Demetri Martin shows of his cleverness on “The Overthinker”

Demetri Martin is smarter and cleverer than you and this is something you need to learn to live with. No,… MORE

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Jim Gaffigan’s “Noble Ape” harnesses tragedy for the sake of comedy

The days of stand-up comedy feature films have dwindled with the advent of streaming options and Netflix’s huge catalog of… MORE

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Donald Glover Loves Singing, Hates Shirts on ‘SNL’

It’s officially festival season, the time of year where celebrities appear next to each other completely out of context. Do you need to see a picture of Shania Twain, Nicki Minaj, and Timothée Chalamet hanging out? I got you. This episode of SNL provided an equally surreal meet-up. During goodbyes, the first person Martin Short […]

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‘SNL’ Is Always Better When John Mulaney Writes It

Photo: Will Heath/NBC John Mulaney has been putting up #tbt pics of his SNL years all week, and he has barely aged. And although his face has remained that of an ageless lifesize doll, Mulaney has grown a lot as a performer. When he did “I Love It” on Update back in his writer days, […]

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Chadwick Boseman Hosts a Silly Yet Woke ‘SNL’

CARDI B IS PREGNANT!!!! Also there was some live comedy. There episodes of SNL where the musical guest, for one reason or another, outshines the host. The best sketch of Larry David’s latest episode had more Miley Cyrus than him in it. But sometimes the musician is just more newsworthy. Usually in a bad way […]

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Bill Hader’s Big ‘SNL’ Reunion

Bill Hader has always struck me as more of an ensemble player, in the vein of Phil Hartman and Chris Parnell. It’s not that he can’t carry a sketch, it’s that he seems to have more fun in bigger group pieces. Almost every character Hader performed in this episode was a stone cold freak, and […]

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Bill Hader’s Big ‘SNL’ Reunion

Bill Hader has always struck me as more of an ensemble player, in the vein of Phil Hartman and Chris Parnell. It’s not that he can’t carry a sketch, it’s that he seems to have more fun in bigger group pieces. Almost every character Hader performed in this episode was a stone cold freak, and […]

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Sterling K. Brown’s Delightful ‘SNL’ Hosting Debut

What a night for Melissa Villaseñor! After a season and a half of 1-2 lines every episode, she was featured in five sketches this weekend and closed out the show with a banger Nickelback rendition. I think the episode needed her more reserved stage presence to counterbalance Sterling K. (Kathleen) Brown’s theatricality. Brown brought a […]

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Sterling K. Brown’s Delightful ‘SNL’ Hosting Debut

What a night for Melissa Villaseñor! After a season and a half of 1-2 lines every episode, she was featured in five sketches this weekend and closed out the show with a banger Nickelback rendition. I think the episode needed her more reserved stage presence to counterbalance Sterling K. (Kathleen) Brown’s theatricality. Brown brought a […]

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Reviewing the Third and Final Season of Netflix’s ‘Love’

It was perhaps overambitious to call a TV show Love. Like a show co-creator Lesley Arfin’s prior gig, Girls, the title suggests a universality that the content can’t satisfy. Love, which concludes its run with its third season (now streaming on Netflix), concerns a man and a woman (Gus and Mickey) who meet and fall […]

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