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Comic-Con was this weekend, so we have SO MANY trailers to watch.
Gayle King has some choice words for you poors who can’t afford to go to space
Let’s get in formation: Queen Bey will be with Vice President Kamala Harris in Houston tomorrow
Michael Keaton Beetlejuice’s his way into a so-so ‘Saturday Night Live’
Saturday Night Live
Michael Keaton and Billie Eilish
October 19, 2024
Michael Keaton is 73 years old, only a year or two younger than my own parents but that’s neither here nor there except to say that he’s one of our acting treasures and I’m glad he’s having a moment with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and he looks great for his age and that he was not the thing that dragged down this episode.
What I am saying is that SNL has run for four weeks in a row, which, at least in recent years, is not the norm (it’s usually 3 episodes on, 1 off); and maybe the writing staff needed a break. (I’m guessing the idea was to be off the week before Halloween so that they could be on both the week before and after Election Day.)
ANYWAY. Michael Keaton, who has hosted in 1982; 1992; 2015; and now in 2024, wasn’t the problem: he was nimble and funny and game. The problem lay more in the writing and the concepts of the sketches that fell short. Hopefully, everyone gets a nice week off and comes back refreshed ahead of the MOST TERRIFYING ELECTION SEASON OF OUR LIVES.
No pressure.
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Turns out Lorne Michaels isn’t leaving ‘Saturday Night Live’ anytime soon. Sorry, Tina Fey.
We’ve put eyes on Kate Middleton and we all have a lot of apologizing to do.
In which I begin the new year by yelling at Peter Dinklage.
Even Emma Stone can’t save this ‘Saturday Night Live’ (though she tries her best)
Saturday Night Live
Emma Stone & BTS
April 13, 2019
Emma Stone is so charming, so good-natured (or at least seemingly so), so up for anything, that she makes even weak material better with her sheer pluck. That said, “better” isn’t “good,” and as I’ve said about countless other episodes, Emma Stone deserved better than whatever this mess of an episode was. Sure, there were a pair of good sketches that I might fondly remember at the end of this season (but not by the beginning of the next) but there were many more clunkers and sketches that were just flat-out terrible that I feel genuinely sorry for our host.
I am sure Stone will return soon enough to claim that Five Timers Club jacket — the show clearly loves her and trusts her. I just hope when she returns they give her material worthy of her.
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