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Saturday Night Live: "Weekend Update Thursday" 10.9.08 | TV Show Recaps | 10/10/2008 New
This is the first of four specials that Saturday Night Live will be airing on Thursday nights. Rumor has it that at some point, Sarah Palin, will make an appearance as Tina Fey, which, with the two appearing on the same show, may result in the apocalypse. But, in the meantime, we got a special appearance from SNL alum Chris Parnell and a fantastic surprise midway through the first sketch to ask a question: Bill Murray! Opening Sketch: CNN – The Presidential Debate Fred Armisen plays... read more 5 Comments
The Women of SNL Bring the Funny | Today's News: Our Take | 10/9/2008 New
In their oral history of Saturday Night Live, Live from New York, Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller revealed an unfortunate legacy of sexism. Many of the show's female writers and cast members, chief among them Nora Dunn, told of difficulty in getting skits on the air and of generally being taken seriously by their male counterparts. That was then… and now six prominent alumnae will back on the tube this fall in five successful returning shows and one promising newcomer. (Also, a series... read more 10 Comments
Sarah Palin Laughed Along with Tina Fey's SNL Parody | Today's News: Our Take | 9/15/2008
While you were laughing at Tina Fey's spot-on impression of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live's season premiere, the Republican vice presidential hopeful was too. She thought it was quite funny, particularly because she once dressed up as Tina Fey for Halloween," Palin's spokesperson Tracey Schmitt told CBS News.As Palin, Fey teamed up with her former "Weekend Update" co-anchor (tear) Amy Poehler, who revived her now-classic Hillary Clinton parody for a "non-partisan" message... read more be the first to leave a comment
SNL Opener: Fey Flies, Phelps Sinks | Matt Roush | 9/14/2008
For the first five minutes, Saturday Night Live was brilliant on opening night, living up to our wildest expectations by bringing back Tina Fey (how could they not) to skewer political-media darling Sarah Palin. She nailed the look (those glasses, the blinding red dress), the pinched Fargo voice, the poses (including a hilarious moment in which she toted an invisible shotgun). But where was hunky hubby Todd, preggers daughter Bristol and her boyfriend Levi, and the rest of the clan? They can... read more be the first to leave a comment
Michael Phelps Hosts, Lil Wayne Performs | TV Show Recaps | 9/14/2008
Tina Fey is in the house as Sarah Palin and a very pregnant good sport Amy Poehler rocks her Hillary Clinton impression! This was a much anticipated and hoped-for pairing and we got it! Not only because Tina is the perfect person to play lookalike Palin, but because Barack Obama had to cancel at the last second (something about not-so-little Hurricane Ike arriving to beat the crapola out of the Texas Gulf Coast). Guess he thought that would be in bad taste (good guess). Hello, SNL fans! Erin... read more be the first to leave a comment
Cheers: SNL's Palin-Clinton: That's the Ticket! | Cheers & Jeers | 9/14/2008
Cheers to Saturday Night Live for finding the best possible reason to reunite Tina Fey and Amy Poehler: a hysterical opening sketch. The ex-"Weekend Update" coanchors and Baby Mama costars brilliantly lampooned Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton. (Clinton: "I believe that diplomacy should be the cornerstone of any foreign policy." Palin: "And I can see Russia from my house.") read more be the first to leave a comment
Housewives, Baby Mamas to Present at Emmys | Today's News: Our Take | 8/21/2008
Some Desperate Housewives and two Baby Mamas will take to the Emmy stage next month.ABC has announced the first wave of Emmy Award presenters, and they include the ladies of Wisteria Lane — Marcia Cross, Dana Delany, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Eva Longoria Parker and Nicollette Sheridan — who will all present together, and former Saturday Night Live chums Tina Fey and Amy Poehler."It's always fun to come up with unique pairings, cast reunions and surprising personalities as... read more be the first to leave a comment
Fall Season Press Tour: Flying Blind With NBC | Matt Roush | 7/22/2008
After sitting through NBC’s frustrating and un-illuminating final day of official press tour Monday—there are a few set visits scheduled on Tuesday before whoever’s left heads for home (or in some cases Comic-Con over the weekend)—I’m tempted to say that TCA saved the worst for last. More like saving the least for last.It’s unprecedented in my memory of press tour for so many networks to screen so little of their new fall programming, but NBC really took the booby... read more be the first to leave a comment
Out of Office: Amy Poehler Gets Other NBC Sitcom | Today's News: Our Take | 7/21/2008
Remember that Office spin-off that Amy Poehler was rumored to be circling? Well, it's not dead yet, but Poehler won’t be on it, as she has nabbed another NBC show.NBC Entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman announced Monday that they've locked in Poehler to a sitcom commitment to be produced by Office vets Greg Daniels and Mike Schur. It's unclear what the Poehler show is about. When pressed for details about a premise or setting, Silverman only said: "It's going to be... funny."The... read more be the first to leave a comment
The Emmys: A Dramatic Shift Toward Cable | Matt Roush | 7/17/2008
If you heard someone momentarily flatlining in the audience at the reading of the Emmy nominations Thursday morning, that was me. They were announcing the best drama series candidates and I was mostly on board as I checked my list in the back of the TV Academy theater. Damages. Yay! House. OK. Boston Legal. I don’t approve, but I’m no longer surprised. Lost. OMG! Dexter. OM-Freaking-G! Wait. That’s five. Surely they didn’t leave out . . . And they didn’t. AMC’s... read more be the first to leave a comment
