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opening monologue, Grande joked that she was only there to host and wanted to be “low key” during the episode.“I just want to make one thing clear; I am just hosting. I’m not going to make this about me.

a recent episode of his “Fly on the Wall” podcast. “Like, ‘Oh, and you are…? And this is regarding…?’ And then people would be like, who’s that gay character you play?'”Spade continues, “I’m like, ‘I don’t think it’s gay.’ They’re like, ‘No, you’re gay and it’s gay and every sketch you’re in is a gay person.’Spade’s podcast cohost and former “SNL” costar Dana Carvey chimed in, teasing, “Why would your mom say that?”“She thought I was coming out,” Spade joked back before adding on a serious note: “When I look back, I’m like, yeah, I see it.”Some of the comedian’s sketches involved Spade playing a receptionist who didn’t recognize famous celebrities.

Maze Runner: The Death Cure movie “were not listened to” before he suffered a near-death experience.The actor was severely injured in a stunt in Vancouver in March 2016, which resulted in production being shut down for a period before the film was eventually completed and released in 2018.The accident left him with a concussion, a facial fracture and brain trauma.“It was a life-changing incident. I’ve approached everything differently, you could say, particularly with regards to standing my ground on set,” O’Brien told Men’s Health.“It’s very commonplace in the culture for young actors to be controlled, and the way they strive to do that is by always being like, ‘Oh, don’t become difficult.

Howard Stern told Kamala Harris that he “hates” seeing her being mocked on “Saturday Night Live” during the vice president’s appearance on his radio show Tuesday. “I hate it. I don’t want you being made fun of,” Stern told the Democratic presidential candidate.

“Weekend Update” portion of last night’s episode following the rapper’s arrest for sex trafficking and racketeering. “It was reported that the U.S.

Charli XCX has revealed that she was “very impressed” by the recent impression of her on Saturday Night Live.The singer had a skit written about her on a recent episode of the hit US sketch show, which saw cast member Bowen Yang cosplay as her for a ‘Brat’-inspired performance.Airing over the weekend, the episode saw Yang transform into the ‘360’ singer to host the ‘Talk Talk’ show. In fitting with the hit album’s aesthetic, the set was filled with bright green props, and the actor took on a British accent to talk with Troye Sivan – played by Sarah Sherman.Now, Charli has spoken out about the skit, and revealed that she was “very impressed” by the impression Yang pulled out for the episode.Speaking on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM channel (via Rolling Stone), she said: “I love Bowen and I honestly think he did a great job.

Rugrats is being turned into a live-action movie.The animated series ran for nine seasons from 1991 to 2004, and also spawned three movies and a spin-off series called All Grown Up.Now, it has been confirmed according to Deadline, that Paramount is developing a movie which will see the film set in the real world while the characters Tommy Pickles and his pals Chuckie Finster and Phil and Lil DeVille will be animated.Jason Moore, whose credits include Pitch Perfect and the Tina Fey-Amy Poeheler comedy Sisters, will direct the live-action movie. Moore recently directed Shotgun Wedding, a romcom starring Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel and he is also set to helm film adaptations of Steven Rowley’s novel Guncle and Emma Straub’s book This Time Tomorrow.Saturday Night Live actor Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidell have penned the script.Rugrats premiered on Nickelodeon in 1991 and ran for several seasons and spawned a number of animated movies including 1998’s The Rugrats Movie, 2000’s Rugrats In Paris and 2003’s Rugrats Go Wild.A spin-off show All Grown Up also came from the animated series and Paramount+ launched a CGI reimagining in 2021 which featured all the original voice cast members – E.G.

Season 50 premiere this past weekend to play President Joe Biden during the cold open.“It’s been top secret,” Carvey said of his “SNL” cameo on a new episode of his “Fly on the Wall” podcast that he hosts with David Spade.“I’ve kept it under wraps for weeks,” he added.Carvey explained that “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels asked him to play Biden, 81, after the comedian started doing impersonations of the president on his podcast. He compared it to his past spoofs of George Bush Sr.“I tried to do that treatment to Biden and I did it on here with our YouTube clips,” Carvey said.

pop-up costume store. “We are great at raising things back from the dead,” the store wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, alongside a photo of a fake “SNL” costume.The costume was labeled “Irrelevant 50-year-old TV show.” The packaging said it included “dated references, unknown cast members and shrinking ratings.”“SNL” has yet to respond to Spirit Halloween’s clapback. During the Season 50 premiere that aired Saturday (Sept.

Season 50 premiere over the weekend.The 26-year-old breakout pop star’s fans are upset over a sketch starring Bowen Yang that was inspired by Roan struggling with fame.During “Weekend Update,” Yang, 33, appeared as Moo Deng, the baby hippo who went viral this month, and referenced Roan’s pleas to set boundaries with fans.“For the past ten weeks, I have been going nonstop,” said Yang while dressed in a hippo costume. “The response has been overwhelming, but it has come to the point where I need to set some boundaries.”“Reminder, women owe you nothing,” he went on.

Saturday Night Live sketch using internet sensation Moo Deng as a parody of Chappell Roan is being widely criticised on social media.Roan has made the headlines numerous times in the last few weeks. Earlier this month, the pop singer revealed she’d been diagnosed with “severe depression”, attributing her sudden rise to fame and the subsequent drastic changes to her life as the cause of her symptoms.Prior to that, in August she took to TikTok to share her thoughts on “weird” and “creepy” followers, and called out the “predatory behaviour” of so-called “superfans” that includes “nonconsensual physical and social interactions”.Roan last week experienced backlash by sharing that she was choosing not to back Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, arguing that there are “problems on both sides”.

“Saturday Night Live” had plenty of material to report about during its Season 50 premiere — thanks to its own network.Colin Jost addressed Hoda Kotb’s decision to leave the “Today” show during his Weekend Update segment alongside Michael Che on Sept. 28.The journalist, 60, announced the news days prior, noting although she is leaving the show after 26 years she will stay in the NBC family in an unspecified role.

kicked off the 50th season of a New York icon.Can you believe “Saturday Night Live” is 50 years old?However you may feel about the show, Lorne Michaels’ sketch series, which has been broadcasting from Studio 8H at 30 Rock in Midtown since 1975, has undeniably shaped American comedy as we know it.It has birthed countless stars and wrung out a million laughs.We all grew up with it, we all can quote it, we all have fiery opinions about it. The NBC show is part of the fabric of American life.Embracing his inner Canadian, Michaels went surprisingly low-key for the start of Season 50, which was hosted by the fabulous Jean Smart from “Hacks.” Country singer Jelly Roll was the musical guest.The show’s enigmatic creator previously said, sans much detail, that there will eventually be a Radio City Music Hall celebration to honor “Saturday Night Live”’s first half century.Still, it was a big and brilliant move to bring back “SNL” legend Carvey as a doddering President Joe Biden.

#SNLPremiere pic.twitter.com/Tezan0hcKq— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) September 29, 2024Mamala’s back!Maya Rudolph returned to the “Saturday Night Live” stage to revive her Emmy-winning role as Vice President Kamala Harris for the show’s milestone Season 50 premiere.“Well your fun aunt has returned,” Rudolph said. The comedian, 52, appeared as the Democratic presidential nominee, 59, on Saturday in a hilarious skit with Andrew Dismukes and Jim Gaffigan, who portrayed ABC moderator David Muir and Harris’ running mate Tim Walz, respectively. “I’ve got to be honest here folks.

“Saturday Night Live” movies, there are two head honchos: “The Blues Brothers” and “Wayne’s World.” The 1980 crime comedy classic starring John Belushi and Dan Akroyd and the 1992 Midwestern townie adventure with Mike Myers and Dana Carvey are both terrific. To this day.And the flicks have grown far beyond their original sketches.

new Netflix documentary “Will & Harper.”The film, which follows Ferrell and former “Saturday Night Live” head writer Harper Steele on a cross-country road trip, sees the longtime pals reminiscing about their first week at the job.Steele, who started on the show the same week as Ferrell, admitted she also heard that cast members didn’t think the comedian was particularly impressive. “That first week we went downstairs to lunch and there was just something about the two of us where we were kind of on the same wavelength in a lot of different ways,” Steele stated.

