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*“Saturday Night Live” creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels sat down with one-time cast member Martin Short as part of the Hollywood Radio and Television Society’s newsmaker luncheon series Tuesday, and the topic another former cast member came up. With the show currently its 38th season, Michaels was asked if there was anything – or [...]
*The Hollywood Reporter sat down with Oprah Winfrey to chat about the huge reversal in fortune of her OWN cable channel and the lessons she’s learned. “I’m not doing the hula yet …but compared to a year ago, it feels like a sigh of relief,” says Winfrey between sips of iced tea on her sprawling [...]
*Perhaps eyeing an exit from “Saturday Night Live,” cast member Kenan Thompson has lined up a primetime TV gig with NBC. Thompson will star in an as-yet-untitled family comedy to be executive produced by “SNL” boss Lorne Michaels. According to TV Guide, the project has a script commitment from the network, and would feature Thompson [...]
*Finally, the role of President Obama on “Saturday Night Live” will be played by an African American cast member. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Comedian Jay Pharoah, who became famous on the DC comedy circuit for his impersonation of the president, as well as Jay-Z, Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy and Kanye West, will take over [...]
*Rihanna made the producers of “SNL” upset when she ditched the final rehearsal for the show last week. Sources say the singer called in sick for the dress rehearsal, and brought the main man, Lorne Michaels, to a boil when she didn’t show up ’til the last minute, according to TMZ. But her choreographer had [...]
*In a new Rolling Stone interview, “Tower Heist” star Eddie Murphy confirmed that he’s stayed away from “Saturday Night Live” for so long because of jokes his former show made about him. “They were shitty to me on ‘Saturday Night Live’ a couple of times after I’d left the show,” he said. “They said some [...]
*There’s talk that Eddie Murphy may return to his old stomping grounds at “Saturday Night Live.” According to the New York Post’s Page Six, “a perfect storm is brewing” for the actor to make his first appearance there since leaving the show in 1984 and igniting a feud with creator Lorne Michaels.” The column reports: [...]
*Oprah Winfrey says she would have launched OWN differently if she had it to do all over again. When asked by Entertainment Weekly if she regrets kicking off her network while still airing her talk show (which ends this month after 25 years), Winfrey says, “I’ve thought maybe it would have been better to wait [...]
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