I am – Hercules!!


Our spy at 30 Rock, “The Phantom of 8H,” tells us what is happening at the dress rehearsal stage of tonight’s Ellen Page/Wilco SNL, the second installment since the writer’s strike:

* You will likely see another debate sketch...

* I am confident there will be some reference to the Junoverse.

* Definitely some surprise guests...(not necessarily Juno-related).

* As far as recurring pieces...Given Ellen's a young actress, it would make sense for an episode of the Dakota Fanning Show perhaps...

* there's a digital short on the docket.

Tonight’s installment is the second of four live SNLs being mounted in a row – a feat not attempted since 1976, during the show’s first season.

If you missed the news, last week’s hilarious Tina Fey edition of SNL was a monster, garnering more viewers than any Saturday primetime show broadcast by the networks over the past six weeks. It was also the highest-rated SNL since the Steve Martin/Prince episode broadcast more than two years earlier.

If you doubt me on the “hilarious” part, you can watch a few of last week’s sketches:

COLD OPEN:

MONOLOGUE:

ANNUALE:

GRANDKIDS IN THE MOVIES:

HUCKABEE ON UPDATE:

WOMAN NEWS WITH TINA FEY:

I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE:

LADY BUSINESS:

Not posted here? The “Rock of Love” “face-tahm” sketch, the hip-hop kitten, “Celebrity Apprentice” with the Jon-Benet Ramsay guy, “What’s That Bitch Talking About?” the wedding-toast drunk and “Virginia Horson’s Hot Air Baloon Rides.”

But no matter. It is with almost complete certainty that I tell you the Fey episode will be the first NBC repeats in March.

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