Everyone wants in on Empire’s magic, including Saturday Night Live. Fox’s freshman series continues to break records each week by climbing up the Nielsen ratings…
Everyone wants in on Empire’s magic, including Saturday Night Live. Fox’s freshman series continues to break records each week by climbing up the Nielsen ratings…
Once again Saturday Night Live and Kenan Thompson decided to have some fun at Rev. Al Sharpton‘s expense Saturday night. In fact, the show opened with Thompson’s Sharpton taking on the cases of Michael Brown and Eric Garner with the MSNBC host’s signature terrible teleprompter skills, constant questions-as-statements, and screwed-up pronunciations. “SNL”/Thompson’s “Sharpton” showed the now iconic photograph […]
It was a funny concept, but it just didn’t pan out that way for television. “Saturday Night Live” tried to go all in for their…
Who says there’s a child star curse? There are plenty of celebrities who got their big break on children’s shows. Take a look at these…
Oooh wee, what’s up with that? What’s up with that?! According to TMZ, the rumor dancing across the internets is that SNL‘s longtime cast…
Saturday Night Live has responded to a report that Kenan Thompson is leaving “Saturday Night Live” after the upcoming season. A spokesperson for the show says that a report from TMZ is inaccurate. According to TMZ, the most tenured African-American cast member in the show’s history was planning to leave after last season, but decided […]
Man, “Saturday Night Live” is really getting in touch with its “blackness.” As the world knows, February is Black History Month and the show took time to celebrate with a skit featuring its three black castmembers. The scene was a high school presentation the subject. It’s a mostly white classroom, but Jay Pharoah, Kenan Thompson, […]
Addressing criticism over its lack of African American women in the cast, NBC‘s “Saturday Night Live” held an audition for black comediennes at The Groundlings in Los Angeles earlier this month, according to Deadline.com. The show holds showcase/auditions for potential new talent with some regularity in various locations. But this one attracted more media attention […]
In the age of Beyonce, Oprah and Kerry Washington, it’s hard to believe that a show as versatile as “Saturday Night Live” could have a…
NEW YORK (AP) — With Kerry Washington as guest host, “Saturday Night Live” wasted no time poking fun at itself after receiving criticism for having no black women among its 16 regular cast members. In the opening skit, the “Scandal” actress portrayed First Lady Michelle Obama, talking with her husband about an upcoming state dinner […]
Several weeks ago SNL cast member Kenan Thompson defended the show’s lack of African-American female representation asserting that Black women who auditioned simply weren’t ready.…
