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As the world continues to mourn the recent passing of David Lynch, this past weekend, the legendary artist and filmmaker received a shout-out from an unlikely source: Saturday Night Live.

Despite the fact that Lynch never hosted SNL and was never a cast member (at least not on this plane of reality), before the closing goodnights of the Dave Chappelle-hosted episode, the show aired a still photo of Lynch, as they did with Dabney Coleman after the former host died last year.

But, originally, the plan was to air a more substantial tribute to the late director — that is, until the show started running behind schedule.

Instead of just sticking a Jpeg of Lynch into the end of the show, according to LateNighter, during the episode’s dress rehearsal, the brief memorial would have been prefaced with a vintage clip of Roy Orbison singing “In Dreams” on SNL back...

Sunday Am Writethru Not counting the 2021 pandemic year when all theaters were closed, it’s the second lowest MLK 4-day weekend of the last 10 years with the marketplace now estimated to do $96.3M.

The last time it was this low was 2022 with $85M, and that’s when Paramount/Spyglass’ Scream led with a $33.8M Friday-Monday opening. Pin that overall low weekend total for all movies back then to a lack of product, even though Spider-Man: No Way Home was second with $24.2M, and some Covid jitters.

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You can’t complain and say people don’t go to movies over MLK weekend: There’s just nothing they’re craving to see this year. The MLK 4-day weekend with the right movies has the power to do $200M-plus; 2020 led by Bad Boys for Life amassed an overall weekend total of $205.3M while 2015 remains the holiday’s record for the...

For countless comedians, Saturday Night Live is a dream job and would be the crowning achievement of their career. But one cast member had second thoughts and even went so far as to ask Lorne Michaels to fire him. Thankfully, the SNL boss refused.

Saturday Night Live has a long list of fired cast members. Some, like Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, and Norm Macdonald, deserved a longer tenure. However, others were let go at the right time for various reasons, whether it was clashing with Michaels or failing to produce quality content. But it's hard to imagine many SNL cast members asked to be fired.

Enter Pete Davidson. The stand-up comedian admitted in the Peacock documentary SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night that he asked to be fired from the show. According to Davidson, feeling like an imposter or a fraud influenced the request.

"After my first year, I acutally called for a meeting with Lorne,...

If you sign into BetterHelp and see that your licensed therapist is Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels, best to close the app and try again. The guy might know how to keep a sketch comedy show on its feet for 50 seasons, but he’s definitely not qualified to help anyone through a mental health crisis.

Take the case of Bill Hader. The veteran cast member has been pretty open about his debilitating stage fright on SNL, once having a panic attack while playing Julian Assange during the live show. When an anxious Hader returned to host SNL, according to a New Yorker excerpt from the new biography Lorne, a snappy Michaels stopped by the comedian’s dressing room with some dubious advice: “Calm the fuck down. Just have fun. Jesus Christ.”

Er, that’s probably not the right approach, according to a MyTherapistOnline article titled, “Never in the History...

Iconic American comedy show Saturday Night Live turns 50 this year, kicking off the celebrations is a four part documentary.

It’s no exaggeration to say that Saturday Night Live is responsible for launching the careers of a huge amount of American comedy talent, from the early days with Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase, John Belushi, and Bill Murray, through eras with the much missed Phil Hartman, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Mike Myers, Molly Shannon, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig and many, many more.

This month sees the release of Saturday Night in the UK, following its release in the US last year. It’s a new film from Jason Reitman, who co-wrote the script with Gil Keenan, and it dramatizes the chaotic, stressful ninety minutes leading up to the very first show in 1975. It stars Gabriel Labelle as Lorne Michaels, Rachel Sennott as Rosie Shuster, Cory Michael Smith as Chevy Chase,...

A new drama recalls the wild first broadcast of Saturday Night Live in 1975. Making it was as much of a high-wire act as the show itself, the film’s director Jason Reitman and stars reveal

There is no show in history more obsessed with its own lore than Saturday Night Live. Almost every week the long-running sketch show is sprinkled with returning alumni and jokes that reference the show’s illustrious and controversial past: its social club status for the great and good of New York; the drug-fuelled deaths of its brightest lights such as John Belushi and Chris Farley; the superstars it created in Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell and Tina Fey, to name but five of hundreds.

SNL is so fabled that it’s already inspired scores of documentaries and numerous scripted TV shows based on it, including 30 Rock and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

Peacock has released the trailer for “SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night,” a new docuseries delving into the history of the prolific late-night sketch show and the comedians that made it possible.

