Comedian and four-time Saturday Night Live guest host Chris Rock touched on several current events in his monologue, at one point previewing how the next Trump administration will carry out deportations with the help of MAGA devotee Elon Musk. First, though, Rock took issue with complaints about Trump being “undignified” …
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Adam Sandler appeared in a Saturday Night Live sketch alongside fellow SNL alum Chris Rock, with Sandler playing a patient and Rock a surgeon. The surgery to remove an appendix gets complicated by nurse Linzley (Sarah Sherman), who first fills out a form incorrectly, meaning the patient’s gallbladder is removed …
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Although Saturday Night Live is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025, SNL alum Chris Rock recalls the show’s history differently. In a Saturday Night Live promo video released Wednesday, Chris Rock, this week’s host, interrupts a group tour to spill some false facts about the comedy variety show, starting with …
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Saturday Night Live has secured its last three hosts and musical guests for 2024. On Monday, the NBC comedy variety show announced that Gracie Abrams and Hozier will perform on the Dec. 14 and Dec. 21 episodes of the show to end the year. Chris Rock and Martin Short will …
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Pope Francis held a comedy summit of sorts at the Vatican on Friday, hosting the likes of Chris Rock, Jimmy Fallon,Stephen Colbert, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and over 100 other comedians and entertainers to celebrate the importance of laughter and humor. “You unite people because laughter is contagious,” Pope Francis told the …
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John Mulaney returns to Netflix with a six-episode special John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s In L.A., the streamer announced Monday. The Mulaney-hosted and executive produced show will stream live during Netflix Is a Joke Fest, the comedy event featuring A-list comics in Los Angeles. Within the six installments, Mulaney will explore …
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Kevin Hart received comedy’s ultimate honor — a deluge of insults mixed with genuine reverence — as he received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Sunday night, March 24. Hart himself took a supremely earnest approach to the night as he addressed …
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Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer, the comic’s seventh stand-up special for Netflix, opens with a quote about the nature of success by Henry David Thoreau before capturing the comic in stark black-and-white, moving through the crowd in slow-mo (cigarette in hand, naturally) to Radiohead’s “Daydreaming,” like a championship boxer before a …
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Chris Rock, David Letterman, Jerry Seinfeld, Hannah Gadsby, Seth Rogen, and Tom Brady (yes, that Tom Brady) are among the comedians and non-comedians set to appear at the 2024 Netflix Is a Joke festival. Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, Ali Wong, Chelsea Handler, Maya Rudolph, Nate Bargatze, Nick Kroll, Kumail Nanjiani, …
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The 1963 March on Washington did not merely come together on its own via a whim, a wish, and good will. It took years of strategizing, planning, building coalitions, dodging bureaucratic obstacles and opponents both within and outside the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. Students and veteran activists worked phone lines, …
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