2 posts and columns on Mark Wahlberg

YouTube’s Newest Partner: Will Ferrell

in Media on November 5, 2009 at 5:19 am PT

Slowly but surely, YouTube has been able to bump up the number of “premium” content creators willing to hand over some of their stuff to the world’s biggest video site. Here’s yet another one: Funny or Die, the comedy site backed by Will Ferrell, Sequoia and HBO, among others.
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Sarah Palin Plays Sarah Palin on SNL and Nails It

in News on October 19, 2008 at 12:37 am PT

Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin did a very smooth–if sweetly awkward–job in her appearance on “Saturday Night Live” last night. It was a good decision to go low key and also do a bit of stunt casting by bringing in Mark Wahlberg, who was mocked in an impersonation last week by SNL, and also Alec Baldwin. Palin also appeared later, rocking out to a very funny rap. Sometimes politics can be really ugly and sometimes silly–this time Palin managed to poke fun at herself without being either.