VP Biden Praises Will and Grace

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Look, I have never been a huge fan of the sitcom Will and Grace. However, as someone who has always[...]

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new and noteworthy tv: 5/7-5/13

post from procrastinationchronicles.com on 06 May 2012 01:50:37 PM. © procrastinationchronicles.com

Do I finally just delete my Glee backlog… Monday World’s Wildest Police Videos/Undercover Stings (Spike, 8/9pm) Season/Series Premiere – Needs no explanation. House Crashers (DIY, 11pm) Season Premiere – Kitchen remodel. Tanisha Gets Married (Oxy, 11pm) Series Premiere – Reality people do reality. Tuesday The Devil’s Ride (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Motorcycling dudes. United [...]

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WATCH: Eli Manning Pays Tribute To Peyton's 'SNL'
Appearance

post from TV on HuffingtonPost.com on 06 May 2012 01:47:38 PM. © TV on HuffingtonPost.com

One of the big questions leading up to Eli Manning's "SNL" appearance was whether he could match his older brother Peyton's well-received hosting gig in 2007. So of course, the younger Manning spoofed the perceived rivalry by appearing in a sketch reminiscent of one that Peyton appeared, but with a spin -- it centered around younger brothers beating the crap out of their older brothers.

Although the younger Manning has won two Super Bowls, he just can't seem to escape the shadow of Peyton. In 2007, the older NFL star was in a memorable parody of a United Way commercial, where he coached youth football with an increasingly short temper. This time around, Eli helped out the Little Brothers organization -- by helping them get revenge on their older siblings.

"Because we all know that big brothers can be real dickheads," Manning deadpanned, while helping kids get back at their brothers with wedgies, wet willies and other sibling rivalry tactics.

It's only barely mentioned, but of course, audiences wonder whether the fake PSA had more than a small element of truth behind it. "Maybe now you'll learn to treat your little brother with respect, Peyton!" Eli shouted at Andy Samburg, a big brother.

"My name's not Peyton!" Samburg yells back, before Eli locks him in the trunk of a car.

Check out Eli's original United Way sketch below.

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'GCB' Finale Guest Star Sandra Bernhard on Going
'Revolutionary' on the Women (Video)

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The actress and comedian talks to THR about her vigilante role on the ABC comedy's season-ender on Sunday.

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Sacha Baron Cohen Takes Martin Scorsese Prisoner
in Surprise 'SNL' Appearance (Video)

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"The Dictator" kidnapped his "Hugo" director and brought him on Weekend Update to promote Cohen's new film.

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'Andy Griffith Show' Star Found Dead At 83

post from TV on HuffingtonPost.com on 06 May 2012 01:12:08 PM. © TV on HuffingtonPost.com

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — George Lindsey, who spent nearly 30 years as the grinning Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Hee Haw," has died. He was 83.

A press release from Marshall-Donnelly-Combs Funeral Home in Nashville said Lindsay died early Sunday morning after a brief illness. Funeral arrangements were still being made.

Lindsey was the beanie-wearing Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" from 1964 to 1968 and its successor, "Mayberry RFD," from 1968 to 1971. He played the same jovial character – a service station attendant – on "Hee Haw" from 1971 until it went out of production in 1993.

"America has grown up with me," Lindsey said in an Associated Press interview in 1985. "Goober is every man; everyone finds something to like about ol' Goober."

He joined "The Andy Griffith Show" in 1964 when Jim Nabors, portraying Gomer Pyle, left the program. Goober Pyle, who had been mentioned on the show as Gomer's cousin, thus replaced him.

"At that time, we were the best acting ensemble on TV. The scripts were terrific. Andy is the best script constructionist I've ever been involved with. And you have to lift your acting level up to his; he's awfully good."

In a statement released through the funeral home, Griffith said, "George Lindsey was my friend. I had great respect for his talent and his human spirit. In recent years, we spoke often by telephone. Our last conversation was a few days ago ... I am happy to say that as we found ourselves in our eighties, we were not afraid to say, `I love you.' That was the last thing George and I had to say to each other. `I love you.'"

Although he was best known as Goober, Lindsey had other roles during a long TV career. Earlier, he often was a "heavy" and once shot Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke."

His other TV credits included roles on "M(asterisk)A(asterisk)S(asterisk)H," `'The Wonderful World of Disney," `'CHIPs," `'The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour," `'The Real McCoys," `'Rifleman," `'The Alfred Hitchcock Hour," `'Twilight Zone" and "Love American Style."

Reflecting on his career, he said in 1985: "There's a residual effect of knowing I've made America laugh. I'm not the only one, but I've contributed something."

He had movie roles, too, appearing in "Cannonball Run II" and "Take This Job and Shove It." His voice was used in animated Walt Disney features including "The Aristocats," `'The Rescuers" and "Robin Hood."