According to an official logline, “‘SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night’ is a four-part docuseries honoring the legacy of ‘SNL,’ with over 60 contributors, including ‘SNL’ alumni, and covering decades of ‘SNL’ history. Spotlighting some of the show’s most iconic elements, each episode delves into the rich history of ‘SNL’ and pulls back the curtain on the audition process, the writers’ room, the fan favorite ‘More Cowbell’ sketch and the pivotal Season 11.”

The trailer, which features clips of ‘SNL’s’ most famous sketches, including “More Cowbell,” “Two Wild & Crazy Guys” and Chris Farley’s “Matt Foley/Van Down by the River,” teases the behind-the-scenes interviews with former and current “SNL” cast members like Amy Poehler, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Seth Meyers and Bowen Yang.

Two of Chris Farley‘s most popular comedies, which also co-stars David Spade, are coming home in a newly enhanced ultra-high-definition format. Tommy Boy and Black Sheep were one-two punches from the duo as they ventured from the small screen in Saturday Night Live to the big screen with their respective antics. Blu-ray.com has announced that Paramount will be remastering a 4K Blu-ray of Tommy Boy, while Black Sheep also gets an ultra-hd upgrade, but from Kino Lorber despite also being a Paramount movie. Both are also due to hit retailers the same day on March 25, 2025.

Tommy Boy will be celebrating its 30th anniversary with this release and the description reads, “Holy Smokes. one of the funniest films of the 1990s, Tommy Boy, has been remastered for 4K Blu-ray. Celebrating 30 years of gut-busting laughs, Chris Farley and David Spade are two ne’er-do-well traveling salesmen who hit the road...

In a recent chat on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, “Home Alone” director Chris Columbus talked about some interesting things that went into making the film. He talked about the history of the rich McCallister family and the strange event that made him decide to direct the movie.

Columbus, who is making the future film “Nosferatu,” explains where the McCallister family’s money comes from. He said the mother, Kate McCallister, was a famous fashion designer. The appearance of mannequins in their basement was a subtle hint at this aspect of the film. Columbus didn’t say for sure what Peter McCallister did for a living, but he did say that the character might have worked in advertising, which was a nod to the background of writer-producer John Hughes. Even though Chicago had a bad reputation at the time, he flatly denied a common fan theory that Peter was involved with organized crime.

Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York director Chris Columbus was almost at the helm of a different Christmas classic.

On this week’s episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, the veteran filmmaker — who most recently produced the new version of Nosferatu, which hits theaters on Christmas Day — reflected on how a “bizarre” meeting with Chevy Chase led him to the franchise in the first place.

It all started, Columbus recalled, when fellow Chicagoan John Hughes sent him the script of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, which Hughes was set to produce, and asked him to direct it. Columbus, who badly needed the gig after a couple of box office disappointments left his future directing prospects up in the air, enthusiastically said yes and began shooting second-unit footage over Christmas.

Then he sat down with the film’s star, Chevy Chase, and things quickly got very awkward.

For many comedy writers, working at Saturday Night Live would be the ultimate career accomplishment. But for Conan O'Brien, his tenure was filled with regret.

O'Brien's time at Saturday Night Live was really just the beginning of his career. His talent ensured it was a launching pad and not a peak. He went on to write for The Simpsons and later became perhaps the most beloved late-night TV host in the genre's history. Add in a successful podcast, travel show, and plans to host the Oscars, and O'Brien's made a pretty nice career for himself since leaving SNL.

However, O'Brien's career could have looked much different had he taken a different approach to his job at Saturday Night Live. He explained his regrets to Tom Hanks during a November 2024 episode of Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend.

“People always say no regrets. I regret being so intense about that job. Yeah.

Top that, SNL 50th Anniversary Party.

Martin Short was inducted into Saturday Night Live’s Five-Timers Club last night, welcomed by a dazzling array of members of the SNL royal family. The fact that the party replaced the tiresome political cold open just made it all the sweeter. Call the sketch a victory lap for Lorne Michaels. Is there any other TV show, comedy or not, that could gather a group like this?

First up, Tom Hanks, lounging in a leather chair like he was going to narrate another World War II documentary.

Hanks shared a piece of SNL history — he was the one who invented the idea of a “Five-Timers Club,” mainly as an “ingeniously lazy” way to avoid writing a host monologue that week. True story!

Paul Rudd joined Hank to welcome in Short, who previously played the Five-Timers Club cabana boy when Justin Timberlake was inducted. It’s quite a promotion.

Hulu is kicking off 2025 with a bang by adding tons of new content for subscribers starting January 1. From popular movies like American Psycho, Heat, and John Wick to new series like Goosebumps: The Vanishing, there’s plenty to check out.

