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Kamala Harris’ first post-election interview will be with Stephen Colbert tonight, so expect President Doinkus to try suing CBS again
Colbert and Stewart have the same message to Paramount and President Felon: “Go Fuck Yourself.”
Dr. Phil’s hokey network is failing and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving person
Timothée Chalaleads a surprisingly strong ‘Saturday Night Live’
Saturday Night Live
Timothee Chalamet
January 25, 2024
Our host Timothee Chalamet is nearly 30 years old, you guys, and it feels like he has grown up before our eyes because he has. This is his third time to host, the last two times being in 2023 and 2020. And I have to admit, the little guy is growing on me! Chalamet has always been a game host, though not always the most comfortable with comedic material. But in the past five years, Chalamet has matured a great deal and become a lot more comfortable both in his own skin and with comedy. This episode was without question his best SNL outing, both because he had fun material to work with it and he was just having such a good time with it.
Additionally, Chalamet was the musical guest last night, performing his “favorite” Bob Dylan songs in honor of his Oscar-nominated performance in the Oscar-nominated film, A Complete Unknown. It was a risky choice: while there have been a number of hosts who have also served as the musical guest (49, to be exact, including Chalamet) most of those were by performers who are best known as musicians before actors. Depending on how you count Donald Glover, the number of hosts who were not known as musicians, excluding Chalamet, are exactly three: Lily Tomlin, Deion Sanders, and one Gary Busey. It should be noted Sanders and Busey each hosted exactly one time. But it was a risk that paid out for SNL and Chalamet: his performances were remarkably strong, and well-received overall.
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Chris Rock comes home for a perfectly fine ‘Saturday Night Live’
Saturday Night Live
Chris Rock & Gracie Abrams
December 14, 2024
Remarkably, this is only the fourth* time Chris Rock has hosted Saturday Night Live since he was a cast member back in the early nineties. Despite (or maybe because of) being comedy royalty, Rock hasn’t really spent that much time in the 8H studio that helped make him a star. And honestly, it’s probably for the best? Rock seemed unprepared for live television, hesitant at times, and clearly dependent on the cue cards and teleprompter. It was almost like he was coasting on being Chris Rock.
As for the episode, it was … fine. It was completely fine and unmemorable. It was a mid episode of Saturday Night Live, featuring a couple of legitimately funny sketches, a bunch of middling ones, and a couple of desperately unfunny bits. But most unfortunately for Rock, the episode will probably be best remembered for an unexpected cameo from an entirely different SNL alum. (Not Dana Carvey.) (Thank goodness.)
*Fun little fact: note the Prince symbol necklace Rock is wearing in the bumper photo above? Prince was the musical guest when Rock hosted for the second time in 2014. R.I.P. Prince.
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