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‘SNL’ promotes writer Leslie Jones to series regular
Saturday Night Live writer Leslie Jones has been promoted out of the writer’s room and onto the stage. She was hired back in January along with LaKendra Tooks and Sasheer Zamata in response to criticisms of the lack of African-Americans on SNL. Jones has done some sketches in the past, but a recent Weekend Update […] More
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Watch Chris Prat’s SNL Highlights from the premiere of the 40th season
The debut of the 40th season of NBC’s Saturday Night Live was broadcast over the weekend and Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt hosted the premiere episode which some people think is one of the better, more consistently funny episodes in a good while, and others feel it is a mixed bag. Regardless of where […] More
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It’s Not TV: HBO, The Company That Changed Television: Golden Age: Part 1
“Every winning streak will have to end sometime.” Jahinger Khan In recognition of the job HBO CEO Michael Fuchs had done growing HBO and diversifying its business, he was invited uptown in 1995 to take over Warner Music while still keeping HBO as part of his new, expanded dominion. Assuming Fuchs’ top exec slot at […] More
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4 reasons why MAD TV was (and still is) better than SNL
SNL is a show that runs hot and cold; it’s had good years (mid70s, early 90s) and bad (most of the 80s). Now nearing the end of its current season, it seems to be in another of its mid-decade slumps. The new faces in the last few seasons didn’t add much to an already mediocre […] More
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The Televerse #82- SCTV with Pat Healy
The dramas were not kidding around this week, giving us plenty of great television to talk about and pushing this podcast to the longer side. First we break down the comedies, then the prestige dramas, and then we look briefly at some reality before finishing up our week in TV with some genre fare. Next […] More
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The Televerse #82- SCTV with Pat Healy
The dramas were not kidding around this week, giving us plenty of great television to talk about and pushing this podcast to the longer side. First we break down the comedies, then the prestige dramas, and then we look briefly at some reality before finishing up our week in TV with some genre fare. Next […] More
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Video of the Day: Sean Lennon, Yoko Ono – “Don’t Frack My Mother”
Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono have recruited a number of celebrity friends for their latest entry in their Artists Against Fracking campaign. On top of putting up billboards, presenting petitions and running a TV ad the pair have rounded up celebrities including Liv Tyler, Susan Sarandon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and SNL‘s/Portlandia’s Fred Armisen and created this feel […] More
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Watch The SNL Digital Short Spoof Of Batman, With Steve Buscemi
Steve Buscemi proved to be a great host on last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live. Buscemi, who first hosted the NBC sketch-comedy show in 1998, took on such topics as “The Miley Cyrus Show,” which portrayed the teen star as a stoner, “Coach Bert,” which centered on a college basketball coach who is being […] More
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