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Nobody was surprised (probably) when the massive, star-studded episode of "Saturday Night Live" celebrating the show's 50th anniversary mostly leaned on old standby sketches and concepts. There were some exceptions — including a perfect new Digital Short about how everybody who's ever worked at "SNL" has both anxiety and Ibs — but it's ultimately not shocking that the episode featured yet another musical ode to New York City's most disgusting aspects centered around John Mulaney.

From the man who brought you "Diner Lobster," "Airport Sushi," and "Port Authority Duane Reade," among others, we got "New York 50th Musical," and it's safe to say that Oscar nominee Adam Driver would only don a hot dog costume for something this great. After David Spade and Pete Davidson, the latter of whom note that they're "the same age" and just moved to New York in 1975 from the same small town, visit Mulaney's all-knowing hot dog vendor in Times Square,...

Is Kim Kardashian making a return to SNL 50: The Anniversary Special? (Photo Credit – Koimoi)

Kim Kardashian is giving fans a glimpse of her upcoming appearance at the ‘SNL 50: The Anniversary Special’ as she prepares to join a star-studded lineup for the event. The 44-year-old reality TV mogul took to Instagram, sharing glimpses of her outfit and offering a sneak peek of her role in the highly anticipated sketch comedy celebration.

In a short video clip, Kim showed off her legs in nude high-heel leggings before panning the camera to her dressing room door, which proudly displayed her name and also shared a snapshot of her contract, confirming her participation in the milestone event.

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It was a massively star-studded affair at the SNL50: The Anniversary Special on Sunday evening (February 16) held at Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center in New York City.

Saturday Night Live celebrated it’s 50th anniversary with hundreds of stars who have appeared on the show over the years.

From music stars like Lady Gaga, Sabrina Carpenter and Cher, to actors like Ayo Edebiri, Emma Stone and Anya Taylor-Joy.

Keep reading to find out more…

The late-night sketch show’s special featured many returning sketches, with past and present SNL cast members reprising their characters, and even several celebrities who have hosted reprising their characters!

We have gathered every celebrity, cast member and more’s looks from the red carpet and you can see over 200 below…

Abby Elliott

Adam & Jackie Sandler

Adria Arjona & Jason Momoa

Aidy Bryant

Alex & Hilaria Baldwin

Alex Moffat & Caroline Kingsley Moffat

Al Franken

Al Sharpton

Amelia Dimoldenberg...

It wouldn’t be a Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary celebration without a John Mulaney musical sketch.

Once again joined by Pete Davidson, Sunday night’s iteration had some subtle political undertones as it took viewers on a journey through New York City’s own history over the past five decades.

The sketch began with Mulaney selling hot dogs and heroin in 1973 Times Square, when he’s approached by Davidson and David Spade as two transplants with “dreams of making it big” in the city.

Mulaney’s hot dog salesman is taken aback, explaining that “New York is dying. It’s a bankrupt hellhole.”

But regardless, the men plan to persevere. Cue Adam Driver and Maya Rudolph as said hot dog and heroin, respectively, to kick off the musical numbers, which are meant to show the two newcomers “what New York is all about.”

Naturally, part of New York City’s history is its mayors,...

The title for the weirdest sketch of the “SNL50” special may have just been claimed by John Mulaney’s latest and most star-studded musical mashup to date.

The former “Saturday Night Live” writer returned, following his appearance during the “SNL50” monologue, in a sketch that begins in 1975 New York with him selling “hot dogs and heroin” to two out-of-town newbies (Pete Davidson and David Spade as two guys who are definitely the same age). When the newcomers ignore his warnings about the city, Mulaney leads them on a mind-boggling musical journey into New York’s past and future.

The sketch, yet another bold follow-up to Mulaney’s viral “Diner Lobster” from 2018, remixes songs from “The Lion King,” “Les Misérables” and “Hamilton,” and it features guest appearances from, among others, Kate McKinnon as Rudy Giuliani, Adam Driver as a singing hot dog, Kristen Wiig as a green M&m, Scarlett Johansson as...

John Mulaney took the “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary special on a five-decade journey through the ups and downs of the show’s New York City home base. Starting with the 1975 birth of the series, Mulaney’s star-studded medley began with convincing former cast members Pete Davidson and David Spade that the grimy 1970s was still a glorious time to live in New York.

From there, it was a decade-by-decade look at the city, with Adam Driver dressed as a hot dog, Kate McKinnon showing up as a disgraced former mayor Rudy Giuliani and Scarlett Johansson dressed as Audrey from “Little Shop of Horrors,” joking about real-life husband Colin Jost. Also, Nathan Lane sang an ode to cocaine to the tune of “The Lion King’s” “Hakuna Matata” — a song he sang for the film as Timon.

Other guest spots included one-time “SNL” musical directors Paul Schaffer and G.E. Smith,...