Here’s the full list of movies and TV shows coming to Hulu in January 2025:

January 1 Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2025: Special Premiere Kids Diana Show: Let’s Celebrate Together: Complete Season 1 Papa Jake: Epic Box Forts: Complete Season 1 After Earth (2013) American Psycho (2000) The Devil’s Own (1997) The Devil’s Own En Español (1997) Dirty Grandpa (2016) Empire Records (1995) Ender’s Game (2013) The Great Debaters (2007) Heat (1995) Insidious (2011) Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) Insidious: Chapter 2 En Español (2013) Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015) Insidious: Chapter 3 En Español (2015) The Intouchables (2011) John Wick (2014) John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) John Wick: Chapter 3 (2019) The King Of Comedy (1983) Little Manhattan (2005) Man of the House (2005) Man Of The House...

Hulu is starting 2025 strong as the platform will add a lot of new content for its subscribers starting January 1. From movies like American Psycho, Heat, and John Wick to new series like Goosebumps: The Vanishing, Hulu is bringing A Lot to watch.

Here’s every movie & TV show releasing on Hulu in January 2025:

January 1 Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2025: Special Premiere Kids Diana Show: Let’s Celebrate Together: Complete Season 1 Papa Jake: Epic Box Forts: Complete Season 1 After Earth (2013) American Psycho (2000) The Devil’s Own (1997) The Devil’s Own En Español (1997) Dirty Grandpa (2016) Empire Records (1995) Ender’s Game (2013) The Great Debaters (2007) Heat (1995) Insidious (2011) Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) Insidious: Chapter 2 En Español (2013) Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015) Insidious: Chapter 3 En Español (2015) The Intouchables (2011) John Wick (2014) John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) John Wick: Chapter 3 (2019) The King Of Comedy (1983) Little Manhattan (2005) Man of the House (2005) Man Of The House...

Adam Sandler has quite a few films in his filmography that’s been rated negatively by sites like Rotten Tomatoes. However, Sandler himself might not share the same opinion regarding even some of his most underperforming features.

Adam Sandler didn’t feel like he had any ‘downs’ when it came to movies Adam Sandler | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

Sandler wasn’t the type to pay too much attention to critics’ opinions. He learned to stop caring about reviews the hard way after one of his earlier films, Billy Madison, was torn apart with criticism. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Sandler discussed just how shocking it was for him to get a negative review.

“When I was 17 and I got into this, I didn’t think about critics…I didn’t even realize that stuff was coming,” Sandler said. “I just thought you made movies, people go see it. When Billy Madison came out,...

From Canteen Boy to Opera Man, Adam Sandler was one of the baddest of the so-called Bad Boys of SNL. And while a lot of people couldn’t stomach the antics of that generation of players, that was the era I came up on and so have a special place for SNL cast members like the Sandman, David Spade, Chris Rock, and Chris Farley. So when there was a Studio 8H reunion between Sandler and Rock on this weekend’s episode of SNL, it hit the spot.

With Chris Rock serving as host for the fourth time, it might have seemed obvious that at least one other SNL alum would pop up; fortunately, it turned out to be one of the most successful ever, with Sandler making a surprise appearance in the “Gallbladder Surgery” sketch. In the bit, Sandler plays the patient to Rock’s surgeon, waking up only to have punctured an artery.

Chris Rock made a name for himself on Saturday Night Live in the '90s. But he made himself a fortune in his stand-up and movie career in the decades after leaving Studio 8H. Now, Rock is back on SNL as one of its most successful alumni.

Rock had been slowly but surely building his stand-up comedy career prior to landing Saturday Night Live. He also had a handful of movie credits to his name, something that was relatively rare for an SNL rookie.

He joined SNL in 1990 alongside contemporaries like Adam Sandler, David Spade, and Chris Farley. However, Rock's stint on Saturday Night Live was short-lived, and he left after two years.

From there, Rock used his talents and unique voice to build his comedy career. Today, Chris Rock's net worth stands at an estimated $60 million (via CelebrityNetWorth).

How does Chris Rock make his money?

Unsurprisingly, Chris Rock makes...

“Nonexistent problem, ineffective solution.”

This was the sage advice legendary writer Jim Downey would give to young writers like David Mandel when they were working on commercial parodies for Saturday Night Live. “That was often the key to a great commercial parody,” says Mandel, who wrote on the show from 1992 to 1995. “I loved making the commercial parodies. The chance to go off and make a little film was the opposite of SNL. You could edit it and be precise with it. It was exciting.”

Mandel got to write a number of commercial parodies during his three-year run on SNL, but his four favorites are below.

That’s Not Yogurt

The premise was simple: It was a guy eating yogurt, and the announcer keeps telling him, “That’s not yogurt,” but he won’t tell him what it is so the person gets very paranoid. It was my pitch, but Downey...

Adam Sandler was the king of comedy when it came to low-budget films for the longest time, but as is the case with industry funnymen who make it big, the actor faced a slew of personal tragedies that took a toll on his physical and mental health.

