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A Tasting Guide to the GOP’s Hot New Pop-Culture Site, ‘Big Hollywood’
4:40AM STV | That “sold” sign on the Web space across the street from Defamer HQ finally came down today, with new, conservative neighbours Big Hollywood moving in at last. Let’s go meet them, shall we?
Even President Bush Is So Over Elisabeth Hasselbeck
2:42AM Kyle Buchanan | Now that America has finally elected a new president, our current one has given up pretending he cares about the economy, stuff, or Elisabeth Hasselbeck. More »
The Newly Emboldened Sherri Shepherd Finally Uses ‘Nuclear Option’ on Elisabeth Hasselbeck
8:00AM Kyle Buchanan | Yesterday’s unlikely emergence of Sherri Shepherd as The View’s new foil to Elisabeth Hasselbeck was no fluke! As you might be able to discern from the fierce, finger-wagging screencap up above, Shepherd set it off on today’s program (and View producers helpfully sat the two budding rivals next to each other for maximum in-your-face screaming). More »
Now, Even Sherri Shepherd Treats Elisabeth Hasselbeck Like ‘The Stupid One’
8:00AM Kyle Buchanan | For all too long, Sherri Shepherd has stayed relatively quiet on The View, keeping a low profile (except for the occasional blow-up at Bill Maher) and generally avoiding the sort of “flat earth” gaffes that would draw the pity spotlight away from her cohost Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Today, though, in the midst of another Hasselbeck political rant about Barack Obama’s association with William Ayers, a surprisingly prepared Shepherd jumped in to rebut the show’s token conservative with a “Wait, wait, wait — no you don’t!” More »
Doggone It, Sarah Palin Wants an ‘SNL’ Cameo Of Her Own
6:20AM Kyle Buchanan | Appearing in the flesh on Saturday Night Live is a time-honored ritual for many political names, including the three biggest of this past election cycle: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have both put in cold opening cameos, while John McCain actually hosted SNL in 2002. Still, for all the mileage that the show has wrung out of Sarah Palin’s vice presidential candidacy, Palin herself has yet to appear on the show — though according to the Chicago Sun Times, that may change very soon. In fact, sources in the McCain camp say that they have a very specific idea in mind to help Palin avenge herself upon the fired, lifeless body of her nemesis, Tina Fey: More »
‘SNL’ Will Have Its Reward In Heaven After This Sarah Palin Debate Skit
2:26PM Kyle Buchanan | With less than a month left to go in this presidential election, Saturday Night Live expands its resurgent political brand into special Thursday episodes starting this week, though it’s hard to see how they could possibly outdo the trilogy of Tina Fey-as-Sarah Palin appearances that continued into last night’s episode. Spoofing the mega-rated vice presidential debate, Fey joined Jason Sudeikis as Joe Biden and the previously-rumored Queen Latifah as moderator Gwen Ifill for a blockbuster, near-twelve minute sketch that left no participant unscathed. Still, despite the skit’s jabs at Biden and Ifill, this was, as ever, Fey’s moment, and she delivered her most cutting performance yet. Do we have video of the sketch after the jump? Doggone it, you betcha:
How ‘SNL’ Plans to Cover Last Night’s Debate (Without Having to Actually Hire a Black Woman)
3:50AM Kyle Buchanan | Though pundits like Time’s Mark Halperin are claiming that last night’s vice presidential debate left Saturday Night Live little to parody (really?), it’s hard to imagine that SNL would leave its ratings on the table by ignoring what was perhaps the most-anticipated Sarah Palin event of the entire election year. Now, according to EW’s Michael Ausiello, SNL does indeed plan to cover the debate, which leaves it with one problem: the moderator, Gwen Ifill, was a black woman, and SNL still has none in its cast. It’s the same problem the variety show has run into when covering Michelle Obama, and just as rumours flew that Lorne Michaels had approached Maya Rudolph about that role, SNL has its sights set on a very specific Ifill impersonator who’s not a member of the actual cast: More »
Hasselbeck Not Leaving ‘The View’ Until She Adorns Her Living Room Wall With Four Bloody Scalps
2:45AM Kyle Buchanan | Back when Rosie O’Donnell left The View, many industry watchers predicted the program would quickly return to its safe, easygoing roots (and that ratings would dive as a result). Oh, how they underestimated the Hasselbeck! The election year has provoked The View’s resident Republican into a lather almost daily, whether she’s obfuscating about Barack Obama or calling an unlikely moratorium on Sarah Palin discussion. In fact, things have gotten so heated lately that rampant speculation had Hasselbeck headed for Fox News, forcing her agent to issue a statement today:
Elisabeth Hasselbeck Would Prefer It If You Just Ignored That Palin/Couric Debacle
7:20AM Kyle Buchanan | After Elisabeth Hasselbeck nearly brained Barbara Walters yesterday with a coffee mug filled with steaming-hot Republican rage, producers for The View wisely kept Walters away from today’s show, though things were just as politically heated. Today — as it often is — the topic was Sarah Palin, and Hasselbeck’s had quite enough of that issue, thank you very much! More »
