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After Chloe Fineman, Sarah Sherman, and Bowen Yang joined this weekend's host Jon Hamm for Wednesday's midweek sketch, Hamm and Yang are being joined by musical guest Lizzo and SNL star Marcello Hernandez for NBC's Saturday Night Live on-stage promos In the first promo, Fortnite gets confused with sex – a common mistake Following that,[...]

That means that in 2026, an SNL UK cast of some of the best and brightest comedians that the UK has to offer will get a chance to yell, "Live from London, it's Saturday Night!" Stemming from Broadway Video and Universal Television Alternative Studio's UK production team, Michaels is set to executive produce SNL UK (while[...]

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This week, we've got SNL major player Jon Hamm (Apple TV+'s Your Friends and Neighbors) hosting, with Lizzo alongside as the musical guest – and with today being Wednesday, you know what that means? Yup, we've got a midweek sketch that throws all sorts of soap opera vibes at us – and a lineup that[...]

Earlier today, Madonna took to social media to share that she and John had buried the hatchet when she went to see his SNL performance and went to meet with him backstage. Image: NBCUniversal; Elton John Instagram Stories Screencap Here's a look at Madonna's post from earlier today, sharing how much John meant to her growing up,[...]

Going into the show, viewers were curious to see if and how SNL would address the drama from last weekend regarding how musical guest Morgan Wallen exited the show during the "goodnights" by walking off the front of the stage while the show was still on the air Adding more fuel to the drama was[...]

If you had a chance to check out our review of last night's Jack Black-hosted edition of NBC's Saturday Night Live ("Flamin' Hot SNL Sees Jack Black, "Ms Eggy" & More Bring the Heat"), then you know that we were huge fans of the vibe and intensity that Black and the SNL cast and writers[...]

On the SNL side, the long-running, late-night live sketch comedy & music series found itself making headlines throughout the week over question marks surrounding how last week's musical guest, country singer Morgan Wallen, exited the show at the end of the night and his follow-up social media post. It wasn't that either Black or SNL felt[...]

UPDATE: NBC's Saturday Night Live didn't just reference the Morgan Wallen drama during the Cold Open (more on that below), with SNL "Weekend Update" Colin Jost discussing how Donald Trump's tariffs are hurting Wall Street: "Money is leaving the stock market faster than Morgan Wallen at Goodnights." Image: SNL Screencap Here's a look at the clip from[...]

But with a whole lot going on this past week, a lot of folks were wondering what SNL had in store for its Cold Open With a tongue-in-cheek suck-up to Trump (James Austin Johnson), the sketch begins at The White House, harkening back to Trump's speech this week when he rolled out global tariffs that[...]

Previously, SNL star Bowen Yang checked in with Andy Cohen on Cohen's Watch What Happens Live on Bravo, where he was asked about the worst behavior from an SNL host that they had ever witnessed Though not naming names, Yang described what he saw go down as being "terrible" – adding that "this man who…this[...]

Joining host Jack Black and musical guests Elton John and Brandi Carlile was SNL star Heidi Gardner – who got a reality check on who exactly she was sharing the stage with Following that, things get nasty between John and Black, with Black threatening to go "Nacho Libre" on John's ass As for the last promo? Well,[...]

On Wednesday, we were treated to NBC's Saturday Night Live midweek sketch, one which saw Ego Nwodim and Ashley Padilla kicking off a look at just how serious Jack Black is taking his role as SNL host for this weekend's show (which you can check out above) But in a case of better late than never,[...]

That brings us to today's SNL midweek sketch as Ego Nwodim and Ashley Padilla kick things off with a look at how Black takes the title of host to heart – and possibly has a misunderstanding of what's expected of an SNL host. SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (Image: SNL Screencap) SNL: Saturday Night Live Season 50 Cast NBC's Saturday Night[...]

On the Wallen side, sources say that the country music star doesn't have a beef with SNL and that there was no ill will on Wallen's part – either via the way he left the show or his follow-up post on Instagram (more on that below) In fact, some who attended the dress rehearsal noted[...]

