As the 2024 presidential race nears the finish line, the battle for equal time on one of TV’s top networks rages on. In its final episode before election day, Saturday Night Live opened with a surprise appearance by Kamala Harris, who engaged in a moment of reflection with her onscreen counterpart Maya Rudolph. But that […]
A surprise appearance by Kamala Harris might have galvanized this week’s episode of Saturday Night Livebut it might also have landed it in hot water. According to a commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission, the sketch—in which Maya Rudolph’s satirical portrayal of the Democratic candidate for president sat hand-in-hand with real-life vice-president Kamala Harris—was a […]
A Federal Communications Commission commissioner claimed on Saturday that Kamala Harris‘ appearance on Saturday Night Live violated the “equal time” rule. “This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule,” commissioner Brendan Carr wrote on X, formerly Twitterin response to news of her planned appearance. The FCC’s equal time rule […]
Dana Carvey will never miss an opportunity to have a chaotic Saturday Night Live moment. The comedian revealed on a recent episode of the Superfly podcastwhich he co-hosts with David Spade, that smashing an ice cream cone in Maya Rudolph‘s face during last week’s cold open was completely unplanned. “The ice cream cone was not […]
Saturday Night Live has found its 2024 political candidates. As the NBC sketch comedy show kicks off its 50th season, its creator and long-running maestro Lorne Michaels has settled on his new crop of D.C. power players, including Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph), Tim Walz (Jim Gaffigan), Joe Biden (Dana Carvey) and Douglas Emhoff (Andy Samberg). […]
It’s no surprise that Saturday Night Live‘s milestone 50th season kicked off with a focus on one of the most highly-anticipated events… the upcoming 2024 presidential election. The new batch of political candidates was revealed during Saturday night’s cold open, with Maya Rudolph starring as Kamala Harris, Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walz, Dana Carvey as […]
