Eccentric additions to bring youthful energy
The Comic's Comic Nov 12, 08 5:34 PM CST
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The election cycle is over, along with Tina Fey's impersonations of Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler's run on Saturday Night Live . Lorne Michaels has plucked two young female comediennes to help fill the gap, the Comic's Comic reports. Abby Elliott, the daughter of eccentric funnyman Chris Elliott, and Michaela Watkins are expected to make their debuts this weekend.
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Huffington Post Oct 26, 08 12:17 AM CDT
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Amy Poehler missed work last night, but she had a very good excuse: The Saturday Night Live star gave birth yesterday to a baby boy named Archie, the Huffington Post reports. It's the first child for Poehler and her hubby and fellow comedian, Will Arnett. Poehler had been rehearsing for the latest SNL up to the last minute, but Archie had other plans. This means that last week's show was Poehler's last as a regular.
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Baldwin tells her she's "way hotter" than Fey
USA Today Oct 19, 08 4:50 AM CDT
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The real Sarah Palin made her much anticipated debut on Saturday Nigh Live last night, gamely sparring with cast members who still skewered the candidate and show producer Lorne Michaels, reports USA Today . In the opening skit Tina Fey delivers Palin’s “first press conference” (she’s yet to hold one)—which an “off-stage” Palin tells Michaels it isn't “a realistic depiction."
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Late-night is the standout hit of the fall season
Chicago Tribune Oct 18, 08 5:00 PM CDT
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The fall TV ratings are in, and while Heroes needs saving and House is collapsing, Saturday Night Live has emerged as the biggest hit of the season, Maureen Ryan writes in the Chicago Tribune . Unlike other shows, SNL ’s live ratings have jumped nearly 50% in its 34th season. “It’s the hottest it’s been since the early years,” remarked one analyst.
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Foreign experience? She tells Russians who stray into Alaska to 'shoo'
Comedy Centric Sep 28, 08 9:12 AM CDT
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Comedian Tina Fey skewered Sarah Palin in a command reprise performance on Saturday Night Live last night. This time, Fey parodied the candidate's foibles during her interview with Katie Couric, reports Comedy Centric. In the opening sketch, Fey, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Palin, is stumped by a question from Amy Poehler’s Couric and asks “to use one of my lifelines—I’d like to phone a friend,” she says.
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Security detail has already toured the studios; Fey may return, too
OK! Sep 25, 08 2:22 PM CDT
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Sarah Palin may make an appearance on a Saturday Night Live , where she was so accurately mimicked by Tina Fey on the season premiere, OK! reports. The Republican’s security detail has already cased NBC’s studios in New York. Fey could also come back to reprise her role, setting the stage for a meeting a la the classic Janet Reno/Will Ferrell showdown and and Hillary Clinton's appearance with doppelganger Amy Poehler.
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Has six shows before leaving
USA Today Sep 19, 08 11:25 AM CDT
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As Amy Poehler preps for her final episodes of Saturday Night Live , the masterful Hillary impersonator says she’s as upset to leave as her co-workers are to see her go. "I'm on the verge of tears every minute,” Poehler tells USA Today . After 7 years with the show, she'll go on maternity leave before the Nov. 4 election and start shooting her first sitcom shortly thereafter.
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Actress will move on
to her own show
after maternity leave
E! Online Sep 16, 08 9:08 PM CDT
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Amy Poehler will make her exit from Saturday Night Live earlier than planned, E! News reports. The Emmy-nominated actress, who is expecting her first child with husband Will Arnett, won’t return to the show after her maternity leave, which starts in a few weeks. Instead she’ll start work on her new, untitled show from the producers of The Office . Poehler, 37, joined SNL in 2001 and quickly became a favorite.
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Tina nails Sarah impersonation on SNL season opener
People Sep 14, 08 5:19 AM CDT
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Tina Fey ushered in the new Saturday Night Live season last night with her much-anticipated Sarah Palin impersonation, sharing the opening skit with Amy Poehler’s Hillary Clinton in a “public service announcement” deriding the media’s sexist coverage of the presidential campaign. The sketch also skewered Palin’s views on global warming (it’s “just God hugging us closer”) and her lack of experience in international affairs, reports People .
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More live shows, 3 specials planned
Zap2It Jul 21, 08 8:42 AM CDT
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Saturday Night Live is expanding its satirical coverage of Election 2008, reports Zap2it. NBC will air three SNL primetime campaign specials, plus four consecutive Saturday night shows beginning in September, boosting the number of pre-election live shows to seven. The program will also feature the traditional election eve special " SNL Presidential Bash."
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Baby Mama's baby mama, Arnett expect funny kid in late fall
People Apr 28, 08 4:50 PM CDT
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Baby Mama co-star Amy Poehler had a good weekend: Her new movie is No. 1 at the box office, and she and husband Will Arnett are expecting their first child, People reports. The Saturday Night Live star, 36, and her 30 Rock -scene-stealing spouse, 37, have been married since 2003.
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Chick flick laffer
helps spark 17%
ticket surge
Variety Apr 27, 08 7:02 PM CDT
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Comedy sparked a box office comeback this weekend as Baby Mama banked $18.3 million from mostly female film-goers, Variety reports. Also fueling the 17.2% hike over last year's frame were stoner sequel Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay with $14.6 million in second, and Jackie Chan's Forbidden Kingdom with $11.2 million in third.
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movie review
Only quiet chuckles in conventional flick
Rotten Tomatoes Apr 25, 08 7:50 AM CDT
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Critics don't seem thrilled about the arrival of Baby Mama , which tells the story of an overachieving, infertile career woman (Tina Fey) who hires a rough-around-the-edges high school dropout (Amy Poehler) to bear her a child. The movie's not "laugh-out-loud funny," writes Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post . "It's more quiet-chuckle funny, which is fine."
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Show tries to be equally unfair to all candidates
Los Angeles Times Mar 13, 08 1:09 PM CDT
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“Saturday Night Live” staffers are getting serious over accusations of a pro-Clinton bias, with producer Lorne Michaels telling the Los Angeles Times any perception of bias is a "major concern" and assuring “there’s no agenda.” The show’s send-up of a media crush on Barack Obama was credited by some pundits with ending the love fest—but head writer Seth Meyers says watchers are giving “SNL” too much credit. Hillary impersonator Amy Poehler says the show targets "whoever is winning."
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OPINION
Clinton joins the resurgence
TV Guide Mar 3, 08 7:45 AM CST
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Hillary Clinton's appearance on "Saturday Night Live" confirms not just that the show is back from the writers' strike, writes Matt Roush in TV Guide, but back "smack dab in the center of today’s political dialogue." The sight of Clinton and identically dressed alter ego Amy Poehler onstage was "an image no one will soon forget."
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