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Sixteen years after The Lonely Island established SNL Digital Shorts, another comedy trio are making their mark on the NBC sketch program with their digital videos, Please Don’t Destroy. Ben Marshall, Martin Herlihy and John Higgins, who are writers on SNL, have done a couple of videos this season, including one…

(UPDATED with NFL fines information) 'Oh man," exhaled Aaron Rodgers when confronted today with Saturday Night Live's scathing spoof this weekend of the now admittedly unvaccinated quarterback. Coming less than a week after the now much disparaged Green Bay Packers player admitted he hadn't had the anti-Covid jabs…

It’s a longstanding Saturday Night Live tradition for celebrity guests to appear alongside the cast member that impersonates them on the show. Previous pairings have included Mick Jagger and Jimmy Fallon, Hillary Clinton and both Amy Poehler and Kate McKinnon, Sarah Palin and Tina Fey as well as Donald Trump and…

Saturday Night Live went into Season 47 with eight cast members who had been on the show for at least seven seasons, which is the standard length of an SNL contract: Kenan Thompson (18 seasons), Kate McKinnon (10), Aidy Bryant (9), Cecily Strong (9), Colin Jost (8), Beck Bennett (8), Kyle Mooney (8), Michael Che…

Tonight on Saturday Night Live, the Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che paid tribute to longtime cast member and Weekend Update anchor Norm Macdonald who died on September 14, following a private, nine-year battle with cancer, aged 61. “It is a bittersweet night for us tonight,” said Jost. “Norm is the…

Jon Stewart and Pete Davidson are teaming up for a night of comedy in New York City benefitting various 9/11 charities. The event NYC Still Rising After 20 Years: A Comedy Celebration will bring together some of Stewart and Davidson’s famous friends including Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Colin Jost, Tom Segura, Wanda…

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions…

EXCLUSIVE: We have learned that Kaley Cuoco and Pete Davidson are in negotiations to headline the romantic comedy movie Meet Cute directed by Alex Lehmann. The deal has not yet closed. Meet Cute, I hear, is a wildly inventive deconstruction of the romantic comedy built around the question: What would you do if you…

Every season finale of NBC’s Saturday Night Live brings anxiety for fans that some of their long-time favorites may be leaving. Tonight’s Season 46 closer left many viewers fearing that we may have seen the last of a number of long-time cast members. With the pandemic seriously impacting the second half of last…

Pete Davidson is set to star in I Slept with Joey Ramone, a biopic chronicling the life of the king of punk that is being produced by Netflix and STXfilms. Jason Orley, who directed the SNL star in Hulu’s Big Time Adolescence as well as his Netflix comedy special Pete Davidson: Alive from New York, is directing the…

Rapper and We Are Who We Are actor Kid Cudi, who served as musical guest, treated Saturday Night Live viewers with a musical sketch, that also featured another surprise guest. Following Marcus Mumford’s cameo during host Carey Mulligan’s opening monologue, Timothée Chalamet crashed the latest episode of Saturday Night…

EXCLUSIVE: A24 is lining up a killer cast for its new thriller as sources tell Deadline The Hate U Give star Amandla Stenberg and Borat 2 breakout Maria Bakalova are set to star in Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. Insiders also add that Pete Davidson and Myha’la Herrold are in talks to star. Halina Reijn is set to direct. A24…