EXCLUSIVE: Saturday Night Live co-head writer and Weekend Update anchor Colin Jost has boarded Warner Bros’ live-action/animation hybrid Tom and Jerry.  He joins Chlöe Grace Moretz and Michael Peña who have already been announced. Tim Story is directing and executive producing the update of the 1940 cartoon shorts…

Lorne Michaels has claimed that Saturday Night Live would struggle to get off the ground if it launched today due to budgetary constraints and move towards "narrowcasting". The SNL creator was giving a keynote address at the Cannes Lions advertising event in France, where he also touched on the history of the show…

So maybe Alec Baldwin isn’t slamming the fake Oval Office door entirely on his Donald Trump impression on Saturday Night Live. After telling USA Today last week that he was “so done” playing the president in SNL‘s cold opens, the actor now is tweeting, “Who knows what the future holds?” And that Sarah Huckabee Sanders…

Alec Baldwin says he likely won’t be playing Donald Trump on NBC’s Saturday Night Live anymore. “I’m so done with that,” the actor told USA Today yesterday. In an interview to promote the hybrid feature-documentary Framing John DeLorean, in which he plays the notorious car designer (opening in New York and on-demand…

UPDATE, with additional details Leon Redbone, the trombone-voiced singer-songwriter whose eccentric, nostalgic Americana style of music found at least a temporarily frequent home on early episodes of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, died today. He was 69. His death was confirmed by his family in a whimsically worded…

Saturday Night Live closed out its 44th season with a finale hosted by Paul Rudd with  musical guest DJ Khaled. The show, which featured appearances by Alec Baldwin and Robert De Niro, averaged a 4.0 rating Live+Same Day household rating in the metered markets, and a 1.6 adults 18-49 rating in the markets with local…

A day after DJ Khaled dropped his new album Father of Asahd, which includes the single "Higher" featuring John Legend and the late Nipsey Hussle, Khaled and Legend performed a portion of the song on Saturday Night Live. The duo turned it into an emotional tribute to the rapper who was gunned down in Los Angeles on…

On the heels of the Alabama state Senate passing US’ most restrictive abortion legislation, Saturday Night Live tackled the topic twice during its Season 44 finale. Leslie Jones tore into the new law, which followed similar state legislations restricting abortion in several other states, including Georgia and…

The cold open for the 44th season finale of Saturday Night Live ended on a high note, with Alec Baldwin returning as an exuberant President Trump who belted out a song about a second term. Before launching into a parody of Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now,” Baldwin’s Trump crowed: “I’m very excited about summer, getting in…

Last night’s telecast of Saturday Night Live, with host Emma Thompson and musical guest Jonas Brothers, averaged a 4.2 rating Live+Same Day household rating in the metered markets, and a 1.5 adults 18-49 rating in the markets with local people meters. The Mother’s Day-themed episode, which also featured appearances by…

Kenan Thompson is to remain on Saturday Night Live next season with NBC figuring out "scheduling issues" around sitcom The Kenan Show to accommodate the star’s three shows for the network. The broadcaster revealed that The Kenan Show, which Thompson also exec produces, will launch in a "post-fall" slot and that he…

Saturday Night Live returned to politics this weekend for the cold open — after previously taking on Game of Thrones — by posing the question to Senate Republicans: “What would it take for President Trump to lose your support?” Kyle Mooney played Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd and began the conversation by waxing…