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Saturday Night Live: season 35, episode 17
Jude Law/Pearl Jam
March 14, 2010 - 08:03a.m.
While there were too many weak recurring sketches and characters (“Secret Word”, Fred Armisen’s incompetent stenographer, Kenan Thompson as Whoopi Goldberg) to keep last night’s episode from being a total success, there were enough new sketches, some of ...
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Saturday Night Live: season 35, episode 16
Zach Galifianakis/Vampire Weekend
March 7, 2010 - 08:03a.m.
When I read Nathan's recap of last week's SNL I noted his observation that maybe this show shouldn't be covered every week anymore. "Oh, but that was for the Jennifer Lopez episode," I thought optimistically. "I've ...
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Saturday Night Live: season 35, episode 15
"Jennifer Lopez/Jennifer Lopez"
February 28, 2010 - 01:02p.m.
Jennifer Lopez is now in the enviable position of having people not care about her personal life. Lopez began as a dancer on In Living Color, became an actress, then a movie star, then a pop star, then a brand ...
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Saturday Night Live: season 35, episode 14
Ashton Kutcher/Them Crooked Vultures
February 7, 2010 - 09:02a.m.
SNL has tried, and mostly failed, to find the funny in the Obama administration. The writers have attempted to critique it but they've fallen short of the standard of topical political humor they delivered during the '08 election. Last ...
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Saturday Night Live: season 35, episode 13
Jon Hamm/Michael Bublé
January 31, 2010 - 09:01a.m.
Last night Jon Hamm returned to host SNL for the second time, and I think most of us had fairly high expectations. He's a charming and handsome dude who obviously enjoys doing comedy, and his last time hosting was ...
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Saturday Night Live: season 35, episode 11
"Sigourney Weaver/The Ting Tings"
January 17, 2010 - 01:01p.m.
I experienced a powerful bifurcated response to watching 30 Rock as a civilian this last Thursday. The critic in me felt like it shared many of the weaknesses of recent episodes and paled in comparison to shows from 30 Rock ...
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Saturday Night Live: season 35, episode 11
"Charles Barkley/Alicia Keys"
January 10, 2010 - 01:01p.m.
In previous Saturday Night Live TV Club posts I have raged semi-coherently about the show’s current policy of only using hosts neither me nor any of my fellow nursing home residents have heard of, sentient fetuses with glisteningly white ...
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Saturday Night Live: season 35, episode 10
James Franco/Muse
December 20, 2009 - 10:12a.m.
Since I'm filled with the spirit of Christmas, and since I'm also tired of complaining about the same issue I have with SNL week after week, for the most part I'm just going to skip talking about ...
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Saturday Night Live: season 35, episode 9
"Taylor Lautner/Bon Jovi"
December 13, 2009 - 01:12p.m.
Watching Saturday Night Live is a good way to feel old. I was born a year after the show debuted in 1975, so when teenybopper hosts with big teeth, perfect skin and Colgate smiles joke about being eighteen years younger ...
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Saturday Night Live: season 35, episode 8
Blake Lively/Rihanna
December 6, 2009 - 11:12a.m.
To me, the most interesting part of last night's episode was the tag informing us that next week, Taylor Lautner will be hosting. I get it, SNL. I am too old to watch your show. Yes, I know that ...
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Saturday Night Live: season 35, episode 7
Joseph Gordon-Levitt/Dave Matthews Band
November 22, 2009 - 10:11a.m.
Best episode ever?
Of the season, I mean. I had a feeling ahead of time that Joseph Gordon-Levitt could pull off a good show--I liked him on 3rd Rock from the Sun and if, as a kid, he could be ...
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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 ...
