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Ted Lasso star Jason Sudeikis does some freelance coaching in the new Foo Fighters music video for “Love Dies Young,” a song from the band’s latest album Medicine at Midnight. The coach in the new video is actually sort of an anti-Lasso – for starters, he’s seemingly Eastern or maybe Central European and coaches…

Jason Sudeikis and Rosario Dawson will lead an all-star virtual online table read of the holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life to benefit The Ed Asner Family Center (TEAFC), which promotes mental health and enrichment programs to children with special needs and their families. The one-night-only event is set for Dec…

Mitt Romney’s flurry of tweets of him dressed as Ted Lasso culminated in one directed at Jason Sudeikis. “After 10 years, I'm finally returning the favor. How was my Ted Lasso, Jason Sudeikis?” Romney wrote of the comedian, who once portrayed him on Saturday Night Live. After 10 years, I'm finally returning the…

Ted Lasso star Jason Sudeikis made his Saturday Night Live hosting debut last night, giving the show a “popular cast member returns” ratings bump. Last night's telecast of SNL with host Sudeikis and musical guest Brandi Carlile drew a 3.7 household live + same day rating in the 41 metered local markets and 1.6 in…

On tonight’s Halloween episode of Saturday Night Live, Jason Sudeikis returned to Weekend Update to reprise his role as The Devil, catching co-anchor Colin Jost up on the latest in his life. Jost noted that it has been four or five years since The Devil last graced the desk at Studio 8H. “It’s because I've been busy…

Jason Sudeikis returned as Vance, the overzealous, tracksuit wearing backup dancer in the latest What Up With That? skit on his SNL hosting debut. Sudeikis was joined by Fred Armisen as Giuseppe, the Kenny G-esque saxophone player, with Kenan Thompson taking on his traditional role as Diondre Cole, the host of the BET…

Ellen got a male-fronted spinoff, Mellen, on Saturday Night Live. Jason Sudeikis skewered Ellen DeGeneres' show with his own take on the daytime format with its own "hard masculine edge” in a filmed skit tonight. Mellen is a "man's man" and the show provides "in your face entertainment" where he won't just high-five…

Tonight, Jason Sudeikis made his first appearance as host of SNL, joking that it would also be his “very last” before going on to reflect on what the show means to him. “For those of you who don't know, I worked here at SNL for 10 years—an ‘actor's dozen,’ we say—and it's so nice to be a small part of this show's…

Jason Sudeikis returned as the Joe Biden of old in the Saturday Night Live cold open tonight, for a skit that played on the current president’s drop in his poll numbers and popularity. Sudeikis played Biden during the Obama years, but there have been a series of performers who have stepped into the role since. Jim…

What would Ted Lasso do? These were the words recent Emmy winner Jason Sudeikis seemed to be asking himself, as he prepared for his first appearance as host of SNL. In a promo unveiled today, the actor appeared with cast members Chloe Fineman and Alex Moffat and musical guest Brandi Carlile to tease what fans can…

SPOILER ALERT: This post includes spoilers from the Season 2 finale of Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso. Ted Lasso wrapped up Season 2 with an explosive episode that tied up many loose ends for nearly every character—but it also set up new adventures ahead for Season 3. Toheeb Jimoh’s Sam Obisanya experienced major personal…

The Rescue, an arresting truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story of a Thai youth soccer team trapped in a remote flooded cave system, opens on five screens in NY/LA/Chicago this weekend in a specialty market waiting "for audiences to wake up and see that they're missing out,” according to Ed Arentz, co-president of the…