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‘SNL’ Host Shane Gillis Drops Accidental ‘F-Bomb’ During Dr. Seuss Sketch
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‘SNL’ Weekend Update Mocks Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize Loss, Pete Hegseth’s Execution Plan
Following a clunky cold open, host Shane Gillis’s flop of a monologue and the comic dropping an accidental F-bomb during a Dr. Seuss sketch, audiences were treated to another edition of “Saturday Night Live’s” Weekend Update, featuring Colin Jost and Michael Che. And things kicked off with Jost needling one of his favorite targets, President […]
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Midday Meal isn’t necessarily about the art of cooking, but it is in part about the rituals of food, rituals which become more precious with scarcity. But more than that, the new film from director Majid Majidi — best known for his 1997 drama Children of Heaven , the first Iranian production ever nominated for the […]
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‘SNL’ Weekend Update Brutally Mocks Trump for Losing Nobel Peace Prize
Following a clunky cold open, host Shane Gillis’s flop of a monologue and the comic dropping an accidental F-bomb during a Dr. Seuss sketch, audiences were treated to another edition of “Saturday Night Live’s” Weekend Update, featuring Colin Jost and Michael Che. And things kicked off with Jost needling one of his favorite targets, President […]
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Shane Gillis returned to host “Saturday Night Live” for the third time since his 2019 firing, emerging in a matching black T-shirt and pants for a meandering monologue about needing to lose weight and being miserable (and trying to be unthreatening to women) while hiking. “I tried to go to a public gym. Going to […]
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Pete Hegseth Is Unhinged in ‘SNL’ Cold Open Mocking Christa Pike’s Botched Execution and RFK Jr.
Colin Jost returned as an especially rowdy Pete Hegseth in this week’s “Saturday Night Live” cold open, welcoming home sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln after nearly a year at sea. The Oct. 10 sketch opened with an introduction to the ship’s returning crew, who were told that before reuniting with their families, they would […]