In the Cold Open for “Saturday Night Live,” Kate McKinnon plays a smug Laura Ingraham, who blames the surging coronavirus on “insane” liberals. and claims it is only an “urban legend.”

The cast of “Saturday Night Live” opened its most recent episode with a double whammy, addressing both the coronavirus outbreak and the messy political season.

A local fourth grader is expressing her frustration after her feathered friend became the butt of a joke on a recent episode of Saturday Night Live. The joke featured her disabled pet chicken, Granite Heart, learning to walk with a custom wheelchair. The SNL joke suggested that instead of helping the animal walk, she should “just eat the chicken.”

“Saturday Night Live” cast member Kenan Thompson and Netflix’s Hasan Minhaj will headline the upcoming White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April, NBC News reported....
Thompson will serve as the dinner’s host while Minhaj, the host of Netflix’s “Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj” and who was the event’s headliner in 2017, will serve as the featured entertainer, the White House Correspondents’ Association...

This week’s “Saturday Night Live” Cold Open parodied Friday’s Democratic debate in New Hampshire ahead of Tuesday’s primary election in the state. The segment particularly focused on the candidates’ reactions to the Iowa Democratic caucus’ technical issues and unexpected results.

This week’s “Saturday Night Live” Cold Open recast the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump as an episode of the courtroom reality show “Judge Mathis” to give viewers the dramatic impeachment proceedings they’d expected.

The first “Saturday Night Live” Cold Open of the new year took a dark spin on the Senate impeachment trial against President Donald Trump, featuring one of the stars of the president’s legal defense team and the devil herself.

In the 44-year history of the NBC sketch comedy series, with its long lineage of cast members that have gone on to movie stardom, none of them have gone on to win an Oscar. The streak will stay alive for at least another year as two “SNL” veterans considered contenders for nominations this year were shut out on Monday.

Buck Henry, “The Graduate” co-writer who as screenwriter, character actor, “Saturday Night Live” host and cherished talk-show and party guest became an all-around cultural superstar of the 1960s and 70s, has died. He was 89. Henry’s wife, Irene Ramp, told The Washington Post that his death Wednesday in Los Angeles was due to a heart attack. Henry, who also co-created…

Eddie Murphy delivered an early holiday gift to “Saturday Night Live.” With Murphy aboard as host after a decades-long absence, the NBC show earned its biggest audience since 2017. Just shy of 10 million viewers tuned in to see Murphy back on the late-night comedy show that helped launch his career. His last appearance was in 1984. In May 2017,…

Eddie Murphy delivered an early holiday gift to “Saturday Night Live.” With Murphy aboard as host after a decades-long absence, the NBC show earned its biggest audience since 2017. Just shy of 10 million viewers tuned in to see Murphy back on the late-night comedy show that helped launch his career. His last appearance was in 1984. In May 2017,…

Bill Cosby’s publicist had harsh words for comedian and actor Eddie Murphy, calling him a “Hollywood slave” for his comments on Cosby during his SNL monologue.

This week’s “Saturday Night Live” Cold Open centered on Thursday’s sixth Democratic presidential debate, which featured just seven candidates, the smallest debate stage thus far. Eddie Murphy returned to the “SNL” stage as a host, his first time performing since he left the show 35 years ago. Lizzo debuted as a musical guest.

Eddie Murphy was preparing Saturday to make his much-anticipated return to the show that launched his career, “Saturday Night Live.” He will host the storied sketch comedy show after last performing on it 35 years ago, although he did show his face for its 40th anniversary prime-time special in 2015, NBC News reports. Since departing “SNL” in December 1984 after…

In the second-to-last episode before the winter holidays, “Saturday Night Live” brought viewers into the homes of average American families in a parody of the political discourse surrounding President Donald Trump’s impeachment and other issues dividing the country. Actress Scarlett Johansson hosted the episode and Niall Horan was the musical guest. Aidy Bryant kicked off the episode’s cold open...

With a helping hand from late-night television hosts, the “Saturday Night Live” Cold Open shifted focus from the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump to his reception at the NATO summit in London. “This week, during the NATO conference in London, foreign leaders were caught on a hot mic making fun of President Trump,” an on-screen intro for the Cold…

Emma Stone has a new role coming up: bride. The Oscar-winning actress is engaged to her longtime boyfriend Dave McCary. The 30-year-old actress and her beau revealed the happy news on his Instagram by sharing a photo of the beautiful ring. He simply captioned the announcement with a heart emoji, which more than sufficed for their friends and family.  Emma...

The grandfather of Laurel Griggs on Monday shared a poem the 13-year-old wrote before she died of a massive asthma attack last week, saying the teen was more of a scholar than a performer. The poem for her friend is titled “Society Is Wrong” and asks deep questions. “Why do we feel we must meet society’s expectations for us?” “Why...

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., talks about how her love for Iowa inspired a T-shirt quote and shares her thoughts on Maya Rudolph’s “Saturday Night Live” impersonation of her.

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., talks about how her love for Iowa inspired a T-shirt quote and shares her thoughts on Maya Rudolph’s “Saturday Night Live” impersonation of her.