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‘SNL’ Adds Three New Castmembers for Season 50
Saturday Night Live is welcoming in three new members of its cast for the show’s landmark 50th season. Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim and Jane Wickline have joined the NBC late night show as featured players for 2024-25. The season will premiere Sept. 28 with most of last season’s ensemble intact, although Punkie Johnson and Molly […]
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Nate Bargatze Sets Holiday Variety Show at CBS
Nate Bargatze is going primetime. The world’s top earning comic, according to Pollstar, has signed on to do his first primetime special, an hour-long, holiday-themed variety show for CBS. Lorne Michaels and his Broadway Video are on board as producers of the hour, which will roll out in December and also stream on Paramount+. “I’m […]
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‘Saturday Night’ Director Jason Reitman Recalls Real Life ‘SNL’ Writing Gig: “You Sit Around Shaking”
Saturday Night director Jason Reitman, who in his latest movie chronicles the lead-up to the first Saturday Night Live show in 1975, had a unique training ground. In 2008, Reitman served as a guest writer on an SNL show and delivered one sketch to air, and all on a tense yet freestyling TV set led […]
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Jason Reitman’s ‘Saturday Night’ Movie to Make Awards Push Early in Theaters
Sony is ramping up its award campaign plans for filmmaker Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night Live movie, a dramatic recreation of the 90 minutes leading up to the iconic NBC show’s first episode in the mid-1970s. The studio announced late Thursday that it will release Saturday Night in select theaters on Sept. 27 in New York, […]
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Jimi Hendrix Doc in the Works From Director Bao Nguyen
The Greatest Night in Pop director Bao Nguyen has been tapped to helm Jimi, a feature documentary about the origin story for the legendary rock star Jimi Hendrix. Authorized for the first time by the Jimi Hendrix estate, the film is produced by Network Entertainment, financier Double Agent and Experience Hendrix. “Telling the story of […]
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Peacock Sets Live Comedy Special From Colin Jost and Michael Che
Peacock is now trying its hand at live comedy. The streamer announced Colin Jost & Michael Che Present: New York After Dark, which will have the Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” duo hosting at The Bell House in Brooklyn. It will stream Sept. 12 at 9 p.m. ET and feature a rotation of the pair’s […]
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Punkie Johnson Says She Left ‘SNL’ Because “I Didn’t Really Feel Like I Fit”
Punkie Johnson is opening up about the reason for her departure from Saturday Night Live after four seasons. The comedian recently stopped by the Fly on the Wall podcast, and told hosts/SNL alums Dana Carvey and David Spade that she “didn’t really feel like I fit” on NBC’s sketch comedy show. Johnson first revealed she wasn’t returning for the show’s […]
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Why ‘Saturday Night Live’ Is Getting Shafted by the Emmys
With the exception of a few soap operas and public affairs programs, no TV show has been on the air longer than NBC's Saturday Night Live, which will embark on its 50th season Sept. 28. And as we approach the 76th Emmys, which will take place just a few weeks before that, it is the most celebrated show in the history of that event. Indeed, SNL holds the records for most Emmy nominations with 341 (Game of Thrones is second with 159) and wins with 89 (GoT is second with 59). And Lorne Michaels, its creator and overseer for all but five of its seasons, holds the record for most Emmy noms for an individual with 106 (Sheila Nevins is second with 77) and has racked up the second most wins for an individual with 21 (behind only Nevins' 31).
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‘Awards Chatter’ Live: Maya Rudolph on Reprising Kamala, the Oscars & Her Four Emmy Noms
“I have to tell you, it has been an experience,” says Maya Rudolph upon being asked about the mounting calls from the public, since Joe Biden’s July 21 announcement that he will not be seeking reelection, for her to reprise her Saturday Night Live impersonation of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, who she previously portrayed […]
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As Bowen Yang’s Star Grows, ‘Saturday Night Live’ Has Never Felt More Like Home
Bowen Yang’s Saturday Night Live Emmy nomination landed on a day that started off quite uneventfully. He had spent the morning journaling and folding laundry. “It was a very sweet moment that coexisted with my boring, quotidian lifestyle,” Yang says of the instant he received the news via text from his team. But as he […]
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‘SNL’ Alum Victoria Jackson Says She Has an Inoperable Tumor Amid Cancer Battle
Saturday Night Live alum Victoria Jackson has revealed that doctors found an inoperable tumor in her windpipe amid her battle with cancer. The actress-comedian confirmed on Wednesday in a new video for her “Is the Cancer Back?” Instagram series that her cancer had returned. She also estimated that she has roughly three years to live. “[Doctors] […]
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Bowen Yang Recalls an ‘SNL’ Host Who “Made Multiple Castmembers Cry” During a Table Read
Bowen Yang this week recalled a past Saturday Night Live host that left multiple castmembers in tears during the show’s table read. “This man who … this person, this host made multiple castmembers cry on Wednesday during the, before the table-read, because he hated the ideas,” Yang said during an appearance on Watch What Happens […]
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