We're so used to everybody just turning around and high-fiving us, everybody's saying, 'Good job, good job, good job.' So when there's a departure from that, it's like, 'Hmm, I wonder what that's about?'" In terms of his interactions with Wallen, Thompson shared that he "never met" Wallen, either this past weekend or during his[...]

As we wait to see if there's any fallout from NBC's Saturday Night Live musical guest Morgan Wallen's odd departure during the "goodnights" from last night's Mikey Madison (Anora)-hosted show, veteran SNL writer Josh Patten took to social media to make it clear that they have a different definition of "god's country." Though we go more[...]

Wallen would go on to apologize for what went down, and SNL EP Lorne Michaels would invite Wallen back as the musical guest later that same season during the December 5, 2020, show hosted by Jason Bateman. Now, we're jumping to this weekend, with Wallen joining host Mikey Madison (Anora) for SNL's return show from a two-week[...]

In the video, Wallen is seen doing shots in a crowded party where social distancing and masks were not in play and also seen kissing an unmasked woman. Wallen was contacted by the show and informed that he was being cut from the show "because of COVID protocols," but he said in his Instagram post that[...]

Oh, and keep a listen for a great Matt Gaetz-related exchange between Hegseth and Madison's character. Image: SNL Screencap Here's a look at the cold open sketch from tonight's return episode: Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and the girls in the Signal chat pic.twitter.com/m9mXxxSAZI — Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) March 30, 2025 SNL: Saturday Night Live Season[...]

Joined by musical guests Elton John & Brandi Carlile, Jack Black (Minecraft) is set to take the SNL stage as host Just so one has the wrong script, we want to make it clear that simply having Black as host is enough to get us excited because his energy tends to elevate everyone around him[...]

The actor and comedian, who's starring in the dark comedy Riff Raff, appeared on the Howard Stern Radio Show to reflect on the NBC special SNL 50 and what late cast member Gilda Radner, one of the original crew, left upon him. Gilda Radner and Bill Murray in "Saturday Night Live"[...]

With the spotlight on this weekend, Wednesday brought a midweek sketch with Sarah Sherman, followed by a chance to see how Madison and the SNL team were doing with read-thru that night Now, we've got Madison and Wallen being joined by SNL star Chloe Fineman for the on-stage promos From what Springtime means in NYC[...]

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In the clip above, SNL star Sarah Sherman meets with Madison – who is curious to know how well the "Anora Menorah" sketch went, prompting a quick judgment call on Sherman's part From there, Sherman pitches her own film-related idea… Image: SNL Screencap SNL: Saturday Night Live Season 50 Cast NBC's Saturday Night Live Season 50 main cast[...]

While promoting his latest film, Any Day Now, Gray spoke to Bleeding Cool about the Jason Reitman-directed biopic on the premiere episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live playing writer and player Al Franken, if he read for any other part, prep work, voiceovers, and why he would consider doing a musical. Cr: Sony Pictures Saturday Night: Taylor[...]

When he's not busy stopping by NBC's Saturday Night Live Season 50 to offer a pretty great impression of Elon Musk (more on that below), Mike Myers is doing his part as a proud Canadian to make sure POtuS Donald Trump knows that Canada isn't anyone's "51st state." Following up on his sending the "Never[...]

During the cold open to the Bill Burr-hosted edition of Saturday Night Live from November 2024 (with musical guest Mk.gee), we were first introduced to Dana Carvey's take on POtuS Donald Trump's resident DOGE-bag Elon Musk – one that the Twitter overlord (and SNL host who reportedly made SNL star Chloe Fineman and others cry) wasn't[...]

But the long-running late-night live sketch comedy and music series will be back before the end of the month – and SNL has an impressive lineup of hosts and musical guests on tap for three new shows in a row. March 29th: host Mikey Madison and musical guest Morgan Wallen; April 5th: host Jack Black and[...]

Oh, and the song f***ing rocks, by the way. Well, SNL – as it usually does – posted the performance on YouTube And since we were up covering SNL and had a feeling new music would be coming, we ran an article with the video That is, until the video of the performance was taken down[...]