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‘Saturday Night Live’ Season Finale Posts Average Ratings

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday May 19, 2013 @ 9:40am PDTTags: Ben Affleck, Saturday Night Live, TV Ratings
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Last night’s Saturday Night Live season finale with host Ben Affleck and musical guest Kanye West drew a 4.7/12 in metered-market households and a 2.7/13 among adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with Local People Meters. That was flat in 18-49 vs. last year’s season finale with host/musical guest Mick Jagger and down 10% in total viewers (5.2/13). The show, which marked Bill Hader’s departure, also was in line with SNL‘s delivery this season with any host but Justin Timberlake, including Kristen Wiig (4.6, 2.7), Vince Vaughn (4.6, 2.8), Melissa McCarthy (4.8, 2.7) and Kevin Hart (4.8/12, 2.8/13). Timberlake’s fifth turn as host remains the season’s high mark with 5.9/15 and 3.7/18.

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Bill Hader’s ‘SNL’ Stefon Farewell: Video

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday May 19, 2013 @ 3:20am PDTTags: Bill Hader, Saturday Night Live

SNL‘s season finale also marked the final show for cast standout Bill Hader, who reprised his beloved character Stefon on “Weekend Update”. But with Seth Meyers also departing this year for late-night hosting duties, the segment morphed into a filmed … Read More »

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Ben Affleck On ‘SNL’ Finale: ‘Ben Go F*** Yourself’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday May 19, 2013 @ 2:51am PDTTags: Ben Affleck, Saturday Night Live

Five-time host Ben Affleck brought out wife Jennifer Garner for his opening SNL monologue, then poked fun at his Oscar cred and his Gigli past in a Argo bit featuring Fred Armisen as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Affleck:

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Ben Affleck & Kanye West ‘SNL’ Promos: Video

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday May 17, 2013 @ 6:29pm PDTTags: Ben Affleck, Kanye West, Saturday Night Live

Oscar winner Ben Affleck is hosting this weekend’s Saturday Night Live season finale, but it’s musical guest Kanye West who steals the spotlight in SNL‘s set of promos. “Hell no, I’m not going on SNL skits, this is my goddamn life,” he said onstage this … Read More »

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Bill Hader To Depart ‘Saturday Night Live’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 14, 2013 @ 6:27am PDTTags: Bill Hader, NBC, Saturday Night Live
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Bill Hader is leaving Saturday Night Live, with his final regular appearance set for this week’s season finale. Hader joined SNL as a featured player in 2005 and was promoted to the main cast the next … Read More »

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Kristen Wiig Hosts ‘SNL’, Exhumes Greatest Hits: Video

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday May 12, 2013 @ 9:05am PDTTags: Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live

Kristen Wiig came back to host the show that made her a star a year after her tearful “graduation” send-off. But even old characters including the dreaded Gilly and Denise (plus a Maya Rudolph cameo) couldn’t make SNL funny again:

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SNL: Jennifer Aniston Lookalike Contest

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday May 5, 2013 @ 7:40pm PDTTags: Jennifer Aniston, Saturday Night Live, The Hangover 3, Zach Galifianakis

Here’s the obligatory Hangover III promotional sketch from last night’s SNL hosted by Zach Galifianakis. Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms stopped by to cameo in drag. Did hilarity ensue? You be the judge:

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‘SNL’ Ratings Slip With Zach Galifianakis

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday May 5, 2013 @ 9:53am PDTTags: NBC, Saturday Night Live, TV Ratings, Zach Galifianakis
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Saturday Night Live with host Zach Galifianakis and musical guest Of Monsters and Men last night averaged a 4.4/11 in metered-market households and a 2.5/12 among adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local … Read More »

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SNL: Zach Galifianakis’ Opening Monologue

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday May 5, 2013 @ 2:46am PDTTags: Saturday Night Live, The Hangover 3, Zach Galifianakis

Zach Galifianakis opened his third SNL hosting stint with his signature awkward jokes ‘n’ piano shtick. Diminishing returns for the Hangover 3 star, who was joined for a lame Jen Aniston bit by costars Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms?

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Yahoo Unveils WWE, ABC News, CNBC Partnerships & Original Comedy Slate

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday April 29, 2013 @ 4:00pm PDTTags: Saturday Night Live, WWE, Yahoo

The web portal today announced a slate of new programming initiatives during its upfront-style NewFront event. Those include a new network partnership with WWE launching a new Yahoo WWE online hub hosting exclusive Monday Night Raw pre-show content, two new weekly 50-episode series per year, exclusive live events, archival content, and current show clips launching this summer. Yahoo will also host digital-only versions of ABC News’ World News Behind The Headlines, Nightline Online, GMA Live, and CNBC’s Talking Numbers. New comedy shows in Yahoo’s fall comedy lineup include Principato-Young Entertainment‘s Tiny Commando with Ed Helms, Zachary Levi and Gillian Jacobs; the Morgan Spurlock & John Stamos-exec produced Losing Your Virginity With John Stamos celeb interview show; and We Need Help with Cheryl Hines and Rachael Harris, produced by Principato-Young and Steve Carr and directed by Hines. Episodes from Yahoo’s fall comedy lineup will be released at once a la Netflix’s “binge viewing” strategy. Fashion Recipe, Cinema & Spice, and an unnamed grilling show were named to Yahoo’s new lifestyle programming. A new Saturday Night Live deal distributing current-season clips and archival clips beginning September 1 was announced last week. Below are descriptions of Yahoo’s comedy lineup:
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Kristen Wiig And Ben Affleck To Close Out ‘SNL’ Season

