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Saturday Night Live UK takes aim at Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in scathing opening sketch

Saturday Night Live UK takes aim at Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in scathing opening sketch

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The second episode of Saturday Night Live UK turned its satirical glare to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in its opening sketch. Comedian Jack Shep took on the role of the 66-year-old former prince for the skit, which imagined Andrew playing a key part in a scheme to boost the future King Charles’ standing with the public. The five-minute sketch opens in the year 1997, with the Queen’s third child summoned to meet with MI5 agents to hash out a top secret plan to improve then-Prince Charles’ reputation. “Since the death of Princess Diana the public have turned on Prince Charles, but still, one day he will be King,” one of the secret service operatives tells Shep’s Andrew. “We need to make him look good.” Another agent then tells the prince that “the only way to increase the likeability of our future King is …

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 …

Harry Styles’s Dead-On SNL MAHA Sketch

Harry Styles’s Dead-On SNL MAHA Sketch

Published by José Betancourt

Any fan of medical dramas would know the scene well. An elderly woman is being wheeled hurriedly into the emergency room; she collapsed, we’re told, at her birthday party. She has delayed breathing, her blood pressure is through the roof, and the doctors and nurses are catching one another up, trying to figure out the right course of action. And then the head doctor, someone usually strong of chin, steps in. As expected, he instantly assesses the situation and knows exactly what to do. “What she needs is a steak,” declared Harry Styles, the host of last night’s Saturday Night Live and the Noah Wyle stand-in for a sketch riffing on the HBO hit series The Pitt. “She needs protein, people,” he added with steely certainty. “Give me beef tallow and six raw eggs, stat.” “MAHAspital” was a withering parody of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, a fake promo for a TV show aimed at “people who love The Pitt but can’t stand its phony liberal science.” Naturally, it was brought to us by …

The ‘SNL’ Sketch That Broke All the Rules

The ‘SNL’ Sketch That Broke All the Rules

Published by Daniella Wilson

Near the end of last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live, something unusual happened. As Ashley Padilla, playing a painfully square high-school teacher named Ms. Perry, intercepted a note from one of her students, a graphic flashed across the screen: “The Contents Of These Notes Have Been Changed Since Rehearsal.” Standing next to the night’s host, Ryan Gosling, who was playing the school principal, she announced her next step: “You know my rule. If I catch you passing a note, I’m gonna read it out loud.” The note, she found, was about her—a student had caught her asking ChatGPT for makeover tips. The laughter Padilla failed to stifle while reading it suggested that the graphic was telling the truth. She really seemed to be seeing these words for the first time. Gosling and Padilla’s fellow cast member Mikey Day also seemed surprised when it was their turn to unfold a sheet of loose leaf and divulge its secrets. Their barely concealed grins and guffaws—breaking, in comedy parlance—aren’t uncommon sights and sounds on modern-day SNL. But …

SNL sketch mocking Tourette syndrome condemned by charity as ‘unacceptable’

SNL sketch mocking Tourette syndrome condemned by charity as ‘unacceptable’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter A leading Tourette’s charity has condemned a Saturday Night Live sketch that mocked John Davidson’s involuntary racial slur at the 2026 Baftas, accusing the show of contributing to “horrific” trolling experienced by those with the condition. A spokesperson for Tourette’s Action branded the clip “unacceptable” and said videos like this “can undo the progress our community has spent years building toward greater awareness”. They said Tourette’s “is not a joke” or “a source of entertainment”, but “a condition that can be extremely debilitating, causing pain isolation and huge amounts of discrimination”. The SNL sketch in question, which was released online over the weekend, poked fun at the Baftas incident, in which Scottish campaigner John Davidson, who has Tourette syndrome, shouted a racial slur while actors Delroy Lindo and Michael B Jordan were presenting an award. The BBC later broadcast the pre-recorded …

SNL facing backlash for ‘shameful’ sketch about Tourette’s incident at Baftas

SNL facing backlash for ‘shameful’ sketch about Tourette’s incident at Baftas

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Saturday Night Live is receiving backlash for its “shameful” sketch about the racial slur incident at last weekend’s Baftas. Last month, Scottish campaigner John Davidson, who has Tourette syndrome, shouted a racial slur while actors Delroy Lindo and Michael B Jordan were presenting an award, and the BBC broadcast the pre-recorded moment, which had happened two hours before. The moment sparked widespread debate, with Davidson, whose life inspired the film I Swear, stating he was “upset and distraught” by the situation and was allegedly told that any offensive involuntary tics would be cut from the broadcast. SNL, which was hosted by Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie, poked fun at the subject with a controversial sketch that was released online after being edited out of the latest episode due to time constraints. It features the sketch show’s cast members playing controversial celebrities, …