Amy Poehler Applying for Office Job? | Today's News: Our Take | 7/16/2008
Saturday Night Live vet Amy Poehler is said to be in talks to front the spin-off of NBC's The Office, currently slated for a midseason premiere. I say currently because, as the Reporter notes, pregnant Poehler is due in the fall, so some schedule rejiggering may be necessary.Thus far, outside of a deal to include comedian Aziz Ansari in the cast, nearly nothing is known as to the concept of the spin-off.Both NBC and Poehler's reps declined comment on the trade's story. Me, I think it's a match... read more be the first to leave a comment
Amy Poehler to Be a Real-life Baby Mama | Today's News: Our Take | 4/28/2008
For Amy Poehler, life is imitating art. The Baby Mama star is expecting her own baby with husband Will Arnett. It will be the couple's first child.Poehler's movie-screen Mama, which also stars Tina Fey, hit No. 1 at the box office this weekend — not a bad dovetail with the big news. Her Saturday Night Live schedule should also probably help when she has a newborn. She recently told the Daily News that the gig is "a perfect New York job: It's crazy and loud and late and very hectic. But I'm... read more be the first to leave a comment
Siriano Responds to SNL Sketch with Fierce Alliteration | Today's News: Our Take | 3/10/2008
Christian Siriano caught the weekend's Saturday Night Live sketch that parodied him, and let loose with a string of alliterative adjectives to express his feelings about it. Amy Poehler played the the newly crowned king of this season's Project Runway, imitating his style right down to the unique coif (watch the sketch here).In an e-mail to People, the threadmaster said he "thought it was so funny. Amy [Poehler] looked exactly like me which is kinda scary, but fabulous." The sketch, which was... read more be the first to leave a comment
Amy Adams Hosts, Vampire Weekend Performs | TV Show Recaps | 3/9/2008
Hello everyone. Happy rainy Saturday night. I had a nap today just so I could rally myself to write you the recap of your lives. Actually I just ate too much sugar and passed out. You might only get a half-conscious recap now. Maybe that's for the best considering last week's terrible show with Ellen Page.So, let's just jump into the show, shall we? Cold OpeningAmy Poehler is Hillary once again. Did you expect anything else? "She approves of this message," which is actually a spoof of her "Who... read more be the first to leave a comment
Vanity Fair's New Cover: Funny Is the New Sexy! | Today's News: Our Take | 3/4/2008
Vanity Fair has released pictures from its upcoming April issue featuring funny ladies Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman and Amy Poehler on the cover. They look more like Greek goddesses in flowing gowns than the "tomboy" garb they're usually photographed in on the job — the point being that women can be funny and hot. Just take a look at the VF site for yourselves. Me-ow!The inside article, "Who Says Women Aren't Funny," discusses why comediennes continue to carry a stigma. The mag tries to... read more be the first to leave a comment
Hillary Meets Her Doppelganger on SNL | Today's News: Our Take | 3/3/2008
Now that things are really heatin’ up in the fight for the presidential bid, Hillary Clinton decided to show what a good sport she was about being mocked incessantly during the opening sketch of SNL by stopping by for a skit of her own. And actually, seeing her standing there next to the Amy Poehler version of herself is quite uncanny! read more be the first to leave a comment
SNL: A Stop on the Campaign Trail | Matt Roush | 3/2/2008
In only two weeks on the air, Saturday Night Live is back in its sweet spot, right where it wanted to be during the long strike hiatus: smack-dab in the center of today’s political dialogue. Barack Obama made a cameo in the last episode before the strike, Mike Huckabee showed up for an aw-shucks appearance in the middle of last week’s Weekend Update, and this week, in an opener that’s likely to become part of the all-time SNL archives, it was Hillary Clinton’s turn. She who... read more be the first to leave a comment
"Really?" Is TV's New "Seriously"? Really? | Today's News: Our Take | 10/27/2007
As the new fall season of television rolls along, one thing is becoming very clear: ABC still seems determined to reschedule solid, would-be-thriving shows into prime-time Siberia.OK, make that two things that have become evident. The other being that "Really?" — almost always employed in tandem with its cousin, "Really?" — is TV dialogue's new "Seriously.""Seriously," of course, enjoyed a long and hallowed run due in large part to the doctors of Grey's Anatomy who trotted it out... read more be the first to leave a comment
Nick Gives Amy Poehler's 'Bottom a Thumbs-up | Today's News: Our Take | 12/13/2006
Nickelodeon is on board for Mighty B, a new animated series starring Saturday Night Live's Amy Poehler as the voice of Bessie Higgenbottom, a 10-year-old Honeybee Scout out to earn each and every last merit badge she can. Mighty B's 20 episodes will start unspooling in 2008.Also at Nick, nick-nick-nick, nick-nick, nick, nick, Nick-el-o-de-on (do they still use that jingle?): SpongeBob SquarePants has been picked up for a 13-episode sixth season, with all original voice-cast members set to... read more be the first to leave a comment
At the Movies: Fey and Poehler, Together Again | Today's News: Our Take | 9/27/2006
Per Variety, Tina Fey (who just yesterday during a 30 Rock conference call was saying how busy she now is) and SNL-WU sidekick Amy Poehler will costar in Baby Mama, a comedy about a career woman who hires a surrogate mother to bear her child.... Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon are in final talks to star in Tsotsi director Gavin Hood's Rendition, about a CIA analyst who witnesses something he shouldn't have.... Jim Caviezel will star in Outlander, a sci-fi adventure pic about a man from... read more be the first to leave a comment