The Office star Steve Carell hosted last night’s Saturday Night Live with musical guest Usher.

During the weekly SNL Digital Short, The Office creator Ricky Gervais introduced the Japanese inspiration for his British version of The Office, which he said is currently being ripped off by the Americans version.

Check it out below and don’t miss the Japanese commercial featuring the Regis tampon!

Steve Carell as “Michael Scott”, Kristin Wiig as “Pam Beesly”, William Hader as “Dwight Schrute”, Jason Sudeikis as “Jim Halpert” and Kenan Thompson as “Standley Hudson”.

Mariah Carey performed a two-song set during last night’s Saturday Night Live. The 38-year-old dvia performed the first single, “Touch My Body”, off her latest album E=MC² (meaning: “Emancipation equals Mariah Carey to the second power”).

Mariah also sang out a new song called “Migrate”. Watch her two performances below!

BTW, her back-up dancers need to jazz up their outfits a bit! Snore.

Juno star Ellen Page made fun of the recent speculation that she’s a lesbian during her closing skit on yesterday’s Saturday Night Live.

The 21-year-old actress played a character that “so went gay” at a Melissa Etheridge/Indigo Girls concert.

“I just felt like i was an oil lamp that’s never been lit,” Page said excitedly. “And now I’m finally burning bright with sister fire! There were so many cute short haircuts and I didn’t care that I didn’t have any make up on. I felt so free.”

Andy Samberg played her psuedo-boyfriend, who told Page, “You are like a primo lesbian now.”

Rolling on the floor and holding her legs up, Page’s character shot back, screaming, “Gay, no way! …Why does everything have to have a freaking label?? Why can’t I just hug a woman with my LEGS in friendship???”

Watch the video below of Ellen Page’s lesbian skit for SNL…

Watch Ellen’s opening monologue with Diablo Cody, played by Andy Samberg, here. 30+ HD screencaps inside of Page’s characters, which included spoofs of Miley Cyrus, Natalie Portman in The Other Boleyn Girl, and Peter Pan. More Here! »

Hillary Clinton made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live!

She responded to a parody of Tuesday night’s Democratic debate, which poked fun of her stance on health care and the softball questions posed to Barack Obama.

The senator then shouted the trademark line, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday night!”

Ellen Page hosted the show, with musical guest Wilco. Watch the clip below! Or watch the full SNL intro here. It’s what Hillary responded to, basically. Check it!

Saturday Night Live returns this Saturday after a 16-week break forced by the writer’s strike.

Fresh off a recent win at this year’s Grammy awards, Carrie Underwood has been asked to make her second appearance on SNL. Carrie, 24, will perform hits from her new double platinum-selling album, Carnival Ride.

Saturday Night Live alum Tina Fey will host this week and Juno star Ellen Page will host next week.

Andy Samberg enlists the help of Maroon 5’s Adam Levine and Saturday Night Live regular Fred Armisen for the latest SNL digital short, Iran So Far. Samberg serenades Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hilariously played by Admisen. Jake Gyllenhaal is referenced in the SNL lyrics and makes a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appearance towards the end of the short.

(FYI: Last week, during a speech at Columbia University, Ahmadinejad asserted that women are respected in Iran and stated “we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.”)

You can watch the clip at NBC.com but if that doesn’t work, try LiveLeak.com. Lyrics below!

SNL’s “Iran So Far” Lyrics

They say true love comes only once in a lifetime
And even though we’re from opposite ends of the earth
My heart tells me you’re the one for me

Mahmoud, I remember when it started, saw you on the news
You hating gays, I was eating food
I was feeling you, and even though I disagree with almost everything you said
You ain’t wrong to me, so strong to me, you belong to me
Like a very hairy Jake Gyllenhaal to me
Mahmoud, make my heart beating out of my chest
my mind says no but my body says yes
You ain’t no threat, the only threat I see, is the threat of you not coming home to me
Our love for each other is like when atoms collide
Can’t express how I feel, and yo Adam let’s ride

And Iran, Iran so far away is your home, but in my heart you’ll stay

He ran, for the president of Iran
We ran together to a tropical island
My man, Mahmoud is known for violence
Smiling, if he can still do it then I can
They call you weasel, they say your methods are medieval
You can play the Jews, I can be your Jim Caviezel

S&M, (?) when we’re wrestlin’
You can be the port that I put my vessel in
So I try to (?) but you can still see me
With your sleepy brown eyes, butter pecan thighs
And your hairy butt… Yeah.

And Iran, Iran so far away
Come home, and in my arms you’ll stay
Used to look at the stars and dream
Around the world the same stars we’re seeing
And a twinkle in your eyes Mahmoud

Talk smooth to me, in the night sky
With you pants high waisted, damn so fly
We can take a trip to the animal zoo
And laugh at all the funny things that animals do
Like Eugene, you got me straight trippin’ boo
Hope you look at my eyes and say I’m trippin’ too
You say (?) but they already do
You should know by now, it’s you

You crazy for this world Mahmoud
So give us another Holocaust all you want
But you can’t deny that there’s something between us
I know you say there’s no gays in Iran
But you’re in New York now baby
So time to stop hating and start living

FYI: Samberg won an Emmy last month with Justin Timberlake for last season’s holiday spoof “D— in a Box.”

Kanye West arrives hand-in-hand with long-time model fiancee Alexis Phifer to the Spring/Summer 2008 Christian Dior Fashion show during Paris Fashion Week on Monday. The couple also took in the Vivenne Westwood runway show.

Kayne has also started a blog! So far, he’s posted lots of video clips and pictures of fashion pieces he likes.

Watch Kanye perform “Stronger” and “Goodlife” on Saturday Night Live here. Watch Kanye perform “Champion,” “Everything I Am” and a bit of freestyling here. Also watch the clip below of Kanye’s SNL skit poking fun of himself for being a sore loser.

15+ pictures inside of Kanye the blogger… More Here! »

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