Saturday Night Live celebrates 50 years on the air in 2025. It also means that creator Lorne Michaels has spent half a century amassing an eye-popping net worth.

SNL's anniversary celebration culminates with a three-hour primetime special on February 16. Michaels will be joined by A-list celebrities, music legends, and countless cast members he helped discover and propel to the top of the comedy world.

Along the way, Michaels has made quite the fortune for himself through SNL and his production company. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Michaels net worth is an estimated $500 million in 2025. To put that in context, that is much higher than Robert Downey Jr.'s estimated $300 million net worth.

Of course, creating and producing Saturday Night Live is responsible for a large part of Michaels' lifetime earnings. But the 80-year-old has also created a media empire that extends beyond the halls of Studio 8H.

Film and television productions have increased Michaels' net worth.

NBC celebrated Saturday Night Live on Friday night with over three hours of music history on SNL50: The Homecoming Concert. The special hosted by Emmy winner Jimmy Fallon streamed live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City and is now available to stream on Peacock.

Musical acts included Arcade Fire, Backstreet Boys, Bad Bunny, Bonnie Raitt, Brandi Carlile, Brittany Howard, Cher, Chris Martin, Dave Grohl, David Byrne, Devo, Eddie Vedder, Jack White, Jelly Roll, Lady Gaga, Lauryn Hill, Miley Cyrus, Mumford & Sons, Post Malone, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Robyn, Snoop Dogg, St. Vincent, the B-52s, the Roots, and Wyclef Jean. Surprise comedy musical performances included Bill Murray, Paul Shaffer, Andy Samberg, Chris Parnell, Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph, Fred Armisen, and Tracy Morgan.

But that doesn’t end the festivities. Sunday night’s SNL50: The Anniversary Special will switch over from mostly music to almost...

Exclusive: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey for Universal Pictures is growing by three more as Nick Tarabay, Jimmy Gonzales and Maurice Compte have joined the cast in unspecified roles, sources tell Deadline.

Nolan’s mythic action epic, shot with new Imax cameras, is based on the ancient Greek poem by Homer which follows Odysseus, King of Ithaca, and his perilous journey home after the Trojan War. The classic explores themes of heroism, loyalty, cunning and the struggle against divine will. The tale includes iconic stories like Odysseus’ encounters with the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens and the witch-goddess Circe, culminating in a reunion with his wife Penelope.

The cast is led by Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Benny Safdie and Charlize Theron. The ensemble also includes Himesh Patel, Elliot Page,...

It’s rumored that “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels hates it when the show’s sketch comedians break character on air. Fortunately, that hasn’t stopped it from happening countless times over the NBC series’ 50-year history. Everyone from Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig to Kate McKinnon and even Will Ferrell have all stumbled into their own moments of out-of-character laughter.

In honor of “SNL’s” 50th anniversary special this Sunday, here are 10 of the best times that the show’s cast couldn’t keep it together.

Pete Davidson in “Uncle Ben”

The funniest moment of “Uncle Ben,” a 2020 sketch about a group of Black brand figures like Aunt Jemima (Maya Rudolph) being fired after being deemed culturally insensitive, is born out of a seemingly unscripted moment. Having already cracked up himself, Dave Chappelle decided to turn his sights on cast member Pete Davidson, who appears in “Uncle Ben” as Count Chocula.

It’s 1983, and Ke Huy Quan had just immigrated to the United States. “I barely speak English. I was busy being a kid, you know, trying to acclimate into my new life,” he told David Spade and Dana Carvey this week on the Fly on the Wall podcast. “I was living in Chinatown, Los Angeles, at that time. It was just a very small Chinese community. And then one day, a casting director and his associate came to my elementary school.”

That was a hell of a day. The casting director was trying to find a kid actor for a little independent movie called Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Why didn’t Steven Spielberg hold auditions for child actors? Who knows? But the casting director was looking for kids in a school gymnasium just the same. Kwan was given lines to read, but “I can barely understand any of it.

The list of Saturday Night Live’s all-time greatest cast members doesn’t exactly match up with the roster of comedians who’ve appeared in the most episodes. More than half of the 10 longest-tenured SNL comics — Kenan Thompson, Colin Jost, Michael Che, Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong and Aidy Bryant all lasted double-digit seasons — appeared in the 2020s.

This is new. This is weird. Why don’t cast members want to leave the show anymore?

Chevy Chase couldn’t wait to go. After one year of SNL success, he was hungry to try his hand at the movies. Bill Murray, John Belushi and Eddie Murphy jumped ship after four seasons. No one wanted Tina Fey to leave, say James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales in their book Live From New York, “but as the saying goes, It Was Time.”

Will it ever be time for Thompson, now hanging out for 22 seasons and counting?...

We’re celebrating 50 years of “Saturday Night Live“! All this week, we’re digging into the late-night comedy institution with new stories, including lists, essays, interviews, and more.

