Arts & Culture
SNL’s Chris Redd Roasts Big Red
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Statler Auditorium was packed on March 6 for the Cornell University Program Board’s comedy event starring Saturday Night Live repertory player, Chris Redd.
Columns
DERY | The Cornell Superiority Complex: Chosen, yet Confining
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Dealing with stigma is a battle everyone fights to varying degrees, and the school we choose to attend is a rather minor one at that. Yet, the very fact that this label is unimportant in the long run adds an element of contradiction to the superiority complex we inherit. After all, we choose to come here ourselves, and we should own up to any benefits or detriments that come out of that choice.
Melissa Villaseñor
‘SNL’ Star Melissa Villaseñor to Host Pre-Valentine’s Day Virtual Drawing Hour
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Melissa Villaseñor, a five-year Saturday Night Live cast member, will teach students how to draw as part of Cornell University Program Board’s first virtual show of 2021.
Arts & Culture
GUEST ROOM | Brad Pitt Plays Dr. Anthony Fauci M.D. ’66 On ‘SNL’
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No matter how many history books are written about the year 2020, the cool kids 30 years from now will not understand why a middle-aged underwear man and a doofy Staten Island kid being bored at home was so intensely and painstakingly, hilarious. I hope they never do.
Arts & Culture
Insights from Vanessa Bayer
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The high-stress environment of media is infamous, but being a student is also a little like showbiz.
SNL
Former ‘SNL’ Star Vanessa Bayer Talks Comedy, Jewish Identity
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SNL’s longest-serving female cast member Vanessa Bayer traded in her infamous impersonations for a candid talk about doing what she loves.
cornell university program board
Former SNL Star Vanessa Bayer is coming to Cornell
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Actress and comedian Vanessa Bayer — best known for her stint on NBC’s award-winning Saturday Night Live from 2010 to 2017 — is slated to speak in Bailey Hall on Jan. 25.
Arts & Culture
‘Saturday Night Live’s’ Lukewarm Premiere
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The writing about Vice President Joe Biden was spot on. Woody Harrelson, not quite as much.
Arts & Culture
GUEST ROOM | ‘SNL’ Is Terrible Political Comedy for Our Terrible Politics
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SNL’s political voice is in shambles, rendered toothless by the farcical politics of the Trump era.
Arts & Culture
SWAN | A High Tech Minstrel Show
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Kanye West’s comment about a “lack of male energy,” in both his childhood home and his current extended family, stood out to me, as I thought it might convey something about the formation of black, masculine identity at this point in the hip-hop era.