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Saturday Night Live Names Season's First 3 Hosts

It'll be the first time for Sabrina Carpenter

(Newser) - Fresh off its historic 50th season, Saturday Night Live is kicking off its 51st with some familiar faces: Bad Bunny, Amy Poehler, and Sabrina Carpenter. The trio, no strangers to Studio 8H, will host the first three episodes of the season, NBC announced Thursday . All three were heavily involved in...

SNL Is Getting 5 New Cast Members
SNL Names
5 New Cast Members
Sep 2, 2025 3:03 PM CDT

SNL Names 5 New Cast Members

Announcement follows several high-profile departures

(Newser) - Five new cast members will join the upcoming season of Saturday Night Live, showrunners announced Tuesday on the heels of several high-profile departures . Ben Marshall, already an SNL writer, will become a featured player, along with newcomers Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Culhane, Kam Patterson, and Veronika Slowikowska.
  • The additions follow a
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Heidi Gardner Said to Be Leaving SNL

She's been with the sketch comedy show 8 seasons

(Newser) - Heidi Gardner is leaving Saturday Night Live after eight seasons, according to sources who spoke to outlets including Variety and the Hollywood Reporter . Gardner, who joined the cast as a featured player in 2017, was with the show for eight seasons, six of them as a main cast member. The...

The SNL Cast Departures Have Begun
SNL's Cast Departures Begin
Aug 26, 2025 9:45 AM CDT

SNL's Cast Departures Begin

Devon Walker announces his exit, along with writer Celeste Yim

(Newser) - The cast changes that typify Saturday Night Live's summer hiatus have begun, and the first departure doesn't appear to be exactly a tearful one. The first cast member out the door is Devon Walker, who joined the NBC show in 2022, and USA Today notes it's not...

Ashlee Simpson Reflects on Infamous SNL Lip Sync Incident

She says mistakes back then felt like they'd be on a person's 'shoulders forever'

(Newser) - Ashlee Simpson-Ross—then just Ashlee Simpson—infamously became the first artist to walk out of a Saturday Night Live musical performance in 2004, when she was 20. Now 40, the singer is looking back on that incident, and says "the bullying was insane" afterward, People reports. For her second...

Tina Fey Reassures Pros That AI Isn't Funny Yet

Former SNL cast member offers tip on UK version

(Newser) - Tina Fey provided reassurance and counsel to industry professionals at the Edinburgh TV Festival, including the team launching a UK version of Saturday Night Live. In their joint appearance onstage, Graham Norton told Fey he couldn't see British writers pulling all-nighters the way the New York team does to...

Dana Carvey Opens Up About 'Delicate' SNL Portrayal of Biden

'I knew that he was compromised mentally'

(Newser) - Dana Carvey, one of several Saturday Night Live cast members who portrayed Joe Biden over the years, says it was "delicate" doing an impression of America's oldest president last year. In a recent episode of his Fly on the Wall podcast , Carvey, who turned 70 last month, was...

Morgan Wallen: Here's Why I Walked Off SNL

Country singer says he wasn't mad, just ready to go

(Newser) - Morgan Wallen addressed his abrupt departure from Saturday Night Live during a new interview on Sundae Conversation with Caleb Pressley. Asked by the host whether the comedy sketch show made him "mad," the country singer replied, per USA Today , "No. I was just ready to go home....

White Lotus Star Calls Out SNL for 'Mean and Unfunny' Skit

Sketch mocked actress Aimee Lou Wood's distinctive teeth

(Newser) - The latest White Lotus-adjacent controversy is actually a Saturday Night Live controversy. This weekend's episode of SNL featured a parody of the HBO comedy-drama series titled " The White Potus ," in which President Trump and his family were depicted as White Lotus-like characters—with one notable exception. SNL...

SNL Is Making a Move Across the Pond

UK version of Lorne Michaels' decades-old Saturday night comedy staple to launch in 2026

(Newser) - Saturday Night Live announced on Thursday that it plans to launch a British version of the US sketch comedy show, which is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary in the States. The AP reports that the UK version of the program, produced with Sky Studios, will have a British cast of...

