SNL: Saturday Night Live

By Kate Brandli Lady Gaga upstages the host in the second SNL episode.

 OH - Jan 9, 2009 Performing together for several years on Saturday Night Live, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have proven to have sharp comedic skills and chemistry that served ...

By Barbara Barnett Hugh Laurie has a long and distinguished career as a sketch comedian and writer. A product of that most elite of British sketch comedy training grounds, the Cambridge University Footlights Club (where he worked with Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry, and followed such luminaries of the prev...

By Sherry Lipp This week marks Saturday Night Live’s first post-election episode. For weeks the show has been able to rely on plenty of material ripe for parody. Tina Fey’s turn as Sarah Palin gave the show its highest ratings in years. The big question is how will the show fare now that the election is over? A...

 OH - Nov 20, 2008 Chris Elliott himself was a SNL cast member during the 1984-85 season. Prior to joining Saturday Night Live, Elliott was a part of the Upright Citizens ...

By Sherry Lipp This week, Saturday Night Live was thrown for a bit of a loop when pregnant cast member Amy Poehler went into labor only hours before show time. Poehler's unexpected absence may have meant less sketches for the night, but Coldplay fans got a bonus. The band performed a third song ("Yellow") a...

 OH - Oct 27, 2008 This week, Saturday Night Live was thrown for a bit of a loop when pregnant cast member Amy Poehler went into labor only hours before show time. ...

By Sherry Lipp With the election only a little over two weeks away Saturday Night Live has become the focal point of political parody. For the most part SNL has done a good job of offering funny send-ups of the debates and candidates. SNL has even moved into prime time with several Thursday night (right afte...

By Sherry Lipp Saturday Night Live turned in its best episode of the season this past weekend, with Anne Hathaway as host. As expected, Tina Fey returned as Sarah Palin to spoof the vice-presidential debates. It was a return to form for the show and for Fey, who once again nailed her Palin character. Hathawa...

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By Sherry Lipp Tina Fey returned to Saturday Night Live this weekend to play vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The episode, which was hosted by House Bunny actress Anna Faris, was a slight return to form for the show. While I have been disappointed in the lack of laughs from the show as of late, this o...

By Sherry Lipp Saturday Night Live is off to a bit of a rocky start this season. Last week's season premiere opened with the very well done Sarah Palin/Hillary Clinton sketch. Former cast-member, Tina Fey, returned to play Palin. The sketch was a bit of a media sensation, and its popularity overshadowed th...

By The Masked Movie Snobs He wrote for what I consider to be the other golden age of Saturday Night Live (late 80's/early 90's), wrote great sketches, characters, and bits for The Dana Carvey Show and Late Night With Conan O'Brien, and then really made a name. ...

By Chris Beaumont Zombies and the old West? Sure, I'll buy that. It's a horror comedy? Sounds good so far. Wait a minute, it stars who? Chris Kattan, James Denton, and Navi Rawat? You're kidding me, right? Whose bright idea was it to take a former Saturday Night Live cast member, a member of the Desperate Housew...

By Cameron Archer Finesse Mitchell is one of many cast members who were on Saturday Night Live for a few years and never really did much while there. In Mitchell's case, his main claim to fame was as Starkisha, a character I always thought was one-note and pointless. His style while on SNL reminded me of a poor ma...

By Cameron Archer Let's get this out of the way. SNL in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation (May 6, 9-11 PM, NBC) has the same problems as SNL in the '80s had, albeit not as noticeably. Clips and musical guests still don't match the seasons. Not everyone from the 1990s versions of SNL offer interviews for the documentary...

By Diane Kristine I started the season loving Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and with mixed feelings about 30 Rock. I'm ending it happy about the news that NBC renewed 30 Rock and with mixed feelings about Studio 60. While I mourn NBC's presumed cancellation of the pre-Christmas Studio 60, I can't summon any sad...

By Cameron Archer Drew Barrymore is probably one of the less notable Saturday Night Live hosts to join the mythical Five Timers' Club. Her first hosting stint is infamous for her being the youngest person ever to host Saturday Night Live. Since then, her episodes have been more or less nondescript. It's not li...

By Cameron Archer When it comes to Saturday Night Live, the comments from Blogcritics readers are following a certain formula. There's at least one negative comment towards SNL in general every week I review the show, usually words to the effect of "Why is this show still on the air?" or "Where's the edge?" M...

By Cameron Archer I like Saturday Night Live's tastes in hosts more this season. The show doesn't stray too far from the mainstream in picking most of them - no one should expect otherwise from one of the longest-running television shows currently on air - but there's more of a focus on people who might do well...

By Cameron Archer Kaplan, Leibowitz & Dolemite - That is a good premise for a lawyer sketch, much better than the "Stanfield and Partlow, Cat Lawyers" sketch from the Annette Bening episode. Too bad the sketch was shorter than the opening credits. ...

By Cameron Archer No opening tirade here, aside from the fact that Classic Saturday Night Live no longer airs on NBC All Night (as of January 2007, anyway.) That's not a bad thing. The reruns were getting to the point where every episode from five or six years ago was considered classic. Don't get me wrong, some o...

By Cameron Archer It's funny how hosts of Saturday Night Live earn their reputations. Former SNL director Beth McCarthy-Miller holds Justin Timberlake up as her favourite guest. He was responsible for one of the stronger shows of the post-Ferrell period.Timberlake's first show still holds up as one of the...

By Cameron Archer I might be too hard on Maya Rudolph as I've actually enjoyed her performances lately. I ride her pretty hard and I think I'm overreacting in doing so. Her Whitney Houston this week was solid. I don't like her as much as I do cast members like Will Forte or Jason Sudeikis, but she does have a good ran...

By Nick Schweitzer What do you get when you cross the late 1990s television series Sports Night with Saturday Night Live? You get Aaron Sorkin's newest creation, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. If you watched Sports Night and enjoyed it, then you'll probably like Studio 60. And if you didn't like Sorkin's earli...

By Richard Marcus Long before Saturday Night Live was on the air the words "Live from New York City" had implications in my household that had nothing to do with comedy. With my parents plunked in front of the stereo for four hours, options for entertainment were limited in these pre cable and home computer on...