Bill Hader returned to Saturday Night Live as host last night, which, of course, means Stefon returned to the Weekend Update desk. Check out his New New York advice for tourists, people wanting something upscale, and dumb folks looking to just get murdered.
Chris Pratt hosted the generally enjoyable season premiere of Saturday Night Live last night, with musical guest Ariana Grande. The premiere brought with it the introduction of the wonderful Michael Che as Weekend Update's new co-anchor and a new cast member that was born in the year 1993. One year before Kurt…
Bill Murray could make his first Saturday Night Live appearance in 15 years as the show kicks off its 40th season. According to Splitsider, local NBC affiliates announced the new season's first three hosts in a story that has since been taken down.
Saturday Night Live has just fired one of its newest cast members, Brooks Wheelan, after a single season. If you're asking "Wait, who?" you're not alone: Wheelan didn't get a lot of screen time in his short run on SNL.
Andy Samberg hosted the season finale of Saturday Night Live last night, which opened with Jay Z and Solange (Jay Pharoah and Sasheer Zamata) proving that they've made amends and letting us in on what really happened in that elevator. (Something about a spider.)
Andrew Garfield hosted a pretty strong episode of Saturday Night Live last night, with musical guest Coldplay and appearances from Emma Stone, Kiefer Sutherland, and Mary Lynn Rajskub. Throughout the night he kissed Chris Martin and played Oliver Twist to Cecily Strong's Dierdre, but the highlight came when he…
The fourth season of Game of Thrones premieres tonight on HBO. (Have you heard of that show? People like it!) Ahead of the event, GOT author George R.R. Martin stopped by the Weekend Update desk at Saturday Night Live to discuss what has been keeping him from continuing the series.
Drake pulled double duty on Saturday Night Live last night, performing for the second time in his career and hosting for the first. All told, he was SNL's most entertaining host in a while, and the same could be said for the episode itself. More highlights are below.
About one month after Saturday Night Live publicly announced its search to find a black woman on planet Earth, one such woman—Sasheer Zamata—has been added to the cast as a featured player. Deadline reports the Upright Citizens Brigade veteran will make her debut on the January 18th SNL episode hosted by Drake, whose…
Saturday Night Live, which features not a single black woman on cast, immediately addressed the issue last night in its opening sketch: By poking fun at itself and not really addressing anything (a point driven home by the Rev. Al Sharpton).
Sassy-television-detective-turned-action-hero Bruce Willis just hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time since 1989, with musical guest Katy Perry. One of the episode's highlights was this amusing digital short about the secret manly society of boy dance parties, a stress-relieving breakdown of herky-jerky…
Miley Cyrus, fresh off a pregnancy scare (well, not so much a scare for her as for everyone else), will be pulling double duty on this week's Saturday Night Live as both host and musical guest.
Last night, Tina Fey opened Saturday Night Live's 39th season with musical guest Arcade Fire. One of the episode's highlights was this Girls-spoofing digital short that doesn't fall into the easy trap of unnecessary meanness, but rather handily skewers the major characters' self-absorption with the simple introduction…
Saturday Night Live has announced its guest-hosting schedule for the 39th season: Tina Fey with Arcade Fire; Bruce Willis with Katy Perry; and a delicate little flower whose name rhymes with Highly Virus.
Jack Handey has written "Deep Thoughts" for Saturday Night Live, "Shouts and Murmurs" for The New Yorker, and last week published his first novel, The Stench of Honolulu. He is one of the funniest living writers in the world today. He spoke to us via email about comedy, the perils of notoriety, and the best nut.
On Sunday, NBC stunned no one by announcing Jimmy Fallon's eventual Late Night replacement: long-time Saturday Night Live head writer (and current Weekend Update anchor) Seth Meyers. The stunning part happened next, on the network's official Twitter handle.
Wow, Kristen Wiig is coming back to SNL! (To host it.) Try this classic "gotcha!" style of news delivery on all your friends.
While performing the musical equivalent of twinkletoes, "Suit & Tie," on Saturday Night Live this weekend, Justin Timberlake altered one of its lines in an apparent jab at Kanye West. "My hit's so slick got rappers acting dramatic," sang Timberlake instead of the usual, "Shit so sick got a hit and picked up a habit."…
A Madison-based cancer support group named after legendary Saturday Night Live player Gilda Radner has announced that it will be changing its name to accommodate younger patients unfamiliar with the iconic comic, who passed away of ovarian cancer in 1989.
On a recent episode of Bill Simmons' B.S. Report, guest Bill Hader talked at length about his hugely popular recurring SNL character Stefon — particularly how he and co-writer John Mulaney come up with all those crazy New York hot spots.
