The 48th season of Saturday Night Live kicked off with a heavy dose of self-referential humor, with ESPN’s ManningCast analyzing the late night show’s opening sketch. With first-time guest host Miles Teller as Peyton Manning and Andrew Dismukes as brother Eli, the pair dissected a scene from Mar-a-Lago as if …
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Miles Teller‘s maiden SNL monologue was largely one of self-deprecation. “I know they like when you doimpressions and play differentcelebrities, and I wanted tocome prepared,” Teller began. “So I asked my friends whatcelebrity I look like, and Iwas thinking a young DeNiro,maybe a Paul Newman. And theywere like, ‘Nope! Rachel …
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Saturday Night Live Weekend Update co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Chewere at it again Saturday, addressing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest moves, Lizzo’s flute playing, and Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker‘s agenda should he win office. “In a speech after annexing sections of Ukraine, VladimirPutin attacked the U.S. for satanism …
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Saturday Night Live spoofed Adam Levine’s thirsty DMs — as well as the Armie Hammer’s alleged cannibalistic overtures — in a sketch for a game show called Send Something Normal. “The game is very simple,” host Miles Teller explained. “We have four male celebrity contestants, and all they have to …
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A review of this week’s Atlanta, “Light Skinned-ed,” coming up just as soon as I take the Shmurda Exit… Earn’s parents, Riley (Isaiah Whitlock Jr.) and Gloria (Myra Lucretia Taylor), appear briefly in the series premiere, mainly to establish that Earn is on bad terms with them due to his …
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Trevor Noah is saying goodbye to The Daily Show. The host, who took over for Jon Stewart in 2015, will exit the Comedy Central series after seven years, explaining to the show’s audience that his “time is up.” His final episode will air on Dec. 8. The network has not …
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Today, Hulu debuted the third season of Ramy, the wonderful dramedy co-created by and starring comedian Ramy Youssef as a Muslim-American man struggling to reconcile his faith with his fondness for forbidden activities like sex, porn, and drugs. It’s been two and a half years since we last saw Ramy, …
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Community is finally fulfilling its promise of “Six seasons and a movie” as Peacock announced plans to revive the beloved sitcom as a feature film, with the majority of the original cast returning. Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs, Jim Rash,andKen Jeongwill all be back for Community: The …
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Guillermo Del Toro has been stockpiling nightmare ammunition in anticipation of his forthcoming Netflix anthology series Cabinet of Curiosities, storing them away for later. In the first official trailer for the eight-part show premiering Oct. 25, the acclaimed director puts both hands on th]oor holding back deep, dark fears while …
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Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer’s eerily effective God’s Creatures, starring Emily Watson, opens with an unexpected return. The son of Aileen O’Hara (Watson) has just come home, showing up in their tiny, Irish fishing village unannounced after some time away in Australia. It’s a somber occasion — a local …
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