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BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says anti-Semitism has been “rearing its ugly head” for a long time now in America. “And so often the Democrats kept trying to push it down ... and pretend like it didn’t exist, and then after October 7, they realised they couldn’t pretend anymore,” she told Sky News host James Morrow. This comes after Jewish comedian and actor Jerry Seinfeld had his show protested by hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists. “This is very frightening stuff – I think that this is going to be the new norm,” Ms Gonzales said. “The new BLM where you have all...

Elvis Costello gave shape to his own budding career with a rebellious move on Saturday Night Live, switching mid-song into a diatribe against corporate-controlled broadcasting -- and getting himself banned from the show for a dozen years. Thing is, Costello was never supposed to be there in the first place, and he's admitted he got the idea from a legendary classic rocker, not the punk scene. The Sex Pistols were actually booked for the Dec. 17, 1977, show, but couldn't make it. That opened the door for Costello, whose debut, My Aim Is True, had just come out in the...

Viewers were displeased following SNL's cold open Saturday night, which mocked last week's congressional hearings on campus anti-Semitism. The opening sketch attempted to make light of the college presidents' lacking testimony, but their efforts evoked few laughs. Then backlash began online, where viewers slammed the sketch for attempting to undermine the seriouesness of anti-Semitism on US college campuses in the weeks since the October 7 terror attack.

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...

Now listen to a story 'bout a man named Abdul - The poor Bedouin barely kept his family full, and then one day he was shootin' at some Jews, and up through the ground came a bubblin' crude. Oil that is, Virgin Perrier, Kuwait Kool-aid, Saudi Soda. Well the first thing you know, Abdul's a billionaire. The kinfolks said, "Abdul, move away from there!", they said, "Californy is the place without a care!", so they loaded up the Rolls and they moved to Bel Air - next to Beverly Hills, that is - swimmin' pools, movie stars, Jews...

The late-night show’s Season 49 debut, hosted by Pete Davidson, marked its highest launch on Peacock The first episode of “Saturday Night Live” since the onset of the writers’ strike in May scored 4.8 million viewers, up 19% from last season’s 2022 premiere.

NBC’s Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang said he played the role of God as a gay “dom femme top” in his latest movie. SNIP>>>>>>> Bowen Yang, who himself is openly gay, made the bizarre comments in an interview with Indiewire to promote the new Larry Charles comedy Dicks: The Musical, in which Yang plays the role of God. SNIP>>>>>> Dicks: The Musical, which A24 will open in theaters Friday, tells the story of two wealthy siblings who conspire to reunited their divorced parents, played by Megan Mullally and Nathan Lane.

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...

Legendary “Saturday Night Live” alum Dana Carvey mocked former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci during a recent podcast with former “SNL” colleague David Spade. The two poked fun at Fauci’s COVID-19 guidance throughout the years of the coronavirus pandemic, with Carvey giving his best impression of Fauci trying to convince Americans to take a daily COVID shot that grants immunity for up to 39 seconds. SNIP He replied, “I know! Dude, dude! You know when I knew there was trouble? When anyone that came to our country didn’t have to get a vaccine, and...

A group of contestants (Jerrod Carmichael, Sarah Sherman, Bowen Yang) compete on a game show to see how much their brain remembers two years into the pandemic

On PBS's Cinema Classics, host Reese De'What (Kenan Thompson) presents the never-before-seen alternate ending of The Wizard of Oz

Ralph Lee, the celebrated puppeteer and theater artist who masterminded the Land Shark character on Saturday Night Live, has died at age 87 following a monthslong illness. The Westbeth Artists Housing and Center for the Arts, where Lee lived, shared the news in a statement. "Ralph Lee, Westbeth Master Puppeteer and founder of the Village Halloween Parade and the Mettawee River Theater Company, among many other accomplishments, passed away on May 12, 2023," the organization wrote. "He was a gentle, beloved figure of immense creative vision in the Westbeth community and the world — which is now a lonelier place...

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...

Bill Murray as Nick the Lounge Singer. "Nick" sings the Star Wars theme. May 4 is "Star Wars Day."

The episode of Saturday Night Live aired on April 22, 1978, can stake a legitimate claim to being the best in SNL history. Hosted for the fifth time by a never-better Steve Martin, the episode re-teams Martin with Dan Aykroyd for their strongest “Wild and Crazy Guys” sketch. (The one where the swinging Czech brothers patiently explain to Garrett Morris Cliff that their hot dates are late only because they had to pick up their birth control devices at the Statue of Liberty.) Martin and Gilda Radner do their deliriously silly and romantic pas de deux to “Dancing in the...

“I’d like to talk seriously, just for a moment,” Steve Martin said on the April 22, 1978, episode of Saturday Night Live. His solemnity was only marginally undercut by the fact that he was draped in stereotypical ancient Egyptian garb, with a multicolored and architectural hat atop his head. Martin’s lecture arrived midway through the show, leaving plenty of time to put together what turned out to be one of the most popular and elaborately silly pieces had ever attempted on SNL. Standing in darkness, Martin went on to explain how the impossibly commercialized “Treasures of Tutankhamun” museum tour then...

Capt. Kirk (John Belushi), Spock (Chevy Chase) and Dr. McCoy (Dan Aykroyd) encounter network executives (Elliott Gould, Garrett Morris) who announce Star Trek is cancelled. Aired 05/29/76

On this edition of "Point/Counterpoint," Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin debate Lee Marvin and Michelle Triola's relationship. [Season 04, 1979]

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...

Frustrated patrons are annoyed that they can only get cheeseburgers, chips and Pepsi at The Olympia Restaurant. A featured patron (Robert Klein) really wants eggs and argues with the staff including Pete (John Belushi). [Season 3, 1978