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Wasn’t That Special: Season 38 (2012-13)
Filling a Kristen Wiig-Sized Hole in the Cast It doesn’t make any sense that Saturday Night Live would actually improve when an all-time great cast member like Kristen Wiig leaves the show. We have seen what happens when a legend leaves in the past; the show’s quality dipped, for instance, when Will Ferrell left in 2002 after Continue reading
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Wasn’t That Special: Season 37 (2011-12)
Kristen Wiig’s Swan Song, and Hello Kate McKinnon It hasn’t been that often that Lorne Michaels brings back an identical cast from the year before, but that’s exactly what happened after Season 36 and into Season 37. Everyone returns, even the cast members struggling for screen time – it is only in the 18th episode Continue reading
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Wasn’t That Special: Season 33 (2007-08)
Kristen Wiig Dominates, Hillary and Barack Take Center Stage, and the Writers Strike Every season of Saturday Night Live has its classic episodes and its real bombs. In virtually every case, these peaks and valleys average out to make each season simply “pretty good.” But what if there was a season that had no bad episodes but Continue reading
Scot Bertram 