Lorne Michaels is giving Saturday Night Live an anniversary gift. As the show enters its 50th season, the sketch-comedy show’s creator has presented it with the gift of his continued involvement in it. In 2020, Michaels planted the seeds of the idea that he would exit the show following this …
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Saturday Night Live‘s milestone 50th season will kick off on Sept. 28 with a five-show run featuring all-star host and musical guest pairings. The season will open with first-time host Jean Smart and musical guest Jelly Roll. “The premiere of the 50th season of SNL. BRB going to cry for …
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As Saturday Night Live prepares to return for its 50th season later this month, decades-spanning SNL stars Bowen Yang, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, and Seth Meyers took the Emmys stage to pay tribute to the man who started it all. Standing on a mock set-up of the infamous 30 Rock …
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Saturday Night Live will return for its 50th season on Sept. 28. The show has lost a few cast members and brought on a couple more since it last aired, but this upcoming run of episodes will feature the greatest possible addition: Maya Rudolph reviving her fictionalized take on Vice …
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Saturday Night Live has announced the addition of three cast members, Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim, and Jane Wickline, ahead of the late-night sketch show’s Season 50 premiere. Chloe Troast, who joined the cast last season, simultaneously announced her departure. “Unfortunately I was not asked back to ‘SNL’ this season,” Troast …
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It was never going to work. They couldn’t give enough tickets away to fill the seats. There were sound issues, lighting issues, drug issues, ego issues. Some of the crew walked out. A key cast member wouldn’t sign his contract, then went missing right before the show was supposed to …
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The chaotic first night of Saturday Night Live — and how the show was almost dead-on-arrival — is the focus of the upcoming “thriller-comedy” Saturday Night, which depicts the hours leading up to the premiere broadcast. “At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers …
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Punkie Johnson will be stepping away from Saturday Night Live. On Thursday, the comedian confirmed in an Instagram video that she won’t be joining the show’s 50th season, saying there’s “no bridges burned” with the crew. “After four seasons, I will not be returning to ‘SNL’ for the 50th,” Johnson …
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Jason Reitman‘s forthcoming film about the inaugural broadcast of Saturday Night Live, titled Saturday Night, will be released in theaters Oct. 11 — the same date the late-night sketch show debuted in 1975. The movie, distributed by Sony, was directed by Reitman and co-written by Reitman and his Ghostbusters: Frozen …
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Just as the comedy gods intended, Maya Rudolph will return to Saturday Night Live this fall to portray Vice President Kamala Harris. Per Deadline, Rudolph will be on-hand for the sketch show’s 50th season through the 2024 election. The extremely welcome and sensible decision comes as Harris prepares to likely …
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