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Watch Daniel Radcliffe's SNL Promos

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  • January 11, 2012 11:42 AM
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Daniel Radcliffe hosts Saturday Night Live this week. He has already proven he can do more than be Harry Potter – he may not be brilliant at singing or dancing but he’s game and charismatic, and he was the only good thing in the creaky Broadway revival of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.

Jimmy Fallon Sings In SNL Promos

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  • December 14, 2011 9:34 AM
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Jimmy Fallon hosts this week’s SNL, and in these promos he and Fred Armisen mess up  some Christmas carols and debate the reality of Santa.

Matt Damon is Katy Perry's Homeless Friend on SNL

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  • December 11, 2011 11:53 AM
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Andy Samberg and Katy Perry were prancing around New York singing carols and doing other wholesomely silly holiday things when they picked up a new best friend, a homeless addict played by Matt Damon as a guy with bad teeth and an odor you could almost smell through the television.  Val Kilmer turns up, too. as a mad scientist, but somehow that isn’t such a stretch.

Batman Visits Steve Buscemi on SNL

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  • December 4, 2011 12:00 PM
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If you want to see Steve Buscemi at his recent best, don’t miss him as the strangely sympathetic and charismatic crooked politician Nucky Thompson in Boardwalk Empire. (Preview tonight's tense, next-to-last episode of the season here.) But he had some good moments hosting SNL last night, in sketches that were more of a throwback to the weird-guy roles he has built his career on.

Emma Stone And The Devil On SNL

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  • November 13, 2011 12:43 PM
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In her second appearance as SNL host, Emma Stone proved that her great performance last time was no fluke. She's funny, game, not locked into her own image. The best sketch from last night's show didn't take her far from what might have been one of her movie roles, though, as office workers have a good cry over the Adele song "Someone Like You."  You can watch it at the SNL site; keep an eye out for Coldplay. NBC isn't allowing embeds for the "Sad Song" sketch, but it is for the night's other highlight: Jason Sudeikis as the Devil, horrified at the Penn State scandal. Take a look:

SNL Video: Bill Hader As Drunk Rick Perry

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  • November 6, 2011 3:06 PM
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With so much rich material around, you’d expect SNL to come through with scathing political sketches this year. But ... no. Last night there was not even a mention of Herman Cain. Isn’t that show supposed to be topical?

But there was one terrific political sketch on Weekend Update: Bill Hader’s parody of Rick Perry’s wild speech, the one that had people wondering what chemical might have induced his high energy. This Perry actually drinks from a flask. It’s the kind of unforgettable imitation that could damage a candidate – if Perry still had much of a  campaign to cling to.

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