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Oct 08

Saturday Night Live Skewers MSNBC, Chris Matthews, Debate Coverage

No one could escape the aftermath of last Wednesday’s debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney, as the media bombarded the airwaves with hyperbole and rhetoric as to how and why a gaffe-prone Republican nominee could come out on top against an incumbent president who appeared to be off his game. In choosing an juicy …

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Jul 19

Comedian Tom Davis of SNL’s “Franken and Davis” Dead at 59

Via the New York Times, Tom Davis has died at the age of 59. Davis was an Emmy Award-winning American writer and comedian and is best known for his partnership with Al Franken on Saturday Night Live. “In 1975, Mr. Davis, brilliant at improvisational comedy, and Mr. Franken, a whiz at plotting funny sequences, became …

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Jun 21

Jimmy Fallon and Sean Parker Spice Up Wired’s NExTWORK Conference

One part Wired, one part Economist, with a celebrated Late Night host and a social media maven as marquee attractions, the Wired NExTWORK Conference kicks off tomorrow, June 22. Addressing “the promise and peril of the network’s future,” the one-day event is “not a technology conference in the traditional sense,” say organizers. And we can’t …

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