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Sally Tiven, a musician and songwriter who played on albums by B.B. King and Wilson Pickett and had her songs recorded by the likes of Huey Lewis & the News, Buddy Guy and The Jeff Healey Band, has died. She was 68.

Tiven died July 23 in Nashville of complications from hip replacement surgery, her husband and longtime partner in music, Jon Tiven, announced.

Working mainly in the blues and soul genres, Tiven played guitar on records by King (“All You Ever Give Me Is the Blues”) and bass guitar on Pickett’s 1999 album It’s Harder Now, Don Covay’s 2000 album Adlib and Sir Mack Rice’s 2001 album This What I Do, participating in the writing of those records as well.

Huey Lewis & the News, Guy and The Jeff Healey Band recorded her songs “He Don’t Know,” “Heavy Love” and “River of No Return,” respectively. Shemekia Copeland (“Married to the Blues,...

Given how shows like "The Wire" and "The Sopranos" helped turn HBO into the destination for quality television in the late '90s and early 2000s, it isn't too surprising that Netflix would see a similar rise to prominence off the back of its own well-received crime-influenced series like "House of Cards," "Orange is the New Black," and even "Bloodline." It causes one to wonder what exactly it is about these stories that makes them so central to the midwifing of new eras of television -- perhaps such crime dramas, universally captivating despite often being too violent, disturbing, and complicated for mainstream TV, naturally find themselves at home wherever risks are most welcome.

Whatever the case, Netflix is now where many go for the thrills that a simulated life of crime can offer. Whether a viewer is looking for a classic series that predated the streamer's existence or is willing...

Exclusive: Jimmy Kimmel is preparing for his annual summer break and has lined up some A-listers to fill in for him.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! has revealed the guest hosts that will front the ABC late-night show in Kimmel’s absence. They include Anthony Anderson, Nicole Byer, Alan Cumming, Chris Distefano, Fortune Feimster, Jelly Roll, Diego Luna and Kumail Nanjiani.

Anderson, Byer and Nanjiani have previously guest hosted the show but it marks new territory for Cumming, Distefano, Feimster, Luna and pop star Jelly Roll.

It marks the fifth year that Kimmel, who baked his summer break into his ABC contract, has taken off the summer, starting in 2020 with no shows during the summer of 2023 as a result of the dual labor strikes in Hollywood.

Over that period the likes of Ryan Reynolds, Jennifer Lawrence, Martin Short, Dana Carvey, Chelsea Handler, Al Franken, Nikki Glaser, Jeff Goldblum, RuPaul, Kerry Washington, Lamorne Morris,...

Ever wonder what makes Saturday Night Live tick? Spoiler alert: It’s equal parts comedy genius, caffeine-fueled chaos, and late-night existential crises, all wrapped in a relentless weekly deadline that refuses to budge.

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, Peacock's four-part docuseries, honors the iconic show’s enduring legacy with more than 60 contributors — including SNL alumni — sharing insights and stories that span decades of television history.

Spotlighting the show's most memorable elements, executive producer Morgan Neville crafted four distinct installments: "Five Minutes," exploring the audition process that has launched countless careers; "More Cowbell," a deep dive into the fan-favorite sketch and its cultural resonance; "Written By: A Week Inside the SNL Writers Room," an intimate look at the high-pressure process of sketch creation; and "Season 11: The Weird Year," a retrospective on one of the most pivotal (and widely regarded as worst) seasons in SNL history.

Neville, along with Marshall Curry,...

Uzo Aduba truly came to understand her character, the sharp and savvy investigator Cordelia Cupp, during the final episode of the debut season of Netflix's The Residence.

“She has this energy,” Aduba told Gold Derby at the Hollywood Legion Theater before the show’s FYC panel. “She walks us through the whole case and how she solved it, and I just remember it changed the way I saw her.”

That pivotal moment — when Cordelia, tasked with solving a murder within the White House, barrels down the Grand Cross hallway passionately rambling about a spotted owl — reframed Aduba’s entire understanding of the character she’d been embodying. “I always thought she was this very singular, serious person who's not emotional about anything,” she said. “And the truth of it is, the thing that gets her excited is her job; that's what she lives for."

From the interrogation to the summation,...

