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All The Awesome Jokes Left Out Of Bridesmaids

8:51AM Brian Moylan | If you saw Bridesmaids you probably thought it was hysterical. Well, just think of how much funnier it could have been if they’d included Jon Hamm’s dirty sex positions, the descriptions of nasty smells, or the funny lines coming out of a little boy’s mouth. Just the rapid fire succession of all these outtakes will make your mind boggle. And you’ll probably laugh once or twice, too. More »
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Kristen Wiig And Johnny Depp Are America’s Biggest Movie Stars

1:20AM Richard Lawson | This weekend saw the continuing domination of one star and the crowning of a new one. That crown might have been taken from Paul Bettany, who didn’t have such a great weekend. More »
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Bridesmaids: Women Can Be Funny Too?

8:23AM Richard Lawson | Here’s a trailer for the Judd Apatow-produced comedy Bridesmaids, a movie that may finally solve that age-old debate about whether women, the ones with the vaginae, can be funny or not. Judging from this trailer, it looks like they can! More »
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All Good Things: Ryan Gosling Just Can’t Have A Normal Marriage

5:27AM Richard Lawson | Here’s a trailer for All Good Things, the long-delayed dramatic thriller based on the real-life story of Robert Durst, the troubled heir to a New York real estate fortune whose wife mysteriously disappeared in 1982. Geez, Gosling, another problem marriage? More »
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Katherine Heigl To Ruin All The Movies

1:42AM Richard Lawson | She aims to ruin every single one. Also today: Kristen Wiig is a movie star! A wonderful television program has been cancelled. A new Stephen King TV series is in the works. And an important NCIS update. More »
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Al Pacino, Robert De Niro Indistinguishable Even To Movie Directors

4:23PM Adrian Chen | Al Pacino steps into Robert De Niro’s Italian leather shoes. Amanda Bynes’ sex comedy. Judd Apatow forsakes the bromance for Kristen Wiig. Erector Sets’ movie adaptation is not a soft-core porn. The Trade Roundup just ate an entire frittata. More »
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The MacGruber Trailer Shockingly Doesn’t Suck

5:08AM Brian Moylan | The Saturday-Night-Live-skit-to-movie transition is a dicey proposition, but a MacGruber movie seemed an especially horrible idea. Then we actually laughed at the trailer! Fashioning three minutes of funny from two hours of unfunny isn’t that hard, so we’re not fully sold. More »

Kristen Wiig’s Steamy Night With Joe The Plumber An Internet Hoax!

6:17AM Seth | An internet report from a self-proclaimed “McCain strategist” claiming Joe the Plumber got busy with Kristin Wiig following the SNL afterparty—and also discussed becoming the next Bachelor with Ben Affleck’s agent, Patrick “Something”—is now looking more and more to be a hoax, hoisted upon a gullible and Wiig-hungry gossip nation. The report came from a man calling himself Martin Eisenstadt—the proprietor of his very own, very-hard-to-come-by website bearing that name—and was picked up by the likes of Slate before internet skeptics and lovers of Sue the Surprise-Loving Lady alike started poking holes in the story: More »

Your Newest ‘View’ Hot Topic: Kristen Wiig as Elisabeth Hasselbeck

2:58AM Kyle Buchanan | The moment we knew we’d plunged too far down the Barbara Walters-moderated rabbit hole that is The View came last night, and it came during Saturday Night Live. Our initial reaction to the show’s View spoof was not, “Oh, Kristen Wiig’s playing Elisabeth Hasselbeck!” or even, “Casey Wilson couldn’t do an impression of a single View co-host?” No, instead our visceral first take was, “Elisabeth would never wear that colour yellow!” In this case, the shame is spread all around: a healthy helping goes to the SNL costume designers who forsook the chance to design the wildest pirate shirt ever, and we’ll claim the rest for ourselves. Click through for the clip. More »

The Crazy McCain Lady on ‘SNL’: ‘Mmm Ummm Ahhh Hobama?’

6:55PM Kyle Buchanan | Saturday Night Live just aired its second Thursday political special, and it was a marked improvement on last week’s middling debut — why, even the presidential debate skit was sort of funny! For our money, though, the extended Weekend Update was the show’s crown jewel, and that segment’s MVP was Kristen Wiig as the confused Republican who notoriously asserted that Obama was an Arab at a recent rally. Though hilarious enough on its own, Wiig’s halting impression also reminded us of Chester from Sifl & Olly, and that’s never a bad thing. The entire segment, after the jump: More »