Adam Sandler in a still from Grown Ups || Columbia Picture

Sandler has revealed much on multiple shows through the decades about all the personal and professional tragedies he has faced, from losing a dear friend to drug abuse to losing his father to lung cancer. There were also a slew of legal cases that Sandler found himself at the center of.

Some of Adam Sandler’s best work faced issues in one form or another Adam Sandler in You Don’t Mess with the Zohan || Credit: Columbia Pictures

Adam Sandler found himself kicked out of Saturday Night Live way back in 1994, right when he...

For 50 years, Saturday Night Live has been a catchphrase factory, churning out funny turns of phrase that get repeated ad nauseam in middle-school cafeterias and corporate team-building retreats. That’s the problem with catchphrases — one that makes you laugh when you first hear it might make you throttle someone when it’s repeated for the 10,000th time.

Here are the five overused SNL catchphrases that have caused the most forehead veins to throb…

1 More Cowbell!

“More cowbell” has made lives miserable from everyone to fans at sports arenas to Christopher Walken to the members of Blue Öyster Cult. Will Ferrell told Jimmy Fallon he went to see Walken years later in a play. “And he’s like, ‘You know, you’ve ruined my life. People during the curtain call bring cowbells and ring them.’”

As for Blue Öyster Cult, the oft-repeated sketch forced the band to change up their live shows.

The premise of Shrek doesn’t shout “multi-billion-dollar mega-franchise” on paper — or when it’s shouted at you by Jeffrey Katzenberg after Saving Private Ryan made you cry.

It’s hard to envision a world where any actor besides Mike Myers plays the title character in Shrek, just as it’s hard to envision an alternate career path for the Saturday Night Live legend that goes any better for him than the one that led to him starring in four animated movies grossing a combined total of over $3 billion in the international box office. Today, Shrek is ubiquitous, and an entire generation of comedy-lovers best knows the Canadian impressionist as the voice of the crotchety, layered and preposterously Scottish ogre who taught us that appearances are less important than what’s on the inside, and that weed rats are best served either rotisserie style or in a stew.

However, when...

Mike Schur has had a hand in creating some of the century’s most memorable television comedy, including Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Good Place. Working on those shows was a walk in the park compared to his first TV writing job — fighting for air time on Saturday Night Live.

SNL was one of the first jobs Schur applied for after a college career that included heading the Harvard Lampoon, but he didn’t get the gig right away. During his interview process, “they put us in pairs to walk around and meet the producers,” he told Ted Danson on the Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast. “I was walking around with this woman, and I remember very clearly thinking I’m never getting hired here because this woman is so much funnier than me and so obviously better for this job than I am.”

That woman was Tina Fey.

Since it began 50 years ago, Saturday Night Live has experienced as much criticism as it has praise. That's especially true as the decades have gone on and certain fans grow nostalgic for the SNL of years past. But one legendary cast member is defending the current cast.

Lorne Michaels put it best when he suggested that everyone thinks Saturday Night Live was at its best when they were in high school. Older audiences tend to watch new SNL episodes more critically, comparing today's cast to legends like Jim Belushi, Gilda Radner, Chris Farley, and more.

But according to Bill Murray, that's not a fair assessment. He told the New Heights podcast that today's sketches can go up against anything he did in the late '70s.

“People always give me a hard time like, ‘Oh god, the original show was so great and it’s lousy now.’ No it’s not,...

Mike Myers was recently feted at the Vulture Festival, and sat for a career-spanning interview with the publication’s comedy journalist Jesse David Fox. The Emmy-winning comic performer discussed “Wayne’s World,” “Austin Powers,” “Saturday Night Live,” his dramatic work, and “Shrek,” sharing some particularly interesting anecdotes about the latter, which has come to be regarded as a classic animated comedy since its 2001 release.

Shrek, the green ogre with a cranky demeanor and a kind heart, was originally meant to be voiced by Chris Farley, who died in 1997 before he finished recording his part. Myers said that when he took the part, he didn’t know that it had originally belonged to his late “SNL” co-star. “They had created this maquette, a little statue made of clay of all the characters, and Shrek looked exactly like Chris Farley. I was at my third meeting, and I go, ‘Guys, was this offered...

John Lithgow has opened up about how his new animated movie triggered feelings of anxiety after previously being recast in two major voice roles. In animation, the final product that audiences see does not necessarily reflect the extensive and complex creative process that brought it to the screen. This includes the fact that the voice-casting process is relatively fluid. Characters take shape over several years, and as a project progresses, studios can sometimes make significant changes to the cast, since re-recording lines is much easier than reshooting live-action scenes.

