Seth Meyers will appear on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon this Thursday alongside musical guests Blitzen Trapper! Set your DVR's!

After the jump are pictures of Andy Samberg at the EA Sports 2010 FIFA World Cup Balls To The Brits, Balls to The Yanks Event. Enjoy!

Saturday Night Live star Andy Samberg will be at Universal Studios Citywalk on Friday at 11:30 a.m. to help kick off EA Sports' "Balls to the Brits, Balls to the Yanks" event, during which Americans are invited to kick their custom messages from Los Angeles all the way to England in time for the U.S.-England World Cup match.

Attendees to the event, which begins at 10:30 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m., will be provided with a portal to kick a soccer ball adorned with a custom message from CityWalk all the way to England, where event attendees in London’s Leicester Square catch and kick their messages back.

Event attendees will be invited to enter their desired messages via a computer kiosk and transmit it across the  pond by kicking a ball at a goal. Simultaneously in London, those messages will be printed onto soccer balls which will launch out of a live video billboard to be caught by London event attendees. Both events will be connected via two-way live Internet broadcast, while a large display screen will show real-time conversations taking place on Twitter.

Happy birthday to SNL wonderman Bill Hader who turns 32 today! 


You didn't hear it from me, but I hear he's celebrating in New York's hottest club "Beast" where, like, people dress up like clocks and draw numbers on their face and the only song the DJ plays is Tik Tok. And there's this, like, vomitorium that's like kind of Roman but also woman's prison-ish.


Have a good one, sir!

John Mulaney Tour Dates -

John Mulaney is performing in multiple cities this summer. Here are the show dates & a message from John himself -

Hey everyone. Hope you can make it to any and all of these shows this summer. Though I bet going to all of them would be financially unwise and ultimately a real drag. I love you and am in love with you. John

JUST FOR LAUGHS FESTIVAL CHICAGO JUNE 16-19 
Appearing with Ellen Degeneres, Aziz Ansari, Patton Oswalt and more. 
Get tickets and info here http://www.justforlaughschicago.com/justforlaughschicago/index.jsp

ARLINGTON, VA JULY 9 & 10 
I am returning to the Arlington Draft House for two shows. Loved it the first time. Hope all you DC, VA, MD and DDS people can make it. 
Get Tickets here http://www.arlingtondrafthouse.com/default.aspx?page=home

SAN FRANCISCO, CA JULY 28-31 
Appearing at my favorite club: The Punchline 
Tickets here http://www.livenation.com/venue/punch-line-comedy-club-san-francisco-tickets/

SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL AUGUST 14 in North Adams, MA 
This festival is created by and will be featuring WILCO. Hot fish, that’s great! 
Tickets here http://solidsound.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=42284&eid=48962

Taken from fuckyeahjohnmulaney.tumblr.com

So, my Tumblr friend Beth attended a Q&A given by SNL writer Simon Rich last night. She posted a series of really interesting SNL-related tidbits from the talk that I simply had to share with you. I include them after the jump. Definitely read them as they are super-interesting. 


In other Rich-related news, it's his birthday today and he turns 26! Happy birthday, comedy wunderkind. 
Here's an article on Rich -
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2010/06/05/simon-rich-all-kidding-aside/


Also, Beth found out at the talk that Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jason Reitman has acquired the rights to Rich's book Elliot Alagash and Rich is penning the screenplay for the adaptation. Young Rich is moving up in the world!
SNL-related info from Rich's talk after the jump. Special thanks to Beth for writing such a detailed post & allowing me to repost it here!

Hey guys,
So, big news! Cast member/UCB improviser/all-around nice guy Bobby Moynihan has very kindly agreed to answer some questions for the blog! I know, right?

So, faithful readers, I'm putting it out there - if you have any questions for Snookie  Bobby Moynihan, leave a comment with your question & I'll pick a few of the best to ask him.

Thanks,
-Amy

Will Forte Filming Episode of Parks & Recreation

According to show creator Michael Schur -

"Just finished day 2 of shooting a #ParksandRec episode with Will Forte. It's so much effing fun it should be illegal."

Will Forte joins the ranks of fellow SNL stars Fred Armisen and Andy Samberg who both guest-starred in the NBC comedy in the second season.  Parks and Recreation returns to NBC mid-season. 

Bill Hader at Conan O'Brien's New York tour stop

So, as you guys may have known, Conan O'Brien brought his Legally Prohibited tour to Radio City Music Hall last night. As one could have predicted, the guests that showed up were pretty stellar - Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Paul Rudd, John Krasinski and SNL's Bill Hader. Here's a video of Bill Hader's appearance at the show last night. SPOILER ALERT - he briefly channels Stefon. 

NBC announced upcoming SNL repeats

NBC has announced its schedule for SNL repeats for the next 3 weeks -

June 5 - Charles Barkley / Alicia Keys (OAD 1/9/10)

June 12 - Alec Baldwin / Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers (OAD 5/15/10)

June 19 - Betty White / Jay-Z (OAD 5/8/10)

SNL writer Christine Nangle got a Twitter, guys.You can follow Nangle here -
http://twitter.com/nanglish

Colin Quinn taking his show Long Story Short Off-Broadway

Former SNL Weekend Update anchor Colin Quinn is taking his show Long Story Short off-Broadway. Long Story Short will play an eight-week engagement at the Bleecker Street Theatre beginning June 18 while the run will conclude August 15. The show, directed by Jerry Seinfeld, is described as "Colin Quinn’s hilarious look at the ups and downs of great civilizations gone wrong. In this one-man sendup, Quinn channels comedic personalities of nations past, offering satirical takes on the attitudes, appetites and habits that toppled powerful empires. Charting a comical course from the excess of ancient Rome to WalMart/Costco/BestBuy, Quinn proves that the forces undermining the American empire are as old as time."
Tickets are available by phoning (212) 239-6200 or by visiting Telecharge. The Bleecker Street Theatre is located at 45 Bleecker Street between Bowery and Lafayette Street.
Maybe something to do for my New York readers?

These are some UCB happenings in New York that I feel like may be of interest to some of you guys -


NEW YORK
June 2nd - The Same Sex-Tacular with Christine Nangle and Sue Galloway among others
http://newyork.ucbtheatre.com/shows/2274
June 3rd - Variety Shac with Eugene Mirman, Gabe Liedman and SNL's Jenny Slate 
http://newyork.ucbtheatre.com/shows/1171
June 12th - Tom Davis Presents: 39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss
Tom Davis of the legendary Franken and Davis sketch duo, brings along various friends TBA to take us through the early, and quite foggy memories of what SNL was like back in the 70s. This rare opportunity to see a pioneer in the American sketch landscape should not be passed up.
http://newyork.ucbtheatre.com/shows/2361
June 7th, June 14th & June 21st -  MIKE BIRBIGLIA: 60 Minutes of New Stories
http://newyork.ucbtheatre.com/shows/2375

John Solomon Podcast

SNL & MacGruber writer John Solomon was a guest on this week's Movie B.S. podcast. He talks about writing for SNL and about MacGruber's disappointing box office returns. You can download the podcast here -
http://moviebs.pdx.fm/

So this is a little late, but here's an article about Bobby Moynihan's nerdy affection for Lost.
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/05/23/bobby-moynihan-is-a-big-lost-nerd-and-proud-of-it/


It's interesting if only for the fact that it reassures me that television nerdiness is something that people from all walks of life engage in - even SNL cast members.