#saturday-night-live

#saturday-night-live

Kenan Thompson's been acting for most of his life. Cast in both All That and D2: The Mighty Ducks in 1993, when he was just 15, Thompson came of age onscreen. Maybe that's why, when he joined Saturday Night Live, just ten years after he started on Nickelodeon, Thompson felt like a fully formed comedian, sure of his own voice and style and able to deliver in just about any situation. He might have been relatively young, but compared to his fellow cast members, he had more credits and (arguably) more experience.

I expected that I would've been on the stage too with all of the other actors. When Garrett [Morris] and Laraine [Newman] went on the stage there, I was curious as to why I didn't. No one asked me to. Why was I left aside?

Cher made her musical return to Saturday Night Live after a 40-year hiatus to help ring in the holidays. The pop icon took the stage at SNL on December 20th, for the show's final episode of the year, and performed her holiday anthem, "DJ Play A Christmas Song." Surrounded by male dancers with faux snow falling in the background, Cher brought the festive cheer before closing the song by holding her fingers up in a heart.

A few people were doing it at the time. Jean Pagliuso and Benno Friedman were doing it a little bit differently. I had a boyfriend, and we went on a cross-country trip. One of the places we went was Las Vegas. I loved the Las Vegas pictures, so I decided to put some color in them, and then in some other pictures, pictures I'd done of some cows.

Pete Davidson barged back into Saturday Night Live to talk about his ferry venture with Colin Jost. Get it, barge? Anyway, Davidson addressed what the New York Times called his and Jost's "money-losing fiasco" on "Weekend Update." He blamed his appearance at the Riyadh Comedy Festival on the ferry gobbling up all his money. "I assume that's what the article says," Davidson continued. "I can't spend $5 on a paywall."

For many years, John Mulaney was the fresh-faced, mild-mannered young darling of comedy.

In her first interview for the film, Ronan wasn't putting it on: There really isn't much like "Bad Apples," and that's a compliment. Consider two things: the film's short synopsis ("A primary school teacher [is] forced to take drastic action because of a foul-mouthed, violent student"), which doesn't sound exactly funny, and one of the main inspirations for Etzler casting the four-time Oscar nominee in a film that is, indeed, very funny.

Though a trio of cast members announced departures prior to Season 50, the past week has seen a larger exodus, with four cast members already confirmed to leave and the possibility of more following them out the door; the season doesn't actually start up until Oct. 4. Among those exiting, Heidi Gardner probably made that decision herself;