While this has affected Lithgow more than once, the two-time Oscar nominee has voiced his fair share of animated characters. Although he is likely best known for his live-action roles in projects like the six-season sitcom Third Rock from the Sun and the iconic 1984 dance movie Footloose, he has voiced a wide range of roles including Jean-Claude in 2000's Rugrats in Paris,...

It’s a little shocking when Jim Gaffigan walks out on stage for his new Hularious stand-up special, The Skinny. The reason: Gaffigan is, well, skinny. Shockingly so, like down-50-pounds skinny. And the secret behind his weight loss isn’t what you’re thinking, which he says right at the top: He’s not on Ozempic. “I’m on a different one,” he clarifies. “I’m on Mounjaro, which is better because it sounds like an Italian restaurant.”

Gaffigan spends the first 10 minutes of The Skinny getting real about his weight loss, including the knowledge that it might be temporary. While his doctor recommended the appetite suppressant to prevent future health problems, Gaffigan is keeping his “fat clothes” for the inevitable slide.

He’s also aware of the drawbacks of such medications, replacing self-discipline, exercise and healthy eating with “a weekly shot that killed all the passion inside of me.

“You guys were magic together,” explained Melissa McCarthy on the latest Fly on the Wall podcast. She’s referring to the chemistry between host David Spade and Chris Farley in their first hit comedy, Tommy Boy. “It’s a perfect movie. And you two together, you could see how much you loved each other. And then it was still so funny.”

The key, responded Spade, was nobody was watching. “That was one where it was low expectations, lower budget, throw Farley and Spade out there and let’s see what happens. And no one really was visiting the set,” he said. If either of the comedians had a funny idea they wanted to try? “Pete Siegel was the director, and he was like, ‘Let’s try it.’”

Things weren’t nearly as relaxed on the Spade/Farley follow-up, Black Sheep. “They go, ‘Oh, we got something here,’ even though it wasn’t like a huge,...

Saturday Night Live hasn’t always gotten the best reviews. Heck, the very first episode of the show was branded as a “tedious failure” by Variety. But while that judgment came and went with little fanfare, a later SNL write-up was so unflinchingly scathing that several cast members briefly considered physically attacking the guy who wrote it.

On the most recent episode of the Fly on the Wall podcast, Dana Carvey and David Spade let slip that SNL’s upcoming 50th anniversary celebration will include a photo shoot for New York Magazine featuring the show’s alumni. And even though it’s nearly been 30 years, the subject of New York Magazine still brought up some unpleasant memories for Spade. “Who is the one we know we famously had the fight with back in the old days, we wanted to beat the guy up? Was that The New York Observer, or was it New York Magazine?...

Plenty of people have been fired from "Saturday Night Live" across the shows 50-year history. Whether it was Norm Macdonald being let go in the middle of a season because he refused to stop telling O.J. Simpson jokes or Chris Farley being sent off during one of the show's more tumultuous periods in the '90s, "SNL" creator Lorne Michaels has seen plenty of comedians come and go. However, only one person has ever been fired from "SNL" before they ever got to debut on the show.

Comedian Shane Gillis was hired for "Saturday Night Live" in September 2019, and he was meant to join the cast as a featured player for the show's 45th season, along with Bowen Yang and Chloe Fineman. However, after some racist and homophobic remarks came to light from "Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast," which Gillis co-hosts with fellow comedian Matt McCusker, NBC and "SNL" parted...

SNL or Saturday Night Live has just reached it's 50th season! That is a lot of years of comedy, coming from some of the most talented comedians and celebrities alike, performing opening monologues and skits.

When done right, these moments leave a lasting impact, whether they are touching on current affairs or events of the past. Seeing as how Halloween is right around the corner we wanted to compile a list of 7 of the best Halloween moments in SNL history.

From the nostalgic to the downright sidesplitting, which moments do you think made our list?

1. Michael Keaton on Trick-or-Treating (Season 8)

Our list begins with something a little different. While no one can deny that Michael Keaton has been exuding humor and star power from the beginning, his monologue about Trick-or-treating has us feeling a little nostalgic.

Who doesn't remember Trick-or-treating as a kid? Who doesn't recall how lucky they felt...

In an age where raunchy, ridiculous comedies are getting harder and harder to come by, stand-up comic and podcaster Stavros Halkias is willing to do whatever he has to become the next Will Ferrell, Danny McBride, or Chris Farley. For years, his crowd work was a staple of TikTok, endearing audiences with his crude, blunt sense of observational humor that extends to his involvement in the former podcast “Cum Town,” as well as his current show, “Stavvy’s World.” Now trying to both leverage and expand on this fan base he’s spent years cultivating, Halkias has placed another bet on himself by co-writing and starring in the indie screwball comedy “Let’s Start a Cult.”

