This past weekend, Saturday Night Live viewers were given a nice surprise, as Melissa McCarthy made a cameo appearance playing Press Secretary Sean Spicer. The impersonation was a big hit, being hailed as one of the show’s best political sketches in years. Of course, McCarthy’s appearance was just the latest in a long line of memorable […]
Continue ReadingThis past weekend, Saturday Night Live viewers were given a nice surprise, as Melissa McCarthy made a cameo appearance playing Press Secretary Sean Spicer. The impersonation was a big hit, being hailed as one of the show’s best political sketches in years. Of course, McCarthy’s appearance was just the latest in a long line of memorable […]
Continue ReadingThere’s one person in the world that isn’t a fan of Melissa McCarthy’s incredible performance as White House press secretary Sean Spicer during SNL over the weekend, and that person is — you guessed it — Donald Trump. Speaking to anonymous White House sources, Politico reports that Trump’s notable lack of SNL-related tweets this weekend […]
Continue ReadingSaturday Night Live’s Weekend Update segment might turn into its own standalone show. According to Politico, the network is in talks to air a weekly half-hour edition of Weekend Update on Thursday nights. It would be a similar move to the Weekend Update Thursday specials from the 2008 election, except this time, the new weekly […]
Continue ReadingFinally, with an episode that’s “like, so gay, dude” and that doesn’t fucking care, and that features one of the most lovingly crafted and executed cameos in the show’s history, Saturday Night Live has found its best current self. Political parody is — shocker!! — super hard to pull off at all, let alone week […]
Continue ReadingMexico has been in the news a lot recently; Jon Lovitz, less so. But leave it to the Avocados From Mexico ad campaign to utilize the former Saturday Night Live star — he’s an actor! after all — for their Super Bowl LI commercial about secret societies and subliminal advertising. Here’s a longer version of […]
Continue ReadingThis past Saturday, Aziz Ansari hosted the first Saturday Night Live episode of the Trump presidency. More than aware of the occasion, he delivered a thoughtful and often hilarious monologue that touched both on Trump himself, as well as the issues that led to his election. He made some pointed comments about the rise of casual […]
Continue ReadingYesterday, SNL made headlines after it was announced that writer Katie Rich has been suspended “indefinitely” from the show over a joke she tweeted out Friday that referenced Donald Trump’s 10-year-old son Barron. While not everyone is defending the joke in question — and Rich was quick to offer a public and sincere apology — […]
Continue ReadingA writer at SNL has been suspended over a tweet about Donald Trump’s son Barron. According to The New York Times, writer Katie Rich has been suspended from the show due to a joke she tweeted on Friday mocking Trump’s 10-year-old son, which received immediate backlash on the internet. The tweet in question — “Barron will […]
Continue ReadingA few minutes after Donald J. Trump took the inaugural oath to become our 45th president of the United States, Saturday Night Live writer Katie Rich mocked the president’s youngest child, writing on Twitter that 10-year-old “Barron will be this country’s first homeschool shooter.” By Saturday, Rich was gone from the SNL writing credits. And […]
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