Michael Che calls out fan’s SNL pitch for Epstein island sketch featuring actual children

Michael Che calls out fan’s SNL pitch for Epstein island sketch featuring actual children

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Michael Che has put one Saturday Night Live fan on blast for proposing an outrageous Epstein island sketch. In a since-deleted Instagram Story, the SNL star, 42, shared a screenshot of a private message he received from a viewer. “If SNL had any balls they’d do an Epstein island sketch like it was a joke but just have it be reality and have Trump and Elon etc etc partying with actual children,” it read. Little Saint James, a private island in the Virgin Islands, owned by the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, was notorious for being the base of his alleged sex trafficking operations. “That’d be funny to you..?” Che wrote on the post, “pedo reenactments with actual kids..you think the audience would be laughing at that..? open image in gallery SNL’s Michael Che slammed a fan’s pitch for Epstein island sketch …

Wacom MovinkPad 11 Tablet Review: A Portable Sketch Pad

Wacom MovinkPad 11 Tablet Review: A Portable Sketch Pad

Published by skeptic

Wacom’s new MovinkPad 11 is a compelling alternative to the iPad for serious digital artists looking for a portable sketching tool. It’s not as powerful as a full workstation or even an iPad, but the battery life is good, the drawing experience is best in class, and you can take it with you. Whether you’re a confirmed digital fan or, like me, still prefer paper and pens or pencils but want to dabble in digital art, the MovinkPad is a compelling alternative to the iPad. An iPad is more likely to suck you into the internet or disrupt you with messages from friends. You can put such distractions on the MovinkPad (don’t!), but out of the box it’s a more focused device designed to get out of your way and let you get to drawing. A Digital Sketch Pad Your standard digital art setup is a computer, ideally a powerful desktop with a nice monitor, a drawing tablet, and some sort of desktop software. Alternatively, many people use an iPad, but in my experience you …

Confidence class gets derailed in ‘SNL’ sketch

Confidence class gets derailed in ‘SNL’ sketch

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In this Saturday Night Live sketch featuring this weekend’s host, Teyana Taylor, the Golden Globe winner plays one of several overly inquisitive students in a confidence class led by Ashley Padilla. SEE ALSO: ‘SNL’ Cold Open presents the Trump Awards Padilla’s character explains she started teaching confidence after bombing a job interview, a seemingly simple confession that immediately sends the class spiraling. What begins as encouragement quickly devolves into an aggressive group interrogation, with Taylor, Mikey Day, Kenan Thompson, and Marcello Hernández fixating on every possible detail. Naturally, the questions get unhinged fast. What was she wearing? Leather gloves and “nice leather pants.” What was the job? Michelle Obama’s speechwriter. The room grows increasingly skeptical, especially after Padilla’s résumé comes into play, which proudly lists skills such as “do voices” and 9 years of experience as a Dolly Parton impersonator. Asked to do the former, she does a questionable Yoda voice. Then, when asked to do the latter, she refuses as it’s too close to the Yoda voice. Amazing stuff. Source link

Harry Potter gets ‘Heated Rivarly’ treatment in ‘SNL’ sketch

Harry Potter gets ‘Heated Rivarly’ treatment in ‘SNL’ sketch

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Smutty fan fiction is having a moment, and the writers at 30 Rock are clearly more than happy to indulge. This time, Saturday Night Live reimagines the upcoming Harry Potter TV series as Heated Rivalry — but make it Quidditch. SEE ALSO: ‘SNL’ returns with another Trump Cold Open In the sketch, dubbed Heated Wizardry, Harry (Finn Wolfhard) and Ron (Ben Marshall) tumble into a torrid Hogwarts romance, with the faux trailer going out of its way to clarify that everyone involved is very much 18+. “Hogwarts is basically college now,” the narrator helpfully explains. Plot? Lore? World-building? Irrelevant. We’re here to watch two hot wizards kiss. Is the writing particularly good? Probably not. But that’s beside the point. The sketch fully commits to the genre, delivering steamy glances, breathless longing, and a surprisingly faithful production design for what is, at its core, a shamelessly horny retelling of Harry Potter. If nothing else, it proves that nothing is immune to the gravitational pull of thirst. Source link