As the official host it was Paul Rudd's job to undress for Andy Samberg, but JT stopped by this weekend's SNL too, and went bottomless as one of Beyoncé's backup dancers. He's also bringing turkey back.... CONTINUE READING JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE STEALS THE SPOTLIGHT ON SNL»
Posted on November 17, 2008 in Video (4 comments)
Tags: Justin Timberlake | Paul Rudd | Saturday Night Live
The Killers performed "Human" and "Spaceman" on SNL this past weekend. It turns out they also performed some songs off-the-air, which is documented in this clip, wherein Fred Armisen explains the situation and we spot a very gracious Brandon Flowers... CONTINUE READING THE KILLERS' DAY & AGE ALBUM ART»
Posted on October 9, 2008 in Album Art (45 comments)
Tags: Amy Poehler | Andy Samberg | Fred Armisen | Saturday Night Live | The Killers
Both. But Whatever you think of the Killers, one thing is inarguable: Brandon Flowers despises conventional torso-wear. The band returned to Studio 8H looking trim and with plumage on their shoulder pads (well Brandon did anyway) to perform two from... CONTINUE READING THE KILLERS ON SNL: ARE THEY "HUMAN" OR ARE THEY "SPACEMAN" »
Posted on October 6, 2008 in Video (43 comments)
Tags: Andy Samberg | Kristin Wiig | Saturday Night Live | The Killers
Weezy added another stat to his career year this weekend as musical guest for the season premiere of Saturday Night Live. Unfortunately he didn't do much to bring excitement to an episode that really could have used it, Palin/Clinton bit... CONTINUE READING LIL WAYNE BRINGS HIS AUTOTUNER TO SNL»
Posted on September 15, 2008 in Video (25 comments)
Tags: Lil Wayne | Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live's 33rd season will get a zeitgeisty premiere with guests Dwayne Carter and Olympic hero Michael Phelps on 9/13. We're already cringing at the inevitable neck bling showdown sketch. (P.S. Congrats, John Mulaney!)... CONTINUE READING LIL WAYNE AND MICHAEL PHELPS TO KICK OFF SNL SEASON»
Posted on August 27, 2008 (4 comments)
Tags: John Mulaney | Lil Wayne | Michael Phelps | Saturday Night Live
Take our ink-stained hands and join us at the OldStand, where Jon McMillan goes to remind everyone what an honest-to-goodness music magazine is supposed to look like. Lots of Huey Lewis (and the News) news lately, so let's go back... CONTINUE READING OLDSTAND: ROLLING STONE, SEPTEMBER 13, 1984»
Posted on August 4, 2008 in OldStand (13 comments)
Tags: Footloose | Huey Lewis | Saturday Night Live
This weekend's MacGruber-friendly Saturday Night Live episode featured Shia The Motherfucking Beef and musical guest My Morning Jacket. Jim James probably didn't want to scare America and so he kept "Highly Suspicious" on the sidelines. Instead MMJ catered to the... SNL'">CONTINUE READING MY MORNING JACKET BRING THEIR "AMAZED," "EVIL URGES" TO SNL»
Posted on May 12, 2008 in Video (15 comments)
Tags: Amy Poehler | Andy Samberg | Fred Armisen | Jean K. Jean | Keenan Thompson | Kristen Wiig | My Morning Jacket | Saturday Night Live | Shia LeBeouf
Saturday night's Live featured Ashton Kutcher as host, Ashton Kutcher in one too many Cool Pix commercials, and Gnarls Barkley as musical guest. We never got around to posting Gnarls's show at Highline Ballroom with Santogold last Thursday, maybe because... SNL, Played Highline Last Thursday (With Santogold)'">CONTINUE READING GNARLS DO "RUN" ON SNL, PLAYED HIGHLINE LAST THURSDAY (WITH SANTOGOLD)»
Posted on April 14, 2008 in Concert, Video (13 comments)
Tags: Gnarls Barkley | Santogold | Saturday Night Live
Detroit Octane, aka writer, actor, and Adult Swim-er Jon Glaser and friends, have penned a ridiculously catchy (and just ridiculous) campaign tune for Barack Obama (he's the new black). It's set to Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresistible." We'd say Jon Glaser... CONTINUE READING BARACK OBAMA IS BARACK OBAMA-SISTIBLE!»
