Television

Beck Bennett as Sen. Mitch McConnell, Heidi Gardner as Dana Bash on Saturday Night Live on Saturday.

'Believe Women, Until It's Time To Stop': Republican Senators Celebrate In 'SNL' Open

5:58am October 07, 2018

by James Doubek

Republican senators were in full party mode in Saturday Night Live's cold open, the day of Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation. Here's a look at the show's political parodies this week.

Jameela Jamil in character as the "conceited but deeply kind, insecure, vainglorious" socialite Tahani al Jamil.

Arts

Jameela Jamil: 'My Career Is Not Reflected By The Size Of My Body'

7:46pm October 05, 2018

Jamil plays flighty socialite Tahani al Jamil on the NBC sitcom The Good Place, but in real life she's a disability rights advocate who speaks out against body shaming and extreme beauty standards.

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Giving a schvitz: Missy (Jenny Slate), Connie the Hormone Monstress (Maya Rudolph) and Jessi (Jessi Klein) barrel full steam ahead through puberty in the second season of Netlfix's Big Mouth.

Arts

Life, Puberty And The Pursuit Of Horniness: 'Big Mouth,' Season 2

5:00am October 05, 2018

by Glen Weldon

The filthy, sex-crazed animated series returns to Netflix with some new cast members, and a renewed commitment to charting — hilariously, yet sweetly — the hellish landscape of adolescence.

Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) and Richard (Paul Giamatti) will have what she's having, in writer/director Tamara Jenkins' Private Life.

Arts

A Couple Contends With Conception In The Honest, Funny 'Private Life'

5:09pm October 04, 2018

by Scott Tobias

Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti play a New York couple struggling to conceive in writer/director Tamara Jenkins' latest, which examines how infertility tests a relationship with humorous candor.

Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn play a couple who are desperate to have a child in the Netflix film Private Life.

How A 'By Any Means Necessary' Quest For A Child Inspired Netflix's 'Private Life'

5:07pm October 03, 2018

by Terry Gross

Writer and director Tamara Jenkins drew on her own experiences with IVF treatment to create what she calls a "buddy movie" about a New York City couple who are desperate to have a baby.

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Arts

On 'SNL,' '60 Minutes' And More, How Networks And Cable Covered Kavanaugh

3:23pm October 01, 2018

by David Bianculli

Critic David Bianculli looks back at the history of televised government hearings, including the Senate Confirmation Hearings of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

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Seen here at a gala in 2017, Ted Turner spoke on CBS Sunday Morning about having Lewy body dementia.

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Ted Turner Opens Up About Having Lewy Body Dementia

1:14pm October 01, 2018

by Linda Holmes

On Sunday morning, CBS aired an interview with the CNN founder, who told Ted Koppel about his struggle with a disease he could describe but wryly struggled to name.

'Jeopardy' Contestant Asks Girlfriend To Marry Him

5:44am October 01, 2018

Instead of chatting with Alex Trebek at the top of the show, Michael Pascuzzi used that time to ask his girlfriend Maria a big question. Remembering the show's format, she answered, "What is yes?"

Kanye West, who performed on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live on Sept. 30, 2018.

Music & Culture

The New Kanye Reaffirms His Love For President Trump On 'SNL'

9:16pm September 30, 2018

by Rodney Carmichael

Yandhi's release is still a mystery, but Ye makes his allegiance to all things MAGA clear in another controversial album rollout week.

Matt Damon played Brett Kavanaugh on the 44th season opener of Saturday Night Live.

Matt Damon Is A Sniffing, Shouting Brett Kavanaugh On 'SNL' Season Premiere

1:17pm September 30, 2018

by James Doubek

"I'm not backing down," says Matt Damon, in character as an angry Brett Kavanaugh during the Senate hearing over the sexual assault allegations. "I don't know the meaning of the word stop."