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Chris Rock will direct Saving Kenan pilot at NBC but we’re all talking about Kenan Thompson’s SNL future

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Chris Rock will direct the new Kenan Thompson pilot for NBC, called Saving Kenan. The announcement is just one more item making Thompson’s fans wonder if he will leave Saturday Night Live after this season. Thompson holds the record of longest-tenured SNL cast member with 16 seasons to his name. He continues to express his gratitude being on SNL as reports about other cast members’ futures percolate. Rock and Thompson crossed

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Kenan Thompson’s new NBC gig casts shadow over SNL future

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Kenan Thompson wants comedians to ‘bring it’ on his new NBC comedy competition show Bring The Funny. A $250,000 prize package awaits the winner, but what does the future hold for the Saturday Night Live star? Industry insiders have speculated for some time that Thompson may leave SNL as a full-time cast member in pursuit of a big-time TV or movie career. Bring The Funny is the second prime-time show to land Thompson

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Kenan Thompson NBC pilot leaves SNL future uncertain

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Kenan Thompson might need to leave Saturday Night Live for his own sitcom, Saving Kenan. NBC picked up the comedy starring Thompson after it’d been in development since the fall. Lorne Michaels, as usual, will serve as executive producer, as he does on many projects from his SNL darlings. Also on board is Superstore executive producer Jackie Clarke. Thompson is the longest-running cast member on SNL and when he started

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6 Times Seth Meyers Won Saturday Night Live

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Seth Meyers is coming back to host Saturday Night Live this week after leaving the cast in 2014. We think that’s pretty awesome! In 13 years on the show, Meyers was a cast member, a Weekend Update host, and served as head writer for almost nine years. While he left the show to replace Jimmy Fallon at Late Night, his time on SNL gave birth to iconic sketches, timeless characters,

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Luke Null out after one season on Saturday Night Live

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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 back for a sophomore season. […]

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Luke Null out after one season on Saturday Night Live

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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 back for a sophomore season. […]

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Donald Glover Loves Singing, Hates Shirts on ‘SNL’

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It’s officially festival season, the time of year where celebrities appear next to each other completely out of context. Do you need to see a picture of Shania Twain, Nicki Minaj, and Timothée Chalamet hanging out? I got you. This episode of SNL provided an equally surreal meet-up. During goodbyes, the first person Martin Short […]

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Colin Jost and Michael Che will host the 2018 Emmy Awards

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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 and Michael Che, who’ll co-host […]

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Amy Schumer, Tina Fey Set to Host Final Two Episodes of ‘SNL’ This Season

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Days after announcing that Donald Glover would be hosting Saturday Night Live on May 5, the show announced that the two episodes after that — the final two of the 43rd season — will be hosted by Amy Schumer and Tina Fey, respectively. Schumer first hosted SNL in 2015 to positive reviews. Fey began working at […]

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‘SNL’ Is Always Better When John Mulaney Writes It

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Photo: Will Heath/NBC John Mulaney has been putting up #tbt pics of his SNL years all week, and he has barely aged. And although his face has remained that of an ageless lifesize doll, Mulaney has grown a lot as a performer. When he did “I Love It” on Update back in his writer days, […]

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