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March 3 (UPI) — This weekend’s edition of Saturday Night Live opened with a comedy sketch mocking defenders of U.S. President Joe Biden’s age, energy, and acuity. The 5-minute segment showed CNN anchor Dana Bash (played by Heidi Gardner) interviewing California Gov. Gavin Newsom (Michael Longfellow) about polls that suggest many Americans don’t think that Democrat Biden, 81, is sharp enough to lead the country for another four years if he wins re-election in November against presumptive Republican candidate and former president, Donald Trump, 77. The sketch also includes on-camera remarks from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre (played by...

In a matter of minutes, Shane Gillis deftly put to bed one of the most nefarious lies of the pro-abortion left: that killing preborn babies with Down syndrome is the merciful thing to do.Shane Gillis, the stand-up comedian who’s partly famous for being fired as a cast member from “Saturday Night Live” before he even debuted, was somehow invited back to host the show over the weekend. Of course, that honor allowed him to deliver the iconic monologue. For Gillis — surrounded by the unfunny scolds who fired him in 2019 in part for making the type of joke that’s...

The New York Times proudly announced last Monday that it had “won three George Polk awards, including two for its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.” Those prestigious journalism awards went to “Samar Abu Elouf and Yousef Masoud of The Times” for “photojournalism for their photographs of the conflict from inside Gaza, capturing the horrific toll of Israel’s airstrikes on civilians, including the death and injury of many children.” The Times neglected to mention, however, one telling detail: Masoud has been unmasked as a member of Hamas who participated in the Oct. 7 jihad massacres inside Israel.The Paper of Record shows...

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Given that Shane Gillis was famously fired from “Saturday Night Live” for using a racial slur, one might imagine he’d tread a little carefully during his stunning return to the show. Apparently not, we hear. Sources tells Page Six that Gillis plans to use the Down syndrome jokes that have long been a part of his act. Gillis has relatives with the condition and has worked with kids who live with it, and the bits he does in his stand-up act come off as unconventionally affectionate and even celebratory of people with Downs. But it remains to be seen whether...

Republican presidential candidate former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley attacked rival President Donald Trump in a surprise appearance during the ‘cold open’ of Saturday Night Live last night. Haley, who is trailing Trump by nearly 30 points in the latest poll for this month’s South Carolina primary and nearly 60 points in national polls, was well received by the liberal New York City television studio audience as she sparred with a Trump character during a candidate forum opening skit. The cold open was a mock CNN South Carolina town hall with Trump, played by James Austin Johnson, being baited with...

The live audience let out a whoop when Haley stood up on stage and began asking "Trump," played by James Austin Johnson, questions at a faux CNN town hall in South Carolina after other people in the audience had their turn...A beaming Haley also delivered the signature line, "Live from New York, it's Saturday night!" at the end of the skit.

Dakota Johnson and Justin Timberlake had a successful evening on Saturday Night Live this weekend, with surprise appearances from Jimmy Fallon, as well as Shark Tank judges Mark Cuban and Barbara Corcoran. But many viewers were surprised – and somewhat confused – to see Dave Chappelle standing onstage during their goodbyes. The comedian appeared to join the cast on stage for no reason at all. To the far left of the stage, SNL cast member Bowen Yang, who has become an audience favorite since joining in 2018, can be seen standing far from the cast, unsmiling. In a video from...

This post is reposted to "Free Republic" and I support FR and if you are able to... Is Christmas Time again and El Rushbo brought us the music of Mannheim Steamroller for The Season. Peter Hitchens writes about the Advent Season... I ended this week thinking about Christ on the Cross being executed saying: "Father forgive them they don't know what they're doing"... The late famed preacher-evangelist Dr. Billy Graham said in his day that one day he saw Israel going all the way from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates River in the middle of Iraq. In Washington DC they...

Kevin Brennan, a former Saturday Night Live writer, has shrugged off criticism of jokes he made about the death of Friends star Matthew Perry. Soon after TMZ reported on Perry’s passing on Saturday, Brennan posted on X (fka Twitter): “DROWNED IN A HOT TUB. HAHAHAHA.” In another message he remarked on Perry’s well-documented history of abusing alcohol and prescription drugs, saying: “I do love it when junkies die.” The host of The Misery Loves Company Podcast faced a backlash from X users over the remarks, with one person describing him as a “ghoul.” Brennan, who worked on SNL between 1999...

In a candid new interview with NPR, former Saturday Night Live cast member Leslie Jones says the show’s limitations made her “a caricature” of herself, although she came to realize that the process was par for the course at the longrunning NBC show. “They take that one thing [about you] and they wring it,” she says. “They wring it because that’s the machine. So whatever it is that I’m giving that they’re so happy about, they feel like it’s got to be that all the time or something like that. So it was like a caricature of myself. … Either...

