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Machine Gun Kelly falls off stage during 'SNL' appearance - NME

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Machine Gun Kelly finished his Saturday Night Live appearance by falling off the stage – scroll down to watch it now. The musician performed on the long-running US comedy show last night (January 30), bringing tracks from his latest album ‘Tickets To My Downfall’ to the programme. At the end of the night, the cast, Kelly and guest host John Krasinski gathered on the stage for the end credits. After hugging The Office actor, the musician went to pick up SNL star and friend Pete Davidson but fell, taking both of them off the stage. Advertisement Moments later, both of the men reappeared on screen and, seemingly not having learnt their lesson, Davidson put Kelly over his shoulder. Watch footage of the moment below now. Thank you, @johnkrasinski and @machinegunkelly ! Goodnight and sweet dreams! 💫 pic.twitter.com/cubzgGSOXu — Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) January 31, 2021 “I remember when I was a kid watching [SNL] every weekend with my aunt and my dad, since t...

SNL Imagines the Sex And the City Revival Theme Song, As Sung by Kim Cattrall - Vulture

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There’s a reason Samantha Jones is a PR tour de force and not a chanteuse. Then again, if she cared what every bitch watching SNL thought about her, she’d never leave the house. During this weekend’s Saturday Night Live , television’s most popular shows took a cue from Nicole Kidman’s The Undoing opening credits tune and imagined the lyrics to a host of popular show’s theme songs, including The Mandalorian , The Crown ,  Queen’s Gambit , and (of course) HBO MAx’s upcoming Sex and the City revival And Just Like That… While the show itself won’t feature any Kim Cattrall , Chloe Fineman’s version of the Sex and the City star knows exactly what the new show will be missing. “ Sex And The City without Samantha/Doesn’t that sound fun?,” Fineman’s Cattrall croons. “It’s Sex and the City without the sex?/Hope you enjoy the city.” Of course, we’d be remiss if we didn’t point out we already know what iconic Kim Cattrall song should serve as the new show’s theme. Hopefully she’ll ...

'RHOC's Kelly Dodd doubles down on COVID-19 criticism on Instagram, loses partnership with Positive Beverage - USA TODAY

Robin Wright: Twitter bullying inspired new film 'Land' - Page Six

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Robin Wright needed an escape from newfound horrors plaguing society, so she found herself directing a new movie about human kindness. “I wanted to make a movie at that time because there was so much pain in our country. … Just the ugliness that was going on in the world with, you know, the explosion of Twitter,” 54-year-old Wright said during a Sundance Film Festival Cinema Café talk on Sunday with Rebecca Hall. “Everybody was a judge and there was so much bullying going on. I thought about the effect that had on children, and how that’s changing, psychologically, our cellular makeup. All this darkness and meanness.” Wright ended up directing “Land,” which tells the story of Edee (also played by Wright) who goes off the grid in nature to deal with her grief after a tragedy and realizes she needs other people for support. “You need human connection and kindness to pull you through adversity,” the former “House of Cards” star explained. When Wright wasn’t busy starring in and dir...

Meghan Markle's Name Was Removed From Archie's Birth Certificate But Not at Her Request - E! NEWS

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Meghan Markle 's name was removed from her and  Prince Harry 's son Archie Harrison 's birth certificate, but she was not the one who chose to make the edit, despite a recent report, her rep says. On Saturday, Jan. 30, The Sun  claimed that she had "taken the unprecedented action of removing" her first and middle names, Rachel Meghan, from the document so that it included just her title, "Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Sussex," under the "mother" category. On Sunday, Jan. 31, a spokesperson for Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex disputed the report. "The change of name on public documents in 2019 was dictated by The Palace, as confirmed by documents from senior Palace officials," the spokesperson said in a statement to E! News. "This was not requested by Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex nor by The Duke of Sussex." Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the matter when reached by E! News. Let's block ads! (Why?) Artic...

From skinning an animal to directing in the snow, Robin Wright went all in on 'Land' - USA TODAY

Kelly Dodd Reacts to Getting Fired by Beverage Company After Making 'Controversial' COVID Comments - Yahoo Entertainment

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Kelly Dodd/Instagram Positive Beverage is no longer affiliated with Kelly Dodd. In a statement released on Sunday, the beverage company said they did not want to be associated with The Real Housewives of Orange County star's " controversial views " on COVID-19. "Our core values of wellness, community, diversity and inclusion should be reflected by our brand and anyone associated with it," Zach Muchnick, Positive Beverage Head of Brand, said in a statement on Instagram. "It has become clear over the past few months that Kelly's controversial views and opinions have distracted from our primary objectives, so effective today, we are no longer affiliated with Kelly Dodd-Leventhal." CEO Shannon Argyros added in her own statement, "We welcome all people -- however they are and whatever they are passionate about -- to Positive Beverage. But there must always be an underlying layer of respect. Unfortunately, we feel Kelly's stance is no ...

