Twenty years after an infamous television moment involving Kanye West and Mike Myers, Saturday Night Live spoofed the incident on their Season 50 finale, with Myers portraying himself alongside Kenan Thompson’s Ye. In 2005, during a televised fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina, West went off-script on live TV by declaring that …
Read More »SNL's Trump Sells 'MAGDA': Make America Great Depression Again
Saturday Night Live kicked off with Donald Trump trying hard to calm nerves about the falling stock market, only to come up with a slogan that did anything but: “Make America Great Depression Again.” Markets tumbled before and after the president’s so-called “Liberation Day” tariff announcement this week, which saw …
Read More »'SNL': Trump Tries to Settle Rubio-Musk Dispute, Insults Them Both
Saturday Night Live‘s Donald Trump tried to resolve tensions between Elon Musk and Marco Rubio, while using the opportunity to insult them both. Trump (James Austin Johnson) first summoned Secretary of State Rubio (Marcello Hernandez) to the Oval Office, where he told the former Florida senator that he’s been doing …
Read More »'SNL' Cold Open: Mike Myers' Elon Musk Clumsily Waves Chainsaw Around Trump's Head
Saturday Night Live alum Mike Myers portrayed a cringe-inducing, chainsaw-wielding Elon Musk interrupting Donald Trump and J.D. Vance’s two-on-one attack of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The show’s cold open began with Trump (James Austin Johnson) and Vance (Bowen Yang) berating Zelensky (Mikey Day) for not being sufficiently thankful for aid …
Read More »'Shrek 5' Will Finally Arrive in July 2026 (for Real This Time)
After 26 long years, Shrek and Co. will finally return to the big screen. DreamWorks animation announced Tuesday, July 9, that the fifth installment of the storied, memed-to-death franchise will hit theaters July 1, 2026, with Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz all returning. The announcement was accompanied by …
Read More »'Shrek' Ruined Kids' Movies — But That's OK
A few months ago, I was scrolling through TikTok when I saw a video of Shrek on a giant screen at a rave, happily gamboling through his swamp to a remixed version of “Boom Boom Boom Boom.” Then the beat drops, and he starts stomping and projectile vomiting all over …
Read More »Hillary Clinton Was Not Happy With 'Saturday Night Live' Portrayal of Teenage Chelsea
Hillary Clinton was not pleased with how Saturday Night Live depicted daughter Chelsea in 1993, as revealed by former cast member Julia Sweeney during an interview on Dana Carvey and David Spade’s Fly on the Wall podcast. Sweeney and the hosts recalled how after she played a teenaged Chelsea in …
Read More »'Amsterdam' Is a Throwback, a Warning — and a Beautiful, All-Star Mess
Name an actor — almost any working actor you can think of — and there is a fairly good chance they are in David O. Russell‘s Amsterdam. Christian Bale, the intense thespian who’s done his best work with the equally all-or-nothing-at-all auteur? No surprise that he’s front and center here. …
Read More »Arcade Fire Wrap Four Nights in NYC With Special Guests David Byrne, Mike Myers
Arcade Fire wrapped their spontaneous four-night residency at New York’s Bowery Ballroom last night, concluding with a final show boasting appearances from special guests David Byrne and Mike Myers. The shows were announced just hours before door time with entry wristbands selling out in under an hour on a pay-what-you-can …
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