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Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, Melissa McCarthy Join Jack Black SNL Monologue

Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, Melissa McCarthy Join Jack Black SNL Monologue

Published by Daniella Wilson

Jack Black is back on Saturday Night Live — and he has officially joined the Five-Timers club! The Super Mario Galaxy Movie star kicked off his hosting monologue by addressing that it was his fifth time hosting the sketch comedy series, before he was joined by a starry lineup of guests who, too, have hosted the show (at least) five times. “I am so thrilled to be back hosting SNL for the fifth time. It’s a huge honor to join the Five-Timers club,” he said. “I’m a five-timer!” Black was first joined by his Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot co-star Jonah Hill, who was sporting a Five-Timers robe. “It is so good to see you. What have you been up to, man?” Black said, to which Hill joked, “Well, I’ve actually been working on Superbad 2!” The two walked through a door to the Five-Timers lounge, which prompted Hill to tell Black, “Jack, we need your help. There’s something wrong with the Five-Timers Club. You see what I mean?” “Yes, you’re right, …

SNL Alum Kevin Nealon Slams Castmembers Who Break During Sketches

SNL Alum Kevin Nealon Slams Castmembers Who Break During Sketches

Published by Daniella Wilson

Former SNL star Kevin Nealon isn’t a big fan of seeing current castmembers break into laughter during sketches. While the comedian and actor didn’t name any of the cast directly, his comments came after a recent episode of the NBC sketch comedy series that saw host Ryan Gosling and featured player Ashley Padilla break character several times. “I never broke character on SNL,” Nealon wrote on X. “I knew how much time the writers put into those scripts. You don’t want to be the one who throws it off. Lorne doesn’t like when the cast breaks. Even if the audience laughs, it doesn’t work for the sketch.” “If I could get through the Chippendales sketch, I could get through anything,” he added, referencing the iconic season 16 skit with Chris Farley and Patrick Swayze. Throughout the Project Hail Mary actor’s four times hosting SNL, including his most recent turn on March 7, he’s been known to easily crack during the sketches. But it was the “Passing Notes” skit from that episode that had Gosling and …

Tina Fey Hosts Promising Spinoff

Tina Fey Hosts Promising Spinoff

Published by Daniella Wilson

Saturday Night Live UK had its looooooooooooong-awaited premiere this weekend, and let’s get a couple of obvious jokes out of the way. First of all, congratulations to Saturday Night Live UK on marking the last week nobody will be able to say the show used to be funnier! Saturday Night Live UK The Bottom Line Good cast, spotty writing — like the mothership. Airdate: Premiered Saturday, March 21 (Sky One)Cast: Hammed Animashaun, Ayoade Bamgboye, Larry Dean, Celeste Dring, George Fouracres, Ania Magliano, Annabel Marlow, Al Nash, Jack Shep, Emma Sidi, Paddy Young But also, the writers had 51 years to write jokes for the first episode and this was what they came up with? Hilarious, I know. But given that Tina Fey began her monologue by joking that she’s the youngest person to ever host Saturday Night Live UK, easy punchlines are in play. While it’s thoroughly baffling that it took Lorne Michaels this long to franchise one of American television’s most beloved and lucrative formats, the transplantation of Saturday Night Live for British audiences …

Saturday Night Live UK Gets Off To A Flying Start In Ratings And Reviews

Saturday Night Live UK Gets Off To A Flying Start In Ratings And Reviews

Published by Sam Flores

The first episode of Saturday Night Live UK went down a storm with both viewers and critics. Over the weekend, SNL launched its UK counterpart with Tina Fey as the inaugural guest host. While there may have initially been questions raised about how well the format would translate across the Atlantic, the episode has received a wave of praise – and pulled in some impressive viewing figures. According to BARB data, SNL UK had a 3.2% share, with just shy of a quarter of a million people watching live on Saturday night. While at first glance, this figure (226,000 viewers) might seem a little on the low side, it’s important to keep in mind that these are big numbers for a pay-TV channel like Sky. Impressively, SNL UK also managed to pull in a bigger audience than Channel 4’s offering in the same timeslot, the Mission: Impossible movie Rogue Nation. Critical reception to the episode has also been pretty positive. The Guardian gave it three stars, as did The Independent, with the former calling the …

Donald Trump Shares SNL UK Sketch Mocking Keir Starmer

Donald Trump Shares SNL UK Sketch Mocking Keir Starmer

Published by Sam Flores

Donald Trump has shared a Saturday Night Live UK sketch mocking Keir Starmer. The US president posted the skit from the new Sky UK comedy show on his Truth Social account on Sunday. In it, Starmer is portrayed as a weak and ineffectual prime minister who is scared of the US president. At the start of the two-and-a-half minute clip, the PM is shown at his desk in 10 Downing Street waiting on a phone call from Trump. At one point, he says to deputy PM David Lammy: “Oh golly, but what if Donald shouts at me? What day I say Lammy?” To laughter from the audience, Lammy replies: “Just be yourself, prime minister. Yourself is who everyone likes.” When Trump phones and says hello, Starmer screams and slams the phone down. He then says: “Sod that scary, scary wonderful president. Why is he so difficult to talk to?” Later in the sketch, Starmer says: “I’m out of my depth here, Lammy. How did Liz Truss make this job look so easy?” When told by …

