The Magicians
“A Flock of Lost Birds”
January 23, 2019
The Monster and Brian stand beside an ice cream truck. They’re both spattered with blood. The Monster says Brian got so much on him from that boring waiter. He can get cleaned up when they get to the temple in Greece. They have to hurry now.
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Saturday Night Live
John Mulaney &
March 2, 2019
When former Saturday Night Live cast members appear on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Meyers will sometimes do a bit called “Second Chance Theater” in which sketches that the cast members pitched but never made it on air are finally performed. That is what John Mulaney’s hosting gigs for SNL have become: Second Chance Theater for sketches he and his writing partners wrote a decade ago, but never made it on air. And the thing is, it must be deeply gratifying for Mulaney and his fellow writers because as it turns out, these rejected sketches? Far better than most of the crap they put in any given episode.
Last year the rejected sketches were “Diner Lobster” and “Sitcom Reboot,” this year, the rejected sketch involves a toilet. Yes, a toilet, and it is hilarious. Mulaney needs to come back once a season, each time with a rejected sketch — or, better yet, let’s just have him host every week and let him do whatever the hell he wants.
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Manifest
“Hard Landing”
February 11, 2019
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