Kenan Thompson says he was thrown by Morgan Wallen‘s “abrupt” exit after performing on Saturday Night Live this weekend. On Monday, the SNL cast member told Entertainment Weekly that he found the country singer’s exit (and his subsequent post about going to “God’s country”) strange. “It just felt so abrupt. …
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The star of the HBO docuseries Chimp Crazy pleaded guilty to perjury and obstruction of justice after she tearfully testified under oath that her beloved pet chimpanzee Tonka had died —when in reality, the primate was sitting in her basement. Tonia Haddix could face up to 20 years in prison …
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Saturday Night Live opened by addressing one of the most concerning stories yet of the second Trump administration: top officials discussing war plans in a group chat that mistakenly included a journalist. Rather than texting only the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (Andrew Dismukes), Vice President …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update mocked nearly every Trump administration official involved in the scandal of inadvertently providing attack plans to a journalist via a Signal group chat. On Monday, The Atlantic reported that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz accidentally added the publication’s editor-in-chief to a chat in which Defense …
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Saturday Night Live host and recent Academy Award winner Mikey Madison portrayed the wife of a fatally wounded crime boss who, in his final moments, wants to hone his stand-up comedy routine alongside her. After patriarch Marco (Andrew Dismukes) is shot through a window by unseen assailants, he admits to …
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Richard Chamberlain, the prolific Golden Globe-winning actor who starred in miniseries like Shogun and The Thorn Birds, has died at the age of 90. Chamberlain’s publicist confirmed the actor’s death to Variety, adding that he died Saturday night in in Waimanalo, Hawai’i — where Chamberlain resided since the 1980s — …
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Scott Rudin, the producer who stepped away from his Broadway productions four years ago following allegations of workplace misconduct, is quietly readying his return. According to the New York Times, Rudin reflected on what he called “bone-headed” and “narcissistic” behavior while undergoing “a decent amount of therapy.” “I have a …
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Andy Kaufman never wanted to feel too far away from his audience. Early in his career, he found that bussing tables at Jerry’s Famous Deli in Los Angeles kept him grounded. But that didn’t mean he didn’t bring his full-time work as a comedian to his part-time job as a …
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Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Gere, and Penélope Cruz are among the A-list actors who’ve signed an open letter criticizing Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences leadership for their response to the alleged assault and arrest of Hamdan Ballal, the Palestinian filmmaker who won an Oscar for co-directing No Other Land, …
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The University of Maryland has enlisted an unlikely speaker for its 2025 commencement ceremony: Kermit the Frog. The Terrapins announced their similarly amphibious selection Wednesday, though the choice has some historical merit: The late Muppets creator Jim Henson was a graduate of the University of Maryland in 1960, majoring in …
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