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Pete Davidson, currently starring in The King of Staten Island, and Weekend Update host Colin Jost will star in the film Lorne Michaels will produce the film, which for now has no director This will be one of the first big projects for the two SNL cast members, as Pete Davidson is expected to leave[...]

While making a name for herself in a number of sketches, Jones carved out a secttion of "Weekend Update" and made it her own and the audience loved her for it - and so did the Emmys Jones was nominated in 2017 and 2018 for Best Supporting Actress, receiving a third nomination this year for[...]

By now, we've heard all of the scuttlebutt [Ed: Bleeding Cool TV's unofficial 'word-of-the-day"] about James Gunn taking over the reins of Warner Bros.' Suicide Squad sequel – a shift in the geek directorial power structure that resulted from "Misney Studios" deciding it was having too good a run of near cult-like adoration and that […]

"Live! From New York! It's..." It Doesn't Matter Who You Are Or Where You're From! Yup, that's right: the worlds of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and NBC's Saturday Night Live are ready to collide once again with news that SNL's "Weekend Update" anchors Michael Che & Colin Jost are joining the superstars of WWE Raw this Monday night[...]

As Saturday Night Live alum Tina Fey readies to host this weekend's season finale (her sixth time hosting) of NBC's famed sketch comedy series (with Nicki Minaj as musical guest), now seems as good a time as any for Fey to reflect back on her career. And what better way to do that than with animation… […]

Ever since debuting on Weekend Update, Bill Hader and writer John Mulaney have made me laugh harder than anyone else I was reminded of how much I missed them when Hader hosted SNL this month and the character made a triumphant return.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAQRtjvtQRoSo needless to say, I was pretty pumped to find this one.[gallery columns="2" size="large"[...]

This week was no different, as McKinnon joined the Weekend Update segment alongside Cecily Strong to portray French national treasure actress Brigitte Bardot with Strong's Catherine Deneuve in an interview segment with co-host Colin Jost, who, as usual, just did his best not to laugh.Bardot and Deneuve have been in the news lately for their involvement[...]

much to the chagrin of NBC censors.Saturday Night Live kicked off the second-half of Season 43 (and the first Saturday Night Live of 2018) with viewers already eager to see how "Weekend Update" hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che would address the controversy from President Donald Trump labeling Haiti and other African nations as "shithole" countries[...]

The holiday season is a time for friends, family… and an avalanche of third-rate holiday movies that put the "guilty" in "guilty pleasure." So leave it to Saturday Night Live to remind us all to save some room at the dinner table for some old friends: the big-city career woman (Kate McKinnon) who finds love […]

Weekend Update hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che have earned a big promotion at Saturday Night Live The team have been named co-head writers of the show, according to a report from Variety Che and Jost join current head writers Kent Sublette and Bryan Tucker, meaning there are now four head writers of SNL, so can[...]

In its 42-season run, NBC's Saturday Night Live has seen a number of cast and creative turnovers: some were huge successes (the addition of Will Ferrell, Jimmy Fallon, and Tina Fey in the mid-'90s); while others, not so much (think early '80s SNL minus Eddie Murphy). The cycle continues with Season 43, as the show […]

Coming off of an incredibly successful Emmy night that saw the show walk away with four awards (on top of the two additional Emmys the show picked up at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards last weekend), Lorne Michaels took some time to discuss the incredible success that NBC's legendary sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live […]

but he's great for ratings, baby!Riding high off a Trump-fueled creative resurgence, long-running sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live has been considering spinning off its weekly news segment, Weekend Update, into a Thursday night standalone show, as reported by Bleeding Cool back in February. This wouldn’t be the first time a Thursday Weekend Update has been tried[...]

But that doesn't stop people from trying, so NBC is considering spinning off show's long-running Weekend Update segment into its own show According to a report from Politico earlier this week, Weekend Update could air on Thursdays starting later this year.A report on Deadline says the show's average ratings this season have been the best in 22[...]