in the Palin family. "What about the husband?" asked a mock Times reporter. "You... 10) Last September, a skit on Saturday Night Live suggested incest in the Palin family. "What about the husband?" asked a mock Times reporter. "Y...

By The Huffington Post News Editors At the end of a segment called Joy's Month in Review, she complained that the "Saturday Night Live" skits about "The View" don't do her justice. At the end of the clips, Armisen was in Joy's seat the table, dressed in a matching black scoop neck shirt with a red wig. Watch:

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 The Huffington Post News Team Victoria Jackson, former "Saturday Night Live" cast member and Al Franken hater, went on Sean Hannity's show on Monday night. She started by cheering "Fox... Victoria Jackson, former "Saturday Night Live" cast member and Al Franken hater, went on Sean Hannity's show on Monday night. She sta...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Last night's Saturday Night Live was hosted by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and he showed what happens when you finally cause President Obama to lose his famous cool: he undergoes a Hulk-like transformation and turns into "The Rock Obama." Egged on By Rahm Emanuel to finally get mad, "The Ro...

By The Huffington Post News Team Dan Akroyd returned to Saturday Night Live last night to guest star in the show's opening skit, which pokes fun at Republicans for being the party of opposition and literally nothing else. They argue over whether Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh are smarter and decide the best line of attack i...

By Sean L. McCarthy Are these ads or sketches? Is SNL in the product-placement business now? Are we heading back to the early days of TV comedy, when Milton Berle was emcee of The Texaco Star Theater? Debate all you want about who had the best or the funniest Super Bowl ad on Sunday (two of the "amateur" Doritos c...

By The Huffington Post News Team Obama announced he'll close it and "Saturday Night Live" had a commercial for a going-out-of-business sale from Guantanamo Bay. "Hoods! Blindfolds! Shackles! Chains! Dog bones... Obama announced he'll close it and "Saturday Night Live" had a commercial for a going-out-of-business sal...

By Dennis Perrin The most popular player that season was also the biggest distraction. Coming off the enormous success of "Animal House," and riding high with The Blues Brothers, John Belushi had bigger things in mind other than SNL. There are scenes where Belushi simply phones it in, his casual, indiffer...

By Marianne Schnall You may remember how enormously pregnant Poehler was when she infamously rapped and danced with Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live in mid-October. Poehler gave birth to 8lb 1oz baby Archibald William Emerson Arnett aka "Archie" (with husband actor Will Arn...

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.