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Tonight's guest is Disney sensation Zac Efron and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I wonder how that will be, considering the squeaky clean image of Efron compared to the show's recent turn to raunchiness.

This season's batch of episodes have been particularly strong with consistently funny performances by castmembers Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, Andy Samberg, Kristen Wiig who are excelling and Seth Meyers is great anchoring Weekend Update. Armisen, Samberg, Wiig and Meyers are exceptional this season so far and Hader - who has come out of nowhere - is just as great. Will Forte as the parody of MacGyver called 'McGruber' is also very funny. Hader and Wiig are in the new movie Adventureland and Samberg is in I Love You, Man, by the way.

Some of the recent guests have been hilarious too with The Rock, Tracy Morgan, John Malkovich, Seth Rogan (last week), Alec Baldwin - again - Neil Patrick Harris, Rosario Dawson and Hugh Laurie being brilliant.
To view any clips from those particular guests go here and find some video.

Some of the highlights are:
Bill Hader as Vinny Vedecci - the Italian talk show host who interviews American actors Seth Rogan and John Malkovich (separately) in half Italian and half English. Check out the appearance of Bobby Moynihan as Vinny's man-child-son in both sketches.

Tracey Morgan's revisiting of his Brian Fellow character in 'Brian Fellow's Safari Planet' is hysterical.

'La Policia Mexicana' with Hader and guest Rosario Dawson is hysterical. As is the 'Gitmo Fire Sale Ad' with Jason Sudekis as a fast-talking agent trying to sell off parts and pieces from Guantanamo Bay.
La Policia Mexicana is here and Gitmo Fire Sale is here.

The entire show with Neil Patrick Harris as the host was fantastic and the parody of the movie Frost/Nixon called 'Frost/Other People' was exceptional.

The Wiig character of 'Virgania Horsen' who does these weird and awkward commercials for her own businesses, with one being her delivering your mail wherever you want it to go - by horse - but you have to mail it to her first. Then she'll deliver it by hand for you. Go here for that one.

Some of the raunchier elements of the show come in the form of the digital shorts segments - which are usually co-written, directed and co-starring Samberg and SNL writers Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone - who are collectively known as 'The Lonely Island.' The comedy group were already formed and doing things when Samberg was hired as a performer for SNL and he brought in Schaffer and Taccone to write (they're the ones responsible for the McGruber segments, among others). The three of them have made a CD of music called 'Incredibad' and have shot videos for the songs - which are the digital shorts on SNL. The incredibly raunchy songs have found a cult following on youtube and iTunes. The songs 'D*ick in a Box,' 'J**Z in My Pants,' 'I'm the Boss,' 'We Like Sportz' and 'Space Olympics' have all been featured as videos on the show as has their first segment, which is the gangsta rap song/video by Natalie Portman, which appeared in the show first in 2006. That was them too - not many people know that. 'I'm the Boss' just aired for the first time last week. Oh, also 'Ras Trent' as also appeared in the show, where Samberg plays a dorky, blond college kid with dreadlocks who has converted to Rastafarianism.

Try to catch the videos on NBC.com. Some of the featured ones are fantastically funny. Oh, and check out Fred Armisen as Boy George during Weekend Update. Classic.

Guaranteed funny SNL that should happen very soon. JASON SEGEL. Someone make that happen please.