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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took aim at Donald Trump‘s bizarre moment at the southern border this week, as well as Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell announcing he’ll step down as his party’s Senate leader. Trump, who toured the Texas-Mexico border Thursday alongside the increasingly militant Gov. Greg Abbott, at one point waved at migrants through a barbed wire fence and claimed, “They like Trump, can you believe it?” Co-anchor Colin Jost offered a rational response, given Trump’s Hilter-adjascent…

The Euphoria star played up the online speculation with help from Powell, who sat in the front row of the audience Sydney Sweeney debuted as Saturday Night Live guest host by talking about a number of rumors about her, one having to do with her Anyone But You co-star, Glen Powell. Of the online speculation that she and Powell had been romantically involved, Sweeney said definitively: “That’s obviously not true.” Sweeney noted that her fiancé, Jonathan Davino, helped produce the 2023…

The rapper also took to the stage for "Should've Wore a Bonnet," with all three tracks from his new album, American Dream 21 Savage debuted as Saturday Night Live‘s musical guest first with a performance of his new single, “Redrum.” The violin-intro track comes from his third solo album, American Dream, which came out last month and topped the Billboard 200 Albums chart upon its release. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtOhMc1y-10 The Atlanta rapper–Rolling Stone‘s cover artist in…

The $400 kicks "gave me the power to say I’m good at basketball," Shane Gillis' character explains Saturday Night Live took aim at former President Donald Trump‘s decision to hawk gold sneakers for about $400 a pair with a reimagining of the 1992 flick White Men Can’t Jump called White Men Can Trump. Shane Gillis‘ character, rather than seeing his on-court skills legitimately improve by wearing the shoes, is able to master the ability to make people think he’s now dominant at the sport. As the…

Marcello Hernandez appeared as a frozen embryo to explain why he actually didn't feel like a person Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update went after former President Donald Trump‘s wild campaign rhetoric, as well as the Alabama Supreme Court ruling this week that frozen embryos created through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) are human beings. Co-anchor Colin Jost began by quipping that, after Trump won the South Carolina primary earlier in the night, he “is now undefeated everywhere except court.”…

Comic Shane Gillis debuted as Saturday Night Live host by first joking about his extremely brief stint on the late night show back in 2019 that ended after controversial comments of his from the year prior resurfaced. “Yeah. I’m here,” Gillis began his monologue. “Most of you probably have no idea who I am. I was actually fired from this show awhile ago. But, you know, don’t look that up! Please, if you don’t know who I am, please don’t Google that. It’s fine, don’t even worry about it.” In September 2019,…

Ashlee Simpson has the benefit of hindsight when it comes to her infamous 2004 appearance on Saturday Night Live. Speaking on the Broad Ideas With Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen podcast, the singer explained that the performance, which saw her lip-syncing her single “Autobiography,” taught her how to pick herself back up. “I had done my rehearsal the night before and then I woke up the next day and I couldn’t speak,”  Simpson explained on the podcast episode. “I saw the voice doctor that day and I had two…

Kacey Musgraves and Ariana Grande will both return to Saturday Night Live as musical guests next month. Musgraves will perform on the March 2 show, which will be led by first-time host Sydney Sweeney. And Grande will be the musical guest on March 9, when Josh Brolin returns for his third time hosting.   Musgraves made her SNL debut back in 2018 after releasing her celebrated album, Golden Hour, then returned in 2021 while promoting Star-Crossed. The country star is now gearing up to release her first LP in…

It’s been a strange few weeks for Saturday Night Live. Two weeks ago, during a night hosted by Madame Web actress Dakota Johnson, cast members Bowen Yang and Sarah Sherman distanced themselves from Dave Chappelle when the transphobic comedian crashed SNL’s goodbye segment at show’s end. Then, last week, the show laundered Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s racist Civil War denialism. Now, America’s premier sketch-comedy series has decided to welcome Shane Gillis to host. Back in 2019, SNL announced…

The 2024 White House Correspondents’ Dinner is turning to Saturday Night Live for its entertainment this year. The annual event — a fundraiser for the White House Correspondents’ Association — says that SNL “Weekend Update” host Colin Jost will be this year’s featured entertainer. This year’s WHCA dinner is scheduled for Saturday, April 27. “Colin Jost knows how to make Saturday nights funny, and I am thrilled Colin will be live from the nation’s capital as the headline entertainer for this…