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Phil Donahue was more than a trailblazing talk show host, he was also a mainstay of Saturday Night Live. Donahue was one of the few non-political celebrities to be impersonated by three different SNL cast members. The first was Joe Piscopo, who embodied the host during a sketch that aired on Oct. 2, 1982. In the scene, Donahue negotiates peace in the Middle East between Israel’s Menachem Begin (played by Tim Kazurinsky) and Palestine’s Yasser Arafat (played by Gary Kroeger). Though topical, the sketch only generated minor laughs. Still, it established a formula for Donahue as a character, and ...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Bowen Yang is spilling the Saturday Night Live tea. The comedian, who was originally hired as a writer for the NBC show in 2018, dished that one host was a nightmare for the writers. Appearing on a recent episode of What What Happens Live, Yang was asked Which guest host displayed diva characteristics, but not to disclose the individual’s name. “This man — this person, this host — made multiple cast members cry on Wednesday during the table read because he hated the ideas,” he told host Andy Cohen. Watch Bowen Yang on Watch What Happens Live Here:Yang added that the entire situation was “terri...
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Saturday Night Live is now a TV comedy institution. 50 years ago, it was just some weird experimental sketch show made by and starring a bunch of unknowns. Of course, those unknowns turned out to be John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, and more — many of the funniest actors of their generation. How that group become the original stars of SNL is the subject of a new movie coming this fall called Saturday Night. Directed by Jason Reitman (Ghostbusters: Afterlife), the film is set on the night of the very first SNL broadcast — which wasn’t even called Saturday Night Live because ...
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Steve Martin seemed like an obvious choice to play Tim Walz on the upcoming season of Saturday Night Live – but it’s not going to happen. Fans immediately rallied around Martin when the Minnesota governor was confirmed as Kamala Harris’ Democratic running mate in the upcoming presidential election. Martin now confirms that SNL producer Lorne Michaels asked the question, but he’s decided to pass on the offer. READ MORE: The 50 Coolest Things Steve Martin Ever Did “I wanted to say ‘no’ – and, by the way, he wanted me to say no,” Martin told the Los Angeles Times. “I said, ‘Lorne, I’m not an impr...
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Columbia Pictures announced Jason Reitman‘s movie about the first episode of Saturday Night Live will be titled simply Saturday Night, and will appear in theaters on Oct. 11. The date matches the 49th anniversary of the variety show’s debut in 1975 under its original name NBC’s Saturday Night. Directed by Jason Reitman and co-written with Gil Kenan based on interviews with those who were there, it’s an exploration of the 90 minutes leading up to the show’s very first broadcast. READ MORE: Will SNL Movie Show the Truth or the Legend? The cast includes Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels, Dylan O’...
ScreenCrush
Columbia Pictures announced Jason Reitman’s movie about the first episode of Saturday Night Live will be titled simply Saturday Night, and will appear in theaters on Oct. 11. The date matches the 49th anniversary of the variety show’s debut in 1975 under its original name NBC’s Saturday Night. Directed by Jason Reitman and co-written with Gil Kenan based on interviews with those who were there, it’s an exploration of the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast. READ MORE: Will SNL Movie Show the Truth or the Legend? The cast includes Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels, Dylan O’Brien as Dan...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Saturday Night Live has a long history of poking fun at the Olympics. In the show’s earliest years, original cast members such as Gilda Radner and John Belushi appeared as surprisingly vengeful gymnasts, and decathlon champions with highly unusual diet regimens. The tradition they began has continued for nearly fifty years now, with each new cast addressing or parodying the breakout stars and biggest controversies from the world’s biggest sporting event. Here, in no particular order, are the Top 10 Saturday Night Live Olympic Sketches: ‘Olga Korbut’ (1976) Gilda Radner makes a brief but memora...
PopCrush
Saturday Night Live has a long history of poking fun at the Olympics. In the show’s earliest years, original cast members such as Gilda Radner and John Belushi appeared as surprisingly vengeful gymnasts, and decathlon champions with highly unusual diet regimens. The tradition they began has continued for nearly fifty years now, with each new cast addressing or parodying the breakout stars and biggest controversies from the world’s biggest sporting event. Here, in no particular order, are the Top 10 Saturday Night Live Olympic Sketches: ‘Olga Korbut’ (1976) Gilda Radner makes a brief but memora...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Blue Oyster Cult guitarist Buck Dharma said the band was forced to start using a cowbell while performing their classic track “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” as a result of Saturday Night Live‘s famous “More Cowbell” sketch. Written and aired 24 years after “Reaper” became a hit, the 2000 scene features Christopher Walken and Will Ferrell in a recording studio. Walken plays fictional producer Bruce Dickinson, who repeatedly insists that Ferrell, playing fictional percussionist Gene Frenkle, increase the amount and energy of his cowbell playing, driving the musician to the brink. In a new interview w...
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Tori Spelling sneaked away to get her breasts augmented at a strip mall plastic surgery centre when she was a teen. The ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ actress, 51, opened up on her ‘MisSPELLING’ podcast about how her chest was “a 32B” and “maybe an A plus – or minus” when she got the procedure “to make them fuller” when she was 19. When one of her listeners cheekily asked: “Did you get your boobs done in a van down by the river?” – referring to Chris Farley’s Matt Foley sketch on ‘Saturday Night Live’ – Tori said: “I’ve always wanted to have sex in the back of a van. Not while I get my boobs done. And...
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