'SNL' steers clear of Biden in first episode since inauguration - New York Post

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“Saturday Night Live” steered clear of the Biden administration in its first episode since the inauguration — and the omission didn’t go unnoticed by some viewers. The sketch show didn’t feature portrayals of either President Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday night, choosing instead to poke fun at controversial Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene , the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and the GameStop saga. “Why does SNL not do ANY sketches about Biden???” one person gripped on Twitter. Another viewer wrote : “Disappointed I expected a stronger and funnier episode. Given Trump leaving, Biden inauguration and it was the first episode of the new year ?” The show consistently drew on Alec Baldwin’s impression of former President Donald Trump during his term and also spoofed Joe Biden during the 2020 election. However, after a month-long break, some were surprised not to see a Biden impression on screen. “I really wanted SNL to cover Biden’s Inauguration…,” one viewer wr...

Kelly Dodd Fired by Positive Beverage Following Controversial Comments - Entertainment Tonight

Pete Davidson Is John Krasinski's Pam In 'The Office'-Themed 'SNL' Monologue - HuffPost

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John Krasinski, 'Saturday Night Live' roast Tom Brady for his support of Donald Trump - For The Win

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By Henry McKenna | January 31, 2021 1:12 pm Tom Brady wasn’t safe from ridicule on “Saturday Night Live” this week. During a cold open called “What Still Works,” a character played by Kate McKinnon interviews guests on a quest to find out what parts of the country are still functioning properly. She rules out government, the stock market, social media and the coronavirus vaccine rollout (via an appearance by O.J. Simpson) before calling the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback, played by John Krasinksi, to the stage. She immediately tries to set up Brady as the antidote to the rest of her guests. He’s in his 10th Super Bowl despite being 43-years-old. He joined a Buccaneers franchise that has historically struggled and its fortunes changed. He’s expected to win — and he wins. Tom Brady still works. Brady admits to McKinnon that, despite all this, few people root for him. And she says she’d be rooting for Brady because he’s “the only damn thing this country can still rely on.” Bu...

Biden and Harris are no-Joe areas for SNL as show completely avoids them in first episode of 2021 - Daily Mail

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'Where are the Biden joke skits? Is the President now off limits?' 'Biased' SNL is slammed for completely avoiding Joe and Kamala jokes in first episode since inauguration - after four years of making Trump the butt of their jokes Hosted by John Krasinki, the first SNL of 2021 managed to not feature either the president or vice president in its skits despite being sworn in two weeks ago  Instead it featured 'appearances' from Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tom Brady The move was blasted online by some viewers who described the show as a 'snoozefest' that is 'too scared of getting canceled' Others noted how Trump had been the butt of their jokes for the past four years One viewer said: 'Did 45 get a honeymoon period? Don't recall' By Lauren Fruen For Dailymail.com Published: 17:37 GMT, 31 January 2021 | Updated: 20:19 GMT, 31 January 2021 Saturday Night Live completely avoided parodying Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in its f...

Machine Gun Kelly and Pete Davidson Fell Off the Stage on SNL Last Night - Vulture

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Thank you, @johnkrasinski and @machinegunkelly ! Goodnight and sweet dreams! 💫 pic.twitter.com/cubzgGSOXu — Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) January 31, 2021 Maybe you missed it, or you turned off your TV after the final sketch, but last night’s Saturday Night Live featured the kind of accident you normally see in football games or America’s Funniest Home Videos reruns. The scene was perfectly set. The Studio 8H band was playing its “that’s the end of the show, good night folks!” sleepy-time jazz. Everyone was doing their hugging and schmoozing, masks on, as the credits started to roll. Aidy Bryant was off to the side, dressed as a giant cockroach for reasons that made sense in a 10-to-1 sketch about Ratatouille . And as Pete Davidson went in for a hug with musical guest Machine Gun Kelly , Kelly scooped Pete up by the knees, and they both tumbled over backward off the stage. Machine Gun Kelly is six-four, so that’s a pretty big fall. Just watch the expression Bowen Ya...

