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It wouldn’t be a Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary celebration without a John Mulaney musical sketch.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large John Mulaney took the “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary special on a five-decade journey through the ups and downs of the show’s New York City home base. Starting with the 1975 birth of the series, Mulaney’s star-studded medley began with convincing former cast members Pete Davidson and David Spade that the grimy 1970s was still a glorious time to live in New York.

“Saturday Night Live” normally sets up big laughs in its traditional cold opens, but occasionally it faces tragedy head-on.Amid 50 years of gut-busting comedy, Lorne Michaels’ iconic sketch show has replaced humor with heartache during tear-inducing tributes to 9/11, mass shootings, wars and more, offering somber reflections to stir its Studio 8H audience and home viewers.Here are some of the most memorable cold open moments when jokes were jettisoned and heartstrings were pulled. A post shared by Saturday Night Network (@thesnlnetwork)When original cast member Gilda Radner died from ovarian cancer on Saturday, May 20, 1989, it shocked many — as well as oft-scene mate Steve Martin, who was set to host that night’s episode when he learned of her passing at age 42.“You know, I’ve been coming here to do ‘Saturday Night Live’ since 1976, and the thing … that brings me back to the show is the people you get to work with,” said an emotional Martin, fighting back tears, as he kicked off the episode.

Drake is suing Universal Music Group (UMG) for releasing Kendrick Lamar‘s diss track ‘Not Like Us‘ last year – where Drake and his peers were described as “certified paedophiles” who should “be registered and placed on neighbourhood watch”.The lawsuit, filed in a New York federal court today (January 15), called the release and promotion of the track, where Lamar alleged Drake “likes ‘em young”, an example of valuing “corporate greed over the safety and wellbeing of its artists”.As The Guardian reports, the lawsuit alleges that UMG “approved, published and launched a campaign to create a viral hit out of a rap track” that was “intended to convey the specific, unmistakable, and false factual allegation that Drake is a criminal pedophile, and to suggest that the public should resort to vigilante justice in response”.The suit also draws attention to the artwork for ‘Not Like Us’, which features a picture of Drake’s Toronto house with markers used to identify the homes of registered sex offenders. It then mentions a shooting which occurred outside the rapper’s house two days after the track was released, calling it “the 2024 equivalent of ‘Pizzagate'”.Lawyer Michael J Gottlieb is representing Drake in this case.

William Earl administrator One day after Tony Hinchcliffe‘s controversial jokes at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, Jon Stewart used his opening monologue on Monday’s “The Daily Show” to defend the comedian. After highlighting other speakers at the rally like Tucker Carlson and Rudy Giuliani, Stewart said, “But of course, for the media there was one moment in particular that raised the alarms,” then played a supercut of network anchors criticizing Hinchcliffe’s jokes, which included calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” Stewart then defended Hinchcliffe by saying, “Obviously, in retrospect, having a roast comedian come to a political rally a week before election day and roasting a key demographic … probably not the best decision by the campaign politically, but to be fair, the guy’s just really doing what he does.” Stewart then played from jokes from Hinchcliffe’s “Roast of Tom Brady” set earlier this year, laughing at the segment and saying, “Yes, yes, of course, terrible, boo.

Ethan Shanfeld The first time Maria Bakalova came to New York City, she had to flee. She was in disguise, shooting a scene for 2020’s “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” that put her alone in a hotel room with Rudy Giuliani. The former mayor touched her midsection and reached down his pants — and then Sacha Baron Cohen burst into the room wearing a wig and lingerie.

A child who was at one of Diddy‘s famous White Parties is opening up about the NSFW things he saw!

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor Hunter Biden was in the audience at a Saturday night screening and Q&A of “From Russia With Lev,” which was followed by a Q&A with executive producer Rachel Maddow, director Billy Corben and subjects Lev and Svetlana Parnas. The MSNBC documentary, airing on Sept. 20, features a surprising scene in which Biden and Parnas come face-to-face after Parnas admitted to creating false and damaging allegations against Biden on behalf of then-President Donald Trump.

After a three-week hiatus, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is back with a vengeance as its politically comic host John Oliver took digs at GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and vice presidential pick J.D. Vance.

Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, has been disbarred in New York following a state appeals court ruling that he repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss.

The CEO of WABC in New York said that Rudy Giuliani was removed from the station after being repeatedly warned about not discussing unfounded claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.

The popular FOX show "Masked Singer" is in its 11th season, and a few celebrities were recently revealed. The top secret singing competition features well-known stars from today and decades ago.The show, enjoyable for the whole family, is a guessing game among an audience and panel of celebrity judges, including Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, Ken Jeong and, this year, Rita Ora.

The three major news networks largely bypassed live coverage of the latest chapter in a House GOP-led inquiry of whether to impeach President Joe Biden.

John Oliver dinged Kate Middleton for her Photoshop fail and got a cameo from Jersey Shore’s Snooki on Last Week Tonight.

NBC has set a two-hour primetime special to celebrate the 10th anniverary of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Fallon announced the special on his show Monday night, saying the past week was officially the show’s 10-year anniversary. The special will air May 14.

John Avlon, who recently departed CNN, has officially launched his bid for a New York congressional seat.

Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy today, one day after a judge ordered the Donald Trump associate and former New York City mayor to start paying two former Georgia election workers the $148 million awarded them last week in a high-profile defamation lawsuit.

It’s the last SNL of 2023, former cast MVP Kate McKinnon is hosting, and that’s just means the cold open had to dive into Rudy Giuliani‘s latest legal face plant – which is exactly what the Lorne Michaels produced show sadly didn’t do.

Rupert Murdoch is being deposed Tuesday and Wednesday as part of Smartmatic‘s $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox, according to Reuters.

Stephen Colbert has made his feelings clear about the prospect of a second Donald Trump presidency, describing the former US leader as a “fascist”.During an impassioned speech on The Late Show, Colbert reminded audiences of the multiple charges currently levelled against Trump, while also asking them to imagine the “horror” of what the country would be like if “this hate-filled dingus” were to be re-elected.“People talk about him a lot, and because people are talking about him, we talk about him – like, say, the 91 charges he’s facing,” Colbert said (via The Guardian). “Which is, technically speaking, a lot of charges.“But as much as all of us talk and think about this numbnut, every so often, it’s really important to, let’s say metaphorically, jam the sharpened stick of knowledge into the soft inner thigh of your mind and just grind it around a little bit to try to reawaken the horror of what our country would be like if this hate-filled dingus and his soulless goons ever got a hold of power again.”“Because, and I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Donald Trump is a fascist,” he continued.To support his characterization, Colbert noted that the former president had once referred to “vermin” that he wanted to “root out” on the campaign trail.“First, that’s dehumanizing his fellow Americans.

Attorney Jenna Ellis, once a steadfast media defender of Donald Trump and his false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, pleaded guilty today in the Georgia election case.