Elliot Gould was the ultimate seventies guy, a lanky, incorrigible smartass whose whole laconic vibe said “I’m just here for the party”. He was the original Dude, just as The Long Goodbye was the original...
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Host: The host of today’s episode of
Saturday Night Live Classic is a handsome, charismatic light-skinned African-American darling of the American Left who made history via his revolutionary dalliance with...
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The Host: Saturday Night Live hosts don’t come much more obscure or forgotten than Jack Burns, a veteran writer and performer best known for his partnerships with George Carlin and later fellow Second City alum...
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The Good: A commenter a few weeks back called today’s episode the single greatest episode ever. That struck me as just a tad bit hyperbolic (Can any SNL episode be deemed truly great without an appearance by... Read
Host: For
Saturday Night Live writers, having an athlete/old-person/politician/non-performer as a host can be either liberating or dispiriting. It can be liberating in the sense that, I dunno, Norman Lear is...
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Host:Being a bicentennial baby, I was too young to experience Steve Martin’s stand-up super-stardom and early Saturday Night Live fame so one of the interesting aspects of writing this TV Club Blog... Read
The Host:Well, sports fans, it appears we have stumbled onto another
Saturday Night Live first. Today’s episode marks the very first time a professional athlete yucked it up alongside the Not Ready For Primetime...
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Host: I’d love to be able to tell you that Ruth Gordon absolutely rocked today’s episode of
Saturday Night Live, that she showed the young whippersnappers of her great, great grandkids’ generation what...
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February 29, 2008 - 3:20pm
Host: Nader, Nader, Nader. It’s a name that once inspired rapt admiration but now is more likely to angry up the blood. Few figures are more divisive. Depending on who you ask Ralph Nader—whose Presidential...
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February 22, 2008 - 12:40pm
Host: In Bob Woodward’s John Belushi biography
Wired Candice Bergen cites the third show she hosted
Saturday Night Live as the moment she grew bitterly disillusioned with the show and vowed never to...
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February 15, 2008 - 3:34pm
Host: The shining example of Jodie Foster gives hope to future generations of kiddie superstars that not every child star is doomed to end their days robbing liquor stores in Reno while clad only in a g-string and...
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February 8, 2008 - 3:07pm
Host: One of the more intriguing aspects of early
Saturday Night Live is how malleable the show was in its infancy. When Paul Simon hosted, for example,
Saturday Night Live stopped being a sketch comedy...
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February 1, 2008 - 1:40pm
Season 2, Episode 7th
Host: The opening monologues included in Shout Factory’s invaluable series of
Dick Cavett Show box-sets provide a fascinating window into what wasn’t particularly funny in 1972 or...
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January 25, 2008 - 3:37pm
The Host:Blame Buck Henry. According to
Saturday Night Live legend the seeds of a thousand obnoxious recurring characters and endlessly recycled catchphrases were planted when Buck Henry noticed that the very first...
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Classic Saturday Night Live
January 18, 2008 - 1:53pm
Host/Musical Guest: Throughout the long national nightmare of Hurricane Katrina I found myself returning over and over again to Randy Newman’s “Louisiana, 1927”. I wasn’t the only one. The song enjoyed a...
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Elliot Gould was the ultimate seventies guy, a lanky, incorrigible smartass whose whole laconic vibe said “I’m just here for the party”. He was the original Dude, just as The Long Goodbye was the original...
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