We're not the boss of you now, but we still strongly recommend revisiting the classic sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle." Created in 2000 by "Little House on the Prairie" alum Linwood Boomer, the series ran for seven seasons and over 150 episodes before it ended in 2006. Though it may seem somewhat predictable now, it was a fairly subversive program at the time with regard to how chaotic and internally hostile the central Wilkerson family could be.

The actors who portrayed the Wilkersons -- and the neighbors, classmates, relatives, and co-workers they terrorize -- were an amusing mix of established sitcom stalwarts and up-and-coming child actors, a dynamic encapsulated by Malcolm actor Frankie Muniz and his on-screen father Bryan Cranston. With nearly a decade of television between us and the series finale and a reunion miniseries reportedly on the way, we're more curious than ever what the cast of "Malcolm in the Middle" is up to now,...

For months now, Saturday Night Live has enjoyed a great deal of fanfare for making it to its 50th season, which concludes on Saturday. But the show will also mark another anniversary this week — one that creator Lorne Michaels would likely prefer to forget.

On May 12, 1990, Andrew Dice Clay — one of the biggest stand-up comedians at that time — hosted SNL. In recent decades, Dice has toned down his image with funny TikTok videos and a surprisingly good performance in the 2018 remake of A Star Is Born, but in 1990, he was incredibly controversial. In addition to his dirty takes on nursery rhymes, Dice’s stand-up was rampant with sexist, racist and homophobic jokes. This garnered two reactions from the general public: hooting-and-hollering devotion from the tens of thousands who poured into stadiums to see the leather-clad comic, and abject revulsion from those who felt the comedian was appealing to our worst...

Netflix kicked off the first quarter of 2025 with a massive release of new titles, several of which have received rave reviews. From comedies to thrillers to Western adventure, the streamer has outdone itself with the wide range of choices in its most recent releases.

The streamer kicked off the new year with a brand new Harlan Coben series, Missing You. Two other highly anticipated releases were the second season of The Night Agent and the final episodes of Cobra Kai.

The best news is, Netflix isn't done yet. The remainder of the year will continue to see new seasons of your favorites including You, Wednesday, The Witcher, Squid Game, and the fifth and final season of Stranger Things.

Below we highlight several amazing new shows released on Netflix in 2025, from a wide range of genres.

The Residence The Residence. (L to R) Uzo Aduba as Cordelia Cupp, Randall Park as...

A scene from the TV series “l3P.” ®Mika Cotellon-Storia Television. Courtesy of MHz Choice

The French crime drama miniseries “l3P” is rather unusual in its premise and structure. Before you get into a sci-fi frame of mind, this Isn’T about a relative of C-3Po or R2-D2. The title is the name of the police psychiatric clinic, run by eccentric shrink Matthias Bernhardt (Marc Lavoine). He usually seems distracted from the given moment by other thoughts, and is further bothered by recurring visions and blackouts that may be due to undiagnosed brain damage, for which he remains firmly in denial. Each case brings him crimes to be solved with police captain Nathalie Fontaine (Barbara Schulz), who vacillates among irritation and resentment of the doc, respect for his skills and a semi-maternal fondness for him personally.

The series is six 50-minute episodes, with each main case being a two-parter.

The star-studded revival of the play Glengarry Glen Ross just had its Broadway opening night and an equally star-studded crowd stepped out to watch the performance.

Kieran Culkin and co-stars Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr took their opening night bows on Monday evening (March 31) at the Palace Theatre in New York City.

Among the attendees were Kieran‘s Broadway co-stars Sarah Snook, J. Smith-Cameron (with husband Kenneth Lonergan), Dagmara Dominczyk (with husband Patrick Wilson and son Kalin), and Sydney Lemmon.

More stars in attendance included Katie Holmes, Liev Schreiber, Ansel Elgort, and more.

Glengarry Glen Ross is “set in a cutthroat Chicago real estate office where four salespeople compete to sell mostly worthless properties to unwitting customers. Whoever sells the most wins a car; whoever sells the least is out of a job – a ruthless environment where each character will do anything to come out on top.”

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The Residenceis a quirky whodunit on Netflix that's full of twists, turns, and solid performances by a stellar ensemble cast. Led by Uzo Aduba as Cordelia Cupp, a bird-loving detective and consultant for the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department, The Residence also includes Giancarlo Esposito as A.B. Wynter, the White House Chief Usher (a role originally slated for Andre Braugher); Susan Kelechi Watson as Jasmine Haney, an Assistant Usher at the White House;and Randall Park as Edwin Park, a Special Agent with the FBI.

