Last week, Taylor Swift dropped in on Saturday Night Live for its Season 49 premiere to introduce the night’s musical performer (and her onetime collaborator), Ice Spice. Her NFL boyfriend, Travis Kelce, also joined host Pete Davidson for a skit mocking the sport’s obsession with their high-profile union. Not to …
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If you thought last week’s Season 49 premiere of Saturday Night Live was star-studded, featuring host Pete Davidson, musical performer Ice Spice, and cameos by the ubiquitous A-list couple Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, well, the sketch-comedy show’s second episode would not be outdone. Following a cold open with a …
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Saturday Night Live‘s version of Fox NFL Sunday included Pete Davidson playing a sideline reporter who was all-too-giddy to talk about Taylor Swift, even though he was covering a Philadelphia Eagles and New York Jets game. “The Eagles are heavily favored,but the Jets have some defensiveschemes that might slow themdown,” …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update addressed former President Donald Trump‘s recent comments about the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, as well as the recent indictments of New York Rep. George Santos and New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez. Trump, in a speech to supporters Wednesday in Florida, praised Hezbollah as “very smart” …
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Bronx-born rapper Ice Spice made her musical guest debut on Saturday Night Live, first with a performance of “In Ha Mood.” The single ended up on the 23-year-old’s first EP, Like..?, which she released back in January following her breakthrough last summer with the track “Munch (Feelin’ U).” Ice Spice …
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Saturday Night Live has scheduled its post-writers strike return — with additional blessing from the still-striking actors union — for Oct. 14. Season 49 of the long-running sketch show will pick up, more or less, where it left off before its 48th season was curtailed, with former cast member Pete …
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As The View audience members formed a line along the show’s 66th Street entrance in Manhattan, a dozen Writers Guild of America members marched around ABC Studios holding signs of protest. When Mikey Day, a Saturday Night Live cast member and former writer (as well ashost of the hit Netflix …
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I t was a particularly tense day on the set of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The host, known for his warm and congenial presence onscreen, was acting especially dismissive and irritable during production meetings, a former longtime employee tells Rolling Stone. Then he stumbled through rehearsal in front …
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John Goodman has a lot of catching up to do. Over the past six years, the renowned actor has been so busy rebooting his role as Dan Conner on Roseanne and The Conners, and establishing himself as televangelist patriarch Eli Gemstone on the fantastic HBO series The Righteous Gemstones, he …
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It was a night of laughs that’s still whispered about in comedy circles. During the last writers’ strike in 2007, Michael Cera hosted a DIY version of Saturday Night Live at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater in New York City for around 200 people. The show was comprised of old …
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