It’s certainly a familiar scene by now, one we’ve all become quite accustom to over the last half century: There’s Lorne Michaels, the famed producer of a televised sketch comedy show airing on NBC. There’s a cast of ever-changing talented performers. At this particular point in time, Jim Downey is the head writer. Al Franken, Tom Davis, Jack Handey, and Alan Zweibel are all on the writing staff. There’s a live audience. There’s a musical guest. There’s the familiar parody newscast. On this particular night, Steve Martin is a guest, as he often is to this very day. Watching a clip on YouTube from this particular night from the mid-’80s, Steve Martin opens the...

Howard Stern has built a reputation for getting celebrities to share secrets they often regret revealing. From shocking confessions to deeply personal admissions, The Howard Stern Show is known for getting stars to drop their guard in ways that other interviewers can’t quite pull off. The reason for this is the way Stern creates an environment where guests feel safe and comfortable enough to open up.

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While other talk shows might feature awkward answers, Stern’s style goes deeper, with a subtle but powerful approach that keeps stars coming back for more.

What makes Howard Stern a better celebrity interviewer than Joe Rogan?

While many interviewers struggle to get past rehearsed answers, Howard Stern creates an environment that feels so natural that stars forget they are on air. This is why he has managed to get people like Donald Trump to talk...

While this weekend’s SNL 50: The Anniversary Special has been scheduled for a while now, it wasn’t until very recently that we started to learn exactly which big-name guests would actually be performing.

Last week, NBC announced that the special would feature celebrity laugh riots Steve Martin, John Mulaney and Kim Kardashian. And this week, we finally found out which previous cast members would be returning to Studio 8H on Sunday, via a video in which giant SNL index cards appear to be hung throughout New York City. It kind of looked like Inception, if Inception took place inside of Lorne Michaels’ brain.

The special’s roster of ex-SNLers includes Molly Shannon, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Maya Rudolph, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, Kate McKinnon, Laraine Newman, Chris Rock, Andy Samberg and even Chevy Chase, just to name a few.

Oddly, Kenan Thompson is also listed as a returning SNL alumnus,...

Horror fans, prepare yourselves—”Don’t Move” (2024) is now streaming on Netflix, and it’s one of the most intense survival horror films I’ve seen in a while. If you love edge-of-your-seat tension, terrifying villains, and the kind of horror that lingers in your mind long after the credits roll, this is a must-watch.

What Is “Don’t Move” (2024) About?

Directed by Adam Schindler and Brian Netto, Don’t Move stars Kelsey Asbille (Yellowstone), Finn Wittrock (American Horror Story), and David Spade in a chilling departure from his usual comedic roles.

The premise is terrifyingly simple yet utterly gripping:

A ruthless serial killer injects a grieving woman with a paralytic agent. She has only minutes before her body completely shuts down. Her only chance at survival? Running, hiding, and fighting back—before she can’t move at all.

It’s a nightmare scenario that plays out in real time, making every second feel like an eternity.

Don’t tell that nasty penguin, but Billy Madison is turning 30 today. It’s the movie that taught America that peeing your pants is cool, that shampoo and conditioner have been locked in a battle for the ages and that Adam Sandler was going to be one of the funniest movie stars of all time.

While Billy Madison was written by Sandler and his longtime collaborator Tim Herlihy, it was directed by Tamra Davis, who had previously directed Chris Rock’s CB4 and would go on to direct Half Baked.

Joining me for a Zoom call recently to mark the movie’s 30th anniversary, Davis was happy to recall her time working on Billy Madison, including sharing funny stories about Chris Farley stripping, why Sandler was convinced pelting kids with a dodgeball was comedy gold and how she still doesn’t understand what that penguin was doing there.

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Celebrate 30 years of gut-busting laughs with the 90s classic Tommy Boy, arriving for the first time ever on 4K Ultra HD™ March 25, 2025 from Paramount Home Entertainment. Tommy Boy stars “Saturday Night Live” alumni Chris Farley and David Spade in one of cinema’s funniest on-screen pairings as two drastically different personalities on a hellish road trip to save a family business. Produced by Lorne Michaels and directed by Peter Segal, Tommy Boy scored with audiences when it debuted in 1995 and continues to attract new fans three decades later. Newly remastered under the supervision of director Peter ... Read more...

The Chris Farley and David Spade buddy comedy Tommy Boy is coming to 4K Ultra HD for its 30th anniversary. Pre-orders are available ahead of the March 25th release date.

Available as a limited edition Steelbook or 4K/Blu-ray combo, the film was remastered under the supervision of director Peter Segal. Bonus content includes director commentary, deleted and extended scenes, alternate takes, a gag reel, and the theatrical trailer.

