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Saturday Night Live takes on Blagojevich

Duncan Riley — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:50:05 +0000

Disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich made easy fodder for Saturday Night Live (SNL) this week, with a great skit where Blagojevich offers to appoint a candidate approved by the Legislature if the U.S. Senate gave him a lump sum and pays off his credit cards.

Keeping in true Blagojevich style, the first word out of the mouth of the Governor, played by Jason Sudeikis, was a swear word, with many following.

Rod Blagojevich’s wife Patti Blagojevich gets a run as well, with her character storming in with expletives to demand her husband get her a seat on NASA’s board. “You promised!” she whines.

The SNL Blagojevich video as follows; it starts about 20 seconds in, NBC is now geotertarding SNL clips so we couldn’t grab a direct embed.

Beyonce On SNL: Leotards and Justin Timberlake

Meieli Sawyer — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:45:20 +0000

Beyonce’s supremely awesome SNL appearance got a boost from a leotard-wearing Justin Timberlake last night, when he bust onto the scene during her “Single Ladies” remake skit as one of the “dancers”… or something. It was pretty “b-rilliant,” especially when combined with Beyonce’s stunning performances of “If I Were A Boy” and “Single Ladies.” Is all the fun going to end when Beyonce’s album “I Am… Sasha Fierce” hits this Tuesday?

Well, if Kanye’s right and he “stole” Justin Timberlake’s time in the spotlight as the “voice of this generation,” he can have it. And his caps lock! JT is too busy rocking out SNL to care, anyway.

Abby Elliott and Michaela Watkins join SNL

Duncan Riley — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:32:10 +0000

Abby Elliott and Michaela Watkins have been signed to join Saturday Night Live and will both debut November 15.

21 year old Abby Elliott is the daughter of former SNL cast member Chris Elliott, making her the first child of a former cast member to be hired in the shows history. Elliot’s thin resume includes a stint voicing the character “Hipster Girl” on King of the Hill, and brief appearances on Chrissy: Plain & Simple and You’ve Reached the Elliotts.

Michaela Watkins is best known for her role as Lucy in the 4th season of The New Adventures of Old Christine. Her other appearances include Eli Stone, Californication, Grey’s Anatomy, Without A Trace, Malcolm in the Middle, Charmed and Medium.

The pair will be taking over from Amy Poehler.

(in part via MSNBC)

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Tina Fey Makes a Great Sarah Palin, But What Do You Think?

Meieli Sawyer — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:05:45 +0000

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler of Saturday Night Live treated us to another spoof on Katie Couric’s recent interview with Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin. While the audience sounded like they loved it and I kept thinking about Fey and Palin’s resemblance (among other things), I want to know what you think. Was it dead-on? Was it funny? Was it offensive or even sexist? I’ve included the original interview for you so you can run a comparison.

Whether you find it funny or not-so-much, one thing’s certain: SNL won’t be running out of fodder. Not only will Palin debate Joe Biden on Thursday, but CBS will run coverage of “Vice Presidential Questions.” Katie Couric interviewed both Sarah Palin and Joe Biden as a part of the series, but Palin’s responses were branded as possibly “embarrassing” by Howard Kurtz. I’m on the edge of my seat!

Don’t forget to tell us what you think of SNL’s spoof this time around.

Michael Phelps Will Kick Off Saturday Night Live’s New Season

Meieli Sawyer — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:45:34 +0000

Saturday Night Live announced their season premiere host: it’ll be Olympic supahstar Michael Phelps! Let’s hope that this fares better than his pre-/post-performance interviews, where things can get a little awkward. Come September 13th (11:30 pm, on NBC, people!), I’ll be wishing that he doesn’t suck out after riding high on his gold awesomeness. I hope there’s a surprise lurking and he turns out to be a comedic genius, because otherwise it’ll be kinda sad.

Who am I kidding? It’s not like people will worship him any less if he has an off day in the comedy world.

Image: Getty

Did Sean “Diddy” Combs Change His Name AGAIN or What?

Meieli Sawyer — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:42:02 +0000

The trouble probably started up after Sean “Diddy” Combs rapped “They call me Puff Daddy. . . he’s back” on the O’Neal McKnight single remix “Check Your Coats.”

As soon as I saw this gem in US Weekly, I knew that I should ride it out for a while. Just as predicted, after we all thought that Sean “Diddy” Combs wanted his name changed back to “Puff Daddy,” his rep has swiftly gone around squashing rumors left and right. Surprised? Probably not, especially if you’ve already had to adapt by calling him Puffy, Diddy, and Sean Jean in the past!

“This is not true. There is no name change,” his rep told US Weekly after the reports of the change circulated.

One thing that really should have been sorted out was his MySpace page, then. If he didn’t want confusion over what the f- he should be called, do you think he should have posted “This is your boy Puff Daddy!!! Yes Puff Daddy“? His rep probably wants to kick him at the moment, and rightly so.

Talk about the perfect way to get ridiculed. Saturday Night Live is going to have a field day with this one.