Maya Rudolph Slays Mother’s Day SNL Episode With Hilarious Rap & Channels Beyoncé!

Season two of “Loot” has come to an end, and while we’re not sure of what Apple TV+‘s metrics for success are these days, anyone who has logged into the streamer can’t help but notice how often the comedy series is the most watched program in its top 10. That’s probably good news for the show’s creators, Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard, as well as executive producer and star Maya Rudolph.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor As the Television Academy continues to review submissions, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” will see at least 17 of its 20 guest hosts of Season 49 listed on the Emmy ballot in the guest acting race, the highest number of the past five seasons. The most recent season of the iconic sketch comedy show, which heads into its 50th year, featured an impressive lineup of emcees. Those confirmed to be submitted include comedians Nate Bargatze, Shane Gillis and Ramy Youssef; former “SNL” cast members Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph; and Hollywood A-listers Timothée Chalamet, Emma Stone, Adam Driver, Jacob Elordi, Ayo Edebiri, Sydney Sweeney, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Jake Gyllenhaal and Jason Momoa.

imaginary friends movie “IF” claimed the top spot at the box office this weekend according to studio estimates Sunday. Its $35 million North American debut was also a bit lower than some projections.Is that a disappointment? An ominous sign of the box office times? Or is the final story on “ IF ” yet to be written? It’s not just your imagination: In these bumpy early weeks of the 2024 summer box office season, in which nothing has been a runaway hit and every new movie has more and more pressure to succeed, “IF” hit a nerve.Starring Ryan Reynolds, Cailey Fleming, and an army of A-list voices including Steve Carell, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Louis Gossett Jr., Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Maya Rudolph, “IF” was an original idea from Krasinski, who wrote, directed and co-stars.Paramount debuted the film, which cost a reported $110 million to produce, in 4,041 locations in North America.

We’ve come to the end of the road on season 49 of Saturday Night Live.

a gore-splattered skit for the show’s season 49 finale on May 18 with the help of host Jake Gyllenhaal and musical guest Sabrina Carpenter. The duo played Fred and Daphne, with Mikey Day as Shaggy and Sarah Sherman as Velma.A CGI Scooby rounded out the squad. In the skit, the group entered a haunted house looking for “the Shadow Phantom,” whom Scooby captures.

A parody of Scooby Doo turned bloody on SNL Saturday, with host Jake Gyllenhaal subbing in as the toe-headed Fred while musical guest star Sabrina Carpenter guest starred as Daphne.

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter “IF,” a fantasy-comedy from director John Krasinski and star Ryan Reynolds, looks to collect a promising $40 million in its box office debut. Based on projections, “IF” — short for imaginary friends — is tracking to land at least $35 million and as much as $45 million from 4,000 North American theaters. At the higher end of estimates, those ticket sales would mark a solid start for a live-action PG family film that’s not based on an existing property.

Vampire Weekend performed ‘Gen-X Cops’ and ‘Capricorn’ while appearing as the musical guests on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Check out footage below.The New York indie rockers’ visit to the late night show – which was hosted this week by Maya Rudolph – marked the first time they had played there in 11 years, and their fourth overall.The band performed the two tracks from new album ‘Only God Was Above Us’, which NME hailed in a four-star review as a “technicolour, sprawling ode to a long-gone, old New York City”.Ezra Koenig and co.

popular YouTube show that features celebrities being interviewed while eating spicy chicken wings. “Howdy Sean Evans,” Rudolph said while dressed as the “Cowboy Carter” version of Beyoncé, 42. “It’s a pleasure for you to have me.”Rudolph delivered various epic jokes as Queen B, including telling Day, 44, that he’s “the whitest man I have ever seen.” She also used country puns as an ode to Beyoncé’s brilliant new album.

Maya Rudolph reincarnated one of her most iconic impressions while hosting the May 11 episode of Saturday Night Live – Beyonce Knowles.

Maya Rudolph is back as host of NBC‘s Saturday Night Live and she’s doing what she does best—imitating Queen Beyoncé.

Maya Rudolph kicked off the May 11 episode of Saturday Night Live with a Mother’s Day themed musical number that should have been on Beyonce‘s Renaissance World Tour!

William Earl administrator Maya Rudolph brought Beyoncé back to “Saturday Night Live,” reprising her impression in order to give Queen B another shot at the spicy chicken wing talk show “Hot Ones.” Opposite Mikey Day’s take on host Sean Evans, Beyoncé returns for the challenging talk show, cocky about the wings until they become uncomfortably hot. As things get more unbearable, she has increasingly difficult instructions for her assistant, played by Kenan Thompson.

Alison Herman TV Critic Maya Rudolph opened the Mother’s Day episode of “Saturday Night Live” with a tribute to mothers — in every sense of the term. Hosting the sketch show’s penultimate episode of the season, Rudolph began her monologue by noting she’s a four-time mom herself. “You’re not just a mom,” cast member Bowen Yang reminded her.

Maya Rudolph returned to Saturday Night Live as host for the Mother’s Day show.

Saturday Night Live skipped its traditional cold open and instead went with brief bits featuring cast members and their mom, in honor of Mother’s Day.

This week’s SNL host Maya Rudolph was joined by veteran SNL cast member Kenan Thompson for the traditional Thursday promo to welcome this week’s musical guest, Vampire Weekend.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large On this season of Apple TV+’s “Loot,” it’s revealed that one of the show’s characters, played by Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, is a secret Taylor Swift fan — and even hides her Swift albums inside record jackets for jazz music. Don’t worry, star Maya Rudolph isn’t as clandestine. “I’ve always admired her,” Rudolph tells Variety’s Awards Circuit podcast.

Maya Rudolph has been hiding in a Saturday Night Live closet for 17 years and is now ready to come out and host the show.

Anne McCarthy As college campus protests ignite across the U.S. over the Israel-Palestine conflict, “SNL” weighed in with its cold open this week as Kenan Thompson played an incredulous parent of a Columbia University student. Michael Longfellow acted as a reporter for Spectrum News New York 1 on “Community Affairs,” shining light on the ongoing protests throughout the country and their impact.