SNL UK Debuts with a Tina Fey F-Bomb, Reanimated Princess Diana

SNL UK Debuts with a Tina Fey F-Bomb, Reanimated Princess Diana

Published by Sam Flores

Fey then returned to the screen as a doctor in a maternity ward dispatched to treat parents-to-be whose labor has inexplicably slowed. “I’m sorry to tell you that your baby isn’t shy. He’s pretending to be shy for attention,” she announces, as the infant (Larry Dean) capered about on an ultrasound screen. “Unless you want your son to become a grown man who is addicted to canceling plans, let me do my goddamned job,” Fey continued, before picking up a megaphone and shouting into the mother’s birth canal. “Honey, are you the diamond from my wedding ring? Because you are fake as hell and we can see right through you, okay?” A threat to leave the baby behind while the rest head out to karaoke finally gets the labor back on track. Things end with all the sketch’s members dancing to Naughty by Nature’s “Hip Hop Hooray,” which after Jurassic Park is the second 1993-vintage allusion of the night. And then it was time for Weekend Update, anchored by Ania Magliano and Paddy Young. Up …

Tina Fey Hosts Promising Spinoff

Host, Cast, Best Peacock Deals

Published by Daniella Wilson

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. Saturday Night Live UK is starting off strong with SNL veteran Tina Fey as its first-ever host. While the premiere airs in the UK on Saturday, March 21, U.S. viewers will be able to stream it on-demand the following day, Sunday, March 22, on Peacock. And for those who don’t yet have a subscription, we’re laying out the little-known ways to save big on the NBCUniversal-owned service — or even get it for free (more on that here and below). At a Glance: How to Stream Saturday Night Live UK in the U.S. Premiere: Sunday, March 22 (one day after it premieres in the UK) Stream online: Peacock How to Watch SNL UK in the U.S.: Best Peacock Free Trials, Deals 2026 U.S. viewers will be able to stream Saturday Night Live UK episodes on Peacock the day after they air in the UK. Since SNL UK premieres on Saturday, March 21 …

‘SNL’ Stars Pick Favorite Sketches in ‘Rundown’ Digital Series

‘SNL’ Stars Pick Favorite Sketches in ‘Rundown’ Digital Series

Published by Daniella Wilson

If you could build the perfect Saturday Night Live episode, pulling from 50-plus years of sketches and performances, what would you choose? That’s the premise of a new short-form series from SNL called The Rundown. The show, which will stream via Peacock, YouTube and SNL’s social channels, asks current and former castmembers to choose their favorite sketches and musical performances to build a fantasy episode on the show’s rundown board. Up first is “Weekend Update” anchor Colin Jost, who discusses the importance of — and difficulty nailing — the cold open sketch. Watch the episode below. Jost notes that the cold open for SNL is often truly cold, because after a warm-up comic, “there is like 10 minutes of jazz” from the in-house band as the show waits to go live at 11:30 p.m. ET. “You are going from an ice-cold vibe in here, and if you’re good as a performer and good as a writer at being able to get that audience laughing early on, it is a feat.” Jost estimates he’s written about …

Harry Styles’s Cheeky Cinnamon Roll Tee Is Going to Be Everywhere This Summer

Harry Styles’s Cheeky Cinnamon Roll Tee Is Going to Be Everywhere This Summer

Published by Jenni Sidey

Harry Styles is no stranger to food-based sexual innuendos. From eating melons and strawberries (you know) under summer skies on his 2019 hit “Watermelon Sugar” to calling someone so hot that he could cook eggs on their body on the track “Music for a Sushi Restaurant” (which, who knows, is maybe also an euphemism), appetite and desire are inextricably linked in his discography. So it’s fitting that he teased a new item from Pleasing, his unisex lifestyle brand, in a promotional spot for his Saturday Night Live hosting gig: a T-shirt stamped suggestively with two pasty-like cinnamon buns, on the verge of dripping off the shirt. Pleasing teased the collection with a cheeky message on their website: “Nice buns. One for you, one for me.” The line doesn’t come from a current Styles lyric—at least not one already featured on his brand-new fourth studio album, Kiss All the Time, Disco Occasionally—but it’s easy to imagine him stumbling upon, perhaps while spilling out of an Italian café, La Bionda’s 1978 disco track “One for You, One …

Harry Styles Address Queerbaiting Claims on SNL, Kisses Ben Marshall

Harry Styles Address Queerbaiting Claims on SNL, Kisses Ben Marshall

Published by Daniella Wilson

Harry Styles is back at Saturday Night Live! The “Watermelon Sugar” singer discussed his break from music in his monologue as host, which sparked after he wrapped his Love On Tour in 2023. Styles explained that said time off gave him a chance to reflect on his life. “I finished my last tour in 2023, and after that I took a bunch of time off. I realized I’d spent half my life in music, touring, creating albums and making songs about fruit that people think are about sex,” he said. “I just really like fruit, guys. I like sex too.” Styles continued, “So, when you’re on holiday, it’s like five in the afternoon, you’re all covered in sand, you and your partner are all sweaty and hot, and you stumble back to the room and you just wanna… papaya.” The three-time Grammy Award winner then addressed past claims that he was queerbaiting due to his fashion choices. He started, “Back then, people seemed to pay a lot of attention to the clothes I was wearing, …