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The 39th season of Saturday Night Live reminds me a little bit of the New York Jets, which for those of you don’t follow football, does not mean to break out into an S-N-L, S-N-L, SNL SNL SNL chant; but rather, it’s one week’s great, the next week’s not-so great …
Sometimes a show gets defensive before you have a chance to criticize it accurately, and pulls out a series of unnecessary stops to make you stop and think, why does this need to be happening? That’s the thought that dominated this installment of Saturday Night Live. Why are Alec Baldwin …
Last week, NBC carried college football past 11:30 p.m., delaying the live start of Saturday Night Live in the Eastern and Central time zones (you Mountain and Pacific people, and people everywhere else, well, you saw SNL whenever you saw it, so you know who you were when you were …
Saturday Night Live has a big new cast for season 39. In case you didn’t know that or hadn’t heard, SNL wasn’t afraid to remind you again and again in the first half-hour that times continue to change because that’s how time works. It doesn’t keep slipping into the future. …
We’re one week away from the start of the first formal week of Saturday Night Live‘s 39th season, but NBC and SNL officially made a number of cast changes today. To wit: SIX new cast members. They are, in alphabetical order and pictured above: Beck Bennett, John Milhiser, Kyle Mooney, …
Hey comedy fans! A new installment of Mike O’Brien’s webseries, “7 Minutes in Heaven,” is here with special guest Tina Fey. O’Brien writes for SNL. Fey used to be head writer for SNL. Instant charisma, right!? Their chemistry is magic. One of these days, I’m going to remember that these …
SNL writer Mike O’Brien debuted a new web series today called “7 Minutes in Heaven,” which some of you kids may know as a game the teens play when they’re weird at parties and want to kiss other teens. In O’Brien’s case, he does bring his favorite people into the …
