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20 May 2012 10:52 PM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »

From Eddie Murphy to Will Ferrell and Tim Meadows, 'SNL' has a checkered record of minting movie stars.

By Gil Kaufman

Kristen Wiig in "Bridesmaids"

Photo: Universal Studios

Since its debut 37 years ago, "Saturday Night Live" has done two things incredibly well: skewer the day's headlines with a twisted, acid perspective and serve as a launching pad for some of the biggest careers in movie comedy history.

And following her tearful final spin on Saturday night's season finale, it appears clear that the show's ace player, "Bridesmaids" star Kristen Wiig, will be the latest breakout player to make a permanent leap from the stage at Studio 8H to movie stardom. Wiig has already tasted success with an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for "Bridesmaids," and she has at least half a dozen features in various stages of shooting and development. We thought it was worth taking a »

18 April 2012 11:58 AM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

Thanks to the sobering moment of clarity Lorne Michaels experienced after the back-to-back-to-back embarrassments of A Night At The Roxbury, Superstar, and The Ladies Man, the world was likely just narrowly denied a movie based on Mr. Peepers, perhaps the most popular of Chris Kattan’s many characters based on contorting his body in an ostensibly comical manner. But that hasn’t prevented some from dreaming of what might have been, then turning said dream into an elaborate satirical prank: The S.F. Weekly has published excerpts from Peepers, a canticle, a full-length screenplay purported to be written by “C »

2 items from 2012