“I got along with everyone,” Curtin told People in a new interview. “But I did have problems with John,” the funny woman added. “But that was because John wasn’t John. He was an addict.” Belushi’s drug problem plagued his short life and career and he died via an overdose from a speedball mix of heroin and cocaine. Original “SNL” cast member Chevy Chase revealed last year that the “Blues Brothers” star’s addiction was so severe that he stole Chase’s own stash of cocaine.

NEW YORK, NY — With the Writer's Guild still on strike, Saturday Night Live announced they will be back on air this weekend thanks to a popular new host who requires no writers since he can ad-lib for hours: Donald Trump. "Yes, we know he's an evil orange fascist who will literally murder our democracy, but we have no other options here," said producer Lorne Michaels. "Trump is the only guy I know who can walk in without a script and still have everyone in stitches all night." Sources confirmed this weekend's episode will feature Trump wildly monologuing for an...

Molly Kearney — the skit show’s first non-binary cast member — dropped into the guest seat via a harness to slam politicians trying to eliminate healthcare for transgender youth. “As you know, I’ve been wanting to come to Update and talk about trans people. But I have them for a much longer time than that wanted to fly down from the ceiling,” the freshman featured player said. “But I’m not gonna lie, this harness is pretty tight and my groin area is beefed. I’ve been hung up by my genitals for far too long and I’m starting to feel like...

Note: This article may contain commentary reflecting the author's opinion. Over the Easter weekend, Saturday Night Live (SNL) released a hilarious new skit mocking Democrats’ obsession over the Trump indictment that occurred earlier this week. The clip, which has already received hundreds of thousands of views, features liberals obsessed with the news of Trump’s arrest so much so that the clip acts as a commercial for a fake app called “CNZen.” HomeCommentaryWATCH: SNL Releases Hilarious Skit Mocking Democrats’ Trump Derangement Syndrome Following Indictment Note: This article may contain commentary reflecting the author's opinion. Over the Easter weekend, Saturday Night Live...

Writer Rosalind Wiseman has watched as “Mean Girls” became a global cultural phenomenon. She should be thrilled that her book, “Queen Bees and Wannabes,” was turned into a hit movie, then a Broadway musical — and now the musical is to be turned into a movie too. But while writer and producer Tina Fey and Paramount Pictures have made millions out of the franchise, Wiseman has made just over $400,000 after signing a deal to sell her film rights back in 2002, and not a cent since. Now, she is speaking out against a real-life Mean Girls culture and the...

Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” host Colin Jost mocked former President Donald Trump’s recent visit to East Palestine, Ohio, by fantasizing that the town’s grateful residents were actually repulsed by his visit.During this weekend’s episode, Jost joked that East Palestine residents would rather drink their town’s contaminated water than the bottled water Trump brought them.Watch Below:Weekend Update: Biden Meets with Zelensky in Ukraine, The Oscars' Crisis Team - SNL“Donald Trump visited East Palestine, the site of the recent train derailment, because Trump usually likes to try to make himself look better by standing next to a train wreck,” Jost quipped.“While...

On Jan. 24, 1978, Russian spy satellite Kosmos 954 crashed into Canada’s Northwest Territories. Powered by a nuclear reactor, the satellite scattered radioactive debris over a 370-mile path through the frozen Canadian earth. On Jan. 28, 1978, Saturday Night Live writers Michael O’Donoghue and Tom Davis turned this potential nuclear disaster into one of the weirdest and most format-breaking sketches in SNL’s young history. Indeed, the typically bizarre content essentially mutated SNL’s actual shape, spilling over through the entire second half of that night’s episode and resulting in the anarchic-minded writers’ essentially ripping the popular late-night show into pieces, right...

On Oct. 12, 1991, Kirstie Alley hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time. The experience included a sketch she’d later describe as the “most fun that I’ve ever had acting.” Alley’s star was soaring at the time. She’d joined the cast of the hit sitcom Cheers in 1987, playing Rebecca Howe, the foil to Ted Danson’s Sam Malone. Her 1989 film Look Who’s Talking was a massive box office success, cementing Alley as a Hollywood A-lister. The actress’ SNL hosting duties got off to a strong start. The opening monologue featured surprise appearances by Cheers castmates Danson, Woody Harrelson,...

Hey pundits, experts, activists, and politicians, think you should listen to Dave Chapelle when it comes to ‘why Trump’. He gets it. It was the first time we’ve laughed at SNL in a long long long time. Watch: HE DOESN’T PAY HIS TAXES! Because the system doesn’t make me pay my taxes … because it benefits your donors. Love how he portrays Hillary Clinton, heh. And also sad because it’s true BUT we all need a laugh right now. [Missing tweets I failed to copy] It always feels like the SNL audience isn’t sure if it’s ‘ok’ to laugh. Weird,...