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USA Today
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Is SNL new tonight on July 26, 2025? Here's the answer.
It was a great Season 50 of Saturday Night Live, with some hilarious cold opens, funny moments on Weekend Update and so many guest stars. There was also the big SNL 50 celebration this year. And if you're here, you might be getting ready to watch SNL on Saturday, July 26, 2025 and wondering: is it all new tonight? If not, is it a rerun? Who's hosting? THE 15 BEST SKETCHES IN SNL HISTORY: Our rankings of the best of Saturday Night Live The answer ... No. It's a rerun after the season finale months ago. NBC's site says we're getting the episode in which Nate Bargatze was the host and Coldplay was the musical guest. It'll be a while until we get a new episode, sadly, but at least we can rewatch the past season's funny episodes. There you have it. Enjoy! When is SNL Season 51 coming? We don't have an official date for that, but it'll be sometime this fall, as usual. Who is leaving SNL? And who is joining the cast? We haven't heard names that our out. We do know that Mikey Day is staying, and we haven't heard yet about any new comedians or actors who will be joining the cast this fall.
CTV News
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
What's On in Montreal: July 18
A news crew shoots a report in front of the Just for Laughs theatre. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press) Food, film and comedy are all happening this weekend in the city. Just For Laughs Montreal continues to play host to many festivals, including Just For Laughs. The festival will bring in big names in comedy like Fortune Feimster, Michelle Buteau and Mikey Day. There's a variety of shows to choose from until July 27. Food fests If you're craving some classic greasy food, head to the Clock Tower Quay in the Old Port for The Grand Poutinefest. Another great option for foodies to explore is Cho Dem Montreal at the Peel Basin. Chow down on delicious eats from more than 40 vendors partaking in the Vietnamese street food festival until July 20. Fantasia Film Festival Movie fans might enjoy the Fantasia International Film Festival, which is on until Aug. 3. There will be screenings and networking opportunities with 400 industry members. Allez, Montréal Cheer on CF Montreal as they face off against Chicago Fire FC on July 19 at Saputo Stadium.
Buzz Feed
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
23 Funniest SNL Sketches Breaking Character
We asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us their favorite Saturday Night Live sketches where the actors kept breaking character. Here are the hilarious results. In "Beavis and Butt-Head," when Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day wore prosthetics to look like the famous cartoon characters, but Heidi Gardner burst into laughter the second she saw their faces. "Heidi Gardner is such a queen, and she killed me every single time she turned around and saw Mikey Day and Ryan Gosling in their Beavis and Butt-Head prosthetics. Their done-up faces seemed like such a genuine shock to her, so I'm curious if this live taping was the first (or I guess second, considering the dress rehearsal) time she saw them in full makeup. Ryan kept breaking throughout the entire sketch too, and when he and Mikey were seated together at the end they also kept making each other laugh. Such an instant classic."—spenceralthouse Here's the full sketch: In the newest "Close Encounter," when Kate McKinnon made a guest appearance and tried her best to make host Ryan Gosling laugh while she reenacted what the aliens did to his private parts. "I don't think there's anything cuter than Ryan Gosling's giggle. Kate McKinnon is such a pro that she knows exactly how to get him to break character, and once it starts she's determined to keep it going. The "Close Encounter" sketches are always fantastic, and this new one had Ryan laughing for over a minute straight."—spenceralthouse Here's the full sketch: In "Lisa from Temecula," when Ego Nwodim kept aggressively cutting her well-done steak, which shook the entire table and made everything spill, causing host Pedro Pascal to giggle throughout the entire sketch. "Ego Nwodim is a star. She had everyone on that set laughing at different points. Pedro Pascal broke so many times, Punkie Johnson tried so hard to hide her giggling, and Bowen Yang couldn't keep it together. So good."—sarahwainschel Here's the full sketch: In "The Californians: Stuart Has Cancer," when Fred Armisen delivered terrible news in the funniest way possible, and Bill Hader just couldn't take it anymore. "Any list like this would be incomplete without 'The Californians.'"