tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-321395492024-03-07T16:29:09.078-08:00Andy Samberg - News and VideosWhether you're new to the Emmy-winning and Grammy-nominated Andy Samberg or you're looking for the latest Andy news, images, and videos, come here to find out about the king of The Lonely Island, Saturday Night Live, Lazy Sunday, Laser Cats, Junk in a Box, Dear Sister, Hot Rod, J**z in My Pants, I'm on a Boat, Mother Lover, On the Ground, and Shy Ronnie. Next movies: What's Your Number, and Friends with Benefits.Ed Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739362351104757313noreply@blogger.comBlogger2712125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32139549.post-13675049410267677442012-06-17T14:39:00.001-07:002012-06-17T14:39:58.319-07:00Blog still closedAs we announced earlier, this blog is still closed. We invited a few people to help who wanted to keep it going, but they stopped posting (last was in May).<br />
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The original creators of this blog have moved onto other projects that make more sense for us (time, money, career growth, etc.).<br />
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- TAEEd Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739362351104757313noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32139549.post-23882154243079292412012-05-16T16:56:00.000-07:002012-05-16T16:56:13.832-07:00Andy Samberg (as Shy Ronnie) joins Santigold on stage to perform “Fame” at Irving Plaza to celebrate Samsung’s 5million fans on Facebook<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/EyBoAV2OVCA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623487428149096718noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32139549.post-79184798961816963142012-04-27T18:29:00.003-07:002012-04-27T18:29:59.586-07:00Andy Samberg and Adam Sandler on Entertainment TonightAndy and Adam talk about Sandler's 30 million facebook fans and high school crushes<br />
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<br />Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623487428149096718noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32139549.post-23108416013181451382012-04-18T18:41:00.003-07:002012-04-18T18:48:12.281-07:00Andy visits Happy MadisonYou may know that Adam Sandler's production company Happy Madison is responsible for producing most of his movies including "That's My Boy" with Andy Samberg. Andy recently visited their offices to take a peek at the new poster for the movie, check it out:<br />
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Sofia Vergara ... Golnesa "GG" Gharachedaghi <br />
Taran Killam ... Andy Cohen <br />
Kate McKinnon ... Tabatha Coffey <br />
Seth Meyers ... announcer (voice) <br />
Nasim Pedrad ... Mercedes "MJ" Javid <br />
Andy Samberg ... Kyle <br />
Kenan Thompson ... Desmond Tutu <br />
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Andy's just on briefly. <br />
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Enjoy!Ed Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739362351104757313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32139549.post-64553061030896289662012-04-14T08:59:00.000-07:002012-04-14T08:59:00.202-07:00Andy Samberg is a doctor in Gilly! (SNL)Sketch - Gilly <br />
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Sofia Vergara ... Mrs. Roberts <br />
Abby Elliott ... Paula <br />
Bobby Moynihan ... Liam <br />
Nasim Pedrad ... nurse <br />
Andy Samberg ... doctor <br />
Kenan Thompson ... Sam Jeffers <br />
Kristen Wiig ... Gilly <br />
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Gilly is back to her antics when her classmates try to learn during a sex education class. <br />
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Wiig tries mixing it up a little with the flashback and ending. Andy plays the doctor!<br />
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Sofia Vergara ... Fran Drescher <br />
Fred Armisen ... Joey Lawrence <br />
Abby Elliott ... Zooey Deschanel <br />
Taran Killam ... Michael Cera <br />
Andy Samberg ... Mayim Bialik <br />
Kristen Wiig ... announcer (voice) <br />
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Sofia Vergara ... Maria Gutierrez <br />
Fred Armisen ... Claudius Templesmith <br />
Abby Elliott ... Katniss <br />
Bill Hader ... Caesar Flickerman <br />
Steve Higgins ... announcer (voice) <br />
Taran Killam ... tribute <br />
Nasim Pedrad ... tribute <br />
Jay Pharoah ... Thresh <br />
Andy Samberg ... Peeta <br />
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When The Hunger Games' field reporter files cannot contain her excitement on assignment, her dangerous habits have Katniss on alert.<br />
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Andy has a small role, but it's still pretty funny. Love the Puppy Bowl!<br />
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Tired of being out with your friend and being mistakened as a gay couple? Try Just Friends booty shorts!<br />
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New SNL tonight!<br />
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She has a great Hilary Clinton impression, so this was probably a big factor to getting on SNL...<br />
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She also has a hilariously fresh Barbara Walters impression (warning: language) which she likely pulled out for her SNL audish...<br />
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This one's not bad, where she's promoing her show she did with her friend by making fun of her:<br />
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BP Spills Coffee: She's part of this spoof of oil spills that's gotten 12 million views...<br />
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Vag Magazine - So I actually think the funniest person here is that roller skater who's always smiling...<br />
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Girl's Night Out: She's just one of the screamers...<br />