Posted on March 19, 2008 in Video (6 comments)
Tags: Barack Obama | Jon Glaser | Robert Palmer | Saturday Night Live | Tracy Morgan
We know you probably didn't watch the Rock 'N' Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony last night. So here's a quick run down of what you missed:Gamble & Huff, Little Walter, The Ventures, Leonard Cohen, Madonna, and John Mellencamp... CONTINUE READING SCENES FROM THE ROCK 'N' ROLL HALL OF FAME 2008 INDUCTION CEREMONY»
Posted on March 11, 2008 (29 comments)
Tags: Billy Joel | Casey Wilson | Chevy Chase | Christy Turlington | Damien Rice | Gamble And Huff | Iggy Pop | Joan Jett | John Mellencamp | Justin Timberlake | Leonard Cohen | Madonna | Michael J. Fox | Patti Labelle | Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame | Saturday Night Live | Seth Myers | The Dave Clark 5 | The Stooges | The Ventures | Tom Hanks
Yesterday, NY Times told us three-fourths-Brooklyn group Vampire Weekend is the breakout indie success of the year. Today, RedLasso clips their performance on last night's thoroughly dismal episode of Saturday Night Live. Below, "A-Punk" and "M79" from the condom endorsing... CONTINUE READING VAMPIRE WEEKEND ON SNL»
Posted on March 9, 2008 in Video (88 comments)
Tags: Amy Adams | Saturday Night Live | Vampire Weekend
Sudekis, Amy Adams, Vampire Weekend ... this promo is pretty much cute overload. Here's your TiVO alert, indie rock. ... CONTINUE READING GET READY FOR VAMPIRE WEEKEND, AMERICA»
Posted on March 7, 2008 (20 comments)
Tags: Saturday Night Live | Vampire Weekend
The revolving doors at 30 Rock gave passage this weekend to a varied set of Saturday Night Live guests: pro-Obama rockers Wilco, pro-Clinton politician Hillary Clinton, and pro-lesbian thespian Ellen Page. And after all that, it was a pretty weak... CONTINUE READING WILCO, JUNO, HILLARY VISIT SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE»
Posted on March 3, 2008 in Video (13 comments)
Tags: Diablo Cody | Ellen Page | Hillary Clinton | Saturday Night Live | Wilco
Back from the writers' strike with a backlog of Daniel Plainview and Hillary Clinton jokes, Saturday Night Live returned this weekend brandishing Tina Fey, a Steve Martin cameo, and huge prosthetic Obama ears. Obviously musical guest Carrie Underwood wasn't going... CONTINUE READING SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE RETURNS WITH ROCK OF LOVE PARODY, ARMISEN AS OBAMA»
Posted on February 25, 2008 in Video (14 comments)
Tags: Amy Poehler | Barack Obama | Brett Michaels | Fred Armisen | Jason Sudeikis | Saturday Night Live
This weekend, amid the writer's strike, the SNL cast performed in Chelsea in the Upright Citizens Brigade theater to an audience of less than 200 peeps, though their numbers included Julian Casablancas, Jon Glaser, Will Arnett, and John Krasinski. Guests... CONTINUE READING SNL LIVE @ UCB WITH MICHAEL CERA, YO LA TENGO»
Posted on November 19, 2007 (9 comments)
Tags: Andy Samberg | Fred Armisen | Michael Cera | Norah Jones | Saturday Night Live | Yo La Tengo
At this point we've seen the Feist-y iPod Nano commercial enough times that even a parody of it tests our patience. That, and this Mad TV parody's kinda dumb (like Mad TV). Caveats aside, it does give us a taste... CONTINUE READING MAD TV PARODIES IPOD, SNL PARODIES IPHONE»
Posted on November 13, 2007 in Video (15 comments)
Tags: Apple | Feist | Mad TV | Saturday Night Live
Wonder if newsman Brian had something to do with SNL's music guest casting Saturday night? Or maybe the 30 Rock crew watches Kimmel. Leslie joined NBC's prime time anchor Brian Williams on what may be the last Saturday Night Live... CONTINUE READING FEIST, BRIAN WILLIAMS, & OBAMA DO SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE»
Posted on November 5, 2007 in Video (15 comments)
Tags: Barack Obama | Brian Williams | Feist | Saturday Night Live
