Remember a few weeks ago, when “Saturday Night Live” aired a presidential debate sketch where the candidates were seated according to their chances in the polls, and Rick Santorum was left to participate via satellite from a gay bar in the San Francisco’s Castro District? Oh, so very much has changed since then. This week’s episode began with an address from Rick Santorum himself, played by Andy Samberg (wearing Santorum’s now-signature sweater vest, of course).

Jimmy Fallon and Andy Samberg were in an odd little sketch a third of the way through the show, which opened with Fallon giving himself a pep talk backstage while taking a break from hosting the “Saturday Night Live” Christmas episode…see what they did there? Trés meta! Samberg showcased his best Fallon impression, and the pair also did a few impressions together — Jerry Seinfeld, Barry Gibb (which they cut short when one Fallon informed the other Fallon that co-host Justin Timberlake couldn’t make it), and Kermit the Frog among them.

On this week’s SNL Digital Short, Andy Samberg and Katy Perry were two best friends “with holiday cheer” who are inseparable, caroling, wrapping presents and spending such quality time watching The Lion King.

The last sketch of the night on “SNL” is usually when everyone starts to get ready for bed and is only half-watching the screen…or maybe that’s just how I usually end an episode. This time, however, we were treated to “We’re Going To Make Technology Hump,” a show that can never be accused of false advertising.

Andy Samberg‘s comedy group, The Lonely Island, teamed up with Michael Bolton to recreate their popular SNL digital short and thoroughly confuse Bolton fans the world over. They were joined by a troupe of dancers, various funny actors, the 80s and what may very well have been a merkin haphazardly glued onto Bolton’s face.

Better listen to this now so you now what everyone is rambling on about at the office tomorrow.

When Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake do musical parody, expectations are ridiculously high. Dick in a Box and Mother Lover are previous SNL shorts that were huge viral hits. So, how do they deal with the high expectations that typically kill a good joke? How about adding Lady Gaga for another parody of early 90′s smooth R&B-cum-Color Me Badd song satire.

Jesse Eisenberg’s opening monologue for “Saturday Night Live” got off to a pretty standard start — he name-dropped “The Social Network,” poked fun at his über-nerd persona, and was interrupted by Andy Samberg-as-Mark-Zuckerberg. The fun was ruined, however, by the appearance of Zuckerberg himself. Game changer!

You saw it here first: from the same people who gave you “Dick In A Box” and “Jizz In My Pants” comes SNL’s latest Digital Short Video, released last night: “I Just Had Sex,” a post-sex anthem featuring Akon as the lead singer, with Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer, and cameos from Blake Lively and Jessica Alba.

It’s a good thing that the sight of a famous man wearing a pair of fake boobs is still enough to make most people giggle. Otherwise, the following sketch from tonight’s episode of Saturday Night Live would have been a total—excuse the pun—bust. In it, Andy Samberg plays “Blizzard Man,” a hip-hop hitmaker tasked with coming up with a hook for SNL musical guest Diddy‘s new song. Host Robert De Niro plays Samberg’s supportive, tight-sweater-wearing mother.

Rihanna is so damn hot. Andy Samberg’s “Shy Ronnie” is so damn not. Which is just one of the fun juxtapositions set up by the second installment of the getting-close-to-being-pretty-damn-iconic “Shy Ronnie” SNL digital short.

This past weekend, Mediaite contributor Jasmine Moy took in the New Yorker Festival, one of the city’s hottest cultural tickets every fall, usually featuring very smart people sitting in chairs on stage, talking thoughtfully about smart things, for longer than five minutes and without interruption. Why is there so little of that on the telly? It even had its share of naughtiness: “They were small breasts, in keeping with the understated nature of the magazine.” If you want to find out the context for that remark, you’ll have to read on.

Sometimes, you can tell when the SNL writing staff has been doing drugs. Perhaps the safest bet ever is tonight’s digital short starring Andy Samberg and tonight’s host, Precious star Gabourey Sidibe.* Does it make sense? To someone, probably, at one point — though that does not seem to have included many in the viewing audience. Nonetheless, it is destined to enter the pantheon of viral videos just because it actually is that weird.

Back in 2005, the first viral video hit that put Saturday Night Live‘s Digital Shorts on the map was “Lazy Sunday,” which touted the virtues of the Chronic(…les of Narnia).

With former SNL cast member Chris Parnell a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, the taped short was performed live for the first time last night.

Saturday Night Live‘s Andy Samberg took a profanity-filled turn as White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel in a segment referred to as “An Even Tempered Apology.” It was, predictably, anything but, as Samberg’s Emanuel unleashed on a tirade of f-bombs and insults. He hit the progressive Democrats (“f*cking turncoats”) over “Retardgate,” but then set his sights on Sarah Palin, who called for his resignation on Facebook. The nicest thing he calls her is a “gimmick.”

Oh, leave me alone. SNL’s 34th season kicks off this Saturday night, and Megan Fox is hosting. Even Obama is talking about her. This is news.

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