It's true - this "good cheer" is starting waaay too early: 

 Here's Everything Jonathan Franzen Currently Hates to make it up,...

 

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I can't embed it (because it's one of those automatically-starting videos) but George W. Bush was his usually charming self on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. 

 Still my favorite modern day president, by-a-mile,...

 

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“If we put out a social media ad based on scientific facts, how many hits would we get?”

“We were shooting a takeoff on ‘Midnight Special,’ just lying on the ground waiting for the machine that was supposed to make the fog effect to stop dripping hot oil on us—and to relieve the tension of that moment, we started ad-libbing these characters.”

It was, Mooney says, the easiest bit he ever wrote. All he had done was spell out what had been going on beneath the surface of his “job interview” with Lorne Michaels and the NBC execs.

Just as Michaels had hoped, Richard’s appearance lifted “Saturday Night” out of the programming ghetto and established it as a cultural phenomenon. Two weeks later, Chevy Chase made the cover of New York magazine, which dubbed him “the funniest man in America” and quoted an unnamed network executive championing him as “the first real potential successor to Johnny Carson,” and predicting he’d be guest-hosting Tonight within six months.

Carson, understandably, offered a less-than-glowing assessment of Chevy’s skills. “He couldn’t ad-lib a fart after a baked-bean dinner.”

The producers at "Saturday Night Live" would like to apologize to Kerry Washington for the number of black women she will be asked to play tonight. We made these requests both because Miss Washington is an actress with incredible range and talent and also because "SNL" does not currently have a black woman in the cast.

As for the latter reason, we agree this is not an ideal situation and look forward to rectifying it in the near future ... unless, of course, we fall in love with another white guy first.

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"It's time to mix it up with some Heaven's Gate humor."

“I thought it would be a lot different now”