The film was conceived alongside co-star Wes Haney and director Ben Kitnick, who brought the idea to Halkias, then later developed the script as well as a short version with him prior to the making of the feature.

Despite the fact that he still just can’t get over the fact that NBC fired Shane Gillis for publicly making racist and homophobic comments, Lorne Michaels seems a tad less broken up about the recent nixing of Saturday Night Live cast members Punkie Johnson, Molly Kearney and Chloe Troast. While Johnson and Kearney were less vocal on the matter when the news first hit last month, Troast quickly revealed on Instagram that she was “not asked back to SNL this season.”

This was a real bummer to be honest, since all three of them were solid performers. And Troast was only given one season to prove herself as a featured player. Even within that brief window of time, though, she managed to stand out in sketches like “Little Orphan Cassidy.”

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But just because someone is no longer working within the confines of Studio 8H doesn’t mean that...

Adam Sandler is best known for his slapstick comedies that do little to satisfy critics, but has, nonetheless, turned it into a brand. The actor has also surprised fans with small detours into dramatic territory with films like Spaceman, Uncut Gems, and Punch-Drunk Love. However, he has managed to balance his brand of comedies.

One of his earliest roles as an SNL alum was the comedy Airheads. Starring along with Brendan Fraser and Steve Buscemi, Sandler was the main draw due to his time on SNL. He reportedly used this clout to make sure the director cast Fraser, though he was a relative unknown at the time and was only known for Encino Man.

Adam Sandler Threatened To Walk Away From Airheads If The Director Did Not Cast Brendan Fraser Adam Sandler in Airheads | Credits: 20th Century Fox

A year before Adam Sandler had his big film breakthrough with Billy Maddison,...

Given that Bill Clinton spent two terms as president in the 1990s, it was almost impossible for him not to be an SNL staple throughout the decade. In fact, Clinton provided so much material for the show over those years that he was played by two different cast members: Darrell Hammond and, of course, the late Phil Hartman. That said, of all the SNL sketches lampooning Clinton over that nearly 10-year period, one is continually cited above all the rest — his impromptu stop at a local McDonald’s as president-elect.

Once inside, he glad-hands with patrons while eating off their plates and explaining detailed policy measures. While most of the dialogue relates to issues very much from 1992, it’s still remarkably funny, mostly because of the spectacle of Clinton (portrayed here by Hartman) obnoxiously eating as he says all these wonky things.

The sketch was the brainchild of SNL stalwart Al Franken...

Saturday Night Live knows how to find and cultivate talent. The show has been responsible for some of the most beloved comedians and movie stars of the last five decades. That being said, the show has not always handled the exits of these stars gracefully.

Some of the biggest names to come out of SNL were actually fired from the show due to situations and circumstances that were out of their control. Well, out of their control in some instances. What is fascinating, though, is the fact that SNL will still invite these stars to come back as a host once they made it big.

We decided to chronicle this bizarre pattern, which dates back to the 1990s.

Chris Rock "Invasive Species" Opening Night | Bruce Glikas/GettyImages

Chris Rock may now be considered one of the greatest stand up comedians of all time, but he did not really get a...

Pinterest is filthy with elaborate, homemade Halloween costumes based on classic SNL characters. But creation requires effort and imagination. Save yourself the trouble with some admittedly lame but readily available costumes that you can buy from Amazon and pop-up Halloween superstores. You just might get a laugh — not the right kind of laugh, but a laugh nonetheless.

1 More Cowbell Guy

Less Blue Oyster Cult and more roadie for Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, this knotted mess of curls will transform you into a cowbell player. Check for bedbugs before attaching to face.

2 Plus-Sized Spartan Cheerleader

Will Ferrell + Chris Farley = Halloween madness.

3 Garth

For sheer laziness, this one takes the cake. Lose the glasses and you’re Season 49 host Sydney Sweeney!

4 Alien Cone Bald Head

Unlike many other online costumers, the good folks at Skeleteen are wary of a litigious Lorne Michaels. But if you want to be a Conehead,...

"Saturday Night" is playing in theaters everywhere now, showcasing the chaotic chronicle of the 90 minutes preceding the first episode of the late night sketch comedy series "Saturday Night Live" (or at least the show that would eventually have that title). Jason Reitman directed the film, and he also co-wrote the script with producer Gil Kenan (director of "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire"), both bringing a long-time love for "SNL" with them. In fact, Reitman was able to live the rare dream of writing at "SNL" for a week. Meanwhile, Kenan's love for "SNL" began in the '90s with the likes of "SNL" legends like Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, and Chris Farley, but it carries through to this day.

