Probably even worse than the image quality on this video (zing? self-deprazingtion?): That's the worst! That's not even a good joke and Phelps still can't help but snort and grin through it, hoping that this 10,000th take will be the... CONTINUE READING JUST HOW BAD IS MICHAEL PHELPS GOING TO BE ON SNL THIS WEEKEND?»
Posted on September 12, 2008 in Awkward Live TV
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Tags: Michael Phelps | Saturday Night Live
Michael Phelps walked into the writers' room at 30 Rock and sat down in a swiveling office chair. He opened up his backpack and took out 700 pancakes, three dozen egg and bacon sandwiches, a gallon of heavy whipping cream,... CONTINUE READING YOU CAN MAKE IT UP: MICHAEL PHELPS VISITS THE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE WRITERS' ROOM»
Posted on August 28, 2008 in You Can Make It Up
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Tags: Michael Phelps | Saturday Night Live
UCB's peek into the high-pressure world of the Snapple cap facts writer's room: Though it owes a lot to Mr. Show (in that way that anything that involves a sweaty boss screaming at his employees owes a lot to Mr.... CONTINUE READING "DIANE YOU BEAUTIFUL ASSHOLE YOU JUST SAVED ALL OUR JOBS"»
Posted on August 28, 2008 in Sketch Comedy
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Tags: Death Cab For Cutie | Michael Phelps | Saturday Night Live | St. Vincent
Michael Phelps is hosting the series premiere of Saturday Night Live on September 13th. If you don't know who Michael Phelps is, MOVE BACK TO RUSSIA. Now, last week, Alex Blagg at the homepage Best Week Ever Dot Com posed... CONTINUE READING MICHAEL PHELPS TO HOST, BOMB SNL PREMIERE»
Posted on August 27, 2008 in Backlashes
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Tags: Michael Phelps | Saturday Night Live
In other Saturday Night Live news, we'd just like to tip our chapeaus (or is it chapeaux?) to John Mulaney for starting work as a writer at SNL this week. If you've never seen him perform stand up, see him... CONTINUE READING JOHN MULANEY FOR PRESIDENT OF COMEDY»
Posted on August 20, 2008 in Behind The Scenes
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Tags: Coachella | John Mulaney | Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live has a new cast member, Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre staple Bobby Moynihan. This was the part that popped out: "One of Moynihan's best-known talents within the UCB community is his repertoire of black impressions." Presumably, he has... CONTINUE READING SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE ANNOUNCES NEWEST CAST MEMBER»
Posted on August 20, 2008 in Sketch Comedy
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Tags: Aimee Mann | Bobby Moynihan | Coachella | Saturday Night Live
Apparently, this 1998 SNL sketch, Action News: Hard Liquor, in which Will Ferrell and Joan Allen play convincing drunk news anchors, never aired. It seems like it could have been the genesis of the idea for Anchorman: Catchphrase note: from... CONTINUE READING WILL FERRELL AND JOAN ALLEN PLAY DRUNK NEWS ANCHORS»
Posted on July 11, 2008 in Sketch Comedy
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Tags: Joan Allen | Saturday Night Live | Will Ferrell
The New York Times reports today on a new MasterCard commercial starring the old Saturday Night Live character, Mr. Bill. I guess the idea behind the ad is to use Mr. Bill's constant destruction as a stand-in for consumer fear... CONTINUE READING MR. BILL'S SOUL GETS SMOOSHED AS HE SHILLS FOR MASTERCARD»
Posted on June 3, 2008 in Free Advertising
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Tags: C.R.E.A.M. | Mr. Bill | Saturday Night Live | Walter Williams
So how about SNL's Steve Carell-hosted finale this weekend? It was actually ... really ... funny. It's almost as if having a host who's a veteran comic actor and not some flavor-of-the-month celebrity makes a difference in the quality of... CONTINUE READING THE THREE BEST CLIPS FROM THE SURPRISINGLY AWESOME SNL FINALE»
Posted on May 19, 2008 in Late Night, Sketch Comedy
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Tags: John McCain | Ricky Gervais | Saturday Night Live | Steve Carell | The Office | The Pounder School
Shia LaBeouf is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend with musical guest My Morning Jacket. There's a new feature on the SNL website that lets you submit questions for the guests, with the slimmest of chances that producer Marci Klein... CONTINUE READING ASK A PROFESSIONAL SHIA LABEOUF»
Posted on May 7, 2008 in Behind The Scenes
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Tags: Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull | My Morning Jacket | Saturday Night Live | Shia LaBeouf
Why aren't all (good) unaired Saturday Night Live clips not on the internet? Dear President of Entertainment: that is what the internet is for. This one, from the mid-'90s, not only gives us an inside look into the bullying and... CONTINUE READING UNAIRED SNL CLIP: SHAQ AND FERRELL, BFF»
Posted on May 1, 2008 in Cute As Balls, Sketch Comedy, Viral Video
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Tags: Saturday Night Live | Shaquille O'Neal | Will Ferrell
Whoa, did anyone notice that the New York Times threw down the blogauntlet (fart!) on three of America's venerable comedy institutions yesterday? In an article about the broadband Onion News Network, Virginia Heffernan let it be known that the sacrosanct... CONTINUE READING THE ONION NEWS NETWORK IS DESTROYING THE NON-COMPETITION»
Posted on April 21, 2008 in Backlashes
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Tags: Saturday Night Live | The Daily Show | The Onion News Network | The Simpsons
A blogger asks a question today, that I've been thinking about for awhile: Just curious... ... when the Tina Fey backlash is gonna start. Because, you know, it's inevitable. Any guesses? Look, Tina Fey is great. She was great as... CONTINUE READING TINA FEYTIGUE»
Posted on April 17, 2008 in Backlashes
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Tags: J Lo | Saturday Night Live | Tina Fey | Writers Strike
Saturday Night Live kind of nailed it this weekend, you guys. Even Christopher Walken's opening monologue was funny (the opening monologue!). Because NBC will supposedly sue us for helping to promote their show using embedded video clips, I can't show... CONTINUE READING SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE MAKES A FUNNY»
Posted on April 7, 2008 in They Nailed It
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Tags: Christopher Walken | Laffs | Saturday Night Live
Carrie Prejean turned the video camera off, put on some clothes, and stepped out of her house. It was a beautiful day outside. The air smelled like apples, and the late morning light hit the world in just such a...
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If you are a sassy and sarcastic young man in an American sitcom who represents the sitcom writer's desire that a nerdy Jewish teenager can somehow be the desirable romantic hero in this world, then eventually you will get a...
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I shouldn't even be here right now. I SHOULD BE GETTING INTO MY COSTUME! If I don't hurry, my facepaint won't be dry before I get to the MOONVIE theater, and everyone will be like "hahah, you look like you're...
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The Challenge: I had to go on a 3.5 hour bus tour of totally random TV and film locations in New York City. Alone, and wearing a specific ridiculous tshirt. And I had to find someone to take my picture...
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Uh. OK. Well, first let's address what this movie did well, like the disappointed parents we are (or at least that I am), recognizing that the negative feedback won't be useful or constructive if it isn't preceded by something positive....
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