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SEASON IN REVIEW

Breaking Down Each Cast Member's Contribution to 'SNL' Season 38

by | May 22nd, 2013

As mentioned in yesterday's post listing our favorite moments from this season of SNL, Season 38 has been dubbed a "transitional year" by many followers of the show. After a few years of relative stability among the core cast members, stars Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg left a year ago, followed by Abby Elliott later in the summer. With the start of the new season, three performers from Chicago's improv and sketch community joined the cast: Aidy Bryant, Tim Robinson, and Cecily Strong. In the wake of Wiig's dominating presence on the show, two freshman females in particular have emerged as go-to's: Kate McKinnon, who joined the cast [...]

Guides

Here's Everyone Who Was at Stefon's Wedding

by | May 20th, 2013

Stefon and Anderson Cooper's wedding on Saturday Night Live this weekend was jam-packed with appearances from characters and creatures Stefon had mentioned in previous Weekend Update reports. We freeze-framed our way through the scene to offer you this guide to all of Stefon's wedding guests. From Gizblow the coked-up Gremlin to DJ Baby Bok Choy, they're all here:

Goodbyes

Fred Armisen Is Leaving 'SNL' Too, Jason Sudeikis "Probably"

by | May 16th, 2013

Following Tuesday's news that Bill Hader is leaving Saturday Night Live, it looks like the show is losing at least one big cast member (if not two) following this weekend's season finale. An NBC source tells The Post that veteran cast member Fred Armisen is departing and that Jason Sudeikis will probably go, as well. Armisen has been at SNL for 11 seasons and Sudeikis for 8. Seth Meyers expected to leave in the middle of next season (December) to take over Jimmy Fallon's duties hosting NBC's Late Night, the show sure is losing a lot of cast members over the next few months.

With Hader, [...]

Albums

Andy Kaufman Is Releasing His First-Ever Comedy Album This Summer

by | May 10th, 2013

Andy Kaufman is the second beloved dead comedian to have a new project announced this week. Following Tuesday's news of an animated film based on a rare Phil Hartman recording, record label Drag City announced yesterday that they'll be releasing a comedy album called Andy and His Grandmother, which is assembled from 82 hours of micro-cassette tapes Andy Kaufman recorded between 1977 and 1979. From the press release:

Andy regarded the micro-tape recorder as a fantastic new way of capturing his hoaxing, and carried it with him everywhere, for use at any given moment. Real life was the ultimate frontier for him, and these tapes demonstrate the heart [...]

Casting Notices

Kristen Wiig Will Star with Bill Hader in 'The Skeleton Twins'

by | November 8th, 2012

SNL and Adventureland buddies Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig will be playing twin siblings in a new film called The Skeleton Twins, Variety reports. The movie follows an estranged brother and sister who each cheat death on the same day and decide to reunited to confront their pasts together. Skeleton Twins will be directed by Craig Johnson (True Adolescents), produced by the Duplass Brothers (Cyrus), and co-written by Johnson and Mark Heyman (Black Swan). Wiig recently finished shooting The Secret Life of Walter Mitty opposite Ben Stiller and is filming the new indie dramedy Hateship, Friendship with Hailee Steinfeld and Nick Nolte. Hader is in production on [...]

SEASON IN REVIEW

The Best of 'SNL' Season 38

by | May 21st, 2013

It snuck up on us, didn't it? The end of SNL Season 38 brought along with it key staff changes, among them the upcoming departure of head writer Seth Meyers and the immediate departures of cast members Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, and (unofficially) Jason Sudeikis. Few people have shaped SNL over the past 8 years more than these men — Meyers with his leadership in the writers room and charm as Weekend Update host, and Hader, Armisen and Sudeikis as the cast's workhorses and loadbearing performers. Indeed, many pegged Season 38 as a "transitional year" in the wake of Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg leaving the show a year ago, [...]

Goodbyes

Jay Pharoah Confirms Jason Sudeikis's 'SNL' Exit on Twitter

by | May 20th, 2013

While it was officially announced last week that Bill Hader and Fred Armisen were leaving Saturday Night Live following this weekend's season finale and each of them received their own goodbye sketch, Jason Sudeikis is expected to depart too but the news isn't official yet. Fellow cast member Jay Pharoah revealed via Twitter yesterday morning that Sudeikis is leaving, writing "Hader, Armisen & Sudekis the talent of those three and just them as people in general will be missed but we will be strong and carry on.." Pharoah quickly deleted the tweet after posting it, which is a little weird, but it's archived on Favstar where it will live [...]