Jason Lee, Ken Marino, Taran Gillam, and Jane Curtin accompany Mary Wiseman, Bronson Pinchot, Julian McMahon, and a host of others who ultimately serve as suspects when a murder takes place during a State Dinner at the White House. Cupp asks everyone in the White House questions in her efforts to figure out who killed Chief Usher A.B. Wynter.

The story of what...

Spoiler Alert: This interview contains major spoilers from “The Residence,” now streaming on Netflix.

Before writing a single word of Netflix’s latest murder mystery “The Residence,” creator Paul William Davies knew exactly who the killer and the victim would be.

Over the course of eight episodes, the new screwball whodunit series — inspired by Kate Andersen Brower’s non-fiction book “The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House” — unraveled the mystery surrounding the demise of White House Chief Usher A.B. Wynter on the night of an Australian state dinner at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

After conducting a whirlwind investigation on the night of the murder, during which she interviewed 157 suspects and potential witnesses to the crime and its attempted cover-up, Detective Cordelia Cupp (Uzo Aduba) returns to the White House, where she gives all of her remaining persons of interest a tour of the house while explaining the many...

The Residence, a new Netflix series from Shondaland, offers a captivating murder mystery set within the iconic walls of the White House. The narrative unfolds as Detective Cordelia Cupp investigates a homicide during a state dinner, revealing intricate dynamics among the residence staff and guests. This article provides an overview of the plot and introduces the ensemble cast that brings this intriguing story to life.

Plot Overview:

During a prestigious state dinner at the White House, Chief Usher A.B. Wynter is found dead under mysterious circumstances. Renowned detective Cordelia Cupp is called upon to unravel the truth behind the murder. As she delves deeper, Cupp encounters a web of secrets, personal vendettas, and complex relationships among the 157 residence staff members, each a potential suspect. The series combines elements of classic whodunits with a modern twist, set against the backdrop of America’s most famous residence.

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The new Shondaland murder mystery series “The Residence” shares some DNA with another Netflix whodunit: Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” film.

“It resuscitated the genre,” showrunner Paul William Davies told Variety at “The Residence” premiere in Los Angeles on Wednesday, revealing that Johnson’s film was a “hugely important” guidepost for his show in the way that it drew inspiration from 1970s whodunits.

“He played around with the history,” Davies explained. “That really opened the door for a lot of us to be like, ‘Oh, yeah, we can do that again.'”

“The Residence,” which is now streaming on Netflix, stars Uzo Aduba as the wildly eccentric detective (and legendary birder) Cordelia Cupp, who is tasked with solving a murder that takes place during a White House state dinner. In creating the screwball comedy — which features a sprawling cast that includes Susan Kelechi Watson, Randall Park and Ken Marino — Davies...

This post contains spoilers from The Residence episode 6 from this point forward.

The ending of episode 5 asked where in the world Cordelia Cupp is while the congressional hearings about A.B. Wynter's death are taking place. Well, the opening of The Residence episode 6 reveals she's in Ecuador birding for the Giant Antpitta. Someone arrives to her treehouse in the forest to deliver more resources for Cordelia.

Meanwhile, Harry Hollinger approaches senior senator Aaron Filkins (Al Franken) about his name coming up in the hearings by Margery Bay Bix and allowing everyone to turn it into a murder mystery. Filkins assuages Hollinger by suggesting he'll make a deal with Bix. Well, Bix later turns the deal down.

In the White House on the night of the murder, Kylie Minogue runs to Cordelia screaming about finding blood on the floor of the Lincoln Bedroom. Now she's investigating the second floor after being focused on the third floor.

Al Franken is wading back into political waters, but this time it’s on Netflix’s whodunnit “The Residence.”

In a conversation with People on Thursday, the former politician described his time playing a fictional senator on the streamer’s new show. Franken – who was a real senator for Minnesota from 2009-2018 when he stepped down amid sexual assault allegations – was surprised when the offer to appear in the murder mystery show came through.

“They asked me to do it and I went, ‘I haven’t done this in a while. I hope I can do it,'” he said. “I wasn’t sure that I would be great in it, but I wanted to do it.”

Franken – who also wrote and appeared on “Saturday Night Live” from 1975 to 1995 – leaned on his real senatorial experience during the show and found himself imparting wisdom on the rest of the cast.

