Category: saturday night live

Emma Stone’s induction into ‘Saturday Night Live’s’ Five-Timers Club deserved more fanfare

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Saturday Night Live
Emma Stone & Noah Kahan
December 2, 2023

As I have said twice before on this very site, Emma Stone is a natural for Saturday Night Live: she is charming, she is delightful, she is gorgeous, and she is game for anything. Stone clearly loves doing the show — she does not sleepwalk through the sketches; she is clearly enjoying herself as much as anyone.

And that’s why it’s always something of a disappointment when she hosts: she has so much to give … and SNL has so little to offer her. Even her monologue this week feels half-assed despite the fact that she joined the Five-Timers Club with this episode. Granted, this week’s episode received a much higher grade than the last two times she hosted — they gave her two pretty great sketches this week, and she made the most of them. That said, Emma Stone isn’t a B+ host; SNL needs to start giving her A+ material.

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Is ‘The Daily Show’ going to go ‘Weekend Update’ on us and give us two hosts instead of one? Maybe!

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Welcome to day 399 of the Twitter implosion

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‘The Golden Bachelor’ finale, ‘The Artful Dodger,’ ‘May December,’ and everything else you don’t want to miss on TV this week

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The Artful Dodger (Disney+ & Hulu)

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Boy, that P. Diddy lawsuit … weird, right?

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Jason Momoa’s enthusiasm almost saves another ‘Saturday Night Live’ from itself. Almost.

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Saturday Night Live
Jason Momoa & Tate McRae
November 19, 2023

Jason Momoa first hosted SNL back in 2018, when he was still best known for being Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones. I gave the episode a B despite the lackluster writing, in large part for Momoa’s unbridled goofy enthusiasm. It’s been a long five years, what with Aquaman and Dune and Fast X and a global pandemic, but I’m here to tell you that not much has changed for Jason Momoa. He’s still that goofy, energetic guy whose enthusiasm is often the single thing that saves some pretty middling sketches from themselves. And you’ll never guess what grade this episode received.

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This ‘Modern Family’ reunion would be a lot cuter if it didn’t look like a funeral for one character

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Did a TikTok video just spoil the winner of ‘Golden Bachelor’?

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‘The Crown,’ ‘A Murder at the End of the World,’ the series finale of ‘Fear the Walking Dead,’ and everything else you don’t want to miss on TV this week

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Kim Dickens as Madison Clark, Lennie James as Morgan Jones – Fear the Walking Dead _ Season 7, Episode 16 – Photo Credit: Lauren “Lo” Smith/AMC

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Timothée Chalamet returns for another Timo-meh ‘Saturday Night Live’

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Saturday Night Live
Timothée Chalamet & Boygenius
November 11, 2023

The last time Timothée Chalamet hosted, it was December 2020, in the height of the pandemic, and I’d never seen any of his movies. It is now 3 years later, COVID is still with us, but (hopefully) on the retreat, and I have seen one (1) Timothée Chalamet movie: Dune. It was good! He was good!

Back in 2020, I noted that Chalamet wasn’t exactly a comedic actor but seemed to be having a good time, even with mediocre material. Three years later, I’m happy to report that Chalamet is still having a good time and much more comfortable doing comedy, even with mediocre material. Last night’s Saturday Night Live was not one that I’m going to remember, but I’m not mad at it, either, and Chalamet neither made that better nor worse. He was a servicable host for a servicable episode. Which, I’m afraid, is something of a compliment these days.

I will note that social media did have two very specific issues with tonight’s episode, which some people were REALLY MAD ABOUT. I challenge you to guess what they were as we go through the bits. I’ll reveal the answers when we get to the end.*

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