#Saturday Night Live
Nantucket Film Festival Announces All-Female Lineup for 2019 Screenwriters Tribute
The Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) is celebrating women scribes. The fest announced an all-female slate of honorees and focus for the 2019 Screenwriters Tribute, one of NFF’s tentpole...
Trailer Watch: “Love, Gilda” Tells the Story of Comedy Legend Gilda Radner
“There was so much in the world that had yet to be carved out for women,” says Amy Poehler in a new trailer for “Love, Gilda.” The “Parks and Rec” alumna is...
Octavia Spencer to Host “Saturday Night Live” March 4
Octavia Spencer is having a helluva week. The “Hidden Figures” star was nominated for an Oscar this past Sunday, and while she didn’t win, the actress is still starting the month off right:...
Leslie Jones Takes to Twitter to Find Designer Duds for “Ghostbusters” Premiere
Leslie Jones in “Ghostbusters”: Hopper Stone /Columbia Pictures In today’s head-scratching “WTF” news, “SNL” star Leslie Jones experienced problems trying to secure an outfit to the...
Happy Friday: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Get ‘Weekend Update’ Action Figures
Comedy BFFs Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are having their achievement as the first female co-hosts of “SNL’s” Weekend Update segment commemorated with action figures from Entertainment Earth. The...
Taraji P. Henson to Host ‘SNL,’ Publish Memoir
SNL’s Cecily Strong to Host Next Year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner
After inviting five white guys in a row to host and roast the President and Washington politicians, the White House Correspondents Association has finally decided to shake things up. SNL’s Cecily...
Why Leslie Jones’ Controversial Slavery Sketch on SNL Was So Important
On May 3rd, Leslie Jones made her debut on Saturday Night Live. Jones was one of the three black women that SNL hired in January in response to the criticism over the show’s lack of diversity, and...
Lena Dunham’s Feminist Week: From SNL to SXSW
Girls’ fictional protagonist Hannah Horvath proclaimed she was “the voice of my generation” in a fit of self-delusion and opium tea, but her creator Lena Dunham is proving she has a lot of...
Black Comedienne Sasheer Zamata Joins SNL
Sasheer Zamata became the most famous performer on Saturday Night Live yesterday when the show announced her addition to the cast. Zamata was hired after two of SNL’s black comedians, Kenan...
TV: New Black Comedienne to Join SNL (Finally)
Public protests from castmembers, widespread media scrutiny, and the existence of many talented black comediennes have finally convinced longtime SNL producer Lorne Michaels to add an...
Must Watch: SNL Girls Parody with Tina Fey
Over the weekend, Tina Fey hosted the first new episode of the latest season of Saturday Night Live. One of the highlights of Fey’s hosting was a parody of Girls with Fey playing Blerta,...