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A new Saturday Night Live host has been announced, and it’s (now, say this in your best Oprah voice) Maya Rudollllllllllllph! On Feb. 18, the Up All Night star is coming home to Studio 8H, where she starred as a regular cast member from 2000 to 2007. Two awesome things about this news: 1) Rudolph, who also starred in the acclaimed Away We Go in 2009, is now established enough in Hollywood to be able to return as host, and 2) That Saturday Night Live will be able to welcome back one of its most talented female alums. And that’s...

We will see this skit next weekend, yes? Saturday night live Producer Lorne Michaels won’t just make fun of Republican Newt’s divorces but will joke about the recently revealed 18 month long affair President Kennedy had with 19 year old White House Intern Mimi Alford, right? I mean it’s just comedy folks, and politicians personal lives are fair game after all when a good laugh is needed. And drugs always add to good comedy scenes on Saturday Night Live so maybe they could parody the story about JFK “where he coerced her [the intern] to try the drug poppers.” Or,...

Victoria Jackson doesn't want to meet at her house. "The Nation of Islam wants to kill me," she explains apologetically in her inimitable shrill voice. Instead, she picks up a reporter at a Miami-area strip mall. Her weathered Honda Civic is adorned with "Nobama," Marco Rubio, and Tea Party bumper stickers, and inside, it smells like it's been fumigated with sweet incense. She hurtles through intersections and down side streets, holding a Flip cam to her face with her left hand. Steering with elbows and the occasional pinkie, she opens a Bible inscribed with her name and quotes Scripture. Then...

Victoria Jackson hurtles through intersections and down side streets while using her left hand to hold a Flip cam to her face. The inside of her car ­— a weathered Honda Civic with "Nobama," Marco Rubio, and Tea Party bumper stickers — smells like it's been fumigated with sweet incense. Steering with elbows and the occasional pinkie, she opens a Bible inscribed with her name and quotes scripture in her inimitable high-pitched voice. Then she turns the camera on a reporter riding shotgun. She suspects he's a socialist. "Don't you think that some people are on welfare from cradle to...

Former "Saturday Night Live" comic Victoria Jackson is convinced the Muslim Brotherhood is focused on bringing down the U.S. Government, from the inside. During the Dec. 20 episode of her web talk show "Politichicks," Jackson says, "The Muslim Brotherhood is controlling all of the Middle East...And they are now in all of our highest positions, including the President." Jackson says the Muslims are engaged in a "Civilization Jihad...where they creep into a society and they're using us against ourselves." She says her information comes from a meeting with former FBI agent John Guandolo and Maj. Stephen Coughlin. "I saw pictures...

Ah, 1995. Bill Clinton was president, Newt Gingrich was the House's feisty new speaker, and Chris Farley was still alive. At this April 5 meeting of the House Republican Conference, John Boehner introduced Gingrich, only to have Farley appear from the wings and present a last-minute agenda to round out the new Republican Congress's first 100 days in power. Saturday Night Live currently has Bobby Moynihan playing Gingrich in its debate spoofs, but there's something about Farley that oddly befits the former speaker. Gingrich fancies himself such a serious intellectual that there's almost no way to parody his persona, only...

I don't watch SNL much anymore but saw this skit and laughed pretty hard. SNL taking on Al Sharpton and making fun of his talk show. RESIST WE MUCH!

When the going gets tough, Alec Baldwin goes to “Saturday Night Live.” The “30 Rock” funnyman, who was kicked off an American Airlines flight last Tuesday for refusing to turn off his cell phone while playing the game Words With Friends, had a few words to share with his SNL friends – and fans. Dressed as pilot Captain Steve Rogers, Baldwin joined Seth Myers for SNL’s Weekend Update to extend a heartfelt apology for the incident to, well, himself. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/alec-baldwin-surprise-appearance-saturday-night-live-spoof-american-airlines-tantrum-article-1.989943#ixzz1gDTYYbrH

(Feeling I needed a link as proof) I caught the end of my overnight recording on SNL and saw Jason Segel thank at the end John Huntstman. The report is Huntsman appeared on Weekend Update trying to make progress in New Hampshire. The segment may be available soon. He has no chance , but his daughters are certainly lovely women.

NEW YORK (AP) — On "Saturday Night Live," even the devil was offended by the Penn State child sex abuse scandal. "SNL" cast member Jason Sudeikis reprised his role as Satan, appearing with red horns and pitchfork. The devil was informed by "Weekend Update" host Seth Meyers of sex charges against a former defensive coordinator and allegations that university officials failed to report the abuse. Even he was disturbed by the news. Addressing Penn State students who protested football coach Joe Paterno's firing, the devil spoke directly into the camera, asking, "Do you know how bad that made you look?"...

