There are few gigs in modern TV more fraught with the potential to out yourself as a massive asshole than hosting Saturday Night Live. Pretty much every factor—the rush, the pressure, the presence of the live camera—is almost guaranteed to bring out the worst in people, whether it’s deciding to bust out their “funny”…
Not that he rates anywhere on the list of people negatively affected by anything now-convicted rapist Bill Cosby has done in his life, but poor Kenan Thompson. Despite having a solid Cosby impression in his back pocket all these years (he was play Fat Albert, for crying out loud), Thompson has had to keep his Cosby…
“You seem genuinely happy and it’s terrifying.”
Saturday Night Live veteran and Single Parents star Taran Killam swung by Matt Gourley’s wonderful I Was There, Too podcast this week for a candid, amusing talk about his life and career. In it, he chats about his surprising turn in 12 Years A Slave and his underrated directorial debut, Killing Gunther, but most…
Although Saturday Night Live has been doing short films for as long as it’s been on the air, the rise of the internet helped to codify these little bursts of weirdness into a dedicated part of the show’s brand strategy. (Verily, we’re all living in a post-“Lazy Sunday” world.) But while there have been a number of SNL …
While Matt Damon’s hysterically entitled Brett Kavanaugh was nowhere to be seen, last night Saturday Night Live cold open saw the show’s cast impersonating the Republican senators who rammed through their favorite, accused rapist frat bro justice living it up, Kavanaugh-style. For Heidi Gardner’s CNN reporter Dana…
“You know how wrong you have to be about politics for me to notice?”
While the majority of last weekend’s Saturday Night Live premiere was met with a tepid response, one sketch stood out from the rest thanks to Adam Driver’s committed performance as rage-filled, decrepit oil baron Abraham H. Parnassus. As anyone in comedy knows, a good sketch starts with the writing, and this…
Alec Baldwin obviously just spends every week at Rockefeller Center in New York, hoping he’ll get the call to make a Trump cameo on Saturday Night Live, but some of the show’s other celebrity cameos still manage to feel fresh and surprising. This past weekend’s appearance from Matt Damon as lifelong sober…
When Kanye West indulges in his, shall we say, extracurricular activities—up to and including dumbass social media posts and poorly received rants on late-night sketch comedy shows—people will often say he’s doing it for the attention. If that’s the case—if Kanye is simply dabbling in the world of Trump in order to…
Kanye West was the musical guest on last night’s Saturday Night Live season premiere, and as literally everyone on the planet could’ve predicted, he did some weird shit that seemed specifically designed to generate news stories like, oh, this one. As noted in our review of the episode, his first song involved him…
Adam Driver was the host of last night’s (so-so) Saturday Night Live premiere, but a new celebrity ringer stole the show right off the bat. Kicking off with a cold open about the contentious Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings, the episode saw cast members busting out their Chuck Grassley, Corey…
And Kanye West scoopity-poops all over the place.
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God, but does the Kanye fatigue set in fast some times. Which is to say, professional rap contrarian Kanye West is on a diamond-encrusted roll today, proudly throwing down his support for alleged (and admitted!) sexual abusers of all shapes and stripes, which is definitely something America needed to put up with on…
This weekend, Adam Driver makes his triumphant return to Saturday Night Live to host for a second time, this time with Kanye West pulling musical guest duties. That’s quite an honor for any celebrity, and Driver has got to be feeling pretty good about himself right now. But any swagger the Last Jedi star may have felt…
We’ve got nothing against celebrities falling in love here at The A.V. Club, as evidenced by our breathless coverage of the Chris Evans/Jenny Slate breakup and the secret Scott Pilgrim romance, but sometimes it’s nice when celebrities talk about something other than the celebrity they’re in love with. Honestly, we’ve…
We’re a little more than a week out from the 44th season premiere of Saturday Night Live, and the show has just released some info on a few new additions to its cast and crew. Per Deadline, the series is adding four new writers— Alan Linic, Alison Gates, Eli Mandel and Bowen Yang—to its roster, but the only on-camera…
Kenan Thompson is a bona fide TV sketch comedy institution: As the longest-tenured cast member in Saturday Night Live history—and a member of Nickelodeon’s nostalgic kid-sketch touchstone All That before—Thompson has literally spent more than half of his life on the casts of televised sketch ensembles. Now, though, it…
Alec Baldwin and Lorne Michaels both teased that the former would return to play Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live’s upcoming 44th season, which will presumably be every bit as filled with furrowed brows and “ew, I just ate something yucky” faces as its last.
