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In this week’s edition of Saturday Night Live, Martin Short tried his hand at directing a Charlie Brown Christmas pageant. “You’re watching Freeform’s 25 Days of Christmas,” the sketch begins. “We now return to the animated classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas.“ We cut to the Charlie Brown kids…

Tonight on Saturday Night Live, Bowen Yang and Ego Nwodim hosted the CIBO Express Christmas Week Airport Parade, live from Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport. “It’s chaos, it’s mayhem, and everyone’s afraid,” sing their TSA agent characters in the sketch. “It’s the Christmas Week…

In a return to form, Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” featured Bowen Yang as another aggrieved inanimate object standing up for themselves (hat tip to previous performances as the Titanic iceberg and viral pygmy hippo Moo Deng). During this week’s final episode of the year, with host Martin…

In his fifth time hosting Saturday Night Live — fresh off a cold open featuring a who’s who of SNL royalty inducting him into the coveted Five-Timers Club — Martin Short had a few tips for the stressed cast members of the late-night sketch show on how to deal with holiday-related stress. The Only Murd…

Saturday Night Live lined up Tom Hanks, Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Melissa McCarthy and others to welcome Martin Short into the “Five-Timers Club,” or those who have hosted the show at least five times. “I just want to say I am so happy to be here for this moment, so I would like to present to you the…

Saturday Night Live is a legendary gig for musicians and bands. From Lee Ving's Fear encouraging kids to slam dance to “Beef Bologna” to Nirvana playing “Rape Me” alongside Charles Barkley and RuPaul and Sinéad O’Connor ripping up a photograph of the Pope during a cover of Bob Marley's “War,” the…

Adam Sandler made a surprise appearance on tonight’s episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by his longtime friend and fellow comedian Chris Rock. In the sketch, Chris Rock plays a surgeon surrounded by medical staff as surgery to remove an appendix is underway. Sarah Sherman plays a nurse named…

Since Donald Trump is the gift that keeps giving for SNL, Weekend Update’s Colin Jost took the requisite swipe at the president-elect’s recent Time cover by reasoning that “no person on earth has taken up more of our goddamn time.” Michael Che then took the baton by saying how Amazon is planning to…

Chris Rock opened Saturday Night Live with a crack about Lorne Michaels having 25 out of 50 good years on the late night show before going dark with jokes about the suspected CEO killer and how it hasn’t been a great year for Black people in America. “I mean, we got Luigi,” Rock quipped about the…

It was YouTube's Crime Stories with Nancy Grace tonight all over Saturday Night Live's cold open featuring "health care assassin" Luigi Mangione, as Sarah Sherman and the NBC late-night show took on the fan club the killer of UnitedHealthCare's CEO has attracted since his arrest this week. Or, on a…

A behind-the-scenes look at Saturday Night Live is coming to Peacock ahead of the show's 50th anniversary. The streamer will premiere SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, which comes from Morgan Neville, on January 16. This comes ahead of the 50th anniversary primetime special on February 16. The…

Fans of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher shouldn't be worried about the comedian quitting his weekly show. He was joking around, according to HBO exec Nina Rosenstein. On a recent episode of his Club Random podcast, Maher told guest Jane Fonda that he was "sh*tting his pants" over Donald Trump's…