Seth Meyers hosted "Saturday Night Live" segment "Weekend Update" for the last time ever before he takes the reigns as host of the "Late Show" on February 24.
Former "Weekend Update" co-anchor Amy Poehler, Fred Armisen, and fan favorite guest-star and club maven "Stefon" (played by Bill Hader) stopped by to wish Meyers well and guide him into a post-"SNL" world.
While Poehler called Meyers “the heart of the show for over a decade,” Fred Armisen walked in front of the camera for a final laugh, briefly reprising his role as former New York Governor David Paterson.
Meyers gave a heartfelt thank you to viewers, saying “This is the job I always wanted, and I had the best time.”
LONDON (AP) — Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is having second thoughts about having ended the series with heroine Hermione Granger paired up romantically with Ron Weasley.
The hugely successful author tells Wonderland magazine she chose the red-haired Ron for Hermione for very personal reasons having little to do with literature.
She told the magazine she "wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment" and said the couple might eventually need relationship counseling.
The soon-to-be published interviewed was reported in The Sunday Times, which also quoted actress Emma Watson, who played Hermione, expressing doubts about the viability of her character's relationship with Ron.
She told the newspaper that many fans doubt Ron can make Hermione happy over time.
Many fans had hoped Harry and Hermione would become a couple.
A short video on this weekend's "Saturday Night Live" mocked the "dumb little things" CVS displays as gifts for Valentine's Day.
From necklaces valued at $1.99 and singing balloons to an old Christmas stocking used as a makeup holder, see what not to get your significant other this Valentine's Day.
The report, which cites law enforcement officials, does not name a cause of death for the 46-year-old actor. He was reportedly found earlier this morning by a screenwriter in an apartment at 35 Bethune St.
Hoffman was known to have a history of drink and drug abuse, and had told the Guardian in 2011 that after a stint in rehab at an early point in his career he had given up drinking. "Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase," Hoffman told the Guardian's Simon Hattenstone. "That's you know, that's who I am." Last year TMZ reported that Hoffman had "fallen off the wagon" but was able to check himself into a detox facility to fight his addiction.
Hoffman had a long and critically-acclaimed career as an actor, appearing in films such as "Boogie Nights" (1997), "The Talented Mr. Ripley" (1999), and "The Master" (2012). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for "Capote" in 2005.
The 46-year-old actor had won an Oscar in 2005 for his work portraying Truman Capote in "Capote." That evening, he delivered a heartwarming acceptance speech, thanking his mother, Marylin Hoffman O'Connor, a civil rights lawyer and activist.
"She brought up four kids alone, and she deserves a congratulations for that," Hoffman said during his speech. "She took me to my first play."
Bud Light is using this year's Super Bowl to introduce a new tagline, "The Perfect Beer For Whatever Happens," and America's best-selling beer is pulling out all the stops to make sure it's a hit.
The brand just aired the first 30 seconds of a commercial in which an average Joe named Ian is treated to a wild night featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Don Cheadle, Reggie Watts and Minka Kelly. The rest of the "Epic Nights" story will air in a 60-second ad commercial later in the game.
Here's the full video that Bud Light posted online earlier this week. The two commercials at the game will be an edited down version of the web version:
In its "Epic Nights," a hidden camera follows Ian as he meets a woman named Kelly (he doesn't know she's an actress), who offers to give him a bottle of Bud Light if he promises to be up for whatever happens next. Ian agrees, and things take off from there.
In a storyline that somewhat mirrors the popular "The Hangover" movies, Ian is led to a stretch limousine filled with beautiful women and comedian/DJ Reggie Watts, who are on their way to a bachelor party.
From there, Ian receives a suit from Minka Kelly, meets Don Cheadle (and a llama) in an elevator, and challenges Arnold Schwarzenegger to an intense game of ping-pong in front of a crowd of cheering fans.
After Ian defeats Arnold, one of the walls in the room they are standing in comes down to reveal that they are actually in a giant party being played by the band OneRepublic.
Here's the video, which is nearly four minutes long. The Super Bowl commercial will be edited down to 90 seconds and aired over two commercial spots during the game.
Bud Light is hoping that its star-studded ad and new tagline will win over millennials as it looks to reverse a continued sales decline resulting from the rising popularity of craft beers and sweet cocktails.
The ad was made by BBDO, which Bud Light named as its agency of record this past summer.
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Disney teased a new trailer for "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" ahead of the start of Super Bowl XLVIII.
Soon after, Marvel released a full trailer for the sequel showing a closer look at the new antagonist.
Chris Evans returns as Captain America with Scarlett Johansson as The Black Widow from "The Avengers." Sam Wilson ("The Hurt Locker") joins the cast as The Falcon.
