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Emmy Predictions: Best Variety Sketch Series — Can ‘SNL’ Be Stopped?
Last Year’s Winner: “Saturday Night Live”Still Eligible: Yes.Hot Streak: “SNL” has won four years in a row, aka every year of Donald Trump’s White House tenure. Will attitudes shift with a responsible adult in our highest office? Probably not, but Lorne Michaels’ juggernaut has been around long enough to be mindful of popularity’s ebbs and […]
Continue readingJim Belushi Recalls ‘Barely’ Surviving ‘SNL,’ Begging to Be Rehired After Throwing a Fire Extinguisher
Comedian Jim Belushi was only on “Saturday Night Live” for a short stretch between 1983 and 1985, but he sure made an impression. Belushi, whose brother John was one of the original cast members of “SNL,” reflected on his time on the sketch show in a recent interview with Vulture. As the first cast member […]
Continue readingDonald Trump Reportedly Wanted Justice Department, FCC to Make ‘SNL’ Stop Mocking Him
Donald Trump was often vocal about his disdain for “Saturday Night Live” and Alec Baldwin’s recurring portrayal of him. Before the former president got banned from Twitter, he constantly used the social media platform to bash the long-running NBC sketch comedy series, once infamously tweeting:“It’s truly incredible that shows like ‘Saturday Night Live,’ not funny/no […]
Continue readingTimothee Chalamet to Play Young Willy Wonka in Warner Bros. Movie
Timothee Chalamet will play the world’s most famous chocolatier in “Wonka,” a musical based on the early life of Willy Wonka.Though plot details are being kept under wraps, the Warner Bros. film is a prequel to “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and serves as an origin story of the man who later created an elaborate […]
Continue readingBowen Yang Thought Viral ‘SNL’ Titanic Iceberg Sketch Would Never Make It to Air
One of the most beloved sketches to emerge out of the currently unspooling Season 46 of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” was a “Weekend Update” segment involving “SNL” featured player Bowen Yang as the iceberg that sunk the Titanic. It was just the kind of zany, off-the-wall idea (one that on paper sounds ridiculous) that helped […]
Continue readingTop Stars Talk Funny Business in ‘Lifetime Presents Variety’s Power of Women: The Comedians’
Top female stars reflect on the “secret weapon” of being funny, their path to fame and their heroes in “Lifetime Presents Variety’s Power of Women: The Comedians,” which premiered Monday on Lifetime.The special featured interviews with Michaela Coel, Mindy Kaling, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kate McKinnon, Maya Rudolph and Sofia Vergara, who were celebrated in the May […]
Continue reading‘SNL’: Elon Musk Begs for a Girlfriend on ‘The Ooli Show,’ with Kate McKinnon as Frances McDormand — Watch
Chloe Fineman has proved to be one of the best players in the new generation of “Saturday Night Live” cast members. A highlight is Ooli, the aggressively wacky Icelandic social media star-turned talk-show host that Fineman originally created on her Instagram. In Saturday night’s new episode of “SNL,” hosted by CEO and self-described Tesla “Technoking” […]
Continue reading‘Saturday Night Live’ Spoofs ‘Mare of Easttown’ with ‘Murdur Durdur’ Sketch — Watch
The Kate Winslet HBO miniseries “Mare of Easttown” received a pop-culture seal off approval: It got the “Saturday Night Live” treatment. In a sketch led by Kate McKinnon as the grizzled Pennsylvania detective, “Murdur Durdur” riffed on the Delaware County accents and featured host Elon Musk as a shady priest.In the fake show promo, a […]
Continue reading‘Saturday Night Live’: How to Watch Tonight’s Episode Hosted by Elon Musk
Like it or not, Elon Musk will be hosting tonight’s episode of “Saturday Night Live.” The CEO and Technoking of Tesla will be joined by musical guest Miley Cyrus in Studio 8H for an episode that’s sure to nab attention, if not only for the fact that the obscenely wealthy Musk is one of the […]
Continue readingHear me out: why Coneheads isn’t a bad movie
Continuing our series of writers sticking up for loathed films is a defense of the 90s SNL skit turned critically lambasted comedyIn the summer of 1993, the Coneheads movie arrived with high expectations. Its producers had good reason to believe it could ride the coat-tails of one of the top grossing movies of the previous […]
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