Ryan Gosling earned the first Emmy nomination of his career for that episode of Saturday Night Live with the legendary Beavis and Butthead sketch and the Barbenheimer “All Too Well” duet with Emily Blunt. Gosling’s nomination came in the Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series category. He’ll be up …
Read More »Andy Samberg Opens Up About 'Difficult' Decision to Leave 'SNL': 'I Was Falling Apart in My Life'
Andy Samberg opened up about his “difficult” decision to depart Saturday Night Live in 2012 in a new interview with Kevin Hart. During his appearance on Peacock’s Hart to Heart, the former SNL Digital Short maestro and “Dick in a Box” singer said of his exit after seven seasons, “It …
Read More »Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day's 'Beavis and Butt-Head' 'SNL' Skit Was First Pitched in 2018 With Jonah Hill
Few Saturday Night Live sketches from last season were as celebrated and pored over as the brilliantly dumb “Beavis and Butt-Head” bit, in which Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day attended a boring talk show on artificial intelligence as the famous Mike Judge cartoon characters. Gosling and Day looked so insane …
Read More »Watch 'SNL' Star James Austin Johnson Reprise Trump Impression to React to Guilty Verdict
James Austin Johnson frequently embodies Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live, which recently aired its season finale. But Johnson couldn’t resist the opportunity to imitate Trump again last night following a New York jury finding the former president guilty on 34 charges. The SNL cast member shared an Instagram video …
Read More »'SNL' Weekend Update Tackles Trump-Biden Debates, MTG Getting Roasted By Colleague
Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update reacted to the planned presidential debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, as well as an especially viral exchange in the House of Representatives this week involving Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). For a preview of the CNN debate in late June and the second …
Read More »'SNL': Jake Gyllenhaal Tries and Tries to Cancel a Flight
Saturday Night Live host Jake Gyllenhaal went through a maze of Southwest employees–and one Hudson News cashier, mistakenly–all in an effort to simply cancel his flight. While being transferred to nearly ten different people, Gyllenhaal encountered customer service representatives who mispronounced his name all sorts of ways, those with odd …
Read More »'SNL': Sabrina Carpenter Brings Swanky 'Espresso' to Late Night
Sabrina Carpenter debuted on Saturday Night Live with a performance of “Espresso,” her best-selling single that she released last month. Carpenter followed that up with a medley of “Feather” and “Nonsense” from her 2022 album, Emails I Can’t Send. Carpenter included a few shoutouts to SNL in each track, saying …
Read More »'SNL' Cold Open: Trump Wheels Out Hannibal Lecter, His 'Favorite' VP Pick
The season 49 finale of Saturday Night Live opened with Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) making an assessment of his potential running mates, who ranged from the boot-licking to the face-eating. Among those who showed face were South Carolina Senator Tim Scott (Devon Walker) and embattled South Dakota Gov. Kristi …
Read More »Jake Gyllenhaal, Bowen Yang Serenade Sabrina Carpenter With 'Board Shorts Summer' in 'SNL' Teaser
Leading up to Sabrina Carpenter‘s Saturday Night Live debut this weekend, and host Jake Gyllenhaal‘s return, the pair teamed up with Bowen Yang to tease the upcoming season finale. In the video, in seeming reference to her sun-kissed hit song “Espresso,” Yang exclaims: “Sabrina, your song is stuck in my …
Read More »'SNL': Maya Rudolph's Beyoncé Returns to 'Hot Ones,' Does Not Slay
Maya Rudolph returned to Saturday Night Live as host on the latest episode, and the former cast member reprising one of her most beloved sketches: Impersonating Beyoncé as guest on the chicken wing-eating YouTube interview series Hot Ones. The original sketch aired back in 2021 when Rudolph served as guest …
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