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Bowen Yang has made both Emmys and Saturday Night Live history. The Saturday Night Live freshman, who has made his mark on the long-running sketch comedy show, became the first Chinese American actor to receive a Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Emmy nomination. The Television Academy, with the help of Jasmine…

Saturday Night Live was so close to breaking its own Emmy nominations record. The long-running NBC comedy series scored 21 nominations this morning, just under its own single-year record of 22 nominations in 2017. That too was a season dominated by an election involved Donald Trump. This is a jump on the 15…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has inked 2x Emmy nominated Saturday Night Live writer and stand-up comic Sam Jay in all areas. Jay can currently be seen on Pause. with Sam Jay, a weekly late-night series on HBO which was just picked up for season 2. Jay also wrote on the comedy sketch series That Damn Michael Che which can currently…

Saturday Night Live director Paul Briganti will helm Monarch Media’s Chris Pratt indie feature comedy The Black Belt. The 2020 Black List script by Randall Green follows a shy, unassuming teen boy on a quest for an expertise in karate, and the unorthodox uncle who guides him along the way. Pratt, as we previously told…

Saturday Night Live’s Cecily Strong has spoken out about her future on the show, some of her first comments since the emotional Season 46 finale which sparked speculation about the possible exits of four of the main cast members, including Strong. “Things are a bit more up in the air and I’m OK with that,” Strong told…

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…

Donald Trump issued a statement denying a report in The Daily Beast that he was so upset over his portrayal on Saturday Night Live that he inquired with advisers whether the Justice Department or the FCC could take action. In a statement, the former president said, “The story that I asked the Department of Justice to…

The final ratings for Season 46 of Saturday Night Live are in, and the venerable late-night sketch program ranked as the No. 1 entertainment show among all ad-supported networks in the adults 18-49 demo. The show averaged a 2.06 rating in 18-49 and 9 million total viewers overall in Live+7 numbers. For the second year…

When the House Energy & Commerce subcommittee meets on Wednesday for an oversight hearing titled “A Shot At Normalcy: Building Covid-19 Vaccine Confidence,” one of the witnesses will be none other than Nick Offerman, identified as an “actor and woodworker.” The former Parks & Recreation star, who played Libertarian…

Lil Nas X showed viewers of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon what his Saturday Night Live pole dance would have looked like had he not had his pants-splitting wardrobe malfunction. “I was doing my little sexy drop down and, boom, I feel air,” the singer told Fallon and guest co-host Dave Grohl last night…

NBC’s Saturday Night Live closed out its 46th season in style as the finale, hosted by Anya Taylor-Joy and featuring musical guest Lil Nas X, became the first show of the season with full studio audience amid the lifting of most Covid-related restrictions in New York — and around the country. The finale, which sent…

With Anya Taylor-Joy hosting the season finale of Saturday Night Live, many expected her to reprise her hugely popular — and award-winning — role from the limited series, chess prodigy Beth Harmon. She did not during the telecast, which included a brief reference to The Queen’s Gambit in Taylor-Joy’s opening…