Wasn't That Special: 50 Years of SNL Podcast
Wasn't That Special: 50 Years of SNL Podcast
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comEvery 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 sea
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comReal-world Saturday Night Live events are dotting the calendar at this point. Season 50 officially kicked off on September 28 (did you like Maya Rudolph, Dana
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comEvery now and then in Saturday Night Live history, you have these seasons in which an older, established cast is on their way out, and a newer cast is on thei
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 go h
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comAfter 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 n
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comIn 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
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comWhen 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 canc
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comAny viewer of Season 26 of Saturday Night Live may alternate between loving it or hating it based on the episode or even the sketch they are watching. This, o
When Saturday Night Live celebrated its 15th anniversary in 1989, it was the first time the show could stop, take a breath, and brag about its accomplishments. After the fifth season, it looked as if the show was headed for certain cancelation.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comWho 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 memb
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comThere 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 surpri
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comSaturday 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 Sea
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comDo 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
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comDo 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
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comAfter the disastrous Season 20, there is no way Saturday Night Live could return to its former glory, is there?Is there?As it turns out, there was a way. The
Remember Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s? Chris Farley! Adam Sandler! David Spade! How could it miss?Well, Season 20 is how it could miss.Beset by competing personal agendas, terrible press, and a plagiarism scandal, the show was ripped
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comFor the intro to the Season Nineteen episode of Wasn’t That Special, we turn to a famous video of former Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi:Indeed, C
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comDuring Season 18 of Saturday Night Live, it is clear the classic run that began in Season 12 with the likes of Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Victoria
On this surprise free edition of Wasn’t That Special, we interview six-year cast member Victoria Jackson, who has plenty to say about the behind-the-scenes drama during her time on the show. Jackson talks about why, even 35 years later, Alec Ba
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comIf, as is commonly believed, five years is the expiration date for a star on Saturday Night Live, nobody told Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman. In Season 17, both
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comBy the fall of 1990, the core cast of Saturday Night Live had spent four full seasons together, and clearly Executive Producer Lorne Michaels thought it was t
Just before the 15th season of Saturday Night Live began, the show decided to pay tribute to itself with a special looking back at the 14 years it had been on the air. This was the first time SNL could pause and reflect, given that after both S
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comThere was only one question coming in to Season Fifteen of Saturday Night Live: Could the show maintain the high quality that made Season Fourteen the best ye
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comIf the strike-shortened thirteenth season of Saturday Night Live was merely an appetizer, Season Fourteen is the full course, stuffed with classic sketches an
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comIn previous seasons of Saturday Night Live, the female cast members have pointed out how much difficulty the male writers have had writing for them. In Season
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