Saturday Night Live has incorporated more swamp humor into their sketches in recent years, but it looks like fans will have to settle for an occasional Maine Justice to sate their Louisiana cravings. Fans must bid adieu to SNL’s James Carville impersonator. After an eight-year run and lots of bawdy bayou talk, Bill Hader announced that Saturday, May 18, will be his last night as a cast member. Click through for clips from Weekend Update. 

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is putting the soda buckets down this week and picking up his battle against illegal guns. Proving once again that he has enough money to be on TV anytime he wants, the New York City mayor launched a multimillion dollar ad campagin urging support for universal background checks on gun ownership. Mayor Mike has 14 senators in the crosshairs. One of them happens to be Louisiana's own Sen. Mary Landrieu.

At WWOZ, pledge week doesn't cut into regular programming, it enhances the listening. Ryan Sparks and photographer Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee sat in as the station considered its existence.

The Super Bowl is over, and officials decided to have one last press conference to congratulate each other on a (mostly) successful host city performance. Mayor Mitch cracked a few blackout jokes, announced some impressive figures, and thanked everyone who contributed in the last few months.

On Sunday, the Ravens and 49ers will settle the championship of the NFL on the field. But, until then, we have press conferences, parties and of course music and food. To kick off the hype drive, the Super Bowl XLVII Host Committee gathered the gaggle for a little Monday morning quarterbacking on all of this week's events in New Orleans. Mayor Mitch, host committee chair-couple James Carville and Mary Matalin, Rita Benson LeBlanc and the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation's Jay Cicero took a moment to set the tone for the week before the reporters hit the bars.

If the increased frequency of road closures and likelihood of an Arctic Krewe du Vieux weren't reminder enough, Super Bowl XLVII is almost here. New Orleans' tenth time hosting the NFL's championship game and attendant kerfluffle will bring together two of the National Football League's premiere teams (that aren't the Saints), media mavens from around the world, a Bud Light hotel and, yes, more of those road closures. So what's really in it for locals? Well, you guessed it: a huge festival featuring music and food, quality time with local reality TV subjects and graciousness toward Roger Goodell. Wait, that last one can't be right...

NOLA locals and national political insiders James Carville and Mary Matalin finally found something to bridge their differences. Well, other than...um..true love. The couple is featured in a new ad about Bourbon. Not the street, mind you, but the drink itself. Offering even more proof...that they're our savior...Maker's Mark has taken the high ground above the squabbling. The result is the Cocktail Party. No word on platform planks yet, but something tells us there will be tight limits on getting drunk or stoned.

Lindsay Lohan was the prime attraction of this week's episode of Saturday Night Live across the country. But down here, we were paying a lot more attention during the part of Weekend Update that featured the guy who talks funny. James Carville (as played by Bill Hader) supposedly appeared in order to assess Rush Limbaugh's slut remark, but of course veered off to describe a rare backyard Bayou game called "The Patchelor," his friendship with gators and a reference to Harry Connick Jr. that may forever change his name in our minds. It's admittedly hard to stop watching, but that's probably just because it's hard to figure out if this is horrifying or hillarious. Click through for video.

New Orleans' first poli-stratego-couple, Mary Matalin and James Carville, have many differences. First, there's his Democratic allegiance and her GOP loyalty. Then, there's the fact that you can understand what she's saying, and his Louisiana-boy charm. Now, there's yet another fight to be had around the dinner table, as Matalin has seen Carville's Green Wave residency, and raised him a Wolfpack. The top Republican strategist will serve as a visiting distinguished lecturer at Loyola Unviersity for the spring semester.

Corn country is about to know what it means. The 2011 Big Omaha conference (the ‘most ambitious conference of innovation and entrepreneurship’) is being held this week at the silicon prairie’s Kaneko, a creative center in the city's old market district. Over 500 new and returning speakers, artists, and performers come together to network in the name of the newest and most advanced technology and ideas. Event founders Jeff Slobotski and Dusty Davidson saw their 2.5 day conference sell out in less than one week, and have waiting lists for speakers and attendees alike.