Nearly two years after playing the Titanic-sinking iceberg on Saturday Night Live, Bowen Yang played another news-making white object floating in the Atlantic: the Chinese spy balloon that the U.S. shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday, February 4. Just hours after that Air Force operation sent the balloon plummeting into the Atlantic, NBC’s SNLparodied the diplomatic incident in the cold open of Saturday’s episode. “Good evening. It’s good to be with you,” Chloe Fineman said in the sketch, in character as MSNBC anchor Katy Tur. “Tonight, our long national nightmare is over. We got the balloon.” After reporting how the spy balloon “inflamed already volatile U.S./Chinese relations,” Fineman’s Tur turned to expert commentary from a Pentagon official named General William Hamilton, played by Kenan Thompson. And Hamilton said the balloon was “somehow able to get past our West Coast anti-balloon defense system,...
- 2/5/2023
- TV Insider
Bowen Yang made an appearance as the Chinese balloon on Saturday Night Live‘s cold open.
During the Feb. 4 episode, Yang starred alongside Chloe Fineman and Kenan Thompson, who recreated MSNBC’s Katy Tur Reports, which featured an interview with the fallen device itself.
After interviewing Thompson’s General William Hamilton about how they shot the balloon down, Fineman’s Tur kicked things over to the now-infamous object.
“Well, I’m sorry you’re in the water, but thank you for speaking to us,” Fineman tells Yang. “I entertain you people for four days, and then get shot by Biden! I can’t believe I’m Joe’s Osama,” he replies. “I have to ask, what you were doing flying over Montana?” she asks him. “I love the show Yellowstone, so I was just there. It’s like Succession but outside. So what?”
Fineman then went on to say she...
During the Feb. 4 episode, Yang starred alongside Chloe Fineman and Kenan Thompson, who recreated MSNBC’s Katy Tur Reports, which featured an interview with the fallen device itself.
After interviewing Thompson’s General William Hamilton about how they shot the balloon down, Fineman’s Tur kicked things over to the now-infamous object.
“Well, I’m sorry you’re in the water, but thank you for speaking to us,” Fineman tells Yang. “I entertain you people for four days, and then get shot by Biden! I can’t believe I’m Joe’s Osama,” he replies. “I have to ask, what you were doing flying over Montana?” she asks him. “I love the show Yellowstone, so I was just there. It’s like Succession but outside. So what?”
Fineman then went on to say she...
- 2/5/2023
- by Christy Piña
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A U.S. fighter jet shooting down China’s bizarrely conspicuous spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina is all people could talk about on Saturday, after days of the balloon floating over the country ahead of a high-level diplomatic meeting between U.S. and Chinese officials. And SNL opened tonight’s show with a riff on the balloon, featuring Chloe Fineman’s Katy Tur.
“Our long national nightmare is over: we got the balloon,” announced Tur. “The discovery of the massive surveillance balloon earlier this week inflamed already volatile U.
“Our long national nightmare is over: we got the balloon,” announced Tur. “The discovery of the massive surveillance balloon earlier this week inflamed already volatile U.
- 2/5/2023
- by Marlow Stern
- Rollingstone.com
Saturday Night Live quickly turned around a sketch that riffed on the U.S. military’s takedown of the Chinese balloon earlier in the day Saturday, skewering the national obsession over suspected spy craft.
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Just hours after cable news covered the missile strike that sent the balloon into ocean waters off the coast of South Carolina, SNL opened with its own news report on the latest development, featuring an MSNBC interview with the floating remains of the balloon, played by Bowen Yang.
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- 2/5/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
"I wanted to see this guy try to make a movie." Gravitas has revealed an official trailer for an indie dark comedy titled Killer Whales, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker William Hamilton. This is riffing on the "true crime" craze right now, with too many true crime shows and series and films being released. Killer Whales is a mockumentary style film that follows a naive filmmaker who sets out to make the next true crime hit. Woefully underprepared and faced with a cast of kooky suspects, his plans unravel in spectacular fashion and threaten to throw him behind bars. All of this sounds so kooky and absurd. Killer Whales stars Anthony Carrigan, Neal Bledsoe, Greg Vrotsos, and A.B. Farrelly. This looks like both a cautionary tale about filmmaking and ego, as well as a satire about the true crime craze and how ridiculous it is. Not every death...
- 7/12/2022
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Alfred Hitchcock assembles all the right elements for this respected mystery thriller. Joan Fontaine is concerned that her new hubby Cary Grant plans to murder her. But Hitch wasn't able to use the twist ending that attracted him to the story in the first place! Suspicion Blu-ray Warner Archive Collection 1941 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 99 min. / Street Date , 2016 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Auriol Lee, Leo G. Carroll Cinematography Harry Stradling Art Direction Van Nest Polglase Film Editor William Hamilton Original Music Franz Waxman Written by Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison, Alma Reville from the novel Before the Fact by Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley) Produced and Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
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