weekend update

It's been a week since viewers of NBC's Saturday Night Live found out the biggest news in the annual tradition of pre-season cast shake-ups. On the "good news" side, Kenan Thompson and Kate McKinnon are locked in with SNL for at least another season – but on the "not-so-good news" side? Leslie Jones is leaving […]

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 […]

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… […]

SNL Funko Pops are here, and I found the Stefon waiting for me on the shelf the other day. The wave of Pops consists of five Pops total — Stefon, David S. Pumpkins, More Cowbell Guy, and a Dick in a Box two-pack. While I want the whole wave, Stefon was my must-have. Ever since […]

Kate McKinnon is a national treasure. Her impressions and character work, week after week, are consistently the funniest part of Saturday Night Live. 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 […]

Well, right off the bat there are two things we either learned or confirmed about actor Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) last night: he really seems to care about science, and he really likes to throws himself into the characters he plays… much to the chagrin of NBC censors. Saturday Night Live kicked […]

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 […]

Donald Trump may be bad for civil rights, immigration, diplomacy, and people who don't want the U.S. government to be controlled by Vladimir Putin… 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, […]

While it often sounds like a good idea, making a spinoff of Saturday Night Live rarely ends well. For every Blues Brothers or Wayne's World, there's an It's Pat, Night at the Roxbury, Coneheads, or The Ladies Man. But that doesn't stop people from trying, so NBC is considering spinning off show's long-running Weekend Update segment […]