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The celebrities are mad at ICE

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Can you guess which three network TV shows were the most watched last season and which Netflix show beat them all?

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In which the administration is considering going full ‘Hunger Games’ with a new reality TV show, because of course they are

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Lady Gaga goes dark in an absurdist ‘Saturday Night Live’

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Saturday Night Live
Lady Gaga
March 8, 2024

This is Lady Gaga’s second time to serve as both host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live — the first time being back in 2013 (with an unfortunate duet with R. Kelly that she’d rather not talk about … except in the monologue), and the question that must be asked is, what took so long? I mean, besides simply not having time for it between her TV appearances, feature films, campaigning for Oscars, being the Super Bowl halftime act, dueting with Tony Bennet, leading a Las Vegas residency, performing in the Olympics opening ceremonies, and getting engaged, what else better did she have to do?

Fortunately, her schedule allowed her to swing by Studio 8H this week, and she gave her all, both in the sketches and in her musical performances. Gaga, who has become a respected actress since her last time hosting SNL, was clearly happy to be there: relaxed, funny, and game for whatever SNL threw at her. And they threw a lot of strange stuff at her: weight-lifting mice, ritual sacrifice, flapper funerals. Still, whatever material they gave her, Lady Gaga leaned into it — in fact, the stranger the better, it would seem. It wasn’t a uniformly great episode, but it wasn’t for lack of enthusiasm from Gaga.

Hey, SNL casting director? Make sure it’s not another 12 years before she hosts again.

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‘Love is Blind’ is out here trying to gaslight us into believing that these are five different white guys

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Kendrick Lamar takes his Drake beef to the biggest stage in the world, LOL

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The Grammys got all political last night. For some reason. Can’t imagine why.

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Oh boy, here comes the orange clown car of cabinet appointees!

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Hope you weren’t too excited about that ‘Modern Family’ ‘reunion’

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Bad Bunny hosts el primer bilingual ‘Saturday Night Live’

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Saturday Night Live
Bad Bunny
October 21, 2023

Puerto Rican rapper and singer, Bad Bunny (also known as Benito Ocasio), presented the writers of Saturday Night Live an unusual test last night: English is not the host and musical guest’s first language, and, based on last night’s performance, he’s not particularly a strong English-speaker. Lest you think I’m being insulting to Mr. Bunny, let me say right now that I have consistently pointed out that hosting a live comedy show as a non-comedian would be terrifying for anyone. So I have nothing but respect for this Spanish-speaking singer as he chose to go out on the Studio 8H stage and host in another language.

But as I started to say: the language thing was a challenge. The writers needed to come up with ways to write Bad Bunny into sketches that would not embarrass him or be too dialogue-heavy that he wouldn’t be able to relax and have fun with it. And for the most part, they came up with some very clever workarounds: one sketch is entirely in Spanish — and it works; they set another sketch entirely in the world of telenovelas; and they brought out Pedro Pascal a couple of times to assist.

Not all of the bits worked: the more Bad Bunny was required to speak in English, the more uncomfortable he appeared and the more it went off the rails. That said, ultimately it was a more successful episode than last week’s premiere, in large part because the writers were facing a unique challenge, one that forced them to not be lazy lest they make the host look bad.

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