Minutes after the NFC divisional matchup between the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles concluded, Saturday Night Live kicked off with a Fox postgame show with appearances by sideline reporter “George Santos” and Kitara Ravache, the freshman congressman’s alleged drag alter ego. “George Santos here reportinglive from the Super Bowl,” …
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Arcade Fire returned to Saturday Night Live for their fifth stint as musical guests where they performed two tracks from their sixth studio albumWe. The Canadian indie rockers delivered an equally heartfelt and anxiety-inducing performance of the lead single, “The Lightning I, II“ At the end of the set, bandleader …
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It was expected that Saturday Night Live would tackle the Oscars slap between Will Smith and Chris Rock, and they did — but from an audience’s point of view. In the sketch, a seat-filler (Jerrod Carmichael) positioned near Smith (Chris Redd) tells the actor how big of a fan he …
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Zoë Kravitz got a Catwoman-themed surprise during herSNL hosting debut this week: more Catwomen. After Kravitz joked about how she “watched the movie musical Cats every day for a year” to prepare for her role as Catwoman in The Batman, Kate McKinnon appeared in a leather dominatrix suit asking, “Somebody …
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For their second appearance as musical guests on Saturday Night Live, LCD Soundsystem decided to perform two deep cuts from their discography. The Brooklyn indie outfit spearheaded by James Murphy kicked off their set with the industrial-tinged “Thrills” before returning to the stage for a funky synth performance of their …
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With New York on the brink of another record-setting day of new Covid-19 cases, Saturday Night Live announced hours before its new episode aired that there would be no studio audience for tonight’s Paul Rudd-hosted taping. “Due to the recent spike in the Omicron variant and out of an abundance …
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In a 4-minute musical sketch, Pete Davidson put a twist on Marc Cohn‘s 1991 hit “Walking in Memphis” with an homage to Staten Island. With “Walking in Staten,” Davidson paid tribute to the bagel joints and pizza places in his native borough while sporting an “I Love Staten Island” shirt. …
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Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update returned from its monthlong hiatus to mock Donald Trump’s continued (and continually thwarted) legal attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. “[Friday] Trump’s lawyers opened another door on their advent calendar of losing as they had election lawsuits tossed in six different states, …
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Saturday Night Live skewered the Momo Challenge in a sketch that employed the terrifying bird woman at the center of the viral hoax as the mascot for a fast-food chicken restaurant. In the minute-long commercial for Bok Bok’s, the announcer tells the viewer, “We’d like to take a second to …
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It’s probably not a good sign when the highlight of an episode of Saturday Night Live is learning John Mulaney will be hosting the next one in March. Host Don Cheadle hoisted this show on his back and made most of it passable through sheer force of will, but it …
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