Melissa McCarthy makes Sean Spicer “feel pretty” in this musical “SNL” promo

Few other Saturday Night Live hosting gigs have been as highly anticipated as Melissa McCarthy’s spot this weekend: after taking… MORE

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Melissa McCarthy Feels Pretty in This Week’s ‘SNL’ Promo

Melissa McCarthy returns to host SNL this weekend with musical guest Haim, and as today’s new promo shows, she’s feeling very pretty about joining SNL’s Five-Timers Club — even when she’s all dressed up as Sean Spicer. Check out our review of McCarthy’s last SNL hosting gig here, and catch the rest when her episode […]

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Episode #152: Norm Macdonald

Norm Macdonald is Canada’s most-famous play-by-play golf commentator on Twitter. Of course, you know and love Norm Macdonald even more for his years anchoring Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live in the mid-1990s, followed by The Norm Show on ABC. He’s also much beloved by David Letterman and many other comedians for the way he […]

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Chris Pine hosted “Saturday Night Live,” and he danced himself clean

Captain Kirk Chris Pine is our leader this week in the seat hosting Saturday Night Live in Studio 8H. Considering… MORE

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Chris Pine Dances His Way Through a Solid ‘SNL’

Wonder Woman star Chris Pine hosted this week’s slightly offbeat, thankfully mostly Trump-free episode of SNL, and despite the fact that most viewers probably had a hard time identifying the actor – a fact that he addressed right up top – Pine was a playful and deft addition to the cast, smiling through typical hot-guy-host […]

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Chris Pine and Kate McKinnon made an LCD Soundsystem music video

This weekend, host Chris Pine and musical guest LCD Soundsystem take the Saturday Night Live stage as the show returns from… MORE

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‘SNL’ Reportedly Invited Donald Trump to Appear on Alec Baldwin’s February Episode

Most SNL fans weren’t very happy that the show decided to let then-presidential candidate Donald Trump host the show back in 2015, and according Alec Baldwin, if the show had its way we would’ve had to go through at least one more Trump appearance this year. Speaking with Ellen DeGeneres, Baldwin revealed that the show […]

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Kenan Thompson may be SNL’s MVP: “What Up With That?”

If Kenan Thompson comes back to Saturday Night Live — whether in May or this fall (depending upon a potential WGA strike) — he’d be due to start his record-setting 15th season as a cast member on the venerable network TV sketch comedy program. No one would fault Thompson for leaving. But SNL creator Lorne […]

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‘Saturday Night Live’s ‘Studio 60’ Moment

For comedy professionals in particular, Aaron Sorkin’s hilariously self-righteous camp classic Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip has to be one of the most hate-watched and lovingly maligned pop culture misfires of all time. The show furiously insisted that an alternately mediocre and bewilderingly pretentious sketch comedy show modeled on Saturday Night Live was so […]

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Tig Notaro gives her take on the “SNL” clown sketch controversy

Last week, when Louis CK hosted Saturday Night Live, one of the episode’s best sketches was “Birthday Clown,” in which… MORE

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