“There’s a big difference.

“The Residence” is now streaming on Netflix, and there are a whole lot of suspects. But that’s what happens when someone gets murdered during a major White House event.

Shonda Rhimes’ new series centers on the murder of the White House Chief Usher A.B. Wynter, who is killed during an event that brings literal hundreds of people to the presidential residence. Don’t worry, you don’t need to keep track of all 157 suspects throughout the series. But you do need to know quite a few of them.

To make your life easier, we have rounded up the key players below.

Uzo Aduba, Giancarlo Esposito, Susan Kelechi Watson, Ken Marino and Isiah Whitlock Jr. in “The Residence.” (Jessica Brooks/Netflix) Cordelia Cupp (Uzo Aduba)

Cordelia Cupp is a famed detective and avid birder called in to consult on the case for the Metropolitan Police Department. She is played by Uzo Aduba,...

“The Residence” was one of the first projects Shondaland announced to be in development back in 2018, as part of the company’s massive producing deal with Netflix. One pandemic and two strikes later — plus the death of a key cast member — the brilliant whodunnit starring Uzo Aduba is finally making its debut Thursday.

Created by Paul William Davies and based on the non-fiction book “The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House” by Kate Andersen Brower, the series delivers a meticulous survey on the lives and inner workings of the White House staff, through the scope of a sweeping murder investigation led by Cordelia Cupp (Uzo Aduba), known as “the best detective in the world.”

She is brought in to investigate after White House chief usher A.B. Wynter (Giancarlo Esposito) is found dead in the Game Room in the middle of an official state dinner for Australia,...

Some things are universally true, like Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation or the fact that water is wet. Also true: TV viewers love a murder mystery.

There’s a reason, after all, that there are so many of them on TV at any given time, from long-running procedurals like “Law & Order” to soapy dramas like “Pretty Little Liars” to dark and prestigious limited series like “True Detective.” TV viewers even like ‘em funny, like the recent “Matlock” reboot, “Only Murders In The Building” or Kaitlin Olson’s hit “High Potential.”

You have to think that’s why Netflix and Shondaland teamed up once again to make “The Residence,” its new 8-episode whodunnit set (of all places) in the White House. With a bang-up ensemble cast that includes everyone from Randall Park to Bronson Pinchot to Kylie Minogue, and a series of twists and turns that practically requires a binge-watch,...

Late in the new Netflix limited series The Residence, a character complains, “People like a murder mystery! They think they’re fun!” After a beat, though, he can’t help but admit, “And it is fun.”

“Fun” is absolutely the watchword of this comic thriller, created by Paul William Davies and produced by Shonda Rhimes, which cross-pollinates Davies and Rhimes’ work on Scandal with the DNA of lots of classic whodunits, from Miss Marple all the way through to the Benoit Blanc/Knives Out trilogy. The Residence wears all of...

In Shondaland’s latest Netflix series, “The Residence,” created by Paul William Davies and inspired by Kate Andersen Brower’s book “The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House,” viewers get a bird’s eye view (pun intended) of the inner workings of one of America’s most enduring institutions. Every day, hundreds of people labor behind the scenes to ensure everything from major events to the president’s living quarters are seamlessly attended to. A hilarious, eclectic and often bizarre murder mystery, “The Residence” is the closest thing to a comedy that executive producer Shonda Rhimes has ever done. The show is an overwhelming 1000-piece puzzle that eventually comes together should audiences have the patience to stick it out.

The eight-episode murder mystery (critics received seven episodes for review) opens on the night of the Australian State Dinner. Amid strained relations, the new administration led by President...

When Jennifer Euston was casting Orange Is the New Black, it stands to reason that she was selecting interesting performers first and, given the show’s evocative opening credits, interesting faces second. But somewhere on the opening page of criteria, there must have been a listing that read: “Must also be capable of fronting a Columbo-esque mystery procedural.”

In the case of Kate Mulgrew, she’d already starred in the iconic spinoff series, Mrs. Columbo.

Natasha Lyonne is weeks away from the return of her Emmy-nominated turn as human lie detector Charlie Cale in Peacock’s Poker Face.

New to the murder-solving fray is Uzo Aduba, exceptionally eccentric in Netflix’s new Shondaland-produced The Residence. The show is the latest entry in both the burgeoning Orange Is the New Forensic Investigation genre and the even more burgeoning The World’s Greatest Detective Is a Weirdo genre.

