Viral Video: Edel-Dooneese (Kristen Wiig’s Creepy, Tiny-Handed Genius)

The hill are alive with radioactivity.

Katie Couric Deal to Become Yahoo’s “Global News Anchor” Set to Be Announced Monday

It looks like the deal that AllThingsD wrote about in August is finally happening.
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Title-Inflation Police

You do not deserve the title of genius! You can’t just throw that term around.

— “Saturday Night Live”’s Jay Pharoah, in character as Kanye West, to Lady Gaga playing Karen, the Apple Store Genius Bar tech-support employee

Viral Video: Thankfully, “Boy Dance Party” Is Not About the Twitter Board

Bruce Willis and a disco ball (enough said).

SNL’s Winners and Losers From the Government Shutdown (Video)

Nothing like a good old-fashioned government shutdown to create an opportunity for some equal-opportunity political skewering.

“SNL” Parodies Google Glass

It’s great because no one knows you’re doing it.

Hulu’s Pitch to Advertisers: Four Million People Pay Us to See Your Ads!

Hulu’s ownership structure is up in the air. But it still needs to sell advertising and subscriptions; both seem to be going pretty well.

News Byte

Land Shark, Two Wild and Crazy Guys and Schweddy … Yahoo Adds 38-Year SNL Archive to Site

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said in a blog post that the Silicon Valley Internet giant had reached an agreement with Broadway Video to “feature Saturday Night Live content exclusively on Yahoo! The partnership gives Yahoo! users exclusive access to the entire 38-year archive of SNL content as well as clips from the current season.” While a lot of the content has already been widely available across the Web (on Hulu and NBC.com, for example) for years — thus, kind of stretching the idea of “exclusive” a bit — having it all in another place online, as the Church Lady says: “Isn’t that special?”

Big Media Flexes Its Muscle, and Justin Timberlake Sells a Lot of Music

It helps that he can sing and dance. But it also helps that he’s got a huge machine behind him. Also: About those iTunes charts …