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Source: <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/kristen-wiig-andy-samberg-jason-sudeikis-to-leave-saturday-night-live-201244#ixzz1r6alBrCp">http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/kristen-wiig-andy-samberg-jason-sudeikis-to-leave-saturday-night-live-201244#ixzz1r6alBrCp</a>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623487428149096718noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32139549.post-66982213788052518562012-04-04T08:53:00.001-07:002012-04-04T08:53:00.255-07:00New Female Cast Member - Kate McKinnon<img src="http://www-deadline-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mckinnon__120329021919-275x338.jpg" /><br />
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With the future of its biggest female star, Kristen Wiig, up in the air, NBC’s Saturday Night Live is moving to add reinforcements. I hear that in the past several weeks, seven comedy performers tested for SNL honcho Lorne Michaels, including the following four ladies: Kate McKinnon (The Big Gay Sketch Show), Jessica Joy (The Playboy Club), Lauren Lapkus (Are You There Chelsea) and Elaine Carroll (Very Mary-Kate). I hear one of them, UCB’s McKinnon, will make her debut on SNL‘s next show next Saturday hosted by Sofia Vergara. It is unclear if Michaels would try out more new performers this season in preparation for locking in the cast of NBC’s late-night sketch comedy series for next season. As for Bridesmaids star Wiig, whose contract is up at the end of the season, a final decision about her future on SNL will likely come in the summer.<br />
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I hope she's funnier on the show than she is in this web skit:<br />
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"Andy Samberg dives into his latest venture as an investor in CanaryHop, a sort-of do-it-yourself travel site for the adventure-minded.<br />
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Samberg has not only invested in the site, he created and starred in — what else — a video that is nothing if not Sambergesque in its depicting what CanaryHop offers users. Although you may not wake up being able to speak a foreign language, throw knives with pinpoint accuracy or charm a cobra, you will most assuredly come out the other end learning something new.<br />
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Samberg joined forces with co-founders Damon Spiegel and Brand Finefrock to create a travel site that allows users to create a travel experience tailored to their level of adventure.<br />
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The website describes itself as “a marketplace for activities, tours, lessons, and experiences, and categorizes users as either Canaries — those that sign up to guide or host — and Hoppers, or travelers.<br />
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Canaries upload activities and book the trip. Hoppers search the listings to find trips that interest them. Canaries and Hoppers alike post to the blog letting readers know what is offered and how they have benefitted from participating. The site is adding trips daily, and current destinations include Vancouver, New Zealand, Bangkok and Malibu."<br />
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The video for those that haven't seen it:<br />
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Wow, this looks so cool.For those of you that couldn't tell, Andy was the human who comes in with the giant backpack. This will also be Andy's 3rd animated move after Space Chimps and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. I wonder if Andy is going to become a staple in Adam Sandler films like David Spade and Kevin James (who also appear in this movie)? Let us know what you think in the comments below!Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623487428149096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32139549.post-76544536554951056882012-03-23T09:56:00.000-07:002012-03-23T09:56:00.484-07:00Andy Samberg is Sarah PalinDon't think this has been shown yet...<br />
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Sarah Palin visits Weekend Update on the night "Game Change" premiered about her vice presidential bid, only something is off this time. <br />
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Enjoy!Ed Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739362351104757313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32139549.post-44617733859016184282012-03-22T09:30:00.003-07:002012-03-25T10:29:38.725-07:00Let's speculate why Paul Brittain left SNL<strong>UPDATE</strong>: Added more info around Jenny Slate, Michaela Watkins, and Casey Wilson.<br />
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Speculate on why Paul left? That sounds like a good idea, right? =^)<br />
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Paul Brittain is said to have left "to explore other projects." <br />
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It sounds like he fell victim to what so many before him did. Basically, SNL is tough for featured players (and sometimes for anyone who's either black or female and who doesn't push their own stuff and get the writers to like them). Typically the featured player has to push their own skits, get a few hit characters or impressions, and slowly prove themselves to the audience and to the writers. Once the popular players leave, the writers slowly move over to the new regular players, and that's when they finally get to shine (sometimes 4 or 5 years into it). It can be very frustrating and obviously requires endurance and some sort of planning and strategy.<br />
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The first people to complain were in the 75-76 season (the very first). Garett Morris felt like the writers never wrote for him (he was right). Laraine Newman felt the same thing (also right). The only woman the writers wrote for was Gilda Radner, and it was because she had the flair that Kristen Wiig and others had. Gilda would write her own skits and slowly prove herself to the writers, who would then write for her too (the formula that Wiig, Oteri, and Poehler used). Plus Gilda was part of the National Lampoon radio show, along with Aykroyd, Chase, Belushi, and the head writer, Michael O'Donaghue. So she was already familiar with the cool kids, and they were all friends and clicked well together. (Lorne was actually accused of basically hiring out all of Lampoon, and ironically the other players from the Lampoon radio show that he didn't get were Christopher Guest, Bill Murray, and Brian-Doyle Murray, who competed on the rival show, Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell, and of course all three later joined SNL.) <br />
