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Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost has snagged quite an assignment for the 2024 Olympics. The Weekend Update anchor has been tapped to cover the surfing competition from Teahupo'o, Tahiti, part of French Polynesia, for NBCU. This will be the second-ever Olympic surfing competition after the sport debuted…

Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels has opened up about a variety of topics including how talent on the long-running show deal with fame, controversial hirings and firings, how long he'll remain on the show and cost-cutting. Michaels, in a rare interview with the New York Times, said that some…

The secret behind the enduring success of Saturday Night Live is its ability to evolve and diversify its talent base, according to Kenan Thompson, who pointed to the iconic ‘Black Jeopardy’ sketch as an exemplar. Speaking at Cannes Lions, the SNL stalwart said the near-50-year-old format is…

Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan conducted an extensive series of interviews with the living cast, writers and crew of the first-ever episode of Saturday Night Live, which aired on October 11, 1975 on NBC and has been going ever since. The result of their efforts is Sony Pictures’ upcoming SNL 1975, a movie retelling the…

Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Kenan Thompson, Michael Che and Colin Jost all have hosted the Primetime Emmys in the past 15 years, but the late-night community once again is feeling aggrieved by the TV Academy as it heads into the latest awards season. The central issue…

Saturday Night Live remains a hit with the youth. The long-running NBC show, which just finished up Season 49, remained the number one entertainment series across ad-supported broadcast and cable in the 18-49 demo for the 2023-24 season. It earned a 1.13 in the demo, beating out series such as…

Maya Rudolph joins me for today’s edition of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens, hot on the heels of returning to her old Saturday Night Live stomping ground as host. A highlight was no doubt the return of her dead-on impression of Beyoncé appearing on…

There are a plenty of longtime Saturday Night cast members, yet there were no big exits — or hints of departures — on tonight's Season 49 finale of the venerable NBC late-night program. No SNL veterans were tearing up at the end of their sketches like Kate McKinnon did in the 2022 finale, it was all…

The recent assault on Steve Buscemi on the streets of New York City spawned a skit for SNL that featured Jake Gyllenhaal as an NYPD sergeant urging bad guys to “stop punching character actors in the face.” Speaking at a press conference for reporters, Gyllenhaal called character actors “the life…

Dabney Coleman was remembered on Saturday Night Live. The NBC late-night comedy show paid tribute to the late actor with a title card at the end of the live Season 49 finale. Coleman died on May 16 in his home in Santa Monica, California. Related Stories …

Most of the cast of Saturday Night Live took part in a takedown of Southwest, with Jake Gyllenhaal playing a frenzied customer who just wanted to change his flight. Gyllenhaal — who was mistakenly referred to as Vaginal Cream — had to navigate through a series of operators who first assumed he just…

Colin Jost and Michael Che continued their Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” tradition of swapping jokes and writing zingers for each other to say. Che started by saying that the last time he tricked Jost into thinking he had invited a civil rights hero, “and that was low. So to make it up to you…