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SNL’s Michael Che Calls Trump a ‘Bitch’ and a ‘Cheap Cracker’; Jay-Z Sports Kaepernick Jersey During Performance
I’ll be the first to admit that even a Jay-Z appearance couldn’t get me to watch Saturday Night Live. I, like everyone else, wait for the video clips to drop on Sunday. But apparently, things got a little turnt during the show’s 43rd-season premiere. First, Weekend Update’s Michael Che went all the way in on President…
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Jay-Z and Ryan Gosling Will Headline the 1st Episode of SNL Season 43
Damn, there have been 43 seasons of Saturday Night Live? I have literally grown up with this show; that’s crazy. The first episode of season 43 airs Sept. 30, with Ryan Gosling as host and Jay-Z as the musical guest. The show made the announcement Thursday via Twitter. I have to stop and take this…
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How ’Bout This, Tina Fey: Give Us (Black People) the Sheet Cake, and You Go Confront the White Women Who Voted for Trump
I’m going to keep this short, because it’s Friday evening and I have shit to do.* I generally like Tina Fey. She is one of my favorite people in comedy. And I did laugh at her sheet-cake bit. Even if the premise was all fucked up—more on that in a minute—the actual jokes (aside for…
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Sasheer Zamata Set to Leave Saturday Night Live
After four seasons on Saturday Night Live, Sasheer Zamata is leaving the show, according to Entertainment Tonight. Zamata became a player on SNL during the height of the controversy surrounding the show’s lack of diversity. Zamata was the first black woman to be cast on the show since Maya Rudolph’s exit in 2007. Zamata’s characters on…
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Dave Chappelle Apologizes for SNL Monologue Saying Give Trump a Chance
Just days after Donald Trump won the election, Dave Chappelle appeared on Saturday Night Live, and his monologue raised a lot of eyebrows when he ended it by asking people to give Trump a chance. But now it seems that Chappelle has realized the error of his ways. During a Monday-night stand-up show in New…
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Jay Pharoah on His SNL Departure: I’m Not a ‘Yes N–ga’
Jay Pharoah believes that he’s more than just impressions, but Saturday Night Live didn’t want his jokes—the show wanted his voices until it didn’t, and then SNL let him go. Pharoah’s Barack Obama impersonation was pitch-perfect, but once the president left office, the sketch-comedy show apparently didn’t see much of a need for the funny…
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SNL and Melissa McCarthy Are Becoming Anti-Trump Heroes
On paper it doesn’t seem like a likely pairing to have Melissa McCarthy playing White House press secretary Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer on Saturday Night Live, but it worked beautifully. Somehow, some way, the sketch-comedy show has a direct line to the White House’s insecurities, and it’s pissing off the president and his staff. Shortly…
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Watch: SNL’s “The Day Beyoncé Turned Black” and How White America Went Nuts
There’s always been some speculation and lots of room for interpretation when it came to Beyoncé’s, um, ethnicity. No shade, but between the blond wigs, Creole propers and that L’Oreal ad where she self-identified as part French, Native American and black, well, one could comfortably assume that Queen Bey was just a shade black. Black-ish,…