"Captain America: The Winter Soldier" is in theaters April 4.
Here are a few things we noticed:
The Falcon!
Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) isn't looking so good.
It looks like they lost someone from S.H.I.E.L.D. (given Agent Maria Hill in the background).
Wonderful Pistachios just aired two Super Bowl ads featuring political news/comedy host Stephen Colbert, that, when taking together, were very funny.
In the first, Colbert sits beside an eagle and talks about how Wonderful Pistachios are so good, they'll basically sell themselves. It was kind of lame.
Then viewers were treated to an ad for H&M featuring David Beckham. That's when Colbert came back on screen to deliver this gem of an advertising message:
For the past decade or so, America has gotten used to having PG 13- (and R-) rated musical acts perform during the Super Bowl's Half Time show.
They're not always to everyone's musical tastes, and the shows can occasionally fall flat.
It used to be worse.
So, so much worse.
The principal culprit was a group called Up With People. Formed in 1965 as part of the bygone global Moral Rearmament Movement, the traveling song-and-dance troupe was said by some to be "creepy-weird cultish" and can best be described as what would have happened if a secular Ned Flanders and his entire family had a picnic on the 50-yard line.
Despite barely qualifying as such, this was the halftime show entertainment four times between 1976 and 1986.
Here they are performing in 1976. It is unbelievable.
Six years later, they continued to haunt America's dreams.
The UWP reign of terror ended the year The Chicago Bears won the Super Bowl. There are no coincidences in life.
1985 featured the Air Force's "Tops In Blue" and a guy flying in a jet pack. Yes, those are U.S. Air Force enlistees riding a unicycle and jumping on a trampoline.
Disney has been the other major Halftime Show producer, having put on six. Here's their 1987 performance.
Finally things started getting a bit more mainstream — but no less awful. Here's an aging, be-jhericurled Chubby Checker lipsynching to "Let's Twist Again" while members of the USC and SDSU marching bands dance and play around him.
It took until 1993 — 26 years after the first Super Bowl was played — before things got awesome (shout out to Jennifer Batten):
Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chili Peppers just took the stage at the Pepsi Super BowlXLVIII Halftime Show at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
Watch the full performance below:
The show started with a children's choir singing as Bruno Mars played an incredible drums solo.
Then it was time for a little group "Locked Out of Heaven” with Mars on the mic.
Things took a more serious turn when Mars sang "“Just the Way You Are" as the video cut to a series of servicemen and women saying hello to their families from bases around the world.
The show lightened up once again as shirtless Anthony Kiedis and The Red Hot Chili Peppers joined Mars on-stage. It was an exciting moment for everyone!
Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea was clearly having a good time.
If you were watching the Super Bowl, then you might've noticed this legendary image.
It's of Henry Kravis sitting next to Michael Douglas.
Most people know Michael Douglas for his role as Gordon Gekko, the greedy villain of the iconic film "Wall Street" and the sequel "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps."
Kravis, on the other hand is a bit more obscure. He's one of the K's in the legendary private equity firm KKR, or Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts.
Kravis and KKR are behind some of the biggest private equity deals in history. They are also famous for their controversial leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, a deal so controversial that it became the subject of the book and movie "Barbarians At The Gate."
Is greed good? That may be up for debate. Greed, however, does get you great seats at the Super Bowl.
A short trailer for DreamWorks and Disney's "Need For Speed" debuted during the Super Bowl.
Here's a longer look at trailer teased. The film adaptation of the Electronic Arts' video game stars Aaron Paul ("Breaking Bad") Dakota Johnson, Dominic Cooper, Michael Keaton, and Scott Mescudi. "Need for Speed" is in theaters March 14.
Opera singer Renée Fleming sang a perfect national anthem during Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium.
"Never heard it sung any better," NFL announcer Joe Buck said immediately after the performance.
The 54-year-old soprano singer was a bold choice for the NFL, as Fleming isn't quite a household name -- which was proven when Twitter-using viewers made "Renee Flemming" with an extra "m" a trend right after the performance.
Now circulating the web is this video of Jackson who can't stop crying while listening to "Say Something" by A Great Big World featuring Christina Aguilera.
In the video, you can hear Jackson's dad ask if he wants to change the song. Jackson shakes his head and continues to cry. His father points out that this is the first time Jackson "has been moved."
After suffering a very public and humiliating breakup, [the 20-something] becomes the subject of a viral video and suddenly has more social media ‘followers’ than she ever imagined — but for all the wrong reasons. She enlists the help of a marketing expert at her company to help repair her tarnished image.
Writer Emily Kapnek — who is a consulting producer on "Parks and Recreation" — is behind the show. No word on when we'll see the pilot, but we're sure it'll resonate with selfie-takers everywhere.
