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Betty White to Host "SNL"

March 11, 2010

The fans win! More than 490,000 Facebookers asked for this. From NBC:
Legendary and multiple Emmy Award winner Betty White will take her long-anticipated turn at hosting NBC's "Saturday Night Live" on May 8. White will make her first appearance in Studio 8H.
The six-time Emmy winner and cultural icon will host "SNL" for the [...]

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Understanding the Late-Night Mess

January 19, 2010

I offer this explanation from a transcript of Seth Meyers' comments on "Saturday Night Live":
Let’s say you’re married. And it’s the #1 marriage in the country. But then you meet someone else who just sweeps you off your feet so you say to her, “I want to marry you – in five years.” [...]

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Monday Notebook & Viewing Catch-Up

November 16, 2009

Local folks should have noticed that WJW is carrying the Browns-Ravens game tonight (which makes me shudder just to think about). Fox's new episodes of "House" and "Lie to Me" have been moved to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday respectively. (I am double-checking on the exact start time, since "House" usually runs an extra [...]

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Monday Notebook

November 9, 2009

Notes on "The Amazing Race," Taylor Swift's "Saturday Night Live" and a kind of crazy weekend, after the jump.
And here, a link to this week's DVD column, including "Up."

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Viewing File: "HIMYM," "Big Bang Theory," "Dancing With the Stars" (Updated)

October 13, 2009

VERY fun "How I Met Your Mother" and "Big Bang Theory." The "It Was the Best Night Ever" video, above, isn't quite in the league with "Let's Go to the Mall" or "Sandcastles in the Sand," but it's still amusing. More after the jump. …

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Monday Miscellany

October 5, 2009

Here we are at the start of a new TV week, and I still haven't gotten through everything that I planned to watch last week. …

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Monday Notebook, Catching Up on TV

September 28, 2009

In case you missed it, my story about the movie "More Than a Game" (with comments from director Kris Belman, coach Dru Joyce II and LeBron James) is here. I will have a review in the Beacon Journal later this week, but I think the Sunday story makes clear that the review will be favorable.
The [...]

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Friday Notebook

July 31, 2009

MLB Network looks back at Canton's Thurman Munson during "MLB Tonight" on Monday. The announcement:
MLB Network will air on Monday, August 3 a special feature about former New York Yankees captain Thurman Munson, following the 30th anniversary of his death. Munson, who spent his entire career with the Yankees, died at age 32 in an [...]

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"Saturday Night Live" Season Finale

May 17, 2009

First, the latest in a series of explanations about some different posts on here. Both the "True Blood" post (actually my DVD column for the week) and the Ted Henry are links to stories I wrote for the print Beacon Journal and carried on Ohio.com. Click on the header to link to the story.
As for [...]

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Sunday Notebook

May 10, 2009

Another great result with Justin Timberlake on "Saturday Night Live" last night. Yes, he is overusing some bits — "Plasticville" comes to mind — and some are trying to compete with the legendary ("Mother Lovers" was funny, but not on the level of the "Box" song). The opening monologue was Steve Martin as much as [...]

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Sunday Notebook

April 12, 2009

Maybe I just needed a laugh but I got a few from last night's "Saturday Night Live," including from the sketch above. Am also amused by the New Jersey gay couple and by Jon Bovi, and even though there was no point, Armisen's commercial-mom was giggle-worthy. On the other hand, there was a Gilly sketch [...]

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"Saturday Night Live": Very Thin

April 5, 2009

I can't blame the trimmed-down Seth Rogen for all the failings of "Saturday Night Live," which is quite capable of being bad without him. But I do wonder if he has greatly over-extended himself — and if the jokes about people confusing "Observe and Report" with "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" were in fact some whistling [...]

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This One's for the Bride

March 17, 2009

Today, March 17, is our fifth wedding anniversary.

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Big Bunch of Weekend Viewing, Part I: "Saturday Night Live," "The Amazing Race"

March 16, 2009

 
 
"How can I miss you when you won't go away?
Keep telling you day after day
But you won't listen, you always stay and stay
How can I miss you when you won't go away?"
– Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks

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Yet Another Reason Why Justin Timberlake Is the King of Comedy

March 9, 2009

This is from "SNL" on Saturday. Another generally blah show (although "The Rock Obama" sketch had possibilities, they went unrealized) until Weekend Update, with a fair Michael Steele sketch and the above piece. I was about to fast-forward past more of Andy Samberg's "Cathy" bit but am glad I didn't: JT appears about 1:36 in, [...]

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"Saturday Night Live": Baaaaad

February 15, 2009

Back in its heyday, "The Carol Burnett Show" was notorious (with me, anyway) for setting up a sketch premise, rolling along with it for a bit and then abruptly and none too satisfyingly ending. It made the whole sketch seem weaker, that it didn't really have anywhere to go, but much would be forgiven because [...]

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Stuff I've Been Watching

February 9, 2009

Notes on recent telecasts of "30 Rock," "The Office," "Private Practice," "Grey's Anatomy," "Saturday Night Live," "Bones," "Lie to Me" and "The Closer" after the jump. (I have also seen tonight's "Closer" and will make a brief non-spoiler comment about that.)

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Ricardo Montalban, R.I.P.

January 14, 2009

 
 
The veteran actor has died. Obit here. I have a large reserve of affection for Montalaban. The Khan appearances on "Star Trek," of course (and "Wrath of Khan" may be the best of the big-screen "Treks"). I saw him on tour in the '70s in staged readings of "Don Juan in Hell," with Myrna Loy [...]

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Sunday Morning Notebook: "SNL," "24"

January 11, 2009

Had high hopes for Neil Patrick Harris as host of "Saturday Night Live" last night, and held onto them during his opening monologue, where the Fred Savage-envy was very nicely done, especially the aside about Harris having had a girlfriend. After that, though, the show dragged. Even the digital short was a nice idea stretched [...]

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A Post-Fiesta Bowl Inspirational Message

January 6, 2009

In the wake of another Ohio State BCS bowl loss, I can't help but think of Fran Tarkenton's old monologue on "Saturday Night Live" after the Vikings lost yet another Super Bowl:
Now, I want everyone to know — especially you Vikings fans out there — that the Vikings aren't dead yet. [ the audience cheers [...]

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