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David Harbour and Oscar the Grouch keep a good ‘Saturday Night Live’ streak alive

by Therese Odell, posted in saturday night live, saturday night live: season 45

Saturday Night Live
David Harbour & Camila Cabello
October 12, 2019

David Harbour is famous now for Stranger Things, but he’s been around for a long time (fun facts: he was in Brokeback Mountain, that Fox/Greg Kinnear series, Rake, and The Newsroom before finding success as Jim Hopper). He also has a wicked sense of humor, and a willingness to both be goofy and play to type — which makes him an ideal guest host for Saturday Night Live.

While this week failed to live up to last week’s, it was still pretty good — particularly for this grab bag of a show. And though nothing this week was as brilliant or daring as the racial news sketch of last week, this week’s Joker spoof will probably go down as one of the best sketches of the season.

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‘Saturday Night Live’ returned with Woody Harrelson, a bunch of other stars and a nod to Rice University. And it was OK.

by Therese Odell, posted in saturday night live, saturday night live: season 45

Saturday Night Live
Woody Harrelson & Billie Eilish
September 28, 2019

Welcome to the 45th season of Saturday Night Live, a season that was marred before it even began by a casting controversy after the show cast a “conservative” comedian whose “humor” involved making fun of Asians, women, and homosexuals. Hilarious! He was fired, but not before everyone and their racist uncle decried “cancel culture” for a solid week.

I’m just going to put this here for no particular reason:

The show returned last night with two new cast members, Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang, the show’s first Asian-American cast member ever, and both acquitted themselves quite nicely in the episode.

As for the episode itself: it was fine. It was fine! There wasn’t any one particular sketch that made me angry (with maybe the exception of Woody Harrelson’s monologue, but to use the word “angry” here is strong — it mostly just left me irritated), but there weren’t any knock it out of the park, A+ sketches either. Instead, everything felt comfortable and predictable — not boring, exactly, but also not memorable in the long haul, either.

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Mandalorians, Muppets and Jeff Goldblum, oh my!

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I’ve made a list of the best TV shows of 2019 (so far) — let’s argue about it!

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Just two weeks ago another woman accused the President of the United States of raping her and somehow we have already moved on from it.

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Mueller Report blah blah blah, LET’S WATCH SOME ‘GAME OF JONES!’

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Did your favorite show just get renewed? (To be completely honest, probably not.)

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