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Don’t kill our protesters, that’s our thing: SNL’s dark jokes on Minneapolis and Iran

“Saturday Night Live” opened its 2026 season with a politically charged cold open that satirised recent global and domestic events, including tensions in Blue state Minneapolis and political unrest in Iran. The sketch aired on January 17 parodied figures from the Trump administration in a packed cabinet meeting setting.Hosted by Stranger Things lead Finn Wolfhard, […]

SNL Cold Open: ‘Zohran Mamdani’ steals the show, says ‘hit me up at the ballot box, girl’

Amid the US government shutdown, a World Series nail-biter, and an election season that already feels like a sitcom, Saturday Night Live decided to pile on the chaos with its own New York City mayoral debate, complete with bagel jokes, socialist charm, and a surprise Trump cameo. Miles Teller returned to Studio 8H as a […]

‘Kapata Nataka Sutradhari’ movie review: Dhiraj MV debuts with a brave political satire

Dhiraj MV in ‘Kapata Nataka Sutradhari’. | Photo Credit: MRT Music/YouTube In Dhiraj MV’s Kapata Nataka Sutradhari, a 1000-year-old temple, known for producing miracles, opens only twice a year. Despite boasting such a special temple, the fictitious town Raya Bagha is a surprisingly quiet place, or rather, it’s an ignored town, as there is nobody to […]

Saturday Night Live: ‘Stock market did a Jesus’: SNL roasts Donald Trump’s tariff chaos in Easter special

‘Stock market did a Jesus’: SNL roasts Donald Trump’s tariff chaos in Easter special In a cheeky start to its Easter episode, Saturday Night Live turned its lens on US President Donald Trump’s handling of the US economy, using biblical imagery to mock Trump’s erratic tariff decisions. The sketch began with a reimagining of the […]