On SNL, Seth Meyers spoke with Stefon and his new friend New York’s Hottest Male Model Derrick Zoolander about all the hottest nightclubs. Ben Stiller reprised his cult classic character on Weekend Update.

Stefon, how we’ve missed you! Our favorite New York tour guide stopped by a particularly laggard “Weekend Update” to offer his recommendations for Mother’s Day. Up first was new club “Unhh,” which boasts “piles of expired Lunchables,” and where you can meet Stefon’s best friend, a 2-year-old UFC fighter with “hands like empanadas.” Bill Hader barely got through that one.

CBS’s “Selection Sunday” went in a different direction than usual on “Saturday Night Live,” with a March-madness style Crazy Bracket, in which various insane celebrities and political figures battle for the title of biggest trainwreck. Honorees included Muammar Gaddafi, Melissa Leo, Michele Bachmann and Keith Olbermann.

SNL’s “Weekend Update” featured the triumphant return of Stefon, who appeared on the show to recommend exciting date night spots for New Yorkers. Bill Hader had a bit more difficulty than usual holding it together while describing the perfect spot for lovebirds to mingle with “Jewpids” (Jewish cupids, obviously). Stefon’s crush on Seth Meyers was [...]

After the events of this week, it was inevitable that Saturday Night Live would find some way to work WikiLeaks into a sketch. And the show didn’t disappoint, tackling the website and its Bond villain-esque founder, Julian Assange, during the first few minutes of tonight’s broadcast.

While only time will tell in us seeing whether or not George Soros will bring about a terrifying One World Government, the jury seems to have a verdict ready on one of Glenn Beck’s other pet predictions: that whole gold thing. With prices of gold on the rise, it looks like Beck might be able to put this one in the win column. Of course, Beck wasn’t going to stoop to explicitly saying a big fat “I told you so” on national television. Nope. He let SNL’s Bill Hader do it for him.

Some of the best SNL impressions aren’t impressions at all, but rather spoofy exaggerations of characters that take the joke to the nth degree: Maya Rudolph‘s Donatella Versace; Phil Hartmann‘s Sinatra; Andy Samberg‘s Mark Wahlberg; Eddie Murphy‘s Gumby. Add to the list Will Forte‘s, and now Bill Hader‘s version of Chinese leader Hu Jintao, which [...]

Last night’s SNL Weekend Update featured James Carville (Bill Hader) weighing in on the pluses and minuses of a Tea Party victory: “Crazy can be appealing, I’ve made a career out of it, but that doesn’t mean I should be elected to office.” Indeed.

Few things make SNL more fun than when the cast members themselves struggle to keep a straight face. Last night, SNL introduced a new character to their weekend update last night: Stefan, played by Bill Hader, is a Williamsburg-esque hipster club kid whose job is to report to Seth Meyers where tourists might go when visiting Manhattan. An attempt to describe ‘human fire hydrants’ proved to be the breaking point.

Long before The Daily Show, long before The Colbert Report, Saturday Night Live was making fun of the news in a way that no one had ever seen before.
In honor of the premiere of Season 35, we’ve pulled together 35 of SNL‘s choicest news anchor spoofs and Weekend Updates, from Baba Wawa to Fred Armisen‘s Joy Behar to the infamous Couric/Palin interview.

“Nostalgia,” said Don Draper to the hushed and darkened room. “It’s delicate, but potent…Teddy told me that in Greek, nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound. It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone.” Then he convinced a roomful of clients that calling it a Carousel might actually reinvent the wheel. Suckers!

We can’t speed time up and make it Sunday at 10 p.m. any faster than the Lord or Matthew Weiner willeth, but we can pull together a few videos that will slake your mighty thirst, momentarily.