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Michael B. Jordan Nails Portrayal Of A Nutty Jake From State Farm In ‘SNL’ Sketch
Michael B. Jordan spoofed the role of Jake From State Farm, originally played by Kevin Miles, in a new SNL sketch. The post Michael B. Jordan Nails Portrayal Of A Nutty Jake From State Farm In ‘SNL’ Sketch appeared first on The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media | Hip-Hop Wired.
Michael B. Jordan Nails Portrayal Of A Nutty Jake From State Farm In ‘SNL’ Sketch
Michael B. Jordan spoofed the role of Jake From State Farm, originally played by Kevin Miles, in a new SNL sketch. The post Michael B. Jordan Nails Portrayal Of A Nutty Jake From State Farm In ‘SNL’ Sketch appeared first on The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media | Hip-Hop Wired.
Cecily Strong Leaving ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Says Goodbye in Character on ‘Weekend Update’ Segment
Cecily Strong is the latest castmember to depart NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Strong’s final show was Saturday night’s edition on Dec. 17. She appeared as Kimberly Guilfoyle in the cold open and other segments, including one about “Jewish Elvis” as well as “Weekend Update.” In the latter, she played recurring character Cathy Anne, who was saying “goodbye” because she was going to prison. She joked that she’d be fine because she had “friends on the inside, they seem to be doing OK” as a photo of recently departed castmembers Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant were shown onscreen in prison garb. “Everybody has to go to jail at some point, right? It’s my time now,” she added. Breaking character a bit toward the end, she said: “I had a lot of fun here. And I feel really lucky that I have had so many ...
Austin Butler Can’t Help Falling in Love With Sarah Sherman’s ‘Jewish Elvis’ on ‘SNL’
Austin Butler brought his “casual” version of Elvis to Saturday Night Live, and SNL cast member Sarah Sherman graced the stage as “Jewish Elvis.” Sherman’s “Jewish Elvis” was the star of Butler, Cecily Strong, and Ego Nwodim’s retirement home in a sketch Saturday night. Butler dressed like a grandma and appeared to be the performer’s biggest fan in the theater — even revealing a T-shirt under her blouse with her catch phrase, “This is a zizzaster!” “The first night of Hanukkah, they really kick things off with a bang,” Strong says in the clip below. “Oh my god, I’m so horny I’m gonna friggin’ explode,” exclaims Butler, who was the host of SNL for the night in an episode that featured Lizzo as musical guest. “Oh! I’m like Niagara Falls over here,” adds Butler later in the sketch. “My chair ...
Austin Butler Finds Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Elvis on the Shelvis’ Ahead of ‘SNL’
Austin Butler tried to make a quick visit with Jimmy Fallon to get some advice before his SNL hosting gig this weekend. Instead of finding Fallon, he found an Elvis on the Shelvis in a skit for The Tonight Show. “Who is this?” Butler — who starred in a biopic about rock ‘n’ roll icon Elvis Presley — asks in the skit, picking up the doll off the mantle. Elvis on the Shelvis, played by Fallon, then comes to life for a musical performance. “Well, I move around the house when I’m a-home alone/ You did what you did/ You done what you done/ Elvis on the Shelvis never tell no one,” Fallon’s Elvis sings. “You’re going on the top of my tree,” Butler says after the Elvis on the Shelvis show. Butler’s SNL episode with musical guest Lizzo airs Saturday (Dec. 17) on NBC. Watch his clip with Fallon...
Lizzo “Very Hurt” By Comments That She Makes Music For White People
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Mike Coppola / Getty Lizzo is once again addressing critics who have accused her of making music for “white people.” The 34-year-old singer responded to the past comments in a recent appearance on The Howard Stern Show, according to The New York Post. Lizzo began: “[It’s] very hurtful, only because I am a Black woman, and I feel like it really challenges my identity and who I am, and diminishes that, which I think is really hurtful,” the “Special” singer said. She said that her music is influenced by the feel-good songs of the ’70s and ’80s–calling her songs, “funky, soulful, feel-good music.” Related Stories “I feel like a lot of people, truthfully, don’t get me — which is why I wanted to do this documentary, because I was like, ‘I feel like ...
