Mark Zuckerberg Makes Surprise SNL Cameo

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Mark Zuckerberg Makes Surprise SNL Cameo

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 31, 2011 @03:16AM from the looked-just-like-andy-samberg dept.

theodp writes "Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise cameo appearance on Saturday Night Live during host Jesse Eisenberg's monologue. The real Zuckerberg appeared on stage with both his movie (The Social Network's Eisenberg) and TV (SNL's Andy Samberg) counterparts. The Social Network received 8 Oscar nominations last week, although the Academy snubbed KDE 3's performance."

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What's "Saturday Live?" by kriston · 2011-01-31 03:18 · Score: 1

What's "Saturday Live?"

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1. Re:What's "Saturday Live?" by eldavojohn · 2011-01-31 03:20 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  What's "Saturday Live?"
  Saturday Live was a UK TV series that ran from 1985 to 1987 on Channel 4. It appears that Mr. Zuckerberg has himself a time machine. The case is afoot, can he be stopped before his time traveling makes Facebook the most powerful entity on the planet?! (sure explains how we've gotten to where we're at)
  
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2. Re:What's "Saturday Live?" by game+kid · 2011-01-31 03:30 · Score: 1
  
  It's a new reality show where five businessmen live together in the same Beijing apartment and try to impress Hu Jintao (via boring MMO-esque tasks and videophone interviews) with their managerial acumen, all for a chance to stea^Wcreate and direct that country's version of Saturday Night Live and get screwed stupid by an ex-Disney starlet.
  
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3. Re:What's "Saturday Live?" by underqualified · 2011-01-31 04:35 · Score: 1
  
  i think you can could[sic] ask them to make a correction.
4. Re:What's "Saturday Live?" by jovius · 2011-01-31 04:38 · Score: 1
  
  Saturday Live means that you are going live, away from the keyboard. Applies to other days too.
5. Re:What's "Saturday Live?" by jellomizer · 2011-01-31 05:34 · Score: 1
  
  I have traveled to the future only to learn that there isn't a way to travel to the future. So it didn't happen.
  
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Unpossible! by Sponge+Bath · 2011-01-31 03:22 · Score: 3, Insightful

Better summary: A decaying remnant of a once funny show hosts an actor from a crap movie and the douche the movie was about.
[claps hands and squeals with glee... not]
1. Re:Unpossible! by Chapter80 · 2011-01-31 04:39 · Score: 1
  
  Zukerberg is trying to salvage his reputation with this appearance (among other things), but the world knows he's a douche.
  I wonder how forgiving people will be.
2. Re:Unpossible! by Waffle+Iron · 2011-01-31 04:50 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Better summary: A decaying remnant of a once funny show hosts an actor from a crap movie and the douche the movie was about.
  [claps hands and squeals with glee... not]
  People have been saying that exact same thing since about December, 1975. But somehow, the show is still on the air.
  Why is that? I think that it's because the episodes seem better with age. When they think about the "good old days", they remember the 5% of sketches that were truly funny. When they see new episodes, they focus on the 95% that are mediocre or worse. So, people always think that the show is "going down the tubes".
  However, just like always, there is enough good stuff sprinkled in there to keep an audience, and they'll still be able to glean enough material from old seasons to put out more "Best of $RETIRED_CAST_MEMBER" DVDs.
3. Re:Unpossible! by Stregano · 2011-01-31 05:34 · Score: 1
  
  Zuckerberg is younger than me and I was born in 1980. Are you sure you got your facts straight about people calling Zuckerberg a douche since the 70's? Maybe his parents were douches too so that last name got stuck with douches or something?
  
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4. Re:Unpossible! by Waffle+Iron · 2011-01-31 05:45 · Score: 2
  
  One of the attributes of intelligence is a capability for inference, which allows one to develop generalized concepts from experience with particular instances. I suggest you check it out.
5. Re:Unpossible! by Stregano · 2011-01-31 06:13 · Score: 1
  
  Now you are talking about army generals. Sorry, I am a computer programmer and know nothing about concepts it takes to be a general in the army.
  
