Saturday Night Live alum Finesse Mitchell has been tapped for a recurring role on HBO’s new comedy pilot Brothers In Atlanta, written by and starring former Late Night With Jimmy Fallon writers/performers Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin and executive produced by Lorne Michaels. Maya Rudolph and Jaden Smith also will appear in the pilot. The story centers on best friends Langston […]
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As you may recall, around the holidays there was a big push for NBC’s Saturday Night Live to hire an African American Woman to the cast of the show, and a midst the hoopla of it all, SNL hired Sasheer Zamata, an African-American from Brooklyn, to its lineup as a featured player. Shortly after that, two […]
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Earlier today, we discovered the news that Sasheer Zamata had landed the coveted spot of the new cast member of Saturday Night Live, and while we were tracking down the story to confirm it, Deadline posted the news as an EXCLUSIVE. So, that confirms it; the actress will be the new African American cast member […]
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According to our sources, several of the folks who auditioned for the new role in Saturday Night Live -of an African American woman- are now in New York auditioning in front of Saturday Night Live Executive Producer Lorne Michaels for the coveted spot. As we all know, due to the bad publicity NBC and Saturday Night […]
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We just discovered the news that comedian Jay Pharoah has just landed the new coveted role on Saturday Night Live! Our sources told us that Lorne Michaels (creator and Executive Producer of SNL) hand picked the 22-year-old Virginia stand-up comic, who has a huge arsenal of celebrity impressions including a pretty solid Barack Obama one. […]
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Saturday Night Live returned from a holiday break with a strong combination of host and musical guest in Chadwick Boseman and Cardi B. Boseman revisited his biggest movie, Black Panther, in two winning sketches. In the first, appearing with Chris Redd and Leslie Jones, he debates the use of the “Wakanda forever” salute by two white fanboys played by Beck […]
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