Comedian Bill Hader has been on 'Saturday Night Live' (Sat., 11:30PM ET on NBC) for many years now. He's also starred in such movies as 'Superbad' and 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall.' But even for an experienced comedian, performing on live TV can be tough. And unexpected problems occurred on the latest episode of 'SNL' when Hader started struggling with his lines.

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Ryan Phillippe hosted 'Saturday Night Live' this week and got to hang with Larry King, outrageous clowns, James Carville and Mort Feingold.

Hot topics covered by Seth Meyers on Weekend Update include the Iceland volcano and Pope Benedict, among other things.

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(S35E18) Tina Fey gives hope to all nerdy funny girls out there. You may be frumpy and strange now, girls, but all you have to do is work really hard, be yourself, create/write/star in a hit show with Alec Baldwin and become super-famous. Then you will finally be able to soothe the flame of self-hate this is currently raging within you. This is the only option to escape your ugly duckling phase. Sorry if you were convinced otherwise.

All right, seriously, this was a solid episode. It felt like Fey had a strong hand in what kind of material was being produced; most of the sketches worked very well for her. This was also the first time I had heard Justin Bieber. And that's all I'm going to say about that.

Tina Fey returned to 'Saturday Night Live' last night and had plenty to say about brownie husbands, Tiger Woods, and the Oscar curse, among other things.

And apparently, she also has a thing for Justin Bieber, the musical guest this week! Somehow, the pairing of these two seems like the perfect combination.

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Jude Law took time out from his busy Broadway and film schedule to host 'Saturday Night Live.' The show covered his 'Hamlet' audition, ex-congressman Massa's groping debacle, and the game show 'Secret Word.' And Jerry Seinfeld helped out Seth Meyers with a 'Really?' segment.

Whoopi Goldberg stopped by Weekend Update to talk about being the spokesperson for Poise pads, and Andy Samberg and Julian Casablancas teamed up for 'Boombox.'

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Zach Galifianakis is super hot right now, and he supplied some comedy relief as host of 'Saturday Night Live' this week. He's ridiculously funny, just by showing up. In fact, some of his funniest bits on the show involved hanging out in the background of various TV shows like 'Law & Order,' '30 Rock,' and 'The Dr. Oz Show.'

The kissing family also made an appearance (at a funeral, no less), and one of our favorite talk shows, 'What Up With That?,' was back with actor Paul Rudd, as well as the always ignored Lindsey Buckingham.

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Jennifer Lopez hosted 'Saturday Night Live' this week, and the bits ranged from the Telemundo Winter Olympics to an office romance to 'Undercover Celebrity Boss.'

Gov. David Paterson stopped by Weekend Update to talk about his options for the future, and Bobby was soooo excited about some new YouTube clips.

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Ashton Kutcher hosted 'Saturday Night Live' last night, and the show included bits on Fox News, 'The View,' pool boys, slave boys in ancient times, a game show about 'Burn Notice,' and Liam, the Teenager Who Just Woke Up.

Oh, and there's a brand new Cialis. Now you'll never have to miss those special three-way moments that pop up unexpectedly.

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A clean-shaven Jon Hamm hosted 'Saturday Night Live' this week, and the 'Mad Men' star brought the laughs during his second time hosting the show -- especially as a "crazy sexy" saxophonist named Sergio.

The 'SNL' crew also took the politicians to task with bits on Obama's State of the Union speech, Sen. Scott Brown's new gig, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor's visit to Weekend Update. All that, and some Michael Bublé tunes.

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NBA star Charles Barkley hosted 'Saturday Night Live' this week, with musical guest Alicia Keys. The show covered everything from the situation in Yemen to MacGruber's sensitivity training to two fantastic performances by Keys.

Nicolas Cage, Gov. David Paterson, and James Carville stopped by Weekend Update to chat with Seth Meyers, and if you're looking for an insurance company who will keep an eye on you day and night, Thomas Peepers is there to help.

Merry Christmas! In this pre-holiday podcast, Brad Trechak and Jason Hughes join me to talk about our favorite holiday episodes (think Festivus, folks), as well as the following:

• Brittany Murphy's death and how it caused NBC to pull a SNL Weekend Update bit from a few weeks ago,
• It's David Tennant's last days as Doctor Who, and we talk about his popular run and what's in store for his successor, Matt Smith,
• What TV-related items you can buy with the handful of gift cards you received during the holidays,
• How we might be watching TV during the next decade. Will the 30th season of The Simpsons be available telekinetically?
• Ask TV Squad, Comment of the Week, our picks of the week, and more!

Run time is 1:14:14.

You can listen to the podcast below, or download from here or by subscribing to our RSS podcast feed. It is also available via iTunes. Feel free to leave us feedback in the comments or drop us a line at tvsquadpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com.

As usual, the music at the beginning and end of the podcast is "Life" by Justin Trawick. Note that we recorded the podcast on Monday, and my pick of the week -- Jay Thomas on Letterman -- has already aired. Huh. I figured they'd wait until at least Christmas Eve for that one.

So by now you've heard the news about the death of Brittany Murphy yesterday.

In a case of odd timing, Saturday Night Live actually had a sketch just two weeks ago that made fun of Murphy's persona. Now, to be honest, I didn't really know Murphy outside of the movies she was in (such as 8 Mile), so this doesn't make any real impact on me. It shows Murphy as a bit off, a bit dazed. But again, I'm not even sure if I ever saw Murphy in an interview situation. NBC has pulled the video from the web because of Murphy's death.

However, Mediaite has video of the sketch. They also have video of an appearance Murphy made earlier this year on The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Judge for yourself if it's accurate or not.

Celebs and the media spotlight that shine on them were skewered regularly by funnyman David Spade in 'Hollywood Minute,' a segment within 'Saturday Night Live's' Weekend Update back in the '90s.

Does Spade miss spoofing the whole celebrity machine? "I do," he told AOL during a recent set visit to Spade's sitcom 'Rules of Engagement,' which will return for its fourth season on CBS at midseason.

So what would Spade say on 'Hollywood Minute' about the whole Tiger Woods brouhaha? "I'd say, 'I saw the new US Weekly magazine poll and I think they were too tough on him," Spade deadpans. "It said, 'Should Tiger Go To Heaven?' 91 percent say no.'"

January Jones, a.k.a. Betty Draper on 'Mad Men,' hosted this week's episode of 'Saturday Night Live.' How did she do shedding her angsty '60s housewife persona and bringing the funny? Watch a few clips and see for yourself.

We just got done with the NBC executive session, where primetime entertainment head Angela Bromstad and alternative programming (read: reality) chief Paul Telegdy took the reporters questions.

Of course, many of the questions had to do with The Jay Leno Show and Ben Silverman's departure. What the gathered reporters got out of the two executives was evasiveness, referrals to other executives, and a general sense that the two of them either don't know or don't want to provide answers about their own network.

When the question of Leno and CBS's Nina Tassler's assertion that NBC would declare victory no matter what numbers they got, Bromstad tried to pass us to the session for Leno's show later in the day. Telegdy did the same. But we wouldn't let them off the hook. An example exchange, for instance, went like this: