0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 5/6/2016
Free Comic Book Day celebrates its 15th anniversary this Saturday (May 7) with thousands of comic book shops around the globe participating in this event to promote literacy through comic books, and the local retailers that sell them. An estimated 6 million comic books will be handed out with 50 free comic books available from […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 4/27/2016
Last Wednesday (April 20), Pearl Jam was scheduled to play the latest date of their spring tour at PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina. Days before the show, however, the band announced that it had been canceled. It wasn’t illness, injury, or death that caused the cancellation, but a bill signed by North Carolina Governor […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 4/22/2016
The music world and pop culture were dealt yet another blow this year with the shocking news that Prince died on Thursday morning at his Minneapolis home, Paisley Park. His death at the age of 57 occurred just days following his release from a hospital after his plane made an emergency landing at Quad Cities International Airport […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 4/18/2016
After two weeks featuring hosts not particularly known for their comedic chops in Peter Dinklage and Russell Crowe, Saturday Night Live returned to a familiar face in former cast member and comedy legend, Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Unlike Crowe last week, Louis-Dreyfus carried a heavy load by appearing in all but one sketch, and guided SNL into […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 4/11/2016
For the second week in a row, Saturday Night Live selected a host more widely known for his dramatic work with Russell Crowe getting the gig this time around. Crowe was good in the four sketches he appeared in, out of nine total, but the lack of Crowe throughout the episode brings up questions about what he […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 4/4/2016
Saturday Night Live returned from another break with a rocky episode that started out rough and struggled to recover throughout the rest of the show. Most of the night was spent on sketches that seemed to have a good idea in the middle, but not a fully realized concept by airtime on Saturday. While this […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 3/31/2016
The latest superhero movie, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, was the No. 1 movie at the box office last weekend, despite poor reviews (currently 29% on Rotten Tomatoes) and fan backlash. Fans flocked to theaters to see two of comics greatest heroes duke it out on the big screen, and left disappointed when a jar […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 3/14/2016
A month ago, when Ariana Grande was named as the host and musical guest for the March 12 episode of Saturday Night Live, expectations were pretty low. Before her music career took-off, Grande was mostly known as Cat Valentine on the Nickelodeon shows Victorious and its spinoff, Sam & Cat. The latter received more press […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 3/7/2016
Jonah Hill has hosted Saturday Night Live four times now, establishing himself as a host who is comfortable performing on the show. Even though Hill in recent years has moved into slightly more dramatic fare in movies, he has never been one to shy away from being the butt of the joke. This serves him well at […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 2/23/2016
The premiere of season 38 of Saturday Night Live featured the first appearance of cast member Jay Pharoah as President Barack Obama. Fred Armisen — who is of German, Venezuelan, and Japanese descent — appeared in “honeyface” to impersonate the president during the previous four seasons. The handoff of Obama from Armisen to Pharoah can be […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 2/16/2016
The Grammys, a three-and-a-half-hour concert with a couple of awards thrown in for fun, took place Monday night in Los Angeles. The show had its fair share of pop and country acts that play well in middle America, but also featured stellar performances from rapper Kendrick Lamar, and the cast of the Broadway musical Hamilton. It […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 2/15/2016
Hosting for the fourth time (or fourth and one-sixteenth according to her monologue), Melissa McCarthy once again showed that she is one of the most comfortable hosts in recent Saturday Night Live history. She almost seamlessly fits into sketches with her brand of self-deprecating humor on full display, which elevates the performances of the cast […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 2/8/2016
Long-time fans of Saturday Night Live know the history between the show and Larry David. Hired as a writer for the final season of Dick Ebersol’s disastrous tenure from 1981 to 1985, David famously only ever had one sketch, “The Great Elevator Stool Debate,” make it to air during his lone season at SNL before Lorne Michaels returned […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 2/5/2016
In January 1993, Michael Jackson popped out from a stage at midfield of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. and changed the Super Bowl halftime show forever. The previous 26 Super Bowl halftime shows were a mixture of university marching bands, the cultish Up With People, and appearances from aging movie stars like Carol Channing, Mickey Rooney, […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 1/25/2016
The athlete host has a long history at Saturday Night Live, starting with Hall of Fame quarterback Fran Tarkenton all the way back in the second season (Jan. 29,1977). Sometimes, this experiment works really well (Charles Barkley, Peyton Manning), while other times, it is an utter disaster (Nancy Kerrigan, Michael Phelps). Ronda Rousey’s first time hosting, […]
