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After sending Colin Jost and Michael Che last summer to the 2016 Republican and Democratic conventions for special live editions of Weekend Update on MSNBC, the Saturday Night Live duo is getting an upgrade this summer to primetime on NBC. Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update will premiere Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017, at …
“It’s about giving America what it wants.” That’s why Leslie Jones says she wants to portray President Donald Trump in a short film that played during Saturday Night Live, but Lorne Michaels wasn’t having it. If only she had rage-screamed “I HAVE THE BEST TEMPERAMENT.” I’m telling you she would’ve …
We’ve grown accustomed the past couple of years with seeing Saturday Night Live post sketches that got “cut for time” or didn’t make it past dress rehearsal on the SNL YouTube channel in the days that followed new episodes. But now SNL has debuted its first-ever SNL “Story” for Snapchat. …
A few minutes after Donald J. Trump took the inaugural oath to become our 45th president of the United States, Saturday Night Live writer Katie Rich mocked the president’s youngest child, writing on Twitter that 10-year-old “Barron will be this country’s first homeschool shooter.” By Saturday, Rich was gone from …
Saturday Night Live opened its first show under the era of President Trump — a confusingly vocal critic of SNL, even though he has other more pressing matters to attend to — with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, topless and crowing over installing Trump atop our federal government. Aziz Ansari, guest hosting …
Tony Rosato, one of only three comedians to perform on TV as a cast member of both SCTV and Saturday Night Live, has died of an apparent heart attack. Rosato was 62. Born in Naples, Italy, on Dec. 26, 1954, Rosato immigrated to Canada with his parents when he was …
One of the all-time greatest cast members of Saturday Night Live, Dana Carvey found his comedy greatness early, winning the San Francisco Comedy Competition when he was 22, then co-starring in a sitcom with Mickey Rooney and a young Nathan Lane, and a bit part in This Is Spinal Tap. …
Timing really is everything. After a tumultuous week with a divided nation turning out for the 2016 presidential elections, what better time for us to finally see Dave Chappelle on our TV screens again, and on live television, too — hosting Saturday Night Live. After the coldest of cold opens …
Previously only available as an exclusive to subscribers of Howl, the WTF with Marc Maron podcast has just made its special roundup episode, “Lorne Stories,” available to everyone else, too. The two-hour collection, “Lorne Stories,” features experiences with Saturday Night Live creator and guru Lorne Michaels, as told to Marc …
Wow. DOUBLE WOW!! Dave Chappelle will make his Saturday Night Live debut when he hosts the long-running live comedy showcase on Nov. 12, 2016. And he’ll do so with that night’s musical guest, A Tribe Called Quest, celebrating the release of that hip-hop group’s first album since 1998. Stay tuned …