The Residence is an entertainingly chaotic goof,...

Uzo Aduba is stepping out for the world premiere of her new Netflix series!

The 44-year-old two-time Emmy winner hit the blue carpet at the premiere of The Residence on Wednesday evening (March 19) held at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood in Los Angeles.

Fellow cast members in attendance included Randall Park, Ken Marino, Susan Kelechi Watson, Jason Lee, Giancarlo Esposito, Bronson Pinchot, Spencer Garrett, Dan Perrault, Al Mitchell, Edwina Findley, Chris Grace, Matt Oberg, Mary Wiseman, Alexandra Siegel, Barrett Foa, Al Franken, Rebecca Field, Mel Rodriguez, Julieth Restrepo, Nathan Lovejoy, Sumalee Montano, Juliette Jeffers, Paul Fitzgerald, Izzy Diaz, Eliza Coupe, and James Babson.

The Residence is “a screwball whodunnit set in the upstairs, downstairs, and backstairs of the White House, among the eclectic staff of the world’s most famous mansion.”

The series, which is executive produced by Shonda Rhimes and inspired by the book The Residence: Inside the Private World...

Rian Johnson delighted fans with his 2019 murder mystery movie Knives Out, the whodunit story centered on the death of a bestselling author. The writer and director has become a pro in the murder mystery genre with the follow-up sequel film, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, along with the Peacock murder mystery series Poker Face.

If you loved every aspect of Knives Out, which earned Johnson an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, the new Netflix murder mystery series The Residence, is a must-watch for numerous reasons.

The Residence Has a Gender-Swapped Benoit Blanc

The reason to watch The Residence for those who love Knives Out is not just because both shows are murder mysteries. A key character in Knives Out who links the franchise together is Benoit Blanc. Played by Daniel Craig, he’s a brilliant yet quirky private detective with unique methods but an impeccable reputation. The...

Raquel Welch and Saturday Night Live weren’t a match made in comedy heaven. The actress was assigned a “babysitter” to keep her out of Lorne Michaels’ hair when she hosted in 1976, according to Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live. Welch was attempting to make the transition from 1960s sex symbol to Vegas-style dynamo. What could SNL do with a talent like this?

Welch had ideas, like this bizarro, high-kickin’ musical number. SNL viewers must have felt like they were watching a hybrid of a Donny and Marie variety show and a late-night Skinemax movie.

Of course, SNL writers had their own pitches, mostly centered on her cleavage. Chevy Chase had a brilliant idea — every time Welch was on-screen, he wanted the camera to slowly drift from her face to her breasts. Even funnier (to Chase): No one would tell Welch this was happening, though she...

The White House was terrified of Chevy Chase.

Gerald Ford had just walked an unlikely path to the presidency, first taking over for the disgraced Spiro Agnew and then for Richard “You can’t fire me, I quit!” Nixon. The new leader of the free world had the advantage of simply not being Nixon, but that didn’t last long, thanks to a new comedy show called Saturday Night (so new that it wasn't yet Saturday Night Live).

One of the surprise hit’s first recurring characters was Chase’s unkind imitation of Ford. Though Ford was a real-life college athlete, this cartoon version was a clumsy oaf, falling off ladders and tumbling down stairs. The caricature stuck to Ford like tar, and his team believed the best way to fight back was to prove that they were in on the joke.

Ron Nessen, who passed away this week at...

Un asesinato en la mismísima Casa Blanca. © Netflix

Netflix ha desvelado el tráiler de su nueva serie whodunit con tintes de comedia negra, La residencia, creada por Paul William Davies (Scandal).

Inspirada en el libro The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, de Kate Andersen Brower, la serie toma como punto de partida una cena de Estado desastrosa que transcurre en el piso de arriba, en el piso de abajo y tras bastidores de la Casa Blanca, y está poblada por el muy ecléctico personal de la mansión más célebre del planeta. En este contexto, la detective Cordelia Cupp se asocia con el escéptico agente especial del FBI Edwin Park (Randall Park) para desentrañar un intrigante (y mortal) misterio cuando aparece el cadáver de A.B. Wynter (Giancarlo Esposito), el ujier jefe de la Casa Blanca, y todo el mundo es sospechoso.

El reparto coral de la serie lo forman Uzo Aduba,...

