You can usually tell where an SNL sketch is going. I’m not saying you can see every joke coming in advance, but more often than not, you can understand the tone and the basic premise within thirty ...

Its success was partly due to “SNL” cast member Heidi Gardner, who, caught off guard by her costars’ hilarious transformations, completely broke character. Maybe the most remarkable thing ...

Bowen Yang insists he didn’t get Shane Gillis fired from “Saturday Night Live.” The “Wicked” star, 34, shut down that rumor after Michelle Best, who worked as a background actor on ...

By Carly Thomas Associate Editor Yang responded to Best, writing, “Didn’t do any of this but I wrote the sketch you were a background actor in ... the world,” the SNL boss said at ...

Ahead of his upcoming guest appearance, SNL posted a promo clip on Instagram ... of this but i wrote the sketch you were a background actor in [smiley face emoji].” “We were not aware of ...

Stand-up comedian Gillis, 37, was originally hired alongside current SNL cast members Yang and Chloe Fineman to join the NBC sketch series in 2019. However, he was fired before he was able to make his ...

Bowen Yang is setting the record straight. On Feb. 26, a former background actor for Saturday Night Live commented on the teaser for the March 1 show—which Shane Gillis is hosting—and alleged that ...

Under a recent Instagram post from the show promoting Gillis' second stint as host this weekend, Michelle Best, who appears to have worked as a background actor on SNL, called Gillis a "bigger man ...