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Pam Bondi & DHS React To ‘SNL’ Parody

Pam Bondi & DHS React To ‘SNL’ Parody

With two Saturday Night Live legends reuniting to give them the parody treatment this weekend, Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem have shared their reactions. Following host Amy Poehler and special guest Tina Fey‘s cold-open impressions of the pair, they’ve since responded to the sketch, with one making light of the current militarization of Chicago and the other blaming Democrats for …

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Amy Poehler Slams AI Actress Tilly Norwood on ‘SNL’

Amy Poehler Slams AI Actress Tilly Norwood on ‘SNL’

Amy Poehler kicked off her Saturday Night Live opening monologue by commemorating the official 50th anniversary of the show’s first episode — while also pointing out some of the major advancements in technology since its debut. The Good Hang podcast host affirmed it was “actually a very special night for the show, not just because I’m here, but because 50 …

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‘SNL’ mocks ex-Jets QB Mark Sanchez over wild arrest

‘SNL’ mocks ex-Jets QB Mark Sanchez over wild arrest

The winless Jets made it to the new season of “Saturday Night Live” this week. Weekend Update host Colin Jost poked fun at the team and former Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez, who was arrested one week earlier in Indianapolis following a drunken altercation with a delivery driver outside a bar in which the current Fox game analyst was stabbed. “Former …

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Charli XCX Makes Surprise SNL Appearance During Role Model Song

Charli XCX Makes Surprise SNL Appearance During Role Model Song

Charli XCX wasn’t supposed to be Saturday Night Live‘s musical guest, but that didn’t stop her from making a surprise appearance on the late night show Saturday night. Role Model, who served as the official musical guest of the second episode of season 51, hit the stage where he performed a rendition of his track, “Sally, When The Wine Runs …

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‘Furious to be here’: Amy Poehler and Tina Fey reunite to deliver brutal takedown of Bondi and Noem in SNL cold open

‘Furious to be here’: Amy Poehler and Tina Fey reunite to deliver brutal takedown of Bondi and Noem in SNL cold open

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email The return of Amy Poehler to Saturday Night Live saw her open the show as an obstinate, name-calling parody of Attorney General Pam Bondi. The premise of the Cold Open …

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‘SNL’ star Michael Che says he’s ‘very sick’ before new episode

‘SNL’ star Michael Che says he’s ‘very sick’ before new episode

The show must go on? Longtime Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” anchor Michael Che announced he was feeling “very sick” just hours before Saturday’s live show. The comedian posted a warning to his Instagram Stories about feeling under the weather about an hour before the show’s dress rehearsal was slated to begin. “i feel very sick. dont expect a lot …

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‘SNL’ Host Amy Poehler Calls Out AI, SNL Anniversary In Monologue

‘SNL’ Host Amy Poehler Calls Out AI, SNL Anniversary In Monologue

After a week that saw talent agencies, the MPA and SAG-AFTRA’s Sean Astin call out OpenAI’s video-generating app, Amy Poehler used her opening monologue on Saturday Night Live to call out the existential threat to Hollywood. “Before we start the show, I just wanted to say one thing,” said Poehler. “I know it can feel like times are very tough …

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Amy Poehler plays a combative Pam Bondi on ‘SNL’ as Tina Fey makes surprise appearance

Amy Poehler plays a combative Pam Bondi on ‘SNL’ as Tina Fey makes surprise appearance

Pam Bondi vs. the Senate: Round Two. That was the scenario envisaged by “Saturday Night Live” on Saturday, with alum Amy Poehler portraying the attorney general in a follow-up to her combative hearing with Democrats this week. Asked how President Donald Trump could justify deploying National Guard troops against Americans, Poehler’s Bondi was confrontational. “Before I don’t answer, I’d like …

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SNL Cold Open Reunites Amy Poehler & Tina Fey As Bondi & Noem

SNL Cold Open Reunites Amy Poehler & Tina Fey As Bondi & Noem

On the day that Oscar winner and New York icon Diane Keaton died, Saturday Night Live went for a traditional political cold open tonight with a Not Ready for Primetime Players legends reunion Specifically, SNL pulled in many of its current cast as various befuddled senators questioning MAGA Attorney General Pam Bondi and gun-carrying Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The …

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