Pete Davidson took to the desk on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update Summer Edition. He was there to talk about… MORE
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Here’s a clip from last night’s Weekend Update: Summer Edition special, where Alec Baldwin returned with his Donald Trump impression to reenact the campaign rally in Phoenix earlier this week. Like the real-life rally, SNL’s Trump is upstaged by Kenan Thompson as the sign-wielding “Blacks for Trump” guy, and later on, the recently fired Steve […]
Continue ReadingSeason 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 […]
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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 […]
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