I'm surprised this SNL sexual harassment PSA parody has not yet resurfaced, given the current Cain news. It's hilarious:

Your humble correspondent will be watching Saturday Night Live this evening with great interest. Why? Because despite the Occupy Wall Street protests taking place at Zuccotti Park just blocks away from the studio for over a month, SNL has had only one indirect sketch on that situation despite the overwhelming comedy gold being offered up. Yes, last week SNL had a sketch about Mayor Michael Bloomberg reacting to the OWS protests but it was more of a dig at the mayor than anything else. What makes this really strange is that OWS protests are constantly delivering up an hilarious comedy...

Ben & Jerry's latest ice cream creation -- "Schweddy Balls" -- doesn't agree with the tastes of at least one national conservative group. "The vulgar new flavor has turned something as innocent as ice cream into something repulsive," read a statement released by One Million Moms, a division of the Mississippi-based American Family Association. "Not exactly what you want a child asking for at the supermarket."

Saturday Night Live opened this week’s show with a parody of CNN’s The Situation Room, with Jason Sudeikis doing a dead-on impression of Wolf Blitzer reporting on an absurdist version of President Obama’s speech in El Paso this week. Lampooning criticism of the President’s lone, low-key mention of Osama bin Laden’s killing, Fred Armisen delivered an over-the-top Obama smoking, trash-talking, and basically letting it all hang out. The President has predictably come under fire for mentioning bin Laden’s killing during a speech at a DNC event in El Paso, Texas. During the speech, someone in the crowd shouted, “Thank...

A week after picking apart many of the undeclared Republican presidential candidates (including one, Newt Gingrich, who became a declared candidate this week) "Saturday Night Live" turned its attention to President Barack Obama and his perceived showboating over the killing of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Conservatives have frequently criticized the president over perceived showboating about bin Laden's death. Radio host Rush Limbaugh said Obama used the words "I," "me" and "my" too much in his first public comments after bin Laden's killing. Then, in follow-up programs, Limbaugh attacked Obama's subsequent public appearances, including one near the Mexican border in...

NBC's Tina Fey guest-hosted "Saturday Night Live" last evening, and viewers could hardly be surprised her network took the opportunity to once again use her to bash former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. In a mock Republican presidential candidates debate, before depicting Palin as an idiot that doesn't fully understand English, Fey did manage to take a humorous swipe at the soon to be exiting CBS "Evening News" host saying, "I want to acknowledge that this week we finally vanquished one of the world's great villains, and I for one am thrilled to say good riddance to Katie Couric" (video follows...

A friend and I watched the latest Republican debate [yesterday], and he said that if Herman Cain were elected President that he would be our first black President. This started a conversation on FaceBook which led to me compiling some prior humorous videos before Obama was elected. Very Funny!

Tina Fey may have been the darling of the left for her Emmy-winning impersonations of Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night Live.” But the comedic actress-director is now expressing regrets about her Palin pokes in her new book, “Bossypants.” As a matter of fact, Fey suspects that mimicking the former Alaska governor may have hurt the ratings of her NBC sitcom, “30 Rock.” “Some may argue that exploiting Governor Palin and her family helped bring attention to my low-rated TV show,” Fey writes in an excerpt published in USA Today. “I am proud to say you are wrong. My TV show...

Comedian Victoria Jackson, who attended this years Conservative Political Action Conference, made headlines over the weekend for her Friday column onWorldNetDaily.com, “The Muslims Next Door,” in which she criticized the television program “Glee” for continuously promoting a socially liberal lifestyle. The latest episode of “Glee” included comedian Kathy Griffin playing a tea party-inspired character and two gay male students sharing a much-anticipated kiss.

In the tradition of lampooning everything, Conservative SNL attacked Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann’s response to the President’s State of the Union Address last Saturday night. SNL represented that Congresswoman Bachmann’s core message was not properly conveyed. But it was. Those who were listening to the case that Rep. Bachmann presented got a clear picture of the duplicitous nature of the Barry Hussein Soetoro administration, that is why SNL felt the need for a second attempt to discredit the message.(see 4:11min video)

At least someone's laughing at the state of our economy. On SNL this weekend, the hilarious opening skit used the G20 summit, gold, and US debt, and Glenn Beck for a laugh. Glenn Beck "doesn't know what he's talking about." China wants to buy gold, but all of its assets are tied up in US treasuries. And Obama is getting tired of Hu Jintao asking him to "do sex to him" with the lights off - not on. It's great - watch it below. Where did this all start? At the G20 summit, where Obama and Hu Jintao did not...

