Watch highlights from the fourth episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by Adele at 30 Rock’s Studio 8H, with H.E.R. as the musical guest.
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Watch highlights from the fourth episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by Adele at 30 Rock’s Studio 8H, with H.E.R. as the musical guest.
LaunchWatch highlights from the third episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by Issa Rae at 30 Rock’s Studio 8H, with Justin Bieber as the musical guest, including the cold open spoofing the October 14th presidential town halls.
LaunchWatch highlights from the second episode of SNL’s forty-sixth season, hosted by Bill Burr at 30 Rock’s Studio 8H, with Jack White as the musical guest, including the cold open parodying the vice presidential debate.
LaunchSaturday Night Live is back! The show taped its forty-sixth premiere last night in front of a studio audience who, unlike the Trump entourage, were wearing masks. Watch SNL’s brilliant spoof of Tuesday’s farce of a debate, Chris Rock’s monologue, and more.
LaunchTake a look at the Magnolia State’s proposed new flag, which doesn’t contain any Confederate symbolism, but does contain the words “In God We Trust”, in possible violation of the country’s historic separation of church and state.
LaunchWriting for The Daily Beast, the publisher of Hustler assesses the downfall of Jerry Falwell, Jr. and explains why most right wing televangelists are scam artists who prey on the gullible.
LaunchThe gifted actor portrayed Jackie Robinson, T’Challa, James Brown, and Thurgood Marshall. More importantly, he was an exemplary and kind human who treated everyone with decency.
LaunchWant to better understand the times we are living in? Here’s a collection of pandemic literature that is credible, trustworthy, and fascinating.
LaunchWatch highlights from the seventeenth episode of SNL’s forty-fifth season, sort of hosted by Brad Pitt, with Miley Cyrus as the musical guest.
LaunchWatch highlights from the sixteenth episode of Saturday Night Live’s forty-fifth season, hosted by Tom Hanks, with Chris Martin as the musical guest.
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Launch“The most-watched news channel in America has become, since the fall of its powerful founder, Roger Ailes, much more like the Trump White House: a family business where it’s not entirely clear who is in charge… Since the powerful Mr. Ailes was ousted amid a sexual harassment scandal in 2016, the network seems more and more like an asylum in the firm control of its inmates.”
Launch“Refusing to go with live coverage. Suspending normal relations with his White House. Always asking: is this something we should amplify? A focus on what he’s doing, not on what he’s saying. The truth sandwich when we feel we have to highlight his false claims. This is what you can expect now that our coverage has been switched to an emergency setting.”
LaunchSaturday, March 7th, 2020: Elizabeth Warren and Kate McKinnon, together at last, live from New York. Watch them open SNL together.
LaunchWatch highlights from the fourteenth episode of SNL’s forty-fifth season, hosted by John Mulaney, with David Byrne as the musical guest.
LaunchLate night host Jimmy Kimmel revisited an old segment of his show to troll extremist Republican Senator Ted Cruz. Watch as a slew of self-identified Republicans fail to identify a single country on a blank map of the world.
Launch“We journalists should never again write that someone is too old, too young, too polarizing, too petty, too cranky or too whatever to win an election. We should listen to what he or she is saying and then analyze, with an open mind, how it’s being heard.”
LaunchWatch highlights from the thirteenth episode of SNL’s forty-fifth season, hosted by RuPaul, with Justin Bieber as the musical guest.
LaunchWatch highlights from the twelfth episode of SNL’s forty-fifth season, hosted by JJ Watt, with Luke Combs as the musical guest.
LaunchWatch highlights from the eleventh episode of SNL’s forty-fifth season, hosted by Adam Driver, with Halsey as the musical guest.
LaunchRemember Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood? Gumby? Buckwheat? Velvet Jones? Eddie Murphy brought all those classic characters back last night.
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