Bill Hader joked about the numerous afflictions and anxiety-induced maladies he sufferedwhile a cast memberonSaturday Night Liveduring a new interview with his old coworker, Seth Meyers, onLate Night. Hader has spoken before about how anxious he was during his time on the show, and this was ostensibly part of the …
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Dana Carvey described portraying Joe Biden on Saturday Night Live as challenging due to the former president’s mental state. Speaking on a new episode of his podcast Fly on the Wall, Carvey explained that it was “delicate” to parody someone who was “compromised mentally.” “I knew that he was compromised …
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Julia Sweeney’s popular Saturday Night Live character Pat gets their plaudits (and some criticism) as a gender non-conforming pioneer in a new clip from the upcoming documentary, We Are Pat, premiering exclusively on Rolling Stone. Sweeney played Pat throughout her run on SNL in the early Nineties and even got …
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Bad Bunny returned as Saturday Night Live musical guest to perform two songs from his sixth studio album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, which he released in January. Up first was “NUEVAYoL,” the album’s salsa-infused opening track. The album, which is the Puerto Rican rapper’s follow-up to 2023’s Nadie Sabe Lo …
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Twenty years after an infamous television moment involving Kanye West and Mike Myers, Saturday Night Live spoofed the incident on their Season 50 finale, with Myers portraying himself alongside Kenan Thompson’s Ye. In 2005, during a televised fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina, West went off-script on live TV by declaring that …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Donald Trump, appearing in the show’s cold open yet another time, walked out of the season 50 finale’s first sketch to flirt with women in the audience and to formally sign off until September–“if we still have a country.” Trump (James Austin Johnson) began by proclaiming how …
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Saturday Night Live seven-time host Scarlett Johansson portrayed a newscaster bringing an edgy approach to how she presented stories of the day–much to her pun-loving colleagues’ disapproval. Whereas those behind the morning anchors desk at Channel 4 New York deployed tame wordplay about lighthearted stories, fill-in nightly news host Denise …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update had their traditional joke swap in the season 50 season finale, with co-anchor Michael Che making amends with SNL host Scarlett Johansson for delivering a certain line about her during last December’s joke swap. “I want to take this opportunity to apologize to someone I …
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Scarlett Johansson has big plans for her hosting gig on Saturday Night Live, and Bad Bunny has even more “awesome” things happening for him this summer. On Thursday, the NBC show released its silly teasers for SNL 50’s finale featuring its two guests alongside cast member Kenan Thompson. “Hi, I’m …
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While recently honoring Conan O’Brien for receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at a gala event in D.C., Sarah Silverman told the audience that the former late-night host kept her going after she was fired from Saturday Night Live after only one season. That special is available to …
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