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Writer, director, actor, and comedian Julio Torres really broke out as the co-showrunner and actor on HBO’s short-lived comedy series, “Los Espookys,” featuring Fred Armisen. While that series only lasted two seasons, it’s made its mark with all the right people (Armisen and “Saturday Night Live” exec Lorne Michaels also co-produced his 2019 comedy special “My Favorite Shapes,” so clearly he has fans).

“Entertainment Tonight,” hinting that there are several names in the running.Fey’s name has come up in the conversation several times before, and The Post revealed last year that the “Mean Girls” actress is being courted to take over.Michaels said Fey, 53, is someone he could trust implicitly with the hit NBC sketch show, adding that she’s “brilliant” in everything she does.“She’s a very important person in my life,” he added.The Post has reached out to Fey’s reps for comment.Michaels added that while he may be looking up a future replacement for himself, he’s still very much looking to remain with “SNL” for its 50th anniversary, slated for February 2025.“I will definitely be there for that, and definitely be there until that,” he shared. “And sometime before that, we’ll figure out what we’re gonna do.”The 50th season of “Saturday Night Live” is set to start in the fall, when Michaels will turn 80 years old.

Lorne Michaels is opening up about the future of Saturday Night Live.

J. Kim Murphy After creating “Saturday Night Live” in 1975, longtime producer Lorne Michaels has been tied to the long-running variety show for nearly 50 years. Stick to the same job for long enough, one might start to wonder who will take over the position after one steps out of it.

As the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live approaches, there has been speculation about Lorne Michaels‘ future on the show as executive producer.

, is not here for a pretty mean girl-coded line of dialogue in the new movie musical rendition her 2004 film, Mean Girls. reports that in the remake, Megan Thee Stallion reacts to Cady's () talent show look with the line, “Y2K fire crotch is back”—seemingly a reference to a 2006 paparazzi video in which Brandon Davis calls Lohan a “”In a statement to People, Lohan's rep said that “Lindsay was very hurt and disappointed by the reference in the film.” Neither Tina Fey, who wrote the original film as well as the musical, nor Paramount Pictures have responded.Reneé Rapp, Tina Fey, Lorne Michaels, Lindsay Lohan, Angourie Rice, and Bebe Wood at the global premiere of Mean Girls on January 8.Lohan herself has poked fun at her party girl era, though one can imagine that given her horrific treatment at the hands of the tabloid press, it stings a bit to have an explicit “joke” played for laughs at her expense.Back in 2010, when Lohan was serving time for failing to attend court-ordered weekly alcohol education classes, some news outlets reported that she was by her fellow inmates, who shouted the nickname “fire crotch” at her and chanted it when she was nearby.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Not every movie — indeed, almost no movie — was meant to be turned into a musical. But the trend of doing so has become more common over the last two decades, and when you see a movie-to-musical transformation that really works, a surprising alchemy occurs.

The cast of the new Mean Girls musical movie celebrated the film at a red carpet premiere in the Big Apple, just down the street from where the Broadway show was performed!

“like, really pretty” at the premiere of the new “Mean Girls” movie musical. Lohan, who famously portrayed Cady Heron in the 2004 cult classic comedy, stunned in a black-cut out dress with silver crystals on Monday at the AMC Lincoln Square Theater in New York City. She posed with the original movie’s writer Tina Fey, as well as “Saturday Night Live” founder Lorne Michaels, who produced the first flick.

Lindsay Lohan is showing her support for the new Mean Girls movie!

obtained by Page Six show the “Knives Out” star and the Portuguese actress arriving at the event holding hands.“They looked inseparable and he seemed to be a gentleman and very protective of her,” a source told Page Six. “He quickly grabbed for her hand the second they left.”The “Avengers” star secretly wed Baptista in an intimate, at-home ceremony in early September.

SNL has found its next big host when the show returns to originals in January: Jacob Elordi will take over the emcee duties while Reneé Rapp will provide the tunes.

