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Saturday Night Live: season 35, episode 6
"January Jones/Black Eyed Peas"
November 15, 2009 - 01:11p.m.
There is a maddening paradox to this year’s spectacularly underachieving season of Saturday Night Live. The show is full of funny, talented, dynamic young performers. I like just about everyone in the current incarnation of the Not Ready For ...
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Saturday Night Live: season 35, episode 5
Taylor Swift
November 8, 2009 - 09:11a.m.
What I don't understand is, why go to the trouble of hiring new writers and new cast members if SNL is just going to show the same sketches season after season? At the very least I'd rather have ...
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Saturday Night Live: season 35, episode 4
"Gerard Butler/Shakira"
October 18, 2009 - 02:10p.m.
If you enjoy laughing at archival footage of famous people laughing then the good folks over at Budweiser Golden Wheat (which only sounds like something R. Kelly would serve his underage guests) had a treat for you! For the first ...
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Saturday Night Live: season 35, episode 3
"Drew Barrymore/Regina Spektor"
October 11, 2009 - 01:10a.m.
Coming off one of its biggest seasons, SNL is pretty much 0-for-3 this year with a mostly exhausting episode that wasn’t offensively bad – it was pretty inoffensively bad, but bad nonetheless. The problems for the show this year are ...
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Saturday Night Live: season 35, episode 2
"Ryan Reynolds/Lady Gaga"
October 4, 2009 - 01:10p.m.
Three and a half decades into its storied existence, an air of homemade, “let’s put on a show!” amateurishness clings to Saturday Night Live. One of the truest things anyone has ever said about Lorne Michaels’ venerable institution is ...
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Saturday Night Live: season 2, episode 3
SNL Weekend Update Thursday
October 1, 2009 - 08:10p.m.
Hmm. It's not a great episode of SNL Weekend Update Thursday when the funniest thing in it was a Hall and Oates song about the healthcare system. Actually, I might still have found that the funniest thing even if ...
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Saturday Night Live: season 35, episode 1
"Megan Fox/U2"
September 27, 2009 - 10:09a.m.
OK, let's get it out of the way: someone dropped the fuck-bomb on SNL last night--and, poor lamb, it was a new cast member on her very first episode. Jenny Slate either ruined or solidified her spot on the ...
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Saturday Night Live: season 2, episode 2
SNL Weekend Update Thursday
September 24, 2009 - 08:09p.m.
I think that last week's weekday Weekend Update had a few things going for it that tonight's didn't: the anticipation of the fall comedy season, a general buildup of topics from the summer and, between the VMAs ...
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Saturday Night Live: season 2, episode 1
SNL Weekend Update Thursday
September 17, 2009 - 08:09p.m.
Tonight was my first time catching SNL's half-hour weeknight installment and although I'll always watch the full Saturday night version, I wouldn't mind if the show solely existed in this form (although it was funny that even ...
