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Saturday Night Live is getting ready to wind down after a busy and unusual year and has set Jason Bateman, Timothée Chalamet and Kristen Wiig as its final three hosts of the year. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Morgan Wallen and Dua Lipa are set as the musical guests for the episodes, which will air December…

The post-election Nov. 7 edition of Saturday Night Live had a perfect timing as it followed a big news day, in which Joe Biden was declared winner of the election. Delayed by the Notre Dame-Clemson football game, SNL, with host Dave Chappelle and musical guest Foo Fighters, averaged a 2.62 rating in Live+Same Day…

Saturday Night Live continues to have a field day with the results of the 2020 presidential election, with numerous skits about Donald Trump’s eventual departure from the White House. On Saturday night, the SNL team gave the reality television star’s exit an O.J. Simpson spin. Ego Nwodim and Dave Chappelle portrayed…

With Joe Biden and Kamala Harris set to take on the White House after beating out Donald Trump and Mike Pence the for 2020 election, Saturday Night Live‘s Michael Che and Colin Jost can look forward to more than just a new administration. During their latest “Weekend Update” installment, the hosts celebrated the Biden…

Dave Chappelle turned in another edgy monologue on Saturday Night Live – four years on from his first hosting appearance days after Donald Trump became President. The former Celebrity Apprentice host, who lost the Presidency to Joe Biden earlier today, COVID-19, masks and slavery were all touched up in the NBC variety…

After several weeks of partially losing the political plot, Saturday Night Live came out blazing tonight as Donald Trump's reign of error begins to end, at least officially. In a throwback to the first SNL after the election of 2016, the skit saw Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump give a concession serenade, kind of. But…

UPDATED, 12:06 PM: Foo Fighters, the rock band fronted by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, have been added as the musical guest on this weekend’s SNL. It marks the ninth time that the band, which is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its debut album, will have played on the show. PREVIOUSLY, OCT. 31: Dave Chappelle is to…

Ice Cube, working with the Trump administration ahead of the 2020 presidential race, continues to face criticism. After Jim Carrey’s Joe Biden poked fun at the actor-rapper during the most recent Saturday Night Live cold open, Ice Cube fired back. “F**ck you SNL…trying to reduce me to greed,” he tweeted on Sunday. The…

The Halloween edition of Saturday Night Live, marking John Mulaney’s fourth turn as host, drew a 4.7 rating household Live+Same Day rating in the 44 metered local markets and a 2.2 adults 18-49 rating in the 25 markets with local people meters. That was down a bit from last week's show, featuring Adele in her hosting…

For the traditional curtain call at the end of tonight’s episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, host John Mulaney came out wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with the name HAL. It was a tribute to longtime SNL sketch music producer Hal Willner who died in April of complications related to COVID-19. He was 64. Former SNL…

Saturday Night Live stars Colin Jost and Michael Che took on the Trump Administration, COVID-19 and Baby Yoda during Saturday’s “Weekend Update” segment. As they’ve done in previous sketches, the two anchors criticized President Donald Trump for his various actions and lack thereof, especially with the COVID-19…

John Mulaney returned to host Saturday Night Live for the fourth time tonight and took on America’s politicians in his opening skit. He started his monologue by stating that he’d spent quarantine bingeing a new comedy series: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 press briefings. He described the briefings as one…