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‘S.N.L.’ Says Goodbye Kate McKinnon, Pete Davidson and More
We’ll start this weekend’s recap of “Saturday Night Live” at the end, and a season finale that concluded with a particularly tearful set of goodnight waves from the cast. While several of them were merely saying goodbye for the summer, a few longtime performers made it clear during the broadcast that this was their last […]
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In Comedy, Timing Is Everything, Especially at Netflix’s Festival
Comics were sympathetic to Chappelle, but the backlash toward his jokes about the trans community started make its way into sets. After saying that people have been asking her about the assault, Robin Tran, a trans comic who was headlining a show, quipped: “I just want to say, for the record, I only told him […]
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What to Watch on New Year’s Eve: Movies, TV Shows, Live Events
Start with a pair of films about roaming New York. “Little Fugitive” (1953) is a scrappy fable about a boy who leaves home to spend the day exploring Coney Island. “Downtown 81,” shot in the early ’80s but released in 2000, stars Jean-Michel Basquiat as an artist wandering the streets of Lower Manhattan, where he […]
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Paul Rudd Hosts a Year-End ‘S.N.L.’ Disrupted by the Omicron Variant
In a week when the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus had disrupted Broadway shows, concerts, sports and numerous other entertainment events, “Saturday Night Live” inevitably found it challenging to broadcast live from New York. Hours before a year-end holiday “S.N.L.” episode that was to be hosted by Paul Rudd and feature […]
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