‘SNL’: Tina Fey and Michael Che Perform Weekend Update for an Audience of 3 (Video)

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For a period of Hollywood history where box office success is a complicated equation thanks to streaming and PVOD options, it’s somewhat disheartening how Jon M. Chu’s “In The Heights” has seemingly fallen out of Oscar contention.

On tonight’s episode of Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey filled in for an absent Colin Jost—trading Weekend Update jokes with Michael Che from the front of the theater, with Tom Hanks, Kenan Thompson, Paul Rudd and the show’s skeleton crew serving as her audience.

Tom Hanks was joined by some familiar faces in a surprise appearance opening a Covid-hit Saturday Night Live.

statement to fans.Meanwhile, the New York Post reported that some members of the “SNL” cast have recently tested positive for COVID and that the show was considering canceling tonight’s episode, citing multiple insiders. Among the cast members that the insiders say will not appear tonight is lead writer Colin Jost, who hosts the mainstay segment “Weekend Update” with Michael Che.

Michael Bublé was one of the guests at the Ellen DeGeneres show. The episode was a special one, hosted by comedian Howie Mandel.

EXCLUSIVE: Franco Porporino Jr., who helped reboot American Chopper for the Discovery Channel, has signed a first-look unscripted TV deal with Lionsgate-owned Pilgrim Media.

Fresh off some deft Wall Street moves earlier this month, UTA is now scaling up fast with the acquisition of strategic advisory firm MediaLink.

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"Saturday Night Live" addressed the trial and subsequent verdict in the Jussie Smollett trial during its "Weekend Update" segment this week.  Co-hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che reconvened after taking last week off to discuss the top headlines of the day, which meant that the high-profile case in Chicago was simply impossible to ignore.The former "Empire" actor was found guilty on five of six counts that he lied to police and staged a hoax hate crime against himself in January of 2019.  "On

unemployed brothers Andrew and Chris Cuomo as the show returned from a two-week hiatus with Billie Eilish doubling as host and musical guest.The show’s cold open spoofed a holiday message from Dr. Anthony Fauci, played by Kate Mckinnon.The fictional Fauci introduced a sad family gathering of unemployed brothers: Chris and Andrew Cuomo, played by Andrew Dismukes and Pete Davidson.“Hello I am disgraced former Gov.

“A jury declared Jussie Smollett really bad at acting,” opened Weekend Update co-anchor Colin Jost tonight, making light of the recent headlines over the guilty verdict for the Empire actor earlier this week from his 2019 assault.

It’s official: Every couple from Married at First Sight season 13 has split. José San Miguel Jr. and Rachel Gordillo have filed for divorce, Us Weekly confirmed on Friday, December 10.

The Sundance Film Festival takes place between January 20-30 and announced its full line-up today. Additionally, dozens of first-look images (see below) were released today alongside synopsizes for the festival slate that includes projects such as “Emily The Criminal,” “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” from young SXSW Winner and filmmaker/actor Cooper Raiff and “892.” The latter features the late Michael Kenneth Williams, the project shot before his untimely death.

Michael Strahan revealed on the latest instalment of Good Morning America that he had some unfortunate news that left him disappointed.MORE: GMA's Michael Strahan shares surprising details of pre-space flight routineIt was announced that the Blue Origin space flight that he was part of that was due to depart on December 9 had been delayed by two days because of unfavorable wind conditions.He appeared on GMA to talk to his co-hosts about the postponement, joking that it was "torture" to wait for

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeABC is dusting off its classic 1981 slogan and jingle, at least for one night.

Michael Strahan is prepping for a new television assignment that is truly out of this world, and his latest update caused a stir among his fans.MORE: Michael Strahan's mom shares new glimpse inside star's rarely-seen New York homeThe Good Morning America star is set to be part of Blue Origin's third human flight going to space this year and is currently in training mode.He revealed with his latest social media post that he just wrapped the first day of training, sharing a clip in which he

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeIf the idea of Kevin Hart as Arnold Jackson — the 8-year-old played by Gary Coleman on “Diff’rent Strokes’ — sounds perfect on paper, wait until you see tonight’s “Live in Front of a Studio Audience.” When the 5’4” Hart stands next to the 6’4” John Lithgow — who fills Conrad Bain’s role as Arnold’s adoptive father, Mr.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorJohn Stankey, CEO of AT&T, said an effort by Democratic leaders in Congress to characterize the proposed merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery as an anticompetitive threat to the media industry was “unfounded.”“What is articulated in those letters is really unfounded,” said Stankey, speaking Monday at UBS’s Global TMT Conference, referring to a communication from several Democratic senators and representatives to the Justice Department urging scrutiny of the

Borussia Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc has admitted that Manchester United transfer target Erling Haaland will be allowed to leave the German giants "under certain conditions" next summer.