Posts Tagged ‘Saturday Night Live review’
 

 

THE SKED REVIEW: SNL with Lady Gaga

  When the musical guest on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE is also the host (and isn’t Justin Timberlake), it’s usually a smart strategic idea to minimize the host’s comedy duties for the week.  But Lady Gaga, in h...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED REVIEW: SNL With Christina Applegate

  There were a few moments in this week’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE where you could actually have mistaken it for a place that offers trenchant political satire.  That’s hasn’t been SNL‘s mode since Tina...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED REVIEW: “Saturday Night Live” with Kerry Washington

  For Jay Pharoah and Kenan Thompson–but especially Pharoah–this week must have felt like alternate-universe SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, because with Kerry Washington as host, suddenly he was the show’s featured...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Dakota Johnson

  50 Shades of Grey has only been playing in theatres for 2 weeks, but it’s plunged so quickly from its opening weekend that Dakota Johnson already seems a bit like the answer to a pop culture trivia question.  Neve...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED REVIEW: “Saturday Night Live” with Melissa McCarthy

  SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE usually benefits from having a host with the confident comic talent that Melissa McCarthy brings to the table, but even with a 3-week hiatus in its pocket, the writing staff came up with little that w...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED REVIEW: SNL With Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  For an election season SNL, tonight’s episode was oddly lightweight–possibly because the show had exhausted its political material for the week in Thursday’s Update special.  Aside from Weekend Updat...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Chris Rock

  Chris Rock’s new movie Top Five is a breakthrough for him partly because in it, he finally manages to capture his stand-up comedy persona in a fully-fledged character.  It was too much to hope that SATURDAY NIGHT ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Woody Harrelson

  Woody Harrelson brought a boatload of Hunger Games co-stars with him (their movie opens Thursday night) as he returned to host SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE for the first time in more than 20 years.  That included Katniss Everdee...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Jim Carrey

  The material didn’t always keep up with the cast, but tonight’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE was one of the more enjoyable recent episodes.  Host Jim Carrey obviously knows his way around uninhibited sketch comedy, a...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Donald Trump

  Whether it was appropriate in the first place (other than for ratings, obviously) for SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE to turn over 90 minutes of its hugely valuable, non-news airtime to Donald Trump, who already gets more media att...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Chris Hemsworth

  It was an odd SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE all around tonight, starting with the fact that host Chris Hemworth was there to plug The Avengers:  The Age of Ultron, which won’t even open for 2 more months.  Hemsworth isn...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Dwayne Johnson

  Dwayne Johnson is an ideal kind of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE host:  a big-time movie star with enthusiasm, panache, a sense of humor about himself, and a willingness to be utterly silly.  It’s no surprise that tonight ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Anna Kendrick

  SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE went musical in a big way for its host, Anna Kendrick, and that mostly wasn’t a bad thing.  Kendrick is a genuine musical-comedy performer, with not just the novelty hit “Cups” from...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED REVIEW: SNL with Justin Timberlake

  If The Avengers were an episode of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, it might be something like the first hour of tonight’s show, a veritable all-star brigade of special guests and beloved characters presented for the celebrato...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED REVIEW: “Saturday Night Live” with Bruce Willis

  It’s relatively unusual for a movie star to host SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE without having something to plug, but this week Bruce Willis took the lead for his first turn since the days of the original Die Hard in 1989.  ...
by Mitch Salem