Debuting in theaters on March 31st, 1995, Tommy Boy paired the Saturday Night Live alumni as traveling salesman Tommy Callahan III (Farley) and his father’s assistant Richard Hayden (Spade), who go on a road trip to save the Callahan family’s auto parts business.

Other cast members include Brian Dennehy as Thomas “Big Tom” Callahan Jr., Bo Derek as Tommy’s stepmother, and Rob Lowe as Tommy’s stepbrother.

Though Tommy Boy received mixed reviews and earned a modest $32.7 million at the global box office,...

A new family dynamic between David Beckham and Matt Damon kicks off in Super Bowl Lix.

The two play long-lost twins who bond over Anheuser-Busch InBev’s Stella Artois in a commercial that executives behind the brand expect to start a months-long campaign.

“The dichotomy of David Beckham and Matt Damon as long-lost twins who bond over a shared love of Stella Artois is priceless, and our hope with the work is to connect with more audiences more frequently,” says Chris Jones, group vice president of marketing for premium brands at the large brewer, in remarks provided by email. Viewers will “have to follow along all year to see how their relationship unfolds.”

The last appearance of Stella Artois on the Super Bowl ad roster came in 2019, when the brand revived Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw from the HBO series “Sex and the City” and Jeff Bridges as “The...

Chevy Chase, Bruce Dern and Joey Lauren Adams are to star in the comedy thriller 'CATnip'.The indie movie from writer-director Nyle Cavazos Garcia centres on how a struggling family's fresh start in a run-down apartment becomes a fight for survival as terror is unleashed by a horde of feral cats – revealing the dark and deadly horrors lurking within the walls.Other cast members include Jake Busey, Geoffrey Arend, Keli Price, Lorelei Linklater, Charlotte Kirk, Brooke Bundy, Kylee Levien and River Jose.Price is producing for his Price Productions banner alongside Garcia for his Small Town Pictures company. Javier C. Ortiz and Amado DeHoyos both serve as executive producers.The picture is set to begin shooting in Los Angeles this month.Meanwhile, director Jason Reitman revealed how Chevy, 81, jokingly told him that he should be "embarrassed" about his movie 'Saturday Night' – which tells the story of the premiere of the...

Saturday Night Live is going all out to celebrate its 50th year on television. The sketch show has special episodes and exclusive behind-the-scenes looks for fans to get the full SNL experience.

Anticipation for SNL's 50th anniversary has been building for years. Fans were eager to see what surprises were in store during season 50, while others speculated if this would be when Lorne Michaels finally rode off into the sunset.

Season 50 has been full of cameos, and Lorne Michaels doesn't have plans to go anywhere. But there is still plenty more for Saturday Night Live fans to sink their teeth into around the show's historic milestone.

Saturday Night

While not officially affiliated with Saturday Night Live, the movie Saturday Night deserves a spot in this guide. The movie takes a dramatized look at what Lorne Michaels had to do to get the first episode on the air in 1975.

Whether...

The official Saturday Night Live YouTube channel is stocked with hundreds of sketches from the show’s five decades of comedy but only one has passed the magic 100-million view mark. Matt Foley screaming at David Spade and Christina Applegate? Nope. Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell rapping about Lazy Sunday? Not even close.

To keep you in suspense just a little longer, let’s count down the top five…

5 Star Wars Undercover Boss: 67 Million Views 4 Spider-Man Kiss: 73 Million Views 3 Hermione Growth Spurt: 76 Million Views 2 Black Jeopardy with Tom Hanks: 83 Million Views 1 Porn Teacher: 106 Million Views

The most viewed video on SNL’s YouTube channel is Amy Schumer’s “Porn Teacher” sketch? Really?

“Can you believe that?” the comic asked Howard Stern this week. “The most viewed SNL sketch of all time is me and Kyle Mooney.”

At first, Schumer said, she was shocked to hear that the sketch ended up in the top slot.

Martha Stewart shared a surprising backstage story from her past during a recent appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” revealing how her parole restrictions prevented her from hosting “Saturday Night Live” in 2005.

The lifestyle entrepreneur disclosed that NBC had approached her about hosting the iconic comedy show immediately after her release from the Alderson federal prison camp. However, her parole conditions—which limited her to just eight hours outside her home each day—made it impossible to meet the show’s intense rehearsal and production requirements.

Stewart expressed clear frustration about the missed opportunity, even remembering her parole officer’s name and contact information. “That bastard!” she said, indicating her lingering disappointment. Despite the setback, she remains hopeful about potentially hosting the show, even encouraging fans to “start a campaign” for her appearance.

The conversation also highlighted Stewart’s unique place in pop culture. She has been one...

Martha Stewart could’ve hosted Saturday Night Live after she spent time behind bars.

The entrepreneur and television host said that she was invited to host SNL in 2005 after spending give months in prison for lying about a stock trade but her parole officer stopped her from doing the show.

