Thursday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted to a joke from Michael Che, the co-anchor of “Weekend Update” on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” casting aspersions on the Israeli government’s COVID-19 vaccination policy.
Chants of “Shame on NBC” and “Antisemitism isn’t funny” rang out in front of NBC Studios in Manhattan on Saturday night, as protesters gathered in response to what organizers called an anti-Semitic joke made by Saturday Night Live cast member Michael Che
NBC is pulling an episode of its medical drama Nurses after falling under heavy fire for an “anti-Semitic” scene, in which a Hasidic patient refuses a bone graft from a “goyim” — the Yiddish word for a non-Jewish person.
Israeli officials have demanded an apology from the NBC television network after a Saturday Night Live comedian joked Israel has only been vaccinating half its population, the Jewish half — a lie made all the more absurd in light of Israel’s heavy — and successful — campaign to persuade its Arab population to get the vaccine.
It has now been a full month since Joe Biden became president, yet late-night sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live has still not aired a single skit about him or his administration.
Saturday Night Live is being criticized for a joke by Michael Che during the show’s most recent broadcast that suggested the State of Israel is only offering the coronavirus vaccine to Jews.
“Saturday Night Live” focused this weekend on New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s looks rather than his administration’s coverup of coronavirus deaths in Empire State nursing homes.
A recent “Saturday Night Live” skit was slammed as “transphobic” over a joke about President Joe Biden’s reversal of the transgender military ban.
After four years of mocking President Donald Trump, “Saturday Night Live” apparently could not find anything funny to say about Joe Biden, and ignored the president when the NBC sketch comedy show returned this weekend.
“Saturday Night Live” star and actor Pete Davidson is surgically removing all his tattoos as his film career finally begins to hear up.
A New York comedy club owner is calling out the hypocrisy of NBC’s Saturday Night Live for broadcasting with live, in-studio audiences while comedy clubs around the city face financial ruin due to coronavirus restrictions.
A supporter of Staten Island, New York, bar owners Danny Presti and Keith McAlarney slammed Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson for mocking the business owners as “babies” and “queers” for protesting the lockdowns forcing businesses to close.
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” mocked Staten Islanders who recently protested against restrictions on indoor drinking and dining, calling demonstrators “babies” and “queers.”
The Secret Service investigated comedian John Mulaney over an Saturday Night Live joke he made about Julius Caesar being “stabbed to death.” While Mulaney maintains that the joke “had nothing to do with Donald Trump,” the comedian also admitted to Jimmy Kimmel that the joke was “an elliptical reference” to President Trump.
In Barack Obama’s soon to be released memoir “A Promised Land”, the former president makes multiple references to sports. Obama mentions baseball great Jackie Robinson, he touches upon his own love of basketball, and he speaks of never learning to sail “despite having grown up in Hawaii”. But, this book clearly shows us that Obama’s favorite pastime may just be bashing President Trump and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
Comedian Dave Chappelle delivered a politically charge opening monologue on Saturday Night Live, calling President Donald Trump a “racist hilarious son of a bitch,” touching on the coronavirus, the presidential election, and race in America.
The rapper and actor Ice Cube has hit back at NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” for mocking his recent favorable comments about President Donald Trump.
Rap superstar Kanye West responded to Issa Rae insulting him on Saturday Night Live on Sunday, confirming that he is “praying for her and her family” and celebrating the success she has had as a black person in the entertainment industry.
This week’s cold open on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” featured Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris cast with Beck Bennett and Maya Rudolph, respectively, and Kate McKinnon as moderator Susan Page.
Kentucky attorney general Daniel Cameron slammed rapper Megan Thee Stallion over her “disgusting” comments on Saturday Night Live, in which the rapper said Cameron “is no different than sellout negros that sold our people into slavery.”
During the season premiere of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” guest host Chris Rock opened the show with a monologue that took a jab at President Donald Trump over his COVID-19 diagnosis.
Left-wing actor and comedian Jim Carrey will take on the role of former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in the upcoming series of “Saturday Night Live,” producers announced on Wednesday.
Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are teaming up with their “Saturday Night Live” doubles Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler for a “grassroots” fundraiser to help propel Joe Biden into the White House.
Saturday Night Live will resume filming new, in-studio episodes in October.
Brad Pitt has scored an Emmy nomination for his three-minute performance as Dr. Anthony Fauci on an April broadcast of “Saturday Night Live.”
“I really don’t watch it anymore. I don’t find it funny. Rarely I find it funny,” Trump said. “I find it very mean spirited. I find it a DNC affiliate.”
Those protesting the police involved death of George Floyd can now receive funding if they are injured, bail money if they are arrested, and money to pay for coronavirus-related medical bills thanks to Saturday Night Live star Chris Redd, who announced a fund he set up for what he called “front line protesters.”
Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx defended Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday from complaints that he appeared in “blackface” in a Saturday Night Live sketch in 2000, saying Fallon was doing a Chris Rock impression.
Comedian Jimmy Fallon apologized Tuesday for playing fellow comedian Chris Rock in a Saturday Night Live sketch twenty years ago, after a clip of the appearance appeared on social media overnight.
Comedian and performer Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC’s The Tonight Show, became the target of criticism Tuesday after video of him performing in blackface in a Saturday Night Live sketch in 2000 resurfaced, going viral on social media.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s (R-TX) life experiences as a Navy SEAL, a Harvard graduate, and an elected member of the House of Representatives serve as the foundation for his new book Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage. The book is both biographical and a guide to fighting life’s battles with integrity rather than outrage.
Ratings for the 45th season finale of “Saturday Night Live” were about as abysmal as the season opener last September, which saw a deflated viewership for the long running NBC show.
“Saturday Night Live’s” Colin Jost joked about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline during the “Weekend Update” segment of the show. The senility wisecracks came as they discussed Tara Reade, the former Senate aide who has accused the Democrat presidential candidate of sexually assaulting her nearly three decades ago.
This week’s broadcast of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” featured Brad Pitt as Dr. Anthony Fauci taking jabs at President Donald Trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Saturday Night Live” returned to TV over the weekend, after a month long hiatus, in its first “quarantine version” of the long running NBC sketch comedy show. The pre-taped “SNL” “from home” was hosted by coronavirus survivor Tom Hanks with musical guest Coldplay frontman Chris Martin.
Appearing Friday on CNN’s New Day, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, quipped that Hollywood actor Brad Pitt should play him on “Saturday Night Live.”
“Saturday Night Live” paid limited attention to President Donald Trump’s acquittal from impeachment charges earlier this week and instead mocked the Democratic Party’s Iowa caucuses, where an app meant to make reporting the results easier ended up causing major counting delays.
“Saturday Night Live” sent former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz to “hell” in a sketch this weekend — shortly before Dershowitz is due to defend President Donald Trump in his Senate impeachment trial this week.
Artists literally spend their entire lives trying and failing to create something, anything, as perfect as The Graduate, and then Henry did it again…
A spokesman for convicted sex offender Bill Cosby called Eddie Murphy a “Hollywood slave” after the actor-comedian took a jab at Cosby during a recent appearance on “Saturday Night Live.”
