Lizzo made her debut on Saturday Night Live on December 21, and it left the entire Internet feeling good as hell.
For the show’s midseason finale—which also featured comedian Eddie Murphy hosting the NBC series for the first time in 35 years—the singer took the stage to first perform her chart-topping hit, “Truth Hurts”. The inspiring and energetic performance showed off her impressive vocals, but the Internet couldn’t help also obsessing over her outfit: a custom-made creation by black designer Dapper Dan.
The Dapper Dan x Gucci button-down trench coat featured a matching bralette and boots. And as Buzzfeednotes, Lizzo also had an all-black and all-female band performing alongside her, who also repped the designer in custom Gucci jumpsuits.
Check out Lizzo’s SNL performance for yourself, below:
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For her second performance, the singer transformed the stage into a winter wonderland complete with candy cane poles and gift-wrapped backup dancers to sing “Good as Hell.” As for Lizzo’s outfit, she brought her A-game once again, wearing a formal black tuxedo ensemble.
Everyone wants to know how the upcoming final season of Game of Thrones is going to pan out, especially when it comes to who’s going to wind up sitting on the Iron Throne itself. With the show’s premiere scheduled exactly a week away on Sunday, April 14, you can bet that Saturday Night Live is getting in on the hype. Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow on Game of Thrones, hosted the show last night (April 6)—and as part of his opening monologue, he found himself having to field some questions about the show from the audience. As it turns out, he knew a few of his interrogators quite well: Some of his present—and former—cast members were there to demand answers, too.
Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen on the show, popped up to ask Harington to give her “a sense of how it ends.” Clarke’s character is one of the relatively few that hasn’t yet been killed off, and Harington reminded her that she did, in fact, know what was going on in the show’s last season.
“Well, yeah, but I forgot,” she quipped. “It’s been so damn long since the last season, plus a lot of my scenes are talking to a dragon, which is just a tennis ball on a green pole. I have no idea what’s actually happening.”
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She also joked about the fact that their characters had hooked up during the show’s sixth season. “Did you know they filmed that?” she asked.
John Bradley, a.k.a. Samwell Tarly, also had a question for Harington. He told Harington he’d only been able to glimpse two pages of the season eight script, and all Tarly said was, “Arghhh.” Harington asked him what had come before that line in the script. “Dragon opens mouth,” Bradley replied.
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Naturally, the Night King was also in the audience (played on SNL by Pete Davidson), and it seemed like he was feeling a little down about it all. He asked Harington if people actually hate him (“because it really feels like people hate me”) and if they could still be friends when the show was over. “We were never friends,” Harington responded.
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Rose Leslie, whose character played Snow’s love interest until she was killed off (and who, in real life, is now married to Harington), also stood up to ask a question. After Harington told her that he was still sworn to secrecy about all things regarding the show’s final episodes, Leslie told him that she didn’t care because she “wasn’t a nerd.” Instead, she had a more pressing concern.
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“My question is, what are we going to do for money now?” she said. “We didn’t save anything, and you kept telling me, ‘Oh I’m the King of the North, we can order UberEats every night.”
Pete Davidson commented on his relationship with actress Kate Beckinsale during Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” segment last night (March 9). Though the comedian didn’t mention her explicitly by name, he fully acknowledged his love life following his split from Ariana Grande after host Colin Jost asked him about his new “girlfriend.”
“Anything else going on?” Jost asked Davidson, who smiled coyly. “No, I’m good, I don’t think so,” he replied.
“Not like a new girlfriend situation at all, Pete?” Jost asked again, which prompted Davidson, 25, to talk about Beckinsale, 45—and call out the media’s “crazy” fascination with their 20-year age gap. “Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Apparently, people have a crazy fascination with our age difference,” he added. “It doesn’t really bother us.”
“But then again, I’m new to this, so if you have questions about relationships with a big age difference, just ask Leonardo DiCaprio, Jason Statham, Michael Douglas, Richard Gere, Jeff Goldblum, Scott Disick, Dane Cook…” he went on, listing of a bunch of other men who have dated women much younger than them.
It’s an incredibly valid point—most people don’t even think about a large age gap when it’s an older-man-younger-woman situation.
Check out the clip below:
Davidson and Beckinsale first sparked romance rumors in January after they were seen flirting at a 2019 Golden Globes afterparty. They were also spotted out and about together in New York City a handful of times before confirming their relationship with a kiss at a recent hockey game.
