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How Saturday Night Live Televised the Revolution January 06, 2025

Humor is “the best guide to changing perceptions,” writes Marshall McLuhan. Because “older societies thrived on purely literary plots” and “demanded storylines” to channel sophomoric energy, they employed elaborate farce in poems, plays, operas, and ...

'Saturday Night Live' Deserved Better October 02, 2024

“Fuck you, you fucking dumb cabbie. It’ll be so famous and good at sketch comedy.”Sadly, the above exchange is not actually from Jason Reitman’s new film, Saturday Night, which dramatizes the circumstances around Saturday Night Live’s fraught and tri...