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USA Today
20 hours ago
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Celebrity golf, comedy similar for Nate Bargatze at the American Century Championship
STATELINE, Nev. — Standing on a stage by yourself telling jokes is a lot like playing golf. Bo one is coming to save you. Comedian Nate Bargatze is hoping that mentality can help him this week at Edgewood Tahoe golf course in the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament. Bargatze was already becoming a household name before he was invited to play in the celebrity tournament in 2023. But his portrayal of George Washington, twice, in skits on Saturday Night Live over the past two seasons, propelled him into the stratosphere. Bargatze is know for his deadpan humor and his portrayal of the first president in a skit called 'Washington's Dream' has become one of the most-watched skits in the 50-year history of SNL, racking up 4 million views on YouTube over its 12 days of availability. In the 4-minute, 40-second skit, set during the Revolutionary War, Bargatze pokes fun at language irregularities as he reminds his troops that they're fighting for the right to determine their new country's system of weights and measures, one that's different than Great Britain's. One example is Bargatze says the word 'dozen' will be used for 12 items, but there won't be any word for 10, nor any other number. In the sketch, he says kindergarten will designate the first year of school, to be followed by first grade, and that hamburgers will be made of beef, drawing confused looks from his men. This week at Edgewood, Bargatze compared playing golf to being on stage. "You learn to get comfortable out here. Once you get comfortable with everybody out here, then it's a lot of fun," Bargatze told the RGJ. "It's all on you, so when it goes bad, it's all on you. No one is coming to rescue you. I think that's why comics tend to like golf is because of that — you're just by yourself." Bargatze said at the time he was performing those two skits on SNL, he did not realize they would garner so much attention. "I didn't think it would go what it did, but it changed everything," Bargatze said. Bargatze said if he is invited back on SNL, he would like to do a third 'Washington' sketch. SNL writer Colin Jost is also playing at Edgewood this week. On Thursday, Jost and Bargatze completed filming a movie called 'The Breadwinner,' which he said is similar to the 1983 Michael Keaton film 'Mr. Mom.' "I tried to make sure it got wrapped before this tournament," Bargatze said of the movie. "I think it's going to be a great movie. It's funny and I look forward to doing more." Bargatze was paired with Charles Barkley and Larry The Cable Guy on Friday and with Joe Buck and Justin Gaethje on Saturday. Barkley plays with Larry at least one round every year at Edgewood. "Me and Larry are like twin brothers now. I play with Larry every year," Barkley said. "Me and Nate, I got to spend some time with Nate. But you think about it, I get to play with those two guys who are amazing at what they do in their life. Normally I wouldn't get to play golf -- I get to play golf with some superstars for three days." George Kittle and curling San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle is making his debut at Edgewood this summer, and if he has a chance, he'd like to return to the lake this fall for the six-day Gand Slam of Curling, being held Nov. 4-9 at Tahoe Blue Event Center. "I'm stoked. If there's any opportunity for me to get up there during the season, I'm going to try my best to be up there," Kittle said. "I'd just like to continue to get more fans interested in curling. I think everybody will thoroughly, thoroughly enjoy it. Excited for them to get that opportunity." The International Grand Slam of Curling event will feature the best curlers from around the world, 16 men's and women's international curling teams. Tickets for GSOC Tahoe are on sale with discounted rates available for local Nevada and California residents in person at the Vacasa Box Office at the Tahoe Blue Event Center. Rollins wins a boat Former MLB player Jimmy Rollins picked a good place for his career hole-in-one. It earned him a new boat. Rollins had a hole-in-one Saturday morning in the ACC celebrity golf tournament at Edgewood Tahoe. He aced hole No. 12 with a wedge and won a Mastercraft boat worth $325,000. He said the volunteer on the hole gave him some advice before his shot "As we pulled up to the hole, the volunteer there, she was like, 'They got this right up there for you guys. They really want to give away this boat.' I was like, 'Oh, they do? She was like, 'Yeah. It's right up front. All you have to do is land it to the right and let it feed to the left,'" Rollins said. "I've been close