To Kelce or not to Kelsea: that is the question. Ahead of Travis Kelce’s hosting gig on Saturday Night Live, the Kansas City Chiefs player and country singer Kelsea Ballerini joked about their matching names in a promo with SNL‘s Heidi Gardner. “Kelsea, you should change your last name to …
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Tonight’s Saturday Night Live cold open centered on C-SPAN coverage of former president Trump’s visit to the people of East Palestine, Ohio, following a train derailment that unleashed toxic waste on the town. James Austin Johnson’s Trump, flanked by actual firemen from East Palestine, announced, “You know, earlier today, a …
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Woody Harrelson has always harbored some, well, strange views. The Oscar-nominated actor, who first won over audiences on Cheers, is a 9/11 truther who’s shared a number of conspiracy theories during the Covid pandemic. In April 2020, Harrelson posted a gonzo article tying the supposed “negative effects of 5G” to …
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Every Sunday night, fans of Pedro Pascal can tune in to HBO to watch the Chilean actor star as the stoic, sexy, reluctant father figure Joel in The Last Of Us. But on TikTok, weekly episodes aren’t enough — stanning Pascal is a full-time gig. Fans on the app have …
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A U.S. fighter jet shooting down China’s bizarrely conspicuous spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina is all people could talk about on Saturday, after days of the balloon floating over the country ahead of a high-level diplomatic meeting between U.S. and Chinese officials. And SNL opened tonight’s show …
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Following a fun cold open boasting Bowen Yang as the shot-down Chinese spy balloon, SNL aired a fake trailer for a dystopian The Last of Us-style HBO version of Mario Kart, starring host Pedro Pascal as Mario and Chloe Fineman as Princess Peach, as well as Kenan Thompson as Bowser. …
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After a fun cold open starring Bowen Yang as the shot-down Chinese spy balloon floating in the ocean, as well as a fake trailer for a gritty/dystopian Mario Kart HBO series in the vein of The Last of Us, featuring host Pedro Pascal as Mario, it was time for SNL’s …
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Between host Pedro Pascal, who played Mario in a The Last of Us-style spoof of Mario Kart, Bowen Yang’s angry Chinese spy balloon floating in the ocean after being shot down, and the Weekend Update team unloading on pathological liar (and Republican congressman) George Santos, there was quite a bit …
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Lil Baby took to the Saturday Night Live stage to perform “California Breeze” and “Forever,” each off of his 23-song 2022 album It’s Only Me. The album, which came out last October, “rolls as freely as a bowling ball headed for a strike,” as Rolling Stone‘s Jayson Buford wrote in …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update discussed how former presidents and vice presidents have responded to the classified documents saga, while throwing in a dig at the Catholic Church and questioning a recent ride closure at Disney World. “Representatives for Bill Clinton, George W. Bush andBarack Obama issued statements saying they …
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