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The 38th season of SNL was not its best. After Mick Jagger sang Kristen Wiig off the show last year in an emotional farewell (Andy Samberg and Abby Elliott departed with her), this season's exits — both rumored and confirmed — were given ...

After I finished taking my SNL notes but before I sat down to write this recap, I decided to take the temperature on Justin Timberlake's fifth ride on the host pony and check in with some of the other media responses to last weekend's show. Despite t...

You can't have her, Jack. Jennifer Lawrence is the world's girlfriend now. She is the rarest, most charming butterfly and can never be pinned onto a piece of decorative corkboard and imprisoned in a frame. Cradle her essence in your hands and then se...

Hey, remember that cop comedy Andy Samberg is doing? The one that's coming to us on Fox? From the mighty brains of Parks and Recreation’s executive producers Mike Schur and Dan Goor? Well, now it's also got Andre Braugher, who's the kind of guy...

The last time we checked in on Andy Samberg he'd just signed up for a low-risk, short-run BBC show called Cuckoo, and his Adam Sandler movie hadn't yet bombed. Meaning: It wasn't really clear yet how his post-SNL run was shaping up. These days, thoug...

First there was the underrated Paul Brittain, dipping mid-season and, tragically, taking "Sex" Ed Vincent with him. Next came Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg, two SNL giants saying good-bye in proper fashion before heading off to post-Oscar-nom-glory a...

Baron Davis plays a gym teacher in Adam Sandler's new movie "That's My Boy," which opened in theaters nationwide on Friday. "That's My Boy," a comedy about a father (Sandler) trying to reconnect with his son (Andy Samberg), also features Jets head...

After a seven-year run on SNL, Andy Samberg is now officially a free agent, and he's already got his first big post-show-era project lined up: This Friday's archetypal Sandler-ian comedy That's My Boy, which, depending on how good a mood I happen to ...

The writing was on the wall, but like invisible ink, you can't really read the writing until it's illuminated under the special black-light glow of a publicist's confirmation. And so we learned, on Friday, that Andy Samberg was officially on Lazy Sat...

Last weekend, the topic of the short-lived but supposedly really great (11 Emmy nominations! Conversational endorsements!) Buffalo Bill came up. I haven't seen Buffalo Bill, and there was no time to fix that between when it drifted across the table o...

Nobody panic, but SNL might be getting rocked this offseason. According to US Weekly — the most trusted name in tabloid journalism — Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg, and Jason Sudeikis are all flying the coop. Screeched an US Weekly insider, "...

Deadline is reporting that Ryan Murphy has netted a deal with Sony Pictures for a music comedy called One Hit Wonders. And your one-hit wonders are — Reese Witherspoon, Cameron Diaz, and Gwyneth Paltrow! They'd all play pop stars who had one bi...

Mindy Kaling's great "Flick Chicks" piece in this week's New Yorker (an excerpt from her forthcoming book) attacked common female-character cliches in romantic comedies (Sassy Best Friend, Love-Starved Type A, Sexy Klutz, etc.) But what of the menfol...

Life is filled with nuance and compromise. Luckily, Kevin Wildes has sorted through it all for our feature, Winners and Losers. The Winner If LeBron James wholeheartedly accepted his impending baldness, he would win several NBA championships. ...

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