May 23, 2009 -
We're heading into the first Saturday in awhile without a new episode of Saturday Night Live. Looking back, this season was pretty great for hosts: I feel like week after week, I was impressed at the wide array of actors, comedians, musicians, and sports stars who took a shot at hosting duties. Personally, I was smitten with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's dancing, and what's not to love about Neil Patrick Harris?
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May 19, 2009 -
Last weekend's Saturday Night Live finale featured the return of Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek in the popular Celebrity Jeopardy sketch. Almost everyone I know can quote the old sketches that featured Darrell Hammond's Sean Connery endlessly mocking Trebek ("That's not what your mother said last night!") and Norm Macdonald's hilarious impersonation of Burt Reynolds. Oh man, it was so good to see those guys return and do that sketch again — I missed it!
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Mar 09, 2009 -
In case you missed it, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson beautifully (and I mean, beautifully) hosted Saturday Night Live over the weekend for his third time. I thought he did a great job — from his Barack Obama impression ("The Rock Obama") to his role as a bitter Hawaiian restaurant performer, I have to admit, I really enjoyed his time on the show.
Hands down, though, my favorite part of the episode (which, to be honest, I rewound and watched at least three more times on TV) was Johnson's musical number during his monologue.
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Jan 10, 2009 -
When Saturday Night Live gets a good host, it seems to bring everything on the show up a notch (last Fall's Jon Hamm episode is a good example). So I'm excited that SNL seems to be starting 2009 off on the right foot, snagging Neil Patrick Harris to host the first new episode of the year.
The guy is just comedy gold, and I'm hoping the show takes advantage of his potential.
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Dec 15, 2008 -
- Like so many movies these days, The Crow is getting "reinvented." — ComingSoon
- And the Terminator will be back . .
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Dec 15, 2008 -
Not quite two months after the birth of her son, Amy Poehler said farewell to Saturday Night Live on Saturday. Not only did she pull out one last Weekend Update (including a pretty awesome "Really!?! with Seth and Amy" about the Rod Blagojevich scandal), but even Maya Rudolph showed up for a farewell "Bronx Beat" segment — with host Hugh Laurie as their talk show guest, naturally.
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Nov 13, 2008 -
Good news and sorta sad news. I'll start with the sorta sad: Fox has canceled it's long-running sketch comedy program MadTV, which didn't exactly shock too many people. The folks at Best Week Ever even joked they thought it got canceled four years ago.
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Nov 08, 2008 -
Saturday Night Live head writer Seth Meyers recently said his biggest regret about the election-season episodes of SNL was that he didn't get Joe Biden to come on the show. And the more I think about it, the more it really is a shame. Politics aside, Biden's just quippy enough that he could be a fantastic host!
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Nov 05, 2008 -
Politicians have always been excellent fodder for comedy and this election season has been very entertaining on SNL (due in large part to Tina Fey's spot-on impressions of Sarah Palin). The SNL Presidential Bash even garnered record ratings on Monday night.
But now that the election is over, will this all still be as funny?
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Merry Christmas to all of you who are celebrating today! And to those observing other holidays this season, I hope your days are also warm, cozy, and bright — and maybe even filled with some new goodies.
To help spread the merriment today, I called on one of Buzz's longtime favorites, Hugh Laurie.
