Ahead of their appearances on Saturday Night Live this weekend, Josh Brolin and Ariana Grande featured in a series of promos for the upcoming episode. Brolin is set to take on hosting duties while Grande will perform as the evening’s musical guest. In one of the clips released Thursday, the …
Read More »'SNL' Monologue: Sydney Sweeney Addresses Those Glen Powell Rumors
Sydney Sweeney debuted as Saturday Night Live guest host by talking about a number of rumors about her, one having to do with her Anyone But You co-star, Glen Powell. Of the online speculation that she and Powell had been romantically involved, Sweeney said definitively: “That’s obviously not true.” Sweeney …
Read More »'SNL' Weekend Update Roasts Trump Waving at Migrants, McConnell Stepping Down
Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took aim at Donald Trump‘s bizarre moment at the southern border this week, as well as Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell announcing he’ll step down as his party’s Senate leader. Trump, who toured the Texas-Mexico border Thursday alongside the increasingly militant Gov. Greg Abbott, at one …
Read More »'SNL': Watch Kacey Musgraves Perform 'Deeper Well,' 'Too Good to Be True'
A barefoot Kacey Musgraves opened her third appearance as Saturday Night Live musical guest by singing the mellow title track of Deeper Well, her new album that comes out March 15. The 14-track LP, recorded at New York’s storied Electric Lady Studios, is “a collection songs I hold very dear …
Read More »'SNL': Sydney Sweeney, Bowen Yang Compete for Tips at Hooters
Saturday Night Live guest host Sydney Sweeney played Tina, a Hooters waitress who easily out-earned her coworkers despite spilling beer on customers and making an alcoholic relapse. While the tips acquired for the day by other waitresses (Chloe Fineman, Sarah Sherman) came out to under $50, Sweeney piled up stacks …
Read More »Shane Gillis Jokes About 'SNL' Firing: 'Don't Look That Up!'
Comic Shane Gillis debuted as Saturday Night Live host by first joking about his extremely brief stint on the late night show back in 2019 that ended after controversial comments of his from the year prior resurfaced. “Yeah.I’m here,” Gillis began his monologue. “Most of you probably haveno idea who …
Read More »'SNL': Weekend Update Trashes Trump's Wild Rhetoric, Alabama's IVF Ruling
Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update went after former President Donald Trump‘s wild campaign rhetoric, as well as the Alabama Supreme Court ruling this week that frozen embryos created through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) are human beings. Co-anchor Colin Jost began by quipping that, after Trump won the South Carolina primary earlier …
Read More »'SNL' Mocks Trump's Gold Shoes In 'White Men Can Trump' Movie Trailer
Saturday Night Live took aim at former President Donald Trump‘s decision to hawk gold sneakers for about $400 a pair with a reimagining of the 1992 flick White Men Can’t Jump called White Men Can Trump. Shane Gillis‘ character, rather than seeing his on-court skills legitimately improve by wearing the …
Read More »'SNL': Watch 21 Savage Perform 'Redrum,' 'Prove It'
21 Savage debuted as Saturday Night Live‘s musical guest first with a performance of his new single, “Redrum.” The violin-intro track comes from his third solo album, American Dream, which came out last month and topped the Billboard 200 Albums chart upon its release. The Atlanta rapper–Rolling Stone‘s cover artist …
Read More »Ashlee Simpson Reflects on 'SNL' Lip-Syncing Incident: 'It Was a Humbling Moment For Me'
Ashlee Simpson has the benefit of hindsight when it comes to her infamous 2004 appearance on Saturday Night Live. Speaking on the Broad Ideas With Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen podcast, the singer explained that the performance, which saw her lip-syncing her single “Autobiography,” taught her how to pick herself …
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