The most recent SNL Digital Short was an excellent Twilight parody.  Along with their FOX News skit, Penelope returned! and Taylor Swift’s security-aided (to keep Kanye out) musical (lalala) monologue, it was actually a decent SNL last night.

Thanks internets! From last week’s “Top Chef” where Padma Lakshmi and guest judge Natalie Portman drop their fair share of fellatio double entendres in 40-seconds. [via]

In case you missed it because you fell asleep while watching the season two premiere of Castle. Not admitting that happened to me, of course, but obviously it’s been known to happen. Is it hot in here? It feels really hot. I’m just going. To. Step. Aside.

It’s been a long, eventful three weeks since Jon Stewart last graced us with his ascerbic wit.  Joe Wilson’s outburst and Glenn Beck’s Million (not so much) Unbalanced Angry White Man March were all the more troubling without him. [via]

I won’t give away too much from the clip above, but for regular watchers of the show (I reluctantly admit I am somehow still one of them), it looks like the writers are asking you to believe that Dr. George O’Malley, last seen smashed from walking into a bus or something and writing “007″ into Meredith Grey’s hand, isn’t really the pulpy dead guy in the hospital.

“That’s not George,” says Dr. Grey (there seems to be a weird discrepency with how season five ended and season six begins; or it could be my shoddy memory). “Look at his feet! Look how tall he is!”  So maybe he’s alive!  I don’t know!  It’s all so confusing! 

Based on the clip that Vulture got their hands on, it looks like I might not be watching for much longer.

He can’t live with it, can’t live without it. But honestly, we all know where he’s coming from; I often hulk out like this on the weekends before I’ve had coffee.

What would we do without the unintentional reality show comedy tour?

Um so this happened. Yay! for you guys. Gotta love that Mike Huckabee dropped a Russell Simmons reference. Hey Mike, Simmons was a producer and founder of Def Jam, he didn’t actually lay down ryhmes.

Conservatives. Always with their pulse on the youth of America. [via Kos]

Yowzas. Not only did Mark-Paul Gosselaar show up as Zack Morris but he sign on for Jimmy Fallon’s Saved By the Bell reunion. The dude also dropped the old Zack Attack hit “Friends Forever” with The Roots. And he made mention of the show beginning in Indiana and then moving to California before calling time out. My head just exploded. Thanks internet.

Coming in the year 3000: YouTwittFace

One giant super time wasting site. Glad to see Conan bringing this gag with him, now if we can just get him to bring the pooping robot or the masturbating bear we can destroy the fabric of television and everyone that says Conan’s humor doesn’t translate from 12:30 to 11:30. Whatever that means.

Sean Connery (Darrell Hammond), Kathie Lee-Gifford (Kristen Wiig), along with special guest star Tom Hanks (Tom Hanks) terrorize Trebek.  Norm MacDonald appears as Burt Reynolds.

Hanks proves once again why the man needs to do more screwball comedies.  It’s something he’s clearly gifted at and we’ll never be sure why he just stopped making them.

Nine-year-old Yuto Miyazawa tears up the Ellen DeGeneres show with his rendition of Ozzy’s “Crazy Train.”  Again, this little dude is nine and he absolutely nails the guitar part here.  The singing, not so much.  But who cares?  Listen to that sick guitar.

I won’t ruin the ending because it’s as touching as the ending to Steel Magnolias or My Girl or Braveheart. I want to make another joke, but that would sorta ruin the ending.  Maybe in the comments.

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Chris Ware’s Quimby the Mouse gets the animated treatment by John Kuramoto for This American Life–Live!.  Music by Andrew Bird.

An encore presentation is being held May 7 in theaters nationwide.  Head to Fathom Events’ site to find a screening and buy tickets.  The event featured guests Joss Whedon, Dan Savage, and Mike Birgiglia.   [via Pop Candy]

Much of Conan’s more legendary skits (re: the pooping robot) won’t translate to an earlier/older audience and this is proof of that.  I don’t know if my grandma, or mom for that matter, would find an animatronic bear masturbating funny, but it is.

