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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.
Here is a whole bunch of ‘Game of Thrones’ news that I overlooked last week in favor of otters.
Watch John Oliver’s clever plan to educate our Dummy-in-Chief
‘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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