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SNL cast members start the show with their mothers for Mother’s Day 2018
Saturday Night Live / TV

SNL cast members start the show with their mothers for Mother’s Day 2018

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyMay 13, 2018

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 …

Colin Jost and Michael Che will host the 2018 Emmy Awards
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Colin Jost and Michael Che will host the 2018 Emmy Awards

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyApril 26, 2018

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 …

Saturday Night Live reinstates Colin Jost as a co-head writer, promotes Michael Che as well
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Saturday Night Live reinstates Colin Jost as a co-head writer, promotes Michael Che as well

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyDecember 13, 2017

In other Saturday Night Live news heading into its Christmas episode before winter break, Lorne Michaels announced that Michael Che and Colin Jost have been …

Here is the full writing staff for Season 43 of Saturday Night Live
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Here is the full writing staff for Season 43 of Saturday Night Live

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyOctober 2, 2017

Saturday Night Live announced new staff writer hires last week in advance of its 43rd season premiere. But SNL usually doesn’t put out press releases …

Summer SNL Weekend Update writing staff includes once-suspended Katie Rich
News / Saturday Night Live

Summer SNL Weekend Update writing staff includes once-suspended Katie Rich

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 11, 2017

Saturday Night Live brought back a limited-edition primetime half-hour version of Weekend Update last night. It’s not exactly the same as when they first tried …

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SNL’s Weekend Update gets primetime summer run for August 2017 on NBC

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyMarch 14, 2017

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, …

Dave Chappelle and Saturday Night Live hit the right notes, and the most inside notes, after Election 2016
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Dave Chappelle and Saturday Night Live hit the right notes, and the most inside notes, after Election 2016

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyNovember 13, 2016

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 …

Notes on the Season 42 premiere of Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live

Notes on the Season 42 premiere of Saturday Night Live

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyOctober 2, 2016October 3, 2016

For all of the talk about cast changes, stunt casting and the word that Saturday Night Live would have fewer ad time this year, the …

Brian Regan, Dane Cook, Gabriel Iglesias, Tracy Morgan and more headline fourth annual Oddball Fest for Funny or Die
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Brian Regan, Dane Cook, Gabriel Iglesias, Tracy Morgan and more headline fourth annual Oddball Fest for Funny or Die

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJuly 21, 20161

We may be a month into summer (and two months from Memorial Day already), but it’s never too late for news of a fourth consecutive …

SNL’s Weekend Update live on MSNBC from the 2016 Republican National Convention
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SNL’s Weekend Update live on MSNBC from the 2016 Republican National Convention

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJuly 21, 2016July 21, 2016

Saturday Night Live sent its Weekend Update team of Michael Che and Colin Jost out to Cleveland to help MSNBC’s coverage of the 2016 Republican …

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