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...were a writer and a featured player during the early years of Saturday Night Live. How do you feel about the two new programs this fall based on SNL...
...expect that network to debut a second show about a sketch-comedy series. (Tina Fey's comedy within a comedy, 30 Rock, debuts in October.) But when you're in fourth place, you'll try anything--twice--and NBC and producers insist that Studio 60 is about not SNL but a fictional lame sketch show. Studio 60 is from West Wing producers Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme, and the show's style is West Coast Wing: the same banter, high-pressure setting and speechiness. But Hollywood-insider stories are a notoriously tough sell to big TV audiences, which may have...
...American life written, produced, and directed by Paul Weitz (“In Good Company,” “About a Boy,” and “American Pie”) gets its title. The ridiculousness of the song should give a sense of the SNL-like quality of the movie, which revels in its hilarious and biting satire of American life. The movie parodies everything from terrorists to America’s fixation with reality television, from middle-American earnestness to the current Bush administration. But what makes this movie really entertaining is the secret...
They got their SNL jobs after working with Jimmy Fallon on last year's MTV Movie Awards. He brought them to Michaels, who hired Samberg as a cast member and the other two as writers. Their humor, like a lot of those involved in channel101.com is playful, loose and not overthought. For his SNL audition, Samberg did an impression of an '80s jogger, which mainly consisted of wearing short shorts and breathing heavily while talking about the recession. "His comedy doesn't come from a place of anger," says Michaels. "He's got a kind of sweetness...
...SNL films have continued to bounce quickly around the Web, particularly a violent gangster rap video starring Natalie Portman. He, like South Park, has given mainstream exposure to a young, punky, reference-packed, comic book--influenced humor that has been better represented on the Web than on TV. And as with most punky projects, Samberg thinks he's getting away with it more than he is. SNL used to have contributors, such as Albert Brooks, who would submit finished videos. "They take the risk," says Michaels of the Lonely Island submissions. "For us, if it doesn't play well...