“Saturday Night Live”‘s season 48 is still going strong! The NBC mainstay recently announced the latest round of celebs they’ve tapped to host the celebrated sketch comedy series.
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After Trevor Noah announced his departure from “The Daily Show”, Leslie Jones became the first of numerous revolving guest hosts to fill in until a permanent host is hired, a roster that has included the likes of comedians Sarah Silverman and Amy Schumer to former U.S. Senator Al Franken.
In a new interview with People, the former “Saturday Night Live” star revealed that she had so much fun that she’s “definitely” interested if the opportunity arose to do it full time.
“It was one of those in-the-pocket fits. You know how when you get fitted for a suit and you’re like, ‘Yeah, this suit looks nice on me. Yo, I don’t mind wearing this style on me.’ The Daily Show was [that],” she said.
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“I would say my writer, Lenny Marcus, said to me we have been trying to find the place that actually is going to be a fun and efficient place to work at. Everybody calls themselves world-renowned, and they’ve done this and done that. But we haven’t ever had totally good experiences on productions a lot of times,” she added.
“A lot of times, people are s**t that’s floating, or just not as good as what they think they are, or messy. But [on the] ‘Daily Show’, everybody there was good at their job and everybody there was staying in their lane and did their job.”
Despite putting on a show every night, she found the atmosphere to be “not chaotic” and “not stressful,” comparing the vibe as being “like talking to old friends.”
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“Even when we were editing jokes and bits and stuff, they were so respectful, and then they were very
“Saturday Night Live”‘s season 48 is still going strong! The NBC mainstay recently announced the latest round of celebs they’ve tapped to host the celebrated sketch comedy series.
's season 48 is still going strong! The NBC mainstay recently announced the latest round of celebs they've tapped to host the celebrated sketch comedy series. star Ana de Armas will be joined by musical guest Karol G as she heads up the April 15 episode.Pete Davidson, who left the late-night sketch series at the end of season 47 in 2022, will make his return to Studio 8H on May 6.
Love Island's Coco Lodge has predicted that the iconic ITV show will be axed after the next series.The 27 year old was on the summer show last year, entering Casa Amor as a bombshell and famously got it on with Andrew Le Page, causing much friction between him and now-girlfriend, Tasha Ghouri. During a recent appearance on the Life After Love Island podcast with Olivia Spuds, Coco predicted that the show is drawing to an end. When asked by podcast host Olivia how many more seasons she sees Love Island having, Coco curtly replied "one".
Jeremy Renner made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! walking onto the set with a cane and even dancing a little as he sat down for an interview.
Nick Cannon is announcing another new project.
Kelly Ripa is about to get a new co-host in her daytime talk show and it’s her husband Mark Consuelos.
Bad news for fans of Sex/Life!
“The Daily Show” guest host Roy Wood Jr. is looking into where former First Lady Melania Trump has gone since she wasn’t present Tuesday for Trump’s arraignment or later for his speech at Mar-a-Lago.First the comedian pondered whether Trump’s remarks about the presiding judge having a “Trump-hating wife” were even really an insult.“Donald Trump also has a Trump-hating wife,” Wood Jr. said.
Leslie Jones is ready.The comedian revealed to People that she wants to be considered as the new host of “The Daily Show.”“It definitely should be a black woman,” the 55-year-old said.“It would be great to have a black woman on late night. It’s time.
Jon Stewart made a surprise appearance on “The Daily Show” on Tuesday, but he wasn’t dressed like himself.
Jon Stewart returned to the anchor's desk on Tuesday. The 60-year-old comedian made a surprise appearance on which he hosted from 1999-2005 before Trevor Noah took the chair for seven years, to give guest host Roy Wood Jr.
charged with 34 felonies for, among other things, conduct related to the hush money payment he made to porn actress Stormy Daniels, using campaign funds, in 2016.Wood was, at that point, focused on the fact that Trump got to skip most of the indignities accused felons normally face after surrendering to police– for instance, he wasn’t handcuffed, authorities didn’t take a mug shot, and he wasn’t strip searched, as is normal procedure in most jurisdictions including New York.“For the sake of this country, I hope Donald Trump gets a swift trial. But that doesn’t mean he should get to use the TSA pre-check. But, here’s the good news: The New York investigation is just one of many into the former president,” Wood said.
