In case you hadn’t heard, Lindsay Lohan brought her troubled reputation and apparent Robery Z’Dar head transplant (seriously, whatever she’s done to double the size of her face has aged Lohan about 20 years) to Saturday Night Live over the weekend, which all part of the Public Persona Rehabilitation process (she already posed in Playboy, so this is the next natural move).  And, perhaps because a hungry nation was watching to see if Lohan’s head would explode (either from stress or radical surgery), she scored SNL’s second-highest numbers of the season.

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After the release of a study which indicates that most Oscar voters are wealthy white men, how smart a play does it seem to feature the host of the Academy Awards, Billy Crystal (a wealthy white man), in a sketch in which he appears in blackface?  Well, it’s a play that the Oscars ran with on Sunday night, and it’s catching a bit of criticism (beneath the cacophony about who wore which designer brands, of course).

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When she’s not busy not doing mountains of cocaine, not shoplifting, not making a public and depressing spectacle of herself, and not taking the goodwill her early fame generating and burning it to the ground with a very public and ego-driven flame out in which she crashes and burns while we stand around the fire with marshmallows on sticks and hot cocoa (because she’d totally not do those things, you guyz! WTF! LOL!), Lindsay Lohan is apparently rehearsing her lines (the dialogue kind, not the Colombian variety) in preparation for her return to Saturday Night Live.

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Though Zooey Deschanel was the host of this week’s Saturday Night Live, she was upstaged by two of its guests: Jean Dujardin and Nicolas Cage. Both came to promote and mock their movies, and it made for one of the all around best SNL’s in a while (though the musical guests were a low point). Dujardin, who would win the BAFTA for best actor the next day, came to do a musical number, while Cage went to the update desk to talk about his latest Ghost Rider film. Check it out…

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Well, last night was television’s big night, the 2011 Emmy Awards, in which the luminaries of the small screen gathered together to pat each other on the back, stare vacuously on the red carpet before the show, and proceed to make horribly, horribly unfunny jokes before arbitrarily handing out awards.

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Well this is one for the books: Saturday Night Live, get this, actually had a few funny moments on Saturday, thanks mostly to Helen Mirren and her, erm, physical attributes.  As noted by Entertainment Weekly, “Mirren is known to be justly proud of her upper balcony,” and she let it show on this week’s Digital Short.

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Tiny Fey covers a lot of ground in her new book, Bossypants (“Why is this book called Bossypants? One, because the name Two and a Half Men was already taken”), from discussing sexism and ageism in Hollywood, to her hit TV show 30 Rock, to getting advice from Oprah Winfrey.  But the most interesting sections seem to deal with The One They Call Palin.

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The reviews are in on Zach Galifianakis’ (type that three times fast) Saturday Night Live hosting gig over the weekend, and the brilliant comic’s episode is getting—unsurprisingly—high marks for his hilarious monologue (“I wear a lot of Axe body spray, but I live in a black neighborhood, and it’s called Ask body spray, and if you don’t get that joke, then you’re not racist”), while the episode’s sketches are garnering—again, unsurprisingly—a general chorus of groans and mehs.

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Guess who’s headed back to “Saturday Night Live?” It’s everyone’s favorite Greek comedian Zach Galifianakis! NBC has just announced that the star will appear on an upcoming episode of the sketch comedy series next month marking his second appearance. The first time he hosted was on March 6, 2010 with musical guest Vampire Weekend.

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