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While Will Forte was fully expected to reprise one of his best known Saturday Night Live characters, MacGruber, in his return to the late-night show as host, he also brought back a lesser-known skit from his time on the program. Forte, joined by Kristen Wiig — his former SNL colleague and current co-star on the MacGrub…

As former Saturday Night Live cast member Will Forte said in his opening monologue tonight, it took getting his MacGruber the series to launch on Peacock for him to finally be invited to host the late-night sketch program 12 years after he’d left. In the monologue, Forte announced a Season 2 renewal for MacGruber…

As tonight’s episode of Saturday Night Live wound down, the show paid tribute to its former writer John Bowman, who died suddenly at home in California on New Year’s Eve, aged 64. Bowman wrote on the series from1988-1989 and won an Emmy for his efforts across 20 episodes, sharing the honor with Mike Myers, Al Franken…

On tonight’s episode of Saturday Night Live, Weekend Update took shots at a wide range of targets, from Jon Voight, Dwayne Johnson and the new Lord of the Rings series to Update‘s own Colin Jost and SNL cast member Pete Davidson. Anchor Michael Che noted that Voight recently released a video claiming that Abraham…

Tonight on Saturday Night Live, longtime cast member Will Forte got his first opportunity to host, speaking in his opening monologue to his excitement about finally getting his moment in the spotlight. “I was in the cast 12 years ago with Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis and Fred Armisen, so it…

As with almost every role she plays on Saturday Night Live, Kate McKinnon does a wicked version of Fox News' Laura Ingraham. Listing off rising inflation, rocking gas prices, and the flaws of the Green M&M girl, McKinnon's wonky-eyed Ingraham went right after the first year of Joe Biden's "disaster" of a presidency in…

Willem Dafoe is set to make his Saturday Night Live debut. The Spider-Man and The Florida Project actor will host the NBC late-night comedy series on January 29. He will be joined by musical guest Katy Perry, who is making her fourth appearance on the show. Dafoe will host the third consecutive show of the year, with W…

Tonight on Saturday Night Live, Weekend Update addressed topics ranging from the death of Robert Durst to the latest in the Prince Andrew Scandal, and a Sesame Street feud between Elmo and pet rock Rocco. It was anchor Colin Jost who pointed out that Durst, “the New York real estate heir who murdered his friend and…

Saturday Night Live gave Peacock a pitch for a new Family Matters reboot, just after the NBC streamer dropped a trailer for its dramatic Fresh Prince series Bel-Air. The trailer-like sketch features sweeping clips of Chicago, that follow a slightly familiar figure donning bright stripes through seedy streets. Chris Red…

Will Forte is next on the lineup of Saturday Night Live hosts, following West Side Story‘s Ariana DeBose tonight who brought the NBC sketch series into 2022. During Saturday’s broadcast, SNL revealed that the MacGruber and HouseBroken actor will take the stage alongside Måneskin, the Italian rock band that won the…

Ariana DeBose tonight made her first appearance as host of Saturday Night Live, talking in her opening monologue about her performance as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of West Side Story, which recently netted her a Golden Globe. “Now, not many people know this, but West Side Story is actually based on…

James Austin Johnson returned as Joe Biden on Saturday Night Live tonight, as the president offered his plan to curb Covid. The show opened with Johnson’s Biden at a lectern, in another speech to the nation, as he leaned into the microphone and said, “There’s one simple thing you can do to make this whole virus go…