Season 43 of Saturday Night Live now has a premiere date, host, and musical guest. Last night, the show revealed that Ryan Gosling will host the season 43 premiere on September 30th with musical guest Jay-Z: Season 43 premieres on September 30 with @RyanGosling and JAY-Z! #SNL pic.twitter.com/a2kdhJGVs0 — Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) August 25, […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Weekend Update special, where Colin Jost and Michael Che welcome SNL alum and UVA graduate Tina Fey to offer her take on the latest news surrounding the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville last weekend, Trump’s response, and the Neo-Nazi rallies that are reportedly set to happen this weekend. “I […]
Continue ReadingJust a few moments ago Tina Fey returned to the Weekend Update desk for Weekend Update Summer Edition. Fey, a… MORE
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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 this in 2008. For one thing, those Thursday-night live episodes happened in the run-up to a presidential election. So, secondly, they featured cold opens dealing with the campaign and the […]
Continue ReadingAfter being suspended from the show for the second half of last season, it appears that writer Katie Rich has returned to Saturday Night Live. The Chicago Sun-Times noticed during the credits of last night’s Weekend Update special that Rich was listed in the credits as one of the episode’s 12 writers – the first time […]
Continue ReadingSNL’s first Weekend Update special aired on NBC last night, and during the episode, Michael Che got interrupted by SNL alum Bill Hader, who made a short but sweet cameo as fired White House communications director and “human cocaine” Anthony Scaramucci. The Mooch tries his best to clear up the confusion surrounding the now infamous […]
Continue ReadingThe first time I saw Kristen Bartlett was in The Dead Dads Club, a show she wrote and performed with her husband, Jason Gore. Their fathers had died only months apart but, after dealing with some peculiar characters, they found a way to turn their grief into comedy. The sketches were as funny as they […]
Continue ReadingIt’s unlikely that there are many kids out there whose dream is to direct and create pre-taped segments on Saturday Night Live. Of course, as you get older you realize that’s an incredible opportunity that countless directors would love to have, it’s just not your typical Hollywood vision. It certainly wasn’t what Rhys Thomas and […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, where Jenny Slate tells Kimmel about two psychics she went to for advice – one more recently, and another back in 2008 – and how Slate, Gloria Estefan, and Saturday Night Live all collided in her life thanks to these helpful psychic check-ins. “She was like […]
Continue ReadingThis Thursday, Saturday Night Live’s summer run of standalone Weekend Update episodes will commence. Colin Jost and Michael Che will… MORE
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