Everybody was a winner on Saturday night. Pete Davidson apologized on air on Saturday Night Live for the joke he’d made in a segment the week before, mocking injured veteran and then-GOP House candidate Lieutenant Commander Dan Crenshaw. Crenshaw himself then appeared on air, graciously accepting the apology, getting in some funny barbs, and speaking…
“Saturday Night Live” creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels allegedly told the cast to tone down criticism of President Trump back when he was a candidate, The Hill reported Friday. Michaels suggested they “make him likable” and don’t “vilify him,” former SNL actor Taran Killam revealed on an episode of the “I Was There Too”…
Saturday Night Live turned 44 on Saturday, and managed to stay awake past midnight, bless its heart. The team turned out a show that — despite successful coverage of the history-making Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings, a wild appearance by Kanye West, and a host from the “Star Wars” movies — held fast to one theme:…
Paul Simon, modern Jewish prophet, gave his final live concert last Saturday night, in Corona, Queens, just minutes from his childhood home. “Strange times, aren’t they?” the 76-year-old said, staring up at the purple sky as an airplane few low, en route to La Guardia. He looked out at the crowds. “Don’t give up,” he…
Daddy’s complicit little girl. Ivanka Trump has remained largely unscathed by the verbal missiles that Omarosa Manigault Newman has lobbed at the White House…until now. Despite her impeccable image, we have always suspected that Ivanka Trump is not as indifferent to the scandals that envelope her father’s presidency as she seems. As Jewish women and…
Michael Che and Colin Jost, or “Moonlight and La La Land,” as they are sometimes called, do a lot together — they co-host the “Weekend Update” segment of Saturday Night Live. They’re the co-head writers of the show. And together, they court A-list actress Scarlett Johansson. Technically only Jost — the boyish, endearingly smirky comic…
It was a starry and stormy night on Saturday when Ben Stiller returned to “Saturday Night Live” as Michael Cohen along with Alec Baldwin, Scarlett Johansson, Jimmy Fallon, and the flesh-and-blood stormy Daniels. In a cold open more focused on shock-value than humor, laughs and artistry come mostly from the show’s repertory players — Kate…
Who am I? It’s a question Moses asks, standing in the searing heat of the burning bush. It’s a question Jean Val Jean, hero of the seminal Broadway musical “Les Miserables” asks, in lyrics written first in French by Jewish lyricist Alain Boubil, and then adapted for English by Jewish lyricist Herbert Kretzmer. And it’s…
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