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  • ‘SNL’: Tina Fey Saves Felicity Jones Monologue, Trump Slams Show Again

    “Saturday Night Live” to help host Felicity Jones work through her obvious nerves. Jones, star of the box office juggernaut “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” hosted the episode on January 14, and NBC also showed a repeat of Carrie Fisher’s SNL episode in 1978. In keeping with the Star Wars theme, Tina Fey showed up in the monologue as a Princess Leia-like hologram, with Kenan Thompson doing his best Forest Whitaker impression as Saw Gerrera.

    Jones admitted she was nervous, and Fey told her to just do her best and don’t worry what the reviews say: “No matter how it goes, the President of the United States will say that it’s “sad and overrated.”

    Here’s the monologue:As usual, that Trump assessment was not far off the mark. This week’s SNL was once again dominated by Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump impression — in a Golden Showers cold open — complete with another reaction tweet from Trump that the show is “not funny.”

    Here’s the cold open, which has more than 4 million views so far:

    Jones also joined the cast for another “Bachelor” spoof, this time mocking Nick Viall as “Beard Hunk”:

    And SNL showed it can mock Hollywood celebrities almost as well as it mocks Trump in this “Movie Interview” sketch:

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  • Alec Baldwin Reveals How Much ‘SNL’ Pays Him to Play Donald Trump

    “Saturday Night Live” for at least the next four years, which means he could make some decent side money. How decent?

    The New York Times casually revealed Baldwin’s pay in a new profile of the actor, following his weekly transformation into the president-elect. (FYI, it takes seven minutes for Baldwin to become Trump through hair and makeup.)

    Here’s the money blurb:

    “His Trump is as much censure as impersonation. He does not write the sketches. He is paid $1,400 for each appearance on the show, he said.”

    OK, for the past several years there have been 21 or 22 episodes a year. Baldwin’s Trump won’t be in all of them, but let’s pretend he’ll appear 20 times in the 2016-2017 season. That would give him $28,000 a season, which isn’t going to make him rich, but considering each sketch is usually only a couple of minutes long, and he doesn’t have to memorize the lines — the cue cards are right there — it’s not a bad gig.

    However, Baldwin did tell the NY Times he’s about to film two movies, and then presumably promote them, so his Trump performances for “SNL” will be intermittent. Plus, he said seeing his Trump every week would start to get old for the audience. The show wants to keep it special. So his total fee is probably going to be closer to $15,000 or something like that — which, as a sidenote, is also around what he got paid to host the Oscars.

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  • Watch Alec Baldwin Wage War on Puppies in ‘The Boss Baby’ Trailer

    Forget “Saturday Night Live” guest appearances: Alec Baldwin has another big role — with even tinier hands.

    DreamWorks Animation released the official trailer for “The Boss Baby” Wednesday, and it features Baldwin as a baby with a giant agenda. His character, Baby Boss Templeton, is on a mission to find out why there isn’t enough love to go around. Solving the problem involves unorthodox solutions, such as trying to take down puppies so they can’t steal love from babies.

    Along the way, Baby Boss forms an unlikely alliance with his older brother, who just wants him gone. He also enlists the help of some fellow diaper-wearing friends, all while trying to keep their parents out of the loop.Baldwin isn’t the only big-name star whose voice you’ll hear in the animated comedy. Lisa Kudrow, Jimmy Kimmel, Steve Buscemi, and Tobey Macguire are all part of the cast as well.

    “The Boss Baby” hits theaters on March 31.

  • Alec Baldwin Fires Back at Donald Trump in Twitter War Over ‘SNL’

    Once again, Donald Trump lashed out at “Saturday Night Live” for mocking him, but this time Alec Baldwin didn’t just sit back and take it. The actor tweeted some ALL-CAPS advice to our POTUS-elect, and basically promised more of the same for the next four years (at least).

    Trump hosted SNL last year, but when Baldwin started playing Trump this year, the future prez tweeted that the “boring and unfunny show” should be canceled, adding, “Alec Baldwin portrayal stinks.” Baldwin just retweeted Trump’s dis that time, but this week he shared his own critique of Trump’s complaints.

    It started with SNL’s (pretty scathing) November 19 cold open, with Baldwin’s Trump Googling “Isis,” taking a brief meeting with Jason Sudeikis’s Mitt Romney, and getting updates from Kate McKinnon’s Kellyanne Conway, shown to be deeply regretting her role in helping Trump win: The Trump jokes continued during Weekend Update:Without pointing to anything in particular, Trump reacted to the episode the next morning:

    Alec Baldwin replied in force from his foundation’s account:

    Some fans replied that Baldwin should be the next president, and considering some of his own outbursts in the past, he may have the exact temperament to win.

