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From the attack on the United States Capitol to the inauguration of President Joe Biden and all of the COVID-19 developments in between (including a still-rising number of cases in California, a U.K. variant and a very slow rollout of the vaccine), so much has happened since “Saturday Night Live” last aired a new episode it seemed an increasingly impossible task for the NBC late-night sketch comedy series to respond to the news. But the Jan. 30 episode — the first one of the new year and the new political administration — did its best by kicking things off with a fake show-within-the-show cold open sketch entitled “What Still Works?” in which Kate McKinnon looked at what in American society still worked.
“It’s a new year and we have a new president so some things should work,” she said in the sketch.
Starting with a look at the government — and including special guest Congresswoman, education committee member and QAnon promoter Marjorie Taylor Greene (played by Cecily Strong), she had her doubts that things did, though. It didn’t help that Strong’s Greene sat down, offered her a gun from her purse and then launched into a list of her theories, including that both the Parkland shooting and 9/11 were hoaxes. About the former she said, “The teachers were actors and the children were dolls,” while she wondered aloud, “Did anyone actually see it happen?” about the latter.
Additionally, she claimed the California wildfires were created by Jewish space lasers.
“Those are real things you believe and tell other people about?” McKinnon asked. “You represent the U.S. People can Google you and it’ll say, ‘She’s a real member of the U.S. government.'”
Concluding that the government doesn’t work, McKinnon said she regretted “not taking that gun” before moving onto look at the state of the stock market, with Pete Davidson joining her as Derrick Boner, “the new majority shareholder of GameStop.”
McKinnon broke down the recent skyrocket of GameStop’s stock by pointing out that two weeks ago it was valued at $17/share and then went to $413/share. “Would you say that reflects the kind of business GameStop has been doing in the past two weeks?” When Davidson’s Boner pointed out that people download all their games now, McKinnon said it was a “dying business.”
“The entire system is a joke?” he said.
Of course that led McKinnon to add the stock market to the “doesn’t work” pile alongside the government before moving onto social media, which she pointed out some people think never worked.
Mikey Day and Alex Moffat joined her, portraying Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, respectively.
“Fundamentally Facebook still works,” said Moffat’s Zuckerberg. “Not only does it help form communities online, it also helps people meet in real life, for example, at the Capitol.”
The vaccine rollout was next up, with Kenan Thompson playing O.J. Simpson as a recent receiver.
“Teachers can’t get the vaccine, but you did?” McKinnon asked. “People with long-term lung conditions can’t, but you did? Among all 3% of all Americans getting the vaccine was O.J. Simpson.”
The final topic was Tom Brady, and in a rare moment of the episode’s host taking part in the cold open sketch, John Krasiski played Brady and came on to speak for himself. But as McKinnon listed his accomplishments, from heading into his 10th Super Bowl to taking “one of the worst franchises in football” to the championship in his first year, she just went ahead and declared that he still worked.
“It’s not like you’re a weird Trump guy or anything, right?”
“Thanks for having me,” he said, as he stood up and exited stage left.
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— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) January 31, 2021
The first sketch after Krasinski’s monologue also responded to recent political headlines, with the host playing a small town Georgia Sheriff who is introducing his young relative (played by Davidson) visiting from New York to some of his townspeople. Since Georgia went blue during the election, they claim they are just like New York — and quickly prove showcase how they think so, with complaints about CNN, “with its corporate, neo-liberal, ‘both sides’ nonsense,” as Aidy Bryant’s character put it (Just give me my Rachel Maddow!”), listing their pronouns, calling Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” “the good book,” serving avocado toast and shouting out their Jewish senator (Jon Ossoff).
When Moffat showed up in a MAGA hat, Krasinski pointed out that “this is Stacey Abrams country” and had his deputy (Andrew Dismukes) escort him to the state line. But when Melissa Villaseñor, playing a health inspector, complained that no one was wearing masks, they exclaimed that the pandemic was a hoax.
Later in the episode Colin Jost and Michael Che riffed further on the last few weeks during their “Weekend Update” segment.
