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Pete Davidson’s “The King of Staten Island” was pulled unceremoniously — and mysteriously — from drive-in theatres last week, reports Variety. The semi-autobiographical film, which offers a comic take on SNL star’s Pete Davidson’s childhood in the borough, was instead released Friday for video only. “There was no explanation,” from Universal, one drive-in theater owner …

Pete Davidson’s destiny was set when he was a kid. His father, Scott, a firefighter with the FDNY’s Ladder 118 in Brooklyn Heights, was a big fan of standup comedy. “[Pete] saw that standup made his father happy,” Cris Italia, Pete’s former manager, told The Post. Years after Scott died on 9/11 — when Pete …

Jimmy Fallon has apologized for donning blackface in a resurfaced 2000 “Saturday Night Live” skit that had many calling to “cancel” him. The 45-year-old host of “The Tonight Show” issued a statement Tuesday in a tweet and thanked fans for holding him “accountable.” “In 2000, while on SNL, I made a terrible decision to do …

Jimmy Fallon is catching heat on social media over a resurfaced 2000 “Saturday Night Live” sketch featuring the former cast member in blackface. The 45-year-old host of “The Tonight Show” went viral on Twitter overnight following a tweet with the hashtag #jimmyfallonisoverparty, and a 20-year-old “SNL” clip featuring Darrell Hammond and Fallon, face painted brown, …

Alec Baldwin returned as President Trump for the season finale of “Saturday Night Live” — chugging Clorox while giving a college commencement speech by Zoom. In the cold open, Baldwin’s Trump was told he was the eighth pick for the graduates’ speech, with preferred options Axl Rose, murder hornets and even X Æ A-12, Elon …

Which politician insisted SNL should pay for their kid’s braces? Which SNL impression sent a political figure into therapy? In public, most politicians pretend their Saturday Night Live impressions, which can be downright brutal, don’t bother them. Several presidents have even publicly appeared with their SNL doppelgängers, including George H.W. Bush and Gerald Ford. But in private, …

After some sketchy moments in the first canned “Saturday Night Live … At Home” episode forced by the coronavirus lockdown, NBC’s venerable comedy franchise rallied to give it another virtual go this weekend. Brad Pitt brought some red-hot star quality to the cold open, which featured the “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” Oscar …

Martha would be very proud of her grand baby. Michael Che is paying homage to his grandmother, Martha, who recently died of coronavirus complications, in the kindest way possible. The “Saturday Night Live” star will pay one month’s rent for 160 residents in his grandmother’s public housing complex in NYC. “It’s crazy to me that …

Is it Saturday yet? The creators of “Saturday Night Live” have announced that the sketch show will return with fresh material this weekend, Deadline reports, despite social distancing orders due to the coronavirus pandemic. Exactly how producer Lorne Michaels, the show’s 17 cast members and dozens of crew members plan to pull this off has …