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Ted Lasso star Jason Sudeikis made his Saturday Night Live hosting debut last night, giving the show a “popular cast member returns” ratings bump. Last night's telecast of SNL with host Sudeikis and musical guest Brandi Carlile drew a 3.7 household live + same day rating in the 41 metered local markets and 1.6 in…

On tonight’s Halloween episode of Saturday Night Live, Jason Sudeikis returned to Weekend Update to reprise his role as The Devil, catching co-anchor Colin Jost up on the latest in his life. Jost noted that it has been four or five years since The Devil last graced the desk at Studio 8H. “It’s because I've been busy…

Jason Sudeikis returned as Vance, the overzealous, tracksuit wearing backup dancer in the latest What Up With That? skit on his SNL hosting debut. Sudeikis was joined by Fred Armisen as Giuseppe, the Kenny G-esque saxophone player, with Kenan Thompson taking on his traditional role as Diondre Cole, the host of the BET…

Colin Jost has surpassed Seth Meyers as the Saturday Night Live star who has appeared most on SNL's Weekend Update. Jost has hosted the iconic desk sketch on 155 episodes since he first took the chair in 2014. Tonight, he ribbed Kanye West, Facebook, Goop and Bridgerton, while Jason Sudeikis popped by to re-create his…

Ellen got a male-fronted spinoff, Mellen, on Saturday Night Live. Jason Sudeikis skewered Ellen DeGeneres' show with his own take on the daytime format with its own "hard masculine edge” in a filmed skit tonight. Mellen is a "man's man" and the show provides "in your face entertainment" where he won't just high-five…

Tonight, Jason Sudeikis made his first appearance as host of SNL, joking that it would also be his “very last” before going on to reflect on what the show means to him. “For those of you who don't know, I worked here at SNL for 10 years—an ‘actor's dozen,’ we say—and it's so nice to be a small part of this show's…

Roman Roy is to take some time out from trying to succeed his father Logan to host Saturday Night Live. Kieran Culkin, who stars in HBO drama Succession, fresh into its third season, will make his SNL hosting debut on November 6, the NBC late-night show revealed during tonight’s episode. The actor did, in fact, have a…

Jason Sudeikis returned as the Joe Biden of old in the Saturday Night Live cold open tonight, for a skit that played on the current president’s drop in his poll numbers and popularity. Sudeikis played Biden during the Obama years, but there have been a series of performers who have stepped into the role since. Jim…

What would Ted Lasso do? These were the words recent Emmy winner Jason Sudeikis seemed to be asking himself, as he prepared for his first appearance as host of SNL. In a promo unveiled today, the actor appeared with cast members Chloe Fineman and Alex Moffat and musical guest Brandi Carlile to tease what fans can…

Last night's telecast of Saturday Night Live with host Rami Malek and musical guest Young Thug drew a 3.4 household Live + Same Say rating in the 44 metered local markets and 1.3 in 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters. That was down last week's show, hosted by Kim Kardashian West with musical guest Halsey…

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…

On this week’s edition of Saturday Night Live, Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che covered a wide array of topics, ranging from the Jon Gruden scandal to the announcement of a bisexual Superman and beyond. Jost noted that Raiders head coach Gruden resigned “after the discovery of homophobic, misogynistic…