Category: saturday night live
‘Hacks,’ ‘The Veil,’ ‘Ghosts’ season finale, a double dose of John Mulaney and everything else you don’t want to miss on TV this week
‘SNL’s’ Heidi Gardner explains why she broke so hard during that Beavis and Butt-head sketch
As Former President Individual One begins his criminal trial, I find myself developing a new respect for ~checks notes~ Reacher?
BREAKING: Ryan Gosling and everyone else on ‘Saturday Night Live’
Saturday Night Live
Ryan Gosling & Chris Stapleton
April 13, 2024
Somehow this is only Ryan Gosling’s third time to host Saturday Night Live which … just doesn’t feel right. But according to my sources, the first time he hosted was in late 2015, and then in 2017, and now this week. Which begs the question — HOW DID WE GO SEVEN YEARS WITHOUT RYAN GOSLING HOSTING SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE AGAIN? LORNE?
Because here’s the thing: especially following Barbie, I’m pretty sure the entire world agrees that Ryan Gosling is not just a pretty face, he’s genuinely hilarious, and clearly delights in being funny. But maybe he delights a little too much in being funny, especially if you’re one of those people who hates when the host and/or cast begins breaking mid-scene. Because Ryan Gosling Can. Not. Keep. It. Together.
Hating it when the cast breaks is a legitimate complaint that many people have — I’m old enough to remember Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz making each other crack up which felt like a cheap way to make the audience laugh with them when the sketch wasn’t otherwise working. That said, Gosling’s giggles seem genuine, and they are, like it or not, highly contagious.
Bring him back sooner THAN SEVEN YEARS FROM NOW, Lorne.
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The Golden Marriage has already ended in Golden Divorce (who could have possibly golden predicted?)
Kristen Wiig receives a star-studded induction into ‘Saturday Night Live’s’ Five-Timer’s Club
Saturday Night Live
Kristen Wiig & Raye
April 6, 2023
Kristen Wiig is arguably one of Saturday Night Live‘s greatest former cast members — which is why it is no surprise that she is one of only five cast members who has hosted enough times to be inducted into the Five-Timers Club. (Can you name the other four?)
But despite her greatness as a cast member and her success off the show, Wiig has not had the most successful run with hosting the show. In 2016, I said the episode “was the equivalent of putting on an old sweatshirt: comfortable, familiar and warm, but not something you’ll remember even two days from now”; in May 2020 — which was in the middle of the pandemic and one of those difficult at-home episodes — Wiig only appeared in two bits, one of which was a “weird-and-not-weird-in-a-funny-way-just-weird monologue”; and in December 2020, I found the material to be “mediocre” and gave it a B-. (I don’t have her first episode from 2013 here in the Foolish archives, unfortunately.)
So I am happy to report that for this momentous occasion, the writers gave Wiig some good material to work with and supported her with a bevy of superstars, and as a result, Wiig finally hosted the Saturday Night Live episode that her talents deserved.
‘Fallout,’ ‘The Sympathizer, ‘Franklin,’ The Eclipse, and everything else you don’t want to miss on TV this week
TV recommendations and listings for Friday, April 5.
The end of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ ‘Walker,’ ‘Ripley,’ ‘Mary & George,’ and everything else you don’t want to miss on TV this week
Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)
Walker — “Duke” — Image Number: WLK105b_0340r — Pictured: Jared Padalecki as Cordell Walker — Photo: Rebecca Brenneman/The CW — © 2021 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