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The next season (75-76), Bill Murray felt it (Bill's rival Cosell show flopped after 14 episodes, and he was hired to replace Chase, who left to make movies). Bill entered the show with the writers already knowing the other players. And so he couldn't get the writers to write for him (Aykroyd wrote him in as a supporting actor, but that's all he could get), and Bill wasn't used to writing his own stuff. Finally he told Lorne that he's really funny (in a funny way) and deserves a skit of his own, and Lorne responded by telling him to do what he just did as a short monologue. He did (explaining how he's actually funny to the audience), which warmed the fans to him and got the writers on his side more. <br />
In the 80-81 season, Gilbert Gottfried complained that no one wrote for him. <br />
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Fast forward to 85-86, when Damon Wayans was frustrated that he didn't get his own skits (no one was writing for him, and he only got a small handful of his own skits through), so he made a skit about him (playing a gay cop), which got him fired. And of course, Damon went to his brother Keenan Ivory, and In Living Color was born (and the careers of Damon, Keenan Ivory, Jim Carrey, Tommy Davidson, Jamie Foxx, David Alan Grier, Marlon and Shawn, Jennifer Lopez, and Rosie Perez).<br />
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In 88-89, Ben Stiller joined the show but didn't last long. He had trouble getting his skits through, so he left and later started his own show (Ben Stiller Show). <br />
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Later in 90-91, Chris Rock started his SNL career, which he later called very frustrating. No one wrote for him, and when he wrote for himself, he had to write himself as a stereotype in order to get any skits through. He left at the end of the 92-93 season and went to work at In Living Color as an occasional guest player instead. He said he felt a lot more freedom on In Living Color, but one thing he liked about SNL is that the original writers were given credit and ownership/authority with their skits. On In Living Color, they might decide to do your skit without you if you're not around. <br />
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In 93-94, Janeane Garofalo started and then left mid season (they started her out as a regular player). The reason is that she was frustrated with all the sexual skits and immature skits on the show then (which was led by Sandler, Farley, Spade, and Sandler's friends, who were writers, and who went on to become writers on Sandler's films now). Her biggest frustration was with Sandler. Basically, when she was written into a skit, it was never a skit she wanted to be in.<br />
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Jay Mohr started in 93-94. After being a featured player for two seasons, he wanted a bump up to a regular player. When told that he would be a featured player again (right before his third season would start), he walked out and quit. Read Jay Mohr's book, Gasping for Air Time. In there, Jay talks about how hard it is to fight for air time (you have to get the writers to write for you, or you have to write and push your own stuff... and still get the writers to collaborate with you).<br />
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In 03-04, Finesse Mitchell started. He's an incredibly funny comedian, and he managed to become a regular player two years later, but it was also his last season... he felt like he wasn't being written for, and he couldn't compete with all the new players pushing their skit ideas. <br />
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In 09-10, Jenny Slate had her only season. Jenny's online videos are hilarious. But she got almost nothing of hers on the show... no one wrote for her and the reason that her online skits are hilarious is half because of her writing partner, who was not writing for SNL. <br />
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And that brings us to Paul Brittain who left in the middle of his second season in 2012. Why did he leave? Most likely because he had a tough time getting his skits to air, and again no one is writing for him. But to be fair, no one is writing for any of the featured players. They're focusing on the established players. So the trick is for the featured players to get their own skits in themselves and slowly build trust in their abilities to the writers and to the audience.<br />
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More about Jenny Slate and the ladies who left SNL (Casey Wilson, Michaela Watkins, and Jenny Slate)...<br />
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The F-Bomb wasn't the issue why Jenny Slate left SNL. If it was, she would have been fired right after that, not at the end of the season (the F-Bomb was at the very beginning). Besides that, Cheri Oteri survived after slipping out an F-Bomb (she put a dollar in the Swear Jar during the goodbyes). So that's not the issue. <br />
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The biggest thing that F-Bomb did was shatter Jenny's confidence to push her skits in the meetings and get air time.<br />
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Sure the F-Bomb got people fired in the past, but that was because they did it on purpose, weren't humble, and didn't apologize to the producers immediately... both Jenny and Cheri did that (which is why Jenny was kept on for the rest of that season).<br />
