It’s hard to believe that just over three years ago most of us had written Saturday Night Live off as irrelevant. This usually happens about once every ten years or so, but it seemed for real this time. Will Ferrel left to become a movie star, and most of the other reliable cast members like Molly Shannon, Tracy Morgan, Chris Kattan, etc. had moved on as well.

Jimmy Fallon, who is a hack, had swept through the halls of Rockefeller Center like an unfunny virus, leaving in his wake a legacy of ruining every sketch he was ever in, and a bunch of seemingly mediocre nobodies to fill the void. Ratings were horrible, rumors of cancellation were swirling, and things were looking very bleak for the once groundbreaking show. But then something incredible happened — something put SNL back on the map and also introduced us to an exciting new brand of sketch comedy — Lazy Sunday aired. (more…)

This week’s DVD is Tropic Thunder.  This was one of the most talked about comedies of the summer movie releases but was lost amongst other top name films such as The Dark Knight and Indiana Jones.  The movie features an awesome cast of mega-stars Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey Jr. (more…)

According to PerezHilton.com, Scottish actor James McAvoy has won the leading roll as a younger Bilbo Baggins in the upcoming prequel, The Hobbit, to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

From the article:

Said to take the lead role of hobbit Bilbo Baggins is Scottish actor James McAvoy.

The J.R.R. Tolkien novel is hoping to be the next blockbuster big hit and will be directed by Guillermo del Toro.

The film is scheduled to begin filming later this year in New Zealand. (more…)

Slashfilm recently featured a video that compared Michel Gondry’s new film Be Kind Rewind to The Amanda Show, which aired on Nickelodeon eight years ago. While the concepts are indeed similar, it’s commonplace for these kind of coincidences to happen in entertainment…right?

The Amanda Show clip:

Be Kind Rewind trailer:

A Benjamin Franklin expert reveals his controversial theory about the discovery of electricity. Witness history told as it’s never been told before…Drunk.

(Via Funny Or Die)

Watch the videos after the jump!… (more…)

Leave it to Tinseltown’s finest writer/director/whatever Judd Apatow to parody the critically-beloved music biography genre.

Hot off the heels from the future-classic Knocked Up (and awaiting the release of his new flick, Superbad this Friday) Apatow is preparing to release Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story on December 14 this year.

The official trailer for Walk Hard debuted at Comic-Con before the screening of Superbad to a rapturous response, and Apatow seems confident that it could garner some Oscar buzz, hence the deadline-safe release date.

Chiggity-check Walk Hard’s plot, cast and out-of-control cameos after the jump.

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A man (Black) whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend’s video store. In order to satisfy the store’s most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films, which include Back to the Future, The Lion King, and Robocop.