A.J. and Big Justice, a Boca Raton, Florida-based father-and-son duo, were in strong competition for the song of the summer with their track “We Bring the BOOM!” The pair, a.k.a. A.J. Befumo and his 11-year-old son, Eric, has built a massive online following for their TikTok videos, many of which …
Read More »Ariana Grande Cracks Up 'SNL' Team in Rehearsals for Viral 'Espresso' Sketch
Saturday Night Live‘s crew knew it had a hit on its hand before Ariana Grande‘s bridesmaid skit aired earlier this month. The viral sketch — which parodies Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” and spills secrets about infidelity — has amassed more than 7 million views on YouTube over the past two weeks …
Read More »'SNL': Watch Menendez Brothers Halloween Sketch Cut for Time
Saturday Night Live referenced the current cultural fascination with the Menendez brothers in a cut-for-time skit intended to air during Weekend Update. In the sketch, Marcello Hernandez and Michael Longfellow play two guys dress for Halloween as doctors in scrubs who keep being mistaken for Erik and Lyle Menendez. “We …
Read More »'SNL' Cold Open: Harris Outmatches Bret Baier, Who Won't Stop Interrupting
Saturday Night Live covered a lot of the past week’s attention-grabbing political moments in its cold open: Kamala Harris’ interview with an interrupting Fox News host Bret Baier, Donald Trump’s hard time persuading Latino voters to support him, and the former president’s abandonment of a brief question-and-answer session during a …
Read More »'SNL' Weekend Update Roasts Elon's Debunked Voter Conspiracy, Trump's 'Special' Music Town Hall
Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took aim at Elon Musk pushing the same false theory about Dominion voting machines that cost Fox News $787 million, as well as Donald Trump’s bizarre town hall in which he stood on stage listening to music for 40 long minutes. Musk, who has a …
Read More »'SNL': Watch Billie Eilish Perform 'Birds of a Feather,' 'Wildflower'
In her fourth musical guest appearance on Saturday Night Live, Billie Eilish performed a pair of tracks from her acclaimed third studio album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, which came out in May. Eilish, Rolling Stone‘s cover artist from that month, opened with “Birds of a Feather.” With the name …
Read More »'SNL': Michael Keaton Sells Some Organic Halloween 'Cookies'
With Halloween around the corner, Saturday Night Live host Michael Keaton played a baker prepping for the occasion by showing off some cookies that he claimed resembled the bloodshot eye of a zombie–despite many suggestions to the contrary. Keaton, making his first SNL appearance since hosting the show’s 40th season …
Read More »Watch Molly Shannon Revive 'SNL' Character to Advise Kamala Harris
Vice President Kamala Harris wasn’t in attendance at the traditional Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York on Thursday night, but she offered a video consolation to attendees instead. Harris enlisted actress Molly Shannon, who revived her beloved Saturday Night Live character, Catholic schoolgirl Mary Katherine Gallagher. In …
Read More »Ariana Grande's 'Espresso' Speech and Bowl Cut Earned Her Most-Watched 'SNL' Episode Since 2021
Nearly 6 million viewers tuned into Saturday Night Live on Oct. 12 to watch Ariana Grande impersonate Celine Dion and Jennifer Coolidge, remix Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” into an unhinged bridesmaid speech, and a trauma-ridden Italian boy with a bowl cut. Full of music and chaos, it marked the most-viewed SNL …
Read More »Liam Gallagher Calls 'Saturday Night Live' Oasis Skit 'Excruciating'
In classic form, Liam Gallagher has responded to a Saturday Night Live sketch that aired over the weekend mocking the two Oasis members for not getting along. The skit, part of “Weekend Update,” starred James Austin Johnson and Sarah Sherman as Noel and Liam Gallagher, respectively, and saw the pair …
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