Sandra Oh is praising NBC’s decision to fire embattled stand-up comic Shane Gillis because of the controversy surrounding his past racial slur use.
“Glad 2 see @nbcsnl decision NOT legitimize/give platform 2 purveyors of racist homophobic content Risks? LAZY ASS UNORIGINAL, Oh tweeted Tuesday.
The NBC comedy program…
It looks like presidential hopeful Andrew Yang is attempting to take the road less traveled with fired Saturday Night Live cast member Shane Gillis despite the fact he used racial slurs that targeted Asian Americans in a podcast he recorded before joining the NBC comedy show.
In the wake Gillis’s firing (he was just…
Asian American Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said that he doesn’t believe new Saturday Night Live cast member Shane Gillis should lose his job over past racial slurs.
Yang was called a “Jew ch**k on a May podcast by Gillis, whose SNL casting was announced this week. His past remarks denigrating…
UPDATE: Shane Gillis has apologized to “Anyone who’s actually offended by anything I’ve said.” The comedian is in hot water as a YouTube video from last year surfaced, featuring him uttering a racial slur against Chinese people.
Gillis was just announced as a new cast member for the upcoming season. NBC has not…
The summer break hasn’t done anything to freshen Alec Baldwin’s attitude on playing Donald Trump for NBC’s Saturday Night Live. He still hates it.
Reiterating his loathing for the role that he expressed in June, Baldwin tells former SNL regular Kevin Nealon on the latter’s new YouTube series Hiking with Kevin (watch…
EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Doctor Who actor and 1995 Oscar winner Peter Capaldi is boarding James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad at Warner Bros. We also hear that Saturday Night Live‘s Pete Davidson has been in talks for a small cameo in the pic, and there’s a chance he’ll do it during breaks from SNL. That deal still is…
Leslie Jones addressed her departure from “second home” Saturday Night Live today, tweeting her thanks and devotion to the show’s cast, writers, fans, and most of all creator Lorne Michaels.
“Thank you for being my mentor and confidant and for always having my back,” she writes to Michaels. “You not only have my…
EXCLUSIVE: Saturday Night Liveco-head writer and Weekend Update anchor Colin Jost has boarded Warner Bros’ live-action/animation hybrid Tom and Jerry.Â
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…
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’sSaturday 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…
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…
Saturday Night Livereturned 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…
