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If you tuned into the Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary special earlier tonight then you were undoubtedly aware of the incredible amount of names who took to the famed stage – or just sat in the audience – at NBC's 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Needless to say, it was filled with talent! Some have even said it was the Woodstock of comedy. And after watching, it's hard to disagree. Read More »
Is Justin Timberlake about to pull an 'NYSNC reunion out of thin air for tonight's Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary special? Well it certainly seems that way, as all the clues are pointing to yes. SNL is bring together some of the biggest acts in the world to celebrate this huge milestone, and it seems that Justin, Lance, JC, Chris, and Joey will just be some of the big names to grace the stage tonight. Not only will veteran cast members of the variety show like Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Jimmy Fallon be coming back to the series for the one night event, but also memorable guest stars likes Taylor Swift, Emma Stone, and Kanye West will be making their SNL return. Read More »
Whether or not you're a fan of Saturday Night Live, there's no doubt that the legendary late night sketch show has churned out some amazingly hilarious skits over their time on the air. And before the famed NBC series airs its 40th anniversary special this coming Sunday, Feb. 15, we at MStars News thought it'd be best to run down our top five favorite song parodies from recent Saturday Night Live history. With so many to choose from, we decided to narrow it down to five and relive some of the greatest parodies brought about in the form of digital shorts. Read More »
Live from New York... it's almost Saturday night! And this is one that we are extremely excited about. Saturday Night Live is celebrating its 40th Anniversary and while little has been known about what the late night pioneer would be doing to celebrate the milestone, NBC has just teased some huge news regarding the event. Fans of the show knew that the network had carved out a three-hour block of time on February 15 to honor the series but little was known about what the program would consist of. Read More »
Okay, so “Snowmageddon 2015” wasn’t as “mageddon” as we were thinking—at least, for the New York City area. Still, despite all the news and shutdown of NYC, the folks over at Saturday Night Live were still ready to prep for this Saturday’s show with host J.K. Simmons and musical guest D’Angelo. In fact, the winter event was even parodied in this week’s SNL promos, which the Whiplash star is featured in alongside longtime player Kenan Thompson. Read More »
Country superstar Blake Shelton killed on 'Saturday Night Live' on the weekend, hilariously slamming 'The Bachelor' Chris Soule in the brilliant 'Farm Hunk', all the while delivering a slice of down home country charm and more yuks you could point a redneck's bigotry at. The "Neon Lights" singer also led Pharrell (Jay Pharaoh), Adam Levine (Taran Killam) and Christina Aguilera (Cecily Strong) against Keith Urban (Kate McKinnon), Nicki Minaj (Sasheer Zamata), Harry Connick Jr (Beck Bennett) and Steven Tyler (Kyle Mooney) in a round of 'Celebrity Family Feud' and poked a whole bunch of fun at himself -- and wife fellow country superstar Miranda Lambert -- in the process. Read More »
Blake Shelton's wife Miranda Lambert is "really worried" about The Voice judge hosting 'SNL' this week, the 'Bringing Back the Sunshine' star has revealed. "Neon Lights" singer Shelton also slammed Jimmy Fallon for his impersonation of "Boys Round Here" before telling the new 'Tonight Show' host that he doesn't know who Benedict Cumberbatch is. Shelton also took aim at fellow Voice judge Adam Levine, calling him a 'punk'. Find out why below. Read More »
Ready to roast Justin Bieber? The diminutive Canadian pop star will be following in the footsteps of James Franco, Charlie Sheen, Donald Trump and David Hasselhoff and getting his very own Comedy Central roast! After copping a blast from SNL for his impossibly silly Calvin Klein ad with an hilarious spoof - with Kate McKinnon playing the 20 year old "Baby" singer - it was announced today that he'll be taken to task in person when the Justin Bieber roast airs on March 7. Read More »
Kevin Hart spoofed Justin Bieber, discovered a long lost son, and played James Brown this week's Saturday Night Live, and the diminutive The Wedding Ringer star delivered a great turn as the first host of SNL for 2015. But it turns out Hart - who was hosting SNL for the second time - has revealed that he wouldn't feel comfortable playing a gay character during an interview about how he didn't take a role in 2008's Tropic Thunder because of the way he felt. Read More »
If you tuned into last night’s episode of CONAN then you undoubtedly saw Portlandia’s own Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein take to host Conan O’Brien’s couch. During the duo’s interview, O’Brien brought up a little beef Armisen has with his former Saturday Night Live co-star, who recently lit up the screen in The Skeleton Twins, Bill Hader. Mainly the fact that Hader did an impression of Armisen that the latter found a little “unfair.” Naturally, with that, Armisen had a little impression of his own for his former friend. Read More »
One Direction played "Night Changes" and "Ready To Run" on the special Christmas edition of 'Saturday Night Live', and pop superstars Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik also popped up in the hilarious 'Girlfriends Talk Show' skit with Cecily Strong, Aidy Bryant and Amy Adams. The British heartthrobs delivered the two songs from their latest album FOUR, and showed off their dubious acting chops much to the delight of their screaming fans. On the Amy Adams-hosted episode - which featured cameos from Kristen Wiig, Fred Armisen and Seth Meyers - OD fans got a big dose of the five some, but later got more than they bargained for when Taylor Swift's ex-beau Harry Styles suffered a nip-slip while posing for photos with fans at the SNL after party. Read More »
You have to hand it to Chris Rock… he is easily one of the funniest famous comedians around today. After delivering a stellar monologue on Saturday Night Live a couple of weeks ago – yes, the one that mentioned 9/11 and the Boston Marathon bombings – the Top Five writer-director sat down with Today’s Matt Lauer to discuss the new movie. During the sit-down, the comic congratulated the NBC morning show’s grab at the Janay Rice interview following that Ray Rice elevator scandal. He then jokes that they will “show” Good Morning America, including host Robin Roberts, who had an onscreen battle with breast cancer just last year. Read More »
Sometimes opposites attract, and that seems to be the case with Ariana Grande and Big Sean. Sean's working on tracks with rap gods like Eminem while Ariana is busy capturing the world's attention being their pop princess. The beauty has announced that she's releasing a Christmas song called "Santa Tell Me," and adding to that Sean has revealed that he and Slim Shady have a follow-up to their "Detroit Vs. Everybody" song. Either way, the music industry might just have the cutest couple in the world. Ariana's song has her pleading for help to find some Christmas love, but in reality she's dating rap hot-shot Sean. Perhaps when they take a break from their music careers they're like any normal couple, but it's hard to believe this sweet pop princess is dating the hard-hitting rap star. Sean has just received a lot of praise for his part on "Detroit Vs. Everybody" alongside Eminem. The song has been a huge success commercially and with hardcore fans. Read More »
