Keke Palmer will host Saturday Night Live for the first time when the show returns on Dec. 3. SZA will join her as musical guest. “Y’all got y’alls wish… guess whole hosting @nbcsnl? I’m so excited for usss yalllllll, couldn’t do it without you” Palmer, the star of Jordan Peele’s …
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Dave Chappelle is a Game of Thrones fan, and he’s also into the new show, House of the Dragon, though he has mixed feelings about the spinoff, he said while hosting Saturday Night Live. “I gotta tell you, I love that they are including Black characters but, to be honest, …
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Saturday Night Live alum Chris Redd misses the old Kanye West. It’s not just the one from before the rapper’s recent anti-semitic and anti-Black tirades, but the one from way before he stepped foot on the SNL dress rehearsal stage for the first run through of his unaired pro-Trump rant …
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With just a few days to go until the midterms, James Austin Johnson opened Saturday Night Live as President Joe Biden shaking up the list of Democrats running for office in favor of candidates who have more drawing power. “My fellow Americans,” he began. “ThisTuesday, our midterm electionswill determine the …
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Steve Lacy, SNL‘s musical guest, took the stage Saturday to perform “Bad Habit.” The single comes off of Gemini Rights, Lacy’s “delightfully cacophonous” second studio album, as Rolling Stone’s Mankaprr Conteh wrote in a review. The album also includes “Sunshine,” “Mercury,” and “Amber.” “Bad Habit” reached the top spot on …
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Saturday Night Live took aim at Elon Musk’s staffing cuts at Twitter and the potential for the spread of misinformation with a mock council listening to why bad actors should have their accounts reinstated. “They said I was a bot, whichis crazy.I’m all woman, and I love funnyguys like you,” …
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As he did after the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, Dave Chappelle has once again been tasked with hosting Saturday Night Live for their first post-Election Day episode, this time for the 2022 midterms. Chappelle will bring along Black Star — the duo of Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli — …
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Drake and 21 Savage continued the troll-happy viral press run for their collaborative LP Her Loss Saturday with a faux SNL performance for “On BS,” complete with an introduction from actor Michael B. Jordan. “Ladies and gentlemen, your musical guests this evening, Drake and 21 Savage, performing a song off …
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Comedian Amy Schumer‘s SNL monologue on Saturday honed in on sex and marriage, but not before acknowledging some current events in the political arena. “I can’t believe I have thehonor of being the final hostbefore the midterm abortions — elections!” she joked. “What did I say?Sorry.I was thinking about what’s …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update covered the fallout from the attack on Paul Pelosi, Kyrie Irving’s latest self-inflicted wounds, and Dr. Oz not even obtaining the endorsement of Oprah Winfrey. “Nancy Pelosi’s husband wasattacked in their home by a guywith a hammer, and instead ofbasic sympathy, Republicans werelike, ‘We heard …
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