Between host Ana de Armas, who hails from Cuba (and is soon to be a U.S. citizen), and musical guest Karol G, who’s from Colombia, it was a very Latina edition of Saturday Night Live this week. With a white orchid in her hair, and backed by a group of …
Read More »SNL: Bowen Yang's Gay Jafar Roasts Ron DeSantis Over Disney Beef
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis threw a hissy fit this week after learning that Disney had outwitted him — quietly pushing through changes that would prevent DeSantis’ Disney oversight board from regulating the Mouse House’s district for decades. “We’re going to look at things like taxes on hotels, we’re going to …
Read More »The Jonas Brothers Perform Two New Songs on SNL
Prior to their massive Aug. 12 one-night-only mega-show at New York’s Yankee Stadium, the Jonas Brothers stopped by Saturday Night Live — alongside host Molly Shannon — to perform some new songs off The Album, the brothers’ seventh studio album out May 12. There was a choir-backed version of “Waffle …
Read More »SNL Mocks Arrested Trump, Who Compares Himself to Jesus on Easter
On the Saturday night before Easter, live from Studio 8H, Saturday Night Live kicked things off with an Easter Sunday cold-open spoof of the Last Supper. “Alas, one of you will betray me… and though I have committed no crime, I will be arrested, tried, and found guilty,” said Mikey …
Read More »SNL Host Molly Shannon Brings Back Jeannie Darcy to Parody Chris Rock
Following a cheeky cold open mocking the Trump arrest, with the accused criminal game show host turned president comparing himself to Jesus Christ, and a monologue that featured a cameos from Martin Short and Lorne Michaels, this week’s Saturday Night Live host (and former cast member) Molly Shannon brought back …
Read More »SNL's Weekend Update Unloads on Trump Arrest: 'He's Definitely Guilty'
While this week’s edition of Saturday Night Live took aim at the Trump arrest during its cold open, with James Austin Johnson’s Trump crashing the Last Supper to compare himself to Jesus, “Weekend Update” also teed off on the former president for being arrested in New York on 34 felony …
Read More »'Paint' Is a Bad SNL Sketch of Owen Wilson Doing Bob Ross
Let’s be clear about one thing: Owen Wilson is not playing Bob Ross. He’s just a guy named Carl Nargle, who hosts a popular PBS painting show called Paint with Carl Nargle, filmed in a small American town — Burlington, VT., not Muncie, IN. — that has made him a …
Read More »SNL Ruthlessly Mocks Indicted Trump for Not Having Money to Pay for Legal Defense
Saturday Night Live reacted to Donald Trump’s indictment with James Austin Johnson, as the former president, singing along to songs that he plans on releasing as part of an album to raise money to pay his lawyers. Johnson cited the lucrative effect of “Justice for All,” an atrocious single that …
Read More »'SNL': Watch Lil Yachty Perform 'the BLACK seminole.,' 'drive ME crazy!'
Lil Yachty opened his Saturday Night Live musical guest debut with “the BLACK seminole.,” the first track off of the album Let’s Start Here, which came out in January. Yachty’s performance featured singer-songwriter Diana Gordon, and the pair–along with a full band–appeared on stage in what resembled a nighttime Florida …
Read More »'SNL': Quinta Brunson Calls Out 'Friends' for Lack of Black People
Abbott Elementary creator and star Quinta Brunson called for fair pay for teachers in her debut Saturday Night Live monologue. “I wanted to be onSNLback in the day, but the audition process seemed a little long,” Brunson began. “So instead, I just created my own TV show, made sure it …
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