SNL opened last night with a sketch spoofing President Obama (Fred Armisen) making a campaign stop in Nevada to stump for a struggling Harry Reid (Paul Brittain). After a glowing introduction from Obama, Reid asks him if he'd mind if he distanced himself from the President. "Do what you have to do, Harry, I've got your back," says Obama. Whereupon Reid reveals that he is actually a Birther. “I don’t understand why, if you were born in this country, you won’t just show us your birth certificate. I mean is that too much to ask?” “You’re right!” Says Obama to...

The ongoing issue of President Obama's refusal to release his long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate got a comedic jolt in the arm last night during the opening sketch of "Saturday Night Live," which featured a call for Obama to finally make it public. The NBC program premiered a skit in which Obama, portrayed by comedian Fred Armisen, was campaigning in Las Vegas this weekend for Sen. Harry Reid, played by Paul Brittain. "Neither of us is very popular in this state," Reid confided in the president before addressing a crowd of supporters in the parody. "I thought I was," responded Obama....

Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday pushed backed against those who accuse the Justice Department of enforcing civil rights laws based on race, saying people need to just "look at the facts." "The notion that we are enforcing any civil rights laws -- voting or others -- on the basis of race, ethnicity or gender is simply false," Holder said. For more than a year, Republicans and others have been questioning why the Obama administration reversed course on a federal lawsuit against two members of the New Black Panther Party, who were videotaped outside a

Three clips for you from last night’s season premiere, although only one is worth watching. The O’Donnell skit is the “newsworthy” bit but the gags are so predictable that you might as well skip it. How predictable? Put it this way: At one point, they actually have her in a witch’s hat riding a broom. So perfunctory is it, in fact, that I wonder if they were forced to do something like this because all the good comic material had already been mined while they were on summer hiatus. See, e.g., this absurd mock ad about the Delaware race created...

DOVER, Del. — With the new season of "Saturday Night Live" comes a fresh batch of political satire — and Delaware Senate hopeful Christine O'Donnell is the first target. The Republican candidate's past statements were fodder for the opening sketch on Saturday night's broadcast on NBC.

Martin Short's wife, Nancy Dolman, has died at the age of 58. The pair had been married for 30 years. News of Dolman's passing sent Web searches soaring for her biography, photos, and cause of death. E! Online reports that Dolman had been battling cancer for three years. RadarOnline.com reports that "there will be no funeral service for the actor's wife per her own wishes." Short and Dolman met while working together on a Canadian production of the musical "Godspell" in the 1970s. A blog dedicated to the musical's production hosts Dolman's original biography from the program. According to The...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Al Franken apologized Thursday for being rude to Sen. Mitch McConnell as the Senate's top Republican was winding up a solemn debate on the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Franken, a liberal Democrat from Minnesota, was presiding over the Senate as McConnell explained his opposition to President Barack Obama's high-court nominee. A Senate GOP aide said Franken made theatrical gestures and whispered under his breath as the Kentucky senator spoke. It was distracting enough that McConnell went up to the former comedian afterward and said, "This isn't 'Saturday Night Live,' Al."

Saturdays Night Live ran a repeat yesterday of one of their most successful skits this year. The reminder of the joint press-conference of President Obama and the China’s Dear Leader comes at the right time. China just reduced its holdings of US Treasury debt. Is it a political move or a sound investing strategy? I am afraid it is the second. While President Obama continues to campaign on his Health Care reform, nobody is buying its miracle effect on the deficit anymore. The Congressional Budget Office finally revealed the whole picture and the grim true came to live: ObamaCare...

Help a freeper get John Goodman to play Elena Kagan on SNL. He played Linda Tripp 6 times. This would be easy. All he would need would be a string of pearls.

Betty White has been touted as having the best T.V. appearance in history by all the major networks. The always funny and politically accurate Saturday Night Live stated that 88 year old Betty White gave a ground breaking performance Saturday night by actually participating in a comedy skit with a BLACK actor. Unnamed and anonymous sources within the NBC broadcast family stated that such ground breaking performances would only have been a dream prior to President Obama's messages of equality and racial harmony given during the course of his Historic Presidency. It was noted by NBC that this message had...

Below are links to her monologue and the skits she was in: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/betty-white-monologue/1226076/ http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/joyologist-web-exclusive/1226064/ http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/scared-straight/1226061/ http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/census/1226117/ http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/bronx-beat/1226118/ http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/update-sally-omalley-and-dotty-odonaghan/1226059/ http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/the-manuel-ortiz-show/1226077/ http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/lawrence-welk-cold-open/1226116/ http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/npr/1226057/

Sen. Al Franken's Saturday Night Live buddies from days past are teaming up to throw him a fundraiser in Los Angeles this weekend. Dan Aykroyd and his wife Donna are hosting a star-studded affair at the House of Blues on Sunset Blvd. Friday evening. Former SNL comics Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon are slated to make guest appearances. Proceeds from the cocktail and dinner reception will go to "Franken MVPs," a new joint fundraising political action committee which benefits Franken's campaign and leadership PACs. Guests can pay a minimum of $2,400 per person to be a "cast member," or pitch...