a number of times, so I didn't anticipate it going in. I just figure, of course it's going to cross over the front of the hole, go tap in for a birdie. "It goes in. And I look at (my caddie), he's sky-high, and I don't know what to do. I'm just, like, 'Sure.' He's a pretty big guy. I had to make sure I got off the ground. I'm only 175 pounds. I'm not used to hitting men like that." Rollins, making his fifth appearance at Edgewood, is tied for 45th with plus-3 points. Tim Brown aced hole No. 12 in 2024 and also won a Mastercraft boat. Barkley falls back After the best round of his life at Edgewood on Friday, scoring nine points, Charles Barkley did not fare as well on Saturday, scoring minus-16 points, giving him minus-7 for the first two days of three-day tournament. "I didn't play well (Saturday). It was a long day. I didn't play well at all," Barkley said. "I finished strong. But I'm looking forward to tomorrow. I was up late yesterday, and I've got to play better tomorrow, plain and simple." Barkley said he feels a little pressure to finish inside the top 65 in the ACC, the line Caesars Sportsbook placed on him for bettors He is tied for 61st place heading into Sunday's final round. "I've got a lot of friends that bet on me. I don't know where I'm at right now. It's going to be -- but I'll be ready to go tomorrow," he said. American Century plans to renew sponsorship Jonathan Thomas, the president and CEO of American Century Investments, said the company plans to renew its title sponsorship through at least 2031. American Century has been the title sponsor of the celebrity golf tournament at Edgewood Tahoe, now in its 36th year, for the past 27 years. Thomas said the popularity of the event has grown so much among athletes and celebrities that organizers have to carefully limit who they invite. "We went from trying to get people to come, to now having to make some really difficult choices about who we can let in," Thomas said. "We just don't have as much capacity as we wish." That limited invitation list has also helped create urgency for athletes hoping to get in. Thomas said Tony Romo told him once that when audiences see athletes talking after games, it's often about whether or not they got invited to the ACC. "My strategy is to make it so great for the celebs that it kind of goes viral among them and generates a lot of interest," Thomas said. Organizers try to get a variety of athletes and celebrities from different sports as well as from different markets and regions of the country. "As long as the great vibe continues to be maintained and the energy that you can feel is sustained, we'll keep rolling with this," Thomas said. ACC on TV Sunday Sunday, July 13: NBC, Peacock, 2:30 p.m. ET
USA Today
a day ago
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- USA Today
Colin Jost reacts to Scarlett Johansson kissing Jonathan Bailey
Colin Jost wants everyone to calm down. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, the "Saturday Night Live" star, 43, said he was surprised by how much attention has been paid to his wife, Scarlett Johansson, 40, kissing her costar Jonathan Bailey, 37, on the lips while promoting their movie "Jurassic World Rebirth." "People really blow it out of proportion that someone kisses their friend hello," he said. "It's pretty nuts." The comedian also sarcastically joked that "of all the threats out there," he "wasn't thinking it was Jonathan," before quipping "it's going to be OK" and noting that Bailey "is an out gay man." Jost, who has been married to Johansson since 2020 and welcomed a child with her in 2021, also said that he and Bailey joked about the situation by asking each other, "I guess we have to kiss now? Is that what happens? Close the loop?" Johansson kissed Bailey on the lips on the red carpet at the London premiere of "Jurassic World Rebirth" on June 17 and again at the movie's New York premiere days later. See the photo: Scarlett Johansson, costar Jonathan Bailey kiss on lips When asked about the smooches on the "Today" show, the "Black Widow" actress said that Bailey "is a lovable guy" and "we're friendly people," adding, "I've got a lot of love to give. What can I say?" Bailey, meanwhile, told "Access Hollywood," "Life's too short not to be able to show your friends the true love. Embrace kissing the friends, I say!" Michael Che apologizes: The 'Weekend Update' anchor tells Scarlett Johansson he's sorry for crude 'SNL' joke swap "Saturday Night Live" is on summer break, but Jost speculated that while he's eager to stop talking about the story, his fellow "Weekend Update" anchor Michael Che may bring it back up in the fall. "I sense that perhaps with Michael Che, it might come back," Jost told Entertainment Tonight. "I don't need to get back into it, but he finds a way. Life finds a way."
