Saturday Night Live

“Saturday Night Live” loves to talk politics, and for their cold open this weekend, we had a new iteration of Hillary Clinton! Previously, this was a woman played by Amy Poehler, and she and Tina Fey as Sarah Palin had plenty of fun together. Kate McKinnon played the new version of the former First Lady […]

If you want to take a true test of how much Lorne Michaels loves you on “Saturday Night Live,” a good question to ask yourself is this: Have you appeared in a promo for the show? Leslie Jones has, even if this is her first year of being a featured player. Have we seen Kyle […]

A hero is coming to “Saturday Night Live,” but whether or not Chris Hemsworth is going to save the day is still relatively unclear. The reigning Sexiest Man Alive is still hosting the show this weekend, and will be doing so with musical guest Zac Brown Band. The “Thor” star is a formidable guy, and […]

Did “Saturday Night Live” go too far in mocking ISIS of all things? Ultimately, that depends on who you ask. Reaction was very mixed following a sketch that aired this past episode, which featured Dakota Johnson’s character going off to what seemed to be college. However, the big twist was actually that she was going […]

It really is not fair to compare “Saturday Night Live” last night to the 40th Anniversary Special. That was a chance to see so many old favorites after many years, and it also had the luxury of airing in primetime. As for last night’s show hosted by Dakota Johnson, let’s just remind you that it […]

We have to best honest: When “Saturday Night Live” started to air a sketch this weekend themed around “Star Trek,” our initial reaction was to almost commence freaking out, thinking that the show somehow managed to be so blind to the news around them that they decided to mock a show right after Leonard Nimoy […]

Alabama Shakes are the sort of band who you don’t always hear about very much when you just listen to the radio. However, you hear them on “Saturday Night Live,” and you immediately start to get into their energy and their sound. We admit, we know very little about the band. We even had to […]

You knew that there would be at least a few jokes about “Fifty Shades of Grey” during this weekend’s edition of “Saturday Night Live.” After all, this was one of the biggest movies of the year, and it is primarily what Dakota Johnson is known for. We did like “Ben & Kate,” though! We’re going […]

While Kenan Thompson may be joking around in the “Saturday Night Live” promo when he says “let’s start the next 40 [years] off right,” he actually has a point here: There is a heck of a lot of pressure on tonight’s new episode. You are coming off of a show that drew enormous ratings, and […]

Is it fair to be concerned about this weekend’s new episode of “Saturday Night Live“? We think so. Anytime you have a movie star on, the concern is that live comedy is as different as different can be within the same field. There are no multiple takes here, and there are cue cards. Reading those […]