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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk received widespread backlash after it was reported that the tech billionaire would be hosting an episode of Saturday Night Live, and was widely ridiculed after asking for skit suggestions on social media.

After Anti-Defamation League (ADL) head Jonathan Greenblatt called for Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s dismissal after Carlson was falsely accused of defending the white-supremacist “great replacement” theory, former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D) blasted the “hypocritical” ADL for launching an “unwarranted attack” on Carlson which “crossed the line” and created antisemitism. 

Saturday Night Live’s cold open this weekend featured an imaginary panel discussion between four news anchors in Minnesota — two black, two white — in which all assumed that Derek Chauvin was guilty of murdering George Floyd, and merely disagreed about whether the state was racist enough for a jury to acquit him.

“Saturday Night Live” viewers mocked SNL regular Pete Davidson for playing Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as Davidson’s ex-girlfriend Kaia Gerber is only one year older than the woman Gaetz is accused of having an untoward relations with.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) read a bedtime story to Americans Friday night. He chose Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.

In a scene where Kenan is preparing to sing his daughters to sleep, he suggests a song about a princess; the two girls tell their dad that princesses are out and “empowerment is in.”

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.

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.