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Madonna And Lady Gaga’s SNL Rehearsal Skit: The Better Version
10:45AM Foster Kamer | Last night, Saturday Night Live did a re-run of the fairly interesting Ryan Reynolds-hosted episode from earlier this month. In it was a skit with musical performer Lady Gaga and a Madonna cameo. But they re-aired the funnier, racier version. More »
Big Screen
Gerard Butler, You Are Officially On Movie Star Probation
5:03AM Brian Moylan | It was a big weekend for Gerard Butler. His movie Law Abiding Citizen opened at number two at the US box office and he hosted Saturday Night Live. Too bad both of them sucked. And now he’s on notice. More »
People
Stop, Jennifer Aniston, We Can’t Keep Up!
8:30PM Andrew Belonsky | Jennifer Aniston’s in love with someone, again. My oh my, Miranda Kerr is slim. Paul McCartney’s son’s dreams are coming true and dying all at once. And Jon and Kate are still deplorable. Hoorah! It’s your Friday gossip roundup! More »
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Madonna, Guy Ritchie In Fierce “Retard” Battle
8:15PM Andrew Belonsky | Divorces are ugly business. That’s what we can learn from today’s gossip roundup, which includes Madonna and Guy Ritchie acting like children, Peter Brant taking on Stephanie Seymour’s fashion habit and, on another note, the return of Tina Fey’s Palin. More »
Small Screen
Timberlake-Hosted Saturday Night Live: Unsurprisingly Excellent
1:00AM Foster Kamer | Too bad the Correspondent’s Dinner will probably dominate any comedy talking points today, because last night’s cameo-littered Saturday Night Live was the funniest it’s been in a long, long time. More »
Tina Fey Breaks Campaign Promise, Forced to Play Sarah Palin Once More
3:15AM Kyle Buchanan | Remember this lady, Sarah Palin? She was famous for appearing every Saturday night on the tee-vee, saying cute things about Russia, gays, and Katie Couric. Or maybe that was her portrayer, Tina Fey? More »
Rahm Emanuel Fun-Fact Addendum: Probably Loathes Andy Samberg
6:51AM STV | We’d like to take just a moment to officially append our 20 Fun Facts About Rahm Emanuel, Ari’s power-broker brother who’s expected to bring a little profane, alpha-male flair to the White House as Barack Obama’s chief of staff. We’ll call this Fun Fact #21: Was impersonated by Andy Samberg on Saturday Night Live in a skit eventually spiked by the show’s producers, perhaps fearing it could overshadow any one of host Tim McGraw’s own, more solemn stabs at comedy. OR for one of a couple of other reasons after the jump — where you’ll find the clip as well. More »
SNL’s Gay Minstrel Show
3:10AM Seth | Where do you mine for easy laughs when you no longer have the most satirisable election in history at your disposal? In SNL’s case, that would be the Gays, a topic this week’s Paul Rudd-hosted episode visited and revisited so often, we lost count. And where does the show stand on the subject, in this, arguably the most important week for gay civil rights in history? Enjoy the highlight reel above, accompanied by this handy synopsis: More »
Tina Fey Suggests That Defamer Has Some Issues
8:37AM Kyle Buchanan | Few things made us laugh harder than Tina Fey’s devastatingly precise Sarah Palin send-ups on Saturday Night Live this season (or the fact that the quote that will be attributed to the candidate for all time, “I can see Russia from my house,” was said not by Palin but by Fey). Still, as the hardest working woman in comedy was repeatedly spirited away from her 30 Rock duties, we grew worried for her — after all, she has a show, a kid, a book, an Emmy, an upcoming Steve Carell romcom… couldn’t Lorne Michaels let the woman rest? We voiced our concerns after the SNL sketch where Fey appeared with the actual John McCain (her sixth appearance on the show this season), and now Fey is telling EW that she took our words to heart: More »
