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Watch: SNL's Pete Davidson Clowns Kanye's Off-Air MAGA Rant
Pete Davidson had a few words to say about Kanye West’s pro-Trump rant last week on Saturday Night Live. For folks who didn’t tune in last weekend, Kanye went on a very awkward pro-Trump rant off air after he performed. Here’s an excerpt: “So many times I talk to a white person and [they] say,…
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Was Nicki Minaj’s SNL Performance Cultural Appropriation?
When Nicki Minaj took the stage to perform her hit song “Chun-Li” on the most recent episode of Saturday Night Live, “callout Twitter” rumbled with accusations of cultural appropriation and the fetishization of Asian culture. While some, including a few Asian Americans, accused the rapstress of using stereotypical Asian imagery as a costume, others defended…
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Watch: SNL Does a Spot on Send-Up of Bishop Curry From the Royal Wedding
Maybe it’s my political proclivities, but I have to say that this just-ended season of Saturday Night Live was the best they’ve had in years (partly bolstering my theory that the best art comes from darkness, so hip-hop should be back in about five minutes). Not only did the writers and players tear Team Trump…
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Making Donald Glover the ‘Anti-Kanye’ Is Gross and Wrong and Will Backfire, so Please Don’t
I spent Saturday evening in a room full of black people, celebrating the birthday of a friend and the genius possessed by two people who were not in that room: LeBron James and Donald Glover. The first part of our night was devoted to the second half of the Cleveland Cavaliers game, and as we…
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Donald Glover’s SNL Migos Parody Was Skrrt-Skrrt Perfect
It is only fitting that Donald Glover, in his first host-ship of Saturday Night Live, did a hilarious send-up of the Migos, the group he brought to a lot of folks’ attention when he won a 2017 Golden Globe for Atlanta. In the four-minute skit, the other two black guys on SNL, Kenan Thompson and…
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The Sunken Place Has Good Wi-Fi, so Now We Have (Not So) Deep Tweets by Kanye West
What is there left to say about Kanye West that hasn’t been said? If you’ve been living under a rock, or care enough about yourself to take social media sabbaticals, then you may not be aware that Kanye is out here tweeting everything he can think of. From theories on love to support of Donald…
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T’Challa Gets the Hang of ‘Black Jeopardy’ via Becky’s Potato Salad
The undisputed Black Panther, actor Chadwick Boseman, more than held his own as host of Saturday Night Live this weekend, although his shine was slightly dimmed by Cardi B’s pregnancy announcement. The funniest skit of the night was Boseman as the Black Panther (T’Challa) in the show’s ongoing sketch, “Black Jeopardy”—“the only game show where…
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Cardi Got a Baby With Offset! Rapper Reveals Baby Bump on SNL
Bartier Cardi Belcalis “Cardi B” Almanzar just pulled a Beyoncé, whose name she dropped all over her bound-to-be-platinum debut, Invasion of Privacy. In studied Queen Bee fashion, Cardi saved her long-rumored pregnancy announcement for a most auspicious moment: while performing live on Saturday Night Live with Chadwick “T’Challa” Boseman the day after her album dropped.…
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SNL Alum Jay Pharoah Is Ready to Become White Famous on Showtime
Fans who’ve missed comedian Jay Pharoah since his official exit from Saturday Night Live last year after six seasons now can have him all to themselves thanks to his new Showtime series, White Famous. Executive-produced by Jamie Foxx and Tim Story (director of Ride Along and Think Like a Man), White Famous puts Pharoah, a…