Weekend Update tackled Steve Bannon, Facebook’s name change, Donald Trump’s social network and more on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live. “This week, former White House — I wanna say, garbage man? — Steve Bannon was held in contempt in Congress,” co-anchor Colin Jost said. “But this is what …
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Two-and-a-half years after Season 1 ended, The Other Two finally returns with new episodes. And the most important thing on our minds is whether or not the gayest show on TV is able to squeeze in a Matt Damon “f-slur” joke before Season 2 premieres on HBO Max August 26th. …
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Former Saturday Night Live cast member and guest host Maya Rudolph revived her Beyoncé impersonation in a sketch based on the popular hot wings-eating YouTube series Hot Ones. “I still can’t tell if this beneath me, but my sister Solange loves this show, so I said I’d do it,” Rudolph’s …
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed a pair of Letter to You songs live together for the first time as musical guest on the latest Saturday Night Live. Springsteen and company opened their SNL appearance with a rousing, enthusiastic rendition of “Ghosts”; earlier in the week, Springsteen told …
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Ever watch a mediocre movie, see a performance that doesn’t align with anything else onscreen, and think, “I want to see whatever film THAT person is in instead?” (Think Alan Rickman in Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves and you get the gist.) That was the overriding feeling in this week’s …
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Luke Combs made his debut as a Saturday Night Live musical guest during the pre-Super Bowl J.J. Watt-hosted episode, filling Studio 8H with his Nineties honky-tonk sounds. For a performance of his 2019 single “Beer Never Broke My Heart,” which appears on both his EP The Prequel and his latest …
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In a follow-up to a 2017 Saturday Night Live sketch parodying the Hallmark Channel’s Christmas movies, the series spoofed the network’s holiday franchise once again. Similar to the sketch two years prior, the latest skit centered on Christmas movie stereotypes like a big-time career woman, a black character with no …
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Unlike scripted shows, which often build to a finale, Saturday Night Live starts just as fresh with its last episode as its first. So the fact that the season went out with something of a whimper is a function of the show’s creative DNA rather than a failure to sum …
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Cardi B had a pair of reasons to celebrate on Saturday Night Live as the rapper, whose just-released debut album Invasion of Privacy is bound for Number One, also revealed on air that she is pregnant. Following weeks of speculation into whether Cardi B was pregnant, the rapper confirmed the …
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Saturday Night Live cast members Pete Davidson and Chris Redd mock President Trump on “Don’s Plan,” their hilarious parody of Drake‘s Number One single “God’s Plan.” The comedians touch on the commander-in-chief’s proposal for arming teachers with guns, support from white supremacists and alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels, …
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