Seth Meyers is officially is the new host of NBC’s “Late Night,” replacing the Leno-replacing Jimmy Fallon and proving one thing: “Weekend Update” is a farm system. (AP photo)
It’s February 1, so you know Twitter is lighting up with white people — mostly teenagers, which makes me so incredibly depressed — who are just baffled or angry about the fact that there’s no white history month when there’s a black history month.
There are thousands of these; I just grabbed a few for posterity.
Related side note: Victoria Jackson, the Tea Partiest former cast member of SNL, put up a little ode to White History Month on her blog yesterday. Then people noticed. Then she deleted it.
In which SNL’s cold open captures the dynamics of the second presidential debate perfectly.
In case you haven’t heard, Kristen Wiig’s final episode as an SNL cast member was last night. (It was also rumored that the ep would be Jason Sudeikis and Andy Samberg’s last, but neither of them received the tearful goodbye that Wiig did — though unlike them, it was confirmed in her case.)
Be sure to watch this with tissues nearby; Wiig’s wacky characters will be missed from SNL’s stage, but we can’t wait for when she has the opportunity to host an episode all on her own. Lorne Michaels, the show creator, said “any decision on cast changes will wait until the summer.” source
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It ended as it began.
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Bittersweet since Samberg’s leaving, but we don’t see Young Sandwich shedding any tears.
Set your DVRs now: Although she hasn’t been on the show since 2006 (when her personal problems started affecting her work), Lindsay Lohan will host “Saturday Night Live” for the fourth time on March 3. Could this be her first step back into acting? She hasn’t made a movie since 2010’s “Machete,” but based on their recent tweets, Lohan and her mother are both excited about this being a real corner-turning opportunity for the 25-year-old. Hopefully this won’t be as terrible as it could be. The musical guest will be Jack White, after all. source
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This is amazing, but surprisingly, it’s only Bill Hader’s second-best performance of the night. The one that takes the cake is his parody of Clint Eastwood’s excellent “It’s Halftime In America” Super Bowl ad. Bill Hader basically was on a roll last night.
theunintentionalasshole asks: In the post about Lana Del Ray you said: "Could a Black Kids-style backlash be next?". What happened to the Black Kids?
» SFB says: To put it simply, Pitchfork gave an early release of theirs a great review, then pulled out the pitbulls (er, pugs) when their actual major-label album came out. The site later explained itself, claiming it was a too-much-too-fast situation for the band, and that the album didn’t hold up. The potential parallel Lana Del Rey could face is that her early material got built up by a number of major blogs, and the backlash has already started. Will say this much: “Video Games” is a great song and it’d be a shame for the hype to overshadow the talent. — Ernie @ SFB
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Maybe it was nerves, or maybe she was told not to move around the stage - but Lana Del Rey had a serious case of “pee pee dance” during her performance of Video Games. [watch]
Um, wow. The real lesson here is how advanced Auto-tune has gotten. Just watched part of the “Video Games” performance, and it literally sounded like she had never performed on stage before. Could a Black Kids-style backlash be next?](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxui8uRolr1qanm80o1_500.png)
Maybe it was nerves, or maybe she was told not to move around the stage - but Lana Del Rey had a serious case of “pee pee dance” during her performance of Video Games. [watch]
Um, wow. The real lesson here is how advanced Auto-tune has gotten. Just watched part of the “Video Games” performance, and it literally sounded like she had never performed on stage before. Could a Black Kids-style backlash be next?
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Wow. That was quite the appeal.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxndgiXaEA1qanm80o1_500.png)
You should vote for ImWithKanye for a Shorty Award, just kidding ImWithKanye doesn’t deserve any awards, just kidding. It deserves all the awards. All the awards including the Oscar, just kidding, an Oscar and a Grammy and then, it will go for an EGOT, just kidding. But I’m not kidding. ImWithKanye wants to be like GOOP and pull a Gwyneth, just kidding. Gwyneth Paltrow wants to pull an ImWithKanye, just kidding. I’m ImWithKanye and not even sure what pulling one is, just kidding, it’s like pulling a red wagon down Sesame Street, just kidding, I don’t even know how to get to Sesame Street, no I’m not kidding. I got lost when Big Bird gave me directions – that bitch, just kidding, it was Elmo. He was like hey, giggle, giggle and we laughed and laughed, just kidding. I cried, just kidding. I sobbed, just kidding. The last time I cried was when I watched a Beautiful Mind, just kidding, it was 5 minutes ago when I found out no one nominated me for a Shorty Award, just kidding. I am still crying now – does anyone have a tissue? Just kidding, I don’t use tissues, I use my sleeves, just kidding, I don’t have any sleeves, just kidding, I don’t have any arms. AHHH, I’m a monster!!!!! Just kidding, monsters aren’t real, just kidding, they are real – I slayed one last night, just kidding, it was two nights ago during the full moon. Just kidding, that’s the Brandy album I was listening to, just kidding, no one listens to Brandy, just kidding, I don’t even know who Brandy is. No, I’m not kidding, is she one of the girls from TLC? Just kidding, I know TLC – I am one of the band members, just kidding, I can’t sing, just kidding, I can totally sing. La-la-LA-LA-LA, just kidding, I totally won a Grammy for that performance. Just kidding, it was actually a Shorty Award, just kidding because no one voted for me. Just kidding, I voted for me, just kidding, I didn’t vote for me, I voted for ShortFormBlog, just kidding I voted for -SaturdayNightLive. No, I’m not kidding – just kidding, I kid. But seriously though, vote for ShortFormBlog or I will lock myself in the bathroom, just kidding, I’m already in the bathroom. Just kidding, I don’t poop. I’m kidding, just kidding. Vote for ShortFormBlog and -SaturdayNightLive too. [image]
Wow. That was quite the appeal.
Netflix/Qwikster update: Without revealing anything, Netflix’s list of top-rented movies is really freaking depressing for you movie connoisseurs. The number one movie in particular. BTW, if you want a good laugh at the expense of the quickly changing company, you can’t do wrong with this cut-for-time SNL sketch, which falls apart in the last minute but is otherwise solid.
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