By Jeff Rosz | October 14th, 2012 Saturday Night Live had a pretty decent sketch last night where they poked fun at web-based tech shows that talk about relatively unimportant misses on the devices we love. To perhaps shed light on the absurdity of this practice, they chose to include Foxconn factory workers responsible for building the Apple products people lineup for year after year. Their role in all this was to mock the many gripes people have with the latest iPhone. Enjoy. Continue Reading
By Jeff Rosz | October 7th, 2012 Saturday Night Live had a little fun with the 50th anniversary of Bond as Daniel Craig took the reins of the long-running sketch series. They ran a bit early on in the program to mock the blu-ray collection released for the occasion with a tribute to the lesser known Bond girls. This is yet another one of SNL’s pre-taped collaborative efforts with several cast members dressing up as fairly recognizable celebrities. Continue Reading
By Jeff Rosz | May 6th, 2012 Saturday Night Live took some time yesterday to make fun of the tremendous success of the best-selling erotic fiction novel Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James. The response came in the form of a faux Amazon ad for Mother’s Day with a cast that included Jason Sudeikis, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Vanessa Bayer, Taran Killam, and Nasim Pedrad.
By Jeff Rosz | April 8th, 2012 Bravo gets a lot of love on Saturday Night Live, so it was only a matter of time before their talk show supplement got spoofed. Taran Killam played Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen in a sketch last night that featured impressions of two Shahs of the Sunset Stars (Sofia Vergara, Nasim Pedrad) and Desmond Tutu (Kenan Thompson.) Also, Andy Samberg was the “guest bartender.”
By Jeff Rosz | March 4th, 2012 Here is one of the biggest pop culture jabs from last night’s Lindsay Lohan-hosted Saturday Night Live: Real Housewives of Disney. The bit cast Abby Elliott as Belle, Vanessa Bayer as Snow White, Nasim Pedrad as Jasmine, Kristen Wiig as Cinderella, and Lindsay Lohan as Rapunzel. Taran Killam played was the only male cast member in this one as he played Cinderella’s “gay prince.”
By Jeff Rosz | February 19th, 2012 Saturday Night Live featured a bit about Jay Z and Beyonce’s baby last night in another impersonation fest of a sketch. This one had Maya Rudolph as Beyonce, Jay Pharoah as Jay Z, Fred Armisen as Prince, Kenan Thompson as L.L. Cool J, Nasim Pedrad as Nicki Minaj, Taran Killam as Brad Pitt, Abby Elliott as Angelina Jolie, Kristen Wiig as Taylor Swift, and Justin Timberlake as Bon Iver.
By Jeff Rosz | February 12th, 2012 Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update segment featured a bit with Nasim Pedrad as Arianna Huffington last night. Here is the bit where Seth Meyers gets Huffington to share her two cents on the political race at the moment complete with a potshot at Huffington Post’s ‘copy-paste’ nature.
By Jeff Rosz | November 6th, 2011 Saturday Night Live poked fun at Kim Kardashian’s overblown and short live marriage last night. The sketch featured Nasim Pedrad as Kim Kardashian, Kristen Wiig as Kris Jenner, and Taran Killam as Bruce Jenner. Continue Reading
By Jeff Rosz | October 19th, 2011 The following is a bonus sketch from dress rehearsal of last week’s Saturday Night Live that featured Bill Hader as Charlie Rose, Jason Sudeikis as the CEO of Netflix, Nasim Pedrad as Arianna Huffington, Andy Samberg as Mark Zuckerberg, and Fred Armisen as Rupert Murdoch. Enjoy. Continue Reading
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