Netflix and Shondaland have revealed the official trailer and key art for the upcoming series The Residence, which will launch on the streaming service on March 20, 2025.

132 rooms. 157 suspects. One dead body. One wildly eccentric detective. One disastrous State Dinner. The Residence is a screwball whodunnit set in the upstairs, downstairs, and backstairs of the White House, among the eclectic staff of the world’s most famous mansion.

Uzo Aduba stars as Cordelia Cupp, a consulting detective for the Metropolitan Police Department. Known for her wry humor, relentless pursuit of truth and a sharp eye for human behavior, Cupp is the most sought-after detective in the world—and an avid birder to boot.

Joining her is Randall Park as Special Agent Edwin Park of the FBI, who is tasked with partnering with Cupp during a high-stakes State Dinner. While Park harbors skepticism about Cupp’s unconventional methods, their dynamic promises to...

A White House-set whodunnit from Shonda Rhimes? We’re seated.

The latest Netflix series from mega-producer Rhimes is a mix of “Only Murders in the Building” meets “Knives Out,” with Rhimes and executive producing partner Betsy Beers reuniting with “Scandal” alum Paul William Davies to go back to D.C.

The screwball crime comedy stars Uzo Aduba as Metropolitan Police Department consulting detective Cordelia Cupp, who is tasked with solving a murder alongside FBI Special Agent Edwin Park (Randall Park). The duo are billed as a modern-day Sherlock and Watson and ”Odd Couple” team, as Aduba’s Cupp is the most sought-after detective in the world but Park remains skeptical about her unconventional methods.

As the character description teases for Aduba’s role, Cupp is “an astute observer of human behavior, with a distinctive and – to some, unsettling – conversational style. As she dives deeper into the evening’s events and key suspects,...

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...

Saturday Night Live's biggest stars are everywhere these days: from the hallowed halls of Studio 8H, all the way to the beachy shores of Malibu, California. And in honor of the historic 50th anniversary of the longstanding comedy sketch series, everyone is getting in on the action of celebrating and honoring its many iconic moments. Including Volkswagen, which reunited Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, and Fred Armisen as "The Californians" in a commercial for their latest car.

The air-headed, valley girl-inflection-toting bottled blondes from the popular soap opera parody sketch star in the ad for the new Volkswagen ID Buzz, an electric take on their own California icon, the old Vw bus, which debuted on Thursday. And, frankly, it's giving nostalgia vibes in an extremely earth-conscious way, which is like, totally Californian of them. We can see why Karina (Wiig) and her lover Devin (Hader) are too impressed by her...

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...

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...

For the last several decades, Saturday Night Live has been faced with questions of its future. While so many people claim not to watch or call it unfunny, everyone still talks about it and sketches still go viral. Some feel the show has run its course, the sketches need work, or members of the cast need to go. Nothing ever comes of it because Saturday Night Live is engrained as part of the fabric of late-night television that no one really ever expects to end. But there’s one point in time when Saturday Night Live almost did get canceled, and arguably should have been. The show was hanging by a thread, and instead of a complete cast shake-up saving the show, it led to a year that has become known as the “weird season.”

This was in 1985 during season 11, a bizarre season that the new Peacock docuseries SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night...

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.

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Netflix and Shondaland have revealed the official teaser trailer and photos for the upcoming series The Residence, which will launch on the streaming service on March 20. Scroll down to view all the new photos.

132 rooms. 157 suspects. One dead body. One wildly eccentric detective. One disastrous State Dinner. The Residence is a screwball whodunnit set in the upstairs, downstairs, and backstairs of the White House, among the eclectic staff of the world’s most famous mansion.

Uzo Aduba stars as Cordelia Cupp, a consulting detective for the Metropolitan Police Department. Known for her wry humor, relentless pursuit of truth and a sharp eye for human behavior, Cupp is the most sought-after detective in the world—and an avid birder to boot.

Joining her is Randall Park as Special Agent Edwin Park of the FBI, who is tasked with partnering with Cupp during a high-stakes State Dinner. While Park harbors skepticism about Cupp’s unconventional methods,...

Howard Stern celebrates the 50th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live” with a week-long showcase of his legendary interviews with “SNL” cast members, celebrity hosts, writers, and musical guests representing every era of the late-night show’s storied history.

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“SNL On Stern” begins with a special live kick-off show at 5pm Et on January 31 and runs for a full week on Howard 101 (Ch. 101) and the SiriusXM app.

