In May 2012, Saturday Night Live said good-bye to two of its biggest stars, Andy Samberg and Kristen Wiig, prompting the usual gloom-and-doom forecast for NBC’s veteran late-night sketch comedy program. A few months later, SNL introduced one of its strongest group of female performers ever with Kate McKinnon, Cecily St…

Hulu has picked up a second season of comedy series Shrill, starring Saturday Night Live's Aidy Bryant. The streaming platform has ordered eight episodes, up from this season’s six, for premiere in 2020. The series, which received a straight-to-series order for Season 1 and launched to strong reviews, hails from SNL…

Idris Elba knows how to celebrate his first Saturday Night Live hosting gig: In style, with champagne and to the tune of Khalid’s “Talk.” In this new promo for Saturday’s episode, Elba is walking down a New York street when he gets the news that he’ll be hosting. From there, a newly suited Elba arrives, in slo-mo, at…

When it comes to the politics of abortion, the new Aidy Bryant Hulu series Shrill , much like its source material novel of the same name by Lindy West, is meeting the subject head on. A TCA reporter today asked the producers of the upcoming streaming series, which includes Elizabeth Banks, and EP/showrunner Ali…

Saturday Night Live player Aidy Bryant, who has been on the series since 2012, is already graduating with her own Hulu series that she’s co-writing and starring in, Shrill, but she plans to stay put on the NBC late night sketch show. “I think I’ll definitely go back next season,” said Bryant about the 2019-20 season.…

The Saturday Night Live winter finale appropriately kicked off with a holiday-themed black and white cold open titled “It’s a Wonderful Trump” which celebrated a Trump-less presidency with some of your favorite SNL special guest stars. Obviously, Alec Baldwin came in to reprise his role as Donald Trump one last time…

This week’s cold open for Saturday Night Live strayed away from the midterm elections from earlier this week and decided to focus on Jeff Sessions leaving his post as Attorney General. Giving her spot-on Smeagol-meets-southern-fried-Keebler elf impression of Session was Kate McKinnon — with a couple of other old…

Hulu is moving ahead with Shrill, a six-episode single-camera comedy series co-written by and starring Saturday Night Live‘s Aidy Bryant. The series, which starts production this week in Portland, comes from SNL boss Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video (Portlandia), Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman’s Brownstone…

The only thing funnier than sketch comedy is the blooper reel that comes out of it. Saturday Night Live released a compilation video of outtakes featuring guest hosts from Season 43 including Donald Glover, Ryan Gosling, Tiffany Haddish and Will Ferrell. The video above shows guest hosts breaking character and…

Saturday Night Live‘s cold open was possibly the most all-star — and delightful — political skewering they have had yet. It was the Infinity War of cold opens. Ben Stiller reprised his role as attorney Michael Cohen while Alec Baldwin once again held court as Donald Trump. It starts with an anxiety-ridden Cohen…

Actor Sam Rockwell does some apple-splitting “Golden Globes level prep” for this week’s stint as guest host of NBC’s Saturday Night Live in this new promo. “I can sort of see without actually seeing,” says a blindfolded Rockwell, who won the supporting actor Globe Sunday for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri…

A silly chicken routine, a Pizza Hut hoax and a spot-on rip in HGTV’s programming fabric made for a welcome-back set of Saturday Night Live sketches last night, as the show returned for its 43rd season. With guest host Ryan Gosling game to go, last night’s roster of live skits kept apace, slipping a bit towards the…