Jimmy Fallon Bolts, Ashlee Simpson Lip-Syncs, and a Cast Member Enters the Stratosphere Please enjoy this complimentary edition of Wasn’t That Special – every few episodes we will release for free so you can hear what you’re missing out on by not being a paid subscriber. To do so and unlock all 30-plus of our episodes, simply Continue reading

SNL Struggles to Find its Breakout Star After Will Ferrell left following Season 27, Saturday Night Live began the process of remaking itself without Ferrell’s star power on board. They brought in new cast members like Fred Armisen and Will Forte to join Jimmy Fallon, Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers, and Rachel Dratch, but none of Continue reading

With Will Ferrell Gone, SNL Starts Over In Season 27, Saturday Night Live viewers occasionally got a glimpse of what the show would look like when one of its all-time great cast members bolted. For a few episodes, Will Ferrell was off filming movies like Old School, leaving the rest of the cast to pick up the Continue reading

Will Ferrell Says Goodbye, Amy Poehler Says Hello, and Chris Parnell Gets a Reprieve When Will Ferrell joined Saturday Night Live in 1995, the show was on the ropes. Adam Sandler and Chris Farley had been fired and SNL was on the brink of cancelation. But then Lorne Michaels brought on Ferrell and fellow Los Continue reading

Will Ferrell Surges, Chris Kattan and Molly Shannon Fade, and the Rise of Dratchmentum Who we choose as the greatest Saturday Night Live cast member is still up in the air, but as we enter the 25th year of the show, it is clear that no cast member has been as dominant for as long as Will Continue reading

There are celebrity cameos on Saturday Night Live, and then there is the cameo that occurred on the show on May 8 of 1999, which may have been the most surprising of all. When a dark-haired woman appeared in the middle of a sketch about Bill Clinton’s activities after he left the White House, the audience Continue reading

A Presidential Shot of Adrenaline and Will Ferrell is Unleashed Saturday Night Live has always been dependent in some ways on the cultural and political events surrounding the show, but never was that more true than in Season 23. Midway through the season, the show roared to life with news that President Bill Clinton had engaged Continue reading

Do you like recurring characters on Saturday Night Live? Do you like seeing those characters over and over again, episode after episode? Then SNL Season 22 is for you, my friend. If Season 21 was a return to many of the traditional devices that made SNL work in past years (recurring characters, celebrity impressions, commercials), then Season 22 Continue reading