Part Back Street Boy facial hair, part boy-band neo-soul croon, but you just can't beat the holiday sentiment involved in SNL's Digital Short this weekend. (Though gift givers, if your "digital" is too short that box will never stay put!)... CONTINUE READING NEW ANDY SAMBERG AND JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE VIDEO - "DICK IN A BOX"»
Posted on December 18, 2006 in (58 comments)
Tags: Fool's Gold | Foreign Born | Justin Timberlake | Saturday Night Live | Young Widows
Last weekend's SNL was a mixed bag (per usual, unless Alec Baldwin's hosting), but we got a chuckle out of this Scooby Doo styled send-up of mystery-solving kids, hot on the case of trying to figure out what the fuck... CONTINUE READING DIDDY KIDDIES»
Posted on December 13, 2006 in (8 comments)
Tags: Diddy | Saturday Night Live
Pitchfork recently reunited two old friends (SNL cast member Fred Armisen and SNL hopeful Chan Marshall) for a conversation about the NBA, about LA, and all with a little PDA (that is, the verbal, non-physical, "I love what you do"... CONTINUE READING CHAN AND ARMISEN DO DRINKS IN SOHO»
Posted on November 13, 2006 (7 comments)
Tags: Cat Power | Fred Armisen | Saturday Night Live
If you didn't Tivo last night's Saturday Night Live, you actually missed 45 minutes of very entertaining late-night TV! 60 minutes if you're a Christina Aguilera fan! Host Alec Baldwin was joined by 30 Rock co-stars Tina Fey and Tracy... CONTINUE READING "BOBBY MCFERRIN RAPED MY GRANDMOTHER"»
Posted on November 12, 2006 (22 comments)
Tags: Britney Spears | Kevin Federline | Paul McCartney | Saturday Night Live | The Beatles
Just one week after the lamest SNL episode in 15 years (give or take) our favorite Kazah recording artist injected some life into Saturday Night. The setup: sweeping budget cuts force Lorne Michaels to sell the first five minutes of... CONTINUE READING BORAT ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE»
Posted on October 30, 2006 (19 comments)
Tags: Borat | Saturday Night Live
Soon the banners will fly at half-mast for the once-relevant rock institution on Bowery, as legal complications are forcing its doors to close -- at least, they say, "until we re-open again probably in Las Vegas." This Sunday is the... CONTINUE READING HELP THEM SEE PATTI AT CBGB»
Posted on October 10, 2006 in (4 comments)
Tags: Saturday Night Live
The Killers rolled into 30 Rock last night as musical guests for a painfully unfunny SNL season premiere. On "When You Were Young," Brandon brought his Sam's Town sensibility to indie-nerd chic, working that plantation tie and thick frames. For... CONTINUE READING KILLERS ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE»
Posted on October 1, 2006 (62 comments)
Tags: Saturday Night Live | The Killers
The 9/30 premiere of Saturday Night Live will feature MySpace.com's Dane Cook, who hosted nine months ago and is the most popular stand-up (Billboard highest-charting comedy CD in 25 years) with no fans we've ever met. Killers will be the... CONTINUE READING KILLERS, NOT HORATIO SANZ, ON SNL PREMIERE»
Posted on September 20, 2006 (35 comments)
Tags: Saturday Night Live | The Killers | The Wrens
NY Times talks to the now mostly sober ("seven drinks in seven months") Cat Power:Another day, another fifth of Scotch. And that wasn’t all. Chan Marshall said her mornings began with a minibar’s worth of Jack Daniel’s, Glenlivet and Crown... CONTINUE READING CAT POWER SOBERS UP»
Posted on September 20, 2006 (44 comments)
Tags: Cat Power | Saturday Night Live
Stereogum listens so you don't have to. For Love Songs (out 9/12), ex-NKOTB Jordan Knight puts has-been spin on Phil Collins ("One More Night"), Wham! ("Careless Whisper"), and Foreigner ("Waiting For a Girl Like You"). You can stream that last... CONTINUE READING ATTACK OF THE EIGHTIES COVER SONGS»
Posted on August 14, 2006 (11 comments)
Tags: Beirut | Clay Aiken | Dead Or Alive | Fleet Foxes | George Michael | Jessica Simpson | Jordan Knight | Saturday Night Live | Wham!
