Saturday Night Live Explained Abortion Rights in a Way You’ve Never Seen Before

There’s a lot of pressure when it comes to putting on an episode of Saturday Night Live: it is live, after all.

Peter Aykroyd was a former cast member and writer for “Saturday Night Live” who was Dan Aykroyd’s brother.Canandian born actor Peter Aykroyd was a featured cast member and writer for “Saturday Night Live” from 1979-1980. On “SNL,,” he starred in the short film “Java Junkie.” Before “SNL,” he was a member of the Second City comedy troupe in Toronto.

Dan Aykroyd, was 66.Peter's death was announced during 's most recent episode, which was hosted by Simu Liu, when a title card appeared onscreen that read, «Peter Aykroyd 1955-2021.»The sketch series also paid tribute to the late comedian by sharing , a short film that he starred in, on Twitter.No further details about his death have been revealed.Peter Aykroyd 1955-2021 SNL '79-'80 «The Java Junkie» pic.twitter.com/5IJWJTezgzLike his brother, Peter began his career in the Second City comedy

Saweetie made her SNL debut last night (November 20) – watch her perform new single ‘Icy Chain’ and a medley of ‘Tap In’ and ‘Best Friend’ below.The rapper released her new track ‘Icy Chain’ on Friday (November 19) ahead of her first performance on the legendary late-night show.During the Simu Liu-hosted episode, Saweetie first played a medley of her Doja Cat collaboration ‘Best Friend’ and 2020 single ‘Tap In’.

Pete Davidson is making his love for Staten Island known!

The Saturday Night Live cold open tackled a number of the week’s headlines — the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, Kevin McCarthy’s marathon floor speech, and Donald Trump’s rants — through the eyes of Judge Jeanine Pirro.

The Saturday Night Live cold open tackled a number of the week’s headlines — the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, Kevin McCarthy’s marathon floor speech, and Donald Trump’s rants — through the eyes of Judge Jeanine Pirro.

Billie Eilish will be pulling double duty, making her debut as a host and her second appearance as a musical guest on Dec. 11, performing tracks off her new album, .On Dec.

Taylor Swift's emotional performance of the 10-minute version of her song, «All Too Well,» wasn't the only way the 31-year-old singer contributed to this weekend's . Swift also made a memorable cameo during a hilarious musical sketch with Pete Davidson, in which the 27-year-old comedian rapped about three of the newer writers on the show — Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy — to an original song titled «Three Sad Virgins.»The sketch started off with Davidson asking the three writers

Taylor Swift had her good friends by her side on her big night! Ahead of serving as the musical guest on , the 31-year-old singer posted a TikTok video with Selena Gomez.In the funny clip, Swift, wearing her signature -era lipstick, mouths the words, «Oh no, my bestie is a bad b**ch,» before turning the camera to Gomez, sporting a white turtleneck, who smiles and laughs with glee.«OH NO @selenagomez,» Swift captioned the video, which came after the release of Red (Taylor's Version) on Friday.OH

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony have been parodied in a sketch on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live, where they open up a pet store called Dog Bones-N-Melodies.

“Saturday Night Live” took comedic aim at Ted Cruz’s recent anti-“Sesame Street” rant in this week’s cold open.

took comedic aim at Ted Cruz's recent anti- rant in this week's cold open.Aidy Bryant reprised her celebrated impression on the Republican senator for special conservative reboot of called .The far-right take on the children's education series served as an impression showcase, with cast members playing bizarre versions of beloved characters as well as outspoken GOP members.Between Cecily Strong's Marjorie Taylor Greene brandishing an assault rifle around kids to Kyle Mooney playing a molting Big

Taylor Swift stole the spotlight.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAfter Ted Cruz called Big Bird “government propaganda” on Twitter because that fictional character’s account tweeted about the COVID-19 vaccine, “Saturday Night Live” saw an opportunity to create a fictional new kids’ show from the senator. Titled “Cruz Street” and hosted by Aidy Bryant as Cruz, that sketch opened the Nov.

Following a week in which Ted Cruz grabbed headlines for his Twitter attacks on Big Bird for spreading vaccine “propaganda,” Saturday Night Live used its cold open to skewer the Texas senator.

Jonathan Majors and Taylor Swift are amped for their upcoming episode of In a promo released on Thursday, the star and the songstress were joined by castmembers Aidy Bryant and Bowen Yang on the iconic Studio 8H stage.To gear up for the big show, the quartet seemed to be doing improve-style exercises by delivering Majors' line by having each person say one word of it at a time.In a flawless display of timing, Majors, Swift, Yang and Bryant declared, «Hi, I'm Jonathan Majors and I'm hostingthis

Saturday Night Live has revived its Donald Trump impression, with newcomer James Austin Johnson taking over the role from Alec Baldwin.The latter spoke a year ago of being “overjoyed” at the possibility of losing the role after Trump lost the 2020 US presidential election to Joe Biden, having played the role since the 2016 election.However, the weekend’s episode (November 6) saw Johnson take over the mantle of playing the former US president during the show’s cold open, having also impersonated

a “pretty gnarly” bout of COVID-19, Ed Sheeran appeared on this week’s Saturday Night Live to perform two songs from his latest album, ‘=’.For a short period of time, it was unclear if Sheeran would actually make it to the SNL stage – his latest appearance on the series was announced on October 24, but it was only a few hours later that he confirmed he’d tested positive for COVID-19.

Dionne Warwick, meet Dionne Warwick.The legendary singer (and epic tweeter) made a surprise appearance on  during the late night show's «The Dionne Warwick Show,» which saw cast member Ego Nwodim playing Warwick as she interviewed famous guests like «Miley Cyrus,» «Jason Mraz» (aka guest host Kieran Culkin) and Ed Sheeran (yes, the real Ed Sheeran). After Nwodim's Warwick put Cyrus, Mraz, Sheeran and Post Malone in their place, the real Warwick showed up to inject some sweetness to the sketch.