Saturday Night Live spoofed Soulja Boy‘s headline-making past few months as the rapper, as played by SNL‘s Chris Redd, appeared on Weekend Update. The Soulja Boy sketch follows a pair of bizarre stories involving the rapper: First, his not-quite-legal attempts to become video game magnate and, secondly, an instant classic …
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On Saturday, December 15th, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo got a text with some exciting news: The band’s manager, who happened to be in the audience at Saturday Night Live that day — “total coincidence,” Cuomo says — had learned that the show was preparing to air an entire sketch about …
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There are certain episodes in which the host’s enthusiasm during the monologue has you rooting for a great show just so she or he isn’t disappointed by what follows. Such was the case this week, in which Sterling K. Brown’s palpable excitement had me dreading a subpar Saturday Night Live …
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Saturday Night Live tackled one of Star Wars‘ most burning questions – How do all the characters understand so many alien languages? – in a “cut for time” sketch featuring Charles Barkley and J.J. Abrams. The pre-taped “Star Warriors” sketch opened with Abrams, the director of The Force Awakens and …
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