That’s it, the network TV season is over. I would ask how you felt about it but, let’s be honest, you don’t watch network TV anymore. You watch Game of Thrones and, if you’re really cool, you maybe downloaded Horace & Pete (if you haven’t, you should). You’re a young, busy, hip person; you don’t […]
The Skeleton Twins is both incredibly witty, heartbreaking, and one of my favorite films of the Year, so far! If you asked me over the years which generation of Saturday Night Live performers would have the best careers, I probably would have said the Will Ferrell/Molly Shannon crowd. Through my personal experience I never found […]
Girls are crazy for Channing Tatum. Seriously, there was a row of girls behind me at The Vow who literally squealed when he appeared shirtless for 15 seconds (they also giggled during the love scenes and muttered “say yes” in case Rachel McAdams looked like she might say no). And, like the Gerard Butler fascination, […]
Not only was the best part of last night’s Saturday Night Liveclearly the awkwardly fantastic interactions between Mark Zuckerberg, “MARK ZUCKERBERG” (Andy Samberg), and Jesse Eisenberg during the latter’s opening monologue, but check out the ending when Eisenberg ends the show and then he and Zuckerberg stand there awkwardly, proving once and forevermore just how […]
It was so good to see Amy Poehler on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Her bit with Seth Meyers on Weekend Update was hilarious. The dynamic between these two is always great to watch. Good to see you, AMY! Really?!?!?! THAT WAS AWESOME! Some other highlights: -Taylor Swift was funnier than I thought she would […]
Saturday Night Live is a tedious show to watch. Its lack of consistency often creates lackluster shows, with maybe a funny skit here or there. However, despite the script of the sketch or the character he plays, Bill Hader makes watching Saturday Night Live hilarious. To his voice, facial gestures, and timing in his skits, […]
Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday premiered tonight (alongside a decent season premiere for The Office and a promising series premiere for Joel McHale’s new show Community) and it exceeded expectations (which, in all fairness, weren’t particularly high). The episode as a whole was just average (the concept of an overflow Weekend Update segment on […]
Just when we thought that Kirsten Wiig (SNL‘s only woman with full castmember status since Amy Poehler’s departure) was getting a little backup (go-to straight girl Casey Wilson was paying her dues and newcomers Michaela Watkins and Abby Elliot were showing lots of promise with hilarious characters and dead on impressions), Saturday Night Live showrunner […]
In an SNL season that has been wildly uneven post-election, where even the best hosts seemed poor served by bad material (Alec Baldwin’s underwhelming hosting gig comes to mind, as does the very up-and-down turn served by Neil Patrick Harris; in both cases, the hosts themselves were fine, but the material just didnt live up […]
This time it’s a couple that I didn’t even know knew each other. Elisabeth Moss (known to today’s audiences as Peggy on Mad Men but remembered fondly by me for her role as Zoe Bartlett on The West Wing) and Fred Armisen (the man behind SNL‘s Obama) recently announced their engagement. I’m trying to imagine […]
Tonight was Saturday Night Live’s first episode of 2009, as well as their first episode since the departure of Amy Poehler. And they coped remarkably well, at least in my biased opinion. The very fact that Neil Patrick Harris was the host made me like the show. It could have been the worst episode in […]
Saturday marked the last episode for beloved SNL cast member Amy Poehler. Through 7.5 Saturday Night Live’s brightest stars, and also the first in history to be nominated for an Emmy for best supporting actor. From her dead-on impressions of Dakota Fanning, Sharon Osbourne and Christian Siriano, to her always funny talk shows “Bronx Beat” and “The Cougar Den”, to her fantastically pathetic self-portrayal as a Bon Jovi-obsessed teenager, to her key […]
Why was this week the Fred Armisen show? He seemed to be in every single sketch. While I loved seeing Amy Poehler back and always appreciate a good Vinnie Videcci segment, what stood out for the week was the Armisen-ness. Heavily featuring Armisen over some of the lesser talents like Will Forte and Jason Sudeikis is […]
Let me preface this post with an apology 1) for the fact that I haven’t posted since Saturday and 2) for the fact that I won’t be posting regularly again until next week. I’m on vacation see, not at my normal location or on my regular TV schedule. That will not stop me, however, from […]
Though I’m very excited to get 30 Rock back, I’ll be sad to see SNL Weekend Update Thursdays go. I don’t have time to watch the full show every week so having 22 minutes of just the political stuff was really great. Politics has always been a Saturday Night Liveforte and Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler […]
Fred Armisen on SNL. His Obama impression is dead on and his “political comedian” Nicholas Fehn is perhaps my favourite character on the show. SNL repeats- the perfect summer solution. Dominic Cooper. Not only is he the star of The History Boys (one of my all-time favourite movies) but with Mamma Mia, Dom Cooper proved […]
Tina Fey hosted the first Saturday Night Live post writers strike this past weekend. BRILLIANT!!!!!!! Fey was the perfect choice. She spent 9 years on the writing staff at SNL then served as not only a cast member but the first ever female head writer on the show. After leaving the show, she went on […]