During Ariana Grande‘s Saturday Night Live monologue, she promised to keep her second turn as host of the comedy sketch show “low-key.” During a bridesmaid skit that parodied Sabrina Carpenter‘s summer smash hit “Espresso,” Grande sang out-of-tune and off-key alongside SNL cast members Heidi Gardner, Ego Nwodim, and Sarah Sherman. …
Read More »'SNL' Cold Open: Team Harris, Trump Compete in Family Feud
Team Trump faced off against Team Harris on Saturday Night Live‘s version of Family Feud, with the former president unable to form a coherent response to the question, “Name something you keep in your glove compartment.” While Trump had anticipated being joined by his wife, Melania, she was nowhere to …
Read More »'SNL' Weekend Update Trashes Trump's Weird Coachella Rally, Vance's Election Denialism
Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took aim at Donald Trump‘s rally earlier in the day in Coachella, California, of all places, as well as his running mate’s awkward, repeated refusal to admit that Trump lost the 2020 election. “Donald Trump held a rally todayat the site of the CoachellaMusic Festival, …
Read More »'SNL': Ariana Grande and Bridesmaids' 'Espresso' Isn't So Great for the Groom
Saturday Night Live host Ariana Grande and late night show cast members Sarah Sherman, Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim played bridesmaids who performed their own version of the Sabrina Carpenter song “Espresso”–but one which revealed too much to the groom about the group’s bachelorette party. After describing the bride’s (Chloe …
Read More »'Outer Banks' Star Rudy Pankow Is Shocked by JJ's Story Line, Too
Between shipwreck treasure-dives, murder cover-ups, and love triangles, still moments on Outer Banks, the Netflix series about teenage treasure hunters operating off the shores of North Carolina, are hard to come by. So when filming for the second half of Season Four moved to the western coast of Morocco, Rudy …
Read More »Anna Kendrick Says 'Woman of the Hour' Is Her 'Most Revealing' Film Ever
After leaving a toxic ex, everyone strives to find ways to heal. Anna Kendrick does it through her films — and in heartbreakingly poignant form. Her latest foray into understanding her own trauma comes in her directorial debut, the thriller Woman of the Hour (premiering Oct. 18 on Netflix). The …
Read More »Ariana Grande, Bowen Yang Trick Stevie Nicks Into Singing in 'SNL' Promo
Things are getting witchy on Saturday Night Live this weekend! On Thursday, NBC debuted new promos for the upcoming episode that capture Bowen Yang and this week’s host Ariana Grande getting Stevie Nicks to sing a few lyrics for them. In the first SNL promo, the trio jokes about their …
Read More »'We Live in Time' Scrambles an Out-of-Order Romantic Tragedy. The Stars Realign It
They mull over a cancer diagnosis, they dream of a bright future, they teach their five-year-old daughter how to cook, they give birth in a gas-station bathroom, they make up, they break up, they meet-cute — we can’t remember if this is the exact order of the relationship we see …
Read More »Today, 'Saturday Night Live' Is an Institution. In 1975, It Was Pure Anarchy
Saturday Night Live wasn’t Saturday Night Live, both literally and spiritually, when it premiered on Oct. 11, 1975. Weeks earlier, ABC had debuted a prime-time variety show called Saturday Night Live With Howard Cosell. So Lorne Michaels’ late-night creation had to go by, simply, Saturday Night — the same title …
Read More »Rolling Stone Films, Documentary+ Announce Five New Short Films
Five documentary shorts — ranging from intimate profiles to in-depth cultural reporting — are coming to the free streaming platform DOCUMENTARY+ and RollingStone.com, the two platforms announced Friday. The slate of documentaries are part of a previously announced partnership between Rolling Stone and DOCUMENTARY+, which was launched by the film …
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