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Olivia Rodrigo will bring You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love to life on Saturday Night Live next month, pulling double-duty as host and musical guest on May 2.

Che's joke during Weekend Update suggested that President Trump's theater visit could end badly, drawing a parallel to Lincoln's assassination. The audience reacted with loud cheers and applause.

They threw my headshot in the trash like it was the Epstein files!

James Austin Johnson wasn't sure he was going to play Donald Trump during the lead-up to the 2024 election. He knew there would be a lot of eyeballs on those episodes; it was Saturday Night Live's 50th season, and there were plans to bring in stars to portray the key political players. So when it became clear that Johnson was being tapped for the gig, he felt the pressure.

Across the internet, eagle-eyed sleuths are crying " AI slop" after Saturday Night Live aired segments with what looks like AI-generated imagery. The first instance, from Saturday's cold open, shows an illustrated Christmas storybook. The images feature a hazy, yellow-ish hue and an image of streets that don't connect. The next, in "Weekend Update" showed an image of a woman playing a slot machine in an otherwise empty casino while using an oxygen tank with tubes that weren't connected.

The Saturday Night Live fangirls (and Challengers-enjoyers) were well fed last night. Josh O'Connor was kissing a lot of boys on SNL. Well, okay, just two boys. But if you had a nickel for every not ready for primetime fella Josh O'Connor kissed last night, you'd have two nickels. And that's two more nickels than you had before. In the first sketch, Bowen Yang's inscrutable doctor did a lot of nonsense instead of giving Andrew Dismukes the results of his blood work.

The advertisement spoof began innocuously, introducing the 2025 edition of Spotify "Wrapped"-the streaming service's popular year-in-review feature that repackages data gathered from individual listeners into brightly hued, shareable statistics-which the show also tackled last year. When Spotify revealed to Andrew Dismukes's character that he'd jammed to 2,705 minutes of Steely Dan since January, his character smiled knowingly: "Yeah, that tracks."

On Saturday Night Live, Sarah Sherman has played a woman covered in singing meatballs, a Jewish Elvis, and - last week - a drunk raccoon ribbing Colin Jost. But for Squirm-heads, she's in her truest, most delightful form when she's taking us through her own head: talking about some kind of disarmingly nasty body horror, complete with guttural sounds, clad in her famously bright, patterned, clown-adjacent wardrobe.

Andrew Cuomo played by the evening's host, Miles Teller was ripped for his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and the various sexual harassment allegations against him. Hello, voters! Cuomo said. You all know me. I got us through Covid and then yada, yada, yada. Honk honk, squeeze, squeeze. Anyway, I'm back. I am a born, bred New Yorker. I love it here. I know this city like the back of a woman's back. Mamma mia!

We went up on stage and I was standing there looking out at Will Farrell and Bill Burr sitting in the front row, it was crazy,

The life of a Domingo girl consists of a lot of vacations and secret rendezvous. Kelsey (Chloe Fineman) must have a lot of miles saved up. For the cold open sketch on October 18, Saturday Night Live brought back Domingo (Marcello Hernandez) for a 30th birthday party celebrating Matthew (Andrew Dismukes), and as always, it ends in another hookup uncovered.

As a child, McKinnon had loved books about slightly oddball characters, like those found in Roald Dahl books. Her favorite heroine was Pippi Longstocking, whom she played in a kindergarten performance. She loved the character so much that she would show up at school for years in a full-on Pippi costume, complete with pipe cleaners in her hair to mimic the heroine's iconic protruding red pigtails.

Saturday Night Live has a long history of riffing on Jeopardy! Perhaps the apex of this came with the show's recurring Celebrity Jeopardy! sketches, which paired Will Ferrell's exasperated take on Alex Trebek with Darrell Hammond's malevolent incarnation of Sean Connery. Jeopardy! remains a pop culture touchstone, so it wasn't shocking to see SNL parody the show again on the first episode of its 51st season.

"I feel a lot less crazy there, as you learn the ups and downs and how to just genuinely enjoy it. Comedy is at its best when you're being loose and at its worst when you're really tense and overthinking things. All my best stuff I've ever gotten on the show has been Plan D or 'I don't know, how about this?' It's not the thing I'd spent all night meticulously trying to make work."

What is among Saturday Night Live's most controversial moments could have had a happy ending. In an all new interview with Matthew Belloni of Puck News, SNL creator Lorne Michaels said he had planned to bring back Sinéad O'Connor for a performance during the SNL50 live special. "If [O'Connor] were still alive, I would have asked her to sing that song," Michaels said in reference to the performance of "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Miley Cyrus and Brittany Howard. O'Connor, of course, passed away in July 2023.

Hader revealed that he chose not to participate in the SNL50 live anniversary special because of his mental health. The sketch was about anxiety experienced by cast members during their time on the show.

I knew that he was compromised mentally. I mean, it was obvious to me, but it was a delicate thing in the comedy world. There were a lot of people did not want to do anything that would kind of ding him in like an awkward way.

No SNL stars have confirmed departures after its landmark 50th season, but fans are closely analyzing the finale for hints about the cast's future.

The cold open delivered few surprises, with a five-minute, mostly unoriginal Trump monologue that drew minimal audience reaction, indicating the writers could use a break.

"Lorne Michaels, wherever you are, you're not gonna want me to single you out, but congratulations. You are a singular man."