—matth4a Here's the full sketch: In "Extremely Stupid," when Candice Bergen's character was supposed to be much smarter than Gilda Radner's, but Candice kept messing up, and it played perfectly into the script. "Gilda Radner causing Candice Bergman to lose two of the very best."—angels4d4 Here's the full sketch: In "Super Showcase Spokesmodels," when Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig kept making each other laugh while announcing game show prizes. "It's my favorite character-breaking skit of all time. It still brings me to tears."—joep45c Here's the full sketch: In "Corksoakers," when Janet Jackson tried sooooo hard to not say a dirty word, and no one could keep a straight face. —acarrig Here's the full sketch: In "Inside the Beltway," when Aidy Bryant's wardrobe person accidentally walked on in the middle of the sketch, and Aidy completely lost it. "Her costumer got the timing of the wardrobe change wrong, but it ended up being hilarious. Aidy lost it and could barely get through the rest of the sketch."—kaylayandoli Here's the full sketch: In "Dr. Beaman's Office: Test Results," when Tim Meadows unexpectedly came onstage, which made it too difficult for Will Ferrell to deliver some bad news with a straight face. Here's the full sketch: In "Africa Tourism," when Adele had such a big laughing fit that she literally had to crouch down in an attempt to hide from the camera. —laurengarafano Here's the full sketch: In "Matt Foley: Van Down by the River," when Chris Farley dove onto the table and broke it, so everyone on screen had to cover their faces in laughter. "David Spade cracked up several times, but the funniest was when Farley broke the table and nobody was expecting it to happen."—dougfancy10 Here's the full sketch: In "Cast List," when Will Ferrell played an overbearing drama teacher in a cut-for-time sketch, and every single person on stage broke more than once. "It's not just that they all started giggling. They all deteriorated in different ways, and it just made it all more perfect. Will Ferrell, of course, stayed in character the whole time, even during his break, which made it even more iconic."—strangerthanitseems Here's the full sketch: In "Diner Lobster," when Pete Davidson kept giggling while watching John Mulaney sing and dance to a funny Les Mis parody. "The breaking makes it even funnier. John Mulaney is a genius."—meghanakiran Here's the full sketch: In "Gift Wrap," when James Franco squirted a bunch of fake blood into Leslie Jones' mouth, and she was so fazed that she couldn't get through the rest of the sketch. —briannarose15 Here's the full sketch: In "The Love-ahs with Barbara and Dave," when Jimmy Fallon couldn't say his lines while he was stuck in a hot tub with Drew Barrymore. —melissab56 Here's the full sketch: In "Escorts," when Emily Blunt literally hid under a lampshade because she couldn't say her "oopsie-doopsie" catchphrase without breaking character. —murrays3 Here's the full sketch: In the original "Close Encounter," when Kate McKinnon had a verrrrry different type of alien abduction than Ryan Gosling. —golddustniamh Here's the full sketch: In "Smokery Farms," when Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant were so grossed out by how bad the raw meat smelled, and they couldn't help but laugh. —elisabethsophie Here's the full sketch: In "Girlfriends Game Night," when Cecily Strong's character interrupted a fun game night with friends so she could try conceiving with her much older boyfriend, played by Bill Hader. —golddustniamh Here's the full sketch: In "Brothers," when Aidy Bryant and Cecily Strong were very confused about what was happening, and their faces showed it. "There are a lot of sketches that will always be hilarious to me, and this is one of them. Cecily and Aidy trying to hold it together while Beck and Kyle pretend to be young brothers... It's *chef's kiss*."—rodclutcher Here's the full sketch: In "New Wife," when Larry David had a minute-long laughing fit and couldn't get through any of his lines without breaking. "It cracks me up every single time."—malloryg4be Here's the full sketch: In "Debbie Downer," when Rachel Dratch was so funny that Horatio Sanz literally had to wipe away his tears with a Mickey Mouse pancake because he was laughing so hard. "It brings me to tears every single time I watch it."—pattiecolvin23 Here's the full sketch: And, of course, literally any time Bill Hader played Stefon and couldn't keep it together. "Bill Hader breaking while playing Stefon will forever have me laughing until my stomach hurts."—naldana95 Here's the full sketch: Do you have a favorite SNL moment that didn't make the list? Tell us about it in the comments below!
