Saturday Night Live goofed on the billionaire space race with the trailer for a Star Trek spin-off starring Jeff Bezos, played by host Owen Wilson. Star Trek: Ego Quest, coming to Paramount+, follows Bezos’ Amazon space crew, which also includes Bezos’ brother (played here by Wilson’s real-life brother Luke), 82-year-old …
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Not long after Chris Kattan joined Saturday Night Live in 1996, a rumor started circulating that he and fellow cast member Norm Macdonald didn’t get along. To be sure, their styles of comedy were wildly different: Kattan physical and wildly theatrical, Macdonald deadpan and droll. The pair fanned the flames …
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Elon Musk is set to host and Miley Cyrus will serve as musical guest when Saturday Night Live returns from its spring break with a new episode on May 8th. SNL confirmed on Twitter that the meme-loving Tesla mogul will be making his SNL hosting debut: Season 46 of SNL …
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It’s been a while since the women of Saturday Night Live have gotten together for one of their glossy song parodies. For the February 27th episode, Kate McKinnon, Melissa Villaseñor, Ego Nwodim, and Chloe Fineman admit that their solution for “self care” when they need to unwind is to binge …
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Phoebe Bridgers made her Saturday Night Live debut with a performance highlighting a pair of tracks off her 2020 LP Punisher, Number 10 on Rolling Stone’s Best Albums of 2020 list. Bridgers opened her musical spot with “Kyoto,” with the singer and her band all wearing her now-trademark skeleton suits. …
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Saturday Night Live tackled the “second and, praise Jesus, final debate” in its latest cold open, with Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump and Jim Carrey’s Joe Biden facing off for the last time before Election Day. “How does this mute button work? Do I just haul off and slap him in …
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The best episodes of Saturday Night Live are a magic trick in which everything looks easy. In lesser ones, you can see palpable sweat as the cast and crew try to stitch things together. While not nearly the abject disaster that was Daniel Craig’s last time hosting SNL in 2012, …
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Over the course of the six-episode first season of Hulu’s Shrill (March 15th), Aidy Bryant’s Annie, an alt-weekly staffer in Portland, Oregon, is repeatedly interrogated and hassled about her weight, her dress size and her caloric intake. Strangers feel compelled to offer unsolicited diet and exercise advice, or even to …
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Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump attempted to end the ongoing government shutdown with a game of Deal or No Deal in the cold open of Saturday Night Live‘s 2019 premiere. “Earlier today you went on TV and you told the America people that you want to make a deal,” Kenan Thompson’s …
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