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New York Daily News reports that Jason Sudeikis told a group of people at the SNL finale after-after-party "he wasn't sure about staying or leaving." It also notes that Jason was taken aback a bit by the special treatment Kristen Wiig received at the end of the finale. He reportedly left the set during the credits, possibly out of frustration and possibly out of sadness. If you watched the finale it seemed completely certain that Wiig would be leaving and Andy Samberg as well, as the closing line of "Lazy Sunday 2" reflected; however, Jason was mostly missing from the episode. Since he plays both Romney and [...]

Well, well, well, Will Ferrell's SNL promos are finally here. Expectations were high for this Saturday's episode and these promos confirm that they should be. Also, they confirm that I don't know anything about fancy brooches.

On May 19th, for the finale, Mick Jagger will be the famous person with burden of trying to follow Will Ferrell as SNL host. Mick Jagger has been the musical guest three times and kind of hosted once, as part of the Rolling Stones (they played three songs and appeared in only two sketches; Ed Koch did the monologue). Most famously, Jagger took part in the above mirror sketch that was reprised earlier this season with Jimmy as the one being impersonated (below). Is Mick a good choice? Is it going to be like the Betty White episode but male? Do you think there will be a [...]

It's not new to point out that Will Ferrell was easily one of the best SNL cast members ever – just check out his "Saturday Night's Children" – but that doesn't make it any less exciting. He is set to return on May 12th, nearly three years to the day of the last time he hosted. He has hosted twice before but with Will, it's always like "MORE COWBELL." (I should've explained that I call Mr. Ferrell, "Cowbell," after my favorite bovine instrument, out of which, he once created humor.) Just for funsies, below is the "Luxury Spy" sketch from the first time he hosted:

Saturday Night Live has been home to over a hundred cast members throughout the past 36 years. In our column Saturday Night’s Children, we present the history, talent, and best sketches of one SNL cast member each week for your viewing, learning, and laughing pleasure.

For a witty brunette-turned-blonde who could play utility mother/reporter types and stretch them into outbursts of suburban insanity (if given the screen time), it's surprising that Nancy Walls never found a lasting place during her single-season run on SNL. She's known now more for her famous husband Steve Carell, but we shouldn't forget that her comic voice is large and deserved better than it [...]

If your favorite part of SNL each week is the promos, than this is your finale. They even have Kristen Wiig in them, for what might be her last promos until she hosts the show in two seasons from now. Also, man did that wrinkly Australian fellow teach her a lot of sex stuff when she was a kid.

Saturday Night Live has been home to over a hundred cast members throughout the past 36 years. In our column Saturday Night’s Children, we present the history, talent, and best sketches of one SNL cast member each week for your viewing, learning, and laughing pleasure.

Despite Laura Kightlinger's fruitless year as an SNL writer and featured player, she's built up a pretty kickass comedy resume over the years, with credits as an actor, writer, producer, and director working with comedians like Roseanne Barr, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Jack Black, and Louis CK. With company like that, it's a surprise that Kightlinger's managed to fly so far under the radar, [...]

Saturday Night Live has been home to over a hundred cast members throughout the past 36 years. In our column Saturday Night’s Children, we present the history, talent, and best sketches of one SNL cast member each week for your viewing, learning, and laughing pleasure.

The first few seasons of SNL are more or less synonymous with hard partying (see the invisible robot hypnotist Garrett Morris swore was following him around 30 Rock), but there was one Not Ready for Prime Time Player who chose to keep her head clear and hands clean during the show's first and grittiest of eras. By the time 27-year-old Jane Curtin joined [...]

Saturday Night Live has been home to over a hundred cast members throughout the past 36 years. In our column Saturday Night’s Children, we present the history, talent, and best sketches of one SNL cast member each week for your viewing, learning, and laughing pleasure.

Diversity has never been one of SNL's strong points — if you're not an Irish-Catholic improv star from Second City or The Groundlings, odds are you'll have to scrape your way to Lorne Michaels' attention. As a result, sexual orientation has always taken a backseat to the issues of gender and race on SNL, and prior to the recent hire of featured player [...]

Super Bowl winning European-Soccer Quarterback Eli Manning is set to host SNL on May 5th, which is different from the overblown potential Mitt Romney guest-spot (no, Romney probably won't be suspending his campaign for a week to host SNL). Eli had appeared briefly in the episode hosted by his brother Peyton. Peyton was a fantastic host, which bodes well for baby bro; however, it should be noted that Peyton is also funnier looking than Eli. Speaking of funny looking, Rihanna is set to be the musical guest as a lead up to the very (unintentionally) funny looking Battleship movie. I hope Eli likes peeing himself because he's [...]

Saturday Night Live has been home to over a hundred cast members throughout the past 36 years. In our column Saturday Night’s Children, we present the history, talent, and best sketches of one SNL cast member each week for your viewing, learning, and laughing pleasure.

It's important to remember that before the dawn of the strong woman contingent that began with Molly Shannon, Cheri Oteri, and Ana Gasteyer and peaked with Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, and Kristen Wiig, female cast members were often underused, forgotten, or written off as either too ladylike or anti-ladylike to compete in the bro's-club chaos of early 1990s SNL. Siobhan [...]

There was something so frustrating about the end of the "Fox & Friends" sketch. You knew all the corrections were probably super funny but they were impossible to read. Thankfully, the impossible has been made possible, as NBC posted the list and, guess what, they are super funny. My favorites are "Patricia Heaton did not win a Nobel Prize for her work on 'Everbody Loves Raymond'" and "Winconsin is an American state and not 'just a bit.'" The full list is after the jump, which are your favorites?

Here are this week's SNL promos. The wardrobe department must be working tirelessly to sew together a dress large enough for that giant QB man and Keenan must be tirelessly trying to tackle him as an excuse for more hugging.

Who said there were SNL cast-members leaving? Nobody. Not me. Oh wait, I mean, EVERYBODY. There have been rumors all year that certain people (definitely Jason Sudeikis, Kristen Wiig, and Andy Samberg, if not more) were leaving but no one is allowed to say for sure, which has caused this interesting trend where everyone says really sweet, wistful things about them but adds an "if" to the front of it. Like, "IF she leaves, I'm really going to miss Kristen. What she has been able to do on the show is historic. It was such a joy to work with her…which I look forward to continuing to do, [...]