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Apple TV+ has set a star-studded ensemble cast for its upcoming musical comedy project starring Saturday Night Live‘s Cecily Strong and executive produced by Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video. Joining Strong are Keegan-Michael Key (Dolemite is My Name), Alan Cumming (The Good Wife), Fred Armisen (Portlandia), Kristin Chen…

Although the sketch didn’t air on Saturday Night Live last night, an online video posting lampooning Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is getting serious viral traction. In the sketch, Whitmer (played by Cecily Strong) offers up some safety tips for people protesting her stay-at-home orders, which some state residents…

Apple is in final negotiations on a series order for a musical comedy project starring Saturday Night Live‘s Cecily Strong, from Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video, Despicable Me duo Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, and Universal TV. Written by Paul and Daurio, the as-yet untitled comedy series follows a couple on a backpacking…

A Saturday Night Live skit poked fun at both the lack of White House press briefings and nation’s fascination with Conan, the military dog involved in the raid that took down ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, after Trump repeatedly tweeted about him. In opening the proceedings, Kellyanne Conway (Kate McKinnon)…

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…

It seems like Saturday Night Live wanted to take a break from Donald Trump fare in the cold open and decided to focus on the recent news of Joe Biden’s allegations of making women feel uncomfortable for being, well, too touchy-feely. This called for the return of SNL alum Jason Sudeikis as the former Vice President…

Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update segment welcomed a special guest – Judge Jeanine Pirro (Cecily Strong), who was returning from a two-week enforced absence to talk about her motivations with host Colin Jost. Returning because “someone from Fox News said my name into a mirror three times,” Pirro quickly launched…

Idris Elba was struck by gamma radiation in a failed experiment, and Dr. Bruce Banner has been cursed to transform into a raging, aggressive and unreasonable beast when his stress levels rise. Thus was born The Impossible Hulk. But instead of becoming a green giant with enormous strength and invulnerable hide, this…

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…

The first December episode of Saturday Night Live kicked off with Alec Baldwin returning as Donald Trump after a small break following his little parking spot incident (we’ll get into that later). SNL‘s cold open featured Baldwin’s Trump in Argentina for G20. He is having a sleepless night on the balcony of his hotel…

Alec Baldwin, Cecily Strong, Rachel Dratch and Susan Lucci are among the stars heading to Broadway for a four-night stand of Celebrity Autobiography, the comedy in which celebrities read the memoirs of other celebrities. The show will run on four consecutive holiday-season Mondays at the Marquis Theatre beginning Nov…

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…