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Posted May 13th 2009 10:05AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Saturday Night Live, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Oh, Justin Timberlake. You know what your audience wants and you give it to them ... uncensored-style. Hot.
In the latest episode of
Saturday Night Live, Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg gave everyone and their mom a real treat in the form of the "Motherlover" Digital Short. The video was quickly uploaded onto NBC.com and promptly exploded all over the Internet in a mildly graphic and suggestive way. It was from the actual live airing, though, so audience laughter, bleeped words, and less-than-superb sound quality were inevitable.
Continue reading Justin Timberlake heard you wanted "Motherlover" uncensored
Posted Apr 16th 2009 1:17PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Programming, Saturday Night Live, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Believe it or not (and like it or not), there are only two episodes left in the 34th season of
Saturday Night Live. It looks like no one from my "
Nine people who must host SNL next season" wish list actually did it, but that's okay because there were some great stand-outs anyway, including Anne Hathaway and Jon Hamm.
The show seems determined to end with a bang, bringing in
two sure-to-deliver performers. May 9th will bring in Justin Timberlake (and musical guest Ciara) and season finale duties will be left up to former
SNL player
Will Ferrell.
Continue reading Justin Timberlake and Will Ferrell to wrap up SNL season
Posted Feb 11th 2009 11:03AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Saturday Night Live, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free, TV Squad Ten
To celebrate the release of
The Lonely Island's debut album "
Incredibad," we've compiled this list of the top ten
Saturday Night Live Digital Shorts. For almost four years, Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer have brought us these videos, and they've managed to keep us laughing and humming their tunes weeks after they've aired. We hope this countdown makes you feel just as
SNL-y in your digital shorts as when you first saw the videos, and if not, that's okay too. We're glad you're here anyway.
Of course, the rule is that they must have been prefaced by the "An SNL Digital Short" card to qualify. We know how much you love "
Virgania Horsen's Hot Air Balloon Rides," but it's not happening. Sorry.
Continue reading TV Squad Ten: Top SNL Digital Shorts - VIDEOS
Posted Feb 8th 2009 5:02PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, Saturday Night Live, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S34E15) Bradley Cooper, who are you and what are you doing on
Saturday Night Live? I IMDb'd him before watching the episode and despite having seen many of his projects, I still couldn't attach him to anything. Is he best known for something? Or is
He's Just Not That Into You his big break-out? Well, regardless, his performance in this episode wasn't mind-blowing, but at least it wasn't cringe-worthy either (exceptions can be considered for the Christian Bale sketch). The writers didn't give him anything terribly exciting and in the end we were left with a pretty forgettable episode. Here are some video highlights.
Continue reading Saturday Night Live: Bradley Cooper/TV On The Radio - VIDEOS
Posted Feb 25th 2007 11:04AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Late Night, OpEd, Saturday Night Live
(S32E14) Rainn Wilson is probably best known from NBC's
The Office, in which he plays the incredibly funny Dwight Schrute. As always, just because an actor does well in a sitcom doesn't necessarily mean it all translates on
Saturday Night Live. Fortunately, Wilson delivered a great performance that was on par with the show's actual cast members. This was a pleasant surprise for me, so I really wish that the weeks' writing had done better justice to Wilson's talent.
Continue reading Saturday Night Live: Rainn Wilson/Arcade Fire - VIDEOS
Posted Jan 28th 2006 5:50PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Saturday Night Live, Web
Now this is just plain ol' funny. Seems that during the Scarlett Johansson & Death
Cab for Cutie episode of Saturday Night Live from a few weeks ago, someone turned on a camera to catch
this
during a Death Cab rehearsal.
It's a bit dark, but you can clearly make out Jorma Taccone (of The Lonely Island) dancing topless while Ben Gibbard sings "Soul Meets
Body." Jorma, in the middle of the picture to the right, along with Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer, all joined
SNL at the same time. Jorma and Akiva are writers for the show now. The best part of the video is
when it pans over to Bill Hader standing off to the side. He's just shaking his head in disapproval. It's
hilarious. Not sure who our mystery cameraman is, but if you're reading this - please post more of this stuff to the
net.
[Thanks to Katie for bringing this to our attention.]
Posted Dec 27th 2005 9:11PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Late Night, OpEd, Saturday Night Live, Music and Variety
Interesting
article in today's
New York Times
about the genesis of the "Lazy Sunday" film that took the
SNL audience and the Internet by storm.
The article, written by Dave Itzkoff, focuses mainly on Andy Samberg and the two other members of the comedy group
The Lonely Island, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer. All three got hired by
Lorne Michaels on the strength of short Web films that were similar to "Lazy Sunday", which led to work
on Comedy Central and MTV as well as the
SNL gig.
Then, the article goes into the process of how
the movie was written, shot, and put together, all in the Tuesday thru Saturday timeframe the rest of the staff gets to
create their "magic." The funniest detail? The rap was recorded on a laptop that Taccone bought on Craigslist.
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