The Daily Show used to have a white host?
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Al Franken spent nine years as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota, and it all finally paid off in recent weeks when he logged a stint as a guest host on “The Daily Show.” Franken turned in some robust impressions of Charles Schumer, Mitch McConnell and Susan Collins during one sketch on the Comedy Central program that suggested he was taking some pretty interesting notes when he served in that chamber. “I didn’t give them a heads up,” Franken says in a recent interview, after his run. “I served wth those people. Some I could do. I’m not one othose impressionists who can do everyone. I do who I can do.” While Franken is one of a number of noted hosts who have helped the show keep spinning after the depature last year of Trevor Noah, you might say he has been training for such an appearance for much of his professional life. Franken made some famous appearances on the long-running “Weekend Update” segment of “Saturday Night Live,” and, after a few stints on the show as a writer and performer, tried his hand at other exploits. He led comedic coverage of the the run-up to the 1992 presidential election for Comedy Central, presaging efforts to do so by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. He later became a progressive radio host for Air America. In recent months, he has been doing a comedy tour around the nation.
Strictly Come Dancing star Katya Jones has shared her warmest congratulations to her ex-husband Neil Jones as he announced his engagement and baby news with Love Island star Chyna Mills. The happy couple shared their announcement with the world on Sunday afternoon, as they revealed their plans to tie the knot - while also revealing they would be welcoming their first child together later this year.
Death Cab For Cutie performed a headline show at London’s Royal Albert Hall last night (Wednesday March 29) – joking that they should be “sponsored by Boots” having spent the weekend battling illness. Check out photos, footage and the setlist from the show below.Last week saw the band kick off their UK tour in support of their acclaimed 2022 album ‘Asphalt Meadows’, before being forced to pull a run of shows due to frontman Ben Gibbard being struck down by illness. After returning to the stage to perform in Brighton and London’s Roundhouse, the US indie veterans played another stop at the capital at Royal Albert Hall.At one point in the show, Gibbard paused to make light of his recent plight with ill health while travelling around the UK.“You know how you’ll see shows like ‘Jack Daniels presents Mötley Crüe’ or ‘Budweiser presents The National?'” he started.
Ana Navarro switched up “The View” for “The Daily Show” to talk politics with guest host John Leguizamo Monday night — but not before dragging the Comedy Central series for taking 10 guest hosts before finally hiring a Latino.“Let’s not f–k it up,” she quipped. Leguizamo, most recently seen in hit feature films like “The Menu” and “Encanto” and next in “The Power” on Amazon’s Prime Video, began the interview by applauding the fact that “The Daily Show” was spotlighting a “Latina guest and a Latino host” side by side.
Trevor Noah is heading home after leaving The Daily Show.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor A news King and Sir Charles are getting ready to mix it up in an unorthodox way. Gayle King and Charles Barkley are finalizing a deal that would have them jointly lead a primetime hour each week on CNN, according to people familiar with the matter.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Showing off your late-night hosting skills when you have just four days to do so can be daunting. So Kal Penn brought his ‘A’ game. The actor used his unique connections to the White House — he was an associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs during the Obama administration — to deliver a hard-to-get booking to Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” When Penn recently guest-hosted the program, his first night featured a sit-down with President Joe Biden. How did he land POTUS? Penn simply asked — but made clear he planned to ask questions the Commander-in-Chief doesn’t usually get during a media scrum. “I definitely wanted him to join me in setting up what I hope was a hopeful arc over the week,” says Penn, who asked Biden to discuss how young people’s advocacy can spur change on climate, drilling, and human rights. Biden also offered about his views on same-sex marriage and the treatment of transgender children, among other topics.