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6. Re:Unpossible! by cayenne8 · 2011-01-31 06:36 · Score: 1
  
  "Zukerberg is trying to salvage his reputation with this appearance (among other things), but the world knows he's a douche."
  So what...look at all the money he has. Many people do the douche thing for free
  Hell, I'd turn up the 'asshole' factor as much as needed if I could somehow figure a way to make loads of money....most people would I dare say.
  
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7. Re:Unpossible! by Krater76 · 2011-01-31 12:08 · Score: 1
  
  People have been saying that exact same thing since about December, 1975. But somehow, the show is still on the air.
  SNL has stretches where it's good, sometimes great, and just plain bad. Checking Wikipedia for the cast list for the years really shows the ebb and flow. Obviously the original cast was great - iconic. After that, in the 80s there are very few recognizable names in there. Eddie Murphy, Martin Short, Billy Crystal were the very few that had any great comedy chops. Everyone agrees that the Joe Piscopo era was pretty bad. The 90s were once again pretty good: they had Phil Hartman, Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Kevin Nealon, Chris Farley, Will Ferrell, Darrell Hammond.
  
  The current batch is pretty terrible, bordering on unwatchable. There's little in what makes comedy - most are tired bits that we saw in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. When an opportunity arises for them to make fun of something politically, they completely whiff. Ask yourself this: The Daily Show and Colbert Report can make funny and insightful political satire 4 days a week for a combined hour, why can't SNL do this for a single 90 minute show every week. It should be even easier since SNL isn't constrained to just be politics. Instead of good political satire, we are forced to watch Fred Armisen do the worst Obama impersonation of anyone on TV. There's just no edginess in the skits.
  
  I think the strength of SNL has always been their star. It was John Belushi the beginning. Then it was Eddie Murphy in the 80s. Phil Hartman was the early 90s with Will Ferrell in the late 90s. I guess Tina Fey was their star in the early 00s, but I really can't pinpoint any actual actors from this time (she was more a writer). The problem for the last few years has been their current 'star' Kristen Wiig. Her skits are blatantly unfunny and repetitive. You only hear the complementary chuckles from the live studio audience. Yet, every week we get more and more Kristen Wiig. The focus should be on Andy Samberg although he's terrible at the live acting bit. The most memorable bits from the last 4 or 5 years have all been from Samberg's Digital Shorts.
  
  The SNL I watch is on the DVR - the way it should be. Give each skit about 30 seconds, unless it's funny fast forward to the next. Problem is, these days it's almost a waste of DVR space since there's about 5 minutes (if that) of comedy in each episode. I imagine it keeps its ratings because of the DVR era, more people watching it the next day and fast forward through it.
  
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8. Re:Unpossible! by Phoghat · 2011-02-01 01:54 · Score: 1
  
  Knock, knock
  Who's there?
  Candygram
  
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KDE3 performance??? by crank-a-doodle · 2011-01-31 03:25 · Score: 1

I can''t make out if this is some facetious humor, but what does he mean when he says " snubbed KDE 3's performance."
1. Re:KDE3 performance??? by donscarletti · 2011-01-31 03:40 · Score: 2
  
  Gnome got ignored by the academy for its role in Antitrust too, so I guess its even handed.
  
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2. Re:KDE3 performance??? by Handover+Phist · 2011-01-31 03:47 · Score: 1
  
  What you think it means. The OP appears to believe that the KDE desktop systems appearance in the movie deserved some sort of kudos. There is a link up there that will tell you all sorts of stuff about it. Just click the bit that reads "KDE 3's performance".
  OK. Coffee. Now.
3. Re:KDE3 performance??? by bjourne · 2011-01-31 04:03 · Score: 1
  
  Well, did it appear in the movie or not? TFA says "Of course, this scene is probably completely different in the finished film, KDE will likely be replaced by an Apple desktop, seeing as the characters are seen using Apple computers a couple of times in the trailer." I'll refuse to see the what is likely a really crappy movie myself to find out whether they made such a faggot stunt or not.
  