What You’ll Hear

Brand new commentary from Howard discussing his longtime fascination with “Saturday Night Live” and its stars (many of who appear in this one-of-a-kind oral history of “SNL”), plus highlights from Howard’s interviews and additional commentary from “Saturday Night Live” cast members and executive producer Lorne Michaels.

‘SNL On Stern Roundtable’

The roundtable special stars “SNL” cast members Chris Kattan,...

NBC continues to celebrate the 50th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live” with the new documentary, “Ladies & Gentlemen … 50 Years of SNL Music.” Following the recent four-episode docuseries “SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night,” amid the 50th season, which airs Sundays, and ahead of the star-studded, three-hour primetime event “SNL50: The Anniversary Special,” the feature-length music doc promises a deep dive into the musical performances that have become as much of a cultural hallmark as the comedy show’s sketches.

The doc is directed by Grammy and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Emmy Award winner Oz Rodriguez, and features a roster of more than 50 interviews with musicians and “SNL” staffers, including Elvis Costello, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish & Finneas, Dave Grohl, Debbie Harry & Chris Stein, Mick Jagger, Dua Lipa, Lorne Michaels, Fred Armisen, Conan O’Brien, Bill Hader, Eddie Murphy, Maya Rudolph, Bowen Yang and many, many more.

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NBC is celebrating 50 years of Saturday Night Live by honoring all of the musical guests in a new three-hour special.

Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music is airing on NBC on Monday night (January 27) and will feature untold stories behind the culture-defining, groundbreaking and news-making musical performances, sketches and cameos of the past 50 years.

The special will showcase interviews with musical artists, cast, writers, producers and more who have been part of SNL’s legacy.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Questlove, who leads the band on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, directed the special with Emmy Award winner Oz Rodriguez.

“Everyone knows the most famous SNL appearances, whether it’s Elvis Costello, Prince or the Beastie Boys, but they’re the tip of a huge iceberg,” Questlove said. “The process of going back through the incredible archival footage was like being in a time machine, DeLorean or other. I’m so happy...

Director Jason Reitman's Saturday Night makes its quiet debut on a fan-favorite streaming platform.

Per Netflix, 2024's Saturday Night joined the streaming giant's ever-expanding catalog of films and TV shows. The move came with little fanfare on January 25, almost four months to the day after the film kicked off its theatrical run.

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Directed by Reitman from a script co-written by Gil Kenan, Saturday Night charts the events leading up to the very first episode of Saturday Night Live, which aired on October 11, 1975. The film features an expansive ensemble cast, including Teen Wolf and The Maze Runner star Dylan O'Brien in the role of the legendary Dan Aykroyd. Saturday Night also stars Gabriel Labelle in the role of Saturday Night Live...

During Sarah Silverman’s single season as a featured player on Saturday Night Live, she rarely found herself in sketches. The reality? At 22, Silverman just wasn’t ready for prime time. But that doesn’t mean she didn’t leave her mark on the show — literally.

Silverman has given various accounts of her SNL experience over the years. She was famously fired by fax, and in her memoir The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee, she lamented that “by some fluke, my genius is overlooked, 25 weeks in a row.” But in this week’s Tonight Show conversation with Jimmy Fallon, she described her SNL year as “great — I loved it.”

Her youth defined her experience. “I had a great time. You know, I got along with everybody, and I was scrappy,” she told Fallon. “I just remember being shocked at how grown-ups behaved. I just remember just thinking — because I was a kid,...

“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.”

That was the mantra that self-help guru Stuart Smalley told himself at the end of every SNL sketch he starred in, sketches in which he hosted a cable access show called Daily Affirmations. While it was certainly played for laughs, the man who created and embodied Smalley — former Minnesota senator and SNL veteran Al Franken — says there’s more to him than you might assume at first.

At the very least, there’s no denying that Smalley had staying power. From 1991 to 1995, he was one of the most commonly recurring characters on SNL. He was so popular, in fact, that in 1995 he starred in the oft-forgotten movie Stuart Saves His Family, and today, he remains one of the most memorable SNL characters of the ‘90s.

I recently caught up with Franken to talk about all things Stuart Smalley — from his inception,...

After 50 years of pushing the boundaries of network television, Saturday Night Live has birthed countless talents across multiple generations.

