‘Saturday Night Live’ Opens Season 48 With Meta Manning Brothers Commentary Sketch and a Jon Hamm Cameo

Rob Schneider claims Bill Murray "absolutely hated" the 'Saturday Night Live' cast. The 58-year-old comic claims he and his castmates were warned about the 'Groundhog Day' actor - who had been a series regular from 1976 to 1980 - and his unpredictable nature when he returned to guest host the sketch series and when he arrived, he "wasn't very nice" to them. Speaking on SiriusXM's 'The Jim Norton and Sam Roberts Show', Rob said: “I won’t say who the filmmaker was, but [we were told] ‘Bill Murray is gonna come, he’s gonna change the…dialogue.

“Saturday Night Live” — but only if his impersonator Bobby Moynihan can come. The spiky-haired “Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives” host once again expressed his interest in taking on the late-night sketch comedy show on an episode of HBO Max’s “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?”While Fieri himself, 54, has never graced the Studio 8H stage, former “SNL” cast member Moynihan appeared on the show multiple times in character as the goateed, greasy spoon guru.“I love Bobby. I think Bobby’s hysterical,” Fieri told host Chris Wallace.

is set to pull double duty on this weekend as a first-time host and musical guest. And this has apparently made some of the cast a little jealous.The «Sweetest Pie» artist was joined by castmember Heidi Gardner for a series of fun promos that played off their wonderful and delightfully awkward chemistry.«What's up, y'all! I'm Megan the Stallion and I'll be the host and musical guest this week on,» Megan declared excitedly.«And I'm Heidi Gardner, and I'll be doing comedy magic this week on ,» she added.

Rob Schneider claimed during an interview on SiriusXM's show that Bill Murray was difficult to work with and he «hated us» when the famed actor returned for one of his several hosting stints on Norton was in the middle of discussing rumors of an actor being difficult on the set of, when the 58-year-old actor and comedian interjected and mentioned he had a similar experience with Murray, who was an  cast member from 1976 to 1980 and served as a host five times. «That's the same thing with Bill Murray,» said Schneider on Thursday while promoting his new comedy, Daddy Daughter Trip. «I won't say who the filmmaker was, but 'Bill Murray is gonna come, he's gonna change the dialogue. He's gonna change things, and it's gonna be great but you don't know who you're gonna get.

challenged just how much people could handle before they are sent over the edge during Saturday’s cold open.  Bowen Yang played host, Morgan Freegirl, who moderated the show,, that challenged how far average people could go -- before a chaotic news headline sent them over the edge.   “Have you noticed that everyone around you is angry and crazy? People are flipping out at Target.

Saturday Night Live is back!

Live from New York, it’s Rooster! Fresh off his Top Gun success, Miles Teller has made his hosting debut on Saturday Night Live — and he’s touting the military movie as comedic inspiration.

“Saturday Night Live” has undergone a lot of retooling over the summer — with a lot of castmembers exiting the show and four new actors signing on. So they made sure to address the slew of differences with a self-referential cold-open featuring the night’s host, Miles Teller.

As we’ve all come to learn, some celebs seem to not know how to handle themselves when it comes to DMs. “Saturday Night Live” poked fun at some recent profile sex scandals on Saturday’s season 48 premiere.

Kendrick Lamar was the musical guest for the first episode of the new season of Saturday Night Live last night (October 1) – see his three-song set below.Last week, Kendrick was announced to perform on the 48th season of the legendary show, with Megan Thee Stallion and Willow other upcoming musical guests.As promised, Lamar kicked off the new season on Saturday night alongside guest host Miles Teller. He last appeared on SNL in 2018 when he performed ‘Tints’ with Anderson .Paak.For the new performance, Lamar played three tracks from ‘Mr.

Kendrick Lamar is taking over the stage at Studio 8H!

Saturday Night Live’s Season 48 opener was all about change.

Colin Jost and Michael Che got right into poking fun at politics in Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update segment.

Did Cecily Strong quit Saturday Night Live?!

poked fun at some recent profile sex scandals on Saturday's season 48 premiere.Host Miles Teller played game show host Halen Hardy, who oversaw the challenging show «The game is very simple. We have four male celebrity contestants, and all they have to do is reply to a woman's DM on Instagram in a way that is normal,» Halen explained.

With a smorgasbord of greatest hits past and perhaps present, Saturday Night Live went successfully mega-meta tonight in the sometime bubbling over cold open of its Season 48 debut.

has undergone a lot of retooling over the summer — with a lot of castmembers exiting the show and four new actors signing on. So they made sure to address the slew of differences with a self-referential cold-open featuring the night's host,Miles Teller.Teller played Payton Manning, joined by his brother Eli Manning (Andrew Dismukes), as they live-commented on the cold-open sketch, and brutally criticized the sketch.The bit got even more meta when Jon Hamm joined Payton and Eli as a special guest commentator and all three of them got in on the fun of making fun of the cast's gaffes in the sketch-within-a-sketch.At one point, Shawn White showed up for a one-line cameo and Hamm joked, «Well, you know, sometimes they need to bring in a real celebrity when the host isn't that famous… I mean, they couldn't get the star of the big summer movie, like, Tom Cruise or John Hamm, they had to get the costar.»Payton (again, played by Teller, the night's host) indignantly replied, «Well, I heard they rarely put the hosts in cold open, so when they do, it is special.»«Special? Or is it desperate?» Hamm shot back.By using the sketch-within-a-sketch conceit, the show managed to not only poke fun at themselves, they got a chance to introduce all the new castmembers while also ingratiating themselves to new audiences with a bit of self-deprecation.Now only time will tell how the new, remarkably smaller cast will gel over the course of the season.

As "Saturday Night Live" cast members prepare for Season 48, viewers will see multiple new faces on stage tonight after the largest cast overhaul in its history.  Executive producer and creator Lorne Michaels blamed the pandemic for the late-night comedy show's recent turnover. "The pandemic had put us in this position where no one could really leave, because there were no jobs," Michaels said, according to the New York Times.  He continued to say that there "was no place to go" for the comedians who have been on the show for years amid the tumultuous times of the pandemic – which he called a "transition year." Some of ‘Saturday Night Live’s' prominent cast members who exited the stage for good include Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor and Aristotle Athari, as well as Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon and Kyle Mooney.

sketch. Nearly six months after reports emerged of Kenan Thompson and wife Christina Evangeline's quiet separation, ET can confirm she has a new man in her life — and he's someone Thompson knows well. According to a source, Evangeline is dating Chris Redd, Thompson's longtime co-star, who also played his brother on his canceled sitcom, . «Chris and Christina Evangeline are dating. The two know each other through since Chris worked with her ex, Kenan Thompson,» a source tells ET. «They started dating after Kenan and Christina split.»As for how the new romance is going, the source notes, «They are having a lot of fun and really get along well.» TMZ was first to report the news of them dating. A post shared by Kenan Thompson (@kenanthompson)Mere days ago, Redd announced his exit from  after five years on the show. As for Thompson and Evangeline, they tied the knot in 2011 and share two daughters — Georgia, 8, and Gianna, 4.