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Here’s an interesting development for fans/followers of Saturday Night Live. SNL’s Weekend Update is reproducing! More specifically, the people who write and produce Weekend Update are now also going to write and produce an animated series called Alien News Desk for Syfy, starring SNL vet Will Forte and current cast …
Pete Davidson had himself quite a summer, eh? I mean, look at his hair! Oh, wait. That’s not what everyone talked about when talking about Pete this summer. I suppose we’ll let Pete explain in the season 44 premiere of Saturday Night Live.
Congrats to Ego Nwodim! Saturday Night Live has announced hiring Nwodim as a new cast member for Season 44, which begins next week. From her bio at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles: Ego Nwodim is an actor-writer-improviser-cupcake connoisseur from Baltimore, MD. After graduating from the University of …
Of the three new cast members to join Saturday Night Live last year, two of them made lasting impressions and successfully launched new characters on the long-running late-night variety showcase during season 43. So it should come as no surprise to anyone watching, then, that the third won’t be coming …
Chris Redd experienced a breakout summer in 2016, first as a scene-stealer in the The Lonely Island’s movie Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, then as a New Face at Montreal’s Just For Laughs, and finally as an almost-hire at Saturday Night Live. My bad on that almost part. (Understatement) Except …
Improv gets a bad rap from stand-up comedians, but when Saturday Night Live roasts its own, it does so like this short video from the 43rd season finale, Chicago Improv. The sketch imagines NBC stretching for ideas after already green-lighting three dramas from Dick Wolf with Chicago in the title …
Amy Schumer returned to host Saturday Night Live this weekend, but for her second time around, the stand-up comedian and actress is now a newlywed. The Trainwreck star, now promoting her new movie I Feel Pretty, joked about her husband’s “worthless” marriage proposal, no longer receiving “u up” texts, as …
By now, you’re well past used to seeing Saturday Night Live open cold at 11:30 p.m. Eastern with a political sketch lampooning Trump. Not this Saturday night. Instead, 10 cast members from SNL — Aidy Bryant, Kenan Thompson, Melissa Villaseñor, Mikey Day, Luke Null, Chris Redd, Kyle Mooney, Colin Jost, Beck …
Donald Glover pulled double-duty as host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live, but as he joked during his monologue, he’s not just a triple threat, he’s a threat! Actually, more promise than threat. Glover has lived up to his youthful promise and potential, and then some. Sure he was …
Normally the rotating networks who host the Emmy Awards each fall use it as an opportunity to showcase their star late-night talk-show host. NBC has done that before for both Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers. For 2018, though, they’re going with Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update duo of Colin Jost …
