Writing a sympathetic, emotionally vulnerable celebrity profile of Chevy Chase is probably a lot like making a hot dog without stuffing the thing full of pig anuses: You can do it, sure, but you’re going to have to leave all the good stuff out.
Gilda Radner was on Saturday Night Live for five years, during which she distinguished herself with an ebullience that merged the joyfulness of her performance with the truth of whatever character she was playing. Those 106 episodes of the series are all on DVD, and it’s not too difficult to track down some of her…
Saturday Night Live has been enjoying a resurgence, despite how increasingly exhausting Alec Baldwin’s Trump impression is, so the show has naturally decided to try and avoid messing with success by following the classic “if it ain’t broke” strategy. To that end, last season’s head writers Colin Jost, Michael Che, and…
Pete “Big Dick Energy” Davidson’s become something of a meme since getting engaged to pop star Ariana Grande, so you’d be forgiven for forgetting that he’s also a comedian who’s entering into his fourth season on Saturday Night Live. Davidson’s slowly been carving out a place for himself on the sketch series, which…
Saturday Night Live has never been shy about launching attacks on former host Donald Trump, filling its programming over the last few years with swipes against the current president that range all the way from tepid to “mildly cutting.” One of the best, though, wasn’t aimed at Trump himself—because it’s depressingly…
Seeing performers break on SNL can be fun, assuming it’s not just Jimmy Fallon ruining every sketch he’s in. It shows that, despite all the glitz and glamor, these professional comedians are still having fun. It’s also a reminder that the show is actually live. But if you thought SNL cast members broke a lot during…
Over the years, Saturday Night Live has had a number of sketches that are consistently entertaining every time the sets get pulled out of storage, but one of the most reliable sketches of the modern era is Black Jeopardy, a straightforward gag that manages to be surprisingly unique in each iteration. Vulture has put…
You can usually tell how out-of-touch a conservative comedy “fan” is by how much stock they put in the opinions and comedy choices of Saturday Night Live. (See, for instance, Donald Trump’s general obsession with the show.) Although the long-running NBC sketch series tends to skew left-of-center in its political…
Way back in 2014, rumors started to swirl that Kenan Thompson was preparing to leave Saturday Night Live, a decision that was supposedly reversed after Lorne Michaels stepped in and convinced him to stay. The rumor was disputed at the time, and seeing as how it’s 2018 and Thompson is now the longest-tenured member of…
Nicki Minaj’s ability to deliver an ego-shattering diss is well documented in her music. And for her appearance as the musical guest on this week’s season 43 closer, Saturday Night Live put Nicki’s shit-talking prowess to use in a sketch that, although it was cut for time, is frankly more entertaining than a lot of…
On last night’s underwhelming Saturday Night Live season finale, former SNL head writer/star/Weekend Update anchor Tina Fey gave the people what they wanted to see, stepping back into the Alaskan accent and pageant hair of former Vice Presidential candidate and current Bass Pro Shop shill Sarah Palin. (If you wanted…
“Shut it down.”
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, May 18, and Saturday, May 19. All times are Eastern.Â
In honor of her sixth time returning to host Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey is treating fans to an animated trip down memory lane—albeit a fairly truncated one. The minute-long promo for this week’s season finale tracks a cartoon Fey’s journey from Chicago to New York, where she climbed the comedy ladder from writer,…
“I’m not saying you guys don’t work hard, because I know on Saturdays, you do.”
Last night’s Mother’s Day-themed, Amy Schumer-hosted Saturday Night Live may have played it too safe with all those actual cast members’ moms around. (The cold open jettisoned the show’s traditional Trump material for a charming parade of star’s mothers asking why they do so much Trump material.) But it was the one…
Over the summer, when there was a lot of nasty political shit going on and Saturday Night Live wasn’t there to gently ease us through it NBC brought in Weekend Update hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che for Weekend Update: Summer Edition, a special miniseries event that was a lot like the normal show except everyone was…
Donald Glover did a predictably good job on Saturday Night Live last night, since he’s good at everything he does already, but if him hosting, performing as the musical guest, and then releasing a video for his new single “This Is America” wasn’t enough Donald Glover for you this weekend, NBC has just released an SNL …
With Donald Glover (and Donald Glover as Childish Gambino) tandem-hosting last night’s Saturday Night Live, there wasn’t much room for anyone else. At least that was true during the rest of the quite solid show, but the traditional political cold open brought in seemingly every famous SNL alum and host who was in New…
“It’s so great to be back here, especially now that I’m rich.”
