As reported by the New York Times:

NBC made the appointment, which had been widely expected, one day before Mr. Meyers was to be introduced to advertisers at NBC’s presentation of its new programming lineup at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan.

The assignment will keep Mr. Meyers under the production leadership of Lorne Michaels, who will continue to serve as executive producer of “Late Night” as well as serving in the same position on Mr. Fallon’s “Tonight Show” as it moves to New York. (And of course, he will remain in charge of “SNL.”)

In an interview before taking the stage on Saturday’s edition of “SNL,” Mr. Meyers said, “Working at ‘SNL’ requires 100 percent of your mental capacity — on easy weeks. And so I had not really spent a lot of time thinking about what I was going to do next. Obviously I can’t quit Lorne. So this seems like a pretty good deal that I have an opportunity to keep working with him.”

While sentimental about leaving his home at "SNL," Meyers sees the move as a natural fit: “It always seemed like a logical next move,” he said. “It was just competing with the very emotional idea of leaving a place I have been for a very long time."

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Happy Mother's Day

What do you get for the mother who subtly undermines your life choices and talks to you about watching porn with your dad? Flowers, apparently.

The Californians

This sketch, once a favorite, has fallen flat in Wiig's absence. But with Wiig back in the driver's seat (on the 101, to the PCH, to Grand Avenue in Arroyo Grande) everything is OK again.

Lawrence Welk

An ode to summer from ol' Dooneese.

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Of this season's 21 episodes, only 5 were hosted by women -- that's 23.8 percent. And of those five women, four had hosted the program before; only the omnipresent Jennifer Lawrence was a new visitor to 30 Rock.

This is hardly a new phenomenon. Though there have been vacillations in certain seasons, seasons generally break down 70-30 in favor of male hosts. Perhaps this isn't surprising. Not only do women hosts on "SNL" tend to play pretty, anodyne "girlfriend" characters (try to recall a sketch from either of Anna Faris' episodes!), but the female ensemble on "SNL" has traditionally been very strong, so much so that even some talented female cast members have trouble breaking through. Why book more female hosts if they're not going to get much to do? (This isn't new, either. In the show's first season, 8 of 25 hosts were women, including Candice Bergen twice within two months.)

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First, a celebration of Congress from Jay Pharoah's Barack Obama:

"As you know, over the past few months, I have made gun control legislation a top priority for my administration. Which is why I am so proud to announce that last week, the Senate voted 68 to 31 to begin debating the idea of discussing gun control. Let me say that again: They've agreed to think about talking about gun control."

Next, a rundown of the proposed plan and its many virtues:

"Most Americans agree that we need stricter background checks. If our bill passes, no individual can purchase handguns from a private dealer without being asked: 'Are you a good person?' As well as the follow-up question: 'Seriously, are you?'"

More here:

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In case you missed any, here are the most memorable J.T. performances of the week:

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Timberlake has been on a media blitz ever since he announced his new album, "The 20/20 Experience," earlier this year, having performed new material at the Grammy Awards, announced a tour with Jay-Z and this weekend revived some of his classic "SNL" hits during his fifth time hosting the sketch show.

The episode averaged a 3.7 rating among adults 18-49 across 25 markets with Local People Meters, the highest record since Charles Barkley hosted in January 2012.

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So what is it about Timberlake that makes us want him to come back to the Studio 8H every chance he gets? Andy Samberg helped him tap into it, for sure, creating sketches for him as his wingman, allowing him to showcase a charming, suave, cool, self-mocking douche — which he does exceedingly well. Samberg turns up here for two sketches — but, missed opportunity alert: There is no new digital short. (Don't tell me Patricia Clarkson and Susan Sarandon weren't around!)

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"I didn't have anything to lose," she says, from her home in the Miami area.

On "SNL" from 1986-92, Jackson starred with Jon Lovitz, Al Franken, Chris Rock, Nora Dunn, Phil Hartman and Julia Sweeney, and was a quirky yet beloved member of one of the 38-year-old show's most enduring casts. But recently she's had more in common with Dennis Miller: In 2007, Jackson had a political awakening and "realized" then–presidential candidate Barack Obama was a communist. Radical Islam, she came to believe, was infiltrating and infecting America.

