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It's hard to believe that it's been 20 years since the infamous Ashlee Simpson lip-sync debacle on Saturday Night Live in the October 2004 episode hosted by Jude Law While promoting her debut album, Autobiography, the musician suffered a vocal cord inflammation before the live SNL broadcast, losing her voice As a contingency, pre-recorded tracks[...]

With only days to go until host Jean Smart (Hacks) and musical guest Jelly Roll help the long-running late-night sketch comedy & music series to kick off its milestone 50th season, NBC's Saturday Night Live offered its first mid-week sketch of the season In the clip above, Smart takes a walk down SNL memory lane[...]

That's right! NBC's Saturday Night Live is back! Well, technically, it's back this weekend – but you know what we mean That's right, SNL's milestone 50th season kicks off with the first of four new shows in a row – and five new shows during the first six weeks This weekend, it's Jean Smart / Jelly[...]

Leave it to Please Don't Destroy (Martin Herlihy, Ben Marshall, and John Higgins) to offer us some unexpected SNL humor before NBC's Saturday Night Live kicks off its milestone 50th season this weekend.  In their defense, it wasn't something that had exactly been planned by them, either No, this came courtesy of some pigeons who found[...]

When writer and director Jason Reitman was tasked to capture the magic and chaos of the premiere episode of Saturday Night Live in Sony's upcoming biopic Saturday Night, he embraced the challenge not only finding a talented ensemble to replicate not only creator Lorne Michaels with Gabriel LaBelle, but the legendary original cast members with[...]

In one week, NBC's Saturday Night Live kicks off its milestone 50th season with the first of cour new shows in a row – and five new shows during the first six weeks Here's who's on tap (host/musical guest): Sept 28th: Jean Smart / Jelly Roll; Oct 5th: Nate Bargatze / Coldplay; Oct 12th: Ariana[...]

To understand the controversy surrounding actor/comedian Shane Gillis hosting the February 24th episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live Season 49, you need to go back to 2019 That's when Gillis was officially announced as joining the SNL cast – only for the long-running sketch comedy/music series to part ways with Gillis only days after recordings of[...]

Earlier this week, the official promo trailer for NBC's milestone 50th season of Saturday Night Live was released Unfortunately, it's a season that sees Punkie Johnson, Molly Kearney, and Chloe Troast not returning On the plus side, Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim, and Jane Wickline have joined the SNL cast as new featured players – with Marcello[...]

Darrell Hammond was one of the most versatile cast members of Saturday Night Live for 14 seasons from seasons 21-34, cameos from 35-37, and his return as announcer for seasons 45-46 During his initial run from 1997-2009, Amy Poehler had her run on the NBC late-night series from 2001-2008, both left during season 34 as[...]

As grateful as Will Ferrell is for his time at Saturday Night Live, not everything hits as intended, or things might not feel the same way years later The Despicable Me 4 star, who also made a memorable run as a fictionalized version of himself for the Prime Video series The Boys, was an SNL[...]

The summer before NBC's milestone 50th season of Saturday Night Live saw a lot more "coming and going" than we were expecting. Unfortunately, we learned that Punkie Johnson, Molly Kearney, and Chloe Troast would not be returning to the cast – and we wish them nothing but the best with their post-SNL personal and professional lies[...]

It's hard to imagine Saturday Night Live's arguably most popular segment, "Weekend Update," without anchors Michael Che and Colin Jost, both of whom have been SNL cast members for 10 seasons Che is approaching his 10th anniversary when he joined Jost as the co-anchor chair with his debut on September 27th, 2014[...]

If you've checked out our reviews of NBC's Saturday Night Live in the past, then you know that we preach about all of the factors that come into play to make a show work – or really, really not work It's the host, the musical guest, the cast, the writers, and even the audience –[...]

We've got some big news to pass along regarding the milestone 50th season of NBC's Saturday Night Live Set to return on September 28th, Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim, and Jane Wickline will be joining the cast as new featured players In addition, Marcello Hernandez, Michael Longfellow, and Devon Walker have been promoted to the main[...]

With NBC's Saturday Night Live set to kick off its milestone 50th season later this month, we've got some updates to pass along regarding director/writer Jason Reitman and writer Gil Kenan's Saturday Night Taking us back nearly 50 years to the final moments when NBC's long-running late-night sketch comedy/music series went from being a dream to[...]

