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House Speaker Paul Ryan made his late night debut last night with an actually funny bit. The Daily Beast recaps: “Yes or no—would you accept the nomination?” Colbert asked Ryan, who was sitting behind a massive desk and in front of an American flag, in a satellite feed from Washington. “No, Stephen,” Ryan replied. “I have said I do not …

Raw Story sets up the video: In the clip — from the makers of God On The Run and Angel In Denim: The Kim Davis Story — cast member Vanessa Bayer plays a “small town baker without a care” until a same-sex couple demands she bake their wedding cake, causing her faith to be “tested.” Despite being told by a …

Last night’s SNL cold open took on this week’s Democratic debate, with Larry David returning as Bernie Sanders to engage in a literal slap-fight with Kate McKinnon’s Hillary. The sketch turned into a raft of Seinfeld in-jokes via host Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who lobbed questions as Elaine Benes. Watch below.

Mediaite recaps: This week’s Saturday Night Live opened, as expected, with a sketch devoted to Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump‘s troubles with women, but approached the subject by lampooning colorful Donald Trump supporter Scottie Nell Hughes, who starred in her own bonkers CNN segment this week. In between the repartee’ between SNL‘s Kate Bolduan and the quirky Hughes, the bit …

The Week recaps: Last Week Tonight took a break for Easter, but John Oliver posted a special web-only video to celebrate the holiday. And he created it, he said, “in one of YouTube’s most entertaining forms. I’m talking, of course, about YouTube conspiracy videos, science fiction for people who don’t understand they’re watching science fiction.” Whenever he watches one of …

YouTube’s popular Taiwanese Animators have rushed out their recap of last night’s primary results with a clip that depicts Donald Trump spanking Marco Rubio, Chris Christie pissing on the grave of a New Jersey state trooper, and a Trump supporter slugging rally attendees. Watch below.

Mediaite recaps: This week’s Saturday Night Live didn’t spare former secretary of State and Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, cutting the candidate with a razor-sharp spoof commercial that lampooned Clinton’s carefully-workshopped patter and eagerness for votes. Most hilariously (or Hillary-ously?), Kate McKinnon‘s Hillary undergoes a most drastic and surprisingly convincing transformation into Bernie Sanders at the end of the spot.

Via Mediaite: This week’s Saturday Night Live followed up its Trump-centered “campaign coverage” of the 2016 presidential race with another shot at Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, this time in the form of a dead-on campaign ad parody. The spot rolls out looking like every other slice-of-America campaign spot, and even though it telegraphs the reveal, the gag pays off …

HuffPo recaps: Is your face looking a little … “ethnic” lately? Well, you’re in luck, because the hottest trend in makeup finally has a tutorial! “Trumping” is what all the kids are doing these days when they’re not voluntarily patrolling the border or passing out National Socialism pamphlets. So stop laying the foundation to that wall, and let actress Tess …

Seth Meyers returned to SNL form last night with a great bit about Donald Trump. Salon recaps the clip below: Meyers first noted Rubio’s recent attempts “to beat Trump at his own game — which led to the whitest round of snaps ever played.” Regarding Rubio’s slight against the size of Trump’s hands (and, implicitly, his manhood), Meyers said, “When …

Mediaite sets up the clip: The surreal streak that ran through this week’s Saturday Night Live cold open continued into the show’s first sketch, a filmed piece that lampooned the collective freakout over Beyoncé‘s Super Bowl 50 halftime show and overall blackness. Cut like a horror movie trailer, the white characters are increasingly shocked and horrified to find out that …

From Cafe.com comes a rather hilarious Oscars-esque “tribute” to the candidates that have given up their presidential bids. Watch below and enjoy the best of Frothy Mix, Mike Huckabee, Carly Fiorina, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Jim Webb, Chris Christie, Bobby Jindal, Lindsey Graham, George Pataki, Lincoln Chafee, and Martin O’Malley. “Suspended….but never forgotten.”

Yahoo TV sets up the clip: It’s been three months since fans of How to Get Away with Murder have seen Viola Davis in action — other than watching the Emmy winner earn a Golden Globe nomination and a SAG Award, that is. The wait is almost over: HTGAWM returns a week from today. But here’s something fun to tide …

The Week recaps: “God is a very important part of this primary election,” Jimmy Kimmel said on Tuesday’s Kimmel Live, with “most all of the candidates” going out of their way to “talk about the Bible and their faith.” Kimmel said it would be interesting to hear what some actual quotes from these pious candidates sounded like “from the mouth …

From the platform of the Canada Party: Nearly half of Americans feel that marriage must solely comprise a man and a woman, no matter how gay one or both of them actually are. The cornerstone of the anti-gay-marriage argument is that sexual promiscuity among gays will destroy traditional marriage. Somehow, through a mathematical formula we have yet to grasp, this …

Via Salon: Saturday Night Live was merciless in its mockery of the 6th Republican Debate that was on Fox Business News on Thursday. The cold opening of the show featured Fox moderators claiming that if at any point poll numbers dropped during the debate a loud gong would sound and they’d be pulled off stage. If only the real debates …

JMG reader Jay tips us to this amusing clip: “An intimate glimpse into the life of one of the armed freedom fighters occupying Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.”

JMG reader Scott points us to the Twitter account of Colin Meloy, lead singer for The Decemberists, who has launched the hilarious hashtag #bundyeroticfanfic. More examples are below. The Portland Mercury‘s Shelby King plays along: “Hungry and cold, Ammon soon found his limbs entwined with Trevor’s. He was unsure where he ended and Trevor began. ‘It’s for warmth,’ he told …

Via Politico: Comedian-in-Chief Barack Obama on Wednesday fired off quips alongside Jerry Seinfeld to open season 7 of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” “I always wanted to be in a show about nothing and here I am,” Obama says. “There’s nothing more nothing than this,” Seinfeld responds. “Nothing.” The online series features Seinfeld driving around various cities with other comedians. …

“Merry CHRISTmas from America’s Best Christian™.”