While Saturday Night Live canceled Charli XCX‘s musical performance due to a lighter crew as a result of the Omicron surge, XCX made an appearance in a pre-recorded musical segment alongside Paul Rudd titled “The Christmas Socks.” Also joining Rudd and Mooney for the saccharine music video were Kenan Thompson, …
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Saturday Night Live‘s second episode of the season featured Kim Kardashian West making her hosting debut and roasting her entire family in the opening monologue. When talking about how her father inspired her in opening her eyes to racial injustice, Kardashian said: “It’s because of him I met my first …
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The incredibly sad and shocking news came down Tuesday afternoon that Norm Macdonald died after a private, nine-year battle with cancer. He was 61. “He was most proud of his comedy,” his friend and producing partner Lori Jo Hoekstra told Deadline. “He never wanted the diagnosis to affect the way …
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The Kennedy Center has announced a new class of inductees. Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, Motown Records founder Berry Gordy,Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, entertainer Bette Midler, and bass baritone Justino Díaz will be honored at this year’s ceremony. The 2021 Kennedy Center Honors will return to its usual time and …
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Saturday Night Live tackled the Derek Chauvin trial, Black Lives Matter protests and the death of DMX through the eyes of a Minnesota news broadcast in the show’s latest cold open. In the sketch, news anchors played by Kenan Thompson, Kate McKinnon, Alex Moffat and Ego Nwodim discuss the George …
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With the end of the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump earlier Saturday, Saturday Night Live’s latest cold open recapped the proceedings under the guise of Tucker Carlson Tonight, with Republicans celebrating the acquittal of the former president for his role in the Capitol insurrection. “Well, the impeachment has reached …
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Pete Davidson provided a pair of homemade music videos, “Drake Song” and “Andre 2000,” for the first Saturday Night Live at Home episode. On “Drake Song,” as the title suggests, Davidson offers his own pastiche of a Drake song, even employing the dance from the Toronto rapper’s quarantine-made hit “Toosie …
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For its last cold open of 2019 — and the first since Donald Trump’s impeachment — Saturday Night Live once again corralled its all-star cast of Democratic presidential nominees as well as Alec Baldwin’s President Trump, who invades the latest Democratic debate. This week’s combatants included Elizabeth Warren (Kate McKinnon), …
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Alec Baldwin‘s Donald Trump faced down the threat of impeachment in Saturday Night Live‘s Season 45 cold open. Despite Baldwin’s insistence that he was “so done” with playing the president on SNL, the show opened with the actor’s Trump phoning his accomplices – Kate McKinnon’s Rudy Giuliani, Beck Bennett’s Mike …
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Woody Harrelson takes “new kid” Billie Eilish on a tour of Saturday Night Live High in a new promo for the season premiere.SNLreturns this Saturday with Harrelson as host and Eilish as musical guest. Carrying a composition notebook and a backpack, Eilish is first seen outside of 30 Rock, nervous …
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