That headline's almost entirely true, too! Will and Erik really did play solo, at Music Hall Of Williamsburg and upstairs at Pianos, respectively; Craig was listed by his lonesome, but turned up with a backing band and a fan/friend we're... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM DOES CMJ: CRAIG WEDREN, ERIK FRIEDLANDER & WILL SHEFF PLAY SOLO AT SATURDAY DAY SHOWS»
Posted on October 22, 2007 in Concert (1 comments)
Tags: Amy Miles | Amy Poehler | CMJ | Craig Wedren | Erik Friedlander | Okkervil River | Saturday Night Live
This week's SNL got off to a rocky start when a cross-eyed and painful-to-watch Ritchie Sambora lost his next-to-only line during host Jon Bon Jovi's monologue (Sambora smiling blankly, mouthing "Oh shit, I lost it." To his credit, intended or... CONTINUE READING FOO FIGHTERS, JON BON JOVI GET PUNCHED JUST BEFORE EATING (AND BJöRK & CHARLES BARKLEY DO ICONOCLASTS)»
Posted on October 15, 2007 (20 comments)
Tags: Andy Samberg | Björk | Bon Jovi | Foo Fighters | Pat Smear | Saturday Night Live
Yes, we instantly fell in love with Andy Samberg's latest viral digi short "Iran So Far" while watching it in our hotel rooms after Brandon's wedding a few weekends ago (congrats, B!). Our love so blinding (deafining?) that we missed... CONTINUE READING ANDY SAMBERG TALKS "IRAN SO FAR" & APHEX TWIN»
Posted on October 12, 2007 (22 comments)
Tags: Andy Samberg | Aphex Twin | Saturday Night Live
SNL will probably take a few cracks to top last week's Kanye cameoing fun, though the Seth Rogen/Spoon ep had its moments. Like Seth and Kristin Wiig's annoying-child cover of Winehouse's "Rehab." And every moment of the Douchebag Of The... CONTINUE READING SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE SEES SPOON GO GA GA GA GA GA, PRESENTS KEVIN FEDERLINE'S PARENTING TIPS»
Posted on October 8, 2007 in Video (18 comments)
Tags: Andy Samberg | Aphex Twin | Kevin Federline | Saturday Night Live | Spoon
Clearly, this couldn't wait 'til Monday. Mr. West gamely mocks his much YouTube'd award show outbursts on Saturday Night Live's Lebron James-hosted season premiere... "It got champagne in it!" After the jump, the live performance of "Champion" ending with a... CONTINUE READING KANYE MOCKS HIMSELF, FREESTYLES ON SNL (AND "IRAN SO FAR" DIGITAL SHORT)»
Posted on September 30, 2007 in Video (30 comments)
Tags: Adam Levine | Andy Samberg | Fred Armisen | Jake Gyllenhaal | Kanye West | Lebron James | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Maroon 5 | Saturday Night Live
Hope neither Andy nor Justin are packing too much heat; now they have to make room for some real hardware in that little box. The AP reports that "(Blank) In A Box" took home the Creative Arts Emmy (honoring technical... CONTINUE READING INSIDE ANDY SAMBERG & JT'S BOX: A DICK AND AN EMMY»
Posted on September 10, 2007 (8 comments)
Tags: Andy Samberg | Justin Timberlake | Saturday Night Live
It's true! As played by Kate Hudson and Will Ferrell, though, for this never-before-aired SNL sketch. Will offers up his hammy Neil imitation (which is a side-parting and a set of shades away from his take on Goulet), with a... CONTINUE READING LOST RECORDING OF A CHRISTINA AGUILERA/NEIL DIAMOND DUET»
Posted on July 17, 2007 in Video (11 comments)
Tags: Christina Aguilera | Kate Hudson | Neil Diamond | Saturday Night Live | Will Ferrell
Everywhere we looked Friday night was a mind explosion. The surreality of the scene at MTV studios was best captured by Aziz and Fred Armisen squaring off in a Guitar Hero challenge -- using the Times Square big screen as... CONTINUE READING THE NATIONAL @ THE HUMAN GIANT MTV MARATHON 5/19/07»
Posted on May 21, 2007 in Concert (23 comments)
Tags: Aziz Ansari | Bob Odenkirk | Human Giant | Michael Showalter | Morningwood | Nick Kroll | Paul Scheer | Rob Huebel | Rob Riggle | Saturday Night Live | The National
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