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Thankfully, SNL continues to share some of those "Cut for Time" sketches over the past few seasons – and it looks like that's going to be the case this season Earlier today, two sketches that nearly made it were released In "Blonde Dragon People," some friends (Heidi Gardner, Andrew Dismukes, Devon Walker, and Jane Wickline)[...]

One of the many factors in why the season opener clicked was SNL star Bowen Yang – with his portrayal of baby hippo Moo Deng during "Weekend Update" keeping his success streak of portraying surprising characters that make us laugh more than they normally would have any right to alive and kicking And yet… there[...]

NBC's Saturday Night Live kicked off its milestone 50th season this weekend with host Jean Smart (Hacks), musical guest Jelly Roll (who owned the stage during two amazing performances), three new featured players, and the unveiling of SNL's Election 2024 major players Spoiler? If Saturday night was a sign of things to come, then SNL might[...]

Tim Walz), both social and mainstream media put out the call to Maya Rudolph to return to SNL as VP Harris – a portrayal that Rudolph has made famous over the seasons But that left three unanswered questions heading into tonight's season premiere Who would portray Walz? Who Would portray Trump's VP pick, Sen JD[...]

For this one, we get a better sense of how Smart and Jelly Roll became the "bestest" of friends over the past week – dare we say, "BFFs Jean & Jelly"? Oh yes, we dare… with Billie Eilish's "Birds of a Feather" a particularly nice choice for soundtrack. Images: SNL Screencaps In the first of four promos[...]

In the first promo, SNL star Marcello Hernandez looks to impress Smart and Jelly Roll with his vocabulary – only to commit a serious age-related faux pas in the second promo After that, Maya Rudolph (returning to portray VP Kamala Harris) decides to "show up" (you'll understand) – but Rudolph, being the special guest star, doesn't[...]

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 were used so Simpson could lip-sync, but the second track from Autobiography didn't run Instead, it was "Pieces of Me," which she performed earlier in the night, and out[...]

In the clip above, Smart takes a walk down SNL memory lane through the hallways of Studios 8H as we see clips from previous seasons And then we see more clips… and less of Smart It doesn't take long before Smart realizes that SNL might be swimming a bit too much in a sea of[...]

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 Roll Following that, we have Oct 5th: Nate Bargatze / Coldplay; Oct 12th: Ariana Grande / Stevie Nicks; Oct 19th:[...]

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[...]

Reitman spoke with Entertainment Weekly at the Toronto International Film Festival about his stint as a guest writer in the NBC late-night variety series. Image: Sony Pictures Screencap Saturday Night Director Jason Reitman on Guest Writing Stint on SNL "One of the greatest weeks of my life," Reitman said of his time as a guest writer on SNL[...]

The SNL 50 cast sees Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim, and Jane Wickline on board as new featured players – with Marcello Hernandez, Michael Longfellow, and Devon Walker promoted to the main cast Unfortunately, we also learned that Punkie Johnson, Molly Kearney, and Chloe Troast would not be returning -with good vibes going out to all[...]

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 racist, sexist, and homophobic comments surfaced as part of a YouTube channel called Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast. "After talking with Shane Gillis, we have decided that[...]

On the plus side, Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim, and Jane Wickline have joined the SNL cast as new featured players – with Marcello Hernandez, Michael Longfellow, and Devon Walker promoted to the main cast Now, we're getting a look at the line-up for the start of Season 50 – with four new shows in a[...]

Image courtesy of NBC. SNL: Darrell Hammond Reflects on Why Amy Poehler Can Make Him Break During "Regis & Kelly" Sketches "Amy Poehler could make me laugh if I was sitting next to her," Hammond told hosts Amy Robach and T J Holmes "When we did 'Regis and Kelly,' and she's sitting right there next to me,[...]

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 cast member from 1995-2002 before achieving even greater success in films Whether it's lampooning former president George Bush or the late Chicago Cubs broadcast icon Harry Carey, the[...]

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[...]

As SNL nears the start of Season 50, this weekend's SNL Second-Guessing looks at our personal favorite host and musical guest Just to be clear? This isn't any kind of slam against anyone – and this was not an easy thing to consider (thanks to SNL for its YouTube playlists sectioned by each show, making[...]

"Unfortunately I was not asked back to 'SNL' this season I wish I was going back to be with all the amazing friends I made there; it truly felt like home But it wasn't in the cards," wrote Troast in an Instagram Stories post "I wanna thank everyone who supported me Especially everyone who came[...]

In addition, this morning brought a new official trailer that builds on the previous one when it comes to giving us a sense of just how explosively manic those final 90 minutes were before the landscape of television would be changed forever. Image: Sony Screencap Based on Reitman and Kenan's interviews with the living cast, writers, and[...]

In our original review, we touched upon how Stone no longer just gives herself over to SNL's writers and cast – she vibes as if she's been a member of the cast for years With Jason Reitman's Saturday Night set to start hitting screens later this month (and going wide on October 11th), this week's[...]

Earlier today, a mini-teaser was released that does an excellent job of breaking down who's who in the massive ensemble cast – for example, Emily Fairn portrays original SNL cast member Laraine Newman Why did we mention Fairn? Because the actor – and the film – received high praise from none other than Newman[...]

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[...]

Looking ahead to February 2025, SNL fans can look forward to a weekend-long tribute culminating in a live prime-time event on Sunday night But four months before all of that goes down, director/writer Jason Reitman and writer Gil Kenan are taking us back nearly 50 years to the last moments when NBC's long-running late-night sketch comedy/music[...]

Checking with SNL alum Dana Carvey and David Spade on the duo's Fly on the Wall podcast, Johnson offered some insights into why now was the right time to leave and what led to that decision – including how she considered leaving SNL heading into this past season. Image: SNL Screencap "I talked to my team[...]

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[...]

pic.twitter.com/gexHWjPMYh — Foo Fighters (@foofighters) August 24, 2024 Foo Fighters: Jagger, "Rope," Mirren & More (SNL 2010/2020 Rewind) As a lead-up to the band joining first-time host/stand-up comedian Nate Bargatze for the last show of October 2023, we took a look back at the Foo Fighters' SNL timeline to highlight how it impacted the long-running sketch comedy/music series[...]

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[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? FXX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, FOX's The Simpsons, NBC's Saturday Night Live, Disney+'s X-Men '97, Jimmy Fallon & "Raygun," Prime Video's Ballard, Apple TV+'s Slow Horses, USA Network's WWE Raw, Paramount Television Studios, AMC's Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, FX's Grotesquerie, Hulu's Only Murders in the Building, Netflix's Something Is Killing[...]