Maya Rudolph Comes Out Of The ‘SNL’ Closet After 17 Years To Host Show

imaginary friends movie “IF” claimed the top spot at the box office this weekend according to studio estimates Sunday. Its $35 million North American debut was also a bit lower than some projections.Is that a disappointment? An ominous sign of the box office times? Or is the final story on “ IF ” yet to be written? It’s not just your imagination: In these bumpy early weeks of the 2024 summer box office season, in which nothing has been a runaway hit and every new movie has more and more pressure to succeed, “IF” hit a nerve.Starring Ryan Reynolds, Cailey Fleming, and an army of A-list voices including Steve Carell, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Louis Gossett Jr., Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Maya Rudolph, “IF” was an original idea from Krasinski, who wrote, directed and co-stars.Paramount debuted the film, which cost a reported $110 million to produce, in 4,041 locations in North America.

homeless man slugged longtime Adam Sandler sidekick Steve Buscemi earlier this month.Host Jake Gyllenhaal as a police sergeant took inspiration from the random attack on a Brooklyn street to kickstart the new task force for the easily recognizable, but indistinguishable actors, dubbed the “Organization to Hinder Harmful Incidents in Manhattan,” or, “Oh, him.”“Summer is coming up and we are seeing an increase in random acts of violence across our streets. Just this week, national treasure Steve Buscemi was punched while walking through Kips Bay,” Gyllenhaal said at a press conference in perfect imitation of a born-and-raised New York cop.“These types of attacks cannot and will not be tolerated,” he added.Buscemi’s attacker socked him in the face on the morning of May 8 — causing the former FDNY firefighter to suffer “bleeding to his eye, swelling, bruising, and substantial pain” — before casually walking awayWhile jarring, the incident is far from isolated — it comes three years after Rick Moranis was punched while walking on the Upper West Side, and just one month after Buscemi’s “Boardwalk Empire” co-star Michael Stuhlbarg was also randomly targeted by a rock-welding homeless man on the Upper East Side.“Oh, that guy!” the crowd of journalists cooed as Stuhlbarg’s face came up on the NYPD screen, with Heidi Gardner adding that she could never place his name: “I always want to call him Tom something.”Gyllenhaal brought the focus back to the issue at hand: that “character actors are being targeted.”“Simply put, it’s actors whose faces you can remember, names you cannot,” he explained.“So when you may be a character actor if you’ve ever been on the TV show Boardwalk Empire.

Sabrina Carpenter had a major pop star moment on Saturday Night Live!

A parody of Scooby Doo turned bloody on SNL Saturday, with host Jake Gyllenhaal subbing in as the toe-headed Fred while musical guest star Sabrina Carpenter guest starred as Daphne.

“I’m not afraid to testify at all, I’m just not going to out of fear,” said James Austin Johnson ‘s Donald Trump from the hall of a Manhattan courthouse in the cold open tonight of the final show of SNL’s 49th season.

The star-studded film IF hits theaters at midnight, and many theater-goers might be wondering if there’s an end credits scene for this one.

It’s day two of the Upfronts and Amazon is making its primetime debut.

Vampire Weekend performed ‘Gen-X Cops’ and ‘Capricorn’ while appearing as the musical guests on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Check out footage below.The New York indie rockers’ visit to the late night show – which was hosted this week by Maya Rudolph – marked the first time they had played there in 11 years, and their fourth overall.The band performed the two tracks from new album ‘Only God Was Above Us’, which NME hailed in a four-star review as a “technicolour, sprawling ode to a long-gone, old New York City”.Ezra Koenig and co.

Maya Rudolph is the ultimate mother.

popular YouTube show that features celebrities being interviewed while eating spicy chicken wings. “Howdy Sean Evans,” Rudolph said while dressed as the “Cowboy Carter” version of Beyoncé, 42. “It’s a pleasure for you to have me.”Rudolph delivered various epic jokes as Queen B, including telling Day, 44, that he’s “the whitest man I have ever seen.” She also used country puns as an ode to Beyoncé’s brilliant new album.

Maya Rudolph reincarnated one of her most iconic impressions while hosting the May 11 episode of Saturday Night Live – Beyonce Knowles.

Maya Rudolph is back as host of NBC‘s Saturday Night Live and she’s doing what she does best—imitating Queen Beyoncé.

Maya Rudolph kicked off the May 11 episode of Saturday Night Live with a Mother’s Day themed musical number that should have been on Beyonce‘s Renaissance World Tour!

William Earl administrator Maya Rudolph brought Beyoncé back to “Saturday Night Live,” reprising her impression in order to give Queen B another shot at the spicy chicken wing talk show “Hot Ones.” Opposite Mikey Day’s take on host Sean Evans, Beyoncé returns for the challenging talk show, cocky about the wings until they become uncomfortably hot. As things get more unbearable, she has increasingly difficult instructions for her assistant, played by Kenan Thompson.

Alison Herman TV Critic Maya Rudolph opened the Mother’s Day episode of “Saturday Night Live” with a tribute to mothers — in every sense of the term. Hosting the sketch show’s penultimate episode of the season, Rudolph began her monologue by noting she’s a four-time mom herself. “You’re not just a mom,” cast member Bowen Yang reminded her.

Maya Rudolph returned to Saturday Night Live as host for the Mother’s Day show.

This week’s SNL host Maya Rudolph was joined by veteran SNL cast member Kenan Thompson for the traditional Thursday promo to welcome this week’s musical guest, Vampire Weekend.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large On this season of Apple TV+’s “Loot,” it’s revealed that one of the show’s characters, played by Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, is a secret Taylor Swift fan — and even hides her Swift albums inside record jackets for jazz music. Don’t worry, star Maya Rudolph isn’t as clandestine. “I’ve always admired her,” Rudolph tells Variety’s Awards Circuit podcast.

Dua Lipa debuted as a guest host on Saturday Night Live and revealed her “radical optimism.”

Well, this is awkward!