You thought real-life Sean Spicer was making gaffes that drive Jews crazy? You should see Melissa McCarthy playing him on “Saturday Night Live.” Skewering the embattled White House press secretary, McCarthy called Passover the “Jewish Easter” and made a hilarious apology for his bizarre comments about the Holocaust. “I know they’re not really called the…
Sometimes “Saturday Night Live” sketches are even better when they don’t go as smoothly as planned. That’s exactly what happened when Louis C.K. guest hosted this weekend, and could barely make it through a skit about New York City’s Tenement Museum. The comedian played a “historically-trained re-enactor,” alongside Kate McKinnon, who attempted to teach a…
The year was 1968, and I was senior at Hewlett High School, on Long Island. I was a jock, Liz Adams was a cheerleader, and it seemed like a perfect match. We liked the same music and we made each other laugh, so it was only natural that we go out. On a date. Maybe…
These days, there’s an unlikely, one-sided bromance going on between Al Franken and Jeff Sessions. In the world of “Saturday Night Live,” that is. During the comedy show’s latest “Weekend Update,” Sessions (Kate McKinnon) and Franken (Alex Moffat) paid a brief visit to discuss their budding relationship. “Al and I are actually great friends,” the…
It’s Scarlett vs. Ivanka! Hollywood superstar Scarlett Johansson pulled no punches on “Saturday Night Live,” ripping into the First Daughter for being “Complicit” in her father’s controversial policies. The skit, one of several targeting Donald Trump on “SNL,” mocked Ivanka for a fictional perfume brand that spotlighted her so-far ineffective efforts to portray herself as…
Zach Braff is on a mission to play Stephen Miller, President Trump’s senior policy advisor, on Saturday Night Live. The “Scrubs” star tweeted at Lorne Michaels, the executive producer of SNL, with a direct plea. “Dear Lorne, I will shave my head to play this guy. Pleeeease. @nbcsnl,” Braff wrote on Monday. Dear Lorne, I…
“Saturday Night Live” took another pointed shot at President Trump last night, skewering him for famously losing his cool whenever son-in-law Jared Kushner isn’t around — especially on Shabbat. In the show’s famed cold opening, Alec Baldwin playing Trump asks an aide about Jared and Ivanka Trump, who generally do not work or use electronic devices…
Christians have Santa Claus, but Jews got “Hanukka Harry”
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