Saturday Night Live‘s season 51 premiere kicked off with Donald Trump and his Federal Communications Commission attack dog warning cast members not to go too far with their jokes—or face the consequences. Trump (James Austin Johnson) began by interrupting Secretary of Defense and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth (Colin Jost) instructing high-ranking members of…
Saturday Night Live opened its 51st season with a skit skewering Donald Trump’s crackdown on late-night TV, as the president (James Austin Johnson) warned that “daddy’s watching.” The skit also featured Mikey Day as FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who last month came to national prominence after he warned of agency action over comments that Jimmy…
Never ones to not try to ruin a good time, Donald Trump‘s Homeland Security plans to swarm Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX Halftime performance, the right-hand man to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem promised today. “I don’t care if it’s a concert for Johnny Smith or Bad Bunny or anybody else,” Corey Lewandowski told Benny Johnson…
Former Saturday Night Live star and member of the comedy trio The Lonely Island, Jorma Taccone, revealed a scary accident this week. The 48-year-old comedian is recovering from multiple injuries after falling 20 feet off a ladder while painting a mural at his home in Connecticut. After sharing his harrowing experience during an episode of…
Billionaires sure do seem to love space travel. Long before Amazon’s Jeff Bezos would take Katy Perry and several other celebrities on a controversial rocket trip in February 2025, Saturday Night Live skewered the tech mogul’s interstellar aspirations. Host Owen Wilson donned a bald cap and cowboy hat to star in a parody trailer for the fictional…
The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood has criticised US sketch show Saturday Night Live for a “mean and unfunny” take on her character, in which she was portrayed with large prosthetic teeth and an exaggerated British accent. She encouraged SNL to find “a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way” to create comedy and revealed…
“Saturday Night Live” continued to roast key White House figures in this weekend’s episode, which saw President Donald Trump and his inner circle checking in to the “The White Lotus.” Retitled “The White POTUS,” James Austin Johnson returned as the US president, parodying Jason Isaac’s beleaguered financier from the HBO show. In the wake of…
The buzzy second season of The White Lotus earned a Season 48 parody, and on April 12, Saturday Night Live took on Season 3. In place of the show’s chaotic Ratliff family, “The White Potus” sketch followed President Donald Trump‘s family and their inner circle on vacation at a Thailand resort. The sketch’s premise was made all the more…
Here Comes The Sun: Comedian Michael Che and Lincoln’s coat – CBS News Watch CBS News Tony Dokoupil sits down with comedian Michael Che to talk about “Saturday Night Live” and his love for stand-up comedy. Also, Faith Salie heads to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to view the coat President Lincoln wore when he…
“Saturday Night Live” again looked back at the week in politics in the cold open, focusing on a reportedly explosive Trump cabinet meeting where Marco Rubio and Elon Musk got into a shouting match. Donald Trump, played by James Austin Johnson, attempts to broker a truce with Secretary of State Rubio, played by Marcello Hernandez….