Ahead of the NFL conference championships, Hall of Fame quarterback and two-time Super Bowl champion Peyton Manning dropped by Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live with some surprising insight about, um, Emily in Paris. Manning explained to Colin Jost that he hasn’t actually watched any of this season’s playoff games …
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Saturday Night Live procured an all-star panel for their latest “What Up With That” sketch — Oscar Isaac, Emily Ratajkowski and Succession’s Nicholas Braun — but it was Kenan Thompson’s host who stole the show. In the Halloween edition of the long-running SNL talk show, all three celebrities show up …
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Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update ripped Ted Cruz for the Texas senator’s decision to vacation in Mexico during the state’s catastrophic weather emergency. “Well, if you hate Ted Cruz, this was a pretty fun week. And if you like Ted Cruz, then you’re Ted Cruz,” anchor Colin Jost said. “Senator …
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You’ve probably seen John Belushi‘s screen test for Saturday Night Live. It’s been floating around the internet for a while and shows up on the occasional SNL original-cast docs. Part of the four-minute clip opens R.J. Cutler’s Belushi, his portrait of the comedian premiering on Showtime (starting November 22nd). By …
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So Adele sang on Saturday Night Live after all — even if it was just a comic medley of her classic hits, playing herself in a parody of The Bachelor. It was the only singing she did all night, but it was enough. Her gig hosting SNL was a tantalizing …
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Everything you need to know about Jennifer Lopez hosting Saturday Night Live can be found in the monologue. It’s not included below, but that’s because it’s a statement of purpose rather than a comedic statement. There are maybe two jokes tops in the monologue, which eschews comedy in favor of …
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Harry Styles plays a super cool, yet secretly insecure, little brother in a bonus sketch that was cut from his recent episode of Saturday Night Live. In the bit, Styles plays a popular jock named Jason whose friends terrorize his nerdy older brother Scotty (Kyle Mooney). After Jason’s friends dump …
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You wouldn’t say that Saturday Night Live had an off year per se — any season that gave us the sight of Adam Driver crushing stuffed birds with a cane is not a complete flaming trash-heap of a failure. But there was a certain sense of SNL fatigue that started …
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Saturday Night Live‘s final cold open of Season 44 ended on a musical note as the series’ Trump administration sang a tribute to the president to the tune of Queen‘s “Don’t Stop Me Now.” “I’m on cruise control to a second term and there is nothing the Democrats and Congress …
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