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  • Oscars 2017: Amy Adams & Tom Hanks Mistakenly Nominated on Official Site

    Oops! Some #alternativefacts made their way onto the official Oscars website this morning, accidentally giving Academy Award nominations to Amy Adams and Tom Hanks.

    Visitors to the Oscars site shared screen grabs of the gaffes, showing Amy Adams in the Actress in a Leading Role category for “Arrival,” and Tom Hanks as a sixth (!) nominee in the Actor in a Leading Role category for “Sully”:

    Sadly for Amy Adams, but happily for Ruth Negga, the “Loving” star was the correct fifth nominee. Not sure why Adams was placed in there, or how Hanks got shoved in as the sixth name in a five-person category, but it’s all good now. That is, it’s good for everyone but the fans who feel like Adams and Hanks were snubbed.

    Later Tuesday morning, ABC released a statement on the error:

    “This morning, in an attempt to release breaking news as announced, ABC Digital briefly posted inaccurate nomination information on the Oscar.com website. The nominees announced by the Academy on Twitter were accurate. ABC quickly identified and corrected the errors. We apologize to the Academy, press and fans for any confusion.”

    Hey, it happens to the best and worst of us alike. Here’s the full list of actual nominees. The Oscars will be handed out in a live ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 26 on ABC.

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  • From ‘Pets’ to David S. Pumpkins: The Secret Life of ‘SNL’ Vet Bobby Moynihan

    After joining the cast of “Saturday Night Live” in 2008, Bobby Moynihan became in indispensable go-to member of the late-night sketch show’s ensemble, and the comedic force behind a roster of bizarre and memorable characters including the uninhibited, opinionated, and intoxicated Drunk Uncle, kitty cat-obsessed astronaut Kirby, Michael Che‘s high school pal turned Weekend Update rival Riblet.

    Away from “SNL,” Moynihan’s been building a burgeoning sideline voicing animated characters, and his most recent triumph was providing the always-on-edge-but-none-too-bright pug Mel in “The Secret Life of Pets.” With the film now available on home video, Moynihan sounds off to Moviefone about his love for his newfound career, as well as being at the center of the current pop cultural conversation on “SNL.”

    You had a front-and-center view recently of what was clearly one of the big pop-culture water cooler moments in the wake of the election, when Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton played Leonard Cohen‘s “Hallelujah” on the piano. What was it like to take part in that particular episode and to see the audience responding, especially to the opening sketch, but also in general?

    Yeah, in my nine years [at “SNL”], I don’t know if I’ve had a show like that or felt that way during a show. It just felt like we were doing our jobs to make people laugh and it felt good. It also was, as a fan of Dave Chappelle and A Tribe Called Quest, it was pretty legendary to just sit there and be part of it. I feel very lucky today.

    For you, what is the fun of having the “SNL” platform to take on political and social commentary? What do you enjoy about that aspect of the job?

    I enjoy every aspect of this job. I always have. I was a pretty big “SNL” fan before I got the show. So now that I’m on it, I’m just glad I get to be a part of it, and if we can do something to help people, make people laugh or take their minds off of stuff, I guess that’s the best part.

    We haven’t seen Drunk Uncle for a while, and a return in the Trump era would seem appropriate. Do you have some plans for him?

    I never know. I love that character and I don’t ever want to burn it out too quickly. Yeah, I don’t know. Maybe hopefully someday … That character was always fun to do. A lot of people are very nice about it.

    I’ve seen you here visiting in Los Angeles and taking in presentations like Paley Center’s “LOST” reunion, where you’ve gone as a fan in the audience. Tell me about the fun for you to still be a fan — even while you’re in the thick of the entertainment industry.

    Yeah, I’m a fan of a lot of things. I’ve always been a giant “Lost” fan. I enjoy Damon Lindelof‘s work a great deal. I think Carlton [Cuse] and them are good guys. I like the universes I can get lost in for a little while. Yeah, some of my best memories from “SNL,” one of the things that this job affords you is to be able to jump into worlds that you love.

    I wrote that “Hobbit Office” sketch, and to be able to do part of the British “Office” with Martin Freeman — it’s stuff like that where you just write it and you hope. You’re a fan of the show and you can write these specifics, and then when you’re in it, in costumes with these people who are involved, it’s a great deal of fun. I enjoy it a lot.

    Me and Undercover Boss” with Kylo Ren, and just playing in that world was super fun. Especially when people who are involved with the actual productions are excited to be involved in it too. It’s playtime. It makes me a kid again.

    You encounter people who are iconic and people who are of the moment, and I have a little bit of that in my job, and I always have to resist turning into Chris Farley from “The Chris Farley Show” sketches. How about you?

    Yeah, that’s me every day.

    Do you go through that and have to figure out, “OK, here’s where I can fan-out, here’s where I’m a pro, and here’s where I just sit and observe and be Forrest Gump in this scenario?”

    Yeah, I’d like to think I’ve gotten better at it, but I still fanboy out pretty hard on some things, but I’m getting better. I’m becoming an adult.

    I have to ask you about the explosion of popularity of the David S. Pumpkins sketch with Tom Hanks. Did you guys think that that was going to have that kind of crazy viral experience, almost becoming a Halloween icon overnight?

    No, I don’t go into writing going like, “This is going to be a big thing over Halloween.” It definitely wasn’t that. More, “What dumb thing can we do with Tom Hanks?”, and he seemed a pretty silly, fun guy. I think part of the reason that people loved it is because it was Tom Hanks doing a very silly thing, and me and Mikey Day have written together a lot, so we just wanted a new cast member to do something where we got to do something together. Why we chose dancing skeletons, I’ll never know, but I think we wrote it at 5 a.m., so yeah.

    People were stoked about “The Secret Life of Pets” from the trailer alone, and then, of course, the movie did so well with audiences. What was cool about observing the reaction?

    I guess it’s more realizing, just seeing how much people really care for their pets. Seeing the pet community kind of come together, people who have dogs absolutely love their dogs. I feel like having a dog is like having a kid. I think there’s a special emotional attachment that really kind of got everybody … The movie did such a good job at showing that curious side of what adventures they would go on if they were left alone.

    Did you look at dogs at all to get a little inspiration?

    Yeah, the animation that they showed me was enough to see who this guy was, but yes, I went to dog parks for 30 years and watched them and studied them … No, I kind of just went for it!

    Are you a dog guy or a pet guy at all?

    Not really. I never had a dog. I’ve had some fish and a parakeet throughout my life, but that was about it. I had goldfish that I won, like, my first day in college, and I think they lived for almost nine years, which is almost unheard of. I had fish for a very long time, but they are pretty low-maintenance pets. That was as much as I could handle at the time.

    Are you much of an aficionado of animation? Is that an art form that you’ve paid close attention to?

    Yes, I’ve always loved it. When I was a kid, I wanted to draw comic books, and I grew up on Hanna-Barbera, and “G.I. Joe” and all those ’80s and ’90s classic cartoons, so I’ve always been a fan, but to get to work on it now, I really enjoy it.

    I had so much fun doing that production, and I’m so happy that people really enjoy it. I truly hope they do a sequel. I hope. I haven’t heard anything, but I hope they do. I would love to play that silly dog again.

    What are your immediate career goals? What are the things that you’re pushing forward while you’re still enjoying your time on “SNL”?

    I’m always thinking about the future, but right now it’s just kind of focusing on “SNL,” and I just enjoy working. I just want to work and do good work. Yeah, I’ve been lucky to do a lot of animation lately. I’ve been enjoying that. Other than that, just trying to get through the day.

  • 2017 Golden Globe Nominations: The 5 Biggest Snubs and Surprises

    That sound you heard after Don Cheadle, Laura Dern, and Anna Kendrick read out the names of this year’s Golden Globes nominees this morning? That was the inevitable head-scratching over the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s sometimes on-point — but usually baffling — picks for the year’s best in film and TV.

    Here are five of their choices that knocked us out of our chairs.

    1. A Deafening “Silence”
    Two films that almost everyone was sure were going to be nominated for Best Drama were awards-season favorite Martin Scorsese‘s epic “Silence” and “Fences,” the latter directed by Denzel Washington. He and VIola Davis did get nominated for acting in “Fences,” but that was it for the prestigious Broadway-bred drama.

    Still, that’s more than the silent treatment the Globe voters gave to “Silence.” In their places: World War II drama “Hacksaw Ridge” — which also earned nods for star Andrew Garfield and director Mel Gibson, to whom the foreign reporters of the HFPA have always been kinder than their American counterparts — and rural new-noir “Hell or High Water.” Both are acclaimed movies but were considered long-shots in this race. By the way, Garfield also stars in “Silence,” so for Scorsese, the actor’s nomination for Gibson’s film over his probably adds insult to injury.

    2. “Deadpool“
    It was a pleasant surprise to see the satirical superhero movie nominated in the comedy categories for Best Film and Best Actor (Ryan Reynolds), both because it came out way back in February and because, well, it’s a superhero movie.

    The genre tends to get no love at awards time, but then again, the movie itself blew a raspberry at the genre, so maybe the filmmakers and the Globe voters were on the same page. Also, a worldwide gross of $783 million is hard to ignore; clearly, “Deadpool” was a favorite in many countries whose reporters are HFPA members.

    3. Jon Snow, Killed Again
    Yes, we live in a golden age of television where there’s a glut of great shows on broadcast, cable, and now streaming, but that also means there were too many snubs in the TV categories to count. No Stranger Things?” No Westworld”? Nothing, not even a cup of coffee, for the “Gilmore Girls” revival?

    Still, the one that hurts the most is Game of Thrones” actor flippin’ RETURNED FROM THE DEAD for your entertainment, then delivered his most dramatic season ever, culminating in the epic “Battle of the Bastards.” Plus, he spent more than a year off-screen fooling the world into thinking he wasn’t coming back. If that’s not award-worthy acting, what is?

    4. Issa Rae
    The Globe voters pride themselves on being ahead of the pack when it comes to discovering new TV talent, since the calendar gives them an eight-month head start over the Emmys. They especially like anointing new comedy ingenues. After crowning Jane the Virgin”) two years ago and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”) last year, it’s now Rae’s turn for her delightful turn as a muddling single gal on HBO’s “Insecure.”

    5. “Finding Dory” Denied
    Granted, the Best Animated Feature category already has two deserving Disney movies in it, “Zootopia” and “Moana.” Still, the slot everyone expected would go to the fish-tale favorite went instead to something called “My Life as a Zucchini.”

    For the record, it’s a stop-motion film about an orphaned boy, submitted by Switzerland this year as the country’s entry into the Oscars’ Best Foreign Language Film pool. It wowed ‘me last May at Cannes. Still, fans of what is (so far) the biggest hit of 2016 have to wonder if there isn’t something fishy about this selection.

  • ‘The Circle’ Trailer Pits Emma Watson Against All-Knowing Technology

    The CircleSharing is caring — and scary as hell in the new trailer for “The Circle.“

    The movie stars Emma Watson as college grad Mae, who joins a tech company called The Circle, founded by a charismatic visionary (Tom Hanks). The company produces SeeChange, glass eyeballs which transmit footage in real time, and Mae soon becomes a social media celebrity by sharing her thoughts, hopes, and fears with millions of people. But a programmer (John Boyega) clues her into the realization that there’s something darker at work in The Circle. Watch the trailer:If this sounds like an episode of “Black Mirror,” well, yeah, it looks like it, too — though with a higher budget and bigger cast. Like that series, “The Circle” seems to probe the whole “has technology run amok?” question that is part of our modern lives.

    “The Circle” opens in theaters April 28.

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  • ‘Saturday Night Live’ Mystery Solved: What’s the ‘S’ in David S. Pumpkins?

    Saturday Night LiveThere are a lot of mysteries surrounding David S. Pumpkins, the deeply confusing “Saturday Night Live” character played by Tom Hanks — like who he is, why he’s in that haunted house, and what the “S” in his name stands for?

    That last mystery has been solved by “SNL” star Bobby Moynihan, who co-wrote the Halloween sketch with fellow performer Mikey Day and writer Streeter Seidell. And here’s the answer:

    “We said Simon,” Moynihan told The Huffington Post. “David Simon Pumpkins.” Aha!

    And how did the trio come up with such a weird character who went on to become a huge viral sensation? As Moynihan explainsed, “Me and Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell were trying to write something together. We like working together. Me and Mikey just wanted to do some weird dancing thing, and it was a lot of weird ideas, and around 5 o’clock in the morning, Mikey just went, ‘What if he was David Pumpkins?’ And then I said, ‘What if it was David S. Pumpkins?’”

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  • Ellen DeGeneres, Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

    Ellen DeGeneres ShowTelevision and film luminaries Ellen DeGeneres, Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, Cicely Tyson, and Lorne Michaels are among this year’s recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor.

    The White House announced that this year, President Barack Obama had named 21 individuals, all of whom “have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”

    In the official release, the White House noted that DeGeneres made TV history when her character on “Ellen” came out as a lesbian. Hanks, De Niro, and Tyson’s bios referenced their many awards accolades.

    Other honorees include basketball legends Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Michael Jordan, philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates, singers Diana Ross and Bruce Springsteen.

    The awards will be presented at the White House on November 22.

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  • What the Hell Happened to ‘Inferno’ at the Box Office?

    As Bosom Buddies” days, never underestimate the power of a man in a dress.

    That massive thudding sound you heard Sunday morning was jaws hitting floors throughout Hollywood as Hanks’s supposed sure thing, “Inferno,” failed to open at No. 1 and had to settle for second place behind last week‘s winner, Tyler Perry‘s “Boo! A Madea Halloween.”

    “Inferno,” after all, was the third movie in Hanks and director Saturday Night Live,” giving the show its highest-rated episode of the season so far and generating at least three Hanks sketches that went viral.
    “Inferno” was also the only new wide release this weekend, so it was expected to cruise to an easy $20 to $25 million victory. “Boo!” was expected to follow the pattern of Perry’s previous movies and fall about 55 percent in its second week to land at $13 million. Instead, Perry’s film held onto the number one spot with $16.7 million — dropping only 42 percent. “Inferno” underperformed drastically, claiming just an estimated $15.0 million debut. That number could drop to $14 million after final tallies come in.

    If Robert Langdon were a real person, he might suspect a conspiracy at work. Indeed, the Tom Hanks film’s failure has many authors. Here are several factors that contributed to the movie burning out:

    1. Tom Cruise
    Hanks and Cruise share more than just a first name. They both became top leading men in the ’80s, routinely delivered $100-million domestic grosses for the next 20 years, and still remain reliable (if diminished) box office draws today. They’re also competing against each other for the same adult-thriller audience, but Cruise got a head start with last weekend’s “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.”

    The franchise film opened last weekend with $22.9 million and finished third this weekend with an estimated $9.6 million. Hanks did more damage to Cruise this weekend than vice versa, but still, “Inferno” could have done better if there had been greater distance between it and “Jack Reacher.”

    2. Grown-Ups
    Cruise wasn’t Hanks’s only rival for the adult-thriller audience this weekend. Ben Affleck‘s “The Accountant” and Emily Blunt‘s “The Girl on the Train” were both still in the top six. Yes, Fall is supposed to be the time that grown-ups go back to the movies while kids are busy at school, but c’mon, Mom and Dad aren’t going to pay to see four similar thrillers. So the one that’s last out of the gate is at a disadvantage.

    3. Baseball
    This year’s historic World Series match-up is one of the highest-rated Fall Classics in recent years. With games on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, people are staying home in droves to watch baseball. Indeed, with just an estimated $85.6 million in total sales, this is the lowest grossing box office weekend of 2016 to date. Apparently, everyone had something better to do than go to the movies.

    4. Halloween
    October is just not a good time for the Robert Langdon franchise. The first two movies both opened in mid-May, a more-ideal-time for a globetrotting action thriller. In October, “Inferno” is competing against not just the World Series and other grown-up movies, but also against Halloween.

    The spooky holiday is one reason the season-themed “Boo!” is still on top, and why “Ouija: Origin of Evil” is still in the top five. “Ouija” didn’t get good recommendations from viewers who saw it when it opened last week, but it’s the only horror film in wide release on this Halloween weekend.

    5. Bad Buzz and Terrible Reviews
    Critics haven’t thought highly of any of the Robert Langdon movies, but they gave “Inferno” an especially harsh 20 percent “Fresh” at Rotten Tomatoes. Woof. Ticketbuyers weren’t much kinder, giving the film a just-okay B+ at CinemaScore, indicating less-than-enthusiastic word-of-mouth. Critics didn’t think much of “Boo!” either, but CinemaScore audiences gave it a solid A.

    6. “Doctor Strange“
    The new Marvel movie doesn’t even come out until next week, but Benedict Cumberbatch‘s magical hero may have used his powers pre-emptively to thwart “Inferno.” It’s not uncommon, after all, when a much-anticipated movie is still a week or more away from release, for fans to save their ticket dollars and avoid the multiplex until it premieres.

    7. Ron Howard
    He’s still thought of as an A-list director, but Howard hasn’t had much commercial success outside the Robert Langdon movies in nearly 20 years.

    Aside from this (now-dead) franchise, he hasn’t had a $100-million-grossing domestic release since 2001’s “A Beautiful Mind” or an opening weekend worth more than $19 million since 2000’s “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” Even the Langdon movies, however, have trended downward.

    The first one, “The Da Vinci Code,” opened in 2006 with $77 million on the way toward a $218 million total in the U.S. In 2009, “Angels & Demons” debuted with $46 million toward a $133 million domestic total. “Inferno” will be lucky to earn over its lifetime as much “Angels” grossed in its first few days.

    Don’t weep too much for Hanks, Howard and the “Inferno” team. In the two weeks before it debuted to the sound of crickets here, “Inferno” opened in markets around the world and made an estimated $132.7 million, including a $13.3 million debut in China this weekend. “Inferno” cost just $75 million to make (about half what “Angels & Demons” cost seven years ago) and probably a similar amount to market, so if Sony has to share about half the gross with theater owners, “Inferno” has to gross only $300 million globally to make a profit. The movie’s slow start in America makes that kind of a windfall less likely.

    Still, for all the movie had going against it, making a Tom Hanks threequel in a $1.3 billion franchise for just $75 million is pretty much a no-brainer to studio accountants, no matter how the movie fares in the United States. Hanks may be America’s Dad, but he didn’t make this movie for his kids.
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  • Box Office: ‘Inferno’ Fizzles With $15 Million as ‘Madea’ Pulls Off Victory

    Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones in INFERNOBy Brent Lang

    LOS ANGELES, Oct 30 (Variety.com) – This is how a franchise ends.

    “Inferno,” the latest big screen tour through Dan Brown’s historical conspiracy theories, flamed out at the weekend box office, earning a frosty $15 million. That’s a fraction of the $46.2 million that “Angels & Demons,” the previous film version of Brown’s novels, earned when it debuted in 2009, and it pales in relation to “The Da Vinci Code’s” $77.1 million opening way back in 2006.

    “This was a serious meltdown,” said Jeff Bock, box office analyst with Exhibitor Relations. “It shows how fickle audiences can be. When studios release a sequel they don’t want, they just turn their shoulder.”

    “Inferno” couldn’t muster a strong enough debut to capture the top spot on the domestic box office chart. Lionsgate’s “Boo! A Madea Halloween” nabbed first place for the second consecutive weekend, picking up $16.7 million to bring its stateside total to $52 million. The Tyler Perry comedy’s victory is an upset. Heading into the weekend, “Inferno” was expected to kick off to north of $20 million — a figure that easily would have secured it a first place finish.

    “Inferno” finds Harvard cryptologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) grappling with amnesia as he tries to piece together clues in order to prevent the release of a global pandemic. Reviewers vivisected the film, saddling it with a 20% “rotten” rating on critics aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

    In addition to the brutal reviews, “Inferno” ran smack up against a World Series battle between the Cubs and the Indians, two franchises that have gone decades without capturing a championship. Those games generated a lot of excitement among “Inferno’s” core audience of older men.

    Strong foreign grosses could be enough to pull “Inferno” out of the red. The film has earned roughly $150 million overseas. Sony, the studio behind the film, also reined in “Inferno’s” production budget. The picture cost $75 million to make, half the budget of “Angels & Demons.”

    Sony executives said they always expected “Inferno” to be more of a foreign play than a domestic bet, noting that previous Langdon adventures pulled in more than 70% of their box office from foreign markets.

    “Globally, the movie is in really good shape,” said Rory Bruer, Sony’s worldwide distribution chief. “We made this film for much less and we felt strongly that it was a film that would resonate internationally.”

    Still, the results are disappointing, particularly for director Ron Howard, who could use a hit. Once a reliable purveyor of popcorn fare with a certain prestige sheen, such as “Apollo 13” and “A Beautiful Mind,” Howard’s commercial radar has been faulty of late. His recent efforts, such as “In the Heart of the Sea,” “The Dilemma,” and “Rush,” all lost money. “Angels & Demons” was his last major studio movie to turn a profit.

    “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” snagged third place with roughly $9.6 million. The Tom Cruise thriller has earned $39.7 million in two weeks of release. Fourth place went to Warner Bros.’ “The Accountant,” which added $8.5 million to its $61.3 million haul. “Ouija: Origin of Evil” rounded out the top five, earning $7.1 million to bring its domestic total to $24.6 million.

    In its second weekend, “Moonlight,” a critically acclaimed coming-of-age story, expanded nicely from four to 36 screens, earning $900,826 in the process. The A24 release is expected to be an Oscar contender. It has earned $1.5 million so far.

    Final numbers are still being tallied, but it appears that ticket sales will outpace the year-ago period. That’s not much of an accomplishment. Last year, “The Martian” held on to the top spot in its fifth week of release, as newcomers like “Burnt” collapsed.

    Overall, fall ticket sales have lagged behind those of 2015. Most analysts don’t expect a true box office turnaround to happen until “Doctor Strange” debuts next weekend.

    “We need a box office hero,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at comScore. “We need a great movie to get us out of the box office doldrums.”

  • Felicity Jones Almost Killed Tom Hanks in a Car Crash

    “Inferno” was almost too perfect a title. If you head out to see the movie this weekend, keep an eye out for a car chase scene where — in another take — Felicity Jones accidentally drove Tom Hanks into a wall. Oops!

    “It was my first time driving an A-list movie star and nearly killing him,” Jones said. He character, Sienna Brooks, was at the wheel, with Hanks’s Robert Langdon next to her. She had to drive out of a parking lot/”car park,” and that’s where the trouble happened:

    “So then we were coming out, and there’s quite a sharp corner, and the Italian streets are pretty tiny. And for some reason my character had the most enormous car they could find. So just as I was very coolly trying to turn this corner and I was staying in line as I was turning it, I basically bashed the entire side of the car with Tom into the wall. It was nearly sort of game over. But luckily he’s very cool.”

    Kimmel wanted to know if they charged her for that, and took it out of her pay. “Yeah,” Jones joked, “I mean they did say ‘That’s it. Job’s over, you’re going back to England.’” Not really, though, which is another reason why being a movie star is such an awesome gig. Where else can you play human bumper cars with the likes of Tom Hanks and walk away scot-free? (Plus, she got to negotiate the best contract for this film.)

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  • Tom Hanks Almost Wins ‘Black Jeopardy’ in Unifying SNL Sketch

    “Saturday Night Live” great again.

    October 22 marked his ninth time hosting the NBC show, and that experienced showed. You can tell SNL trusts a host when they allow him or her a role in the cold open, and Hanks was part of the third debate sketch as Chris Wallace. He was more of the straight-man than the comic relief in that bit, but showcased his talents throughout the night — especially as David Pumpkins in the Haunted Elevator sketch, which would not have been anywhere near that funny without Hanks. (Any questions?)

    But one of the strongest bits of the night was “Black Jeopardy,” including Hanks as Donald Trump supporter Doug, competing against Keeley (Sasheer Zamata) and Shanice (Leslie Jones) — with host Darnell Hayes (Kenan Thompson) initially confused about how Doug ended up on this show. However, instead of mocking the Trump supporter, SNL chose to illustrate how Americans have more similarities than differences, with Doug turning out to be a natural at “Black Jeopardy” … at least until the end.

    Doug had all the right answers on not trusting the government, thumbprints, rigged elections, the Madea movie box set he bought at Walmart (“If I can laugh and pray in 90 minutes, that is money well spent”), local fix-it guys, and even skinny women vs. big girls.

    “Big Girls” answer: “Skinny women can do this for you.”

    Doug: “What is ‘Not a damn thing’?”

    Darnell, Keeley, and Shanice cheered at that, and Doug added, “My wife, she’s a sturdy gal.”

    But things took a dark turn in Final Jeopardy with the category “Lives That Matter.” It was good while it lasted, Doug!

    Watch that sketch and a few more from Hanks, including a “Sully” sketch with Alec Baldwin and a new “comedy show” for CBS about depressed professors:Benedict Cumberbatch is next, hosting SNL for the first time on Saturday, November 5.

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