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Jay Mohr wrote a book about SNL called Gasping for Air Time. Getting air time is a huge struggle (Finesse Mitchell wrote about his struggles with it in an interview, even after he was a regular player... the newbies like Bill, Jason, Andy, and Kristen were making bigger collaborations with the writers than he was), and if you're not an A-type who's fighting for air time (in a good natured and collaborative way), you don't win it. Jenny had that enthusiasm when she started the season, but after the F-Bomb, it was gone.<br />
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Read up on some more of the history here:<br />
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And Michaela and Casey also were separate issues. The bigger issue there was that Lorne had just lost a series of A+ women on the show (Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler)... and then he just had Kristen Wiig. He was trying to build out more women who could work up to become the A+ role. <br />
Casey didn't have it in her. Michaela was funny, but she overlapped with Kristen Wiig and didn't bring enough "new" to the table (although Lorne was right that she could hold her own show). <br />
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On the same season that they brought in Michaela (08-09), they also brought in Abby Elliott. Abby works great for the show. A few funny characters and she nails hilarious female impressions. That was the mix Lorne was looking for. Abby stayed.<br />
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Next was Jenny and Nasim (09-10). Again, Nasim nails the characters and the impressions (her Kim K is super popular). Jenny Slate didn't get the characters and impressions out there (no one wrote for her, and after the F-Bomb, the only thing she wrote and pushed for herself were her hilarious Tina commercials). Nasim had to earn her right to get air time and to be considered funny. It really does go back to Jay Mohr's book, Gasping for Air Time.<br />
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So it's not really about clearing the plate of all the women (because Lorne kept Abby when he let go Michaela and kept Nasim when he let go Jenny; Abby and Nasim met the need he was looking for), and it's not about the F-Bomb. It was about getting your stuff on the air and proving to the world that you're funny. Jenny's online stuff is hilarious, and it proves that. But that never translated onto SNL.<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
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- TAEEd Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739362351104757313noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32139549.post-9578242800982452622012-03-20T15:26:00.001-07:002012-03-20T15:26:11.975-07:00Upcoming SNL Hosts"Spring is finally, officially here and what could be a better way to celebrate than to announce our April hosts and musical guests!! Coming up on April 7th, we've got two SNL newbies: hosting duties fall to the lovely Sofia Vergara from "Modern Family" while the musical guest is British pop sensation, One Direction (cue teen girl screams.) And keeping it going, on April 14th Josh Brolin returns for his second time hosting, joined by musical guest, Gotye. April is going to be so much fun!!"<br />
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From: <a href="http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/backstage/backstage/april-hosts-announced/index.shtml">http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/backstage/backstage/april-hosts-announced/index.shtml</a>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623487428149096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32139549.post-50062616283243867802012-03-20T15:24:00.003-07:002012-03-20T15:24:29.287-07:00Andy Samberg for Canary HopAttached is a link with a short video (it didn't have an embed code) of an ad Andy did for a travel website called Canary Hop. You should definitely check it out, it's pretty funny.<br />
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<a href="http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/03/andy-samberg-loses-memory-charms-snake-video-canaryhop">http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/03/andy-samberg-loses-memory-charms-snake-video-canaryhop</a>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02623487428149096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32139549.post-34736143017823634792012-03-19T08:20:00.000-07:002012-03-19T08:20:00.609-07:00Who's been nominated for an Emmy for hosting SNL?<img src="http://www.accesshollywood.com/content/images/i/articles/24/24248/header_103108.jpg" width="560" /><br />
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Alright, if I didn't do it earlier, I'm going to do it now. I'm predicting that Jimmy Fallon's SNL episode will get him a nomination for best guest actor on a comedy series. Last season, Justin Timberlake (won), Zach Galifianakis, and Tina Fey were nominated for that (I was disappointed that Jim Carrey wasn't, because he was so funny).<br />
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This year I'm predicting that Jimmy Fallon will be nominated. I'm also predicting that Melissa McCarthy will be nominated this year (for Guest Actress). Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Betty White, Zach Galifianakis, and Justin Timberlake all also have a shot if they host this season. <br />
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Here's the list of hosts nominated for Emmys:<br />
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2010-11 <br />
- Justin Timberlake (won)<br />
- Zach Galifianakis<br />
- Tina Fey<br />
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2009-10<br />
- Betty White (won)<br />
- Tina Fey<br />
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2008-09<br />
- Justin Timberlake (won)<br />
- Tina Fey (won - for guesting as Sarah Palin)<br />
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That's it. It's a relatively new concept, but JT has won it twice. Tina Fey's been nominated three years in a row for it. <br />
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Enjoy!Ed Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739362351104757313noreply@blogger.com1