Some, like “the inauguration, Christmas and [that] the terrorist watch list now includes white people,” Jost pointed out were actually good events. “Diversity. It’s good to see yourself represented,” he said.
Beck Bennett also stopped by the news anchor desk to portray Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO who was recently kicked off Twitter. But while they focused on discussing his alleged insurrection, relationship with Donald Trump and lawsuits against him, they somehow skipped over the fact that he sued a publication for rumors he had a romantic relationship with Jane Krakowski.
“Saturday Night Live” airs live coast-to-coast Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET / 8:30 p.m. PT on NBC.
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Wendy Williams' new biopic and documentary, Wendy Williams: The Movie and Wendy Williams: What A Mess!, are both premiering on Lifetime on Saturday, and the films focus on the talk show host's rise to fame, along with her rocky family life.
While the biopic spends a lot of time exploring Wendy's relationship with now ex-husband Kevin Hunter, the couple’s son, Kevin Hunter Jr., also makes a cameo.
While Wendy talks about her son here and there on her show and Instagram, he mostly lives a BTS life. But who is Kevin Hunter Jr., exactly? Here’s the lowdown.
Wendy marked Kevin Jr.’s birthday in August with an Instagram pic packed with mementos from his childhood and birth. "Today is my biggest day!" she wrote in the caption. "Son Kevin and I are celebrating his 20th birthday. He’s in Miami and I’m in NYC, but love never stops."
She continued, "If you look closely you'll see remains of 1st hair cut, my [cervical stitch] is on sneaker, like a mom... I DO have all his teeth😂I'm not a fan of cake, but today OK...for my son❤ What are you doing?"
He pleaded not guilty in June 2019 to charges that he assaulted his father. According to TMZ, Kevin Jr. allegedly punched Kevin Sr. in the nose during an argument. Kevin Sr. did not press charges.
Kevin Jr. was there for his mom when she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a moment that Wendy later celebrated on Instagram. "My son shine! 💙💙💙⭐️⭐️⭐️," she captioned a photo of herself kissing Kevin on the cheek.
Wendy has opened up about the struggle to conceive Kevin Jr. She said during the 2015 PBS special American Masters: The Women's List, per Essence, that she "fought tooth and nail to be a mother. I suffered several miscarriages including two at five months." Wendy also added that her son is a "hard-won child."
Five years ago, Wendy shared on her show that Kevin Jr., then 15, overcame an addiction to the synthetic marijuana, K2. She later spoke about the experience with ET, saying, "Our son, three years ago, he smoked K2. Now this is a drug, we see it on the news, people are walking around like zombies."
Wendy said her son "became someone I didn’t even know." But, Wendy said, her family got help for Kevin Jr. "I’m glad to say we were able to bring him back all the way around," she said.
He goes to school in Miami, according to Page Six.
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Now Williams is letting fans into her hot topic-filled life in her new biopic, "Wendy Williams: The Movie," premiering Saturday night, followed by her eponymous documentary, "What A Mess!"
In both projects, the 56-year-old media mogul bares it all, sharing personal struggles that she's faced throughout her life, including weight challenges that started as a child, cocaine addiction, alleged rape, several miscarriages, and her tumultuous relationship with her now ex-husband and former manager Kevin Hunter.
While her marriage began to publicly unravel several years ago due to alleged infidelity and abuse, Williams told Insider that privately she had been executing her divorce plans for nearly two decades. The two wed in 1997.
When asked at what point in her 21-year marriage she felt like her happiness had become compromised, Williams emphatically said, "the second year because that's when I finally got successfully pregnant with [my son] young Kevin and gave birth to him."
Insider reached out to Hunter, but didn't immediately hear back.
Williams, who finalized her divorce from Hunter in 2019, claimed her ex cheated because he "got too comfortable." But despite problems at home, Williams said she made a conscious decision to stay because of her now 20-year-old son, Kevin Hunter Jr.
