To close out Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, Colin Jost introduced the night's final guest: Punch the monkey 's mom. Not literally, of course. It was Sarah Sherman, in a bikini-fitted monkey costume, who portrayed the absentee mama as a trailer-trash harlot.

Connor Storrie hosted Saturday Night Live this past weekend with sketches that had him dancing, stripping, and use accents. These are a few that were hits and misses.

Saturday Night Live staffers were “scared,” according to TMZ, after musical guest Cardi B had a meltdown over a “Weekend Update” joke about rapper foe Nicki Minaj. Minaj, the Trinidadian rapper who became Trump’s celebrity bestie this year,

Academy Award nominee Ryan Gosling will return as SNL host for the fourth time on March 7, in support of his upcoming film Hail Mary (scheduled for release on March 20). Gosling will be joined by the Damon Albarn -fronted Gorillaz, making their SNL debut.

SNL host Connor Storrie reunited with his Heated Rivalry co-star Hudson Williams for a sketch and to introduce musical guests Mumford & Sons.

The U.S. military announced on Sunday the first American casualties of President ⁠Donald ⁠Trump's intensifying attack on Iran, as a new poll showed only ⁠one in four Americans supported strikes against the Middle Eastern country.

Approaching midterm elections and a growing battle over the party’s post-Trump identity heighten the political stakes of military action.