Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update tackled Steve Bannon’s contempt of Congress, Kyle Rittenhouse’s tearful testimony and the termination of Britney Spears’ conservatorship during the latest episode, which also featured a 10-minute performance of musical guest Taylor Swift’s breakup epic “All Too Well.” “Well, the lesson we all learned this week …
Read More »Morgan Wallen Was Supposed to Play 'SNL.' Then He Went to a Party
Morgan Wallen was set to make his Saturday Night Live debut on October 10th as the long-running sketch show’s musical guest. That won’t be happening. The 27-year-old Tennessee native says he was uninvited from performing on SNL after videos surfaced of him partying last weekend in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in apparent …
Read More »Jim Carrey Transforms Into Joe Biden in New 'SNL' Promo
Saturday Night Live has released a first glimpse of Jim Carrey as Joe Biden. The actor will portray the former Vice President and current Democratic presidential nominee on the upcoming season of the sketch show, premiering this Saturday, October 3rd. The 18-second promo shows Carrey getting suited up for his …
Read More »Eddie Murphy, Taylor Swift, Phoebe Waller-Bridge Announced in 'Saturday Night Live' Season 45 Lineup
UPDATE: Leslie Jones will not return to Saturday Night Live after five seasons on the show. Jones joined the cast in 2014 and quickly became a fan favorite, especially for her appearances on Weekend Update. It’s unclear exactly why Jones decided to leave the cast ahead of its 45th season, …
Read More »Watch 'SNL' Reimagine 'Game of Thrones' as 'Law & Order: SVU' in Spinoff Sketch
Game of Thrones references abounded in this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live. With star Kit Harington hosting the show, SNL created several imagined prequels, sequels and spinoffs that the network would air following the final season of the hit HBO series. SNL saves the best for last in the …
Read More »Trump's Sensitivity Boils Over in Twitter Rant Over 'SNL' Rerun
Whether or not President Trump realized he was watching a rerun from December of a Saturday Night Live episode last night may not have mattered. As we know, it doesn’t take much to get under his skin. Trump took to Twitter this morning to bellow loudly about what he sees …
Read More »Jonah Hill on 'SNL': 3 Sketches You Have to See
In his fifth time hosting Saturday Night Live, Jonah Hill didn’t do anything more or less than he had during his first four outings. That sounds like damning him with faint praise, but there’s a consistency to his shows that is admirable. Like many hosts that appear on the show …
Read More »See Travis Scott Enlist John Mayer, Tame Impala for 'SNL' Performance
AfterTravis Scott teased on The Tonight Show that he had surprises in store for his debutSaturday Night Live musical guest spot, the rapper delivered byrecruiting all-star guests like John Mayer, Tame Impala‘s Kevin Parker and producer Mike Dean. For Scott’s opening performance, the Houstonrapper formed an unlikely supergroup with Mayer …
Read More »Watch Halsey Bring Out G-Eazy for 'Him & I' on 'SNL'
Halsey fulfilled “the biggest of all dreams” when the singer served as musical guest on the Sam Rockwell-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live. The singer performed to cuts off her latest LP Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, first delivering the single “Bad at Love” before bringing out rapper (and Halsey’s boyfriend) G-Eazy …
Read More »Tom Hanks to Revive David S. Pumpkins for Animated Special
One year after Tom Hanks‘ pumpkin-suitedSaturday Night Live character David S. Pumpkins went viral, the sketch will be transformed into an Halloween-themed animated special. The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special will air at 11:30 p.m. EST on October 28th. In the original SNL sketch, Pumpkins was part of a “Haunted …
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