Adam Sandler closed out his return to Saturday Night Live by performing a touching tribute to his friend and fellow cast mate Chris Farley. Sandler previously played his Farley tribute in his 2018 Netflix stand-up special 100% Fresh, but Saturday’s rendition was especially poignant considering the two comedians were cast …
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Saturday Night Live took an It’s a Wonderful Life approach to the Trump White House, imagining an alternate reality where Donald Trump didn’t become president. “It’s awful. Everything’s falling apart. Sometimes I wish I’d never been president,” Alec Baldwin‘s Trump tells Kenan Thompson’s heaven-sent Clarence, who then presents Trump, like …
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It’s the Gilda Radner grin that really gets you — always radiant, sometimes childishly goofy, occasionally maniacal. You see it a lot in Love, Gilda, the documentary on the late Saturday Night Live star. There it is, in snapshots of her as chubby kid in Detroit and as a teenager …
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Let’s not bury the lede: That was the best Saturday Night Live episode all season. Watching SNL is not unlike watching a sporting event or a concert: All three are live experiences in which anything can happen, and when something magical unfolds, it becomes contagious. Donald Glover and the Not …
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