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Steve Martin has been deemed the perfect person to portray Kamala Harris’ recently-announced VP pick, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, on “Saturday Night Live” this fall.

Saturday Night Live.Rudolph first portrayed the Vice President on the show during an appearance in 2019, where she went head-to-head with Woody Harrelson’s Joe Biden, referencing their Democratic primary debates.She later revived the impression throughout the 2021 season, and now, after Biden endorsed Harris to replace him in the 2024 presidential election, Rudolph will be back on screen again to play her.Deadline reports that she will be a recurring presence on the 50th season, which kicks off on September 28 and will run through the final weeks of the presidential campaign.SNL is set to celebrate its 50th anniversary with a special three-hour primetime special on NBC. To be aired live on February 16, 2025, it will be part of a “celebratory weekend” for the show.“We’re doing the 50th anniversary show in February of ’25, so I will definitely be there for that, and definitely be there until that, and sometime before that we’ll figure out what we’re gonna do,” the show’s creator Lorne Michaels said.NBC ran a similar tribute for the show’s 40th birthday in 2015, featuring appearances from countless alumni from SNL history, including Eddie Murphy, Steve Martin, Billy Crystal, Will Ferrell, Norm MacDonald and Tina Fey.A feature film about the show’s premiere episode on October 11, 1975 is also in the works.

an Instagram post on August 2. “Yall that’s a wrap on my time on SNL!” they wrote, alongside a carousel of photos from their time on the series.“Reflecting on the amazing 2 seasons I got on this show, it was such a dream come true.

Instagram video Thursday, captioned “SNL I LOVE YOU … LOOKING FORWARD TO WHATS NEXT!!!”Johnson said “everything was going fine” at her stand-up gig, which featured “SNL” co-stars and writers in attendance before an audience member asked what she was most “looking forward to most” in the upcoming season.“I don’t remember the exact question, all I heard was, ‘me and next season.’ I’m not going to lie to my friends, so I just said, ‘Oh, I ain’t coming back,'” she recalled. “Then I woke up this morning to text messages, phone calls, tags on the internet.

Nate Bargatze regularly sells out arenas, he’s still a joke craftsman at heart.“Right now I don’t have a new hour,” the 45-year-old told the New York Post in an exclusive interview. “So in these final shows on my ‘Be Funny Tour,’ I’m adding a few new things.”The workhorse comic doesn’t have a full hour at the moment because he’s churning out specials at a breakneck pace.His last hour “Hello World” hit Amazon Prime in January 2023; the next one that he recorded in early 2024 is due out sometime later this year, hence the need for new material.And, while other comedians may not enjoy the process, Bargatze revels in it.“The fun part is when you get done taping, you’re like ‘oh my God, what else is there to talk about’ but then you find stuff and get laughs on new jokes.

“Jeopardy!” spinoff airing on Amazon Prime Video.Production on the Sony Pictures-produced show will begin in August. “What is: I’m excited,” Jost, 42, quipped in a press release, per Variety.“Colin’s sharp wit and intelligence epitomize ‘Pop Culture Jeopardy!,’” Suzanne Prete, the president of game shows at Sony Pictures Television, said in a statement.

Maya Rudolph will reportedly return to her old “Saturday Night Live” stomping grounds to play Kamala Harris throughout the 2024 presidential campaign. Rudolph, 52, was on “SNL” from 2000 to 2007. She previously won an Emmy in 2021 for “Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series” for returning to “SNL” to play Harris in 2020.

Andy Samberg reveals he left Saturday Night Live for his mental health, stating that he was “falling apart” in his life.On ‘Hart to Heart’, a Peacock interview series hosted by Kevin Hart, the comedian and Lonely Island member sat down for an extensive interview – released on Thursday (July 11) – in which he explained his departure from Saturday Night Live in 2012.While Samberg found success on the television show performing skits with his fellow cast members and Lonely Island collaborators, he found that, behind the scenes, “I was falling apart in my life” and he couldn’t “endure it anymore”, per Variety.“Physically, it was taking a heavy toll on me and I got to a place where I was like I hadn’t slept in seven years basically,” Samberg said.“We were writing stuff for the live show Tuesday night all night, the table read Wednesday, then being told now come up with a digital short so write all Thursday, all Thursday night, don’t sleep, get up, shoot Friday, edit all night Friday night and into Saturday, so it’s basically like four days a week you’re not sleeping, for seven years. So I just kinda fell apart physically.”Elsewhere in the interview, Samberg talked about the origins of The Lonely Island and how the trio got hired by Saturday Night Live.

Andy Samberg, 45, has revealed the real reason why he left “Saturday Night Live.” “It was a big choice. For me, it was like, I can’t actually endure it anymore.

Jenny Slate‘s voice from “Marcel The Shell With Shoes On,” “The Secret Life of Pets,” “Zootopia,” “The Lego Batman” or “Big Mouth.”It’s also possible you’ve seen her in “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” “Obvious Child,” “Saturday Night Live,” “Venom” and “Parks and Recreation.”This fall, you can finally see her live and in person.The 42-year-old actress and comedienne recently announced she’s embarking on an eight-show book tour from Oct. 22-30 in support of her new collection of essays “Life Form.”To kick off the quick jaunt, the former “Not Ready For Prime Time Player” will drop into New York City’s Town Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 22.Other notable stops on the run include Boston (Oct.