Lindsey was born in Jasper, Ala., the son of a butcher. He received a bachelor of science degree from Florence State Teachers College (now the University of North Alabama) in 1952 after majoring in physical education and biology and playing quarterback on the football team.

After spending three years in the Air Force, he worked one year as a high school baseball and basketball coach and history teacher near Huntsville, Ala.

In 1956, he attended the American Theatre Wing in New York City and began his professional career on Broadway, appearing in the musicals "All American" and "Wonderful Town."

He moved to Hollywood in the early 1960s and then to Nashville in the early 1990s.

"There's no place in the United States I can go that they don't know me. They may not know me, but they know the character," he told The Tennessean in 1980.

At that time, he said the Griffith show "was the first soft rural comedy with a moral."

"We physically and mentally became those people when we got to the set."

He did some standup comedy – ending the show by tap and break dancing.

One of his jokes:

"A football coach, holding a football, asks his quarterback, `Son, can you pass this?' The player says, `Coach, I don't even think I can swallow it.'"

Lindsey devoted much of his spare time to raising funds for the Alabama Special Olympics. For 17 years, he sponsored a celebrity golf tournament in Montgomery, Ala., that raised money for the mentally disabled.

The University of North Alabama awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1992, and he was affectionately called "Doctor Goober" by acquaintances after that.

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WATCH: 'SNL' Skewers The Tanning Mom

post from TV on HuffingtonPost.com on 06 May 2012 01:03:12 PM. © TV on HuffingtonPost.com

It was only a matter of time before the notorious "tanning mom" Patricia Krentcil, got her, er, moment in the sun. Last night "Saturday Night Live" aimed its bright light at Krentcil, who was recently accused of taking her 5-year-old-daughter into the tanning booth with her but received even more criticism for how tan she herself is.

How tan? Enough to be deemed "tanorexic."

As we found out last night on "SNL," she's so tan that she's smoking. Literally. Playing Krenctil, an uber bronzed Kristen Wiig arrived on the "Weekend Update" stage with billowing smoke trailing behind her. You know, from all the tanning.

When Meyers rightly pointed out that Wiig/Krentcil looks "like a baseball glove," Wiig divulged all her beauty secrets. How does she get so dark? Let's just say it involves some soap, a baseball and a very particular kind of beauty sleep. "Now I have the look every woman dreams of," said Wiig. "Wile E. Coyote, right after something blows up in his face."

Of course -- Wile E. is totally our beauty icon. See Wiig play Krentcil in the video above and check out pics of the real "tanning mom" herself in the photos below.

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WATCH: General Aladeen Tortures Martin Scorsese
On 'SNL'

Never one to shy from doing stunt appearances in the media to promote his films, Sacha Baron Cohen stopped by the Weekend Update desk at "Saturday Night Live" last night in character as Admiral General Aladeen from the new comedy "The Dictator."

"Hello, Zionist Seth Meyers!" Baron Cohen greeted the anchor. "Good evening America, and death to the West!"

He then read glowing reviews of "The Dictator" from prominent critics A.O. Scott and Roger Ebert, although it seemed that Aladeen's regime may have coerced the reviews.

The audience got another surprise guest when legendary filmmaker Martin Scorcese, who previously directed Baron Cohen in "Hugo," appeared alongside Aladeen to say nice things about "The Dictator." "It was better than 'Raging Bull!'" he told Aladeen to the threat of electrical shock.

"You think this is torture? I had to sit through 'The Aviator,'" Aladeen told Scorsese, referring to the director's 2004 Howard Hughes biopic.

"The Dictator" will be released May 16, but Baron Cohen has been promoting the film heavily for the last few months, most memorably at the 84th Academy Awards, where he spilled "the ashes of Kim Jong Il" on Ryan Seacrest.

Baron Cohen had also appeared on "SNL" in character as Borat in 2007 to promote the smash hit mockumentary.

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On 'SNL'

Never one to shy from doing stunt appearances in other media to promote his films, Sacha Baron Cohen stopped by the Weekend Update desk at "Saturday Night Live" last night in character as Admiral General Aladeen from the new comedy "The Dictator."

"Hello, Zionest Seth Meyers!" Baron Cohen greeted the anchor. "Good evening America, and death to the West!"

He then read glowing reviews of "The Dictator" from prominent critics A.O. Scott and Roger Ebert, although it seemed that Aladeen's regime may have coerced the reviews.

"You think this is torture? I had to sit through 'The Aviator,'" Aladeen told Scorcese, referring to the director's 2004 Howard Hughes biopic.

Baron Cohen had also appeared on "SNL" in character as Borat in 2007 to promote the smash hit mockumentary.

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