Being a die-hard "SNL" fan myself, I was thrilled to speak with both Reitman and Kenan about piecing together the early history of "Saturday Night Live" into this electric film. It's funny,...

It’s a historical season for Saturday Night Live. The lights came up on the sketch comedy in 1975. Since then, the show has been a touchstone for social issues, politics, and unforgettable musical performances, and it has launched the careers of some of the industry’s most influential writers and comedians. So when does this milestone kick off?

‘Saturday Night Live’ kicks off season 50 on Sept. 28

The 50th season of Saturday Night Live kicks off on Sept. 28, 2024. The milestone moment arrives as the longest-running live sketch comedy show in television history hits the half-century mark with the familiar theme song kicking off its first episode of the season.

Jean Smart will host the inaugural installment of the half-century series. Jelly Roll makes his musical guest debut.

Nate Bargatze will make his second appearance as host on Oct. 5. Coldplay performs as a musical guest for the eighth time.

Ariana Grande will...

It must be a blessing and a curse to have your name forever immortalized as a Saturday Night Live character. On the one hand, you’re famous! On the other hand, well, you’re famous, and maybe for character traits that are funny in a comedy sketch but not in real life.

Here are five real people who — often without their prior knowledge — became household names thanks to SNL…

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The real Matt Foley is a priest and long-time friend of Chris Farley. He had no idea he was about to become an iconic comedy character when he showed up for a Second City show in the early 1990s. “I was in the audience that night,” Foley remembered in The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts. “When he said, ‘My name is Matt Foley, and I am a motivational speaker!’ I was probably as red as a beet.

Saturday Night Live is back. Well, almost. The beloved sketch show returns on September 28, and Emmy winner Jean Smart will be making her debut as host. As the promo for the season 50 premiere shows, though, Smart will have a lot to compete with.

Saturday Night Live is celebrating five decades on the air, and the show is going to have to juggle new and vital guests, while at the same time looking back and honoring the legends that came before. It's something the show hilariously reckons with, courtesy of Smart's comedic timing.

Jean Smart gets overshadowed by old SNL clips

The promo starts off wistful and soft, with Jean Smart walking down the halls of the SNL offices. She stops and looks at photos of past generations on the wall. The promo then intercuts clips of people like George Carlin, Steve Martin, and the countless other hosts who have left their mark.

Saturday Night Live is celebrating its 50th anniversary this season, which is getting a lot of attention… but Jean Smart would like to reserve some of that attention for herself, please.

The Emmy-winning Hacks star is hosting SNL’s Season 50 premiere this week, and in a new promo released on Wednesday (watch it above), Smart takes a nostalgic stroll through the hallowed halls of Studio 8H, marveling at the show’s history as we see classic SNL clips of Steve Martin hosting and Dan Aykroyd playing Julia Child.

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The legend of the early years of Saturday Night Live is that performers and writers churned out 90 minutes of live comedy each week fueled by cocaine and other substances.

Okay, it’s more than legend. Writer Tom Schiller called pot “an inspirational tool” in those early seasons, according to Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night. George Carlin admitted coke had him “in another world” on the show’s debut in 1975. Dan Aykroyd once read this joke on Weekend Update: “This just in from the National Drug Abuse Association: Cocaine and heroin do not mix. If you must snort, don’t shoot.”

Did Lorne Michaels simply turn a blind eye while all of this was happening on his watch? That’s what Lesley Stahl wanted to know when she interviewed him for 60 Minutes back in 2004. A lot of that interview ended up on the cutting room floor,...

As Saturday Night Live readies its 50th season, which launches Sept. 28, 60 Minutes is releasing never-heard-before audio from a 20-year-old interview with its famously private maestro Lorne Michaels and his talent from the period.

Running as part of the news magazine’s newly launched podcast series, 60 Minutes: A Second Look, the episode weaves together interviews that Lesley Stahl conducted in 2004, when the show was granted full access to a week at SNL — one that happened to coincide with the Ashlee Simpson lip-syncing fiasco — but only aired some three minutes of the interviews. Left on the cutting room floor was material from Michaels, who recently spoke to THR at length for a cover story, as well as former SNL writer Conan O’Brien and then cast members likes Seth Meyers, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey and Darrell Hammond.

The episode, which is titled “From Saturday Night Live to Sunday with 60 Minutes,” centers largely...

As Punkie Johnson, Molly Kearney and Chloe Troast know all too well, most departures from Saturday Night Live happen with little fanfare or recognition — a few paragraphs in The Hollywood Reporter during the show’s off-season and you’re gone for good. The show’s early cast members didn’t get much of a send-off either, but in recent decades, Lorne Michaels has occasionally tipped his cap to exiting cast members who served the show well.

