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“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.”

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.

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.

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.”

Saturday, during his monologue hosting NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” Eddie Murphy took a jab at Bill Cosby. “If you told me 30 years ago that I’d be this boring stay at home house dad and Bill Cosby would be in

“Saturday Night Live” took aim at President Donald Trump, noting that he’ll win reelection after Democrats impeach him, and trotted out actress Kate McKinnon as teen environmental alarmist Greta Thunberg who ordered the president to “grow up.”

Julia Louis-Dreyfus has charged NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ of being “very sexist” when she was a cast member in the 1980s.

“Saturday Night Live” stars Alec Baldwin, Jimmy Fallon, Paul Rudd, and James Corden mocked President Donald Trump’s relationship with other world leaders in an opening sketch after the real life leaders were heard gossiping about Trump’s lateness to various bilateral meetings at last week’s NATO summit.

Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson said in a recent interview that he will no longer perform on college campuses because students are too sensitive about jokes. According to Davidson, “The second you open your mouth and have an opinion, you lose money today.”

“Saturday Night Live” cast member Bowen Yang wants baked goods giant Sara Lee to lighten up following a raunchy, gay-themed sketch starring pop star and actor Harry Styles that poked fun of the brand’s squeaky clean image.

Saturday Night Live mocked the Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren this weekend over the cost of her “Medicare for All” healthcare plan, following reports that rolling the service out nationwide would cost up to $52 trillion over the next decade.

Saturday Night Live star Michael Che is under fire for a “transphobic” joke about Caitlyn Jenner delivered during “Weekend Update,” the show’s long-standing faux news segment.

Actor and “Saturday Night” Live cast member Pete Davidson appeared in a sketch thanking Alec Baldwin’s President Trump for “bringing jobs back to ISIS” just as reports surfaced that President Donald Trump had ordered U.S. military forces to conducted a raid that ended with the death of the murderous ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Alec Baldwin made a return to “Saturday Night Live,” reprising his role as Donald Trump as the show took aim at the president’s voters.

Oct. 21 (UPI) — Alec Baldwin told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show that Lorne Michaels convinced him to return as President Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live.

Last week’s LGBTQ issues town hall hosted by CNN may have been even too much for the cast of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.”

“Saturday Night Live” promoted a “Breitbart Office Poll” in which 121 percent of respondents wanted former Vice President Joe Biden impeached over his and his son, Hunter Biden’s, dubious dealings in Ukraine.

NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” aired a joke about presidential assassinations on Saturday when “Weekend Update” anchor Michael Che noted that the impeachment process was too slow for John Wilkes Booth.

NBC’s 45-year-old sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” lost 30 percent of its 18-49 2018 opener viewership, as Alec Baldwin’s Trump was front and center in the show’s 45th season premiere.

The season premiere of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” featured a familiar face with Alec Baldwin reprising his role as President Donald Trump once again.

Comedian Shane Gillis said President Trump getting shot “would be funny to see” in his first stand-up comedy show since he was fired from “Saturday Night Live,” following the surfacing of old jokes where he used slurs against Asians and gays.

“Saturday Night Live” has spent decades airing sketches mocking Asian stereotypes, with Caucasian cast members performing in yellow face and cracking jokes like “probrem” and “what if she no like chicken?”

“Saturday Night Live” alums Norm Macdonald and Robert Schneider have expressed their sympathy with comedian Shane Gillis after he was fired from the NBC comedy show on Monday following the resurfacing of old jokes where he used slurs against Asians and gays.

John Belushi as a Japanese samurai. Julia Sweeney as the gender-ambiguous Pat. “Jane, you ignorant slut.” These memorable Saturday Night Live sketches challenged the boundaries of taste and political correctness to become TV classics. But would they survive today’s cancel culture in which woke identity politics has become the ultimate arbiter of comedy?

In what could be the show’s shortest lived tenure, comedian Shane Gillis has been fired from NBC’s Saturday Night Live after old jokes resurfaced in which the comedian used slurs against Asians and gays.

Only days after Saturday Night Live announced that Shane Gillis had been named as one of its three new cast members, the comedian is apologizing for past comedy acts where he used Asian slurs and jokes about gays and getting into “Muslim Heaven.” 

Left-wing Hollywood star Alec Baldwin claims he despised playing President Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live” so much that he once wished a “meteor” would strick him dead. 

“Saturday Night Live” star Pete Davidson is being called out by University of Central Florida officials after the actor-comedian went on a profanity-laced rant in response to people in the audience purportedly pulling out phones during his stand-up set.