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Leslie Jones didn’t just steal Kyle Mooney’s virginity; she also stole his heart.

When we last saw the Saturday Night Live couple it was early days for their relationship. There was some minor jealousy over Leslie’s close relationship with fellow cast member Colin Jost, but we were led to believe that the Jones/Mooney coupling would persevere.

It’s now six months later. Somehow, Leslie and Kyle have a school-aged kid named Lorne. Their relationship is still going, but there are issues. Leslie is busy while Kyle… isn’t. She’s also still alarmingly close to Colin. Can the pair survive these trials? Read more…

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There are plenty of reasons to keep going, but you don’t really need to go any further than Colin Jost’s sick Trump burn in response to the unexpected firing of FBI director James Comey.

“How did Trump not realize that was suspicious? I mean, if a drug-sniffing dog came up to your bag at the airport and your response was to shoot the dog, people would really wonder ‘what’s in that bag?'”

Wait for it. Jost added: “Or they would just assume you work for United.” 

Come for the political humor, stay Pete Davidson’s hilarious — and legitimately brave — skewering of his own struggles with addiction and sobriety. This is a Weekend Update for the books. Read more…

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Workers gather to watch a launching ceremony.

Image: Library of Congress

In 1941, the United States Maritime Commission ordered the establishment of emergency shipyards to build cargo ships for the U.S. and Britain that could be assembled as cheaply and rapidly as possible to replace losses from German torpedoes.

The Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard on Baltimore Harbor was established in February and quickly set 27,000 employees to work building these new “Liberty ships.”

Each Liberty ship was designed to carry over 10,000 tons of cargo, but often carried far more to meet wartime needs.

The construction process was streamlined to the point where in some cases an entire vessel could be welded together and ready to launch in less than a month. Read more…

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Two 20-something cyber experts helped bring down the widespread ransomware attack that infiltrated networks at hospitals, banks, and government agencies in multiple countries.

A 22-year-old British researcher unintentionally found the so-called “kill switch” that authors of the malicious software left in the code. Later, he teamed up with a 28-year-old engineer in western Michigan to ultimately halt the infections, the Associated Press reported.

The unprecedented outbreak, which began last Friday, locked up computers and extorted users for large Bitcoin payments in nations as diverse as the U.S., Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, Spain, and India. It also hit the U.K.’s National Health Service, affecting computers in hospitals and doctors’ offices.  Read more…

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Melissa McCarthy hosted Saturday Night Live on May 13, the evening before Mother’s Day 2017. And since she didn’t have her own mom there at the show, McCarthy treated Joan, a random audience member (also, a mother,) to a tour of the show’s backstage area.

It’s funny, sure, but more than that: it is adorable. McCarthy ferrying a visibly overwhelmed Joan through the hustle and bustle of a live TV show’s working area — llama and all — has to be one of the cutest moments in the weekly comedy series’ 42 seasons. Read more…

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Amazon Echo Silver responds to dozens of names that sound like “Alexa,” tolerates rambling anecdotes without argument, and is programmed to carefully sidestep casual racism.

Saturday Night Live had some fun with Amazon’s cylindrical talking speaker, turning the Siri-like voice interface into an eternally patient caretaker for “the greatest generation.”

The punchline here — “LOL aren’t old people lame and adorably hateful?” — is questionable, but SNL‘s talented cast capably milks it for some memorable zingers, at least. Read more…

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Long before she bowled us all over with her jaw-droppingly perfect Sean Spicer impression on Saturday Night Live, Melissa McCarthy had proven herself as a master of physical comedy.

While the temptation must have been high for SNL writers to give “Spicey” an outsized presence during McCarthy’s May 13 hosting gig, they showed restraint. Spicey’s play date with Alec Baldwin-as-Trump paled next to this game show sketch, which put a fresh spin on one of comedy’s oldest props: the cream pie.

McCarthy’s hapless contestant took multiple pies to the face as the game turned against her — and it is comedy gold Every. Single. Time. Read more…

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Warning: Contains spoilers for Stephen King’s novel It (and possibly spoilers for the upcoming film adaptation, too).

For rampant Stephen King fans like myself, 2017 is set to be a year of glorious, clown-filled happiness.

We now have two trailers for Andrés Muschietti’s upcoming adaption of It, and so far things are looking promising. We’ve seen the iconic opening sequence with Georgie chasing his paper boat through the streets of Derry, and the beginning of a nicely creepy journey into a murky storm drain. We’ve even had our first proper glimpse of Pennywise.

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The wonderful thing about Melissa McCarthy hosting SNL this week is we knew she was going to bless us with another turn as White House Press Secretary Sean “Spicy” Spicer. But things got a little… weird. 

The sketch began with Aidy Bryant as deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders greeting the press in lieu of Spicer, who she said was fulfilling some Naval Reserve duties (but who was totally hiding in the bushes outside the press room).

The press took the opportunity to beg Sanders to take over briefing duties full time. 

“You are clearly articulate and charming, whereas Sean is bullish—” and will spray you with a fire extinguisher, apparently.  Read more…

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Alec Baldwin is back on Saturday Night Live for what may be one of his last appearances as President Donald Trump. And he used the opportunity to fess up to pretty much all the suspicions about the administration that we’ve had over the first 100-ish days. 

In an interview with Lester Holt (Michael Che), who he called any number of inappropriate and incorrect other black men, Baldwin as Trump admitted he fired former FBI Director James Comey because he was investigating White House ties to the Kremlin. 

“I fired him because of Russia,” Baldwin said. “I thought, ‘He is investigating Russia, I don’t like that, I should fire him.’”  Read more…

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