0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 3/9/2015
For the second week in a row, Saturday Night Live delivered a moderately funny episode. This time around, Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth — who was there to either promote The Avengers: Age of Ultron two months in advance, or Blackhat two months after its release — was the attractive host given the weak material with […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 3/3/2015
With Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson hosting, you knew Saturday Night Live would have its fair share of jokes at the expense of the highest-grossing movie of the first two months of 2015. While one sketch, “Press Junket,” did air on Saturday’s episode, another was “cut for time.” The cut Fifty Shades of Grey sketch is […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 3/2/2015
Dakota Johnson had a pretty good February. She starred in one of the most anticipated movies of the year, Fifty Shades of Grey, she presented at the Oscars, and on Saturday night she hosted the return of Saturday Night Live after the show took almost a month off to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Johnson was at […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 2/20/2015
Kyle Mooney grabbed a microphone and took to the streets around Rockefeller Center to awkwardly interview people before this past Sunday’s SNL 40 celebration. In this unaired sketch, Mooney discusses classic cast members like “Mikey Ritter” and “Fred Armistad” while making more than a couple people slightly uncomfortable. “40 SNL’s With Kyle” was originally supposed […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 2/18/2015
Wednesday evening, former Saturday Night Live cast member Norm Macdonald took to
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 2/17/2015
When I was 14, I rented Unforgiven to watch with my grandpa while visiting his house for a weekend. Being a big fan of westerns, I figured he would enjoy one that had recently won an Oscar for Best Picture and starred Clint Eastwood. While my grandpa was a fan of westerns, he was a […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 2/16/2015
Saturday Night Live is an American institution. To say anything less is to disregard the show’s cultural, social, and political impact over the past 40 years. For many of us, it is the reason we were first able to stay up late watching television — or maybe it was the first time we rebelled and […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 2/9/2015
The Grammy Awards are really more of a three-hour concert than an actual awards show. Sure there are some 200-plus nominees in 83 categories, but only nine awards were handed out during the actual telecast on CBS Sunday night. Instead of seeing your favorite artists walk up, thank their agents, and say they didn’t expect […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 2/2/2015
After several weeks of stellar episodes, Saturday Night Live fell back to earth a bit with this week’s (Jan. 31) episode. While host J.K. Simmons hosted admirably, the material surrounding him was average at best which led to this ho-hum episode. Simmons was actually very good, but good acting doesn’t necessarily translate to a funny episode, […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 1/26/2015
Saturday Night Live has used the dual host/musical guest to great effect since the beginning of the show in 1975. Paul Simon, Lily Tomlin, and Desi Arnaz doubled as host and musical guest during the first season, and just last season Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, and Drake all carried on the tradition. Blake Shelton may have appeared an unlikely […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 1/20/2015
This week’s Saturday Night Live cut for time sketch stars Kyle Mooney’s stand-up comic character Bruce Chandling. Chandling bombs at the Gotham Comedy Club, gets mocked by his fellow comedians, runs into Kevin Hart backstage, and wins him over with a “great” television show idea. It appears that SNL was attempting to move Chandling out […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 1/19/2015
Saturday Night Live returned after almost a month away with Kevin Hart hosting and Sia as the musical guest. While the show started strong, including a great monologue from Hart about raccoons and putting his son in harm’s way, it stumbled a bit during the second half. Overall though, another good episode in a season full […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 1/15/2015
Earlier this morning the nominations for the 87th Academy Awards were announced in Beverly Hills, California. Among the 24 categories announced were the five nominees for Best Original Song. Here are the five nominees: “Everything is Awesome” from The Lego Movie “Glory” from Selma “Grateful” from Beyond the Lights “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 1/12/2015
According to Pitchfork, a previously unreleased video for “Too Many Rappers” featuring Nas from the Beastie Boys final album, The Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, was recently discovered on the website of video editor Neal Usatin. Beastie Boys message board member “Eoin MCL” posted their discovery yesterday afternoon: “While on a bus journey watching the […]
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This week, Saturday Night Live returns after almost a month away with host Kevin Hart and musical guest Sia. Sounds like a pretty typical line-up for SNL; Hart’s new movie, The Wedding Ringer, opens on Friday and Sia is currently one of the biggest acts in music. Except Sia has decided to stop showing her face […]
