Simply titled, “Don’t Stop Believin’ (Marching Band) – SNL” this recent satire featuring Bowen Yang, Zoe Kravitz, Ego Nwodim, Chris Redd and Heidi Gardner is the undeniable greatest SOAT (skit of all time). Mr. Yang’s illuminating commentary gives furtive dramatic life to the manic hopes, troglodyte fears and impermissible ambitions of partially informed music bloggers …
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This was last night’s last skit. I hope everyone caught it. I was amazed that with a simple, off-center concept they were able to get such a hearty laugh out of me, and I don’t laugh at much anymore. This tickles my weakness for the absurd while awakening nostalgia for good times and loud, dated …
The best of the best. Doctorate level Pop Culture Recombination studies:
This early Saturday Night Live video (season 3) is astonishing too, and bizarre, and awesome — for a couple reasons. 1. John Belushi’s Samurai character. He did it in a number of contexts, I think some of the cultural context is lost now, or maybe it was never there and that was the point, an …
Here’s a good Bill Simmons piece on the SNL 40 special: http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/ready-for-prime-time-the-giddy-brilliant-and-ok-somewhat-bloated-snl-40/ I actually managed to catch most of it last night, though I wasn’t even aware it was on until partway through. The one comment I would add is that Paul Simon’s appearance at the end was a little dispiriting. His voice sounded every …
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Here’s an interesting blog piece about the Replacements one and only appearance on Saturday Night Live in January of 1986. (Thanks to Tim Midgett.)
If you missed this, you must see. Zach Galifianakis hosted a a very funny episode of SNL on 3/12/2001:
I resisted this for more than week, and shouldn’t have. This is def. worth it, partic. on St. Val. Day: