Welcome to season 43 of Saturday Night Live! We keep our recaps short and sweet so you can get busy watching the videos we post weekly. SNL has added some new blood to its cast and writing team, including featured players Heidi Gardner (Adult Swim), comedian Luke Null, and Chris Redd (Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping). […]
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Guy Ritchie’s ‘Aladdin’ Finds Its Jafar and Casts an ‘SNL’ Vet in a New Role
Disney’s live-action Aladdin movie cast has just grown by two. Director Guy Ritchie‘s take on the 1992 animated classic has found its Jafar in an up-and-coming actor and cast former Saturday Night Live breakout Nasim Pedrad in a brand new role that’s been invented specifically for this film. Read on for everything we know so far. […]
What Sean Spicer Really Thought About Melissa McCarthy’s ‘SNL’ Performance
Sean Spicer, better known as the White House’s comic relief and press secretary, has resigned. Spicer is reportedly stepping down, because Donald Trump appointed a new communications director, Anthony Scaramucci. Spicer’s role will be replaced by his deputy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. More importantly, what did Spicer think of Melissa McCarthy’s unhinged, podium-raging parody of him […]
Dwayne Johnson Announces Presidential Campaign on ‘SNL’, Watch the Best & Worst Sketches
This past weekend the 42nd season finale of Saturday Night Live arrived with host Dwayne Johnson joining the Five Timers Club, just like Melissa McCarthy did last week. Not only did Johnson get his honorary jacket, but he was joined by fellow Five Timers Club members Alec Baldwin and Tom Hanks, and he picked one […]
‘SNL’ Vet Vanessa Bayer Leaving Series
Shortly after it was announced that SNL vet Bobby Moynihan will be leaving the series after nine seasons, fans were left wondering if a mass cast exodus was inevitable. The show’s longest-running female cast member Vanessa Bayer (seven seasons) has just confirmed her departure. The comedian posted a farewell message on Instagram. Bayer joined the […]
The Best and Worst of Last Night’s ‘SNL’ with Melissa McCarthy
Melissa McCarthy hosted the Mother’s Day episode of SNL last night. It was also her fifth time on the stage, which means she now belongs to the famed five-timers club. New Yorkers spotted McCarthy dressed as her hilarious version of White House press secretary Sean Spicer driving down 58th street in a podium this week […]
The Best and Worst of Last Night’s ‘SNL’ with Chris Pine
Chris Pine, who has appeared in Star Trek (2009), Rise of the Guardians, and the new Wonder Woman, looks like a number of white male Hollywood actors with the same first name, appearing in the same kind of movies. Pine tries to separate himself from the blue-eyed, sandy-haired, chisel-jawed crowd in his opening monologue from […]
‘SNL’ mocks Kellyanne Conway for her lack of public appearances after multiple media controversies
NBC/Saturday Night Live One of the highlights of this week’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ episode was a sketch mocking White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway for her reclusiveness over the last few weeks. The sketch featured a number of SNL regulars and spoofed the 1990s children’s game show “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?” It featured a […]
‘SNL’ mocks White House infighting with an elimination round between Kushner and Bannon
Saturday Night Live “Saturday Night Live” had a field day yesterday in its long-running mockery of President Trump’s and his administration’s blunders throughout the first 100 days in office. The show’s latest cold open featured Alec Baldwin, who once again reprised his role as Trump, Jimmy Fallon as Jared Kushner, and a man dressed as the […]
The Best and Worst of Last Night’s ‘SNL’ with Jimmy Fallon
SNL alum Jimmy Fallon returned to his old stomping ground on the series last evening. Fallon has always been an enthusiastic comedian, exuding the right kind of showmanship for a live show. His reunion wasn’t particularly terrible (or hilarious), but he did manage to steal the spotlight in every scene. See how it all went […]