“I wanted to and they asked me as I was coming out of Alderson — that camp that I was in for a while,” Stewart joked on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. “And my parole officer wouldn’t give me the time to do it.”

Stewart noted that she was only allowed to be out of her house eight hours a day.

“The parole officer said, no?” Fallon asked Stewart which prompted her response, “No, that bastard!”

Stewart added that she still had the name and number of her parole officer, adding, “I’m so pissed,” about not being able to do it.

For many celebrities, there's a relatively small window in which they are considered for hosting Saturday Night Live. One celebrity had that window slammed shut, not by SNL, Lorne Michaels, or the network, but by their parole officers.

Television personality Martha Stewart revealed Lorne Michaels asked her to host Saturday Night Live in 2005. The SNL boss likely wanted to capitalize on the timing, as Stewart had just been released from serving five months in prison for a fraud conviction.

"I wanted to, and they asked me as I was coming out of Alderson, that camp I was in for a while,” Stewart said on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “And my parole officer wouldn’t give me the time to do it … That bastard! I still have his name and his number.”

According to Stewart, the parameters of her parole limited her time outside of the house to eight hours per day.

Martha Stewart has obviously had a very successful career, changing the way we view both the lifestyle industry and the Comedy Central roast industry.

But despite all of her accomplishments and undeniable cultural contributions, the 83-year-old star has never once hosted Saturday Night Live. But that doesn’t mean that she hasn’t been invited to host. As Stewart recently told Jimmy Fallon, Lorne Michaels asked her to host the show decades ago, but unfortunately, she was legally prevented from doing so.

“I wanted to, and they asked me as I was coming out of Alderson — that camp that I was in for a while,” Stewart explained. Of course, the “camp” in question was a federal prison camp, where Stewart served a five-month sentence beginning in late 2004. “My parole officer wouldn’t give me the time to do it,” Stewart recalled. “I was allowed to be out of my house eight hours a day,...

Martha Stewart has revealed that she was once asked to host “Saturday Night Live,” but her parole officer wouldn’t allow it.

During an appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” on Monday, Stewart said she got the call from Lorne Michaels after her release from prison in 2005. Stewart served five months at the Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, W.Va after being convicted of fraud in relation to the ImClone stock trading case.

“I wanted to, and they asked me as I was coming out of Alderson, that camp I was in for a while,” Stewart said of hosting the iconic sketch show. “And my parole officer wouldn’t give me the time to do it … That bastard! I still have his name and his number.”

Stewart noted that under parole, she was only allowed to be out of the house for eight hours per day, which didn...

Martha Stewart is one of the most impersonated people on Saturday Night Live, but she has yet to host the sketch show. On a new episode of The Tonight Show, Stewart spoke to host Jimmy Fallon about being impersonated nine different times, including by David Spade.

“David’s my favorite,” Stewart confirmed. “He was wearing my poncho. The real poncho.” She added that she loves seeing a Martha Stewart impression because “imitation is the highest form of flattery and you might as well be imitated.”

Fallon then inquired whether she hopes to host SNL.

Last year, Saturday Night Live aired a sketch in which Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day played two complete strangers who inexplicably resemble Beavis and Butt-Head. And since pretty much any SNL sketch that seems to work will be quickly repeated until the joke is no longer funny, the pair reprised their roles for the red carpet premiere of Gosling’s movie The Fall Guy.

If this sketch proved anything, it’s that Beavis and Butt-Head are creepy as hell when brought to life with human actors. They looked less like beloved cartoon characters, and more like nightmarish David Lynch creations going through a mid-life crisis.

But weirdly enough, we were almost subjected to live-action versions of the dim-witted duo nearly three decades ago.

In 1996 Beavis and Butt-Head Do America brought the MTV characters to the big screen for the first time, with a cross-country animated adventure that featured the voices of stars like Demi Moore,...

Since nobody’s making a Tales From the Crypt: Bordello of Blood legacy sequel any time soon, Dennis Miller was free to chat with his pals David Spade and Dana Carvey on the most recent episode of their Fly on the Wall podcast.

The former Saturday Night Live cast members touched on topics ranging from Spade’s pitch for a Joe Dirt cartoon, SNL’s joke swap and Miller’s hair plugs. Side note: Tolstoy’s War and Peace is available to listen to for free on the same devices that people use for podcasts.

Miller did offer up one particularly interesting anecdote involving an entirely different former Weekend Update anchor: Norm Macdonald.

Before Macdonald joined SNL, and even before he worked for Roseanne, the young comedian was hired to write for The Dennis Miller Show, and his application process was highly unorthodox and extremely concise. “I heard there was a new kid in L.

Dr. Dana Carvey stroked his chin this week on the Fly on the Wall podcast, certain that he’d diagnosed the personality disorder that makes Chevy Chase difficult to work with. Chase has been a Fly on the Wall guest in the past, and it was prior to that conversation that Carvey developed his Unified Theory of Chevy Chase.

