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An investigation was underway Saturday morning into the detainment of former “Saturday Night Live” cast member and comedian Jay Pharoah by Los Angeles police in Tarzana. Pharoah said in a video posted to his Instagram account Friday that he was jogging in the area of Ventura Boulevard and Corbin Avenue in late April when four officers stopped him and ordered…

Jimmy Fallon came under fire on Tuesday after a “Saturday Night Live” skit featuring him impersonating Chris Rock while in blackface resurfaced online.

On the season finale of ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Alec Baldwin reprised his role as President Donald Trump, calling in via Zoom to congratulate the “class of COVID-19” on their graduation. Former cast member Kristen Wiig served as host for the finale, seizing the opportunity to show off her presenting skills. Wiig also took the time to thank mothers around the...

Maya Rudolph talks about a Zoom talent show Tina Fey put together for some of the “SNL” cast’s children.

Picking up from where it left off two weeks ago, ‘Saturday Night Live’ returned for it’s second ‘From Home’ special, introducing an exciting, new array of stars and sketches.

Let’s do it again. “Saturday Night Live” is returning to a television screen near you this Saturday as the cast works from home again due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“Saturday Night Live” returned from its pre-lockdown hiatus this week to offer a compilation of homemade skits where the cast, host and musical guest all performed from the comfort of their own homes.

“Saturday Night Live” will be back this weekend, according to NBC News.

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,…