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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.
The high-stress environment of media is infamous, but being a student is also a little like showbiz.
SNL’s longest-serving female cast member Vanessa Bayer traded in her infamous impersonations for a candid talk about doing what she loves.
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.
The writing about Vice President Joe Biden was spot on. Woody Harrelson, not quite as much.
SNL’s political voice is in shambles, rendered toothless by the farcical politics of the Trump era.
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.
Two weeks ago, during an appearance as musical guest on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live, Kanye West delivered an unplanned pro-Trump speech to the audience as the credits rolled. Now you’re probably rolling your eyes and thinking I’m either going to defend or bash Kanye on his speech and his twitter rants about the 13th Amendment. Well, I’m not going to do either of those things. There’s something else entirely that concerns me. This past Saturday, SNL cast member Pete Davidson discussed the incident during “Weekend Update.” Davidson urged Kanye to take his meds and said that while Kanye is a musical genius like “Joey Chestnut is a hot dog-eating genius,” he doesn’t want to “hear Joey Chestnut’s opinions about things that aren’t hot dog-related.”
Incidentally, the day before Davidson’s SNL appearance, Lady Gaga went on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and gave a defense of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford with regards to memory mechanisms and trauma, and her speech soon went viral on Twitter.
Well-known impressionist Villaseñor did the opening routine for Jost, whose performance was similar to what he does as co-anchor on SNL’s segment “Weekend Update.”
The Cornell University Program Board is hosting a night of comedy starring Saturday Night Live comedians Colin Jost and Melissa Villaseñor for its first show of the semester.