Welcome to another writers’ strike. Now what?

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Kieran Culkin lifts up ‘Saturday Night Live’

Saturday Night Live
Kieran Culkin
November 5, 2021

Thirty years ago, Kieran Culkin began his acting career in a small role in his brother Macaulay’s breakout hit, Home Alone, playing one of the McCallister cousins. (And he was pretty cute):

In fact, Kieran’s career has long played out in the shadow of his older brother’s, despite being a very talented young actor in his own right. Go watch Igby Goes Down when you get the chance — he’ll blow you away.

It wasn’t until Kieran’s bitingly sharp role as Roman Roy on HBO’s brilliant Succession that audiences began really appreciating Kieran as the talent that he is.

It’s tempting to pull the ol’ “I liked him before he became cool” card with Kieran Culkin, but the truth is I’m just happy he’s finally getting the recognition he’s deserved for literally decades now. And in terms of hosting Saturday Night Live, he was just as nimble and funny as you would expect, able to play the straight man or the comedic focus with equal ease. All in all, another solid performance from baby brother.

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David Chase has finally revealed what happened to Tony Soprano. But ask yourself: do you really want to know? Really?

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I assure you, you are not ready for this British reality dating show clip.

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Yes, the creator of ‘Squid Game’ got shady with LeBron, but he had a lot of other interesting and more important things to say, too.

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Annnnd … we’re back! (But Fox News’ Ivory Hecker won’t be.)

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Let’s take a moment to worry about Hurricane Florence and to yell at bad men

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Ed Sheeran has deleted his Twitter account because y’all couldn’t be cool about his ‘Game of Thrones’ cameo.

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To celebrate his 100th day in office, Trump returned to one of his biggest hits: attacking the First Amendment

 

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‘Saturday Night Live’: Alec Baldwin takes his time making fun of Trump

Saturday Night Live
Alec Baldwin & Ed Sheeran
February 12, 2017

As I’m sure you know by now, Alec Baldwin’s appearance as host of Saturday Night Live was his 17th, thereby setting a hosting record. What you might not have known is that it gave Saturday Night Live its highest ratings in six years, besting even Donald Trump’s appearance in 2015. I can’t wait to see our President’s tweet about how he got “swamped” in the ratings by the guy who impersonates him. In fact, I am going to sit here and hold my breath until that happens.

~inhales~

While we all wait for that tweet, let’s discuss the fact that even though one of the reasons so many people tuned in last night was to watch Trump be skewered, Saturday Night Live buried their only Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump sketch in the back end of the episode. It wasn’t a bad sketch — playing off a joke set up in the cold open that Trump would see the 9th Circuit Judges in People’s Court, the bit was as funny if not funnier than a lot of the Baldwin as Trump cold opens. So why put the one thing that everyone tuned in for so late in the episo– oh, wait. I just answered my own question.

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