SNL announces Season 47 cast (Beck Bennett leaving; 3 new Featured Players)
Saturday Night Live starts its 47th season this Saturday and the cast includes three new Featured Players: Sarah Sherman, Aristotle Athari and James Austin Johnson.
Chloe Fineman
What’s Going on Thursday?
Today's NYC-area shows include Lindsey Buckingham, Megadeth, Lamb of God, Lord Huron, Move Forward Fest, Wild Pink, Ratboys, and more
Watch Grimes play Super Mario’s Princess Peach on Elon Musk-hosted SNL (with Miley Cyrus too)
Miley performed her “Without You” remix with the Kid LAROI, and “Plastic Hearts" as well as a cover of Dolly Parton's “Light of a Clear Blue Morning" in a Mother's Day tribute.
SNL fires new new cast member Shane Gillis for racist/homophobic comments
”The language he used is offensive, hurtful and unacceptable. We are sorry that we did not see these clips earlier, and that our vetting process was not up to our standard.” - SNL on firing Shane Gillis.
Padma Lakshmi putting on a comedy show to benefit abortion access
Julio Torres, Chris Gethard, Michelle Buteau, Maeve Higgins, Ana Fabrega, Dulce Sloan, Roy Woods Jr., Larry Owens, Marie Faustin, Pat Regan, Benito Skinner, and Chloe Fineman are set to perform at ”Padma Puts on Another Comedy Show” in Brooklyn.
Just For Laughs announces 2018 New Faces lineup (see some of them in NYC)
Montreal's Just for Laughs fest just announced it's 2018 New Faces lineup of rising comic talent and many of the performers can be caught regularly in NYC...