Category Archives: Saturday Night Live
Must Flee TV: ‘SNL’ Says Goodbye to Kristen Wiig – We Know What We Got When It’s Gone
For the last week we’ve been taking a look at NBC’s Thursday night comedies, but with Kristen Wiig’s sendoff on ‘SNL’ this past weekend we decided to add her departure to the conversation. It’s not worth going into detail about … Continue reading
Lindsay Lohan on ‘SNL’: Sobering Saturday
Four days have passed since Lindsay Lohan returned to host Saturday Night Live, and the benefit of time does nothing to portray her performance in any more of a positive light. Yes, in spite of her wooden, stumbling, at times … Continue reading
Did the Oscars Set Rip-Off ‘Saturday Night Live’ Circa 1985?
Well, perhaps it’s reparations for SNL stealing Billy Crystal’s mildly racist black people at the movies joke, but it appears that Crystal and the last night’s Academy Award’s telecast stole their set from the one used in Studio 8H during Season … Continue reading
Filed under Flashback!, Rip-off, Saturday Night Live, You Decide, Yvonne Hudson
Muppet Monday: Our Long-Awaited Thoughts on the Impending Arrival of ‘The Muppets:’ Or Why We’re Dreading the Thing We Wanted More Than Anything Else
In two days The Muppets will return to theaters after more than a decade away from the big screen. It seems like just yesterday that we were salivating over the whispers of a Muppet resurrection orchestrated by Jason Segel (yes, that Jason … Continue reading
We Finally Weigh-in On Hank Williams Jr.’s Controversial Hitler Comments
We dunno, we were kind of always under the impression he was a bit of a loose cannon.
Filed under Checks & Balances, Saturday Night Live, Weigh-in
Suds in Your Buds
Jumped the Snark favorite Jason Sudeikis was the guest on today’s WTF Podcast with Marc Maron, and he proved once again that he’s clever, humble, grounded, genuine and, more than anything, gracious. He still might be our next movie star … Continue reading
Filed under Good Humor, Mancrush, Marconi & Cheese, Saturday Night Live
This Is Exactly the Kind of Thing They Should Have Featured on ‘SNL Backstage’
A few weeks ago we griped that the recent prime-time special Saturday Night Live Backstage was thoroughly underwhelming, in large part because it recycled previously seen interviews and failed to deliver any new insight into what goes on behind the … Continue reading
Filed under Analysis, Saturday Night Live
Did ‘SNL’ Rip-Off Jumped the Snark?
Wellllll, no, not really. But it’s really curious that no less than a month ago we posted a video of Taboo, the fifth member of the Black Eyed Peas, visiting the 4th hour of Today and then this past weekend … Continue reading
Filed under Makes You Think, Rip-off, Saturday Night Live
This Is What a Teenage Starlet on ‘SNL’ Looks Like
Miley Cyrus came by SNL this week and, despite generally positive reviews, we still found it pretty average. Nothing egregious about it, nothing particularly horrible, but really nothing to write home about. And the feedback for Cyrus was mostly polite, … Continue reading
Filed under Analysis, Saturday Night Live