Saturday Night Live Has Two Jokes About Wallen's Exit
SNL Returns to Wallen's Exit
Apr 6, 2025 10:30 AM CDT

SNL Returns to Wallen's Exit

Singer had left stage quickly the week before

(Newser) - Morgan Wallen was in a hurry to leave Saturday Night Live last weekend, but it seems the show wasn't finished with him yet. In the NBC program's first broadcast since the singer's hasty retreat at the end of the show on which he was the musical guest,...

Morgan Wallen's Odd SNL Exit Raises Eyebrows
Kenan Thompson Weighs In on
Morgan Wallen's Odd SNL Exit
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Apr 5, 2025 6:00 AM CDT

Kenan Thompson Weighs In on Morgan Wallen's Odd SNL Exit

'Seems like a complicated individual, I guess,' SNL star says

(Newser) - At least one of the stars of Saturday Night Live seems to disagree with the source who insisted Morgan Wallen's abrupt exit from the most recent show was totally normal. "I thought maybe he had to go to the potty or something," Kenan Thompson tells Entertainment Weekly...

Morgan Wallen Now Selling 'God's Country' Merch

$45 will get you a T-shirt or trucker hat

(Newser) - Morgan Wallen appears to be capitalizing off the headlines. Since his abrupt exit from Saturday Night Live and social media plea to "get me to God's country" fueled speculation that the country artist wasn't pleased to be in New York, Wallen has doubled down on his apparent...

Elon Musk Has Terse Response to Mike Myers' Impersonation

'Humor fails when it lies,' he tweets after SNL sketch

(Newser) - Elon Musk appears not to have been amused at Mike Myers' impression of him on Saturday Night Live over the weekend, reports Unilad Tech . "Humor fails when it lies," Musk tweeted .
  • In the show's cold open, Myers as Musk crashed a meeting of President Trump and Ukraine'
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Joy Behar Agrees With MAGA Over Hanks Skit

'They're making anyone who voted for Trump look like a racist,' says The View host of SNL

(Newser) - Tom Hanks revived his "Doug" MAGA character for the Saturday Night Live anniversary show, and he's been taking flak from the right ever since, reports Fox News . On Tuesday, however, a new critic joined the chorus whose name is likely a surprise to supporters of the president: Joy...

Two Murderers Have Hosted SNL? Behind Mulaney's Joke

Most think he meant Robert Blake and OJ Simpson

(Newser) - As part of the opening monologue in Sunday night's anniversary show for Saturday Night Live, John Mulaney joked about how difficult some of the celebrity hosts could be:
  • "Over the course of 50 years, 894 people have hosted Saturday Night Live, and it amazes me that only two
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5 Moments From the SNL Anniversary Show

Including Meryl Streep's first appearance and another by Jack Nicholson

(Newser) - Saturday Night Live celebrated its 50th anniversary with a three-hour live show Sunday night. Some of the moments generating the most buzz:
  • Jack Nicholson made his first public appearance in years—the 87-year-old introduced Adam Sandler from the audience. Sandler then performed a musical homage to Lorne Michaels, reports Variety
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Aubrey Plaza Makes First Public Appearance Since Husband's Death

Star popped up on SNL 's 50th anniversary special to introduce a musical act

(Newser) - It was short and sweet, but over the weekend, Aubrey Plaza made her first public appearance since her husband's death last month, popping up on the stage of Saturday Night Live for the show's 50th anniversary special. Per People , even though the 40-year-old White Lotus and Parks and ...

SNL Is Re-Airing Its Very First Show

It's part of a 50th anniversary celebration, with a 3-hour special on Sunday

(Newser) - The 50th anniversary celebration of Saturday Night Live is so big, it's not even on Saturday. Airing at 8pm Eastern Sunday and spanning three hours, the, yes, live SNL50: The Anniversary Celebration will assemble a dream team of stars who have helped the show become an enduring pop culture...

SNL Cold Open Wonders If We Now Have a King

Lin-Manuel Miranda makes an appearance

(Newser) - The first Saturday Night Live of Donald Trump's second term suggests he is more like a king than a president. In the cold open, Lin-Manuel Miranda of Hamilton fame starts launching a rap about the Declaration of Independence, and when he gets to the line, "In America, we...

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