Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, and Jason Sudeikis are on their way out at Saturday Night Live. Given the crowdedness but odd insularity of the comedy scenes in New York, Chicago, and L.A., finding new cast members is not the easiest task. But these are some people who could fit right in for standing out.
If Us Weekly's sources are correct (and, really, when are they ever wrong?), three of Saturday Night Live's biggest stars might be leaving the show at the end of this season.
Your daily dose of Jon Hamm news: An SNL sketch with Lindsay Lohan was pulled at the last second. And don't get him started on Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian!
No one seemed to understand what Lindsay Lohan was doing hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend, including Lindsay Lohan.
Scott Speedman is having a comeback, someone's letting Lindsay Lohan do live television, and Chris Colfer made a little movie.
In a very funny cold-open, Saturday Night Live took aim at all the racist cracks being made at Jeremy Lin's expense.
Saturday Night Live spoofs Clint Eastwood's angry-old-pitchman routine and a stuttering Piers Morgan in a sharp effort led by Zooey Deschanel.
Saturday Night Live returned after a three-week hiatus, milking comedy out of the Lana Del Rey debacle.
Paula Abdul doesn't have that certain X-factor, Adam Sandler heads to board game-land, and SNL is a man down.
Jim Romenesko had the smart, if random, idea to ask the folks at Target headquarters what they think of Kristen Wiig's "Target Lady" character, the friendly but incompetent employee who has abandoned customers at her register for years on live television.
Batman is selling like crazy, a dead show might be revived, and a look at our friends Katniss and Peeta.
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Also in film and television: Murphy's still mad at David Spade, fresh talk of a Dumb & Dumber sequel 17 years after the original, and Samuel. L. Jackson is the highest grossing actor in movie history.
"Mitt Romney's the man we need to lead America, and we need him now"
Plus: What was Alec Baldwin trying to tell his girlfriend on SNL?
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Plus he offers the Trump Doctrine on Pakistan and gets parodied on Saturday Night Live
No one seems to mind that the Saturday Night Live comedian is retiring the character
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