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Maya Rudolph has been hiding in a Saturday Night Live closet for 17 years and is now ready to come out and host the show. In a promo ahead of Rudolph hosting the NBC late-night sketch show, Andrew Dismukes and Chloe Troast are walking the halls of 30 Rock when they notice a door and laughing noises…

Is that Tashi Donaldson or Dua Lipa? Saturday Night Live audiences were treated to a nod at Luca Guadagnino’s latest film Challengers during a sketch featuring host Dua Lipa as a somewhat intense woman who had invited a date over to her apartment — aka SNL featured player Marcello…

Saturday Night Live is poking a bit of fun at a common form of activism seen on red carpets. The sketch comedy series put together a fake ad for the “teeny tiny statement pins” frequently seen on red carpets, supporting a variety of causes. With the Met Gala approaching, SNL figured it might be…

Jerry Seinfeld crashed Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update segment, and Colin Jost introduced him as “a man who did too much press.” The Seinfeld star has been on a press tour promoting his Netflix movie Unfrosted, which he directed and stars in. Seinfeld came to the Update desk, not knowing…

Dua Lipa is schooling Saturday Night Live on the bad blood between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. During a local news segment sketch, the “Dance The Night Away” singer appeared as a culture critic Wanda Weems to catch audiences up to speed on all the jabs the two rappers have taken at each other in diss…

Dua Lipa debuted as a guest host on Saturday Night Live and revealed her “radical optimism.” The singer took the stage of the NBC late-night talk show on the heels of the release of her third studio album titled, Radical Optimism. Lipa said that many people have been asking what radical…

Saturday Night Live tackled the college campus pro-Palestinian protests by taking aim at high education’s high tuition costs and questionable payoff. Rather than tackle the Gaza issue itself, SNL instead went with the POV of parents, featuring a spoof of a NY1 talk show roundtable of parents…

Heidi Gardner is seven seasons in on Saturday Night Live and had never broken character until Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day personified Beavis and Butt-Head. The comedian completely lost it during SNL when she turned to see her co-star dressed as Butt-Head during one of the sketches. In a new…

Saturday Night Live is closing out Season 49 with two three-peats. After Dua Lipa pulls double duty on May 4, Maya Rudolph will host the sketch comedy show for the third time on May 11. Vampire Weekend will make its fourth appearance as musical guest. On May 18, Jake Gyllenhaal will return to…

Chloe Fineman’s Dua Lipa impression probably isn’t quite ready for prime time yet, or even late night at this point. But she still has a few days to get there. In this week’s Saturday Night Live promo, SNL‘s Fineman greets host and musical guest Lipa with a workshop version of her latest impression.…

Ryan Gosling attracted Saturday Night Live‘s biggest audience in years. The actor’s April 13 episode, which also featured musical guest Chris Stapleton, drew 8.9M viewers after seven days, according to NBCUniversal. In the 18 to 49 demo, the episode is up to a 2.0 rating. That’s the show’s…

Eva Mendes praised Ryan Gosling’s Cuban accent in the “Can’t Tonight” Saturday Night Live sketch. Gosling co-starred in the sketch with Marcello Hernández as two men trying to convince their friend, played by Kenan Thompson, to go out with them. “Coño! My Cuban Papi made this Cuban Mami so happy…