comedynerdsunited:

Saturday Night Live announces hosts, musical guests | EW

How do you nerds feel about their choice of Seth McFarlane for the season premier? Overall, I think the season looks pretty solid so far!

cokesnlfan:

Emmys 2012: ‘SNL’s’ Bill Hader Shocked By Nomination, Says It Wasn’t on His Radar

The NBC vet admitted to THR that it will be “interesting” to see how possible new additions to the cast for the upcoming season will shake out.

Philiana Ng - The Hollywood Reporter

Shocked. Surprised.

Those are the words best used to describe Bill Hader’s reaction when news came that he had snagged his first Emmy nomination for his work onSaturday Night Live.

“It wasn’t [on my radar]. It wasn’t like, ‘Oh yea! The Emmy nominations are coming out!’ ” Hader admitted to The Hollywood Reporter. ”I’ve been so crazy, running around all over the place it didn’t even dawn on me. I got up early this morning with my daughter and my wife. We had breakfast. I checked my e-mail, nothing was there. Looked at my phone, everything was good. Hopped into the shower. When I came out, all of a sudden it was like 30 messages.”

Hader, who has been a regular cast member on SNL since 2005, was alone at home when the news came through. “My wife and daughter were gone so then I had this moment of, ‘Oh my gosh, what happened?’ ” he recalled, laughing. The first congratulatory text came from fellow nominee Kristen Wiig, whose message was too vague for Hader to put two and two together: “She went, ‘Oh my god, congratulations!’ I went, for what? What happened?” The second, from the SNL writers, filled him in on what was going on.

Though Hader wasn’t clear on what part of his performance struck a chord with the Academy voters (“It never really occurred to me that this would ever happen”), he was appreciative all the same listing off memorable characters, impressions and sketches he has taken part of on NBC’s late-night sketch show, highlighting Stefon, the gay nightlife guide who often appears on “Weekend Update.” “It really is a full-on shock,” he conceded. Even his wife couldn’t believe it. ” ‘For what?,’ ” Hader remembered his wife telling him. When he ventured out of the house, random strangers on the street were giving him good vibes: “I was walking down the street because I had to go to a [voiceover] session for an animated movie and a guy on a bike went, ‘Hey, congrats on the Emmy!’ “

On a personal note, Hader revealed that the episode hosted by former SNL regular Maya Rudolph — who received a nomination for hosting — was a favorite of his last season. “When she came back, she hit a grand slam,” he said. “That episode was one where you just went, wow.”

With changes in store for the upcoming season of SNL, due to the departures of Wiig andAndy Samberg, Hader confessed that he has no prior knowledge on who producers are eyeing to bring in as replacements — or how that would affect the dynamic.

“I don’t know when new people are hired. I find out when or after [news outlets] do,” Hader said. “I’m sure they’re looking at people and some will be hired.”

“It’s going to be very interesting. It was sad to see Kristen and Andy go because I came in with them,” he said. “It was very emotional.”

How is Hader going to celebrate his shocking nomination? “I’m seeing Dark Knight Rises.”

popculturebrain:

U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (California), John McCain (Arizona) and Olympia Snowe (Maine) will play themselves when they appear at a D.C. cocktail party attended by Ben and Leslie

Top politicians I’d also like to see cameo in ‘Parks and Rec: DC Edition’:

• Hillary Clinton
• Jed Bartlett
• Joe Biden
• David Palmer

Preview: Filmmaker/actor Mark Duplass, who is currently enjoying a new found sense of ubiquity with the concurrent releases of Safety Not Guaranteed and Your Sister’s Sister, discusses movies with Marc Maron. Full episode out on June 25th.

(Source: amyohconnor)

thedailywhat:

In Case You Missed It of the Day: From Sunday night’s Tony Awards, further evidence that Neil Patrick Harris needs to host all the things.

Don’t miss his Spider-Man and closing sequences.

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(Source: thedailywhat)

nprfreshair:

Why Joan Rivers reads obits: “That’s how I meet new men. The minute it says ‘Sadie Schwartz’ I know, ‘Go to that funeral.’”

(via Joan Rivers Hates You And Everyone Else : NPR)

latenightjimmy:

Jimmy: “Hey, wanna play catch in front of the volleyball net?” 
Gloria: “Sure, I’ll put on all my catcher’s gear, and why don’t you put on an all-white outfit?” 
Jimmy: “Yeah, I’m thinking tight white jeans and that T-shirt that wants to be a wife-beater.”
Gloria: “Perfect! See ya out there in five!” - (x)

Check out more childhood Jimmy in Growing Up Fallon, by his sister Gloria!

(Source: voldys-gonemoldy, via cokesnlfan)

comedycentral:

Straight out of E3, watch the official NSFW trailer for the upcoming RPG South Park: The Stick of Truth.

The game drops for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on March 5, 2013.

(Source: youtube.com)

They’ll star alongside previously announced Alec Baldwin and Michael Emerson. 

Louie and Woody together at last.

(Clay addition via Variety)

(Source: popculturebrain)

Andy Samberg Confirms He’s Leaving ‘Saturday Night Live

Dave Itzkoff - Los Angeles Times

In one of his last appearances on the season finale of “Saturday Night Live,” a rapping Andy Samberg traded a rhyme with Chris Parnell that seemed loaded with underlying meaning: “On these New York streets I hone my fake rap penmanship / That’s how it began, and that’s how I’m-a finish it.”

This lyric from “Lazy Sunday 2″ was not only a bookend to the hit series of digital shorts that Mr. Samberg helped pioneer during his seven-season career on “S.N.L.”; it was also, as many had suspected, his farewell to that NBC late-night sketch series.

On Friday, Mr. Samberg confirmed that he will not be returning as a cast member on the next season of “Saturday Night Live.”

“It’s an incredibly emotional and strange moment in my life,” Mr. Samberg said Friday in a telephone interview. “Obviously it’s not a huge shock, but I did officially decide not to come back.”

Not long after joining “S.N.L.” in the fall of 2005, Mr. Samberg and his frequent collaborators Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer (who as a trio comprise the comedic hip-hop group the Lonely Island) delivered their first hit viral video for the show: “Lazy Sunday,” a rap video in which Mr. Samberg and Mr. Parnell rhyme about their enthusiasm for unthreatening cultural offerings like Red Vines licorice and the children’s adventure movie “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”

Other successes followed, including “I’m on a Boat,”“I Just Had Sex” and a collaboration with Justin Timberlake about the surprising gifts they put in boxes and offer to their paramours.

Leaving the show was “one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever made,” said Mr. Samberg, who added that he had come to this conclusion with some counsel from Kristen Wiig, an “S.N.L.” veteran who exited the show with a bittersweet Rolling Stones sing-along at the end of the season.

“She kept saying it just feels like it’s her time,” Mr. Samberg said. “I connect with that. Something about it just feels like it’s the moment. My contract’s up and I did so much more than I ever thought I would ever even do.”

Mr. Samberg left open the possibility that he and his Lonely Island partners might still contribute occasional shorts or other works to future “S.N.L.” episodes. “That’s the kind of thing that I really do hope happens,” he said.

With a coming schedule of roles in summer movies like “That’s My Boy” and “Celeste and Jesse Forever,” Mr. Samberg said he looked forward to dodging the now-inevitable questions about when he might return to “Saturday Night Live” as a host.

“Well, hopefully things will work out well enough that they’ll want me,” he said.

(via cokesnlfan)