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4. Re:KDE3 performance??? by crank-a-doodle · 2011-01-31 13:37 · Score: 1
  
  well as a matter of fact, it wasn't...
This was news on Saturday night by EmagGeek · 2011-01-31 03:28 · Score: 1

This is Monday morning. The MSM already spent the weekend hyping this up.
1. Re:This was news on Saturday night by bsDaemon · 2011-01-31 03:46 · Score: 1
  
  Well, now that the MSM is leveraging "web 2.0" so heavily, the only thing left for Slashdot to do in order to differentiate itself is to let the MSM scrape the web 2.0 stuff for them, then scrape that. This is web 3.0. Welcome to the future!
2. Re:This was news on Saturday night by jaymz666 · 2011-01-31 03:51 · Score: 1
  
  +1 It's late Monday morning. Anybody who would have cared would have known about this days ago
3. Re:This was news on Saturday night by Ecuador · 2011-01-31 07:49 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Actually this was news Friday morning... And it is not really a "surprising cameo" when SNL was trying to get him to come and we knew about it beforehand...
  That said, it is a shame that SNL has lost its mojo, it used to be an amazing show.
  Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20029974-36.html
  
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And this is nerd new how, exactly? by guybrush3pwood · 2011-01-31 03:33 · Score: 4, Insightful

And this is nerd new how, exactly?

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1. Re:And this is nerd new how, exactly? by dAzED1 · 2011-01-31 03:42 · Score: 2
  
  well, I consider it "news" that facebook has it's own icon...that's something I really wish I could un-see...
2. Re:And this is nerd new how, exactly? by guybrush3pwood · 2011-01-31 03:47 · Score: 1
  
  No. I most certainly would not.
  
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3. Re:And this is nerd new how, exactly? by RazorSharp · 2011-01-31 03:56 · Score: 1
  
  They could at least merge Zuckerberg's face with that of a Klingon. . .
  
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4. Re:And this is nerd new how, exactly? by Halifax+Samuels · 2011-01-31 04:04 · Score: 1
  
  It was just posted here an hour ago. You think that qualifies as OLD?
5. Re:And this is nerd new how, exactly? by NevarMore · 2011-01-31 04:09 · Score: 2
  
  The Klingon fans would be pissed.
6. Re:And this is nerd new how, exactly? by Jack9 · 2011-01-31 05:22 · Score: 1
  
  It's not news. It's more frontpage trash that's completely irrelevant because the approved submitters are trying to bring up facebook, as if that makes /. look hip. Heck the story about mexican drug smugglers using catapults is more interesting and relevant to the core purpose of the site.
  
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7. Re:And this is nerd new how, exactly? by GameboyRMH · 2011-01-31 05:47 · Score: 1
  
  After the social media bubble bursts, we'll look back and laugh at it...to most of us it will also be a sad reminder that we didn't become the next generation of dot-com boomers...
  
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8. Re:And this is nerd new how, exactly? by FLEABttn · 2011-01-31 08:49 · Score: 1
  
  You're a nerd, he's a nerd, that makes you two practically bros.
9. Re:And this is nerd new how, exactly? by RazorSharp · 2011-01-31 14:29 · Score: 1
  
  Good point. I bet Zuck's face could be doctored to look strikingly like Palpatine's. . .there's an idea.
  
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Re:no digg by imboboage0 · 2011-01-31 03:33 · Score: 1

Then leave. Nobody is making you stay.

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Facebook by Anonymous Coward · 2011-01-31 03:44 · Score: 2, Insightful

still not on it. an old girlfriend was able to track down my brother via facebook. will never sign up. can't even figure out what the fuss is about.
1. Re:Facebook by smash · 2011-01-31 15:15 · Score: 1
  
  I resisted for ages, however if you have friends out there in real life it is convenient to use to keep track of what they're up to and also to let your friends know about events and keep track of invites etc.
  Its a tool. If you use it badly it can do bad things. Like a bandsaw or a hammer. If you use it appropriately it can help make things simple.
  