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday April 26, 2013 @ 9:27am PDTTags: Ben Affleck, Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live

Kristen Wiig will make her first appearance as host of Saturday Night Live on May 11, and Ben Affleck will close out the late-night show’s 38th season the following week. Wiig memorably signed off the … Read More »

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Yahoo To Become Online Home For ‘SNL’ Archives

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday April 24, 2013 @ 5:50pm PDTTags: Saturday Night Live, Yahoo

Yahoo has partnered with Broadway Video and NBC Entertainment to become the exclusive home for Saturday Night Live archives from 1975-2013, expanding Yahoo’s premium comedy content that already includes … Read More »

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Lorne Michaels Says He’s Not Leaving ‘SNL’ Anytime Soon But Stays Quiet About ‘Tonight Show’ At HRTS Lunch

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday April 16, 2013 @ 2:26pm PDTTags: Hollywood Radio & Television Society, Lorne Michaels, Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show

“I’ll do it as long as I possibly can. I think that there will be a day when I’ll look at it and say I don’t have the edge I used to,” said Lorne Michaels today about his future at Saturday Night Live. A seasoned and cool operator, the late night executive producer of course did not say when that day might be and if it would be related to his taking over The Tonight Show next year. In fact, Michaels didn’t say a lot about the Tonight Show Tuesday at a Comedy On TV luncheon hosted by the Hollywood Radio and Television Society on Tuesday in Beverly Hills. Of course, that’s what was on everyone’s mind now that Michael’s protégé Jimmy Fallon has formally been tipped by NBC to take over the show next year. Michaels’ one Tonight Show comment was about the plan to move the show back to New York after over 40 years out in Burbank. “Jimmy’s from New York, the show appeals to New York, I think New York is different from when Carson left and New York was on its ass,” the soon-to-be Tonight Show EP remarked. Fellow Canadian and former SNL regular Martin Short moderated the sitdown with the multiple Emmy-winner and past and future ruler of late night. “It worked out that way,” Michaels joked when Short asked if he really ruled late night. Michaels’ recent appointment as the upcoming Executive Producer of The Tonight Show means he is in control of NBC’s 11:30 PM slot six of the seven nights of the week.

Related: Lorne Michaels: The Real NBC Late Night King 
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‘SNL’: The Al Pacino Biopics

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday April 14, 2013 @ 3:26am PDTTags: Al Pacino, Saturday Night Live

First Jack Kevorkian, then Phil Spector. (Next: Joe Paterno.) Al Pacino and his career choices of late got the SNL treatment Saturday night:

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‘Saturday Night Live’: Peter ‘Drunklage’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday April 7, 2013 @ 2:13am PDTTags: Melissa McCarthy, Peter Dinklage, Saturday Night Live

Melissa McCarthy teetered in sky-high platform heels and took a few pratfalls in her second Saturday Night Live hosting gig. But it was Game Of Thrones‘ Peter Dinklage who stole the show with his Weekend Update cameo. Meanwhile, not a single mention was made … Read More »

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Vince Vaughn To Host ‘SNL’ On April 13

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday March 12, 2013 @ 12:16pm PDTTags: Melissa McCarthy, NBC, Saturday Night Live, Vince Vaughn

Vince Vaughn, who co-stars with Owen Wilson in Fox’s The Internship, which is due out June 7, will return as Saturday Night Live host April 13 with musical guest Miguel. NBC … Read More »

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SNL: Justin Timberlake Hosts 5-Timers Club

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday March 10, 2013 @ 5:19am PDTTags: Justin Timberlake, Saturday Night Live, SNL

Justin Timberlake hosted Saturday Night Live on Saturday, welcomed by other members of the Five-Timers Club: Paul Simon, Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, and others:

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Melissa McCarthy To Host ‘Saturday Night Live’ On April 6

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday March 6, 2013 @ 4:55pm PSTTags: Identity Thief, Melissa McCarthy, Saturday Night Live

We’ve learned that Melissa McCarthy will host Saturday Night Live on April 6. This will be McCarthy’s second time hosting SNL in two years and she received rave reviews the first time around in … Read More »

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Justin Timberlake’s SNL Promos: Video

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday March 6, 2013 @ 9:06am PSTTags: Justin Timberlake, Saturday Night Live

Justin Timberlake is getting ready for his fifth turn at hosting SNL this weekend. He’s also the musical guest and as these promos suggest he’s even going to more than that — run camera and even clone himself to do makeup. Check it out:

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