WHAT? Stereogum's posting about Nelly Furtado? I know, I wouldn't have expected it either. I hated her like-a-bird ways, until I heard the infectious "Promiscuous" and "Maneater." Here are both peformances from SNL: [Removed By YouTube] A) She's sexy and... CONTINUE READING NELLY FURTADO ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE»
Posted on May 22, 2006 in (54 comments)
Tags: Saturday Night Live
Posse: (What you want Natalie?) Portman: To drink and fight! Posse: (What you need Natalie?) Portman: To fuck all night! Kids who look up to her, Nat raps, "can suck my dick!" Even Lazy Sunday haters will love Saturday... CONTINUE READING NATALIE PORTMAN RAPS: AN SNL DIGITAL SHORT»
Posted on March 5, 2006 (116 comments)
Tags: Saturday Night Live
Last night's Steve Martin intro was priceless, but I was really surprised how much I like this new Prince song, "Fury." Watch below, and if you've got MP3 send our way. Later in the show Fred Armisen did his own... SNL'">CONTINUE READING PRINCE BRINGS "FURY" TO SNL»
Posted on February 5, 2006 in , (61 comments)
Tags: Prince | Saturday Night Live
Just a reminder that Jon Pareles' favorite band, Death Cab For Cutie, and Lindsay Lohan's least favorite actress, Scarlett Johansson, are on Saturday Night Live tonight. We're gonna DVR, but if something exciting happens (e.g., Gibbard lip-synchs, S. Jo parodies... CONTINUE READING DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, SCARLETT JOHANSSON LIVE FROM NEW YORK»
Posted on January 14, 2006 (52 comments)
Tags: Jon Pareles | Saturday Night Live | Scarlett Johansson
Lohan '07 visited her former self during the opening monologue of a delightfully racist SNL season finale. "Get some sleep ... drink some water ... unless you want this to be your future." Coldplay played "Speed Of Sound" (as heard... CONTINUE READING LINDSAY LOHAN 2007»
Posted on May 22, 2005 (48 comments)
Tags: Adam Levine | Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live has given drummers a bad rap lately, what with Chris Fox sabotaging Ashlee Simpson's career and Paul Giamati revealing that drummers are douchebags because they steal wives [e.g., Fred Armisen (ex-Trenchmouth)]. Not sure what SNL has against... CONTINUE READING FELL IN LOVE WITH A DRUMMER»
Posted on February 9, 2005 (36 comments)
Tags: Saturday Night Live
"Comfortable and confident" lip-syncher Ashlee was sabotaged on live TV! Someone encode that shit please. ASHLEEGATE UPDATE: Watch the incident and the apology (Windows Media, via College Humor). You may now dissect in Zapruder-like detail. ANOTHER UPDATE: Somewhere on... CONTINUE READING ASHLEE SIMPSON'S SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE DISASTER»
Posted on October 24, 2004 (753 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | Ashlee Simpson | Saturday Night Live
I'm hearing a lot of "Where'd that Hilary Duff photo go?" It was a placeholder on this site last week. I found it at collegehumor.com. You guys are perverts. And Stereogum is an enabler. (How's that for a googlism?) Click.... CONTINUE READING DUFF VS. LOHAN ROUND ?»
Posted on June 2, 2004 in (146 comments)
Tags: Hilary Duff | Lindsay Lohan | Saturday Night Live
So much Fred Armisen buzz these days. I know Lindsay and Jen will appreciate this... SNL's Fear Factor Junior spoof premiered last weekend. Fred did a spot-on impression of Joe Rogan's emotionless monotone and the kids' facial expressions were hilarious.... CONTINUE READING FRED ARMISEN IN ... FEAR FACTOR JUNIOR!»
Posted on April 7, 2004 (21 comments)
Tags: Saturday Night Live
A night out with Amy Poehler. Tina Fey gossip site hottness.... CONTINUE READING SNL BABES WATCH»
Posted on April 4, 2004 (2 comments)
Tags: Saturday Night Live
'Cause everyone seemed to love them so much... I spoke to Ben and he agreed Stereogum.com should sell the t-shirts for $37.50 each (just like Urban Outfitters). You can pay me through Pay Pal. 20% of the money goes... CONTINUE READING BEN AFFLECK SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE SHIRTS»
Posted on March 15, 2004 (3 comments)
Tags: Saturday Night Live
A knock is heard off-camera. Jimmy Fallon: [opening door] Come on in! It's Peter Jackson and Elijah Wood! Elijah Wood (Rachel Dratch) enters with Peter Jackson (Horatio Sanz), carrying a grocery bag full of Oscar awards. Peter Jackson: Hello, Jimmy!... CONTINUE READING RACHEL DRATCH IS THE NEW ELIJAH WOOD»
Posted on March 12, 2004 (4 comments)
Tags: Saturday Night Live
BBC reports: Post-punkers The Alarm (who you may have seen recently on VH1's Bands Reunited) have scored a top 30 UK chart hit - with a stunt disguising themselves as an unknown younger group. Recording under the pseudonym The Poppyfields,... CONTINUE READING THE ALARM UNMASKED»
Posted on February 20, 2004 (8 comments)
Tags: Mad Men | Saturday Night Live
Thanks everyone for your well wishes. My elaborate engagement plan went off without a hitch Friday night, and later on we had a great dinner at Daniel. In a tent! The buzz doesn't stop for special occassions though, so here's... CONTINUE READING LOVE HANGOVER EDITION»
Posted on February 17, 2004 (3 comments)
Tags: Leonard Cohen | Mad Men | Mary J. Blige | Saturday Night Live
Newsweek talks to Al Franken about his new show... Do you have a date or a name yet for the show? I don’t have a date yet. That might be good to know, huh? [laughs] But for the name, I’m... CONTINUE READING SNL POLITICOS»
Posted on January 21, 2004 (6 comments)
Tags: Saturday Night Live