In the fall of 2009, Kenan Thompson had a simple, ridiculous idea for a character that kept making him laugh: the host of a talk show obsessed with his own theme song. “He just can’t stop singing it,” Thompson says, in his interview for our recent profile. “I feel like …
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The season finale of Saturday Night Live borrowed from another classic series finale as Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump and his Mueller investigation legal team reunite at a diner in a cold open sketch that reimagined the famed closing scene from The Sopranos. Trump sits in the booth of a New …
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Natalie Portman unleashed her explicit “Natalie’s 2nd Rap” with Andy Samberg on Saturday Night Live, where the actress dropped bars about Xanax in her pinot, the Star Wars prequels and her ballerina husband’s burrito-wrapping skills. “Natalie’s 2nd Rap” arrives 12 years after the actress bragged about driving while intoxicating, cheating …
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The women of Saturday Night Live and guest host Saoirse Ronan banded together to tackle the influx of sexual misconduct allegations in a sketch titled “Welcome to Hell.” Ronan, Cecily Strong, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant performed the upbeat song on what could pass as a Katy Perry music video set, …
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Taran Killam’s experience working with Donald Trump when the then-presidential candidate hosted Saturday Night Live in November 2015 was “rough,” to say the least. “It was not enjoyable at the time and something that only grows more embarrassing and shameful as time goes on,” the former SNL cast member said …
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