With SNL reairing November 2023's Timothée Chalamet/boygenius show, we look at how the Season 49 episode sold us on Chalamet's talents.
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NBC's Saturday Night Live Season 49 had a decently solid opening back in October 2023, with SNL alum Pete Davidson and musical guest Ice Spice kicking things off After that, it was host/musical guest Bad Bunny – and things were starting to get a wee bit concerning Having taken the past two weeks off while[...]
Welcome to a new edition of SNL Second-Guessing, our weekend series where we look back on NBC's Saturday Night Live Season 49 shows (depending on what's being repeated during the between-seasons break) to see if we missed anything the first time around, to shine a spotlight on standout sketches that deserve more love, or to[...]
As we inch closer to the return of NBC's Saturday Night Live for its milestone 50th season, we've been using this downtime from the long-running late-night sketch comedy/music series to look back on Season 49 for some "SNL Second-Guessing." What we do is take a look back at an episode from the most recent season (based[...]
If it's Saturday night and NBC's long-running late-night sketch comedy/music series is still running repeats from Season 49, then that means it's time for another round of "SNL Second-Guessing," where we look back at an episode from the most recent season (based on the show being repeated during the summer off-season) and spotlight a sketch[...]
Welcome back to another edition of SNL Second-Guessing, where we look back at an episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live Season 49 (based on the show being repeated during the summer off-season) and spotlight a sketch or a situation that deserved a bit more attention Sometimes, it's for good reasons – as was the case[...]
How many live, late-night sketch comedy/music series can you think of that have been around for a half-century? And how many times was the show's "imminent demise" predicted by the press – with that painfully unoriginal "Saturday Night Dead" stinking up a headline? But even as the spotlight shines on what's to come beginning this[...]
Welcome back to this weekend's edition of "SNL Second-Guessing," with this go-around taking a look at Season 49 Episode 16, with host Kristen Wiig and musical guest Raye Here's how it works. With NBC's Saturday Night Live only months away from its milestone 50th season, there's going to be a lot more going on than usual,[...]
With NBC's Saturday Night Live Season 49 officially in the record books, we've been shifting into heavier summer coverage now that we're heading into the milestone 50th season We know that NBC has a three-hour primetime special wrapping up a celebration weekend in February 2025 – but what about the season and long-running sketch comedy/music[...]
For now, at least we have videos like these to help make the whole a bit easier – with the promise of at least a second part coming soon, SNL (in conjunction with T-Mobile) released a selection of bloopers from the season that just wrapped – which you can check out in the clip above.
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Yeah, this one is a nice combination of twisted and brilliant. And don't forget that host Jake Gyllenhaal (Apple TV's Presumed Innocent) and musical guest Sabrina Carpenter will be helping SNL put the finishing touches on its 49th season on May 18th.
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Saturday Night Live Season 49: Getting the SNL Cast Together…
Back in November 2023, SNL fans[...]
While maybe not in contention for best episode of Season 49, this weekend's effort was a fine return to form after a long break (and a whole lot of extra media attention) Here's a look at what worked (and one thing that definitely didn't), what our highlights were, how "Weekend Update" turned out, and Dua[...]
On May 18th, Jake Gyllenhaal (Prime Video's Road House) will host, joined by musical guest Sabrina Carpenter.
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Saturday Night Live Season 49: Getting the SNL Cast Together…
Back in November 2023, SNL fans got a chance to check out the official Season 49 cast image that Photographer Mary Ellen Matthews took – here's a look:
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE[...]
Here's how SNL, Ryan Gosling & Chris Stapleton pulled off a show so infectiously funny that even they couldn't help but get caught up in it.
How's that for impressive comedy?
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Saturday Night Live Season 49: Getting the SNL Cast Together…
Back in November 2023, SNL fans got a chance to[...]
NBC's Saturday Night Live returned this weekend with a solid effort from the SNL team, host Ramy Youssef, and musical guest Travis Scott.
So with some time to kill, we thought that we would offer a rundown of our Season 49 reviews so far – ranked from best to basement based on our "out-of-ten" rating and other factors – with the overall season coming in at around a 7.4/10.
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Saturday Night Live: Season 49 So Far…
A quick note[...]
Apparently, it will be the end of the month – with March 30th seeing host Ramy Youssef and musical guest Travis Scott heading to Studio 8H.
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Saturday Night Live Season 49: Getting the SNL Cast Together…
Back in November 2023, SNL fans got a chance to check out the official Season 49 cast image that Photographer[...]
If you're sticking with the current cast, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, or Sarah Sherman would make that cold open memorable – here's hoping it happens.
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And here's a look at everything you need to know about Britt's response, courtesy of MSNBC's Rachel Maddow:- followed by a look at the speech itself, courtesy of[...]
Now, it's Wednesday evening – meaning that it's time to check in with Brolin and the SNL cast during read thru for this weekend's show.
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That means that it's time to roll out the video red carpet ahead of a week's worth of promotion – though in a clip that we have below from NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers, Brolin offers some backstory on the very first "The Californians" sketch on SNL that's worth checking out.
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Since it's Tuesday, it's time to roll out the video "red carpet" welcome to Sweeney & Musgraves (with a midweek sketch and read-thru most likely on tap for tomorrow).
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Saturday Night Live Season 49: Getting the Cast Together
Back in November 2023, SNL fans got a chance to check out the official Season 49 cast[...]
It's the puppet emu who makes the sketch work – it's Gillis who comes across as the prop.
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SNL Season 49: Getting the Cast Together
Back in November 2023, SNL fans got a chance to check out the official Season 49 cast image that was taken by Photographer Mary Ellen Matthews – here's a look:
SATURDAY[...]
Setting aside his pre-show baggage, we're not sure what the point was of SNL having Shane Gillis host - but it missed the mark by a mile.
Now, here's a look at Gillis during the read-thru:
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Saturday Night Live Season 49: Getting the SNL Cast Together
Back in November 2023, SNL fans got a chance to check out the official Season 49 cast image that was taken by Photographer Mary Ellen Matthews –[...]
Now, here's a look at Gillis during the read-thru:
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Saturday Night Live Season 49: Getting the Cast Together
Back in November 2023, SNL fans got a chance to check out the official Season 49 cast image that was taken by Photographer Mary Ellen Matthews – here's[...]
Following that, on March 9th, we have Josh Brolin (Dune 2) hosting, with musical guest Ariana Grande.
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SNL Season 49: Getting the Cast Together
Back in November 2023, SNL fans got a chance to check out the official Season 49 cast image that was taken by Photographer Mary Ellen Matthews – here's a look:
SATURDAY NIGHT[...]
Let the f***ing ch**ks live there." Later in that same video post, Gillis has this to say about his experiences at Chinese restaurants: "The translation between you and the waiter is such a f—ing hassle, I'm pointing at it." Gillis then appears to attempt to differentiate their discussion by calling it "nice racism, good racism."[...]
Host Ayo Edebiri, musical guest Jennifer Lopez & SNL's writers/cast shouldn't have had to compete with distractions outside of their control.
Let the f***ing ch**ks live there." Later in that same video post, Gillis has this to say about his experiences at Chinese restaurants: "The translation between you and the waiter is such a f—ing hassle, I'm pointing at it." Gillis then appears to attempt to differentiate their discussion by calling it "nice racism, good racism."[...]