It’s the last SNL of 2023, former cast MVP Kate McKinnon is hosting, and that’s just means the cold open had to dive into Rudy Giuliani‘s latest legal face plant – which is exactly what the Lorne Michaels produced show sadly didn’t do.

William Earl “Saturday Night Live” alums Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig joined Kate McKinnon as the latter returned to “SNL” for the first time as host, 18 months since she bowed out of the cast after a 10-year tenure. After the cold open, which spoofed Hollywood award shows, McKinnon hit the famous Studio 8H stage and did a short monologue. She acknowledged the awkwardness for her of coming back to her “old job” but in a different role.

Dua Lipa and Seth Meyers are going on an afternoon drinking session.

MGM+ has announced the acquisition of the two-part docuseries “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, debuting on the streamer on March 17 and March 24 at 9 p.m. EDT/PDT.

Emma Stone made it into Saturday Night Live‘s five-timers club and was welcomed by Tina Fey and Candice Bergen.

Anna Tingley Live from New York…it’s Thursday night at the American Museum of Natural History‘s annual gala! After a star-studded red carpet, attendees such as Kenan Thompson, Colin Jost, Seth Meyers, Tina Fey, Lorne Michaels, Scarlet Johansson, Emma Stone and more filed into the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life to sit down for a three-course dinner and live auction. Meyers, who was the host for the evening, greeted guests underneath the museum’s iconic 94-foot long and 21,000-pound blue whale structure poised majestically in midair. In his opening remarks, he pointed out the absence of Mayor Eric Adams, notable since both Mike Bloomberg and Bill DeBlasio were known to attend during their respective tenures as Mayor.

Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost are stepping out in style.

BreAnna Bell TBS original comedy “Miracle Workers” has been canceled after four seasons, Variety has confirmed. The cancellation comes just months after the series finale aired in August. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, Season 4 (aptly titled “End Times”) of the anthology comedy picked up with wasteland warrior (Daniel Radcliffe) and a ruthless warlord (Geraldine Viswanathan) as they face the most dystopian nightmare of all: settling down in the suburbs.

Emma Stone is returning to Saturday Night Live for the fifth time.

Timothee Chalamet returned to Saturday Night Live, and he kicked off the show with some promo work for his new movie Wonka and a rap about having a baby face.

Timothée Chalamet got another turn at hosting Saturday Night Live for the second time and acknowledged the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike during his monologue.

EXCLUSIVE: Writer, director and comedian Rochée Jeffrey has signed with Independent Artist Group for representation.

The Daily Show continues to add funny folk to its roster.

Stand-up comic Nate Bargatze, whose family-friendly routines have earned him the reputation as the Nicest Guy In Comedy, shows an entirely different side of himself in today’s Saturday Night Live promo.

Meghan McCain is getting real about that super awkward 2019 appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers.

Meghan McCain Has Entered the Chat.”“Speaking of late-night stuff, I went on ‘Seth Meyers‘ and it was one of the worst experiences of my life, truly,” McCain told her guest, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, during a conversation about the media, which dropped on Thursday.

Travis Kelce spilled all the tea about his romantic, action-packed NYC weekend with Taylor Swift!

Comedian Nate Bargatze will host Saturday Night Live for the first time on Oct. 28. Joining him in the Halloween edition of SNL will be Foo Fighters who will take the stage as musical guest for the ninth time.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Minutes before “Saturday Night Live” was set to kick off Season 49 inside Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the show’s production team — led, of course, by executive producer Lorne Michaels — received word that two special guests were on their way. According to a source, that was when they learned that Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, who were in New York City, wanted to drop by the show.

Saturday Night Live wasn’t going to miss the chance to do a Barbie parody.

It hasn’t been an easy return to Saturday Night Live for Pete Davidson…

EXCLUSIVE: Saturday Night Live will return with a lot of recognizable faces plus one new one.

EXCLUSIVE: For some writer-producers, the enthusiasm over going back to work this week was dampened by the news that their overall deals, suspended during the WGA strike, are being reinstated but not extended. Nowhere has this been more prevalent than Universal Studio Group, which includes Universal Television and UCP.

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