Suddenly the sketch comic best known for turning cartwheels on the Weekend Update desk was making headlines of her own by blasting gay marriage, Muslims and Occupy Wall Street on conservative talk-radio shows and creating goofy sound bites and song parodies that found a home on Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and, yes, Miller's shows.

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OK, maybe not the hottest. The most awkward? The strangest?

But for the time being, Chloe Sevigny has come between Fred and Carrie. Chloe dated both of them, before settling on Fred -- and as the third season concludes the two friends are barely speaking. But as a Portland is struck by a massive blackout, well, you know what can happen during a blackout!

So, Fred, will they or won't they?

Armisen raises an eyebrow.  "Who knows," said the comedian, also a "Saturday Night Live" star, when we met for lunch in New York this week. "Have they?"

Wait, what? "It’s a good thing to think about."

The third season of "Portlandia" has sometimes been awkward and strange. Two misfires during the first three episodes -- a drawn-out attempt to take over MTV and reinstall Kurt Loder and Matt Pinfield (as if those were the glory days of anything) and an oddly dated sketch with Patton Oswalt as the king of Evite responses -- had some critics ready to pounce. That's the danger with a show that lovingly satirizes of-the-moment cool culture -- your audience wants to be first to discover the show, and then first to lead the backlash.

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Known more for fart jokes than they are for decapitations, the cast of "SNL" went for a Tarantino level of gory authenticity in their biblical revenge flick, "Djesus UnCrossed."

Starring Waltz as the son of God himself and featuring Taran Killam doing a a delightfully spot-on Brad Pitt (going after Ro-mans, naturally), the overall effect is pretty darn convincing.

Though you should be warned: It might be a little early to see a head get split in half, so maybe put your breakfast down while you watch.

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Well, O'Connor's picture ripping days are behind her, but she hasn't gone soft. Now she is just slicing and dicing the papacy with words.

In a statement on her website, O'Connor "congratulated" the pope on his resignation, writing:

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Here is the Hunger Games champ at this post-Hunger Games press conference. One reporter wants to know: Did she take performance-enhancing drugs? What no one wants to know: Anything about the only other winner, Peeta. Poor chump.

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“Weirdest coincidence. Common [the previous guest] brought me the same gift,” joked Fallon, before asking what he was supposed to do with the meat. Grandee said, “Heck, you can just get a fork and eat it right out of the jar, if you want to.” Fallon dropped his face into his hands and shook his head at the thought of it. But when the slowly escalating cheers from his studio audience reached a fever pitch, he unscrewed the lid, stuck his finger cautiously into the jar, and gave the crowd what they wanted.

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The story first came to public attention in early December, when David Corn and Andy Kroll at Mother Jones magazine reported that “former Rep. Dick Armey, the folksy conservative leader, has resigned as chairman of FreedomWorks, one of the main political outfits of the conservative movement and an instrumental force within the Tea Party.

“Armey, the former House majority leader who helped develop and promote the GOP’s Contract with America in the 1990s, tendered his resignation in a memo sent to Matt Kibbe, president and CEO of FreedomWorks, on Nov. 30. Mother Jones obtained the email on Monday, and Armey has confirmed he sent it. The tone of the memo suggests that this was not an amicable separation … Armey demanded that he be paid until his contract ended on Dec. 31; that FreedomWorks remove his name, image or signature ‘from all its letters, print media, postings, web sites, videos, testimonials, endorsements, fund raising materials, and social media, including but not limited to Facebook and Twitter’; and that FreedomWorks deliver the copy of his official congressional portrait to his home in Texas.”

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“First … get a million dollars,” he said. “What do [you] say to the tax man when he comes to [your] door and says, ‘You have never paid taxes?’ Two simple words. Two simple words in the English language: ‘I forgot!’”

Porter Stansberry, an “investment advisor” with a knack for lining his own pockets, used a slightly different strategy in 2003. When the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) came to his door and accused him of making over a million dollars selling false “inside tips,” the self-aggrandizing financial guru claimed that it was his First Amendment right to tell his subscribers whatever he wanted — even if what he wanted to tell them was, as the SEC put it, “baseless speculation and outright lies.”

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