Denzel Washington & Rami Malek Thriller ‘The Little Things’ Counts $4.8M Debut, Best For Older Guy Fare During Pandemic B.O. - Deadline

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Sunday AM Final: If you’re looking for any exciting financial action to come out of the movie business, it’s not at the box office, but rather the stock exchange, especially in last week’s boom for No. 1 exhibitor AMC. The continued closure of movie theaters during Covid-19, with only 45% of all 5.8K US and Canada movie theaters opened, yielded Warner Bros . Denzel Washington - Rami Malek thriller The Little Things this past weekend, which only opened to $4.8M at 2,171 theaters, the best for an R-rated movie and older guy fare during the pandemic. Worldwide, The Little Things  made $7.6M, with money from 20 markets, including Russia, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and United Artists Emirates. However, even though there’s not a lot of people coming through movie theaters, including No. 1 chain AMC, that exhibitor capped off a wild week, seeing its market cap mushroom to $4.5 billion and its closing stock price up close to 300% week-over-week on Friday at $13.26. That’s after a square-...

Machine Gun Kelly falls off ‘Saturday Night Live’ stage during end credits - Fox News

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Machine Gun Kelly sure made a noticeable exit on this week’s " Saturday Night Live ." The 30-year-old singer and rapper served as the musical guest for NBC’s sketch comedy show  upon its return from a winter break. Although his two performances went on without incident, he managed to fall off the stage during the end credits. MEGAN FOX ADDRESSES MACHINE GUN KELLY ENGAGEMENT RUMORS AFTER SHE’S SPOTTED WEARING RING Kelly’s tumble happened shortly after guest-host John Krasinski thanked him and the cast and crew for their work on the episode. When the actor finished delivering his message, Kelly excitedly tried to pick up his famous "SNL" pal, Pete Davidson, but quickly lost his balance and the pair fell off the not-so-high stage. "SNL" cast member Bowen Chen appears to look on at the scene in shock as he walked in the pair’s direction. Other cast and crew who were nearby were in stitches about Kelly and Davidson’s spill. MACHINE GUN KELLY CREDITS MEGA...

[VIDEO] 'SNL: John Krasinski Sings Theme Song to 'The Office' - TVLine

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RELATED STORIES Looks like the next edition of Now That’s What I Call Music is going to be a must-have for TV fans. In a riff of the popular NOW music franchise, SNL delivered its own version entitled, Now That’s What I Call Theme Songs Sung by Stars, allowing myriad series leads (or facsimile thereof) to perform original lyrics to some of TV’s most classic tracks (watch the full clip below). The short began with Chloe Fineman giving us her best Nicole Kidman, as she crooned The Undoing ‘s opening tune, “Dream a Little Dream of Me.” (“Did you notice my coat ?” she asks.) From there we were served new renditions of the songs from Bridgerton (by way of Lady Whistledown aka Julie Andrews), The Mandalorian , The Queen’s Gambit, Succession and more, as Cecily Strong, Kate McKinnon, Beck Bennett, Melissa Villaseñor, Pete Davidson, Kyle Mooney, Alex Moffat and all stepped in to exercise their vocal talents. But in the clip’s final hurrah, first-time host John Krasinski san...

‘SNL’ Cold Open Covers Marjorie Taylor Greene, GameStop, Tom Brady and More - Rolling Stone

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Following a month-long hiatus, Saturday Night Live returned with a cold open that encompassed a number of news topics that happened while the show was on vacation, including the controversy surrounding Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene , the GameStop situation , social media censorship and Tom Brady’s return to the Super Bowl. In the segment called “What Still Works?” Kate McKinnon reviewed some aspects of society — like government, the economy, sports and the vaccine rollout — to see if they “still work.” Her first guest was Rep. Greene (Cicely Strong), who like the real representative from Georgia, began spouting conspiracy theories about the Parkland school shooting and wildfire-causing “Jewish space lasers.” “And when your colleagues found out all about this hateful and psychotic things you said, what did they do?” McKinnon asked. “I was promoted to the education committee,” Strong’s Greene said. After realizing that government no longer worked, McKinnon next reviewed the stock ma...

'Saturday Night Live' targets Marjorie Taylor Greene, GameStop in return to air | TheHill - The Hill

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"Saturday Night Live" returned for a new year, poking fun at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), the coronavirus vaccine rollout and a Wall Street crisis during the show's cold open.  In a skit titled "What still works," actress and comedian Kate McKinnon hosted a mock talk show with a slew of fellow cast members spoofing various figures in the news in recent weeks.  Among them was Greene.  ADVERTISEMENT "Thanks for having me," comedian Cecily Strong, portraying Greene, tells McKinnon, immediately offering her a handgun.  McKinnon then asks about some of the conspiracy theories she promoted on social media before being elected to Congress in November.  Strong's Greene rattles off a list of false claims about the 2018 Parkland high school shooting and the September 11 terrorists attacks in New York City, asking: "Did anyone actually see it happen?"  McKinnon, apparently concerned and perplexed, asks, "You're a U.S. re...