“I kind of figured him out,” Carvey told David Spade and Chase’s Community costar Joel McHale. “He has an impulse to say the thing you’re not supposed to say, even if it goes into territory that you cannot even comprehend he’s going there. But he has an impulse to do that.”

Armed with his theory, Carvey knew exactly the right method for approaching Chase’s interview. “I just sort of went with it,” he explained. “(Chase) would do all this shock stuff, and I just started finding it...

“Comedy slowly became rock ‘n’ roll,” says Joe Piscopo, a Saturday Night Live cast member between 1980 and 1984, in the opening episode of SNL 50: Beyond Saturday Night.

The Peacock docuseries, which is exec produced by Morgan Neville, the man behind Fred Rogers doc Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, 20 Feet From Stardom and the Pharrell Williams Lego doc Piece By Piece, tells the story of the venerable NBC sketch comedy show ahead of its 50th anniversary next month.

It features a slew of cast members including Amy Poehler, Andy Samberg, Bill Hader, Bobby Moynihan, Bowen Yang, Cheri Oteri, David Spade, Tina Fey, Ego Nwodim, Fred Armisen, Heidi Gardner, Jason Sudeikis, Jay Pharaoh, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jon Lovitz, Kenan Thompson, Molly Shannon, Pete Davidson, Tracy Morgan, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Rachel Dratch, Will Ferrell, Billy Crystal and Damon Wayans as well as writers and producers such as Alan Zweibel, Al Franken, Harper Steele,...

While Chevy Chase definitely won’t be in the upcoming Community movie — unless one of the characters happens to pull out a photo of their dead friend who masturbated himself into an early grave several years ago — its cast members are still fielding questions about the Caddyshack star.

Joel McHale recently appeared on Dana Carvey and David Spade’s Fly on the Wall podcast, and while McHale never appeared on Saturday Night Live, his relationship with Chevy was obviously an area of interest for the two former SNLers.

Spade asked if Chase’s bad behavior on the set of Community was “more of a rumor, or was he a bit of a pickle?” — possibly because Spade hasn’t used the internet in the past 11 years. “I’ve never answered any questions about him,” McHale joked before going on to describe just how frustrating Chase was to work with.

“He didn’t want to be there,...

Funny business is pretty damn lucrative, at least according to Celebrity Net Worth. If we believe its numbers, a guy like Rowan (Mr. Bean) Atkinson can rack up a net worth of $150 million, and still not crack the list of the top 20 richest comedians.

Which jokesters make up the top 10? Here’s the updated list as of January 5, 2025.

10 Larry David and David Letterman (Tie)

With a net worth of about $400 million each, David and Letterman make this rich-guy version of a Late Night Top Ten list. Now that Curb Your Enthusiasm is done, is David done raking in the cash? That’s what we thought when Letterman “retired” from CBS, but the guy is everywhere.

9 Adam Sandler

The Sandman is a good candidate to keep climbing this list as Netflix can’t get enough of his collabs with old buddies like Rob Schneider and David Spade. With rehashes like this...

As infuriating as Bill Maher is as a comedian, talk show host and belligerent drunken YouTuber, he’s somehow even more annoying when he attempts to discuss films.

As we’ve mentioned before, Maher’s baffling cinematic taste has previously prompted him to shit all over Martin Scorsese’s iconic Raging Bull, and heap praise on Jerry Seinfeld’s not-so-iconic Bee Movie. Now the star of Pizza Man is weighing in on one of the most talked-about movies of last year: Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance.

On the most recent episode of Dana Carvey and David Spade’s Fly on the Wall podcast, the hosts and guest Maher discussed the Golden Globes, specifically, Demi Moore’s win for her work as Elisabeth Sparkle in The Substance. This led Maher to offer up his reaction to the film. “I couldn’t handle it. I was literally watching it through my fingers,...

When Bill Maher was a young stand-up comic, he wasn’t looking to get into sitcoms. “But when I started,” he told Dana Carvey and David Spade on the latest Fly on the Wall podcast, “the template was, well, you get on The Tonight Show, you do your little six minutes, little monkey goes out there and makes people laugh. Good clean material. And then you get a sitcom like Robin Williams did and Roseanne and Freddie Prince and Tim Allen.”

Spoiler alert: Maher did not turn into Robin Williams or Roseanne. But that doesn’t mean he didn’t get his opportunities. He told Carvey and Spade about his shots at sitcom stardom that fizzled shortly after liftoff.

1 Sara

“I did my four or five Tonight Shows, and I got on a big show, a sitcom on NBC that was on after Family Ties,” he remembered. “It was a...

The 50th anniversary of “SNL” is about to kick off.

