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Victoria Jackson's CPAC Comments and 4 More Controversial Moments From the 'SNL' Star [VIDEOS]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsVictoria Jackson sure loves to talk about politics. The former "Saturday Night Live" star joined a panel called "Getting Started in Hollywood" at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC. While some panel members, including Variety deputy editor Ted Johnson, doubted there was a widespread movement to suppress conservatives in Hollywood, Jackson disagreed: "They just don't dislike Christians, they hate God," said Jackson, who later added, "You don't know how liberal it is, even the Christians are communist. ... Do you see me on TV? No. Do you see me in movies? ...
Artist Tortures Santa in Gruesome Christmas Ornaments
By David Moye - AOL News
(Dec. 10) -- You know that old saying about how artists must suffer for their art. Well, Michael R. Oddo is taking things to a different extreme: He's making his art out of making Santa Claus suffer. Oddo, an internationally recognized oil painter based in Moorpark, Calif., has a side job making wooden Christmas ornaments that show the jolly fat man being tortured, executed, beaten, electrocuted and -- coming soon, kids -- hanged by an evil dwarf. Michael R. Oddo For the last four years, artist Michael R. Oddo has been spreading Christmas cheer by hand carving ornaments of Santa Claus being ...
Glockenspiel Musician 'Born to Run' With Bizarre Springsteen Tribute
By David Moye - AOL News
(Oct. 13) -- A conceptual artist in New York is doing for the glockenspiel what Christopher Walken did for the cowbell. Sort of. Artist Cory Arcangel was so impressed by Bruce Springsteen's use of the high-pitched percussion instrument on three tracks of his seminal mid-1970s album "Born to Run" (including the title cut) that he thought he'd add extra glockenspiel tracks on the other songs. "I had always wanted to write a composition which was to be played in tandem with another. An addendum. I thought this was an interesting way to predetermine the variables I would be working with when ...
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Betty White Scores Emmy Win for 'SNL' Hosting Gig
By not in system - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES (Aug. 22) -- The Betty White phenomenon keeps getting bigger. White won an Emmy Award for best guest actress in a comedy series for her turn as "Saturday Night Live" host. The honor came Saturday at the creative arts ceremony that is precursor to the main Aug. 29 Emmy show. The trophy is the fifth prime-time Emmy received by the 88-year-old White, according to the TV academy. Her previous honors came for classic sitcoms including "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Golden Girls." So far this year, besides the "SNL" gig, White made a splash with the new TV Land sitcom "Hot in ...
Tina Fey: Mark Twain Prize Winner and 'Fearless Observer of Society'
By Frances Tobin - Politics DailyIn the midst of a news cycle dominated by serious and sobering issues including catastrophic oil rig explosions, continuing economic woes and an ongoing immigration debate, a morsel of good news is still to be found: It was announced this week that Tina Fey, of "Saturday Night Live" and "30 Rock" fame, won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor -- one of the most prestigious humor awards in the country. When Fey is presented the award during a show at the Kennedy Center this November, she will be joining a small club of honorees. Only 12 other comedians have won the award, and of those, ...
Betty White: SNL Gig Showcases the Bawdy Broad's Genius
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyHello Betty! It's so nice to have you back where you belong. In a world where women on television seem to get younger and thinner and more vapid by the moment (and the 99.9 percent of the rest disappear, fade back, or take on more serious roles), suddenly the sassiest, smartest, sexiest woman on air is . . . 88˝-year-old Betty White, the Old School comedienne, born in 1922 and armed with tongue-in-cheek double entendres alongside nods to her once-and-future sexual prowess and her aging peer-group. All of which kicks anyone born in 1992 to the curb. Sorry kids. Maybe she never left us, ...
SNL Tiger Woods Skit Somehow Manages to Be Funny
By Will Brinson - AOL NewsThe Saturday Night Live "Tiger Woods Skit" was an obvious lay-up of a joke that you were gonna get on Saturday night. (If only the SNL writers were smart enough to use, you know, actual real world stuff more often, the show would be much funnier.) After the jump, the full video of the sketch, which features the Keenan Thompson playing a-not-so-realistic Tiger Woods, and the quite attractive Blake Lively playing Elin.Because the world is full of people that like to complain about stuff, some folks think SNL crossed the line with this sketch because domestic violence is not a funny topic. (And ...
SNL Skit a Warning for Obama?
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Nov. 23) - It's always been a good sign for "Saturday Night Live" when people are still talking about the show on Monday morning. That's happening more often now that the venerable comedy program is sharpening its satire of President Barack Obama. This weekend's show opened with a parody of Obama's news conference with China's president that included jabs at the administration's spending on economic stimulus, health care reform, bailouts and Cash for Clunkers. America's $800 billion debt to China was the butt of many jokes. "Remember this moment, folks," Andrew Breitbart's Big ...
'SNL' Mocks Obama China Trip, Features Palin and Gore
By David Sessions - Politics DailyPolitics were the talk of the weekend on "Saturday Night Live," hosted by Joseph Gordon-Levitt ("Miracle at St. Anna"). The show opened with a sketch featuring Chinese President Hu Jintao calling out Barack Obama on the vast sums the U.S. government owes his country. Later, political moments included the trailer for the recent disaster flick "2012," mashed up with fake news clips announcing Sarah Palin's election to the presidency, and a guest appearance by Al Gore during the "Weekend Update" segment. China Cold Open Trailer: Palin 2012 "Weekend Update": Green Week with Al Gore ...
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