"I couldn't [leave] because the bigger the talk show got, and the more I would look into my son's eyes ... the more I decided to give of myself and I figured I'd get it on the back end, so to speak," the daytime talk show host, who's set to remain on air until 2022, told Insider.
But after the two became estranged, Williams said she hoped to set a good example for her son.
Still, the talk show host said Hunter "will always be my friend because we must be civil to each other because we are Kevin's parents."
"I don't regret meeting Kevin. I don't regret falling in love. I don't regret staying with him for all 25 years — 21 of them married," Williams added.
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Despite going through a very public divorce while filming, Williams was so committed to the authenticity of her biopic that she invited Hunter to travel to Vancouver where they were filming.
"He was definitely invited by me as well as Lifetime, with a promissory note from me that he would not be talked about in any other way, but my truth in the documentary and depicted in any other way but my truth in the movie," she added.
As for moving on to her next phase of life now that her son is out of the home and away at college, Williams is wasting no time on getting exactly what she wants.
"At 56 years old, you don't have too many more chances to get your life together. So, I will continue to be my own best friend until the day I die because only I know what's best for me," she said. "My [late] mother didn't know what was best for me. My sister doesn't know what's best. You don't know what's best. My bosses never knew what's best for me. Only I know what's best for me."
"I'm extremely happy that I'm still relevant enough that I'm able to come through some pretty ... double doors and say, 'How you doing?' and still be young, fun, and pop culture relevant," she added.
"Wendy Williams: The Movie," premieres Saturday night at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT, followed by her eponymous documentary, "What A Mess!"
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Sadly, their relationship didn't last, and they each posted news of their split earlier this month on Instagram. Now, Clare's taking to Instagram again. Except, this time she's detailing how she's doing since the breakup. In a recent Instagram Live, she said, “I think when you open yourself up to share what you’re going through, not as a victim but as, like, vulnerability and more as just, like, the human side of you, with your friends, with your family, with the public, with people, as much as you want to share—mine more so happens to be a lot more public than most people—but I think when we share our struggles, it gives people the opportunity to relate to it and to share their struggles."
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She continued, "I’m getting to the point now where I’m trying really hard to come back from that and make a U-turn because it’s a dark place to be in when you’ve got a lot of stuff compiled on each other... My idea of love and to be loved is to have all of our things that we go through, all the stuff that we experienced in life, whether it’s whatever you want to call it, like, baggage, experience, traumas, whatever we go through."
Clare encouraged her followers who are also going through difficult times, to keep going and revealed that she's practicing having a spirit of gratitude in her life. She continued, "You are loved and you will be loved by the right person for all that you bring to the table, whether it's the good, the bad, everything that we bring to the table, the right person is going to love you for that."
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Congratulations are in order for Kelly Rowland, who announced the arrival of her second child on Saturday.
The former Destiny's Child singer took to her Instagram with the birth announcement of her son Noah.
"On the 21st day, of the 21st year, of the 21st Century, Noah Jon Weatherspoon Greeted us! We are truly grateful❤️❤️❤️❤️1•21•218:13pm 7lbs. 8oz 19in," Rowland captioned an adorable picture of her first son gazing at baby Noah.
Rowland, 39, and her husband Tim Weatherspoon are already parents to 5-year-old Titan.
Kelly Rowland announced the birth of her second child on Saturday, a baby boy named Noah. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Rowland revealed in an interview last fall that she and Weatherspoon had been contemplating having another child for a while, but didn’t commit to family planning until quarantine began.
"We had been talking about it loosely, and then COVID happened, and we were just like, ‘Let’s see what happens,’" the Destiny’s Child star told Women’s Health magazine. She added that she got pregnant quickly after she started trying for a second child.
Despite her gratitude, the singer told the outlet that she was hesitant to disclose her pregnancy amid the pandemic, racial injustice, political unrest and a tumultuous year for many.
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"But you still want to remind people that life is important," Rowland said of why she ultimately decided to make an announcement.
She added: "And being able to have a child … I’m knocking at 40’s door in February. Taking care of myself means a lot to me."
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