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Time Out
5 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
The 'SNL' ticket lottery opens this week—here's how to enter for free
If you've ever dreamed of watching Weekend Update unfold live from a folding chair at 30 Rock, now's your shot: the Saturday Night Live ticket lottery for the 2025–2026 season officially opens at 12 am ET on Aug. 1. It closes on Aug. 31 at 11:59 pm ET, and you only get one entry, so make it count. To enter, send a single email to SNLTICKETS@ with your full name and a short note on why you want to be in the audience. Go ahead and gush (tastefully). Just know that applying early, late or more than once will get your submission disqualified. And if you're under 16, sorry, this sketch comedy club's off-limits. Winners (chosen at random) will receive free tickets for a random show date and time. You'll only be contacted if you're selected, so don't spend all of September refreshing your inbox. If you're not one of the chosen few, don't despair—standby tickets are still on the table if you're willing to work for them. Here's how that works: The standby reservation portal opens at 10 am ET on the Thursday before a live show. You can select the 8 pm dress rehearsal or the 11:30 pm live broadcast. Once you book, you'll receive a reservation number (eventually—it might take hours). Show up in person at the NBC Studios marquee on W. 49th St between 6–7 pm on Friday and check in with a valid ID. You'll then line up, by number and wait until 12:01 am Saturday, when actual standby cards are handed out. Standby hopefuls, take note: No tents, booze, sleeping bags or line-sitters allowed. If you bail on the line, you lose your chance. The cards are one per person and do not guarantee entry, but hey, it's still one of NYC's most iconic (and free) rites of passage.
USA Today
3 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.
RTÉ News
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Comedian Pete Davidson to play Dublin in October
US actor and comedian Pete Davidson will bring his stand-up comedy tour to The National Stadium in Dublin on 9 October. Tickets will be available on general sale this Friday, 25 July at 10am. Davidson is currently shooting David Leitch's Amazon MGM film How to Rob a Bank, set to be released September 2026. He is also the creator, executive producer, writer and star of Peacock's critically acclaimed comedy Bupkis. He was a cast member on NBC's Saturday Night Live from 2014 to 2022, where his singular Weekend Update features and original music videos garnered millions of views. Davidson shot his first one-hour stand-up special for Comedy Central in 2016 and was named one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 the same year. He released his stand-up special Turbo Fonzarelli on Netflix, a follow up to his 2020 special Pete Davidson: Alive From New York. In 2020, Davidson co-wrote, executive produced and starred in the critically acclaimed film The King of Staten Island. His additional film credits include Dumb Money, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Trainwreck, Big Time Adolescence, Set It Up, Meet Cute, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Dog Man, and Riff Raff. He also stars in the upcoming horror film The Home, and he co-stars with Eddie Murphy in Amazon's film The Pick Up, out this August.
Yahoo
17-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
'Dark abyss': Jost sums up ACC performance
It hasn't been Colin Jost's week at the American Century Championship. He gives a "Weekend Update" style headline for his showing, looks back on a not-great 17th tee shot and shares a traumatic experience from Tahiti.
Yahoo
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Saturday Night Live' Cast and Crew Describe the ‘Weird Dance' It Takes to Make Each Show Happen
As much excellence as we see onscreen on 'Saturday Night Live,' which just wrapped its historic 50th season, some of the best stories from the cast and crew, that illuminate how much work goes into making the weekly late night staple, are about the sketches or parts of sketches that got cut. Take the viral 'Maybelline' sketch for example, with a trio of performers including host Ariana Grande doing their best Jennifer Coolidge impression. During a USG University Panel featuring Hair Department Head Jodi Mancuso, Makeup Department Head Louie Zakarian, and cast member Chloe Fineman (who is in the sketch,) 'Saturday Night Live' director Liz Patrick revealed that there was supposed to be a fourth Jennifer Coolidge in the scene. 'Sarah [Sherman] was in there also,' she said, describing the first draft of 'Maybelline' she'd read. 'I was like, 'Oh my god. How are we gonna do four people?' But I was open and ready for the challenge.' More from IndieWire 'Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist' Features a Set of Sideburns That 'Saved the Day' Amy Poehler Admits 'I Misappropriated' with Certain 'SNL' Sketches: 'We All Played People' We Shouldn't Have The panelists all agree: Being 'open and ready for the challenge' is the kind of ethos always needed to get the job done for 'SNL,' even if they don't know exactly how yet at a particular moment. 'It's just flying by the seat of your [pants],' said Fineman. 'I was remembering last year I did JoJo Siwa on 'Weekend Update,' and that was so much crazy makeup that we created, and then had an immediate, quick change. So you're putting it on, and then you're fully washing your face, and then fully putting the new thing on. And then we did the same thing … You can't even think about it. You're just going, and it is like this weird dance that we all just do because everyone's so expert and truly at the top of their game. It's beautiful.' Building off of that example that Fineman laid out, makeup designer Zakarian explains, 'We can't use makeups that are going to stay on and take too long to take off. So everything has to be planned out for 'Ok, we need to be able to do it as fast as [it] possibly can be done, because we never know what's going to happen from dress to air.' He adds, 'You find out that, 'Oh, I had 10 minutes here, now I've only got five minutes to do that same thing that took us 10 minutes to get into' is a big, big challenge.' For hair and wig designer Mancuso, a memorable battle that she had against the clock working on Season 50 was when she got a call at 1:00am the day before the show that Mikey Day's character in the cold open had been replaced by Devon Walker playing country star Shaboozey, meaning they were now in need of an intricate wig to match the 'A Bar Song (Tipsy)' singer's unique dread pattern. 'I was like, 'Oh my god, man, this beautiful man's big dreads. How am I doing this?' And for the first time, I said to one of our writers, Bryan Tucker, 'I don't know if I can do this,'' she said. 'And he came to my room and he was like, 'Do I have to cut this?' And who wants to be that person? 'The wig department can't figure it out.' And we pulled it off, and it was so beautiful. And of course, it got cut, but we made it happen!' To hear Fineman, Patrick, Mancuso, and Zakarian talk more about the craft that went into making 'Saturday Night Live' Season 50, watch IndieWire's full interview with them above. 'Saturday Night Live' Season 50 is now streaming on partnered with Universal Studio Group for USG University, a series of virtual panels celebrating the best in television art from the 2024-2025 season across NBC Universal's portfolio of shows. USG University (a Universal Studio Group program) is presented in partnership with Roybal Film & TV Magnet and IndieWire's . Catch up on the Best of IndieWire 2023 Emmy Predictions: Who Will Win at the Primetime Emmy Awards? 2023 Emmy Predictions: Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special 2023 Emmy Predictions: Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series Solve the daily Crossword
