It's a sad day for funny women that are also smart and beautiful. Saturday Night Live a.k.a. The Lorne Michaels Show has fired Michaela Watkins on the grounds she needs her own show.
Yes, you read what you read. That was the explanation he gave Micheala when she asked why.
He went on to imply she was better off on a sitcom. Let's hope she lands on her feet. Like on a sitcom opposite of SNL. OK... no shows run at that time, but wouldn't that be sweet satisfaction?
Saturday Night Live's Bill Hader and his wife Maggie Carey are expecting their first child. Hader proudly showed off his wife's growing baby bump at Gen Art's New York Premiere of Paper Heart on Wednesday night.
"I'm really excited. It's going to be awesome," Hader told People. He said that his wife has been doing great throughout the pregnancy. "She's awesome. Way tougher than I am," he said.
They do not know the sex of the baby, but they are both very confident about parenting. "Bill's going to be a really cute dad," Carey said.
The couple married in 2006 and their baby is due at the end of September.
In what I call a gutsy (and still funny) move by Saturday Night Live (SNL), to remind everyone in America to 'get a sense of humor', the show went after New York's blind governor Paterson again.
That's right, again. You may recall the show took a lot of heat for mocking the Governor last month and making a parody out of his current tenure in office. More specifically they made jokes over him being blind. A lot of jokes. From him wandering through the set to holding a chart upside down and looking in the wrong direction because he is blind. (See Original December/2009 Controversial Video Below):
But SNL also made a lot of fun of every aspect of his life. They created a caricaturization of his resentment for New Jersey which is now a running joke. Frankly it's hilarious.
Now we have a Governor of a State that should be pretty thick skinned since he is in POLITICS in the first place. I mean come on... if ever the expression "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" applied to anyone, it would be a politician. You don't get in that business if you can't take the heat. But hey, The Governor's office did have some affect on how SNL portrayed in this latest sketch though. They minimized sight gags on him being blind this time around, but they are still there. The focus on most of the jokes were of Paterson being a hard nosed New Yorker with an opinion on everything.
In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Tina Fey and her husband shared some pretty intimate details. Everyone has a scar or mark on their body with an interesting (or maybe, not-so-interesting) story behind it.
Fey opened up for the first time about the mysterious scar on her left cheek. It was the result of an attack by a stranger when she was only five years old. Tina says, "I'm kinda able to forget about it. Until I was on camera, and it became a thing of, 'Oh, I guess we should use this side.'"
Husband and composer Jeff Richmond was fascinated by the scar when he first met his future wife, he says, "This is somebody who, no matter what it was, has gone through something. And I think it really informs the way she thinks about her life. When you have that kind of thing happen to you, that makes you scared of certain things, that makes you frightened of different things, your comedy comes out in a different kind of way, and it also makes you feel for people."
