NEW YORK (AP) — “Saturday Night Live” is set to set off its 50th season with host Jean Smart and musical guest Jelly Roll. Smart, the 73-year-old “Hacks” and “Designing Women” star who just won her sixth Emmy, has never hosted the NBC sketch comedy institution before in her more than 40-year career. She said … Read more
Former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Victoria Jackson took to social media this week to share that she has an inoperable tumor in her windpipe. “I have 34.8 months to live if I don’t get hit by a meteor, shot by a MAGA hater, get Covid again or WWIII breaks out,” wrote the comedian and … Read more
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) was thoroughly skewered Monday by “Saturday Night Live” alum Cecily Strong and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) in a no-holds-barred joke exchange benefiting “Comics for Kamala,” a virtual fundraiser for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Swalwell reportedly organized the comedy-centric Zoom rally himself and told Deadline last … Read more
Punkie Johnson announced that after four years she will not be returning as a cast member on “Saturday Night Live” next season. “I just want to let you know after four seasons, I will not be returning to SNL for the 50th,” Johnson said Thursday in a video on Instagram. Johnson, 36, made history in … Read more
Bowen Yang is all-in with the “cringe” on “Saturday Night Live.” The “SNL” cast member, on Wednesday’s episode of the “Las Culturistas” podcast, weighed in after his co-host Matt Rogers declared that sometimes you have to “climb up a huge hill of cringe” following talk about the 2024 election. “On the other end … you … Read more
As Americans head to the polls in 2024, the very future of our country is at stake. At HuffPost, we believe that a free press is critical to creating well-informed voters. That’s why our journalism is free for everyone, even though other newsrooms retreat behind expensive paywalls. Our journalists will continue to cover the twists … Read more
As Americans head to the polls in 2024, the very future of our country is at stake. At HuffPost, we believe that a free press is critical to creating well-informed voters. That’s why our journalism is free for everyone, even though other newsrooms retreat behind expensive paywalls. Our journalists will continue to cover the twists … Read more
As Americans head to the polls in 2024, the very future of our country is at stake. At HuffPost, we believe that a free press is critical to creating well-informed voters. That’s why our journalism is free for everyone, even though other newsrooms retreat behind expensive paywalls. Our journalists will continue to cover the twists … Read more
Yet for Gardner, it was no laughing matter. “I had coached myself for so many years to not break,” Gardner told Vulture in an interview published Monday. Heidi Gardner breaking character in the “Beavis and Butt-Head” sketch on “Saturday Night Live.” Getty/Screenshot “SNL” via YouTube Gardner, who has been on the show since 2017, takes … Read more
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