‘Saturday Night Live’ Cold Open: Democratic Candidates Offer Crazy Solutions To Coronavirus Outbreak

NBC's Saturday Night Live is going dark amid the coronavirus outbreak. The late-night sketch series is shutting down for three weeks, according to a source with knowledge of the news.

If you are the kind of person who tends to schedule your weekends around new episodes of Saturday Night Live, you are not alone. For us, there's nothing quite like watching those SNL sketches unfolding live on Saturday nights to cap off each long — and lately chaotic — week of current events. Sure, DVR-ing those episodes works as well, but then you miss out on all the live-tweeting and GIFs, and that's not quite as fun, is it?

Global’s “Saturday Night Live” has postponed its next three shows.

Saturday Night Live is going dark amid the coronavirus outbreak. NBC sketch series is shutting down for three weeks, according

If you are the kind of person who tends to schedule your weekends around new episodes of Saturday Night Live, you are not alone. For us, there's nothing quite like watching those SNL sketches unfolding live on Saturday nights to cap off each long — and lately chaotic — week of current events. Sure, DVR-ing those episodes works as well, but then you miss out on all the live-tweeting and GIFs, and that's not quite as fun, is it?

By Nellie Andreeva

Saturday Night Live is going on a hiatus.

A source close to “Saturday Night Live” told Variety that its next three shows have been postponed. The iconic NBC comedy series was supposed to return on March 28 with host John Krasinski and musical guest Dua Lipa. But since “Saturday Night Live” films in front of a live audience in New York City, one of the epicenters of the coronavirus outbreak, it’s only logical to cancel the program.

Emily Blunt nearly vomited with anxiety and tiredness during a hosting gig on Saturday Night Live four years ago.

Weeknd fans tuning in to “Saturday Night Live” this weekend certainly got their money’s worth, as the artist not only performed his recent single “Blinding Lights,” but premiered a stunning new ballad called “Scared to Live” and showed off his comic chops in a musical skit and appeared briefly on “Weeknd Update” (geddit?).

Saturday Night Live's latest cold open featured a lot of jokes about current events, but it was Senator Elizabeth Warren who got the last laugh. Styled as a segment from The Ingraham Angle, the opening sketch featured Kate McKinnon as the titular host (aka "The Joey Fatone of Fox News") sneering her way through the latest headlines, including "Joe Biden takes the lead on Stupor Tuesday" and the increased impact of the coronavirus.

Daniel Craig took to the stage over the weekend, and gave fans a hilarious «glimpse» at his upcoming James Bond movie

Following a controversial interview in which he criticized his fellow cast members, Pete Davidson was notably absent from this week's episode.

One of the best moments on is always when a castmember is doing a celebrity impression, and then that celeb drops by to «surprise» them.

“No Time to Die,” Daniel Craig’s final film as James Bond, has been delayed until November due to concerns over COVID-19, but the actor still took the stage at Studio 8H in New York Saturday to host “Saturday Night Live.” And in doing so, he brought with him one of his favorite scenes from the upcoming film.

By Anita Bennett

A lot can happen in a short week’s time. On Saturday, February 29, “Saturday Night Live” opened its episode with a press conference about COVID-19 that turned into an impromptu democratic presidential hopefuls press conference because the primaries were the bigger story.