Rep. Michele Bachmann’s tea party response to President Obama’s State of the Union address last week became fodder for Saturday Night Live when SNL’s Kristen Wiig lampooned Bachmann in the opening scene. She played with the fact that Bachmann used a number of charts during her response, and that she appeared not to face the camera during CNN’s live broadcast.
Comedian and Saturday Night Live alum Dan Aykroyd will be hosting a campaign fundraiser for Sen. Al Franken that’ll also feature fellow SNL alums Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon, the Star Tribune reports.
They left Joe Wilson hanging: That’s the gag in a Saturday Night Live Thursday sketch last night. The scene is a Republican confab right before President Obama’s health care speech to Congress, and all the assembled GOPers are…
This summer, it seems whenever you turn on the TV or tune in a radio newscast, another prominent pol has dropped out of contention for re-election. Republican governors especially have been dropping like flies: first Minnesota’s Tim Pawlenty, then Alaska’s…
Sen. Al Franken was famously contained during the long period of limbo between Election Day and his swearing-in, suppressing his wit by keeping mum in an effort to seem more senatorial. So when a video of Franken impersonating the…
NBC just dug a timely video out of its vaults: Al Franken playing a U.S. senator on the Senate’s Judiciary Committee, questioning a U.S. Supreme Court nominee. Now viewers can compare and contrast his 1991 and 2009 performances.
A new network TV comedy, NBC’s “Parks and Recreation,” premieres Thursday, April 9. Fans of the show’s star, Amy Poehler (late of “Saturday Night Live”), or of another NBC series, “The Office” (off of which “Parks and Recreation” is…
“Saturday Night Live” opened with a send-up of the release on Friday of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s tax returns, which show the pair made $109 million since 2000. Playing the former first lady, Amy Poehler said that “since…
This makes three weeks running. Is SNL “completely in the bag” for Clinton, as one comic tells Helena Andrews of Politico?
We can’t speak for the cast or writers, but as for founding SNL producer Lorne Michaels? He’s…
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