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Lamorne Morris Never Got on ‘SNL’—but He Shines in ‘Saturday Night’

Fresh off his surprise Emmy Award win for Season 5 of Fargo , actor and comedian Lamorne Morris joins this week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast...

16.10.2024 3

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Taylor Tomlinson Opens Up About Her ‘Insane’ Rise to Fame

In the handful of years since she broke through in a big way with her Quarter-Life Crisis special on Netflix—and first appeared on this...

09.10.2024 3

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Shane Gillis Says He Turned Down ‘SNL’ Season 50 Trump Gig

It seems that Saturday Night Live ’s “reinvention” of Donald Trump was originally supposed to involved a lot more than a simple fat suit. During an...

08.10.2024 4

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How Lauren Lapkus ‘Let Go’ of Her Lifelong SNL Dream

Lauren Lapkus grew up with one goal in mind: someday joining the cast of Saturday Night Live . Now, nearly 20 years into a comedy career that has...

02.10.2024 3

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Sydney Sweeney Was ‘Practically Begging’ SNL to Make Fun of Her Boobs, Bowen Yang Says

Bowen Yang has learned a lot about Saturday Night Live over the course of his five seasons in the cast. But one of his more recent revelations is...

25.09.2024 4

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Samantha Bee Sounds Off on Undecided Voter ‘Drama Queens’

Comedian Samantha Bee is back for the third time on The Last Laugh—and this time it is as host of her very own Daily Beast podcast! Along with the...

25.09.2024 4

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Jim Gaffigan: I’ll Still Roast Trump at Al Smith Dinner After Kamala Harris Bailed

It looks like Donald Trump and comedian Jim Gaffigan will be co-headlining the Al Smith dinner together after Vice President Kamala Harris declined...

24.09.2024 9

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Whoopi Goldberg Defends Janet Jackson Over Kamala ‘Mistake’

The View led its first show of the week on Monday with the controversy surrounding Janet Jackson’s false claims about Kamala Harris’ race. And...

23.09.2024 4

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Kamala Harris Has Biggest Favorability Jump Since George W. Bush After 9/11

Vice President Kamala Harris got some very welcome news on Sunday in the form of a new NBC News poll that found her leading Donald Trump by five...

22.09.2024 3

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‘Daily Show’ Takes on Trump’s Porn-Obsessed ‘Black Nazi’ Mark Robinson

The Daily Show kicked off its Thursday night episode by playing clips of North Carolina’s Trump-aligned Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark...

20.09.2024 3

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Stephen Colbert Brutally Mocks Melania Trump’s Naked ‘Courage’

“Trump’s struggling campaign needs all the help it can get to stay on message these days,” Stephen Colbert said during his Late Show monologue...

19.09.2024 3

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Donald Trump Lashes Out at Howard Stern for Going ‘Woke’

Donald Trump is firing back at Howard Stern for turning on him after years of seemingly cordial radio conversations. In Trump’s estimation,...

19.09.2024 5

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Jimmy Kimmel Rips Trump’s Insane Reaction to Assassination Attempt

Jimmy Kimmel may not have made any jokes on Monday about the second apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump over the weekend. But he did not...

17.09.2024 30

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Hillary Clinton Calls Out Elon Musk for Threatening to ‘Rape’ Taylor Swift

As a listener, you could tell host Kara Swisher got excited when Hillary Clinton brought up Elon Musk’s unhinged attack on Taylor Swift during the...

16.09.2024 4

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Emmys Awkwardly Play Off John Oliver as He Honors His Dead Dog

John Oliver won his eighth straight Emmy Award for HBO’s Last Week Tonight on Sunday. And things got a bit uncomfortable when the host tried to...

16.09.2024 3

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Selena Gomez Roasts ‘Childless Cat Ladies’ Steve Martin and Martin Short at Emmy Awards

Father-son duo Eugene Levy and Dan Levy took the stage to host the Emmy Awards Sunday night in their matching tuxes, black frame glasses and...

16.09.2024 10

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Haley Joel Osment Debuts JD Vance Impression by Mocking Usha

Saturday Night Live has not yet revealed who will play Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance when the show returns for its 50th season...

11.09.2024 20

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Michael Ian Black on the Best Way to Defeat ‘Humorless’ Trump

Michael Ian Black began his career performing deeply absurdist comedy with his legendary sketch group The State and the besuited comedy trio...

11.09.2024 4

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Doug Emhoff Says Friends Were Jealous of His Tim Walz ‘Bro Hug’

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff spent much of his new hour-long interview on Pod Save America extolling the virtues of his “super bada--” wife who “...

05.09.2024 3

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Joe Scarborough: Trump’s New Strategy Is ‘Absolutely Desperate’

Joe Scarborough isn’t so sure about Donald Trump’s grand strategy to make the American people “hate” his opponent more than they already...

03.09.2024 3

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How Langston Kerman Got John Mulaney to Direct His Netflix Debut

Before Langston Kerman was one of the most exciting stand-up comedians working right now, he taught poetry to high school students. As he tells the...

28.08.2024 60

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RFK Jr. Confronted by Fox on Cheryl Hines Drama

The first question Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received when he sat down with Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream for his first big TV interview after...

25.08.2024 8

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JD Vance: ‘Childless Cat Lady’ Comment Proves I’m a ‘Normal Person’

Confronted once again about his now infamous “childless cat lady” comments, Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance insisted to Meet the...

25.08.2024 20

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Michelle Obama Hits Haters Like Ann Coulter for Attacking Gus Walz

Kamala Harris was accepting her party’s nomination for president of the United States. But Michelle Obama was still thinking about Gus Walz. “I was...

23.08.2024 10

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Obama’s Speechwriters Reveal Secrets of That Trump D*** Joke

Former President Barack Obama’s suggestive hand gesture when talking about Donald Trump’s obsession with “crowd size” at the DNC was improvised “in...

21.08.2024 2

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How This Spot-On Kamala Harris Impersonator Nails Her Iconic Laugh

There are few Americans who have had a crazier past month than Kamala Harris—but comedian Allison Reese is among them. Reese’s impression of the...

21.08.2024 1

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Hannah Einbinder Is ‘Sick and Tired’ of Old, Male Comedy ‘Hacks’

Hannah Einbinder had never really acted before she was cast as Ava Daniels opposite Jean Smart’s Deborah Vance on Hacks. Now, she’s a three-time...

14.08.2024 2

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Chris Farley Laments Always Being ‘Fat Guy’ in Lost SNL Sketch

In his 2022 memoir Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama, former Saturday Night Live writer Bob Odenkirk had some harsh words for the Chippendales sketch that...

13.08.2024 3

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Comedian Tim Heidecker ‘Auditions’ to Play JD Vance on SNL

Steve Martin may have preemptively turned down the chance to play Governor Tim Walz on Saturday Night Live this fall—despite what the internet...

11.08.2024 10

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‘Bill & Ted’ Stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter to Reunite in ‘Waiting for Godot’

In a particularly brilliant stroke of casting, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, who first appeared together as the titular characters in the 1989 film...

01.08.2024 2

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Whoopi Goldberg Breaks Down What Makes Kamala Harris Unmistakably Black

Whoopi Goldberg hung her head in disgust Thursday morning on The View after sharing footage of Donald Trump making the false claim that Vice...

01.08.2024 2

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Jon Stewart: Trump ‘Doesn’t Give a Sh*t About the Election Anymore’

From the very first days of his presidency, Donald Trump and his minions were using “alternative facts” to massively inflate the size of his...

01.08.2024 10

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