Saturday Night Live

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  • Joel-Peter Witkin

    Is his darkly imaginative photography an intellectually camouflaged freak show or high art?
  • Chevy Chase's pretzel logic

    Former SNL comedian gets rampaging ego disease! "Barbie Girl" singer gets breast implants, gets "the creeps when I'm compared with that doll"; Plus: Boo-hoo! Darva and Rick officially call it quits!
  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Weekend, March 17-19, 2000
  • Cinema cage match!

    A longtime writer for Eddie Murphy directs an alluring doc on the weird world of pro wrestling. Why is WWF capo Vince McMahon trying to pile-drive it?
  • Egg on his chest?

    Online columnist death match! Walls and Drudge duke it out on Page Six; a post-apocalyptic Doors musical? Time to set the stage on fire. Plus: The Muppets return!
  • Give "Freaks" a chance

    Why is NBC keeping its endearing high school comedy in detention?
  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, Feb. 29, 2000
  • The passionate Ms. Paltrow

    Gwyneth wants Juliette Binoche in the worst way; Pogue punkster says he'll sue Siniad for dropping the dime on his jones; Munchkin huffers, get the hook. Plus: No! No! Say it ain't so! Kiss about to kiss off forevah!
  • The other man on the moon

    From Letterman sidekick to "Get a Life" to, um, Dogbert, Chris Elliott -- a true alt-comedy innovator who might be funnier than Andy Kaufman -- just can't get no respect.
  • Rock 'n' roll will never die

    Lennon and McCartney come together in VH1's reunion fantasy "Two of Us." Plus: Never mind the bollocks, he-e-e-re's Johnny (Rotten).
  • I'm dreaming of the white room

    President Oprah? Godfather Trump? Noah Wyle will see you now? Starstock.com survey sez ... fans are nuts; after 33 years of throwing punches, William F. Buckley Jr. hangs it up. Plus: Jann Wenner jams, Yoko Ono swings ... it must be office-party season.
  • Merry olde millennium

    Britain's kittens purr and hiss: Rupert on royal dysfunction, Kate on connubial bliss. And now for something just like everything else ... John Cleese develops a sitcom.
  • It's all right!

    The game show for everyone, where no contestant is ever wrong!
  • Bernie Brillstein: Alive and dishing

    A key figure in the careers of John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Lorne Michaels talks about being a Jew in Nashville, the girl who got away and bad-mouthing Michael Ovitz.
  • Love, Washington style

    D.C. insiders in love! Mush and spin from the other Olson twins; Portman keeps her pants on; and Michael Jackson won't stop till he gets enough ... babies.
  • Real Life Rock Top 10

  • Deluge of denial

    No piece for Prince William; Bruce Willis for president? CSN&Y: Almost cut my hair, then I remembered I didn't have any. Plus: Lewinsky TV show slur -- a low blow!
  • "Superstar"

    A clumsy nerd enters the pantheon of "Saturday Night Live" characters made into lame movies.
  • And now for something completely familiar

    "Monty Python's Flying Circus": Still the best TV sketch show there's ever been.
  • Sharps & flats

    "Saturday Night Live" has 24 years of the best acts in rock 'n' roll on tape. Too bad none of that made it onto a new two-CD compilation.
  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Weekend, Sept. 24-26, 1999
  • "Bowfinger"

    Martin and Murphy team up for a good-natured sendup of the mindless summer blockbuster -- and just barely avoid making one themselves.
  • "Big Daddy"

    Adam Sandler is cinema's nicest loudmouthed jerk.
  • Bitter and blacker

    Chris Rock, the new heavyweight champ of humor, hits where it hurts.
  • Looking for life in all the wrong places

    Thanks to snorefests like the Umbilical Brothers' "Thwack," comedy is deader than Lester Bangs -- and someone is not amused.
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