Season 50 is about to premiere (on Saturday, Sept. 28 on NBC), does the show still have the juice – and what is its legacy?Nicole, 28, a New York City resident, told The Post that the show “has always been a staple” in her life “when humor was needed.”“The references are endless, like I will always say ‘I need more cowbell‘ if I want the music louder, or that I live in ‘a van down by the river’ when someone asks me where I live,” she said, referring to the iconic sketches featuring Will Ferrell, Christoper Walken and Chris Farley.“Moments like that, where everyone knows what you are talking about are golden,” she added. “Humor can be universal, and in many ways, ‘SNL’ is universal, almost immortal.” Elizabeth, a fan from Texas, told The Post that the show is, “a New York institution.

Netflix documentary, “Will & Harper” the actor learns his longtime pal, former Saturday Night Live writer Andrew Steele, will be transitioning to live as a woman called Harper. The pair embark on a buddy road trip through America to see how Steele, a beer swigging, sports loving father of two, fairs in this new identity.

Chevy Chase is screening “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” at venues all over North America in November and December, Sarah Silverman has a massive stand-up tour already underway, Martin Short will take the stage with Steve Martin on their ‘Dukes of Funnytown Tour’ next month, Seth Meyers regularly co-headlines a residency at New York City’s Beacon Theatre with John Oliver and David Spade gigs all year long.Heck, even Will Ferrell‘s DJ’ing a show with Swedish House Mafia in Chicago this October.Plus, former writer Simon Rich is putting on “All In,” a Broadway play based on his short stories, starring John Mulaney, Fred Armisen, Jimmy Fallon, Aidy Bryant, Chloe Fineman, Tim Meadows and more this December.Don’t forget the rumored, star-studded Feb. 16 Radio City SNL extravaganza, either.That’s just the tip of the iceberg, too.If it’s always been your dream to catch an “SNL” hero of yours in person — regardless of which era is your favorite — here’s how you can see 39 of the 167 “SNL” alum live from wherever you may be this year and next including a Senator (Al Franken) and an Oscar winner (Robert Downey Jr.).To keep things organized, cast members are listed chronologically from when they started their tenure on the show.Screening “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” from Nov. 22 through Dec. 29Touring Oct. 10 through Feb. 3, 2025One Christmas show with Judith Owens on Dec. 17Touring with Steve Martin from Oct. 4 through Nov. 16Acting in “McNeal” on Broadway from Sept. 27 through Nov. 24One show on Oct. 4Touring from Oct. 25 through Dec. 21Touring from Sept. 27 through April 6, 2025Touring from Sept. 27 through April 12, 2025Touring from Sept. 27 through Nov. 23; co-headlining with Nikki Glaser on select datesTouri

Lorne Michaels’ weekly show has given us Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Conan O’Brien, Dana Carvey, Mike Myers and countless other comedic powerhouses. And its decades of sketches — Wayne’s World, Roseanne Roseannadanna, the Love-ahs, James Brown, the Coneheads, Jeopardy!, the Lawrence Welk Show (“And I’m Dooneese!”) — are seared into our cultural consciousness, whether you were alive for them or not.With the joy of nostalgia, however, comes pangs of sadness.“SNL” ain’t what she used to be.

Sydney Sweeney “practically begged” the writers of Saturday Night Live to include jokes about her breasts, according to Bowen Yang.The Euphoria star hosted the sketch show for the first time back in March, and her physical appearance was the butt of the joke for many of the segments.In an appearance on the Fly on the Wall podcast, Yang said that Sweeney was “an example of a host who came in and understood how she was being consumed and perceived already.“She came in and was like, ‘Please, everyone, make jokes about my boobs,’” he added. “She was practically begging everybody.”The actress previously addressed her SNL appearance saying she was in on the joke.“There’s so many people out there who are like, ‘Oh, she’s famous because she showed her boobs,’” she told GQ.