By Bruce Haring
02.02.2020 - 21:36 / deadline.com
By Nellie Andreeva
Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV
Saturday Night Live has a long and successful tradition of athletes serving as hosts. The latest to take the stage of Studio 8H was NFL player J.J. Watt during Super Bowl weekend. The Feb. 1 edition of SNL, with host Watt and musical guest Luke Combs, featuring Adam Baldwin as Donald Trump in an impeachment trial-themed Cold Open and Watt paying tribute to Kobe Bryant during the episode’s curtain call, drew a 4.1 Live+Same Day household
By Bruce Haring
Donald Trump offered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a pardon if he said Russia was not involved in the leak of Democratic National Committee emails, a court has heard.
Beverly Hills police on Tuesday announced street closures for President Donald Trump's visit for business and a fundraiser.Trump will meet with organizers of the 2028 Olympic Games before attending the fundraiser.As far as Beverly Hills goes, there will be intermittent closures Tuesday between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m.
Saturday Night Live’s Kenan Thompson is to host the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Harrison Ford is dipping his toe into political waters, noting in a recent interview that talking about politics has become unavoidable.
Harrison Ford is dipping his toe into political waters, noting in a recent interview that talking about politics has become unavoidable.
NEW YORK -- The week President Donald Trump was acquitted in his impeachment trial was Fox News Channel's best in the ratings since the weeks he was elected and inaugurated.
"Make the White House Great Again"
It was a wild, wild week in Washington leading up to Saturday Night Live's newest episode, so it's hardly any surprise that the show decided to once again dedicate its cold open to potshotting political figures.
took aim at the recent Democratic debates in this week's «cold open» (surprising many fans who expected a take-down of Donald Trump's recent Impeachment trial acquittal).
The Senate acquitted Donald Trump, ending the impeachment trial earlier this week, so “Saturday Night Live” turned its attention away from the current president and onto who might become the president — by delivering a new democratic debate cold open sketch.
By Bruce Haring
Late night hosts reacted to the U.S.
It's official: impeachment season is over. Donald Trump was acquitted by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, Feb. 5 with an almost completely partisan vote on both articles of impeachment from the House of Representatives. And of course, the hosts of late night TV had a lot to say about the development.
By Dominic Patten
President Donald Trump touted America’s economy in his third annual State of the Union address Tuesday night — the day before his impeachment trial will wrap up — appearing to position the last three years of his presidency as a step toward his “Make America Great Again” campaign. He also took the event as an opportunity to award conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh, who recently revealed his lung cancer diagnosis, with a Presidential Medal of Freedom in the middle of his remarks.
By Ted Johnson
By Ted Johnson
The US Senate might've voted against subpoenaing witnesses for the real-life impeachment trial of Donald Trump, but in Saturday Night Live's latest cold open, things went very, very differently during the proceeding. Dubbed "The Trial You Wished Had Happened," the segment featured Kenan Thompson as Judge Mathis, kicking Mikey Day's Chief Justice John Roberts out of his seat and declaring, "this court needs a real judge who got some big brass ones under his skirt."