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  • ‘SNL’ Star Colin Jost Joins Live-Action ‘Tom and Jerry’

    ‘SNL’ Star Colin Jost Joins Live-Action ‘Tom and Jerry’

    NBC

    The latest live-action reboot of a familiar animated property, classic cartoon “Tom and Jerry,” is shoring up its cast, with a TV star joining the ensemble.

    Colin Jost — who’s known to “Saturday Night Live” fans as one of the show’s longtime co-head writers and the co-host of its Weekend Update segment (and known to “Avengers” fans as Scarlett Johansson’s finance) — has signed on for the big screen version of “Tom and Jerry.” Deadline first reported the news, though there are no details yet about what role the comedian will be playing, and whether it will be a live-action character, or animated like the titular cat and mouse.

    Jost joins the previously-cast Chloe Grace Moretz and Michael Pena. The flick follows Kayla (Moretz), a new hire at a posh hotel, who enlists the help of Tom the cat to get rid of Jerry the mouse. She eventually ends up banding together with both critters, however, against her bully of a manager, Terrance (Pena).

    Tim Story (“Ride Along,” “Fantastic Four,” “Think Like a Man,” “Shaft“) is directing and executive producing the feature. No word yet on a potential release date, but “Tom and Jerry” is expected to start shooting sometime later this year.

    [via: Deadline]

  • Tina Fey Stress-Eats a Cake in Surprise ‘SNL’ Appearance

    Tina Fey, SNL, cakeThese are stressful times and Tina Fey has a solution to the question, “What can I do?” Stress-eat a cake, America!

    Making a surprise appearance on “Weekend Update” segment with Saturday Night Live” last night (it’s the summer edition, so it airs on Thursday), Fey dug into a layer cake to deal with her feelings about the violence in Charlottesville.

    Wearing a University of Virginia sweatshirt (she graduated from UVA in 1992), Fey produced the cake and started digging in, saying: “It broke my heart to see these evil forces descend upon Charlottesville. “Then Donny John [Trump] comes out and says that he condemns violence ‘on many sides.’ On many sides, Colin [Jost]. And I’m feeling sick, ’cause you know, I’ve seen ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark,’ and I wasn’t confused by it. No, Colin, Nazis are always bad, I don’t care what you say.”

    With more “alt-right” rallies planned for this Saturday, Fey urged people to vent their frustrations in a safe way: “Find a local business you support, maybe a Jewish-run bakery or an African American-run bakery, and order a cake with the American flag on it…and just eat it, Colin.”

    “Just eat it, Colin!” Can we get that on a T-shirt?

    Fey makes her appearance about 30 seconds into this clip:

  • ‘Saturday Night Live’ Sets ‘Weekend Update’ Spinoff for Summer

    Saturday Night Live“Weekend Update” will be updating viewers all summer.

    “Saturday Night Live” is spinning off the popular satirical news segment into its own primetime series. NBC has ordered four episodes, with the first premiering Thursday, Aug. 10 at 9 p.m. Current “Weekend Update” anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che will continue to man the desk in the spinoff.

    “SNL” is experiencing a ratings resurgence and getting a lot of buzz for its take on President Donald Trump and his administration.

    “‘SNL’ is having its best season in a quarter of a century — how many shows can say that?! — so we didn’t want them to take the summer off,” said Robert Greenblatt, Chairman, NBC Entertainment, in a statement. “We’re thrilled to have Colin Jost and Michael Che continuing their unique brand of news with fresh ‘Weekend Update’ shows in primetime this August.”

    This isn’t the first time “Weekend Update” has aired in primetime. In 2008, Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers headlined a primetime version in the weeks before the presidential election between Barack Obama and John McCain.

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  • Tina Fey Reveals Colin Quinn Called Her the C-Word at ‘SNL’

    tina fey, colin quinn, snl, c-word, saturday night live, 30 rockIt’s part of “30 Rock” lore that the episode “The C Word,” in which Lutz (Saturday Night Live” staff. Now, Fey has revealed his identity, but says they’ve long since buried the hatchet over the offensive incident.

    In an interview with Howard Stern in promotion of her new movie, “Sisters,” Fey said that it was former Weekend Update anchor Colin Quinn who used that horrible word during a heated (and one-sided) phone call while she was the head writer on “SNL.”

    “I was trying to help him with a show that he was working on, and I think his anxiety about the writing of the show spilled over,” Fey told Stern about the incident. “‘Cause It was very random. I was like, ‘What?!’ He left me a message and he said that. … I couldn’t even guess why. Usually, if someone calls you that, you’re like, ‘I know what I did.’”

    But according to the actress, the two have long since patched things up. Fey said she even asked Quinn several times to appear on “30 Rock,” though he turned her down. And they recently ran into each other at the “SNL” 40th anniversary celebration, Fey told Stern, “and we’re good.”

    “I love him so much,” Fey said of the actor.

    Quinn later took to Twitter to confirm Fey’s account, adding that he was in the wrong in the situation and had apologized for his hurtful word(s).

    We’re glad Quinn saw the error of his ways. At least we got a great episode of television out of the awkwardness.

    [via: The Howard Stern Show]

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