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  • ‘Saturday Night Live’ to Air Primetime Election Special November 7

    “Saturday Night Live” is always on its A game during election years, and this season’s offerings have been a perfect example of that, skewering presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump with gleeful abandon. Now, the Not Ready for Primetime Players will bring their act to a new primetime election special, set to air the night before Americans head to the polls.

    “The 2016 SNL Election Special” is slated for broadcast on Monday, November 7 at 10 p.m. on NBC, a one-hour event that will “retrace the highlights of the current presidential campaign through clips of recent ‘SNL’ political sketches,” per Deadline. Unlike years past, when “SNL” aired live Weekend Update specials that featured new sketches and commentary, it does not appear that any additional content will be taped for this special.

    While the event will no doubt feature lots of the recent work of current Hillary and Trump stand-ins, Kate McKinnon and Alec Baldwin (whose work has angered his real-life counterpart), Deadline wonders whether or not the special will also include clips from Trump’s recent hosting stint, when he emceed the sketch series back in November 2015. At the time, that controversial move prompted protests and boycotts; it’s unclear if NBC would want to revisit that tumultuous time. Clinton also made an appearance last season, cameoing in a sketch alongside McKinnon.

    “SNL” is currently on a ratings hot streak, delivering its highest numbers since the 2008 election. We’ll see if it can maintain that momentum throughout the rest of season 42.

    [via: Deadline]

  • Trump & Clinton Debate Gives ‘SNL’ Best Premiere Ratings in 8 Years

    “Saturday Night Live” just proved it has the look stamina — stam-in-uh — to stay strong even after four decades. The Season 42 premiere was hosted by Margot Robbie with musical guest The Weeknd, and featured the debut of Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump impression, opposite Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton, while bringing back Larry David as Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Darrell Hammond as Bill Clinton.

    The natural political fodder brought in the viewers, just like it did eight years ago the last time we thought a presidential campaign couldn’t get any crazier. Deadline reports that the October 1, 2016 show drew a 5.8 household rating in the metered markets, up 29 percent from last year’s 4.5 premiere. That made it SNL’s highest-rated season premiere since the 2008 cycle that introduced Tina Fey as Gov. Sarah Palin, which averaged a 7.5 rating in the metered markets.

    Deadline added that, in the 25 markets with local people meters, the Season 42 premiere was the highest-rated premiere in 18-49 since September 28, 2013, which was hosted by Tina Fey, and matched SNL’s top premiere since September 15, 2012, which was hosted by Seth MacFarlane with musical guest Frank Ocean.

    Beyond politics, SNL 42 also made headlines for dropping cast members Taran Killam, Jay Pharoah , and Jon Rudnitsky, and adding Mikey Day, Alex Moffat, and Melissa Villaseñor. It was also reported that Season 42 would show a 30 percent reduction of ads, removing two commercial breaks per episode to make room for more actual content.

    Check out SNL’s take on the Trump/Clinton debate, plus Celebrity Family Feud: Political Edition, and the “Mr. Robot” sketch:


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  • How Tom Cruise Got Director Hired in 10 Minutes

    If the superstar of a blockbuster franchise wants something, he gets it. So when Tom Cruise called the Hollywood heavy hitters behind “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” with his handpicked selection for its director, he got it. Fast.

    “He left the room and came back 10 minutes later with the phone in his hand and said, ‘Okay, you’re directing the next ‘Mission: Impossible.’ And that was it,” director Christopher McQuarrie tells Made in Hollywood.

    There’s little to wonder why Cruise was eager to have McQuarrie join him for his fifth turn in the action flick. Previously they collaborated on 2012’s “Jack Reacher,” and when McQuarrie was working on the script for 2014’s “Edge of Tomorrow,” of which Cruise starred opposite Emily Blunt, the 53-year-old actor made the suggestion during a creative session one night.

    When McQuarrie agreed, rather casually, to take on role as director, he was surprised that Cruise wasted no time in enlisting him for work. “I figured that that would be a conversation we would have later,” McQuarrie recalls.

    “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation,” co-starring Alec Baldwin, Rebecca Fergusson, Simon Pegg and Jeremy Renner opened last Friday. Watch the trailer below.

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  • Best of Late Night TV: David Letterman’s Final Show, Justin Bieber Carpool Karaoke

    If you’re like us and value your sleep, you probably nodded off into your Ambien dreamland before the party started on post-prime time TV. Don’t worry; we’ve got you covered. Here’s the best of what happened last night on late night.

