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Billie Eilish is not the bad guy on a strong ‘Saturday Night Live’
Saturday Night Live
Billie Eilish
December 11, 2021
Wanna feel old? Billie Eilish is the first person to host Saturday Night Live that was born in this century because SHE IS NOT EVEN 20 YET. She is literally younger than one of my children, and now I have to go lie down for a while.
~siiiiigh~
Anyway, despite her youth and relative inexperience acting in front of live audiences, the singer was a very good first-time host: enthusiastic and game and genuinely funny. She had moments of wobbliness, but who wouldn’t. Overall the episode was the strongest of the season, not because the sketches were particularly hilarious, but instead because there weren’t any real duds that dragged the whole thing down. Also, after being missing for the first seven episodes, our girl Kate McKinnon is back and firing on all cylinders. Now promise you’re not going to disappear on us again, Kate. We obviously need you.
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‘Saturday Night Live’ and Anya Taylor-Joy save the best for last
Saturday Night Live
Anya Taylor-Joy & Lil Nas X
May 22, 2021
This was the finale episode for a very strange season of Saturday Night Live, in which, as the cast notes in the cold open, we experienced the end of the world, and yet they kept putting on shows. And it would appear they saved the best episode of the season for last. With a full, and full-throated, audience for the first time all season and hosted by the impossibly glamorous Anya Taylor-Joy who was able to show off her formidable comedy chops (seriously, go watch Emma), the show was fairly consistent and did not have a single sketch I felt deserved side-eye.
Instead, the episode played like a nostalgic and heartfelt goodbye to some of the show’s most famous cast members. It’s rumored that this is Cecily Strong’s last episode; Colin Jost has been making noise about wanting to leave after this season; and Pete Davidson all but said farewell on “Weekend Update.” It was also hard to miss Kate McKinnon holding back tears in the cold open while standing next to Strong, Kenan Thompson, and Aidy Bryant, the show’s four longest-tenured cast members. All four have outside projects that they’ve been working on of late, so it would not be shocking to see one or all of them fly out of the SNL nest this year. Still, they are easily the four strongest performers on the show, and it won’t be the same without them. If it is their final episode, I’m pleased it was such a good one.
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Alright, let’s talk about this Bachelor mess.
A mini-Seinfeld reunion will raise money for Texas Democrats: yadda yadda yee-haw!
Joe Exotic being the hero to get us through this crisis is entirely appropriate for the weirdest year in all of history.
Did you miss the ‘Game of Thrones’ chat today? It’s all cool. I have it for you here.
We’ll talk about TV stuff just as soon as I’m through yelling at you to register to vote
Watch late night’s takes on yesterday’s batshit insane Presidential press conference because they are the only ones qualified to handle this mess.
