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RECAP: Jeremy Renner Sings And Jokes On 'Saturday Night Live'
11/19/2012
The Hurt Locker star Jeremy Renner hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend, showing off his impressive musical talents during the opening monologue and his humorous bent in several Avengers-themed skits.
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'SNL' Spoofs Bloomberg's Sign Language Interpretor, Lydia Callis
11/05/2012
Saturday Night Live found a humorous silver lining from the tragic Hurricane Sandy in the form of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s animated sign-language interpreter, Lydia Callis. The show’s cold open featured longtime cast member Fred Armisen as Mayor Bloomberg addressing viewers from a mock press conference.
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Ricky Gervais Addresses New 'Golden Globes' Hosts Tina Fey And Amy Poehler
10/17/2012
After three consecutive years of shocking and offending A-listers at the annual Golden Globe Awards, British comedian Ricky Gervais will officially not be returning to host the live NBC presentation in 2013, as it was recently announced that NBC veterans and consummate comedic duo Amy Poehler and Tina Fey will do the honors.
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VIDEO: SNL Pokes Fun At Obama, James Bond, Big Bird
10/08/2012
With a little over a month before the latest James Bond installment, Skyfall, is set to hit theaters, Daniel Craig took a break from saving the world to host Saturday Night Live. The episode focused mainly on political satire, but it also took advantage of its host's Bond persona in its selection of skits.
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VIDEO: 'SNL' Debuts With Eastwood Chair
09/17/2012
Saturday Night Live debuted this weekend with a side-splitting skit of Clint Eastwood and Chair (yes, that chair), played by Bill Hader and an empty stool, respectively. “Seth Meyers sent me an email saying, ‘Are you watching this?’ And I said, ‘No, I’m watching Rolling Thunder with William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones.
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RECAP: SNL's Season 38 Debuts With Seth MacFarlane
09/17/2012
Saturday Night Live opened its new-look 38th season in good hands. First-time host Seth MacFarlane, who wrote, directed and starred in the hilarious summer comedy, Ted, and is also the creator of the popular animated television shows Family Guy and American Dad, hosted the NBC sketch-comedy show's premiere and did not disappoint.
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'SNL' Cast Member Jay Pharoah Will Take Over President Obama Impersonation From Fred Armisen
09/13/2012
Now that a good deal of the former Saturday Night Live talent has moved on to make room for newcomers Aidy Bryant, Tim Robinson and Cecily Strong, it's also likely that some existing cast members like Kate McKinnon, Taran Killam, Nasim Pedrad and Jay Pharoah, many of whom have previously merely subsisted in the shadows of SNL greats like Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg, who bid adieu to the late night sketch comedy program last season, will get a clearer chance to shine in the upcoming 38th season.
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Seth MacFarlane To Host Season Premiere Of 'SNL'
08/30/2012
Lorne Michaels' Saturday Night Live, which lost two of its nearest and dearest at the culmination of last season in Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg, needs to make an impression upon returning for its 38th season premiere on September 15th, and what better way than to headline an adored comedian, an action hero and a fresh-blooded leading man in the first three episodes of its return? That's right — Family Guy and Ted's Seth MacFarlane will host the season premiere episode, followed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt of The Dark Knight Rises, 50/50, and Inception, and James Bond himself, Daniel Craig, in week three.
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WATCH: Jimmy Fallon's 'Downton Abbey' Parody, Part Deux
05/25/2012
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon aired the second episode of "Downton Sixbey," his hilarious parody of Downton Abbey, on Thursday night. In addition to first episode stars Steve Higgins, Fred Armisen, A.
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VIDEO: Mick Jagger Plays Steven Tyler On 'Saturday Night Live'
05/21/2012
Mick Jagger, 68, hosted Saturday Night Live last weekend with musical guests Arcade Fire and Foo Fighters, and Jagger portrayed fellow rock musician Steven Tyler of Aerosmith in a skit called "So You Think You Can Dance at an Outdoor Music Festival," clearly making fun of American Idol and all its musical-reality-show-competition progeny.
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WATCH: Will Ferrell Returns To Host 'SNL'
05/14/2012
Will Ferrell hosted Saturday Night Live's penultimate show of its 37th season on Saturday, with musical guest Usher, and reprised some of his classic impressions, including that of George W. Bush. After Barack Obama's gay marriage announcement, Ferrell as "George W.
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VIDEO: Eli Manning Dresses In Drag On 'SNL'
05/07/2012
Comedy must run in the Manning family. New York Giants football quarterback Eli Manning, 31, followed in big brother Peyton Manning's footsteps on Saturday by hosting Saturday Night Live, and Eli Manning one-upped his Denver Broncos bro by doing a skit in drag a la RuPaul's Drag Race.
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Natalie Portman, Anne Hathaway Will Return To A Star-Studded 'Simpsons'
05/05/2012
Which lucky lad's romantic history includes Hollywood beauties Zooey Deschanel, Natalie Portman, Anne Hathaway, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Sarah Silverman? If you said that only a fictional character could count himself so blessed, you're right — all five actresses will reprise their roles as Bart Simpson's ex-girlfriends on an upcoming episode of season 24 of The Simpsons, entitled "Moonshine River.
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VIDEO: Jimmy Fallon Unleashes 'Downton Abbey' Spoof
04/13/2012
For those anxious for more of Downton Abbey, late night host Jimmy Fallon has stepped in with a spot-on spoof of the costume drama. Fallon's "Downton Sixbey" captures the intrigue of the Emmy-winning PBS series and re-imagines it as a behind-the-scenes drama revolving around Fallon's "Late NIght" show, which happens to film in Studio 6B.
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WATCH: Kristen Wiig Holds Up 'Portlandia'
02/08/2012
You know Kristen Wiig from Bridesmaids and Saturday Night Live, but did you know that she also has a license to kill (or at least a license to hold her favorite band hostage in Portland)? Wiig teamed up with her SNL co-star Fred Armisen for a sketch on his hipster send-up show, Portlandia, airing Friday on IFC.
