Ashley Hoffman

The eagerly anticipated Jimmy Fallon-Justin Timberlake Christmas episode of Saturday Night Live came and went at full speed. Fallon, as host, pumped every sketch full of energy and the writing merited was enough to fill anyone with Christmas cheer.…

Last night on SNL, thirteen-timer John Goodman did what he always has: The Inside Llewyn Davis and Monuments Men actor gave us some hilarious, full-fledged characters. And, thus, the episode as a whole actually worked — the hour-and-a-half of…

On Saturday, Paul Rudd’s third time hosting Saturday Night Live marked the first of the show's three-week lineup of veteran hosts. (We're already squealing in anticipation over Dec. 21's Jimmy Fallon-Justin Timberlake Christmas episode.) And Rudd,…

Josh Hutcherson’s been busy promoting Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which means he's been working the press circuit and fielding marriage proposals from strangers. Still, when it comes to this season's crop of SNL hosts (Miley Cyrus, Bruce Willis,…

You didn’t expect a happy ending for Stuart and Jessica did you? The way Stephen Merchant capped off the first season of Hello Ladies with a powerful dose of truth couldn’t have been more weirdly satisfying, even though it wasn't the ending everyone…

Continuing her heavy promotion for ARTPOP , Lady Gaga played both musical guest and host on Saturday Night Live this week. The show was a smart one, some unexpected moments delivered honest laughs that didn't solely surround the Fame Monster's…

You’ve spent enough holidays agonizing over crumbly pie crusts and mushy lattices. Why can’t the crust come out like the ones in Sing a Song of Sixpence? Then you tried pie pops, but they shrunk into something resembling a q-tip dipped in cookie…

Every Thanksgiving, I was responsible for typing up the menu for the guests. My father revised my work more than any editor has since, and after several drafts it would finally be approved to print on the ornately bordered paper. The hardest part…

Last week, Hello Ladies tricked us by showing Stuart and Jessica in bed together. (Of course, they were only co-bunking because her roof caved in.) But, on Sunday night, Stuart and Jessica danced together by choice. But the tease goes nowhere. The…

Ever imagine you’d see Stuart in bed with Jessica? That’s where we’re at with Hello Ladies' first scene Sunday, but there’s no way they… no they didn’t. Relax, Jessica’s roof’s getting repaired so they’re actually just sleeping together. Strange…

Finally. A black female on the set. Ever since SNL’s whitewashed cast has been dominating the conversation, there’s never been so much unspoken racial tension in the air since Washington schooled Julia Stiles’ character in Save the Last Dance. Even…

With celebrities oversharing on social media more transparently than ever, we're closer to their personal lives than we are to those relatives we don’t relate to. As long as the Twitter feeds keep rolling, we can continue to check in on their egos.…

This week on SNL, Edward Norton drinks a candy corn mojito to toast Halloween. But because candy corn cocktails sound about as appetizing as the homemade trail mix doled out by health-conscious families and wheat germ dispensaries, here’s a fairly…

Considering the first half of Season 1 of HBO's Hello Ladies, which mainly featured plotlines about Stuart desperately trying to get into parties, last night's episode was a departure. The episode’s very funny storyline focuses on Stuart throwing an…

Norton’s triumphant hosting debut led the best episode of the season so far with eight hilarious sketches outnumbering only two that fell flat (a season first.) Norton has to know comedy’s his bag based on his recent projects. As a first-time host,…

We knew it was only a matter of time before things got truly dark. Sunday's episode wasn’t sad in the way that Derek, the show from Merchant’s partner Ricky Gervais can be, but it was sad enough to make you want to look away. Credit to the show for…

Personal styling services online promise to analyze your preferences and shop for you, because ain’t nobody got time for that. I took a week to test-drive a few of them to investigate whether stylists using a Pandora-like algorithm could help me…