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NBC The SNL Finale Was a Mishmash of Everything the Show Needs to Fix
The send-off to Season 44 might end up functioning as a send-off to a particularly toothless era for Saturday Night Live.
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Jordin Althaus / E! Entertainment Busy Tonight Ended Just as Its Host Was Finding Her Voice
Busy Philipps exited the late-night lineup right when it felt like she’d finally arrived.
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Netflix The Raunchiest Women on TV Are Technically Birds
The new Netflix series Tuca & Bertie is a delightfully frenzied addition to the range of shows depicting female desire.
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NBC Adam Sandler Finally Returned to SNL—And He Delivered
One of the show’s most famous alumni hosted for the first time since departing in 1995, lending a pleasantly nostalgic air to an otherwise stagnant episode.
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NBC Saturday Night Live Finally Digs Into the College-Admissions Scandal
But rather than deepening its satire of the bizarre story, the show also went after the legal troubles of Julian Assange and Michael Avenatti.
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NBC Saturday Night Live Brings Back a Folksy and Handsy Joe Biden
Jason Sudeikis returned to satirize the likely presidential candidate as a “tactile politician” who’s simply out of touch with current norms.
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The CW How Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Revived the TV Musical—And Liberated Its Heroine
The CW show, which is ending after four seasons, gave new life to a genre that was losing ground on the small screen.
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Will Heath / NBC Saturday Night Live Wades Into the Chaos of the Mueller Report
“Well, this week made me feel insane.”
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Pop The Bombastic Matriarch of Schitt’s Creek
With her eccentric vocabulary and fashion sense, Moira Rose (played by Catherine O’Hara) deploys her words and her wardrobe as a kind of plumage.
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Ali Goldstein / Netflix One Day at a Time Taught Its Fans How to Say Goodbye
The beloved Netflix sitcom understood loss as an inevitability. But the show’s cancellation after three seasons is still difficult for many viewers to accept.
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NBC The Lackluster Return of Saturday Night Live Had One Real Standout Moment
A delightful “Weekend Update” appearance from John Mulaney and Pete Davidson gave a jolt of energy to an otherwise uninspired episode.
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Kevork Djansezian / Reuters The Leaked Louis C.K. Set Is Tragedy Masked as Comedy
A year ago, the comic promised to reflect on his behavior after admitting to sexual misconduct. Now he’s making jokes about the inconvenience of empathy.
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NBC The Saturday Night Live Sketch That Sums Up All Online Discourse
Matt Damon and Leslie Jones screaming at each other about the relative merits of Weezer was cleverer than it might sound.
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Annie Sullivan / Smithsonian John Leguizamo’s Required Reading for America
Inspired by his one-man show, Latin History for Morons, the comedian recommends three books that challenge one-sided narratives of the past.
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Larry Downing / Sygma via Getty Images Dana Carvey’s George H. W. Bush Was an All-Time Great SNL Impression
The comedian’s take on the late president might seem tame by today’s standards, but it seized on the little details to deliver incisive satire.
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Cara Howe / Netflix / Arsh Raziuddin / ... Hasan Minhaj Invites You to Take Off Your Shoes
The host of the new Netflix series Patriot Act turns a tested sphere—the topical talk show—into an immigrant home.
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NBC Saturday Night Live’s Confusing Celebration of Jeff Bezos
Steve Carell played the Amazon CEO as an anti-Trump crusader in one of the show’s more baffling sketches.
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NBC A Veterans Day Apology From Saturday Night Live and Pete Davidson
The comedian walked back an insulting joke about incoming Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw, who lost an eye fighting in Afghanistan.
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HBO The Grotesque Brilliance of Sally4Ever
The HBO series from the British writer Julia Davis is depraved cringe comedy at its most inexplicably compelling.
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NBC Saturday Night Live Shows Some Teeth Mocking Fox News
In the lead-up to the midterms, the show parodied cable-news hysteria over the migrant caravan, and contrasted it with liberal panic over the coming election.
