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7:34 pm - 11/13/2008

SNL hires new girls

Los Angeles (E! Online) – Never heard of Abby Elliott and Michaela Watkins? Well, they just might be the next Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, if Lorne Michaels has his way.

Elliott and Watkins have just been named Saturday Night Live's stable of Not Ready for Prime-Time Players, ostensibly to fill the void left by the exits of Fey and Poehler.

SNL mastermind Michaels invited the pair to join the show's lineup just weeks after Poehler's tenure ended with the birth of her first child. Next season she'll star in her own NBC series from the producers of The Office. Fey, meanwhile, says she is giving up her Sarah Palin impersonation to focus on 30 Rock.

The daughter of veteran funnyman Chris Elliott, Abby Elliott had a stint with improv group Upright Citizens Brigade (a company cofounded by Poehler) and has voiced several episodes of King of the Hill and Mike Judge's upcoming ABC 'toon The Goode Family.

Watkins, meanwhile, is an alum of Los Angeles' Groundlings and has logged guest appearances on Malcolm in the Middle, Without a Trace, Charmed, Californication and The New Adventures of Old Christine.









She doesn't seem as funny as Casey Wilson (I mean, no one is as funny as her, lets face it. But she seems ok.



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betelgeuse 14th-Nov-2008 01:45 am (UTC)
She doesn't seem as funny as Casey Wilson (I mean, no one is as funny as her, lets face it. But she seems ok.
Plz let this be sarcasm.
trip_fontainee 14th-Nov-2008 01:46 am (UTC)
haha i know right
urban_fervor 15th-Nov-2008 05:58 am (UTC)
Aww, Nick Andopolis, I love you :)
nancyboy11 14th-Nov-2008 02:25 am (UTC)
MTE
jennomac 14th-Nov-2008 02:28 am (UTC)
serious as a heart attack
bb_kb 14th-Nov-2008 02:29 am (UTC)
D: i know
kiss_my_undies 14th-Nov-2008 01:46 am (UTC)
lol casey wilson really is the worst.
thatveronicavon 15th-Nov-2008 01:56 am (UTC)
seriously, i hope she doesn't stay for another season. awful. not even a tiny bit funny.
dramatik_irony 14th-Nov-2008 01:47 am (UTC)
y no black women?
ex_labeouf301 14th-Nov-2008 01:50 am (UTC)
it's snl..... . . .
bamboobanga2 14th-Nov-2008 01:48 am (UTC)
yay vagina
sleeplessincam 14th-Nov-2008 01:48 am (UTC)
Casey Wilson is retarded.
bizarrre 14th-Nov-2008 02:02 am (UTC)
i concur.
sporkier 14th-Nov-2008 01:48 am (UTC)
I don't understand why Casey Wilson is on the show. She's barely decent looking, chubby, only plays the "extra" characters, and she can't fucking sing.
goldnchild87 14th-Nov-2008 01:48 am (UTC)
I think this was posted.
getup_n_go 14th-Nov-2008 02:16 am (UTC)
seconded
jennomac 14th-Nov-2008 02:29 am (UTC)
where do you think it was posted
ms_phit 14th-Nov-2008 07:38 pm (UTC)
Yessssssss, it definitely was. This has been happening so much lately. It's starting to get really irritating.
luxwasfourteen 14th-Nov-2008 01:48 am (UTC)
here's abby as kirsten dunst for anyone who's interested

tucker 14th-Nov-2008 01:52 am (UTC)
That was actually really funny if you have ever seen an interview with Kdunst
calimoonchild 14th-Nov-2008 01:56 am (UTC)
She seems funny! But I think she's channeling Drew Barrymore much more than Kiki there.
luxwasfourteen 14th-Nov-2008 02:02 am (UTC)
she looks more like drew than kiki, but she's got kiki's mannerisms down pat
bowied 14th-Nov-2008 04:00 am (UTC)
I was going to say the same thing!
backtosquare_1 14th-Nov-2008 02:24 am (UTC)
This is so weird! I went to high school with her (actually she was a senior when my brother was a junior, so I wasn't in school yet). She was Sandy in Grease, and I remember everyone getting mad at her because she said if she didn't get that part she wouldn't do the play at all.
luxwasfourteen 14th-Nov-2008 01:50 am (UTC)
and as angelina jolie



not as good as her kiki
andgedem 14th-Nov-2008 01:58 am (UTC)
Haha, she's got Angie down pat :D
jesusbitches 14th-Nov-2008 02:00 am (UTC)
her voice isn't deep enough for angelina. kiki dunst is right on though.
handful_of_fire 14th-Nov-2008 01:51 am (UTC)
bitch please

kristen wiig is the new tina fey/amy poehler
too bad the writing is shit :(
andgedem 14th-Nov-2008 01:58 am (UTC)
Agreed :(
hussel 14th-Nov-2008 01:53 am (UTC)
Um i like Casey Wilson so fuck all of you
grammaire 14th-Nov-2008 02:30 am (UTC)
But she ruins every sketch...
ididthatonce 14th-Nov-2008 02:41 am (UTC)
ia
lakomka87 14th-Nov-2008 06:57 am (UTC)
i liked her in the Katy Perry sketch
lovepollution 14th-Nov-2008 01:53 am (UTC)
Exits by Fey and Pohler? Tina left like, 4 years ago or something.
5fingrdischarge 14th-Nov-2008 02:25 am (UTC)
seriously
calimoonchild 14th-Nov-2008 01:54 am (UTC)
Not impressed.
bonitaquetal 14th-Nov-2008 01:57 am (UTC)
Umm wasn't this posted already?! Sheesh!

And Abby totally went to my college and my roommate had acting classes with her.
rhapsodeeinblue 14th-Nov-2008 01:57 am (UTC)
Posted.

And they seriously need to ~diversify~ the ethnicities of their cast members. They've never had an Asian cast member, have they?
desultory6 14th-Nov-2008 02:08 am (UTC)
I don't know if they have, but the lack of diversity is ridiculous.
stellawuzadiver 14th-Nov-2008 02:42 am (UTC)
Fred Armisen and Rob Schneider are part Asian.
rhapsodeeinblue 14th-Nov-2008 02:43 am (UTC)
NOT AZN ENOUGH

J/K. Kind of.
me_and_jimmy 14th-Nov-2008 07:06 am (UTC)
They haven't had an Asian nope, fuck they didn't have their first Mexican cast memeber until Horatio Sanz. SNL (as much as I love the show) is stupid about their casting so much. Its just plain ol' white people. They have only had three black women and one was bi-racial (And I miss Maya Rudolph so friggin much). They need more diversity.
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