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Peter Aykroyd, the Emmy-nominated former Saturday Night Live cast member and writer, has died. The NBC sketch show paid tribute to SNL alum following Simu Liu’s eventful hosting debut. Saturday Night Live revealed the actor-writer’s death with a card that displayed a picture of the previous featured player the years…

Cultural milestones are worth celebrating, but Simu Liu and Bowen Yang’s Saturday Night Live sketch pokes fun at how far they can go. The Shang-Chi star and the Emmy-nominated SNL cast member came together to reflect on what a notable night it was for Asian representation for the NBC sketch show. Not too long after…

Pete Davidson brought the latest episode of Saturday Night Live back to his hometown of Staten Island with the help of Marc Cohn, Method Man and Big Wet. Davidson, who previously teamed with Big Wet for the sketch show’s Squid Game parody number, donned “I <3 Staten Island” hoodies and mused about Staten Island’s…

On the Thanksgiving episode of Saturday Night Live, Weekend Update‘s anchors addressed topics ranging from the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict to the new Lethal Weapon movie Mel Gibson is directing. Colin Jost kicked things off with discussion of President Biden’s “weird” Friday. “He went under anesthesia for a colonoscopy…

Simu Liu tonight made his hosting debut on SNL, kicking off his opening monologue with reference to Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the history-making comic book film released back in September, in which he stars. “I am officially Marvel's first openly Chinese superhero. I'm also the first Chinese…

The Saturday Night Live cold open tackled a number of the week’s headlines — the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, Kevin McCarthy’s marathon floor speech, and Donald Trump’s rants — through the eyes of Judge Jeanine Pirro. Cecily Strong returned to play the Fox News personality, who hosts Justice with Jeanine, as she defended…

Simu Liu hosts Saturday Night Live this weekend, with musical guest Saweetie, who shares something of a moment with SNL cast member Kyle Mooney in the show’s latest promo. In the comic bit, Mooney and Saweetie seem to have some secret past together that’s left Mooney a tad bitter. Check it out above. Liu is the star…

Billie Eilish and Paul Rudd are set as the final Saturday Night Live hosts of the year with the Bad Guy singer pulling double duty. Eilish, whose sophomore album Happier Than Ever was released earlier this summer, will host and perform as musical guest on December 11. While she previously featured as a musical guest…

The Nov. 13 edition of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Jonathan Majors with musical guest Taylor Swift, drew a 1.37 rating in the 18-49 demo and 5.8 million viewers for its linear telecasts as well as full-episode digital viewing through Sunday, Nov. 14, per NBC. That’s up a tick from the previous week’s telecast, hoste…

A day after Taylor Swift released All Too Well, a short film based on the new, 10-minute version of her song of the same name, the Grammy winner performed the song on Saturday Night Live. Breaking with convention, Swift did “All Too Well” as her only music performance of the night in her fifth stint as musical guest. S…

Sixteen years after The Lonely Island established SNL Digital Shorts, another comedy trio are making their mark on the NBC sketch program with their digital videos, Please Don’t Destroy. Ben Marshall, Martin Herlihy and John Higgins, who are writers on SNL, have done a couple of videos this season, including one…

Tonight on SNL, Weekend Update’s anchors covered topics ranging from the end of Britney Spears’ conservatorship to developments in the feud between Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson, as well as an interesting new business venture on the part of DJ Khaled. “A judge on Friday officially ended Britney Spears' conservatorship…