The rabbi, learned and wise, is the most important member of any shtetl. That is, unless Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and “Saturday Night Live” star Kate McKinnon show up. That’s just what happened on Tuesday night at Stage 42, the Off-Broadway theater where the Folksbiene’s celebrated Yiddish-language revival of “Fiddler on the Roof”…
[Kate McKinnon’s impression of Democratic 2020 hopeful Marianne Williamson is so spot-on, no amount of sage will ever be able to burn it from your mind. The “Saturday Night Live” comic, whose greatest hits as an impersonator include Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Angela Merkel, and Justin Bieber, appeared on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” less…
Update: This article has been updated to include a quote from a spokesperson for Saturday Night Live. Mollie Heckerling, daughter of writer-director Amy Heckerling, has spoken out against claims made by Chris Kattan that framed her mother as having been sexually predatory in a work environment. Kattan, a longtime Saturday Night Live actor, wrote in…
Saturday Night Live comedian Chris Kattan says that famed SNL show-runner Lorne Michaels pressured him to engage in sex for the sake of a business deal. In “Baby Don’t Hurt Me: Stories and Scars from Saturday Night Live,” Kattan writes that during production for “Night At The Roxbury,” the 1998 movie starring Kattan and Will…
Did you catch the song “Holes” on Saturday Night Live this weekend, hosted by Adam Sandler? The musical sketch focused on the fact that clothing has holes in it (arm holes, leg holes, etcetera,) and is a pretty good cautionary tale about when people of one gender and race combination, who represent a tiny segment…
Bari Weiss, the New York Times columnist famous for being a Jewish woman who does not want any more rights than she currently has, dated Saturday Night Live comedian Kate McKinnon when they were both undergraduates at Columbia University. The provocative writer said in a Vanity Fair profile what had only been previously rumored —…
Surely, you would think, Adam Sandler has hosted Saturday Night Live at least eight times. After all, the comedian who gave birth to the greatest artistic achievement of our time — “The Hanukkah Song” — is heavily associated with the late night sketch comedy show. And yet. You would be wrong. Sandler, a boyish comic-turned-long-suffering-dad-type,…
Like a Jewish edition of the murder mystery game Clue, John Mulaney was on Saturday Night Live, playing Alan Dershowitz, giving legal advice to Robert Kraft. In a sketch patterned on the ABC reality investment show “Shark Tank,” comedian Mulaney (Jewish in our hearts) played lawyer Alan Dershowitz, offering his possible services as a legal…
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