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Posted Monday 5/11/20 at 5:46AM EDT
SNL season finale embraced the existential anxiety over coronavirus with a "darker and weirder" SNL At Home episode
"The novelty of living amid the crisis has worn off, and the tedium of coping with the lockdown has given...
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Posted Wednesday 4/15/20 at 1:26PM EDT
Bowen Yang joins Joel Kim Booster on Quibi comedy Trip
The SNL featured player and the Sunnyside star will play best friends in the romcom series set on Fire Island...
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Posted Thursday 3/19/20 at 4:57AM EDT
SNL's Bowen Yang recalls reaching out to Shane Gillis amid the comic's racial and homophobic slur controversy
In a profile of Yang, GQ revisited the groundbreaking moment Yang was hired as the first cast SNL cast member...
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Posted Sunday 1/26/20 at 3:37PM EST
Bowen Yang comments for the first time on SNL's Shane Gillis scandal, recalls his parents putting him in gay conversion therapy
Yang, the first Asian-American cast member in Saturday Night Live history, has become a breakout star in his four months...
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Posted Friday 11/22/19 at 11:59PM EST
Heidi Gardner: Parents tell me I'm dead-on with my teen character on SNL's "Weekend Update"
“Parents will come up to me and say, ‘How do you know my daughter?’” Gardner says of her Bailey Gismert...
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Sara Lee is taking viral raunchy SNL sketch "in stride," denies censoring Instagram comments
Sara Lee's Instagram account was flooded with comments Sunday after Saturday Night Live showed a Sara Lee sketch starring Harry...
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Posted Wednesday 10/09/19 at 11:05PM EDT
Ali Wong had no idea Shane Gillis' referenced her on his podcast -- she offers her take on offensive comedy
Wong heard about Gillis' racial slur controversy that got him kicked off SNL, but she had no idea that he...
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Posted Wednesday 10/09/19 at 4:31AM EDT
SNL's "It's Pat" sketch was brought up at U.S. Supreme Court's LGBTQ hearing
In Tuesday's U.
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Posted Tuesday 10/08/19 at 1:45AM EDT
SNL delivered a fresh, hilarious take on stereotypes with "Mid-Day News" sketch
Written by Michael Che, Ego Nwodim and Chris Redd, the "Mid-Day News" sketch "didn’t touch on politics via the goings-on...
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Posted Sunday 10/06/19 at 11:04PM EDT
Phoebe Waller-Bridge overcame SNL's attempt to her squander her as host
"Look, SNL tried to pigeonhole Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the Fleabag creator and star just wasn’t having it," says Dennis Perkins.
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SNL returns for Season 45 in "Emmy-winning cruise control," even with the big impeachment news
The biggest newsmakers of the past week were former SNL hosts Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani, yet Saturday Night Live...
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Posted Saturday 9/28/19 at 7:16AM EDT
Which SNL cast members will play the Demoratic presidential candidates?
The Democratic field is so wide that Saturday Night Live will likely have to bring in celebrity impressionists.
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Posted Thursday 9/19/19 at 3:54AM EDT
Kenan Thompson talks SNL: He agrees with Shane Gillis' firing, admits he'd like somebody new to play Trump
Thompson discussed Gillis, Leslie Jones' exit, his new castmates Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang and Alec Baldwin's Trump impression in...
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Posted Monday 9/16/19 at 9:48PM EDT
SNL cast members obliquely respond to Shane Gillis' firing
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SNL's Shane Gillis repeatedly used anti-Asian slur in May, including in reference to Andrew Yang
Comedy journalist Seth Simons, who was the first to discover Gillis' use of the anti-Asian racist slur "ch*nk" in a...