    This is it. The end of an era. Wednesday, May 20 was all about David Letterman’s retirement from late night TV after 33 years, and his final night as host of “The Late Show.” Stephen Colbert will take over “Late Show” on September 8. You should head to TheLateShow on YouTube to catch up on all the videos posted from the past few weeks, but here are the main segments from last night — if nothing else, you should watch the epic star-studded Top 10 list.

    Here’s Dave’s final show entrance, with the crowd standing to cheer: Dave’s final monologue started after he forced the audience to calm down and stop chanting for him. He said they stood so long they didn’t have time for the “gifts to the audience” segment. He also revealed the bad news: “I’ll be honest with you, it’s beginning to look like I’m not gonna get ‘The Tonight Show.’” Haha. Also, he’s sick of being asked what he’s going to do when he’s retired, but he took a moment to reveal (joking, of course) his plans: There had to be a last Top 10 list, so here’s “Top Ten Things I’ve Always Wanted to Say To Dave,” with each one read by a different celebrity: Alec Baldwin, Barbara Walters, Steve Martin, Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Carrey, Chris Rock, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Peyton Manning, Tina Fey, and Bill Murray back with No. 1: There was a video with U.S. Presidents noting that “Our Long National Nightmare Is Over” … capped by President Obama and Dave: Here’s “The Best of David Letterman and Kids”: Dave very briefly wished good luck to Stephen Colbert — who must know he has big shoes to fill. Foo Fighters performed “Everlong,” accompanied by highlights from Dave’s 33-year late night career: And here’s Dave’s final thank you and good night, after 6,000 shows, asking people to save some of this merited or unmerited praise for his funeral: Other stuff happened on late night TV beyond Letterman’s final show. In case you didn’t see it before, here’s Seth Meyers recreating Letterman’s “Late Night” opening from 1982: Patton Oswalt was on “Conan” and he and Conan O’Brien talked about being inspired by David Letterman. There were a lot of “Star Wars” comparisons. When it came time for “Conan” to hit the same timeframe as “Late Show,” Conan O’Brien told everyone to record “Conan” but change the channel to watch “The Late Show.” Very cute. Respect. Over on “The Late Late Show with James Corden,” James had his own Top 10 list, called “The Top 10 Things We Will Miss About David Letterman”: James closed his episode with a classic Letterman move – dropping watermelons off the CBS roof: Halle Berry and Jeffrey Dean Morgan were both on “The Late Late Show” and they too talked about Letterman: Also, here’s another round of James’ Carpool Karaoke — this time with Justin Bieber and James singing “Baby.” Over on “The Tonight Show,” Jeff Foxworthy hosted a special edition of “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader” with Pitbull and Jimmy Fallon. David Duchovny was also on Fallon’s show and revealed he was “The Head Boy” in high school. Dwyane Wade was on Seth’s show and talked about being a Groomzilla. Kellan Lutz was also on Seth’s show and talked about being an inventor with his fifth patent:

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  • Say ‘Aloha’ to the First Trailer for Cameron Crowe’s New Movie (VIDEO)

    aloha trailerSometimes you just need a little chatty, whimsical Cameron Crowe romantic comedy in your life. The first trailer for Crowe’s new movie, “Aloha,” certainly demonstrates that.

    Originally called “Deep Tiki,” the film was ready to go a few years ago with a much different cast (led by Ben Stiller), before being reassembled with Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone in the primary roles. The film concerns a disgraced defense contractor who is sent to Hawaii to supervise a satellite array and, while there, true to form, falls in love. The ridiculously starry cast also includes Rachel McAdams, Alec Baldwin, Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Danny McBride and Jay Baruchel. There will also, presumably, be well-known pop songs expertly placed for maximum emotional devastation.

    What’s interesting about the film, which at one point also went by the name “Volcano Romance,” is that there was, at least initially, an element of magic and mysticism which has either a) been cut from the film entirely or b) proved too hard to introduce in an initial trailer meant to get everyone (including soccer moms and guidance counselors) excited about the movie. Hopefully the Polynesian mysticism and talking computer made the final cut. Without these elements, the trailer makes it seem almost too conventionally Cameron Crowe-y. But we will see…

    Not to temper the enthusiasm but this is the first movie Crowe has written and directed since 2005 “Elizabethtown,” an embarrassing debacle that he hasn’t completely atoned for. (2011’s “We Bought a Zoo,” Crowe’s last film, saw him working from another writer’s screenplay.) Here’s hoping that he’s communed with the island gods adn reconnected with his creative mojo.%Slideshow-206962%