On Saturday Night Live, Sarah Sherman has played a woman covered in singing meatballs, a Jewish Elvis, and - last week - a drunk raccoon ribbing Colin Jost. But for Squirm-heads, she's in her truest, most delightful form when she's taking us through her own head: talking about some kind of disarmingly nasty body horror, complete with guttural sounds, clad in her famously bright, patterned, clown-adjacent wardrobe.
Andrew Cuomo played by the evening's host, Miles Teller was ripped for his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and the various sexual harassment allegations against him. Hello, voters! Cuomo said. You all know me. I got us through Covid and then yada, yada, yada. Honk honk, squeeze, squeeze. Anyway, I'm back. I am a born, bred New Yorker. I love it here. I know this city like the back of a woman's back. Mamma mia!
The life of a Domingo girl consists of a lot of vacations and secret rendezvous. Kelsey (Chloe Fineman) must have a lot of miles saved up. For the cold open sketch on October 18, Saturday Night Live brought back Domingo (Marcello Hernandez) for a 30th birthday party celebrating Matthew (Andrew Dismukes), and as always, it ends in another hookup uncovered.
As a child, McKinnon had loved books about slightly oddball characters, like those found in Roald Dahl books. Her favorite heroine was Pippi Longstocking, whom she played in a kindergarten performance. She loved the character so much that she would show up at school for years in a full-on Pippi costume, complete with pipe cleaners in her hair to mimic the heroine's iconic protruding red pigtails.
Saturday Night Live has a long history of riffing on Jeopardy! Perhaps the apex of this came with the show's recurring Celebrity Jeopardy! sketches, which paired Will Ferrell's exasperated take on Alex Trebek with Darrell Hammond's malevolent incarnation of Sean Connery. Jeopardy! remains a pop culture touchstone, so it wasn't shocking to see SNL parody the show again on the first episode of its 51st season.
"I feel a lot less crazy there, as you learn the ups and downs and how to just genuinely enjoy it. Comedy is at its best when you're being loose and at its worst when you're really tense and overthinking things. All my best stuff I've ever gotten on the show has been Plan D or 'I don't know, how about this?' It's not the thing I'd spent all night meticulously trying to make work."
What is among Saturday Night Live's most controversial moments could have had a happy ending. In an all new interview with Matthew Belloni of Puck News, SNL creator Lorne Michaels said he had planned to bring back Sinéad O'Connor for a performance during the SNL50 live special. "If [O'Connor] were still alive, I would have asked her to sing that song," Michaels said in reference to the performance of "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Miley Cyrus and Brittany Howard. O'Connor, of course, passed away in July 2023.
I knew that he was compromised mentally. I mean, it was obvious to me, but it was a delicate thing in the comedy world. There were a lot of people did not want to do anything that would kind of ding him in like an awkward way.
Lorne Michaels recounted a cautionary story about Desi Arnaz's performance on SNL, revealing his concerns as Arnaz struggled but persevered during a classic routine.
'This is more amusing than surprising. I figured Dwayne Johnson would have an intense diet and stuff to maintain his ridiculously shredded physique,' Day said.
Aimee Lou Wood criticized SNL's recent sketch for punching down, labeling it mean and unfunny, while expressing frustration over lazy humor overshadowing clever satire.
