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The head of NBC Entertainment is (allegedly) a huge bigot. I am shocked. This is my shocked face.
The Emmys will be hostless this year, and honestly, it’s doubtful anyone will even notice
There’s a bunch of TV news out there, but it’s really hard to pay attention to any of it when the President of the United States is out here trying to start a race war.
In which I talk about sportsball for a hot minute. (Don’t worry, this won’t become the norm.)
Kit Harington is going around torturing everyone with how ‘Game of Thrones’ ends and even his wife didn’t speak to him for three days
Late Night thanks Black women for saving America in the Alabama election:
Good morning. Your idiot President is back in the country and tweeting about TV for some reason.
You’re going to be surprised, but Hollywood had a few things to say about Trump’s Muslim ban.
John Cena is brawny and brainy on an uneven ‘Saturday Night Live’
Saturday Night Live
John Cena & Maren Morris
December 10, 2016
Having an athlete host Saturday Night Live is something of a crap shoot. Some athletes are naturally charismatic and funny, like Charles Barkley and the Manning brothers, but for the most part, these are not people who have much in the way of comic timing or acting abilities.
But you know who have both of those skills in spades? Professional wrestlers. And professional wrestler John Cena is an undeniably charming individual with clearly a good sense of humor about himself. The only real surprise about his hosting of SNL is that it took this long to happen. Unfortunately for John Cena and his comedy talents, he was underserved by the writing on an uneven episode of Saturday Night Live last night.
Some sketches played on Cena’s physique and athleticism hilariously, others felt like half-good ideas gone wrong. One political sketch was one of the best they’ve done all season, another was a complete waste of time. It was just all over the place. Maybe when Cena returns — and hopefully he will return — the writing will be as strong as his weirdly giant muscles.
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