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UPDATE: Shane Gillis has apologized to “Anyone who’s actually offended by anything I’ve said.”  The comedian is in hot water as a YouTube video from last year surfaced, featuring him uttering a racial slur against Chinese people. Gillis was just announced as a new cast member for the upcoming season. NBC has not…

Meet Saturday Night Live’s new cast additions for its upcoming 45th season. Chloe Fineman, Shane Gillis and Bowen Yang have been tapped as new featured players on NBC’s venerable late-night sketch comedy program. Yang joined SNL as a staff writer last season and is co-host of the Las Culturistas podcast. The promotion…

The summer break hasn’t done anything to freshen Alec Baldwin’s attitude on playing Donald Trump for NBC’s Saturday Night Live. He still hates it. Reiterating his loathing for the role that he expressed in June, Baldwin tells former SNL regular Kevin Nealon on the latter’s new YouTube series Hiking with Kevin (watch…

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Doctor Who actor and 1995 Oscar winner Peter Capaldi is boarding James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad at Warner Bros. We also hear that Saturday Night Live‘s Pete Davidson has been in talks for a small cameo in the pic, and there’s a chance he’ll do it during breaks from SNL. That deal still is…

Leslie Jones addressed her departure from “second home” Saturday Night Live today, tweeting her thanks and devotion to the show’s cast, writers, fans, and most of all creator Lorne Michaels. “Thank you for being my mentor and confidant and for always having my back,” she writes to Michaels. “You not only have my…

One Saturday Night Live favorite won’t be returning this fall while another one has opted to come back. Leslie Jones has will be leaving NBC’s venerable late-night sketch comedy program after five seasons. Kate McKinnon, whose contract was up in May, has decided to come back for what would be her eighth season on the…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed actress, comedian and Saturday Night Live cast member Heidi Gardner. Gardner joined SNL in 2017 for the comedy sketch institution’s 43rd season. She also serves as the voice of the anthropomorphic cat "Cooch" on the Crackle series SuperMansion. She also lent her voice to other animated series…

Saturday Night Live returns for Season 45 on September 28 with three live coast-to-coast shows. Woody Harrelson, in his fourth appearance as host, and musical guest Billie Eilish will open the season. Making his first return to SNL for the first since a somewhat awkward appearance for a tribute at the SNL 40th…

SNL‘s Leslie Jones is heading to Netflix in an hour-long stand-up comedy special. Jones announced the news tonight on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! The special, produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment, will launch globally on Netflix in 2020. Jones recently wrapped her fifth season on Saturday Night Live, work which has…

Another Saturday Night Live reunion is happening on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Vanessa Bayer is set to guest star on the seventh season of the NBC cop comedy, joining series star and fellow SNL alum Andy Samberg. Samberg took to the Lonely Island Instagram to do a lowkey announcement of the casting news with a photo of the…

UPDATED throughout: Phil Hymes, longtime Emmy-winning lighting director for Saturday Night Live, who joined the show in 1976, died this week of complications from cancer, NBC confirmed. He was 96. Hymes, who began his career at NBC in 1951, worked on more than 500 episodes of the iconic late-night program until his…

With a little help from Sandra Oh, Emma Thompson, John Mulaney, Robert De Niro and Matt Damon, NBC’s Saturday Night Live picked up another 18 Emmy nominations today, padding its all-time total to a pretty much unbeatable record-holding 270 total. With specials and digital nominations, the show has a total of 295…