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Donald Trump Will Host SNL November 7th

Donald Trump tweeted the news that he will host Saturday Night Live on November 7th. He’s hosted before, but over a decade ago in April 2004.

Remember when NBC severed ties with The Donald over his immigration statements?

How quickly things change. Do we call this a “flip flop?”

UPDATE: Fox News’ Shep Smith was thinking the very same thing I was, it seems. Although, Smith got a lot more worked up about this than I did.

“Nice job, NBC,” Smith said. “You made a stand! You stood for your values! You did what you must! Forget the money, no more Trump, except… more Trump! You did a great job. We’re all proud of you, NBC.”

Watch Shepard’s froth-at-the-mouth rant below:

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Hillary Clinton On Season Premiere Of Saturday Night Live

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is getting good marks for her appearance on SNL last night where she played a Brooklyn bartender offering support to SNL cast member Kate McKinnon’s “fake Hillary Clinton.”

Via Salon:

The segment did exactly what those close to Clinton have been encouraging her to do to appear more personable: use her self-deprecating sense of humor she’s famous for to help boost sagging poll numbers. The two even mocked some of Clinton’s slow-to-act positions such as her opposition to the Keystone XL Pipeline and support of gay marriage. “I could have supported it sooner,” fake Clinton said. “Well, you supported it pretty soon,” real Clinton said. “Yeah… coulda been sooner” said fake Clinton.

The most hilarious moment came when old SNL cast member Darrell Hammond appeared to do his Bill Clinton impression, took one look at the two HRC’s and screamed “Oh my God! They’re multiplying!” before running out of the fake Brooklyn bar.

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SNL: The Return Of Fake Notorious RBG

The subject of marriage equality returned to Saturday Night Live last night when Fake Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsberg made an appearance on Weekend Update to deliver some “Ginsburns” zingers.

“The arguments I heard were so weak, I just hope they’re not holding up Justice Scalia’s chair,” zinged Ginsburg.”


 From Saturday Night Live:

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Kate McKinnon) takes shots at Justice Antonin Scalia and the state of Kentucky while discussing the Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling on marriage equality.

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SNL: CNN Newsroom Skewered On Germanwings, Religious Freedom Laws and Iran Nuclear Deal

On Saturday Night Live last night, CNN Newsroom got skewered:

Brooke Baldwin (Cecily Strong) breaks down the Germanwings plane crash, the Iran nuclear weapons deal and Indiana’s religious freedom law with animated graphics, puppet stand-ins and a performance art group (Michael Keaton, Kenan Thompson, Aidy Bryant).

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SNL Takes Down Ben Carson On Homosexuality Comments

Saturday Night Live takes down Dr. Ben Carson in a big way.

Last week, the potential GOP 2016 candidate for president, told CNN that homosexuality is ‘absolutely’ a choice and prison sex is the proof of the theory.

Weekend Update anchors Michael Che and Colin Jost took more than one jab at the retired surgeon:

‘Dr Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon said that homosexuality is a choice because many people go to prison straight, but when they come out, they’re gay. Kind of like how in that last sentence, Carson went in as a neurosurgeon and came out as a complete idiot.

And then there’s more. Hit the video below.

(h/t JMG)

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SNL40: Bill Murray On The Last Time He Saw Gilda Radner

Bill Murray on the last time he saw Gilda Radner:

“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.

So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?”

We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.

And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there.

It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”

– from Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live