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The death of late-night talk-show television has been so slow, so painful, so very unfunny. Honestly it’s flabbergasting that David Letterman didn’t successfully sarcastify the genre into its grave twenty years ago—though god knows he has tried. But are we closer now to the sweet embrace of the pop-cultural crypt? 

Comedy nerds' hearts exploded last night with Justin Timberlake's hosting gig on Saturday Night Live that brought out comedy legends past and present.

I've been waiting months until Saturday Night Live would finally book Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. Last night, SNL finally came to their senses.

Well. This isn't going to go over well with some fundamentalist Christians. Christopher Waltz hosted Saturday Night Live last night—at the begining of Lent, mind you—and appeared in a spoof Quentin Tarantino historical revenge flicks called DJesus Uncrossed.

Those squeals that roused you East Coasters from your slumber at 11:30p.m. was everyone who stayed up past her bedtime to watch Justin Bieber host Saturday Night Live. At least the ones who weren't felled by hypothermia after camping out on 30 Rock during a blizzard.

Crazyass Justin Bieber fans camped outside 30 Rock during a fucking blizzard. Inside, their boy wonder vomited during his Saturday Night Live dress rehearsal from food poisoning.

Andy Samberg returned to Saturday Night Live last night for a digital short starring Lonely Island, host Adam Levine and musical guest Kendrick Lamar all about YOLO. In case you've been under a rock, YOLO is the acronym everyone loves to hate and last night it didn't mean "you only live once." With these guys, YOLO is a warning: "you oughtta look out." 

Saturday Night Live writer and standup comic John Mulaney has hit the jackpot: NBC has picked up his Lorne Michaels-produced sitcom, which he will write and star in, NYmag.com's Vulture blog reports.

When the news broke that Kim Kardashian is expecting Kanye West’s baby, I’m sure I’m not the only one who assumed that a birthing special would find its way on E! at some point. That is where we are as a society: it makes perfect sense that we’d have the opportunity to watch a human come out of Kim Kardashian. (Hell, a lot of us have seen a human go into Kim Kardashian.) But, thankfully, the mom-to-be has announced that the birth will be private, and she’s looking forward to not working for a while. Think about that as you click through the internet, desperate to leave your office and not work for a few hours before returning tomorrow morning! [Jezebel]

Instead of ending the year with a slew of Best Of lists, BlackBook asked our contributors to share the most important moments in art, music, film, television, and fashion that took place in 2012. Here, Natalie Alcala writes of the big year for multi-hyphenate wunderkind, Dev Hynes.