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Sasheer Zamata’s Michelle Obama and Vanessa Bayer’s Hillary Clinton opened NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” this weekend with a skit about Mother’s Day. Bayer’s Clinton subtly advertised her 2016 presidential ambitions and Zamata’s Obama touted her healthy eating campaign, which led

Unfortunately, Melissa McCarthy’s ‘Tammy’ Is Rated R The “Tammy” (July 2) trailer is funny. No question. Melissa McCarthy and Susan Sarandon should make a good team. But — here we go again — it’s “Rated R for language including sexual

New ‘SNL’ Addition Leslie Jones is Hilarious; Now Left Wants Her Silenced Leslie Jones was hired only after there was an uproar over SNL’s all-white cast. In her debut, though, Jones proves she’s no affirmative action hire. This is excellent:

Comedians can’t resist a layup, a political joke so easy it’s bound to provoke a laugh. Remember the fun late-night comics had after President Bill Clinton’s dalliances with Monica Lewinsky came to light? So Saturday Night Live couldn’t help but

Former Saturday Night Live star Amy Poehler is becoming one of Hollywood’s more vocal Democratic supporters. Poehler lent her voice to the battle to promote the flailing, failing ObamaCare reform, and she uses her Parks and Recreation gig to worship at

Saturday Night Live opened the show with a sketch about Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) representing the new hip Republican Party at the Coachella music festival…

On this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” on NBC, Kenan Thompson’s Al Sharpton recreated what Sharpton was like as an FBI informant…

It wouldn’t take a Grade A satirist to see the potential in a humiliated politician laughing it up during her final press conference, like what happened earlier this week when Kathleen Sebelius exited the Obama administration stage. Or, the fact

Two of the most powerful Democrats in Congress blasted Breitbart News on Monday as “offensive” over an article published highlighting street art inspired by Andrew Breitbart that included a photoshop of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s face on the body of Miley Cyrus in her

Two of the most powerful Democrats in Congress blasted Breitbart News on Monday as “offensive” over an article published highlighting street art inspired by Andrew Breitbart that included a photoshop of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s face on the body of Miley Cyrus in her

For the cold opening of it’s Saturday night show, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” parodied General Motors CEO Mary Barra’s testimony before a House committee earlier this week over the recall of Chevrolet Cobalts and Saturn Ions. SNL’s Kate McKinnon played

Taran Killam as Steve Doocy, Bobby Moynihan as Brian Kilmeade and Vanessa Bayer as Elisabeth Hasselbeck teamed up with Kenan Thompson as Neil deGrasse Tyson to mock “Fox & Friends” with an exaggerated presentation of their conservative perspectives on ObamaCare

Even Saturday Night Live can’t ignore the one-two punch of failing health care reform and a president so desperate to hawk it he’ll degrade the office to do so. The politically aware show has gone mostly soft on President Barack

NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” used it’s cold opening this weekend to take aim at the White House’s social networking efforts to use to encourage enrollment in ObamaCare… Follow Jeff on Twitter @jeff_poor

If Saturday Night Live founder Lorne Michaels thought he had settled the show’s diversity problems by hiring a black female comic he was sorely mistaken. The show has come under fire for years for its mostly white, mostly male casts

According to the research firm SNL, for the first time ever the number of Americans who pay for bundled cable and satellite fell by a net total of 251,000 subscribers. Previously the industry has faced bad quarters and an alarming

Lena Dunham, the supposed epitome of liberal tolerance, doesn’t give a darn about Republicans. Dunham’s progressive bona fides were never in doubt, and that was before she shot a 2012 campaign spot for President Barack Obama. Earlier today, she addressed

The mainstream media can’t get enough of Lena Dunham. The American public has a far different take on the 20-something star. The ratings for Dunham’s HBO series Girls continue to shrink in season three, and they never were impressive in the

A live political comedy show might have made hay from the President of the United States hitting the links as a global crisis unfolds. Not Saturday Night Live. The once great sketch comedy show is expert at ignoring news that

On the cold open for this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live,” Jay Pharaoh as Barack Obama and Liam Neeson as himself teamed up to offer a warning for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his tack toward Obama… Follow Jeff on Twitter

In the premiere of his late night show, “Late Night” host Seth Meyers used a familiar tone for his opening monologue on Monday, mimicking his role as anchor of “Saturday Night Live’s” “Weekend Update,” his home for most of the

Eddie Murphy’s legal team is confident a hefty defamation lawsuit against the Beverly Hills Cop star will be quickly dismissed. Comedian Brando Murphy, no relation, is suing the Saturday Night Live alum for $50 million, claiming the Oscar nominee is

A writer from The Blaze joined BuzzFeed’s McKay Coppins in mocking former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Twitter.  Following the dust-up between Coppins and Donald Trump, Palin told Breitbart News “This nervous geek isn’t fit to tie the Donald’s wingtips,” adding,

The cast of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” wish long-time “Weekend Update” segment host and show writer farewell as he departs the show to host the network’s show “Late Night”…

Both The View and Late Night with Seth Meyers will get a chance next week to show viewers they are more than just fluffy chat shows. Vice President Joe Biden will be hitting the talk show circuit to drum up

Jay Leno is getting a second Tonight Show farewell this evening, but this one means far more to the late night landscape. Leno first left the show in 2009 after NBC botched a plan to keep rising star Conan O’Brien

Jerry Seinfeld forged a stand-up career by avoiding R-rated routines, preferring observational gags to F-bombs and sexual puns. He didn’t push anyone’s buttons. He just made people laugh. Yet the Seinfeld star said something so politically incorrect Monday that it

Tevi Troy, former Bush administration official and pop culture aficionado, has noted in Forbes that President Barack Obama’s reference to Mad Men in his State of the Union address last week continues the president’s habit of using such symbols to connect

The Emmy-award winning producer of Saturday Night Live, Lorne Michaels, confessed that mocking Republicans is easier than making fun of Democrats. The creator of SNL and current executive producer of Jimmy Fallon Live told vulture.com that, “Republicans are easier for

Anyone watching Saturday Night Live over the past five-plus years knows how infrequently the show targets President Barack Obama. It wasn’t always that way. Past SNL casts have mocked Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and George W. Bush with

With Jimmy Fallon leaving NBC’s Late Night to take over The Tonight Show from Jay Leno on February 17 and former Saturday Night Live star Seth Meyers filling Fallon’s shoes at Late Night, one thing is certain, audiences will get hosts

During the “Weekend Update” segment on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” co-anchor Cecily Strong suggested Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) had a harder time dealing with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) as a running mate than he did in Vietnam as

On Saturday’s broadcast of “Saturday Night Live” on NBC, Jay Pharoah, Kenan Thompson and Sasheer Zamata appeared in a skit honoring February’s Black History Month to the their tune of “28 Reasons to Hug a Black Guy”…

1. Mark Ruffalo’s Mother Sought Illegal Abortion of Mark Ruffalo? “Avengers” star Mark Ruffalo celebrated the 41st anniversary of Roe vs. Wade with a video that tells the tale of his own mother seeking out an illegal abortion. Ruffalo doesn’t

In a rare case of the left criticizing the left, The Huffington Post slammed Saturday Night Live for its apparent racist history, noting the lack of diversity in the show’s staff in a piece titled “SNL’s Unfunny Race Problem.”  Above

NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” did a parody of CNN host Piers Morgan interviewing Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), embattled Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and pop star Justin Bieber as a high-profile controversial trifecta…