Let me preface this by opening myself up to some criticism. In trying to recall if there were any new episodes of Saturday Night Live coming up, here was my thought process:

Wait, isn’t the episode with Justin Bieber supposed to air soon?

For everyone not in know (cool people), it’s the next new episode of SNL, airing April 10.

The smart money says this story won’t outlast the news cycle, but here’s hoping that John Malkovich’s retribution demands directed at the Madoff camp spurn Bill Hader as Malkovich on Weekend Update next Saturday. There’s certainly a better chance of that than Malkovich taking back the full $2 million that was sheisted from his trust.

Here’s a look at Hader’s brilliant work to date as Malkovich on SNL (via Hulu)

Really? You found a seminal Rock n’ Roll band with a twenty-year old body of work less entertaining than the voice of Lemony in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events? Really?

Really.

There’s probably someone out there willing to crucify me for saying – not to mention the karmic payback it sets up when I vie for P.J. tickets this week – but I found Jude Law’s performance last night on Saturday Night Live to be mildly amusing, and Pearl Jam’s mildly underwhelming. Chicago RedEye posted the exact opposite earlier today.

Still, let me make it abundantly clear, there is a 100% greater chance of me buying Pearl Jam tickets this week, than of me paying to see Repo Men, ever.

Here’s Law in the Secret Word skit last night, followed by Pearl Jam performing ‘Unthought Known’ (c/o Hulu).

Couldn’t someone have told Mike McCready: Stop jumping, Rick Springfield!

No hyberbole. This was the funniest movie I’ve seen in a theatre since Old School (not to be all up in Todd Phillips’ – director of both – jock).

In terms of Power Ranking the cast, Ed Helm’s (The Office, SNL) is definitely overshadowed by Bradley Cooper. And both are left to bow in the wake of Zach Galifianakis – who owes us an explanation for a certain something that happened in the credits. But I got to hand it to Helms. He held his own as the wimpy guy in the crew, who is not all gutless and annoying (anyone disagree?) Check out Helms’ here flexing the golden pipes during the we need a montage moment of the movie (apologies for the promotional nature of this particular video)…

That’s but one iota of the knock down, drag out hilarity. Don’t take my word for it, check out this post from Deadline Hollywod on how The Hangover was Made (H/T to Pop Candy for that link). Or better yet, don’t ask questions and just go see the movie.