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In honor of the late Bob Newhart, NBC’s Saturday Night Live has shared a look back at his 1995 SNL opening monologue and two memorable sketches. Newhart hosted Season 5, Episode 18 (May 10, 1980) and Season 20, Episode 12 (February 11, 1995). He died July 18 at 94. Related…

NBC will be happy and relieved with its late-night Emmy haul with Late Night with Seth Meyers staving off the threat of John Mulaney, and Saturday Night Live almost doubling its nominations from last year. Comedy Central, which tied its own record with seven nominations for The Daily Show, HBO, which…

Scarlett Johansson is married to Saturday Night Live Weekend Update cohost Colin Jost. Which means she sometimes has to endure jokes that are either cringe or aimed at her. During her Thursday visit to The Kelly Clarkson Show, Johansson admitted that she "blacked out" during one rendition of…

Andy Samberg knew it was time. In an interview on Kevin Hart’s Peacock show, Hart to Heart, Samberg said that he left Saturday Night Live in 2012 to preserve his physical and mental health. “For me, it was like I can’t actually endure it anymore,” he said. “Physically and emotionally. I was…

Eddie Murphy has forgiven a cheap shot from his old home at Saturday Night Live. But he hasn’t forgotten it. In a New York Times interview, Murphy recalled a 1995 incident by David Spade during the “Weekend Update” segment of the show. As a photo of Murphy was shown, Spade said, "Look children, it's…

Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels has opened up about a variety of topics including how talent on the long-running show deal with fame, controversial hirings and firings, how long he'll remain on the show and cost-cutting. Michaels, in a rare interview with the New York Times, said that some…

Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan conducted an extensive series of interviews with the living cast, writers and crew of the first-ever episode of Saturday Night Live, which aired on October 11, 1975 on NBC and has been going ever since. The result of their efforts is Sony Pictures’ upcoming SNL 1975, a movie retelling the…

Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Kenan Thompson, Michael Che and Colin Jost all have hosted the Primetime Emmys in the past 15 years, but the late-night community once again is feeling aggrieved by the TV Academy as it heads into the latest awards season. The central issue…

Saturday Night Live remains a hit with the youth. The long-running NBC show, which just finished up Season 49, remained the number one entertainment series across ad-supported broadcast and cable in the 18-49 demo for the 2023-24 season. It earned a 1.13 in the demo, beating out series such as…

Two of the most celebrated shows in Emmy history are set to experience a weird awards season. Saturday Night Live, which has won more Emmys than any other show in television history, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, which has won in its category eight years in a row, could both face the…

Maya Rudolph joins me for today’s edition of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens, hot on the heels of returning to her old Saturday Night Live stomping ground as host. A highlight was no doubt the return of her dead-on impression of Beyoncé appearing on…

There are a plenty of longtime Saturday Night cast members, yet there were no big exits — or hints of departures — on tonight's Season 49 finale of the venerable NBC late-night program. No SNL veterans were tearing up at the end of their sketches like Kate McKinnon did in the 2022 finale, it was all…