If your past as a male stripper is more famous than your previous movies, than obviously Saturday Night Live will milk that for all it's worth. Last night's host Channing Tatum (yes, you can watch his striptease here) acknowledged his exotic dancer experiences in the monologue— and proceeded to show off his chiseled chest in that bit as well as a few other sketches. Highlights included a cold open featured Newt Gingrich as Moon President, Weekend Update's take on Lana Del Ray's performance a few weeks ago, Bobby Moynihan's Guy Fieri impression, Tom Brady at a Ruby Tuesday's and a killer Spike TV commercial for... Downton Abbey. And Bon Iver performed! more ›

Daniel Radcliffe, the Harry Potter star who has grown up in front of our eyes, was a game host on last night's "Saturday Night Live." more ›

Charles Barkely made his third appearance hosting Saturday Night Live, and in various skits made fun of Shaquille O'Neal and White People Problems—and even wore a dress. more ›

Katy Perry returned to Saturday Night Live, this time as the host (she was memorable in a skit last year), but it seems her evening was upstaged by the attention-starved 30 Rock star, Alec Baldwin. Baldwin, who amused the nation this week when he was kicked off a plane for being rude to the crew who wanted him to stop playing with his cellphone, appeared on Weekend Update as airline pilot "Steve Rogers" and issued his sincerest apologies to Baldwin, "Mr. Baldwin is an American treasure and I am ashamed of the way he was treated." more ›

Attention girl pop fans: NBC just announced that Katy Perry and Robyn will be taking over Saturday Night Live on December 10th, noting that Perry will host, and Robyn will be the musical guest (though undoubtedly she'll appear in a sketch or at least the Digital Short)—the pairing makes sense as the two were tour mates earlier this year. more ›

Last night was the Muppets' long-awaited return to sketch comedy—well, at least they got two sketches. They appeared on Saturday Night Live to give a hand to host Jason Segel, who is the human lead in the new, upcoming Muppets movie. Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Scooter, and Rowlf sang with Segel in the monologue and Kermit, a seasoned reporter, also showed up on Weekend Update to discuss how pizza is now a vegetable, suggesting maybe now the national anthem should be the Hot Pockets theme. more ›

Last night, rising starlet Emma Stone hosted Saturday Night Live for a second time since 2010 (flashback: when Jimmy McMillan was the hot news figure). She mentioned her upcoming role as Gwen Stacy in the new Spider-Man reboot, adding, "Not to be confused with Spider-Man’s other girlfriend Mary Jane Watson, who is a skank and doesn’t love him like I do." more ›

After a three-week break, Saturday Night Live made up for lost ground by starting things off with a visit from the ghost of Moammer Gadhafi, who confirmed, "I got murdered pretty bad last week." The show also took aim at Kim Kardashian's short-lived, televised marriage with Nasim Pedrad's dead-on impression, "Things are looking up for me. I'm single, and there's an NBA lock-out." more ›

Last week, Saturday Night Live mentioned Occupy Wall Street during Weekend Update. Now, after the city backed down from cleaning Zuccotti Park, SNL decided to spoof Mayor Bloomberg's response to OWS during its cold open. Bloomberg, played by Fred Armisen, explained to America that the protesters had to be removed because all NYC streets are regularly power-washed. He also gave the addresses of some rich New Yorkers and said that the NYPD will only really get tough if anyone tries smoking in this city. more ›

Melissa McCarthy, Emmy winner for Mike and Molly and the scene-stealer of Bridesmaids (who will always be Sookie St. James to us), hosted Saturday Night Live last night. One of the characters she played was an Internet troll named "Da Truf," whose pieces of wisdom include noting that President Obama is our first Nigerian president. Click through for more sketches—there was a brilliant commercial for a doll that gives girls HPV vaccines—or you can see the whole episode below. more ›

This Dan Aykroyd Saturday Night Live audition reel from the mid-1970s popped up again recently, filmed when he was just 22 years old and the show hadn't even seen the light of day yet (it premiered on October 11th, 1975). more ›

Last night was the much anticipated 37th season premiere of Saturday Night Live. Future mayor Alec Baldwin hosted for a record 16th time, breaking a tie with Steve Martin—Martin made a guest appearance during the monologue to make sure Baldwin wasn't using any performing-enhancing drugs (Seth Rogen was also there...for no particular reason). Baldwin, who addressed the Schweddy Balls controversy at one point as well, unloaded some fantastic impressions throughout the night, including his versions of Al Pacino, Tony Bennett, and Rick Perry. more ›

Last night was the much-anticipated (by Lady Gaga fans) season finale of Saturday Night Live. Justin Timberlake hosted, with Lady Gaga as the musical guest, but Gaga did a bit of acting herself in a game show sketch as well as the SNL Digital Short, "3-Way/The Golden Rule," where those Dick-in-a-Box Motherf***ers returned to have a three-way with Gaga, because "It's not gay when it's a three-way." more ›

Last night, Ed Helms, star of The Office and the upcoming Hangover sequel, hosted Saturday Night Live, but the real highlight was the half-animated, half-live action Ambiguously Gay Duo segment. Jon Hamm played Ace and Jimmy Fallon played Gary as they fought in "The Dark Clenched Hole Of Evil," with Helms as well as Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell (who voice the animated characters) as villains (Fred Armisen rounded out the villains). more ›

Tina Fey returned to her old Studio 8H stomping grounds and hosted a Saturday Night Live whose two main themes were "Osama bin Laden is dead!" and "It's Mother's Day!" After a cold opening showing Osama bin Laden's videotaped last will (requesting a virgin 12-year-old Dakota Fanning), Fey launched into a song about her unborn child along with fellow SNL alum Maya Rudolph, who is also expecting. Later on, there were sketches about natural childbirth, finding Bin Laden in the sea, a Digital Short with Michael Bolton and a Republican debate featuring Sarah Palin ("It’s just so great to be back on Fox News, a network that both pays me and shows me the questions ahead of tim. I just hope that tonight the lamestream media won’t twist my words by repeating them verbatim"), Donald Trump, and many others...like Jimmy McMillan. more ›

It's been (somewhat awkwardly) announced that Justin Timberlake will be hosting the season finale of Saturday Night Live this year. He'll be closing out the 36th season on May 21st, according to a Tweet from the show that has now been deleted! According to HuffPo, it went something like this: When a Twitter follower wrote, "I didn’t realize that @nbcsnl isn’t back until May 7th!!! What am I going to do!? Is Tina Fey the season finale!?" the show responded, "Nope! We have Timberlake after that!" more ›

Last night, Sir Elton John hosted Saturday Night Live, while also taking a turn as the musical guest with Leon Russell (who was just inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). He made jokes about being gay, being a new father, and his past troubles with alcoholism during his monologue ("So far the baby really takes after me; he screams and cries when he doesn't get his way, and he's had his ups and downs with the bottle.") and admitted his black suit was more subdued, but promised he'd be dressed "more fabulous" as the show wore on. The show also got some star-studded cameos—Tom Hanks was in a number of sketches, Jake Gyllenhaal was on Weekend Update, Carmelo Anthony dressed in drag, and Will Forte returned for an ESPN Classic segment. Click through to watch sketches, such as the Laser Cats Digital Short, Elton John dealing with a mean Queen Elizabeth, John and Leon Russell's performances and more. more ›