In this week’s cold open, James Austin Johnson reprised his role as President Joe Biden who detailed his plan to stop the spread of Omicron. “There’s one simple thing you can do to make this whole virus go away: Stop seeing ‘Spider-Man,’” he said. His rationale was that the movie …
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Jim Carrey, who portrayed Joe Biden on the first six episodes of this season of Saturday Night Live, announced Saturday that his term impersonating the president-elect has come to an end. “Though my term was only meant to be 6 weeks, I was thrilled to be elected as your SNL …
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The Saturday Night Live cast and host J.J. Watt parodied Frozen 2 with a deleted scenes sketch that addressed Elsa’s sexuality and the lack of diversity in the franchise. In the sketch, Elsa (Kate McKinnon) comes out to her sister Anna (Cecily Strong). “I don’t know whether we’re headed north, …
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Will Ferrell portrayed U.S. ambassador and impeachment hearings MVP Gordon Sondland alongside Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump in Saturday Night Live’s latest cold open. The four-minute sketch mocked Trump’s tendency to conduct impromptu press conferences near the loud whir of a waiting helicopter, as well as the president’s now-infamous “I WANT …
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With The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel‘sRachel Brosnahan hosting this week’sSaturday Night Live, the series used it as an opportunity to parody the Amazon series with a spinoff called “The Raunchiest Miss Rita.” The pre-taped digital short, which takes place at the familiar Gaslight Cafe, stars SNLcomicLeslie Jones as the titular Miss …
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Alec Baldwin‘s President Trump spends a paranoid night in Argentina during the cold open for Saturday Night Live‘s first December episode. The commander-in-chief, sulking about the Mueller investigation on his hotel balcony, consults former lawyer Michael Cohen (Ben Stiller), a shirtless Vladimir Putin (Beck Bennett), the Crown Prince of Saudi …
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Great Saturday Night Live episodes can sneak up on you. As host Liev Schreiber noted in his monologue, he wasn’t the most obvious choice for the role. “There’s nothing wrong with being funny,” he said at one point. “If you are, good for you.” It was a disarming way to …
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After the extreme highs of last week, there was nowhere for Saturday Night Live to go but down this time around. This Amy Schumer-led episode wasn’t bad by any stretch, but featured a miss for every hit. That consistent inconsistency made it difficult for the episode to gather any momentum: …
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With Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman hosting this week’s Saturday Night Live, Studio 8H focused on the world of Wakanda with a pair of sketches on the latest episode. Before Boseman reprises his T’Challa role in the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War, the King of Wakanda returned as a contestant on …
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Bill Hader and the SNL cast channeled some of 1992’s biggest celebrities in a hilarious sketch imagining rejected auditions from Jurassic Park. The bit opens with Alex Moffat conjuring Hugh Grant in his screen test for Dr. Alan Grant. “I hate to be a bother, but if you look behind …
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