ABC News
a day ago
- Entertainment
- ABC News
'There's a horse loose in a hospital': What John Mulaney gets right about (non-)political comedy
Could a stand-up routine ever rise to the level of 'art' — the kind of performance that rewards multiple viewings, whose humour grows and deepens, which contains subtleties waiting to be discovered? A sketch certainly can. Just think of Abbott and Costello's 'Who's on First?' from 1944, or the trial of Ravelli in the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup from 1933, or Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's 'One Leg Too Few' from 1964. With each new viewing, the comedic timing, the precision and cleverness of the puns, the exaggerated physicality, the sheer virtuosity of the writing cannot help but surprise and delight all over again. But with most stand-up, the humour arises from a certain immediacy: the interaction between the material and the peculiarity of the times in which it is delivered, and between the comedian and the physical audience. The frisson that arises from that interaction, the shock or surprise the comedian is able to elicit, is hard to re-experience to the same degree. It stands to reason, then, that if a stand-up act was to endure as a piece of comedic art, it would most likely be performed by a comedian who cut his teeth while working as a sketch writer for a show like Saturday Night Live . Enter John Mulaney. There is something undeniably enduring, timeless even, about his Netflix special 'Kid Gorgeous at Radio City'. It was recorded in 2017 — in the aftermath of Trump's first election to the US presidency, when public bewilderment was still offset somewhat by the belief it wouldn't last long — and won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special in 2018. Mulaney's act exhibits a strange sort of genius, though. It is obviously a piece of writing. Indeed, he explicitly references the act of comedic writing throughout the routine. Mulaney is also assiduously non-political — right up until the moment that he isn't. It begins with a nostalgic nod: 'I just like old-fashioned things. I was in Connecticut recently, doing white people stuff …' He makes reference to the oddity of coming across a gazebo that was 'built by the town in 1863': 'Building a gazebo during the Civil War, that'd be like doing stand-up comedy now.' And then he embarks on a metaphor for the Trump presidency that has been hailed by many as genius: 'Here's how I try to look at it, and this is just me, this guy being the president, it's like there's a horse loose in a hospital …' The aesthetic connection between Donald Trump's golden coiff and a horse's mane is, of course, immediately pleasing. As is the invocation of something heedless thundering through a finely tuned environment. There's the added benefit that Trump's name is not mentioned once, and yet the entire simile works. The question is … why? Guest: Sam Taunton is an Australian comedian and television presenter.
Yahoo
a day ago
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- Yahoo
Andy Samberg remembers late' Brooklyn Nine-Nine 'costar Andre Braugher: 'I miss him a lot'
Andy Samberg is missing his late Brooklyn Nine-Nine costar Andre Braugher. The Lonely Island member and Saturday Night Live alum was asked about his offscreen friendship with the actor, who died of lung cancer at age 61 in 2023, during a new episode of Amy Poehler's Good Hang podcast. 'What was that dynamic like behind the scenes [between you and Braugher]? Because he's so good in the show, he's so poised, he's such a good actor — and also, to me, I never had the pleasure of meeting him, he seemed like he was just playful and fun,' Poehler said. To which Samberg replied, 'He was, and just a good person.' In addition to being immensely talented and funny, Samberg noted that Braugher was also 'so deeply moral and kind and pleasant and smart,' adding, 'We all absolutely loved him. I miss him a lot.' Samberg and Braugher starred opposite one another on all eight seasons of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which aired from 2013 until 2021. Samberg's character, Det. Jake Peralta, in particular had a close, almost paternal relationship with Braugher's stoic Capt. Raymond Holt throughout the series. While their characters may have initially butted heads onscreen, Samberg recalled how he and Braugher just clicked immediately. 'It was one of those things where you're just like, 'Okay, this is kismet. I don't know how to explain it,'' he said. 'Because they — [creators] Mike [Schurr] and [Dan] Goor — cast him from like, a meeting. They just did like a Zoom or something with him.' The comedian recalled meeting Braugher at a table read for the series and knowing straight away that they had found something special. 'He walked in and we had a very pleasant hello and then we started reading it, and as soon as we started reading it, like the first scene, which is he comes out and I'm goofing with him and being a dummy and he's being stoic, it just…' Samberg explained. 'You know how it is sometimes with creative stuff, where you're like, 'I don't care how this came to be. It's working and I'm so happy.'' In fact, they got along so well, that Samberg said they hardly ever had to discuss their own creative decisions for the show. 'The only thing me and him had to even talk about creatively was, in the beginning, he didn't trust himself to do comedy because he came so strictly from drama and Juilliard,' he said. 'And like, five or six times we would do a more serious topic on the show and he would flip that switch and everyone would be like, 'Oh my God, what is Andre doing here? He's so good. Like he should be in like, drama! He's like the best.'' Samberg continued, 'But then he would do his Captain Holt stuff and it was the funniest thing on the show.' Braugher was mourned by his fellow Brooklyn Nine-Nine costars online following his death, with Terry Crews, who played Terry Jeffords, thanking the actor in part for 'your wisdom, your advice, your kindness and your friendship.' Melissa Fumero, who starred as Amy Santiago, also noted that she will never forget 'the deep love and loyalty you had for your family.' The show's official Instagram account also honored the late actor, sharing a photo of him with the caption: 'Always our Captain. We love you, Andre.' Watch Samberg discuss his friendship with Braugher in the video above. Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
USA Today
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Is SNL new tonight on July 12, 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 12, 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 Scarlett Johansson was the host and Bad Bunny 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.