Cheers to the happy couple—and the reminder that age is, after all, just a number.
Ah, December: a time for spiked eggnog, cheesy Hallmark movie marathons, and avoiding relatives’ highly invasive questions about when you’re planning to start a family. But perhaps the most rewarding part of the winter month? SNL turning out some of its best content—and last night (December 1) was no exception.
At the top of the episode, Foy appears in a commercial parody poking fun at the sheer magnitude of available content for streaming on Netflix. As a male voiceover explains, “We’re spending billions of dollars and making every show in the world. How do we do it? We buy everything!”
“It’ll take 12 human lifetimes to watch all of our content!” the narration adds (truth).
The skit involves several of the cast members sitting around a conference table and pitching potential ideas for the streaming service. “This show is about a girl named Ginny,” cast member Heidi Gardner’s character says, prompting a Netflix executive to immediately throw money at her.
“We loved Claire Foy so much, we’re sending her back to high school,” explains the voiceover. “It’s Saved By The Crown!”
The Notorious RBG—that’s Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of course—sent the world into a panic spiral after fracturing three ribs last week. Luckily, the 85-year-old is reportedly back in action and working from home like the boss she is—and on Saturday, SNL decided to pay tribute to her tenacity, releasing an epic rap parody that celebrates all the reasons why she’s known as the Notorious RBG.
The skit features SNL cast members Pete Davidson and Chris Redd rapping about the judge to the tune of rapper Sheck Wes’ “Live Sheck Wes.” As they bust out rhymes about RBG’s career and accomplishments, cast member Kate McKinnon comes out and reprises her hilarious version of the Supreme Court icon.
“You know there’s only like one lady holding the whole damn thing together, right?” Davidson says at the beginning of the sketch.
“You think some broken ribs are gonna keep her down? Hell naw and hell naw,” Jedd adds before the diving into the rest of the song, which covers RBG’s work for women’s rights and stance against Trump.
“Tell Trump to stay out her way/Don’t fuck with my Roe v. Wade/ Supreme Court’s a boys club, she holds it down, no cares given/Who else got six movies about ’em who’s still livin’?” the rap goes before hitting a chorus of “Live Ginsburg, and I ride for Ginsburg.”
Meanwhile, McKinnon shows off her muscles—a nod to the epic workout routine Ginsburg revealed to Stephen Colbert—and even gives us a glimpse of a Brooklyn tattoo over her six-pack.
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There’s also some truly incredible break-dancing and a scene with McKinnon downing some barbecue (“Survived the Depression and Twitter attacks from Trump/Broken ribs can’t even stop her, boy she eats that shit for lunch!”).
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It’s a tribute fit for the baddest lady of the nation’s highest court, who has said that she plans on carrying out her appointment until she’s 90. Twitter has promised to protect her at all costs, and now SNL is backing her up—so it doesn’t sounds like we need to worry about the Notorious RBG going anywhere anytime soon.
Saturday night was a big night for Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson fans. First, Grande dropped a new single titled, thank u, next that namechecks all her exes. And, at the exact same time, Davidson took to the Weekend Update news desk at SNL to address the breakup once more.
Throughout this season of SNL, Davidson has been rather vocal about his whirlwind romance with Grande. Just a few short weeks ago while making an appearance on “Weekend Update,” Davidson shared with co-hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che that the entire thing felt like a dream come true. “Do you remember when that whole city pretended that kid was Batman because he was, like, sick? That’s what this feels like.” he joked.
Though many people might have been dreading some awkward jokes about the breakup on Saturday night’s “Weekend Update”, that’s not what happened. Instead, Davidson came on to review—and laugh at—a few candidates running for office around the country. But, just before ending his segment, Davidson took about 20 seconds to address the breakup elephant in the room.
“The last thing I will say is I know some of you are curious about the breakup, but the truth is it’s nobody’s business,” Davidson said. “Sometimes things just don’t work out, and that’s okay. She’s a wonderful, strong person, and I genuinely wish her all the happiness in the world.” Before going off screen Davidson added, “It’s a good song,” though it remains unclear if he’s talking about Grande’s latest single—dropped right as the episode aired—or her previous song, Pete Davidson.
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Now, hopefully, these two — and the entire world — can start moving on with their lives.