‘SNL’ Alum Chris Redd Calls Attack Outside NYC Comedy Club “A Planned Situation”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Slaven Vlasic / Getty Actor and comedian Chris Redd is opening up about the brutal attack outside of a New York City comedy club in October that left him hospitalized. According to a November report from Deadline, the attack happened outside the famed Comedy Cellar on Oct. 26 as Chris Redd was walking in to perform a show. The unknown assailant quickly approached him, sucker-punched him in the face then fled the scene. Redd had previously said that he thought the man hit him with “something metal.” In an new interview with SiriusXM’s The Bennington Show, Redd said that he saw in surveillance footage that the assailant had been hanging around outside of the venue prior to his arrival. “People called it a random attack. I don’t believe that. He ...
Lizzo to Replace Yeah Yeah Yeahs as Final ‘Saturday Night Live’ Musical Guest of 2022
NBC announced Saturday (Dec. 10) that Lizzo will step in for previously announced performers Yeah Yeah Yeahs on next weekend’s Saturday Night Live as the final musical guest of 2022. When she joins host Austin Butler on the Dec. 17 episode, it will mark the third time the pop-rap star has performed on the show. Yeah Yeah Yeahs announced on their socials that they had to cancel because guitarist Nick Zinner is still recovering after contracting pneumonia last month. In addition to SNL, the band also pulled out of KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas festival in Los Angeles on Saturday. “As many of our fans know Nick has had pneumonia over the past month and it’s been an up and down recovery process,” the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ statement reads. “The band’s top priority is supporting Nick through a ful...
Steve Martin & Martin Short Joined by Selena Gomez for ‘SNL’ Opening Monologue
Steve Martin and Martin Short brought their A-game to their joint Saturday Night Live opening monologue, reading each other eulogies and surprising viewers with an appearance from their Only Murders in the Building co-star Selena Gomez. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Before diving into each other’s eulogies, the comedians took a second to reminisce about their past SNL hosting gigs, with the Dec. 10 episode being Martin’s 16th time hosting the show and Short’s third. “You see, we are like Harry and Meghan,” Short said, referring to Netflix’s new docuseries from the couple. “No one’s rooting for us, but you’ll tune in to watch anyway.” Martin then went on to joke about how working with Short for him is like watching the World Cup: He ju...
Kenan and Kel Reunite Alongside Keke Palmer on ‘SNL’ for Dramatized Sitcom Reimagining ‘Kenan and Kelly’
Kenan Thompson, Kel Mitchell and orange soda reunited for the most recent episode of Saturday Night Live in a sketch that sees Keke Palmer and the two comedians caught in a soapy love triangle storyline with a pregnancy twist. Thompson and Mitchell, who became teen stars thanks to their work on All That and later their beloved titular roles in the 1996 Nickelodeon sitcom Kenan and Kel, appeared on the Dec. 3 episode as part of a sketch reimaging the show decades after it went off the air. Dubbed Kenan and Kelly, SNL host Keke Palmer is the one who pitched the faux series, which offers an aged-up dramatic spin on the comedic shenanigans the original kids show was known for. The sketch opens with Palmer selling Thompson on the reboo...
SZA Reveals ‘S.O.S’ Album Release Date, Performs ‘Shirt’ and ‘Blind’ on ‘SNL: Watch
SZA brought a couple surprises to her appearance Saturday Night Live on Dec. 3. In addition to revealing the release date of her sophomore album, S.O.S, the TDE singer-songwriter also debuted a new song from the upcoming set. For her first song during the Keke Palmer-hosted episode, SZA performed her recent single “Shirt,” which debuted at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this month. Toward the end of the moody song, where she performed against a starry background while flanked by two dancers, SZA cleverly snuck in some imagery announcing the Dec. 9 release date of her long-awaited second album, S.O.S. Days earlier, SZA unveiled the project’s surreal cover art, which features the artist donning a sports jersey while sitting on the edge of a diving board planted over a large body of ...
Keke Palmer Announces Pregnancy in ‘Saturday Night Live’ Opening Monologue: Watch
Keke Palmer hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time on Dec. 3, where she wasted no time in making her hosting gig one to remember. The actress addressed online rumors that she was pregnant and announced that she is, indeed, expecting. A rep for Palmer confirmed the pregnancy to The Hollywood Reporter. “People have been in my comments, saying, ‘Keke’s having a baby,’ ‘Keke’s pregnant,’ and I want to set the record straight,” Palmer said in her opening monologue. “I am!” She went on to joke that she hates when people spread rumors about anyone, but it’s even worse when they’re right. “I was trying so hard to keep it on the down-low ’cause I got a lot of stuff going on,” she said. “You know, people kept coming up to me, ‘Congratulations,’ and I’m like, ‘Shh, can y’all stop? I got a liqu...