Acclaimed Academy and Emmy award-winning documentarian Morgan Neville is honoring the 50th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live” with docuseries “SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night,” which he executive produces. The four-part series offers a behind-the-scenes look at the history of the beloved sketch series, with each episode taking a different perspective on how the show began.

More than 60 SNL alums are interviewed onscreen, including Amy Poehler, Andy Samberg, Bill Hader, Jason Sudeikis, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Molly Shannon, Pete Davidson, Stephen Colbert, Tracy Morgan, Bob Odenkirk, Tina Fey, Seth Meyers, John Mulaney, Larry David, Will Ferrell, Rachel Dratch, and Fred Armisen.

The first installment, “Five Minutes,” is about the audition process. Emmy Award winner Robert Alexander directs the first episode, which includes never-before-seen audition footage and firsthand accounts from alums as they reflect on their preparation and journey to the “SNL” stage.

The second episode,...

Wild and crazy guys, the van down by the river, and, of course, more cowbell – just some of the classic sketches shown in the new trailer released today for Peacock‘s four-part docuseries SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night.

“Anybody can do comedy,” former cast member Tracy Morgan says at the start of the trailer before delivering the punchline – “But are you funny?”

The upcoming docuseries promises lots of funny moments from the history of Saturday Night Live. In the trailer, Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon, Will Ferrell, Dana Carvey and Amy Poehler are among the famous faces speaking about the venerable NBC late-night series. Andy Samberg reveals he threw up after auditioning.

The docuseries, Peacock says, will offer a behind-the-scenes look “at some of the American late-night comedy institution’s most iconic elements and rich history.”

The docuseries, executive produced by Morgan Neville, includes four episodes, each taking “a different creative approach...

Peacock has released a first look at SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, a new documentary series that offers a behind-the-scenes look at some of the American late-night comedy institution’s most iconic elements and rich history.

Executive produced by Academy and Emmy Award winner Morgan Neville, SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night streams exclusively on Peacock beginning January 16.

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night is a four-part docuseries honoring the legacy of SNL, with over 60 contributors, including SNL alumni, and covering decades of SNL history. Spotlighting some of the show’s most iconic elements, each episode delves into the rich history of SNL and pulls back the curtain on the audition process, the writers’ room, the fan favorite “More Cowbell” sketch and the pivotal Season 11.

Each episode of the docuseries takes a different creative approach to the tapestry of Saturday Night Live and embraces the unique vision of their award-winning directors: Emmy Award winner Robert Alexander...

Normal Gossip, Call Her Daddy and Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang are among the titles in contention for the podcast of the year at the 2025 iHeartPodcast Awards.

The high-profile category also includes the podcasts Three, Giggly Squad, Hysterical, The Telepathy Tapes, Who Killed JFK?, Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD and The Good Whale. Fans will vote on the winner starting Jan. 7 through Feb. 16.

New Heights, hosted by Jason and Travis Kelce, took home the prize of podcast of the year at the 2024 ceremony.

In addition to the 29 competitive categories, which span several genres, the iHeartPodcast Awards will also present three icon awards that honor podcasts and creators who have made groundbreaking contributions to the industry. Sarah Spain, an Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist and host of Good Game, will be honored with the 2025 Social Impact Award for her role in championing equity in sports coverage,...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is ready to bloom again this spring on Lifetime.

Season 2 of the reality series Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up, which chronicles Blanchard’s life after her release from prison, will premiere Monday, March 10 at 9/8c on Lifetime, the network has announced. The sophomore season “will follow Gypsy’s emotionally charged journey as she navigates her newfound freedom, rebuilds relationships, handles pregnancy and new motherhood, all while remaining on parole.”

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Hosting the Golden Globes is a notoriously tough gig, and after a rocky few years for the awards show, Nikki Glaser redeemed the event, earning widespread praise for her turn as host. Her monologue, which deftly blended her roasting abilities with the kind of goofy bits that play well online, reminded viewers that a booze-soaked awards show is supposed to be fun.

Glaser’s breakout performance at last...

Lorne Michaels created Saturday Night Live and has guided the show through 50 years of comedy. He knows what works and what doesn't, so when one cast member ignored Michaels' note, it carried a heavy consequence.

Save for a five year hiatus, Lorne Michaels has been behind the scenes for everything at SNL. He's hired just about every kind of comedian and let the show (and its humor) change with the times. But he's always had the final say on what makes it to air.

Former cast member Chris Parnell learned that the hard way. In an interview with Cracked, Parnell recalled his favorite sketch. It featured host Bill Murray as Hollywood gynecologist Steve Baxter and Harper Steele wrote it.

"I came out as a song-and-dance man to introduce him, and I was always happy with how that performance came out," Parnell said. "I did this thing where I was getting...

David Spade is still trying to wrap his head around the current Saturday Night Live castmember’s casual relationship with creator Lorne Michaels.

