"SNL" cast member Andy Samberg and his two writing partners/collaborators, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, are releasing a comedy LP entitled Incredibad on February 10. Since this is the trio responsible for all the great digital shorts airing each week on "SNL" — such as "Lazy Sunday" and "Ras Trent" — I headed across town a few hours ago to ask them a few questions.
After sitting in the waiting room for 20 minutes with a few other interviewers, listening to the uncensored version of "Natalie's Rap" (which features the pint-sized Natalie Portman rapping about wanting to "f--- all night"), I was ushered into a room where the trio was waiting for me.
Being the well-respected journalist and television producer that I am, I put forth an intellectual, thought-provoking query to the comedic threesome, in hopes they would share with me an enlightened response about their work. Read more...
A few weeks back, we wrote a post about Seattle's Fleet Foxes and how they ended up on many, many, many best-of lists at the end of the year, and wouldn't you know it — they've been tapped to perform on this weekend's "Saturday Night Live."
So to give you a preview of what's to come on "SNL" (and see if you should stay up late), check out the stripped-down performance of "White Winter Hymnal" the band did especially for us. Read more...
Atlanta's self-proclaimed King of the South T.I. was holed up in Manhattan's esteemed S.I.R. Studio on Wednesday, readying himself for a show at the Hammerstein Ballroom that evening and the bigger stage at “Saturday Night Live” days later.
Clad in a mesh, black Gucci hat with red-and-green trim and his signature Akoo clothing line (loved the College jacket), Tip was bouncing back and forth between the rehearsal room, which included a host of young kids, and the studio's lobby, where label rep Mike Kaiser stood feverishly working his Blackberry to regulate T.I.'s schedule for the week.
Check out our clip of him with his live band after the jump!Read more...
It pains me to admit this, but it seems that Kanye West is right. You are just being lazy. The least humble rapper on the planet took a swipe at you last week, saying you could have been music's #1 man, but you "went on vacation" while he was busy making albums.
Well, JT, after watching you on "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, I kind of have to agree. Watching your tour de force "Weekend Update" segment, in which you flawlessly blasted through an entire Thanksgiving week "SNL" episode in under three minutes, and your bit with Beyoncé as one of three inept but snaptastic backup dancers (wearing a skintight leotard and high heels, no less), it feels like you're squandering your talent.
In just over two weeks, one of the two men vying for our nation's highest office will be out of a job. One will get ready to move into the White House, and one will head home — or to one of his seven homes. Sure, the loser will still have a gig in the Senate, but with this year’s presidential campaign winding down, could either John McCain or Barack Obama — who hoisted verbal attacks at each other during the third and final debate Wednesday night — secure future work on the stand-up circuit? Last night, both candidates attended the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where they swapped punch lines about themselves and each other.
Did you see the opener to this weekend’s edition of “SNL”? And were you as shocked as some of us here at MTV News to see Amy Poehler’s caricature of Hillary Clinton? As Clinton, Amy announces, "Sore loser, racist supporters, no ethical standards -- qualities Sen. Obama simply can't match!" Um, what?? Since when was this fair play with a presidential candidate? Did "SNL"'s campaign coverage just go from clever to completely biased?
As the clip made its way around the office, some of the MTV News crew jumped into the fray:
Liz: Um. I thought it was pretty over the top, to say the least.
Jim: Hmm...One might argue that “SNL”'s coverage jumped the shark from day one. The show's political coverage has been a disaster ever since Jon Stewart and “The Colbert Report” dominated airwaves.
John: It was only a matter of time before the Obamabots on the 8th floor of “30 Rock” showed their true colors, and dispensed with even an attempt at even-handed jabs.
James: I think the point of this is that Hillary basically has no way of winning the nomination, yet she continues to campaign -- and speak -- as if she's got it all wrapped up. She's delusional, as are her supporters, and they're painting her as such.
Joseph: The jokes were exaggerations on the perception that a) she'll do anything to win; b) she's playing up race with her race-baiting comments to USA Todaylast Thursday; and c) she's delusional to think that she has a shot even though all the empirical evidence speaks to the contrary.
What do you think? Has “SNL”’s political satire gone too far?
"SNL" cast member Andy Samberg and his two writing partners/collaborators, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, are releasing a comedy LP entitled Incredibad on February 10. Since this is the trio responsible for all the great digital shorts airing each week on "SNL" — such as "Lazy Sunday" and "Ras Trent" — I headed across town a few hours ago to ask them a few questions.
Atlanta's self-proclaimed King of the South 