Robert Downey Jr. and Anthony Michael Hall recently looked back on their brief run on the NBC sketch comedy show during the infamous Season 11, which ran from 1985 to 1986 and served as creator Lorne Michaels‘ attempt to refresh the show after Eddie Murphy‘s exit.

“I’m proud to be a part of it. It was like an out-of-body experience,” said Hall on the Peacock docuseries SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, recalling “just being shocked” at being the show’s youngest cast member at 17 after SNL “meant so much to me as a kid growing up in New York.”

Downey Jr. recounted his best friend and Weird Science co-star bringing him the opportunity. “Michael Hall said to me, I’m gonna go do SNL. I’m gonna get you an audition and I...

Damon Wayans has revealed how he “purposely” got himself fired from “Saturday Night Live” by going off script.

Wayans was a cast member for Season 11 of the sketch comedy series, which has been deemed “the weird year,” as it marked Lorne Michaels’ return after a brief hiatus. Instead of adding up-and-comers from the comedy clubs, Michaels decided to hire an all-new cast of already-established stars. With poor reviews and low ratings, the series was on the verge of being canceled.

Wayans explained in the new Peacock docuseries “SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night” that he was not nervous about auditioning for the show, and that he had a handful of characters he had been working on. “I felt like I was born to be on ‘Saturday Night Live,'” he said.

He had former “SNL” star Eddie Murphy’s advice in the back of his head: “Eddie’s advice to me was,...

Dulcé Sloan is ending her seven-year run at Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.”

The comedian, who served as a correspondent and contributor to the late night show, has opted to part ways with “The Daily Show.” Her departure comes as her deal was up, and the split was amicable, an individual with knowledge told TheWrap. Her last episode on “The Daily Show” aired in December.

“Dulcé Sloan is an exceptional comedic force and we are thankful for her hilarious seven-year run on ‘The Daily Show,'” a spokesperson for “The Daily Show” said in a statement. “We wish her the best and look forward to watching her next chapter.”

Sloan will kick off her 2025 tour later this month, which will take her from London to Honolulu, among other national shows. She’s also featured in the voice cast for Fox animated series “The Great North,” in which she voices Honeybee Shaw.

For the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, an American institution, we’ve seen a prime-time special, a well-regarded feature-length film (with a theatrical release) about its first broadcast, a limited-time immersive attraction, an upcoming SNL50 anniversary special and music documentary and now, this week, the show that has been at the center of the comedy world for half a century gets the multi-part documentary treatment on Peacock.

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, Peacock’s new docuseries with the massive task of defining a show that is both beloved and criticized, holds deep and personal connections for its fans, has always tapped or been a major part of the zeitgeist, has a cast that needs a catalog — Steve Martin, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey and hundreds of comedic forces over five decades — to discover its unknown history and tease out a narrative that honors the massive legacy of SNL.

Thankfully, this is pulled off.

“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,...

“The show must go on” is about as close to showbiz law as you can get, but that hasn’t stopped some Saturday Night Live performers from refusing to take the stage. Take Ruth Gordon, the 80-year-old host who said “No way!” to an Al Franken and Tom Davis sketch in which she’d keel over dead halfway through. Which, understandable.

Here are five other SNL cast members and guests who flat-out refused to participate in show sketches…

1 John Belushi

In the movie Saturday Night, Dan Aykroyd reluctantly acts in a sketch as a “cutie pie” getting catcalled by female construction workers. Aykroyd played the beefcake in the sketch alongside Lily Tomlin, but he wasn’t the first choice.

Writers Rosie Shuster and Anne Beatts wrote the role for Belushi, who gave the part a big thumbs-down since he was self-conscious about tiny shorts that would show off his weight.

When Jean Smart hosted the season premiere of Saturday Night Live this year at the age of 73, she briefly became one of the five oldest hosts in the show’s long history. Let’s hope Smart enjoyed it while she could because another comedian recently knocked her off the list, meaning an astonishing five people older than 73 have anchored 90 minutes of live comedy on a Saturday night.

Here are the AARP-approved hosts who made the list…

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Lots of fans have tried online petitions to get their favorite stars booked as SNL hosts, but only one has ever worked — the 2010 Facebook campaign to draft 88-year-old Betty White into service. “When I first heard about the campaign to get me to host Saturday Night Live, I didn’t know what Facebook was,” White confessed during her opening monologue. “And now that I do know what it is, I have...

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,...