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘SNL's' Mikey Day Has Knack for Getting Crazy Characters to Go Viral, But Says ‘I'm Not Really Sure Where This Stuff Comes From'
'SNL' fans know Mikey Day as the guy who turns up in a bunch of sketches every week, maybe as the father who gets into traffic arguments that require lots of hand gestures and signs or in a longstanding impression of Donald Trump Jr. Behind the camera, however, Day is increasingly known as someone who can help everyone from Kate McKinnon to Tom Hanks go viral — even if the average viewer of the long-running comedy showcase has no idea of his unique abilities. More from Variety Jimmy Fallon Says 'People Want You to Fail' When You're on 'SNL', Adds Dealing With Hate Is the 'Absolute Worst': 'You Can't Make Everyone Like You' 'SNL 50' Becomes Most-Watched Season in Three Years, Hitting 8.1 Million Average Viewers After One Week Andrea Mitchell on Rebuilding Faith in the News Media: 'Trust Is the Coin of the Realm, and We Have to Be the Gold Standard' Without Day and his writing partner, Streeter Seidell, there would be no David S. Pumpkins, the kooky Halloween figure who even made his way into an animated special at NBC, or Miss Rafferty, the strange woman who is often kidnapped by aliens. Last season, Day helped conceive of a sketch in which he played a man who looked a lot like the famous MTV cartoon figure — and even got 'SNL' mainstay Heidi Gardner to crack up on screen. 'It's crazy where the ideas originate,' says Day, 45 years old, during a recent interview. He has been with 'SNL' since 2013, the first three years as a writer. 'Sometimes, you can see something on TV that will just spark your idea, or you see a commercial, but oftentimes, I'm not really sure where this stuff comes from.' Day is trying to broaden his comedy experience. One of his most recent sketches had him getting undressed behind the 'Weekend Update' fake-news desk as his character scrambled to rid himself of perceived spider webs. 'I haven't really done this kind of thing, just an all-out physical piece where the laughs are coming from the physicality,' he says. 'It was just kind of a forum to just literally go crazy.' He says 'SNL' aficionados are likely to see him return to the show when its next season starts in the fall — putting to rest, hopefully, some of the usual glut of social -media guesswork about which cast members might depart the program during its summer hiatus. 'I want to work there for as long as I can,' he says. 'I want to work there until it's sad.' Day's on-screen run at the show, however, may have initially come as a surprise . He joined 'SNL' in 2013 strictly as a writer, recommended to producers by former cast members — and his former college classmates — Nasim Pedrad and Taran Killiam. After a few years filled with many sketch ideas and a few brief in-show appearances as a bit player, Day received some interesting news from 'SNL' executive Lorne Michaels. He was being made co-head writer and a cast member for 'Maya & Marty,' a summer-season sketch comedy showcase Michaels was producing around Marty Short and Maya Rudolph. Day didn't see the opportunity coming. 'It's very Lorne to casually drop this information,' he says. He started to stand out quickly. After the 'Maya & Marty' run, Day won a slot as a featured cast member of 'SNL.' By his fourth episode, he landed a big moment with Seidell when they came up with the now-legendary 'David S. Pumpkins' sketch, which features Hanks as a strange character, flanked by dancing skeletons played by Day and Bobby Moynihan, who keeps showing up in a haunted amusement ride. The skit was inspired by a Disney ride, says Day, the 'Tower of Terror' that puts people in a vestibule that keeps opening on scary scenes amid different drops. He remembers it from frequent visits to Disneyland when he was growing up. He also has an obsession 'with weird, flashy, stupid suits' which became another of the character's hallmarks. Hanks, Day recalls, had some questions. 'He was a little bit like, 'Who is this guy exactly?'' but 'brought that special magic that only Tom Hanks can bring.' The best part of that sketch, now a legendary one, is 'you don't know if it's going to work,' says Day. 'There are not really any jokes, you know what I'm saying? It's just some weird DNA. That fact that it worked with the SNL audience and the studio audience felt like a little victory.' Day keeps looking for new funny ideas, says Seidell, his primary collaborator. Day is 'always trying to invent new moves for himself that the audience hasn't seen,' he says, and is typically wiling to apply his humor to someone else's on-screen moment. 