Grammy-nominated musician Sophie dies at 34 after ‘terrible accident’ - KXAN.com

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Justin Timberlake Says a New Album Is in the Works on 'Fallon' - Billboard

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"Yeah, we can say that," said Timberlake with a smile. "There is a possibility." "Let's go with yes. I've been in and out of the studio working on stuff. I played you a few tunes," he reminded Fallon. Timberlake last released a full-length album in 2018, Man of the Woods . More recently, he collaborated with Ant Clemons on the song "Better Days," which was performed at the primetime Celebrating America concert on Jan. 20, following the inauguration of Joe Biden. Looking toward the future, Timberlake told Fallon he'd love to one day work with Kendrick Lamar or Travis Scott . He also joked that he'd allow Fallon in on a track. Watch the clip below. Let's block ads! (Why?) Article From & Read More ( Justin Timberlake Says a New Album Is in the Works on 'Fallon' - Billboard ) https://ift.tt/36rhGhd Entertainment

Grammy-nominated musician Sophie dies at 34 after ‘terrible accident’ - WGN TV Chicago

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Lenny Kravitz Pens Tribute to Godmother Cicely Tyson, 'A Black Queen Who Showed Us How Beautiful Black Is' - Billboard

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Among her many accomplishments , including being the recipient of three Emmy Awards, Tyson was the first African-American to win a lead actress Emmy, for her performance portraying a woman from the 1850s to the civil-rights era in the 1974 CBS telefilm The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman . She notably received an Oscar nomination for her role in 1972's Sounder , and she won a Tony award in 2013 for her work in  The Trip to Bountiful . "The love between us was and is tremendous," Kravitz said in his post. "As long as I have had consciousness, I’ve known Godmother. She and my mother were kindred spirits. Sisters. And after my mother passed, Godmother's role in my life was amplified. I constantly felt her spirit over me. She always gave me unconditional support. She came to my shows, came over for holidays, met me for dinners, stayed with me in Paris when I first moved there, and never let me too far out of her sight. Our phone calls went on sometimes for hours...

‘SNL’ sketch depicts Georgia as blue state: ‘This is Stacey Abrams country’ - Fox News

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" Saturday Night Live " wasted no time diving into January’s plentiful political  dramas in its first show of the year this weekend after more than a month’s holiday break.   In the show’s "Blue Georgia " sketch, cast members and guest host John Krasinski portray the usually reliably red state as a Rachel Maddow -loving, avocado toast and vegan meatloaf-serving, and solar-heated porch neck of the country. The "politically correct" transformation follows the state's real-life election of two Democrats to the U.S. Senate in a pair of Jan. 5 runoff contests, ousting incumbent Republicans. "Good to see a fellow Blue Stater. We’re just like y’all," a small-town Georgian waitress, played by Aidy Bryant, tells a New York tourist, played by cast member Pete Davidson, who enters the diner.  "Do you know where the men’s room is?" Davidson asks after he sits down.  DEMOCRATS TAKE CONTROL OF THE SENATE AS WARNOCK, OSSOFF, PADILLA SWORN IN...

Kate McKinnon Confirms Nothing Still Works in SNL Cold Open - Vulture

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And now, it's time for "What Still Works?" pic.twitter.com/4yxkD2Tma8 — Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) January 31, 2021 Saturday Night Live returned from hiatus last night with its first post-Trump (and blessedly Alec Baldwin-free ) cold open, addressing a month’s worth of news via a segment called “What Still Works?” Kate McKinnon explains, “It’s a new year and we have a new president so some things should work, but do they?” She brings out a cast of characters to determine what still works, starting with Cecily Strong in the role she was born to play, Congresswoman and QAnon enthusiast Marjorie Taylor Greene. Strong-as-Greene has thoughts on the Parkland shooting (“The teachers were actors and the children were dolls”) as well as, of course, 9/11 (“Did anyone actually see it happen?”). Other guests include Pete Davidson as majority Gamestop shareholder Derrick Boner, along with Mikey Day and Alex Moffat as Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg, respectively. The ...

'SNL' takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene, GameStop and Tom Brady - CNN

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That's how the NBC variety show opened its program on Saturday night, with cast member Kate McKinnon hosting a show that asked what still works in America. The first category was "government." McKinnon brought out "Marjorie Taylor Greene," the congresswoman from Georgia who faces backlash over her controversial actions and recently resurfaced social media comments , to see if government still works. "Our first topic is government and already I have my doubts," McKinnon said. Greene, who was played by Cecily Strong, came out and immediately offered McKinnon a gun. "So Congresswoman Greene... hard to say those words together," McKinnon said. "What are some of the theories you believe in?" Strong's Greene responded, "How much time you got?" After hearing some of Greene's theories, McKinnon asked if she really believed those things and then asked if she's really a US representative. "People can Goo...