The comedian-actor, who was a castmember on the NBC sketch comedy show from 1990 to 1996, recently told Dana Carvey on their Fly on the Wall podcast that he was shocked by how the show’s new kids speak to Michaels, as the dynamic was much different during his time on the show.

Spade recalled repertory player Sarah Sherman telling him she “texted [Lorne Michaels] and said, ‘Why did my sketch get cut?’” But a bewildered Spade thought, “I’m like, you text Lorne? That floors me.”

Carvey, a castmember on SNL from 1986 to 1993, was also seemingly surprised and asked, “As a cast member? During the show?”

The Grown Ups actor proceeded to detail a behind-the-scenes moment with Michaels and Sherman during rehearsals for the Dec. 7 episode.

“Lorne was giving notes when I did Hunter Biden,...

Saturday Night Live Lorne Michaels can make or break someone's career in comedy, and he's been doing it for 50 years. That kind of power can be intimidating, but apparently the current SNL cast has managed to cozy up to Michaels.

As creator and executive producer, Michaels has the final say on who joins the Saturday Night Live cast, who hosts, and what sketches make it to air. Cast members and writers, especially when first joining the show, have shared stories of feeling intimidated or nervous about interacting with Michaels.

It's a sentiment shared by Fly on the Wall co-hosts David Spade and Dana Carvey. As cast members during the late '80s and early '90s, they got a front-row seat to the Lorne Michaels experience. Both have had cameos during season 50 and noticed a stark difference between how the cast and Michaels interact.

Spade shared that cast member Sarah Sherman...

As a former Saturday Night Live cast member, David Spade joked he’s so old he recalls a time when he and his colleagues treated Lorne Michaels more as a boss than a friend.

While listing their New Year’s resolutions, Spade (who left the late-night show in 1996) told co-host Dana Carvey on a new episode of the Fly on the Wall podcast that times indeed have changed, so much so that it shocks him. He recalled an anecdote where repertory player Sarah Sherman told him she “texted [Lorne Michaels] and said, ‘Why did my sketch get cut?’ I’m like, you text Lorne? That floors me.”

Carvey, who left SNL in 1993 and has since returned on the sketch series’ storied 50th season as Potus Joe Biden, incredulously asked: “As a cast member? During the show?”

When prompted by an off-camera producer, Spade expanded on a behind-the-scenes tidbit featuring Sherman. “Lorne was...

"Stranger Things" isn't the only show keeping the fervent spirit of the '80s alive, because "The Goldbergs" acts as a giant love letter to the decade that birthed such national treasures as "ThunderCats" and "Garbage Pail Kids." Loosely based on showrunner Adam F. Goldberg's own life, the sitcom follows his family's adventures (and misadventures) in everyday scenarios that unfolded across 10 seasons between 2013 and 2023. "The Goldbergs" cast features more than a handful of recognizable names, such as Jeff Garlin and Stephen Tobolowsky, not to mention Patton Oswalt using his recognizable voice, but it's sometimes difficult to pinpoint exactly where we have seen these actors before.

Don't stress, though, since that's why we're here -- to figure out the notable shows and films where you might have seen the cast of "The Goldbergs" before. Now, that doesn't mean their entire filmographies will be covered from top to bottom, because some...

Father sure doesn’t punish the kids like he did back when we were young. At least, that’s what David Spade believes about current cast members’ relationship with Saturday Night Live daddy Lorne Michaels.

On the latest episode of Spade’s Superfly podcast with Dana Carvey, the two SNL veterans expressed utter shock about the state of Michaels/cast relations. “Sarah Sherman's like, ‘Then I texted Lorne and said, ‘Why did my sketch get cut?’” said Spade. “I’m like, ‘You text Lorne?’”

Spade was floored at the sheer audacity of a cast member communicating with Michaels without sitting outside his office for hours.

“As a cast member?” exclaimed an equally flabbergasted Carvey. “During the show?”

Spade’s incredulity didn’t end there. He told another Sherman story about the Church Lady sketch he appeared in as Hunter Biden last month. Michaels got on a microphone (another “we...

Jason Reitman's "Saturday Night" is a stressful, chaotic movie that covers the 90 minutes leading up to the first-ever episode of "Saturday Night Live" airing back in 1975. /Film's own Ethan Anderson gave it a glowing 9 out of 10 review, but "SNL" alum Chevy Chase had a different reaction. As Reitman explained on a recent episode of the "Fly on the Wall" podcast (which is hosted by "SNL" alums David Spade and Dana Carvey), Chase told Reitman his thoughts on the film after an early screening:

"Chevy loves to say the thing you're not supposed to say — to the extreme [...] I have an example for you [...] So, Chevy comes in to watch the movie, and he is there with [his wife] Jayni, and they watch the film, and he's in the group, and he comes up to me after, and he pats me on the shoulder and goes, 'Well, you should be embarrassed.'...