The public employee unions do not realize the forces they have unleashed with their greed. Openly boasting of their relationship with Obama as they are protected from the recession as no other Americans, recipients of lavish benefits unthinkable in the private sector, they have stirred deep resentment among the American public, a phenomenon which can only grow as taxes rise. It has gotten to the point where even Saturday Night Live mocks the overpaid, underperforming public employee stereotype. To be sure there are dedicated, brave, and hard-working employees of government. But slackers don't get culled out, and instead are indulged...

Sad but true!

Funny because it is true.

Chris Cassone, the lead singer, will be appearing on the Washington Mall tonight at 7:00 PM.

About a month ago I heard that Tina Fey was going to host the “Saturday Night Live” and reprise her role of Sarah Palin, my first though was how dumb and foolish and knew before it was going to air that it would fail to generate the same reaction of mockery and derision as it did in 2008 whether it was funny or not, because mockery is easy when things are not going so well for those being targeted, when Republicans are running away from the (R) behind their names, when it’s ‘Bush this, Bush that’, when an economic crash...

An army of 8-year-old girls — Canadian pop idol Justin Bieber's target audience — woke up as groggy and red-eyed today as Lindsay Lohan does on every Sunday evening. Bieber made a musical appearance (if you want to call it that) on Saturday Night Live, which instantly lowered the average age of a viewer of Lorne Michaels' gasping franchise by 30 years. In the wake of Bieber's showing — which include the traditional two songs from the musical guest and a few skits — many are wondering when the 16-year-old money making machine will take on full SNL hosting duties...

http://www.hulu.com/watch/141553/saturday-night-live-obama-census-cold-open#x-4,cClips,1,0

The Sarah Palin Network- on SNL

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After weeks of speculation, octogenarian actress and "Golden Girl" Betty White is taking her motherly brand of humor to sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live," the show's producers said on Thursday. White, 88, is a six-time winner of the top U.S. television awards, the Emmys, who has been a TV star going back to the 1950s. She has frequented TV game shows such as "Match Game" and "Password," and was a guest star on the popular "Mary Tyler Moore" show in the 1970s playing TV personality Sue Ann Nivens. She increased her popularity portraying the absent-minded...

"Former "Saturday Night Live" star Victoria Jackson has released a YouTube video that is on the verge of going viral that warns the American public, "There's a communist living in the White House." The video, which already has collected tens of thousands of views: (SLICE) She cites the socialist leanings of President Obama's grandparents, communist leanings of his mother, the Marxist professors he had in college and his own links to the teachings of Saul Alinsky while related news clips – some from WND – flash on the screen. "He told Joe the Plumber, 'Spread the wealth,' which is a...

The Pasadena Tea Party Patriots are proud to present Victoria Jackson (SNL, Tonight Show) and Basil Hoffman (Seinfeld, Milagro Beanfield Wars) in an original spoof of the Republican most loved by the cast of "The View."

Sen.-elect Scott Brown's looks are giving "Saturday Night Live" plenty of fodder for political comedy. In a skit broadcast on Saturday night, "SNL" cast members portraying top Democrats sit in a private meeting as the Republican (played by host Jon Hamm) stumbles into the room a few times. Each Democrat has a quick fantasy of Brown, who delivers a wink and a smile before he leaves the room. "Mama like!" says Nancy Pelosi. "I said, Obama like. I like Obama!" In Barney Frank's fantasy, Brown dances in construction boots and denim shorts while saying "I'm about to filibust out of...

SNL makes fun of the SOTU address, taking swipes at the many blame games happening in DC right now. From Martha Coakley’s defeat to blaming Republicans super minority to Bush making a mess of the White House. See Video Here

A week and a half after his election, Scott Brown sketch has already made it to SNL, this has a wandering Brown walking into Harry Reid's office while he's meeting with Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank and Robert Byrd, (Video)

Am I the only one who thinks that Saturday Night Live has become a very unfunny show? Charles Barkley is reading his script in a monotone voice and even the audience is having trouble applauding. The opening monolog was stupid too. Don't they try to get good writers anymore? Lorne must be cringing...

Don't Buy Stuff You Can't Afford http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdcmMOtApJ8