The Office is arguably the best sitcom ever made, and no example highlights this more than the first five minutes of the episode "Stress Relief". TV shows love their cold opens. For dramas, they can ...

"Stress Relief" is not only one of the highest-rated episodes of The Office, but it features the fire drill—one of the most ...

The cold open ensures that no one changes the channel and that viewers stay through the commercial break—or even on the streaming channel, where it’s easy to pick something else.

This week's "Saturday Night Live" cold open took aim at President Donald Trump's heated exchange with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, sarcastically calling it a meeting that "went really ...

With a smorgasbord of greatest hits past and perhaps present, Saturday Night Live went successfully mega-meta tonight in the sometimes bubbling over cold open of its Season 48 debut. “I got to ...

Not tonight, when the cold open stuck to the tried, true and Trump — though the finesse of Day’s Jordan almost makes one wish the flame-throwing Ohio congressman had scored the Speakership, ...

In 'SNL' cold open, Pete Hegseth shares war plans with high school girls Kieran Culkin crashes Jon Hamm's 'SNL' monologue. Johansson wasn't the only A-lister to make a cameo in Saturday's episode.

“Saturday Night Live” kicked off Season 50 with a predictably star-studded cold open that put a focus on the upcoming presidential election, lampooning the rallies held by candidates Vice ...

Viewers blasted “Saturday Night Live’s” cold opener after the show mocked this week’s congressional hearings on antisemitism on college campuses — hours after University of Pennsylvania ...

Home TV Late Night TV ‘SNL’ Cold Open Successfully Goes Full Meta With Some Donald Trump, Jon Hamm, Shaun White & Self-Deprecation Galore In Season 48 Premiere ...