0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 1/18/2016
Some of us (aka me) may have unfairly judged Adam Driver based on two things: Girls and that scene in Star Wars: The Force Awakens where Kylo Ren removes his mask. I’m giggling now just thinking about that scene. But please accept my apology, Adam, because you were pretty stellar on Saturday Night Live. I am […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 1/15/2016
Thursday morning, the nominations for the 88th Academy Awards were announced in Beverly Hills, Calif. Though the acting, directing and Best Picture awards get the most attention, Best Original Song is also among the 24 categories announced. Nominees for Best Original Song must “consist of words and music, both of which were original and specifically […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 1/4/2016
When we look back on music in 2015, the conversation will be dominated by Adele who has sold almost seven million copies of her latest album, 25, in a little over a month. The second-best selling album of 2015? Taylor Swift’s 1989, which was released in 2014, and sold almost two million copies last year. […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 12/21/2015
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler did exactly what everyone expected them to when they hosted the latest episode of Saturday Night Live. They did a Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin sketch, they showed up on Weekend Update, and they were funny. It might not have been the funniest episode of the season so far, but […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 12/18/2015
In August 2012, the Savannah stoner rock group Baroness was in the middle of a European tour supporting the album, Yellow & Green, when their bus plummeted 30 feet off a viaduct near Bath, England. In total, nine people were injured (including all four members of the band), but thankfully no one was killed. Lead singer John […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 12/16/2015
I was about halfway through Adam Sandler’s new Netflix movie, The Ridiculous 6, when I realized that I hadn’t laughed. I had sighed, grunted, and said, “What?” out loud, but I wasn’t laughing. This lasted for another hour until The Ridiculous 6, an utterly terrible attempt to parody the western, was over. That’s right, this […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 12/14/2015
In the early days of Saturday Night Live, it wasn’t surprising for a host to return within the same season or calendar year. Candice Bergen, Buck Henry, and Elliott Gould all hosted twice during the first season with Henry hosting 10 times total during the show’s first five seasons. But as SNL grew in popularity […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 12/10/2015
One of the unofficial traditions at Saturday Night Live is breaking, which is unintentionally breaking character, usually by cracking a smile or laughing in the middle of a sketch. It has been a part of SNL from the very beginning. Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg even used it as the basis for the digital short, “That’s […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 12/7/2015
Saturday Night Live is fun again. For the third episode in a row, viewers were treated to some fantastic writing and performances from the cast. These are the types of shows that bring viewers back and put to rest the “Saturday Night Dead” articles for a few seasons. With two more episodes this month before […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 11/23/2015
The Matthew McConaughey who hosted Saturday Night Live in 2003 was a different person. The McConaissance was still 10 years away and he was there to promote How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, the latest in a string of romantic comedies that led to the Texan being typecast and ultimately, a change in […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 11/16/2015
After the hoopla of last week’s Donald Trump episode, Saturday Night Live returned to normal with first-time host Elizabeth Banks. This episode felt looser and less tense, which was most likely helped by having a seasoned comedic actor like Banks as host, and not a presidential candidate prone to calling people “loser.” Through five episodes […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 11/9/2015
Enough has been written about Donald Trump’s appearance on Saturday Night Live during the past week that I’m not going to add another take on whether he should have hosted or not. We know why SNL would want Trump (ratings), and we know why Trump would want to host (ego), so it makes perfect sense for […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 11/5/2015
For six years, Marc Maron has hosted a podcast, WTF. The show has become so popular and influential that this past summer, President Barack Obama sat down in Maron’s garage — which doubles as his studio — for a chat. During a discussion at a New Yorker Festival event last month, Maron let the audience […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 11/3/2015
It took 27 episodes to finally break me, but two weeks ago I finally decided that Gotham was a waste of my time. I could probably list a couple dozen times that I should have called it quits, but the fifth episode of the second season, “Scarification,” contained a scene that was the last straw. […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 10/30/2015
The Saturday afternoon horror movie was a staple in the lives of many young Americans during the last half of the 20th century. The movies presented were rarely anything better than a schlocky, B-Grade horror movie with most of the good stuff (blood, gore, profanity, and nudity) edited out. But we sat there, and wasted perfectly […]