Videolists

Videolist: Bill Hader's Best 'SNL' Sketches

by | May 14th, 2013

With today's news that Bill Hader is leaving Saturday Night Live after eight seasons as a wildly-popular cast member on the show, we've collected videos of Hader's best sketches for a nice look back at the excellent work he's done on SNL. From characters like everybody's favorite clubhopper Stefon to ancient reporter Herb Welch and dead-on impressions of Al Pacino, Alan Alda, and Vincent Price, they're all here. SNL has some awfully big shoes to fill next year.

Check out a ton of classic Bill Hader sketches below:

guest stars

Bill Hader, Roseanne, Patton Oswalt, and Many, Many More Are Coming to 'Portlandia'

by | November 27th, 2012

Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein have lined up a roster of guest stars for the new season of Portlandia that puts other TV show guest list rosters to shame. EW reports that Season 3 (which debuts January 4th at 10) will feature guest stars like Roseanne Barr, Patton Oswalt, Jim Gaffigan, Armisen’s SNL cohorts Bill Hader and Bobby Moynihan, Juliette Lewis, Rose Byrne, George Wendt, British comedy Gods Matt Berry and Matt Lucas, Dinosaur Jr. founder J Mascis, Dirty Projectors, and tennis star Martina Navratilova, plus the return of Kyle MacLachlan, Jeff Goldblum, and Kumail Nanjiani, as well Chloë Sevigny in a recurring role as Fred and Carrie's [...]

Promos

Louis C.K. and Bill Hader Promise 'SNL' Will Happen No Matter What in New Promos

by | October 31st, 2012

Here's host Louis C.K. and cast member Bill Hader in a series of promos for this weekend's new SNL. The two promise they're doing the show "no matter what happens," as long as they don't get wet again.

New York City's been hit hard by the hurricane, and this week, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and visiting Jimmy Kimmel Live all had to cancel tapings while David Letterman and Jimmy Fallon each did their shows without an audience for a night or two. Unlike these other NYC comedy shows, SNL will be going forward this weekend, presumably with an audience. It's a pivotal episode for the show, its [...]

Reviews

'SNL' Review: Ben Affleck and the End of an Era

by | May 20th, 2013

What a weepy week it was for comedy nerds. NBC packed a double-whammy of goodbyes, with The Office's poignant series finale last Thursday, followed by Saturday's season finale of Saturday Night Live and final episode to feature Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, and (perhaps) Jason Sudeikis as regular cast members, which was announced only days before. It is indeed the end of an era, not just for the network, but for TV comedy as a whole, and we will talk plenty more about this changing landscape over the coming days, weeks, and months.

Unlike last year's farewell to Kristen Wiig, which had a best-of-Wiig vibe that unfortunately repeated itself a week [...]

things that will never happen

Bill Hader Doesn't Want a Stefon Movie

by | May 17th, 2013

With Bill Hader poised to leave Saturday Night Live after tomorrow's season finale, don't expect him to try to turn his most popular character from the show into a movie. Hader tells GQ, "There's no emotional through line. Sometimes people say to me 'I want a Stefon movie' and I'm like, you think you want a Stefon movie but then you'll see the poster for it and think, 'Wait, I don't want this.'" If only Bill Hader had been on the show during the '90s, when all of SNL's most popular characters got turned into movies, then he probably could have been pressured into making a Stefon movie and satisfying you [...]

Goodbyes

Bill Hader Is Leaving 'SNL' After 8 Years; Last Episode This Saturday

by | May 14th, 2013

After eight seasons as a cast member, Bill Hader is leaving Saturday Night Live. Hader tells The NY Times, "It was a hard decision, but it has to happen at some point. It got to a point where I said, 'Maybe it’s just time to go.'" In the Times announcement, Lorne Michaels recalls a young Bill Hader reminding him of Dan Aykroyd. "In terms of intelligence and talent, he was in that same tradition. He was so completely committed to the art of it and enough a student of it that there’s something strikingly original. He didn't explode onto the air, but gradually he found his voice, and [...]

Behind the Scenes

Watch Bill Hader Go Really In Depth About the Stefon Process

by | November 20th, 2012

Here's a five-minute interview of Bill Hader talking about the process of writing Stefon segments the entire time. Seriously, he doesn't talk about anything besides writing Stefon, and it manages to be interesting and funny the whole time. I bet Bill Hader has another hour of amazing behind-the-scenes Stefon anecdotes like these that we haven't heard yet.

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