Scarlett Johansson “blacked out” when she saw a photo of herself pop up on “Saturday Night Live” during husband Colin Jost’s annual joke swap segment on Weekend Update in May.“That’s like a tame version if you guys have ever seen the jokes,” Johansson told Kelly Clarkson on Thursday’s episode of her talk show. “As soon as they showed my picture, I — I actually don’t remember that segment. I fully blacked out.”Like every “SNL” season finale, Jost, 42, and co-host Michael Che made each other say jokes they wrote for each other without ever reading them beforehand.

the first presidential debate, a surreal calamity in which the whole world learned that America’s geriatric leader can barely speak after sundown, a familiar election presence has been missing.There’s been no “Saturday Night Live.”That’s because the CNN train wreck that pitted a befuddled and beady-eyed President Joe Biden against former President Donald Trump was the earliest televised head-to-head ever. In the past, the three general election matchups have come in the fall after the candidates were formally nominated at their parties’ conventions.

the New York Times that the two comedians had a falling out after Spade, 59, made a joke about Murphy on “Saturday Night Live” that Murphy felt was “racist.”In 1995, Spade did a sketch called “Hollywood Minute” where he showed a picture of Murphy, whose horror movie “Vampire in Brooklyn” bombed at the box office, and said: “Look, children, it’s a falling star. Make a wish.”In the NYT interview released Saturday, Murphy admitted he was taken aback by Spade’s comment at the time.“It was like: ‘Yo, it’s in-house! I’m one of the family, and you’re f–king with me like that?’ It hurt my feelings like that,” he said.“This is ‘Saturday Night Live.’ I’m the biggest thing that ever came off that show,” Murphy continued. “The show would have been off the air if I didn’t go back on the show, and now you got somebody from the cast making a crack about my career? And I know that he can’t just say that.

the New York Times in a recent interview. He also spoke about how the success got to some past “SNL” stars’ heads. “No one can handle the fame,” he said.

Variety that he didn’t intentionally distance himself from controversial comedian Dave Chappelle on “Saturday Night Live” in January. During the episode hosted by Dakota Johnson, Chappelle, 50, made an unexpected appearance during the good night segment.Yang, 33, stood on the opposite side of the stage from Chappelle with his arms folded.

“Saturday Night Live” crew members revealed that Ryan Gosling’s hilarious “Beavis and Butt-Head” sketch that aired in April was in the works for six years. Hair stylist Jodi Mancuso and makeup artist Louie Zakarian told the Ankler on Monday that Jonah Hill was originally going to star in the bit when he hosted “SNL” in 2018.“Even at that time it was late coming into the show, so there wasn’t a lot of prep time, and I wasn’t fully happy with the wigs,” said Mancuso, 49.

Jay Pharoah hosts the new Fox game show “The Quiz With Balls.” Premiering May 28 (9 p.m. EST on Fox), the show features families as they answer trivia questions and compete to win a $100,000 cash prize — but when they get answers wrong, giant balls knock them into a pool of water. “The concept of ‘Wipeout’ crossed with ‘Family Feud’ is a beautiful mix together,” Pharoah, 36, told The Post.

Jennifer Lopez was “very chill” about their potential feud when they appeared on Saturday Night Live together this year.In 2020, Edebiri appeared on an episode of the Scam Goddess podcast, where she described Lopez’s career as “one long scam,” saying the musician “thinks that she’s still good, even though she’s not singing for most of these songs.” The Bear star also agreed with host Laci Mosley’s claim that Lopez “can’t sing.”The comments then resurfaced in February, ahead of Edebiri’s debut hosting stint on Saturday Night Live, where she was accompanied by Lopez as a musical guest.And now, Edebiri has spoken about her interaction with J.Lo in an interview with Vanity Fair. She said any talk of a beef was absurd because “that would be like Mr.

Vanity Fair published May 21, “The Bear” star Ayo Edebiri revealed how Lopez, 54, reacted to her apologizing for calling the singer’s career a “scam” in 2020 podcast comments that resurfaced before the stars worked together on “Saturday Night Live” earlier this year.“She was very chill and nice about it,” Edebiri, 28, said about Lopez. “Bottoms” star Edebiri also denied that her remarks about the Grammy-nominated artist created a feud between the two.“That would be like Mr. Bean and Mick Jagger beefing,” Edebri said, adding, “and I’m obviously Mr.

a gore-splattered skit for the show’s season 49 finale on May 18 with the help of host Jake Gyllenhaal and musical guest Sabrina Carpenter. The duo played Fred and Daphne, with Mikey Day as Shaggy and Sarah Sherman as Velma.A CGI Scooby rounded out the squad. In the skit, the group entered a haunted house looking for “the Shadow Phantom,” whom Scooby captures.

Sabrina Carpenter made her debut appearance on Saturday Night Live last night (May 18), where she performed numerous songs including her recent smash hit ‘Espresso’ – check it out below.The song arrived last month, and came as the follow-up to her hit 2022 album ‘Emails I Can’t Send’ and recent singles ‘Nonsense’ and ‘Feather’.It also followed the singer dropping a Christmas EP, and hitting the road with Taylor Swift, where she joined the pop icon as the support act for her recent run of ‘Eras’ tour dates across the US and Asia.Now, in her first appearance on the late night show, Carpenter performed ‘Espresso’ in a mock cocktail bar, fending off the attention of two dancing waiters as she sings.She also performed her earlier singles ‘Feather’ and ‘Nonsense’. During the performance, she declared: “I’m on SNL and you’re not!”Carpenter has also had the recent tendency to catch fans off guard by changing the outro to ‘Nonsense’ when playing it live.