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Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update Takes on The Walking Dead

The latest episode of Saturday Night Live featured a Weekend Update segment spotlighting the season finale of The Walking Dead (including a special appearance by Norman Reedus).

Thinking that it's about time that the cast of The Walking Dead got a chance to host Saturday Night Live.

Tonight at the Alamo Drafthouse: Kevin and Matt Geek Out About Zombies

Tonight, the Alamo Drafthouse in Yonkers, NY presents Kevin and Matt Geek Out About Zombies featuring comedy Kevin Maher and filmmaker Matt Glasson (Love Stalker) and special guests Brian Solomon (The Vault of horror) and Captain Cruella (Village Invasion Zombie Crawl).

The show is billed as "an obsessive look at zombies, from WHITE ZOMBIE to WORLD WAR Z. The hosts explore pre-Romero voodoo zombies, Night of the Living Dead rip-offs, the recurring theme of Nazi Zombies in film, and the recent run of zombies overtaking pop culture."

The Alamo Drafthouse is located at 2548 Central Park Avenue in Yonkers, NY. Tickets are available on their website and at their box office.

New In Books: The Devastator: Apocalypse

New this week is The Devastator: Apocalypse, written by Paul Scheer, Jordan Morris, Todd Alcott, Michael DeForge, Danny Hellman, and Joe Lo Truglio.

"The Devastator is the geek comedy book series featuring new works by 30+ writers and artists from The Daily Show, The Onion, Adult Swim, Marvel and more!

The Devastator: Apocalypse drops the big one on pop culture's obsession with doomsday. Crawling out of the wreckage are parodies of H.P. Lovecraft, Planet of the Apes, Escape From New York, The Roadand more! Featuring contributions from Paul Scheer, Joe Lo Truglio, Danny Hellman, Jordan Morris, and an explosive cover by Michael DeForge. Flip the book around for Oh, the Flesh You Will Eat!, aninfectious Dr. Seuss spoof that shows an epidemic from the virus' point-of-view."

The Devastator: Apocalypse is available now in paperback.

Conan Takes On The Walking Dead

Conan O'Brien went full on zombie for last night's episode featuring the cast of The Walking Dead.

Uncomfortable being one of People's sexiest men alive, Steven Yuen revealed his 'super-dorky past'.

Melissa McBride talks about her past as well, as a casting director for Frank Darabont, and Danai Gurira revealed where she stores her katana.

And, just because, they finished up with some girl on girl zombie action.

Canada will never become a safe haven for zombies ever!

The specter of the inevitable zombie apocalypse raised its ugly head on the floor of the Candian Parliament this week.

Since the invasion of the living dead will almost certainly come from the United States, Parliament member Pat Martin challenged the Foreign Minister, John Baird, on how well he was working with America to develop a strategy that stops the rise of the zombies before it turns into an apocalypse.

"I rise today to salute the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the province of Quebec for putting in place emergency measures in an effort to deal with the possibility of an invasion of zombies. I don't need to tell you, Mr. Speaker, that zombies don't recognize borders and that a zombie invasion in the United States could easily turn into a continent-wide pandemic if it's not contained. So on behalf of concerned Canadians everywhere, Mr. Speaker, I want to ask the minister of Foreign Affairs is he working with his American counterparts to develop an international zombie strategy so that a zombie invasion does not turn into a zombie apocalypse."

Baird responded:

"Mr. Speaker, I want to assure this member and all Canadians that I am dead-icated to ensuring that this never happens. I want to say categorically to this member and through him to all Canadians that under the leadership of this Prime Minster, Canada will never become a safe haven for zombies ever!"

You can watch the fun here:

Hackers Issue Zombie Attack Warning Over Emergency Alert System

Looks like ground zero for the zombie apocalypse is... or was almost... Montana.

"Civil authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living" - that is the message that went out over KRTV's Emergency Alert System in Montana yesterday.

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