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And not just because she spends much of her 432-page book blaming campaign media flacks and hairdressers, bless their cinder-black hearts, for the McCain/Palin ticket's loss in 2008.

Since the end of Campaign 2008, Saturday Night Live has been more or less adrift.

You can still catch Kevin Nealon on the tube, playing stoner Doug Wilson on the Showtime series 'Weeds,' but let's face it - he'll be forever linked to 'Saturday Night Live.' Nealon appeared in 174 episodes of SNL from 1986 to 1999, according to imdb.com, during a time when the public got its first look at rising stars Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, ...

It's been on for a few weeks now, but I find myself doing a double take each time I see the DirecTV commercial featuring the late comedian Chris Farley.

The DirecTV commercial with Chris Farley seems to have disappeared from the airwaves, and has been replaced by the Wayne's World 2 spot above with Dana Carvey and Kim Basinger, neither of whom perished years ago from drug abuse.

Sales of a year-old iPhone app doubled after a similar program for Android was prominently shown by a celebrity in a U.S. T-Mobile commercial.

For once, Gator Growl lived up to the hype. I've written a few stories in the past couple years about Gator Growl missing the mark , so I have to give credit where credit is due.

Methinks stand-up comedy might just be a good fit for the Gallo Center. Based on comments from outgoing director Dave Pier on Saturday night, methinks the folks at the Gallo Center might just think so, too.

Dana Carvey answers the phone doing a Glenn Beck impression. "We will not tolerate a nuclear weapon," says the former "Saturday Night Live" star.

The cast of "Saturday Night Live" changes almost every season, which makes it difficult to remember every person who appears on the popular program.

WHAT: Dana Carvey, with opening act comedian Larry "Bubbles" Brown WHEN: 8 p.m. Oct.

Pull out the old VCR and rewind the tape. Some common wisdom holds that the commercial real estate market is destined for, if not already in the midst of, a replay of its early 1990s crash, around the time Dana Carvey was parodying the first President Bush on Saturday Night Live , Sinead O'Connor topped the charts, and the brand-new Mirage Hotel ...

Special is one of those words so badly abused by overuse that its meaning has been drowned, anchored next to other nonwords like "nice." Particular, peculiar, exceptional-all mean the same thing.

Headliner comedian Jim Short will host Round 1 of the 34th Annual San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition at the Center for the Arts in Grass Valley.

Robert Smigel cast Bill Chott alongside Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert in the short-lived The Dana Carvey Show in part because Chott had a "retro" look Smigel thought was pretty nifty.

The Gallo Center's third season kicks off Saturday with a champagne reception and show featuring crooner Paul Anka.

Here are another 5 quick picks for you, the loyal reader: MUSIC: Maplewood a ' Self-described as "canyon rock from Brooklyn," Maplewood is a New York quartet comprised of members of Nada Surf, Champale and Koester.

If you were a television viewer in the 1970s, you likely recall some of the earliest attempts by Canadian cable TV companies to provide what was then called "public access." For cable systems, it was part of the price of doing business -- an inconvenient imposition by federal regulators that cable firms do their bit to give local citizens ...

If you ever watched Saturday Night Live in the 90's, you may remember Dana Carvey played a character called the Grumpy Old Man.

If you ever watched Saturday Night Live in the 90's, you may remember Dana Carvey played a character called the Grumpy Old Man.