A somewhat iconic sketch from a less iconic generation of Saturday Night Live has now been paid tribute by Ben & Jerry’s, creator and purveyor of somewhat odd ice cream flavors that all end up being some kind of vanilla with some kind of fudge in it. The sketch, featuring Ana Gasteyer and Molly Shannon as two NPR radio hosts, and Alec Baldwin as the ice cream’s titular Pete Schweddy, sees the two radio hosts talking softly, attempting to make the catch phrase “good times” a hilarious beacon of comedy, and interviewing Pete Schweddy, who shows off his Christmas balls, a holiday dessert. As one may expect, the rest of the sketch is a bunch of ball-related puns, which propelled it straight into a limited edition flavor of ice cream over a decade later. Perhaps a little risqué for Ben & Jerry’s, or perhaps servicing a large fanbase of people who dig Schweddy Balls.

The limited edition flavor features a slightly rum flavored vanilla ice cream and contains fudge covered rum and malt balls. The wording is a little odd, but one can assume the malt balls are rum and malt flavored, rather than the ice cream containing fudge covered rum. Head on past the break to relive 1998 and watch somewhat iconic sketch.

Oftentimes, when a public figure has been maligned in the press, they try to redeem themselves by showing that they have a sense of humor about themselves, that they’re not the self-absorbed wanker we think they are. Saturday Night Live is usually a choice venue for redemption because most likely, the cast and writers have already had their shot, but they’re a bunch of comedy nerds who don’t really want to cause a stir with people they come into direct contact with (who are also billionaires). Sometimes, these public figures come on the show and fail. But Mark Zuckerberg? Success.

When it was announced last year that Lorne Michaels was producing a MacGruber movie based on the minute-long MacGuyver parody sketch, many in the media expected a disaster of It’s Pat proportions. However, having loved the criminally underrated Brothers Solomon, we couldn’t wait to see what star/co-writer Will Forte could come up with for a follow-up. Sure enough, the crudely hilarious MacGruber Twitter account (where he brags about which celebrities he’s “jerked it” to) seemed to vindicate our belief that this wasn’t going to be a typical SNL adaptation. However, even we were shocked at what the MacGruber marketing team posted yesterday: fully nude, very NSFW, “early modeling pics” of their main character.

And just in case you’re wondering, the rest of this post is safe for work.

In case you were on the fence after the 2008 election about the Internet’s ability to effect real world change, the trajectory of former Golden Girl Betty White should be enough to sway you. Becoming something of a web celebrity (which included a successful Facebook campaign to have the 88-year-old host Saturday Night Live) has done wonders for White’s career, including turning what was supposed to be a cameo on a new sitcom, Hot in Cleveland, into a serial character’s role.

We’ve previously reported that the Facebooking hordes successfully petitioned SNL to get Betty White to host. Mow, we’ve got a date: May 8th, the night before Mother’s Day.

USA Today is reporting that Betty White will be hosting the May 8 broadcast of Saturday Night Live after refusing the spot for years. White, whose legendary status has persisted to a younger generation through her role in The Proposal, playing beer pong with Jimmy Fallon, and, yes, those Golden Girls reruns on Lifetime, became the center of a Facebook campaign to get her to host after the debut of her new Snickers ad during the Super Bowl. And Lorne Michaels couldn’t sound happier about it:

Back in 2005, the first viral video hit that put Saturday Night Live‘s Digital Shorts on the map was “Lazy Sunday,” which touted the virtues of the Chronic(…les of Narnia).

With former SNL cast member Chris Parnell a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, the taped short was performed live for the first time last night:

As buzzy and new media coverage-friendly as Facebook campaigns can be, their track record for bringing about actual change is rather spotty: The online world tends to be set in its ways (see: the myriad as-yet unsuccessful Facebook campaigns to add an official “Unlike” button), but the outside world is slow to respond to Facebook petitions.

But now, score one little but sweet victory for Facebook campaigners: Delightful 88-year-old comedienne Betty White is going to host SNL, thanks in large measure to a Facebook petition called “Betty White to Host SNL (please?)!” with close to 500,000 fans.

Last night, SNL sent up CBS’ reality show Undercover Boss with the inevitable Undercover Celebrity Boss, in which celebrity bosses go undercover at their own companies, to comedic result. Steve Jobs, we learn, just can’t stop pitching stuff: even as a janitor, as played by Fred Armisen, he hawks the revolutionary “iTrash,” which plays music (even when it doesn’t), as well as the iTrash Shuffle.

Richard Branson, for his part, blows his cover by flying into work on a space shuttle. Also: shouting “I’m Richard Branson.”

(h/t Gawker.tv)

Mad Men fans know Jon Hamm as the smooth-as-silk ad exec Don Draper; non-fans may recognize him as “that hunky dude who has done some funny stuff on Saturday Night Live.

Now, fans are pushing for a new sort of role for Hamm: superhero. Hamm as Superman? Hamm as Captain America? Hamm as Batman, even? The possibilities are nigh endless, even if sexy, saxophone-playing ponytail man Sergio might not carry over to the silver screen.

Hamm responds to MTV: video after the jump. Brace yourself: he’s a self-described comic book collector.