Tonight Conan welcomes The White Stripes back as his final musical guest. His final Late Show should be an emotionally doozy/hillarious affair.

“Otherwise, what were the high points? Anyone like the Digital Short with T-Pain on the boat? Sure, host Bradley Cooper was pleasant and enthusiastic, but his material? The game show about having sex with contestants’ wives? Cooper’s okay Christian Bale impersonation in a dull bit about Bale’s rage? The intervention sketch where he and Kristen Wiig made rude noises? Speaking of Wiig, her Kathie Lee Gifford and Bjork were excellent, but I doubt I’m the only person who thinks she’s on-screen way too much these days–at best, she’s carrying too much of the load,” wrote EW’s Ken Tucker.

And I would tend to agree.  Winona Ryder’s Bjork impression from a few years ago was much better and as much as I like Kristen Wiig (and I like her a lot) she’s slowly going from underrated role-player gem to overused and overworked.  It’s like they’ve thrust her into the starting lineup when she’s a talented sixth-man.  The writer’s are starting to kill her appeal because they have nothing else funny in the bag.  A shame really.

Wait. Hold on. They make chocolate cereal straws? Why did I not know this. Where can I find these? Amazing.

The digital short with T-Pain and the Lonely Island Boys was okay. Nothing great by their own lofty standards.

As for TV on the Radio, well, their performance was a let down. The sound was off and I suspect it wasn’t so much their fault as it was the sound guys’s. The Brooklyn, NY band played two songs off their critical lauded 2008 album, Dear Science. For those who care they were “Dancing Choose” and “Golden Age.”

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“Fox has saddled it with the confidence-killing, viewer-allergic time slot of Fridays at 9, meaning it’ll probably get canceled halfway through its first season and we’ll just end up disappointed,” writes the guys over at Vulture.

And with this clip, they’ve done Whedon fans and potential new viewers no favors by releasing what could be a boring clip.? There is nothing they are doing to get people excited about the Feb. 13 pilot.? Basically, the buzz is that despite being created by Joss Whedon people are still confused/not sure what to make of the show.? But because Whedon is involved and his track record is sheer excellence most are willing to hold out hope.

I would expect that this show could become a Hulu favorite, with lots of people watching on Saturday morning while nursing a hangover. That’s how this show should be judged and not be network ratings. What FOX should have done is paired this with American Idol or some such thing.

In the clip, we see the first time we see Echo (Eliza Dushku) wake up after having her memories wiped in the special memory-flushing chair which leads into a discussion between lab tech Topher (Fran Kranz) and Echo’s handler Boyd (Harry Lennix) about her last date, delving into just what being a doll/active means.

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The clip features Jack and Ben talking about what might have become to the other passengers who stayed on the moving island, while they prepare to “go back”.  It’s all really boring, with Jack shaving his beard – not nearly as exciting as Kate’s clip.  But it’s also tantalizingly exciting.  The possibilities!

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“Because You Left”, the season premiere, airs on Wednesday, January 21st 2009.

But now that the show is on DVD I’ve got to play a bit of catch up, as I missed the last half of the first season.� Even though Gossip Girl is Veronica Mars (now that would be a show I could get behind, her investigating with Wallace whom slept with whom, the date rapes, the affairs, the drug use, all the crazy shit that happens at an Upper West Side private high school, et cetera) I often think of her as really fat and unattractive.� I don’t know why, that just how I picture her.� Like some Frankenstein version of the cuteness we used to know as Veronica Mars.

Also, Contance Billard just like the high school I went to, except the exact opposite.� So I can relate.

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Gossip Girl Season 2 begins Sept. 1 on CW.

A salient point is to be made here. In the actual song, Feist herself has a hard time counting to 10. In fact, she doesn’t do it. Second, we’re a bit miffed that she doesn’t have a showdown with The Count. This would have been the way to go.

In the wake of Yo Gabba Gabba’s hipster credentials, is Sesame Street trying to do the same. They have Will Arnett, Heidi Klum and Jack Black making stops to the stoop made famous by Big Bird, Oscar and Grover.