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above.In his second time hosting “Saturday Night Live,” Gyllenhaal appeared in a number of skits, including many that required him to sing. He was accompanied by musical guest Camilla Cabello.

are going to do, it's bring viewers a star-studded season.The sketch comedy series returns to HBO for its third season this Friday, and show creator, showrunner, executive producer, writer and star, Robin Thede, is excited for fans to see what the new installment holds.Speaking with ET's Melicia Johnson ahead of the season's premiere, Thede shared her thoughts going into the show's third run and broke down her favorite guest stars this season, which include Vanessa Williams, Ava DuVernay, Raven-Symoné, Kel Mitchell and more. «I'm living my dream. I'm making the show I've always wanted to make and the show that I've been preparing for three decades to make,» she said. «I've been making sketches since I was a kid, so I think you don't feel pressure when it's something you know you're good at. But it's not just me, right? I know I have a good team, and so, everyone around us is dead set on the same goal and that's to make every season bigger and better than the last.

Netflix has made a new search category devoted to “Short-Ass Movies” in response to a recent Saturday Night Live skit bemoaning films with lengthy running times.Pete Davidson, Gunna, Chris Redd and Simon Rex collaborated for the comedy song that lambasts films that exceed runtimes of 100 minutes as not suitable for late night viewing.Taking aim at titles such as The Batman, Amadeus, Heat and Once Upon A Time In America for their extended runtimes, Davidson says he can’t handle any more long movies because he’s “a simple man with no attention span”.Netflix responded to the video on social media this week (April 4) with the caption “Good idea,” and a link to the newly created Short-Ass Movies category, which includes selections that adhere to the SNL sketch’s call for “a really short movie, like at most an hour 40″.good idea https://t.co/PIIix3MZUK https://t.co/lyJmpuGBko— Netflix Is A Joke (@NetflixIsAJoke) April 4, 2022Davidson also jokes about the runtime of his own movie, The King Of Staten Island, which has a runtime of 2hr 17mins. “But we needed all of those minutes,” he claims.You can watch the sketch that inspired the move below, in which Davidson raps: “Three hours, 47 minutes? Bro, you must be crazy/ No thanks, I’mma watch a short-ass movie like Driving Miss Daisy.”Last weekend’s (April 2) episode of Saturday Night Live also took on the Will Smith Oscars slap in a number of sketches across the show.Host Jerrod Carmichael dissected the incident in his cold open on Saturday Night Live without directly mentioning Smith, Rock or the word “slap”.

https://t.co/PIIix3MZUK https://t.co/lyJmpuGBkoIf you enter this realm on Netflix, it looks much like the streamer’s home page.

Saturday Night Live inspired a new category at Netflix!

Angelique Jackson Over the last two decades, “A Black Lady Sketch Show” creator and star Robin Thede has broken down barrier after barrier for Black women in comedy, culminating with her Emmy-winning HBO sketch comedy series that epitomizes the phrase “for us, by us.”At the center of the show’s success is its particular Black lady perspective. Cast members Thede, Ashley Nicole Black, Gabrielle Dennis and Skye Townsend riff on relatable themes, like ashy skin, hair woes and the politics of the Black church, and present them with a healthy helping of Black lady joy.“We value authenticity above anything else, and we know that calling something ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show,’ it’s got to feel authentic to Black ladies,” Thede tells Variety, sitting down to discuss the series and its road to the screen.

Saturday Night Live is spoofing the biggest topic in pop culture at the moment.

Is art imitating life? Pete Davidson‘s Saturday Night Live sketch seemed to mirror a recent evening he spent with Scott Disick.

Pete Davidson, make sure it's a short one. The comedian poked fun at long films in a new sketch for  on April 3, the show's first episode of the month and Davidson's first appearance on the show since Willem DaFoe hosted in January. During the pre-taped segment, the 28-year-old star joined musical guest Gunna, Simon Rex and Chris Redd as they rapped complaints about «long-a**» movies.

It was probably inevitable — Saturday Night Live did its own interpretation of the altercation between Will Smith and Chris Rock at the Oscars. The skit did not show the slap, instead focusing on Will Smith, played by Chris Redd, who is having a conversation with a seat filler, played by host Jerrod Carmichael, during Chris Rock’s speech.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterPeacock has commissioned a sketch comedy special from Kate Berlant and John Early, Variety has learned exclusively.The special is titled “Would It Kill You to Laugh? Starring Kate Berlant & John Early” and is slated to debut on Peacock this summer. The one-hour special will see Berlant and Early playing exaggerated versions of themselves as they reunite after suffering a public falling out many years earlier.

The ladies of “A Black Lady Sketch Show” will be back on the screens in April! On Tuesday, HBO dropped the full trailer for the show’s upcoming third season, which will premiere on April 8.

 will be back on the screens in April! On Tuesday, HBO dropped the full trailer for the show's upcoming third season, which will premiere on April 8.The trailer for the Emmy-winning sketch comedy series features the familiar faces of series regulars Robin Thede, Gabrielle Dennis, Ashley Nicole Black and Skye Townsend, in various sketches including «The Funeral Ball» and a disastrous bachelorette party. The video also shows the return of Black's invisible spy, Trinity, and Thede's Dr.

Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest are gearing up for 's big post-Oscars special next Monday, and the pair pulled out all the stops for their opening sketch.With some green screen technology and a whole lot of costumes and make-up, Ripa and Seacrest recreated (and were digitally inserted) into some of the year's biggest movies for a fun take on the Oscar-nominated fare.ET's Rachel Smith recently spoke with the co-hosts about the clever sketch — and Ripa's impressive transformation into Tammy Faye Bakker for their lampooning of Jessica Chastain's«It really was Kristofer Buckle's makeup,» Ripa said, referring to her stylist and close friend, who used his makeup expertise to create her Tammy Faye look. «I cannot take credit.»«And then, I wasn't impersonating Tammy Faye. I was impersonating Jessica Chastain Tammy Faye,» she added.

 will be back on the screens in April! On Tuesday, HBO dropped the first teaser for the show's upcoming third season, which will premiere on April 8.The teaser trailer for the Emmy-winning sketch comedy show stars creator and series regular Robin Thede dropping the punny joke, “I just got back from Africa. Wakanda jokes you all lookin’ for?”The six-episode season also stars Gabrielle Dennis, Ashley Nicole Black and Skye Townsend, and will feature over 40 celebrity guest stars, including Ava DuVernay, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Raven-Symoné, Wanda Sykes, David Alan Grier, Kyla Pratt, Jemele Hill, Holly Robinson Peete, Kel Mitchell, Michael Ealy, Wayne Brady, Bob the Drag Queen, Vanessa Williams, Lance Reddick, Loni Love, Cari Champion, Shangela, Trevor Jackson, Tommy Davidson, Jay Pharoah, Jidenna, and Essence Atkins.The show's debut season earned three Emmy nominations and featured a bevy of heavy-hitting guest stars, including the show's executive producer Issa Rae, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, Aja Naomi King, Laverne Cox and Nicole Byer.

After two seasons of critically acclaimed hilarity, a new season of HBO’s “A Black Lady Sketch Show” is on the horizon.

Zoë Kravitz crossed paths with a number of previous ‘cat women’ as part of a new Saturday Night Live sketch.The actress takes on the role of Catwoman/Selina Kyle in The Batman, following a line of stars who have previously portrayed the iconic DC character.During her debut hosting SNL, Kravitz had only just begun her opening monologue when she was interrupted by star Kate McKinnon, in character as Michelle Pfeiffer’s incarnation of the character in 1992’s Batman Returns.“I’m Catwoman from the ’90s, the one with the whip – you know like cats have,” she joked, before revealing her origin story of falling into a pile of cats, quipping “they licked me back to life, and now I dress like Sandy from a porno version of Grease“.fire up the cat signal!

Zoë Kravitz and Paul Dano are both starring opposite Robert Pattinson in “The Batman”, and on this week’s edition of “Saturday Night Live” Dano made a surprise appearance in one of her sketches during her hosting debut.

Chloe Fineman has become known for her incredible impersonations, perfectly nailing the voices of such stars as Britney Spears, Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep. In a hilarious sketch for the lastest episode of Saturday Night Live, the star proves her chops once again as she took on the odd and ever-changing accent used by actress Julia Garner in portraying Anna Delvey in Netflix’ buzzy drama Inventing Anna.

Aidy Bryant is getting the chance to embrace her sexuality.

Aidy Bryant is getting the chance to embrace her sexuality. The longtime castmember introduced a new sketch over the weekend in which she had host Oscar Isaac throwing himself at her.«Oh, hi, I'm 's Aidy Bryant. You know, over my ten years on the show, I have played dozens of teachers, principals, mothers, women named Diane, Susan, and teachers.

Oscar Issac nearly broke character during his hosting debut in a silly sketch about Paw Patrol, where he played City Councilman Herb Tangier.

Breaking Bad and his own spinoff Better Call Saul, which has just finished shooting its final season, he certainly has a pretty expensive history in TV. Odenkirk has both written and performed in Saturday Night Live sketches, back when some of the most iconic sketches were debuting on the show.

EXCLUSIVE: We’ll be seeing more of Skye Townsend on Robin Thede’s A Black Lady Sketch Show. Townsend, who recurred as various characters in Season 2, has been promoted to series regular for the third season of HBO’s Emmy-winning sketch comedy series, executive produced by Issa Rae.

While TikTok has long been a conduit for comedy, its live platform is getting set to debut its first fully produced sketch comedy series, the Sam Grey-backed Stapleview.

Global’s “Saturday Night Live” got a big dose of Al Roker.

Kate McKinnon’s long run on Saturday Night Live is starting to close in on some records.

Bob Odenkirk recalls how, many nights, he would watch his comedian pal Chris Farley “stumble off into the night after killing it onstage and my mind would write ‘Taken from us too soon!’ and all that.”It’s just part of the heartbreaking picture of the late “Saturday Night Live” star that Odenkirk paints in his new memoir “Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama” (Random House).The two met in the late 1980s while performing at the famed Second City Chicago comedy club. Odenkirk sadly admits that it was clear Farley would die young — and that there was an “inevitability” about watching his friend’s career soar and knowing that it would ultimately crash and burn.

Janey Godley has been praised by fans after sharing a hilarious voiceover sketch as someone rips the 'party planner' out of Boris Johnson's hand.

“Saturday Night Live” opened the Jan. 22 show by poking fun at tennis star Novak Djokovic, whose refusal to receive the COVID-19 vaccination led him to be deported from Australia ahead of the Australian Open in Melbourne.