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NOT a Not!Live Blog of last night’s Oscars. (But maybe the next best thing.)
Happy Mother’s Day! Amy Schumer and ‘Saturday Night Live’ got you this perfectly safe episode!
Saturday Night Live
Amy Poehler Schumer & Kacey Musgraves
May 12, 2018
It’s Amy Schumer’s second time to host Saturday Night Live, and for the most part, she was fine! She was fine. But last night’s episode also felt a little safe and careful, lacking the boldness and danger that Inside Amy Schumer — the show that made Schumer a star — specialized in. With the exception of one sketch (“The Day You Were Born”), and a wonderful “Weekend Update” cameo, the entire episode felt safe, almost as if the writers and cast didn’t want to do anything that would embarrass their mother’s too much on Mother’s Day eve.
Speaking of that …
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Late Night says goodbye to Al Franken and the rest of what you missed last night
RuPaul, ‘Bob’s Burgers’ and all the other Emmy winners you care about but won’t see on Sunday’s broadcast
Get ready to do the chicken dance, ‘Arrested Development’ is officially returning for a fifth season
‘Saturday Night Live’: Melissa McCarthy rides again as Sean Spicer, maybe for the last time?
Saturday Night Live
Melissa McCarthy & Haim
May 13, 2017
What can be said about Melissa McCarthy and Saturday Night Live that I haven’t already said in her other four appearances as host? Melissa McCarthy is a comedy genius and such a natural fit on Saturday Night Live and last night was no exception and even my husband who harbors an unreasonable hatred for Melissa McCarthy agrees that the Sean Spicer bits are pretty hilarious and it is patently absurd that she has hosted the show exactly as many times as Scarlett Johansson what is that even about.
President Darkest Timeline just threatened the press again in the latest twist in our current Constitutional crisis
Steve Harvey has gone and lost his damn mind and other TV news
‘Saturday Night Live’: A Spicey Easter
Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Fallon & Harry Styles
April 15, 2017
Let me be upfront with you: I am probably grading this episode of Saturday Night Live harsher than it deserves, but Jimmy Fallon, ugh. I don’t dislike the guy, but I do wish I could go back to when I looked forward to him hosting Saturday Night Live because he was such a reliable professional. However, in the wake of everything that has happened in the past 18 months or so, Fallon hosting SNL forces us all to pretend for an hour and a half that he and the show didn’t do their damnedest to normalize Trump. He didn’t need to have Trump on as a guest and floof his hair and Saturday Night Live didn’t need to have Trump on as a host and try to make him look like he could take a joke — but they did because they couldn’t resist the ratings gold and now he’s President and I still blame them both a little bit so, you know, fuck fairness.