Since joining the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2010, actress/comedian Vanessa Bayer has achieved a fair share of success, having become a repertory player with more recurring characters than almost anyone else on the show. But things weren't always going so well. Appearing on last night's Conan, Bayer told the host… » 2/11/14 11:00am 2/11/14 11:00am

Janessa Slater (SNL's Vanessa Bayer) is a media coach who specializes in managing musicians. Here she is sitting down with UK boy band The Wanted to advise them on how to handle their U.S. careers. » 10/15/13 6:15pm 10/15/13 6:15pm

Last night's SNL premiere featured Seth MacFarlane showing off his vocal range and Jay Pharoah's new and improved Barack Obama impersonation. Oh, and Bill Hader's Clint Eastwood did stand-up with a chair, which makes you realize how long ago it was that Unforgiven came out. Most notably, though, was that Mama and her… » 9/16/12 1:00pm 9/16/12 1:00pm

I am obsessed with this video my friend Kevin found and sent to me of SNL writers goofing around in their offices late last week around 4:30am. It stars Taran Killam, a second-year member of the show's cast, donned in a white fur cropped hoodie thing and getting down to Robyn's "Call Your Girlfriend." (Between Killam's… » 12/13/11 2:30pm 12/13/11 2:30pm

Saturday Night Live newcomer Vanessa Bayer stars in the latest episode of I Wanna Have Your Baby, a web series about a woman who is very enthusiastic about being a surrogate mother. The weight gain? She likes "getting fat." Morning sickness? She'd be throwing up anyway. The only issue left for this union is the… » 11/30/11 7:45pm 11/30/11 7:45pm

"What's Wrong With Tanya?" is a game show created by SNL. But if it were real, I would absolutely be watching with a bowl of popcorn on a nightly basis. Let's get on this, Lifetime: just gather three stereotypical mothers from the movies, give them buzzers, and when each Tayna walks onto the stage, let them try to guess… » 10/17/11 7:00pm 10/17/11 7:00pm

Robert De Niro can elicit whoops of approval from a crowd simply by walking into a room and smiling confidently, but crinkly eyes and swagger do not a perfect Saturday Night Live appearance make. » 12/05/10 3:40pm 12/05/10 3:40pm

Anne Hathaway! Florence and the Machine! Abby Elliott actually appearing in sketches! Fred Armisen being funny! I didn't want to put my mouth on Seth Meyers' mouth so he wouldn't talk! This week's SNL was markedly better than last week's. » 11/21/10 2:10pm 11/21/10 2:10pm

Despite Scarlett Johansson's surprisingly likable turn as host of this week's show, all of the accents, accents, accents in the world couldn't save it from being a fairly forgettable episode. » 11/14/10 1:50pm 11/14/10 1:50pm