Former Saturday Night Live cast member Kate McKinnon was joined on stage Saturday by fellow SNL alums Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig, and the trio put an SNL spin on “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.” McKinnon, who spent a decade on the late night show until departing last year, began …
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A day after Rudy Giuliani was hit with a massive, $148 million judgement in a defamation case brought by two Atlanta poll workers, SNL‘s Weekend Update rubbed in the consequences of his many false claims. “You might as well just make it abillion [dollars], because there’s no wayhe can pay …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Christmas episode saw several instances of gift giving, among them musical guest Billie Eilish and former SNL cast member Kate McKinnon exchanging cats at Whiskers R We, the pet store where they work. In an effort to spur adoptions, the pair star in an ad in which …
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Adam Reed was searching for inspiration. He’d just sold his stake in the production company he co-founded, 70/30 Productions — responsible for his animated series Sealab 2021 and Frisky Dingo — and fled to Europe, to embark on what he calls a “pilgrimage.” One day during his expedition, he was …
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Mayim Bialik is out as the host of Jeopardy!. TheBig Bang Theorystar shared the news on her Instagram Friday, writing that the show’sproducers had informed her that she will “no longer be hosting the syndicated version ofJeopardy.” “As the holiday break begins in Hollywood, I have some Jeopardy! news,” she …
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When Luther Ford sent in an audition tape to star in the final season of The Crown, putting his best foot forward to play Prince Harry in Netflix’s hit series, the 23-year-old didn’t expect to land the gig. As a university student studying editing and directing, Ford says he didn’t …
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Dawn Porter looks for stories of people who made history without asking. By following congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis in John Lewis: Good Trouble, or President Obama’s White House photographer Pete Souza in The Way I See It, she says she hopes to shade in between the lines …
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Stephen Colbert‘s usual monologue had a surprise guest on Thursday’s episode, with Oprah Winfrey dropping by for a visit. Despite her radiant, all-purple suit, Winfrey insisted she was not there to promote her upcoming film, The Color Purple. As Colbert wrapped his monologue, he said this time of the year …
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Thelonious “Monk” Ellison has hit his breaking point. The students in his Southern-lit class at the prestigious university he teaches at are oversensitive snowflakes. His superiors think he needs a break from academia. Monk’s novels may still be in print, but you wouldn’t know it; they’ve all been relegated to …
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This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Curse, which is now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. “The Fire Burns On” begins with a glimpse of an actual episode of Flip-lanthropy (or, as Whitney wants to retitle it, Green Queen). Whitney is displeased with what Dougie is showing …
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