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I have been an SNL  fan since the first episode with George Carlin in October 1975 when I was ten years old, and I haven't missed an episode since. As an expert and historian for Saturday Night Live , who graduated from Second City  and prides himself on being an expert on Saturday Night Live , let me say that I absolutely loved this special. And it wasn't at all what I thought it was going to be. The Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special   was a three-and-a-half-hour

"Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music" : A Landmark Celebration of Comedy and Sound As you probably know, I am an SNL fanatic and have been since the first episode aired in October 1975. I also host a podcast called "That Show Hasn't Been Funny in Years: An SNL Podcast"  on the Radio Misfits Podcast Network . This is a very special year for us "Saturday Night Live"  fans because it is the show's 50th anniversary. Several special events and shows are part of the season-

HBO , or  Max , or  HBO/Max , or Max in My Pants...whatever the hell it's called, is now streaming and broadcasting an extremely entertaining documentary called "Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary " all about the smooth West Coast sound that dominated radio and the charts from the mid-70s through the early 80s. Artists like Steely Dan , Toto , Christopher Cross , Kenny Loggins , the one and only Michael McDonald , and more pioneered this genre of music that combined elements of smoo

The sixth and final season of the brilliant and hilarious FX  series "What We Do in the Shadows"  is rapidly coming to a close, so I thought I'd write a little appreciation to celebrate its fabulous run. Based on the outstanding 2014 New Zealand film of the same name, written by Jermaine Clement and Taika Waititi, WWDITS premiered on March 27, 2019, to much acclaim and cult popularity. The mockumentary style and structure are taken directly from the film but with a different