Here are five of the show’s most heartfelt farewells…

1 Will Ferrell

Ferrell’s goodbye was the first in which cast members appeared as themselves to say au revoir. Over sentimental music, viewers heard from cast members like:

Ana Gasteyer: “I worked with Will for six years, and it was more fun than anything I’ve ever done.”Jimmy Fallon, telling on himself: “It was hard for me to work with Will because...

If you’re Jimmy Fallon or Horatio Sanz, Saturday Night Live screwups are a dime a dozen. But forget not being able to keep a straight face. When you’re doing live television, other things can — and do — go wrong, from uncontrollable animals to high-flying theatrics gone haywire.

Here are five times that SNL sketches went sideways — and there wasn’t a damn thing anyone could do about it…

1 Massive Head Wound Harry Play

When W.C. Fields said, “Never work with children or animals,” he was somehow predicting Massive Head Wound Harry, a sketch in which a dog decides to take comedy into its own paws.

The plan was always for the pooch to lick Harry’s unfortunate wound, but it wasn’t supposed to devour Dana Carvey’s head. The dog was so ravenous for the fake injury that Carvey got into a tug-of-war to keep it attached to his noggin.

Having successfully built a devoted following as a leading purveyor of cringe comedy with his hit Netflix sketch series, I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson, the show’s rubber-faced star/co-creator ups his game with the innocently titled Friendship, a gleefully discomfiting portrait of male bonding that delivers some of the year’s biggest laughs.

Robinson navigates an extremely fine line between lovable goof and creepy psycho in writer-director Andrew DeYoung’s fearless first feature, playing a klutzy man-child of a suburban dad whose everyman demeanor becomes short-circuited after being taken under the wing of a friendly neighbor (Paul Rudd).

Of course, it also doesn’t hurt to land the always game Rudd as the object of one’s obsession. Rudd is himself no stranger to bromantic comedies, having starred in 2009’s I Love You, Man, which plays like innocuous fluff in comparison to DeYoung and Robinson’s no-holds-barred approach to the subject.

According to nine-year Saturday Night Live veteran Bobby Moynihan, the Saturday Night Live production schedule stopped working efficiently the second the show ran out of booger sugar.

The drug habits of the Saturday Night Live cast and crew are the stuff of comedy legend, often tragically so. The cocaine consumption of series icons like John Belushi and Chris Farley are a dark spot in the show’s powdery-white history, and it’s honestly refreshing that the biggest drug problem SNL has had in the last decade was the time when Louis C.K. tried to get Pete Davidson fired for smoking pot in his dressing room. However, in the first few decades of SNL’s existence, cocaine was to 30 Rockefeller Plaza what Sunoco Green E15 is to NASCAR, and the entire SNL operation moved at about the same speed as a result.

Today, the creative engine of SNL no longer runs...

Before each Saturday Night Live performance, Kristen Wiig would light a candle, she once told Kelly Clarkson. Amy Poehler shared her own pre-show ritual with Clarkson this week. “When Don Pardo would say my name,” Poehler explained, “I used to just take a moment and close my eyes for about a split second. Because that's about all the time you have at SNL. Molly Shannon used to do that — she told me about it so then I did it.”

Aww, sweet. But not as fun as another SNL tradition that Poehler revealed. It turns out the Parks and Rec star got Shannon’s office after she left the show, a fact evidenced by the scribbles Shannon left on the room’s walls. “Everyone would just kind of leave their name like summer camp,” Poehler said. “You'd write your name on the wall.”

Defacing SNL property is a long-standing tradition that...

Live from Funko Pop!, it’s the Saturday Night Live collection!

In honor of the NBC late-night show’s upcoming Season 50 (which tentatively premieres Saturday, Sept. 28), Funko has released a collection depicting fan-favorite characters in miniature Pop! form. While the SNL 50 Funko Pop! collection doesn’t officially release until Friday, Nov. 29, each figure is currently available for pre-order for just $12.99.

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Adam Sandler is back with a whole show full of fresh tunes. But are any of them worthy of an animated movie adaptation, à la “The Chanukah Song”?

Well, probably not, in no small part because Eight Crazy Nights bombed so hard that The Sandman has exclusively stuck to Halloween for his holiday movies in the decades since. However, Sandler’s newest Netflix stand-up special, Adam Sandler: Love You, is filled with plenty of new ditties to leave audiences laughing and humming even after the credits roll.

The most talked-about tune of Sandler’s last stand-up special, the 2018 show Adam Sandler: 100 Percent Fresh, was, undoubtedly, Sandler’s unexpected memorial anthem for his dearly departed friend and fellow Saturday Night Live legend Chris Farley. Though Sandler again closed Love You with a heartfelt, serious song about comedy legends, this time around, the finale was far from the finest tune Sandler sung that evening,...