Usually Saturday Night Live season finales would be peppered with celebrities to ease the creative burden of writing a twentieth episode of a season and to give viewers some positive things to talk about the show during the summer hiatus. (Think last year’s big star-filled Billy Joel singalong.) But this wasn’t the case for last night’s season finale. We can all blame Betty White for that. Thanks a lot you old hag.
Still, this was an okay installment. Read more…
Betty White is getting the credit for this being the highest rated episode of Saturday Night Live this season. While it’s true that the audience was REALLY excited to see her, I thought the real draw was the one night only return of the best female cast members of the last ten years. Poehler (preggers again), Rudolph, Gasteyer, Fey, Shannon and Dratch all made sure Nasim Pedrad had absolutely no air time, and Pedrad herself probably didn’t care.
I mean, she probably did care, but felt like she couldn’t complain without seeming selfish. Read more…
Well this week was the exact opposite as last week – I hated the episode while the critics and few friends that still watch the show liked it. I personally found the entire show to have little to no energy to it but I’ve been wrong before believe it or not. Even a fully functioning watch will someday get stolen as they say.
This episode wasn’t as bad as the stinky old media said it was. Oh, Ke$ha was Ke$ha, and there were a few stinkers in the bunch, but it wasn’t January Jones hosting awful. Plus it made fun of the ICP. Read more…
So true story: when this edition of SNL aired this past Saturday night I was actually not in my home in front of my television. Look, it happens. Because of this egregious mistake of trying to be more social (ew) I missed whatever Steve Martin and Mark Sanchez participated in on the show. But thanks Hulu for letting me see the good nights with those two celebrities and not the sketch they were in for some stupid lawyer reason.
Anyway, in honor of Tina Fey hosting, tonight’s categories will be 30 Rock seasons one and two for the great sketches, SNL in the Tina Fey writing era for the average ones and What Date Night seems to be for the shitacular bits. Read more…
The last time Jude Law hosted Saturday Night Live, Ashlee Simpson was the musical guest. The entire lip-syncing incident was a shame, because Law’s great job was completely overshadowed. This time around, they hired a band that was too old to cause trouble: Pearl Jam. Read more…
Anyone who knows me knows I am totally in the tank for Zach Galifianakis. I’ve been a fan of his since his 2001 Comedy Central Presents, which he concluded by revealing he was wearing a dress, with musical accompaniment by an all-female choir singing “Eternal Flame”. The guy mixes one-liners that Steven Wright would be proud of with random, unjustified and hilarious fits of anger. Zach is so good that he is even funny when he bombs. In a recent podcast interview, he recounted how host Marc Maron and himself enjoyed dinner at an Indian restaurant. “I phoned ahead to reserve a table. To get an Indian reservation…I’m sorry that was so terrible.” He then laughed. A lot of other people did too. Read more…
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Just biding time before next week’s Zach Galifianakis episode. It hasn’t even aired yet but it’s the third greatest Saturday Night Live of all-time, according to No Seriously Digest.
For now, Jennifer Lopez. Read more…
Friday night was the final episode of The Tonight Show hosted by Conan O’Brien. Seven million people watched.
Where were they for the past seven months? Read more…
The latest:
-This is the final week of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.
-Team Conan and NBC are close to a deal that would give Conan around $35-40 million dollars and enable him to move to another network in less than a year. Two sticking points are intellectual property rights and the severance package. TMZ reports that O’Brien can keep all of his recurring bits and characters if he stops trashing NBC. Tough call… Read more…