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Not good by Halifax+Samuels · 2011-01-31 04:03 · Score: 1

Zuckerberg is a VERY poor actor.
1. Re:Not good by eln · 2011-01-31 04:10 · Score: 1
  
  What a got from his performance is that he's a HUGE nerd. He looks and acts like the kid in middle school that all the other nerds made fun of. I used to doubt the whole myth that he created Facebook to get laid, but after seeing him in action I kind of believe it now. It's not like he was going to be getting a lot of dates based on his suave personality.
Live From New York? by WhiteLudaFan · 2011-01-31 04:06 · Score: 1

When did they stop saying, "Live from New York, its Saturday Night Live!"?
1. Re:Live From New York? by tresstatus · 2011-01-31 04:16 · Score: 1
  
  When did they stop saying, "Live from New York, its Saturday Night Live!"?
  they didn't?
  
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2. Re:Live From New York? by Ogive17 · 2011-01-31 04:17 · Score: 1
  
  Not that I was SNL much anymore (due more to me getting older and struggling to stay awake that late) but I always thought the saying was "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night".
  
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3. Re:Live From New York? by burris · 2011-01-31 05:27 · Score: 1
  
  They changed it after receiving a memo from the office of redundancy office who sent a memo telling them to change it to "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!"
Re:Jewish supremacists by chichilalescu · 2011-01-31 04:12 · Score: 1

[...] and continuing with our list of idiots, others were saying: "Of course The Social Network received 8 Oscar nominations - it was written by a WHITE, about a WHITE, what more do you need?"
But the fact remains that it is natural for The Social Network to have received 8 Oscar nominations - it was written by a digital* mammal, about a digital mammal, what more do we need?
Wishing you a good day, this was Dolphin News.
*Translator's note: digital as in "mammal with digits".

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heh by Osgeld · 2011-01-31 04:22 · Score: 1

fitting the stupid facebook icon isnt working
KDE by horza · 2011-01-31 04:23 · Score: 1

Well KDE 3 could get best supporting role, but its performance is steady and not very flashy. They tried KDE 4.0 but found it a bit of a prima donna, with an unstable temperament. I am not sure *nix is going to regain the heady glory days such as with Sandra Bullock in The Net, though Ubuntu made a debut on the small screen with Big Bang Theory.
Phillip.

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1. Re:KDE by Rossjman1 · 2011-01-31 04:58 · Score: 1
  
  Oh Ubuntu you are my favorite Linux-based operating system.
exclusive by hey · 2011-01-31 04:40 · Score: 1

In The Social Network (which Zuckerberg says is fiction) he said people wanted to be in the clubs because they are exclusive. How exclusive a cameo in SNL?
(especially by a software guy)
1. Re:exclusive by RevWaldo · 2011-01-31 05:03 · Score: 1
  
  Well, he's still not a member of the Five Timers Club.
  
  Oh, please, call me 'Mister Steve Martin'.
  
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Way to land the big "scoop", fan boy! by spads · 2011-01-31 06:36 · Score: 1

Think we might add "fan boy" as a new category?

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Re:no digg by jason.sweet · 2011-01-31 06:39 · Score: 1

go fuck yourself in the ass with an old nintendo cart you aspie faggot!
Best comment ever!
Thanks. That made my day.
Re:Can't see it by freedumb2000 · 2011-01-31 09:11 · Score: 1

You, sir, are a turd.
Jesse Eisenberg Looks and sounds like John Carmack by Ledskof · 2011-01-31 09:53 · Score: 1

Jesse Eisenberg Looks and sounds like John Carmack.
He'd the candidate if someone decided to make a movie about JC.

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Berg by Pseudonymus+Bosch · 2011-01-31 11:17 · Score: 1

Zuckerberg, Eisenberg, Semberg. Does the role require to have a surname ending in "berg"?

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Re:True.... by smash · 2011-01-31 15:11 · Score: 1

KDE4 was also not available at the time the movie was set in.

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