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Multiple sketches this past weekend on the Will Ferrell-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live either mentioned the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements directly, or indirectly took a satirical view of how culture has either maligned women or promoted an atmosphere that allowed men to take advantage of women sexually. And then …
Will Ferrell made fun of “strategery” and has always helped us laugh with former President George W. Bush as much as laugh at him, not only during Ferrell’s run on Saturday Night Live, but also in a big Broadway production after Bush left office. One year into the Trump era, …
Kevin Hart returned to host Saturday Night Live for the variety show’s annual Christmas holiday edition, and if you were expecting Hart to address his recent infidelity or the #MeToo movement, well, then, surprise. Instead, Hart joked about being a father for the third time and how he wasn’t excited …
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 named additional co-head writers of SNL, joining Kent Sublette and Bryan Tucker. Jost previously had served as a head writer for the long-running Emmy-winning variety …
Alec Baldwin, who won an Emmy for impersonating President Donald J. Trump on Saturday Night Live for the past year, wants to bring the parody to Broadway. “We may take the book and make it into a one-man show on Broadway,” Baldwin told Howard Stern this week. “Like Will Ferrell …
Before Saturday Night Live, before The Groove Tube even, Ken Shapiro was making funny faces on television with Chevy Chase when nobody knew their faces. Shapiro and Chase performed sketches together on Channel One, then on PBS as the first people seen on-air on The Great American Dream Machine, before …
“Wait til she takes her own clothes off, then pull your thing thing out, OK?” Tiffany Haddish addressed Louis CK, sexual harassment and the week’s headlines in her monologue hosting Saturday Night Live, as well catching the rest of America up on her rags-to-riches story, even if she jokes that …
Larry David hosted Saturday Night Live, and of course he reprised his Sen. Bernie Sanders impersonation, but since he hosted the show, David also delivered a stand-up comedy monologue. Would you believe he’d be willing to joke about the Holocaust and sexual harassment, and somehow connect them together? Of course …
Kumail Nanjiani hosted the Oct. 14, 2017, episode of Saturday Night Live (season 43, episode 3) and delivered a stand-up comedy monologue that was as funny as it was heartfelt. Much like his critically-acclaimed movie from earlier this year, The Big Sick. Nanjiani touched not only on how his Muslim …
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 or make much ado about the comings and goings of its writers, whether because they don’t want to trumpet when someone gets hired only for …
