In his 15 years as MacGruber, a hapless special ops agent who only occasionally saves the day, Will Forte has attempted to violently dispatch his enemies with rubber bands, Q-tips and a stalk of celery wedged up his keister. So it’s a bit alarming to see the 51-year-old actor and …
Read More »'Coming 2 America' Sows More Than Its Royal Oats
I don’t envy the job of anyone tasked with taking a classic Eighties comedy — Coming to America, say — and making a decades-later sequel that tries to please its guaranteed audience. Namely, everyone who loved the original, people who’ve rewatched it a million times, who have Soul Glo memes …
Read More »See Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's Joyous 'SNL' Performance
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 …
Read More »See Luke Combs Perform Rowdy 'Beer Never Broke My Heart' on 'SNL'
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 …
Read More »'SNL' Mocks Hallmark Channel's Christmas Movies, Addresses Brides Kissing Ad Controversy
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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