'He'll write a showcase sketch for a new cast member and give himself a tiny little part in it. Once he wrote a showcase sketch for a new cast member that he wasn't even in at all. I can't think of another instance of that happening.' Day and Seidell have written about nine different 'Miss Rafferty' sketches that star Kate McKinnon as a woman who has been kidnapped by aliens. The scenes usually have McKinnon discussing surprise bodily entanglements she's had with her captors and have proven popular enough that even Meryl Streep has taken part in one that was shown during the program's 50th anniversary special this year. 'That was another one where I had no ideas if it would work,' says Day. As for Streep's participation? Even the writer seems surprised. 'Wild.' One recent success took years to get on the show. Audiences reacted instantly to a sketch last season featuring Day and Ryan Gosling as two men who looked just like Beavis and Butt-head, the two animated MTV characters. And yet, internally, the concept took a long time to get ready for late night. Day and Seidell tinkered with the concept over what may be as much as five years. Maybe the conversation taking place around the duo needed to be more serious and less shocking. Maybe the set needed to be adjusted. They once tried the sketch when Jonah Hill hosted, but, says Day, 'the sketch itself wasn't there yet.' They tried it once with Oscar Isaac was the guest, but it never even got to dress rehearsal, because the set requirements were too big during a week where there were a lot of sketches. 'We were all going to give up on it,' says Day, until Ryan Gosling came for another hosting stint. 'He changes our lives every time he hosts,' he adds. Day says 'SNL' keeps challenging him. Each week, he gets to try something different. 'You can literally write whatever your brain can come up with,' he says. The show is 'just very engineered, it feels like, to my ADD kind of brain.' But he's learned not to probe too deeply at the ideas that come up in his mind. 'When it works, it just kind of works.' 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Daily Mail
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Scarlett Johansson screams in terror after husband Colin Jost asks for a kiss
Scarlett Johansson was running for her life from a very surprising foe in a new Saturday Night Live sketch. In a clip promoting Scarlett's upcoming SNL hosting gig, the actress, 40, screams at the top of her lungs at the thought of kissing her husband Colin Jost, 42. The hilarious sketch, which was clearly inspired by Scarlett's upcoming Jurassic Park film, is titled 'Scarlett Johansson Is Saved From Colin Jost By Sarah Sherman' and begins with SNL stars Heidi Gardner and Mikey Day talking about their summer plans. A thundering pound interrupts their conversation and sets off an alarm and ominous flickering red lights. Scarlett then dashes into frame and screams 'Run! Run!', ignoring Day as he welcomes her back onto the show and pushing him out of the way of a door. She runs inside the double door and bolts it shut with a pole, before cowering in terror as the mystery adversary bangs at the door. 'No please!' she pleads. Suddenly, the moment is interrupted by the arrival of her husband, who cheerfully greets her and places a hand on her shoulder. 'Hey babe! I had a sketch idea I wanted to pitch you. Maybe it's one where we, I don't know, finally kiss?' he suggests nervously. Scarlett then screams at the top of her lungs, 'No!' Out of nowhere, her husband is shot in the neck with a dart by Sarah Sherman, who is hiding in the rafters. 'Thanks Sarah!' Scarlett says, clearly relieved. 'Anytime Scarlett!' Sarah, clad in a hunting costume, says. 'That was just a tranquilizer, right?' Scarlett inquires. 'Oh, I have no idea. Che just handed this to me and said "take care of Jost?"' Sarah replies, referencing Colin's Weekend Update co-host Michael Che. After locking herself in the main studio, she comes face to face with her husband, who suggests to her horror they do a sketch in which they kiss Alarmed, Scarlett goes to her husband's side - but is repulsed when he suggests a kiss in a gargled voice. 'Nope!' Scarlett says. Scarlett, who has been married to Colin since 2020 and shares three-year-old son Cosmo with him, will be starring in the upcoming action film Jurassic World Rebirth, set for release on July 7. The actress, who also has 10-year-old daughter Rose Dorothy with ex-husband Romain Dauriac, will be hosting Saturday Night Live for a seventh time on May 17, which also happens to mark the show's season finale.
