Topic: Saturday Night Live

The Untrammeled Power of General Knowledge

One of the magic keys to any successful career is knowledge. Knowledge about your industry is a given. I mean general knowledge. An idea of what is happening in the world. No matter who you are or what you do, you have to keep ...READ»

Target: Dream Job

How to turn the Internet into your own American Idol.READ»

Dick in a Box

Can you say that on T.V.? How about on the Internet? It's the chorus to Andy Samberg's most recent mock music video, which aired last week on Saturday Night Live, and has been all over the Internet ever since. Samberg, the comic ...READ»

Funny Business

How comedians clarify brain-fuzzing statsREAD»

• The Gripping Statistic: How to Make Your Data Matter

Bail-out or Build-out – Part 2

As the Presidential race nears the finish line - - with the candidates and voters both gasping for air amidst the ubiquitous onslaught of commercials on everything from lawn signs to Saturday Night Live - - there are no shortages of ...READ»

Method's People Against Dirty Campaign Reveals Naked Truth About Household Products

A new viral campaign by Droga5 urges people to support new legislation that would reveal the ingredients of cleaning products. And stars foul-mouthed soap bubbles.READ»

What I Learned During My Summer Vacation

June through August, when I was young, entailed family trips around the state. In September, when asked about my vacation, I would say brightly, "I visited Mexico, Paris and Lebanon," and then in a quieter voice, ...READ»

Can We Laugh at Obama?

As the nation transitions from the erratic, divisive Bush-era into the historically momentous presidency of Obama the rhetoritician, some journalists are declaring crisis mode on a flourishing art form: the political satire.READ»

60 Seconds with Greg Daniels

Greg Daniels, who's in charge of the U.S. version of The Office, (sadly) finds inspiration for his sitcom in office parks everywhere.READ»

Culture

Anne Every morning as I read another dreary story of greed-head corporate malfeasance and insider arrogance, I remember two of my favorite pieces of satire. One is a comedy sketch starring Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live, where ...READ»

Starbucks Offers Free Coffee to Voters

“If you care enough to vote, we care enough to give you a free cup of coffee.” So goes Starbucks' (NASDAQ: SBUX) advertisement depicting the coffee chain's contribution to the presidential election. “Simply vote, and ask ...READ»

An Authenticity Timeline

From Disney's opening of Main Street USA in 1955 to user-generated content, here's a look at how authenticity has evolved over time.READ»

Brave New MacWorld

As Scott Kirsner noted in his blog today, Steve Jobs' keynote at MacWorld focused almost exclusively on the Mac computer. Where was the iPod in the discussion? Before the expo began, many predicted a new version of the Shuffle. It ...READ»

Spreadsheets and Bedsheets

This season: TV embraces the workplace, with a vengeance.READ»

Stuff By Us, Part One

A panel at Davos on user-generated content--or "stuff by us"--brought together some interesting folks, including Michael Wolf, the recently ousted president and chief operating officer of MTV, Thomas Glocer, the CEO of Reuters, and ...READ»

Can Hulu Save Traditional TV?

Can Jason Kilar and his hit site Hulu save traditional TV from itself while remaking it for the future?READ»

• The Fast Company 50 - 2009: Hulu
• The Wild World of Web TV
• Cut the Cable: All-Time Top 10 TV Shows on Hulu

Stage Coaches

Second City Communications teaches better business through the elements of improvisation.READ»

iJango Idaho

Ijango Registration For nine weeks now, I've been meaning to write this column, but I kept getting distracted by stuff like the Keyboard Cat and Pretty Ricky's latest round of furniture-humping histrionics. And that's somewhat fitting, given that this column is about Cobra Starship, a band that has turned messing around on the Internet into an absolute art form. READ»

The Hitmen

Hollywood's emerging crop of online talent scouts are dedicated to discovering talent online, matching up creators of obscure Web videos with the online divisions of traditional media companies, portals, and ad agencies, all of them hungry to try a new sort of storytelling. Meet the United Talent Agency.READ»

Who Will Be the Godfather of Web Video?

Well-funded, big-studio-backed comedy-video Web sites have taken more hits than they've made. Does anyone have a plan that's not a joke? READ»

• The 9 Most Humorous Websites
• Comedy Is Not Pretty
• So Bad We Forgot to Laugh

Work/Life: Did You Hear About The Guy Who Got Fired Over a Dilbert Cartoon?

  As the creator of a comic strip character myself, I have, in some very early blog postings, poked a little fun at Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert.  Well, those days are over.  As some of you may know, Adams has been bravely ...READ»

Cut Your Cable: Hulu's Top 10 TV Shows

1 Family Guy You can get the five most recent episodes and more than 300 clips of Seth MacFarlane's crude cartoon. Hulu's most-watched episode as of September: "Stew-roids." 2 The Office The show is also among NBC's ...READ»

• The Unlikely Mogul
• The Wild World of Web TV

Dial In. Log On. Have Fun!

Sure, you can use the Web to work harder. But what good is hard work if you can't play every once in a while? Here's our online guide to multislacking.READ»

Different Market, New Message

Early on, Sony concluded that it had to reach an older, more sophisticated crowd -- which meant changing the image of games from a dubious juvenile pastime to a legitimate hobby that responsible adults could enjoy.READ»

Fake Wall Street Journal Hits the Stands

A parody of the Wall Street Journal hit news stands early today, creating enough of a stir to get the real WSJ snapping up copies in at attempt to get them off the streets. Published every 26 years, this time the parody has ...READ»