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Kanye, Beware: Taylor Swift to Host Saturday Night Live
Originally posted 10/15/2009 07:30AM
Kanye West apparently is not on the invitation list, leaving the stage wide open for Taylor Swift, who will host Saturday Night Live on Nov. 7, NBC has announced.
Swift, who performed on the 35-year-old satirical program in January, will be hosting for the first time, an opportunity she calls "mind-blowing," according to a statement. She adds, "I love being around people who I feel have a different kind of creative genius. And the funny genius is definitely a fascinating one to be around."
Of course, it wasn't so funny on Sept. 13 when West interrupted Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards while she was accepting for best female video. Days later, he officially apologized.
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Saturday Night Live's Bill Hader Welcomes a Daughter
Originally posted 10/12/2009 11:20AM
It's a girl for Saturday Night Live funnyman Bill Hader.
Wife Maggie Carey delivered the couple's first child, Hannah Kathryn Hader, on Oct. 6.
The couple, who married in 2006, announced the pregnancy in August.
At the time, Hader told PEOPLE, "I'm really excited [about parenthood]. I think it's going to be awesome."
• Reporting by MARK DAGOSTINO
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Saturday Night Live's Bill Hader to Be a Dad!
Originally posted 08/06/2009 04:40PM
It's no joke: Funnyman Bill Hader's wife is pregnant with the couple's first child.
At Gen Art's New York Premiere of Paper Heart Wednesday night, the Saturday Night Live star proudly showed off wife Maggie Carey's burgeoning baby bump.
"I'm really excited," Hader told PEOPLE of becoming a first-time dad. "I think it's going to be awesome."
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Live From New York: Introducing New SNL Star Abby Elliott
Originally posted 03/09/2009 11:40AM
New Saturday Night Live cast member Abby Elliott, 21, has been wowing audiences this season with her spot-on impressions of stars like Angelina Jolie and Rachel Maddow. But there's something else that makes her stand out from the rest of the Studio 8H players: She's the first ever second-generation cast member.
Abby's dad, Chris Elliott – known for playing lovable losers and silly psychos on David Letterman' latenight shows, and in films like There's Something About Mary and Cabin Boy – hammed it up on SNL's 1994-1995 season.
Father and daughter sat with PEOPLE to talk about Abby's comedic disposition.
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Amy Poehler Texts Pals at SNL from Bed
Originally posted 11/07/2008 11:05AM
Now that Amy Poehler is a new mom – of son Archie Arnett, born Oct. 25 – the Saturday Night Live star has started viewing the NBC show differently. From home, that is.
Poehler's SNL costar Kenan Thompson tells PEOPLE Poehler watched the show in bed with Archie (dad is comedian-actor Will Arnett).
Poehler sent Thompson a special text message after she witnessed the cast's vocal tribute to her the day she gave birth, when they tweaked Frankie Valli's lyrics "I love you, baby" to "We love you, Amy."
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VIDEO: Tina Fey & Sarah Palin Cross Paths on SNL
Originally posted 10/19/2008 09:00AM
Fans of Satuday Night Live, who've grown accustomed to seeing Tina Fey spoof Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, were seeing double Saturday night, when the Alaska governor opened the show.
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Live, From New York: Barack Obama!
Originally posted 09/11/2008 08:25PM
Michael Phelps isn't the only person hoping to make waves on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live this weekend.
He will be joined by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who'll be jetting in from New Hampshire, PEOPLE has learned, but whose role in the show is like many of the voters he covets: undecided.
"The details of the sketch are still being worked out," an Obama campaign spokesperson tells PEOPLE.
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Michael Phelps: More Nervous About SNL Than Olympics
Originally posted 09/11/2008 03:35PM
Olympic swimming phenom Michael Phelps expects to be in deep comic waters when he hosts Saturday Night Live's 34th season premiere this weekend.
"I'm probably more nervous doing this than I was swimming in Beijing, I'll tell you that!" Phelps, 23, said Thursday.
Phelps, who won a record eight gold medals, began reading through skits with the cast Wednesday night, and it's already clear his wardrobe will be kept to a minimum, with parodies of his Olympics moments, his skimpy Speedos, his emotional mom in the stands – and even Phelps as Aquaman.
"There's some really, really funny skits – anything you can imagine, they nailed just about every topic," Phelps says.
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SNL Auditions to Become Reality Show
Originally posted 11/04/2004 09:00AM
NBC may have given the back of its hand to the series Last Comic Standing – pulling the plug before the last comic stood – but now the network is gearing up for a reality-competition series fronted by Saturday Night Live creator-executive producer Lorne Michaels.
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SNL Vets Gather to Honor Lorne Michaels
Originally posted 09/27/2004 09:00AM
SCHEDULED: Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Darrell Hammond, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows, Conan O'Brien, Molly Shannon and David Spade, along with regular Saturday Night Live guests Steve Martin, Christopher Walken, Candice Bergen and Paul Simon are due to gather at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center Concert Hall on Oct. 25 when the show's creator, Lorne Michaels, receives the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Besides the 30-year-old SNL, Michaels, 59, is the executive producer of Late Night with Conan O'Brien and his films as producer include this past summer's hit Mean Girls.
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