At the height of his fame, a creepily over-sexualized O.J. Simpson became the fourth black man to host Saturday Night Live in a surreal episode that, needless to say, has aged in a very strange, unfortunate way.
Read MoreEverything in Saturday Night Live is structured, rehearsed and safe, with the noted exception of its invariably awkward final few minutes.
Read MoreHow would you fare if you were inexplicably asked to host Saturday Night Live?
Read MoreI am a big fan of the television program. That’s why I’m going to spend much of the next two years watching every episode. But I have all sorts of other feelings about it as well.
And they’re not all positive!
Read MoreA week devoted to terrible Saturday Night Live hosts kicks off with a mortified look at Milton Berle’s notorious episode.
Read MoreI revisit the notorious Saturday Night Live episode that gave a grateful world the magical phrase, “Some of y’all are not washing your ass properly!”
Read MoreBefore there was Saturday Night Live there was Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell but good luck tracking down any evidence of that notorious flop’s unfortunate existence.
Read MoreThe glamour of Saturday Night Live is the glamour of Manhattan and being young and in the white hot epicenter of the entertainment world.
Read MoreGerald Ford press secretary Ron Nessen thought he could get Saturday Night Live by hosting the show. That is not how things played out.
Read MoreDid Louise Lasser have a nervous breakdown while hosting Saturday Night Live or was it all part of the act? Regardless, the result was one of the most excruciatingly awkward episodes in the show’s history.
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