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…completely incoherent and ripe for parody. Ryan Long’s smart, challenging, and hilarious parody of woke racism is something SNL should be able to produce regularly. What’s worse is that SNL’s…
…SNL. It was a reckoning for the show that had long made a mockery of people like Crenshaw, and those that support him. It showed that SNL, despite its savagely…
…and SNL is only three weeks into its latest season. Still, we’re heading into the weirdest election in recent memory and the famed sketch show hauled in A-List talent to…
Elon Musk’s turn at the helm of “Saturday Night Live” was awkward, but highly rated. For “SNL’s” flailing staff, there are some useful lessons to be drawn from the episode…
…funny enough. But SNL’s quality should be higher than that of amateur improvers on YouTube. The Kavanaugh sketch was a good example of the easy, edgeless humor that characterizes much…
When we say something was “painful” to watch, more often than not, we don’t literally mean it caused us physical pain. When I say “SNL At Home” was painful to…
…politics has produced in recent memory. Naturally, you would expect “SNL” to mine the Trump presidency for smart satire with great success. But that’s not really happening. A sketch that…
…have to say anything else. Watch “SNL’s” attempted spoof of Rogan from Saturday. https://twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/1459745432922374150?s=21 The real joke is that major corporate media outlets falsely accused Rogan of treating himself with…
…out. The show isn’t over yet, but Vance is winning the tug-of-war—and appropriately so. “SNL” let PC critic Chris Rock take a well-deserved swipe at the show during its season…
…hosting Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a ratings success, “SNL” ratings tumbled in an episode with comedian Keegan-Michael Key and artist Olivia Rodrigo. As Deadline reported, the episode last week…
“Saturday Night Live” and Peggy Noonan are on the same wavelength. In a sharp sketch last weekend, SNL mocked the insatiability of progressive keyboard warriors. A fictional game show called…
…tribute to — and here’s where it gets weird — Hillary Clinton. Tonight’s cold open with Kate McKinnon. #ChappelleOnSNL pic.twitter.com/zZhQOLhKXY — Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) November 13, 2016 And it…
…“SNL,” or to ask who, in particular, wanted its placement there. As someone intimately familiar with how media and politics work, shouldn’t Stelter know that Planned Parenthood has openly bragged…
…sharpest segments SNL has produced since the 2016 presidential campaign. The segment is a mock rap video entitled “Permission”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAL0wZu4JUg Chris Redd and Kenan Thompson star as the “Booty Kings,”…
…cover for people who profit from killing other humans and selling their dissected body parts for profit. So much for human rights. It may shock SNL writers, but the decline…
…have not impacted his source of income. In fact, The New York Times reported last week that “SNL” was able to find a loophole to keep their live studio audience…
Even the leftist comedy sketch writers at “Saturday Night Live” recognize GOP Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney as a Republican in name only. Over the weekend, SNL aired a game show…
…best efforts at being candid and relaxed come across like a very rehearsed, flat joke told during an awards show, and her SNL appearance was no exception. Perhaps her efforts…
…don’t know her or her family. But the real indication here is in how quickly SNL moved from a depiction of Conway that was considered empathetic and showed a harried…
…Various folks made fun of the Washington Post for feeling the need to fact check an SNL skit: What SNL got right and what it got wrong in their portrayal…
Reason magazine’s Remy Munasifi just dropped a hilarious parody version of the late Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” mocking “Saturday Night Live’s” awkward funeral for Hillary Clinton. His lyrics point out that…
As women, never in history have we had more opportunities. We can be mothers, career women, or some combination of the two. We can personalize what it means to live…
…talent among the cast and writers’ room has never been static. Most fans attribute their favorite seasons and casts of SNL to a time close to their teenage years when…
…conservatives and defenders of free speech away from shows like SNL. If SNL thinks casting a midwestern comic in the image of Larry the Cable Guy is the way to…
…Shane Gillis, we have decided that he will not be joining SNL,” said SNL’s executive producer Lorne Michaels. https://twitter.com/andrewrchow/status/1173688876415823872?s=20 We want SNL to have a variety of voices and points…
…the Trump White House on SNL is jarringly one-sided, evident of writers who fail to find any kind of humor in an administration that serves it up on a silver…
Pete Davidson apologized to Lt. Com. Dan Crenshaw for mocking his appearance on “Saturday Night Live.” The Congressman-elect wholeheartedly accepted the apology, before executing the greatest troll of all time….
“Saturday Night Live” recently introduced three new cast members, including Shane Gillis, a comedian who uses racial slurs and has created racially insensitive content. In a podcast episode that has…
…that SNL was better than it was in decades past and they dismiss some of the groundbreaking performances we’ve seen more recently. But even I can’t deny how absolutely horrible…
…midterm election season. (He was also funny, a combination of good writing from “SNL’s” team and his own delivery. ) Crenshaw could have closed the “SNL” door entirely last Sunday…
Kaitlan Collins, entertainment editor at The Daily Caller, joined Mary Katharine Ham in studio to talk the latest WikiLeaks news, this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live,” and the disappointment of “The…
…them predictable and most importantly, unfunny. There was a time when SNL actually followed the comedy golden rule, that “When comedy isn’t at all dangerous, it’s boring.” Now, SNL stays…
…the extreme ad for “St. Joseph’s Christmas Mass Spectacular!” Yes, usually SNL plays it safe by appealing to New Yorkers’ provincial political and religious views. But this parody works because…
…had to survive last Saturday’s now-infamous cold open: SNL’s Kate McKinnon put on her Hillary Clinton pantsuit and sat down at the piano and banged out a mawkish version of…
…didn’t stop the joke from amusing Davidson. Jokes about wounded veterans have not been historically well-received, and this SNL snafu was no different. Backlash was immediate, with many on social…
…her bizarrely sober performance of “Hallelujah” the episode after President Trump won. Regarding “SNL’s” partisanship, we didn’t need a tell, but this would certainly have qualified. (See also the chummy…