In case you didn't get a chance to check out our ranking of NBC's Saturday Night Live Season 49 shows, December 2, 2023's Emma Stone/Noah Kahan effort ranked at the top of the list In our original review, we touched upon how Stone no longer just gives herself over to SNL's writers and cast –[...]

In slightly more than a month, director/writer Jason Reitman and writer Gil Kenan will take us back nearly 50 years to the final moments when NBC's long-running late-night sketch comedy/music series Saturday Night Live went from being a dream to becoming a reality Earlier today, a mini-teaser was released that does an excellent job of[...]

Even though NBC's Saturday Night Live is less than a month away from kicking off its milestone 50th season, you only have a little more than a week to wait until SNL writers and "Weekend Update" anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che are back in our lives with some live comedy On September 12th at[...]

NBC's Saturday Night Live Season 49 headed into the new year on a strong note, with SNL alum, actor & comedian Kate McKinnon and musical guest Billie Eilish helping the show's cast and writers offer a warm, fuzzy, funny, and slightly weird-in-all-the-right-ways stocking filled with sketches representing some of the best work of the season so[...]

In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: AEW All In, Reacher, One Piece, #GeeksandNerdsforHarrisWalz, TWD: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol, and more!

After joining the long-running late-night sketch comedy/music series as a featured player in Season 46, Punkie Johnson would make the move to main player status beginning with the 48th season – and earlier this month, she announced that she would be leaving NBC's Saturday Night Live ahead of its upcoming 50th season Checking with SNL[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Foo Fighters–Donald Trump, Netflix's Wednesday, NBC's SNL, Max's Creature Commandos, Prime Video's Good Omens, Netflix's Terminator Zero, FXX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, AMC's Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Prime Video's Blade Runner 2099, Apple TV+'s Ted Lasso, San Francisco Giants/Naruto Shippuden, AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol, Adult[...]

For last weekend's edition, we examined how host/stand-up comedian Nate Bargatze, musical guest Foo Fighters, and the cast and writers helped set the tone for what worked best during this past season with the third episode.  So it seems only fitting (especially with NBC repeating the episode of Saturday Night Live tonight) that this weekend's[...]

UPDATE: Foo Fighters rep says "appropriate actions are being taken" after the unauthorized use of "My Hero" by the Trump/Vance campaign.

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? NBC's Saturday Night Live, Crunchyroll's Tower of God, The Animation Guild/AMPTP, Max's Peacemaker, Comedy Central's The Daily Show, HBO's True Detective: Night Country, FX's Alien: Earth, Paramount+'s Evil, TNT's AEW Rampage, HBO's The Last of Us, Disney Channel's Gravity Falls, Crunchyroll's Attack on Titan, BBC & Disney+'s Doctor Who, and more! Images/Screencaps: The Animation Guild, Disney Channel, FX Networks,[...]

NBC's Saturday Night Live Season 49 had a decently solid opening back in October 2023, with SNL alum Pete Davidson and musical guest Ice Spice kicking things off After that, it was host/musical guest Bad Bunny – and things were starting to get a wee bit concerning Having taken the past two weeks off while[...]

Along with a new poster for Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan's Saturday Night, the Sony Pictures film will have its world premiere at TIFF 2024.

Even though Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang has been on-screen since 2019 (Season 45), he was first hired as a staff writer in the 44th season (September 2018) That means we have six seasons' worth of hosts to check out – but Yang let it slip that it was a male host, so we[...]

Tim Walz when the 50th season of NBC's Saturday Night Live kicks off on September 28th, Rudolph is sharing what it was like when VP Harris became the presumed (and now declared) nominee and everyone on social media began dropping Rudolph's name "It was wild!" Rudolph shared during an interview with Variety, showcasing that she is nominated[...]

Their most famous exploits outside of the NFL field, respectively, were Manning's hosting stint on Saturday Night Live in 2007 and the more recent 2024 Roast of Tom Brady on Netflix Seth Meyers, who hosts Late Night on NBC, reflected on when Manning approached him during his days as an SNL writer and cast member[...]