That Week In SNL
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A podcast exploring old episodes of SNL and other vintage sketch shows, analyzing the bizarre pop culture ephemera that surrounds them for fun and amusement.
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NEW EPISODE: It's our first episode of 2026: Sting from January 19, 1991! We get the first Richmeister sketch, the debut of Deep Thoughts, the first Coffee Talk and even the widely loved Sinatra Group sketch as well! All this and the Gulf War too!
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NEW EPISODE: Against the backdrop of a snowed in NYC, the cast and crew of SNL huddle into 30 Rock with Paul Giamatti and Ludacris (featuring Sum 41) on Jan. 22, 2005 to produce one of S30's rare triumphs!
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January 30, 2026 at 4:08 PM
NEW EPISODE: Against the backdrop of a snowed in NYC, the cast and crew of SNL huddle into 30 Rock with Paul Giamatti and Ludacris (featuring Sum 41) on Jan. 22, 2005 to produce one of S30's rare triumphs!
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Episode 154: Paul Giamatti/Ludacris featuring Sum 41 (January 22, 2005) | That Week In SNL
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January 26, 2026 at 9:19 PM
New episode up now on the Patreon!
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NEW EPISODE: It's our first episode of 2026: Sting from January 19, 1991! We get the first Richmeister sketch, the debut of Deep Thoughts, the first Coffee Talk and even the widely loved Sinatra Group sketch as well! All this and the Gulf War too!
LINKS BELOW!
LINKS BELOW!
January 16, 2026 at 4:04 PM
NEW EPISODE: It's our first episode of 2026: Sting from January 19, 1991! We get the first Richmeister sketch, the debut of Deep Thoughts, the first Coffee Talk and even the widely loved Sinatra Group sketch as well! All this and the Gulf War too!
LINKS BELOW!
LINKS BELOW!
The first episode of 2026 is now live on the Patreon!
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Episode 153: Sting (January 19, 1991) | That Week In SNL
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January 12, 2026 at 8:55 PM
The first episode of 2026 is now live on the Patreon!
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It must feel amazing to be the musical guest on SNL when your hit song has the words “Saturday night” in it
January 9, 2026 at 3:13 PM
It must feel amazing to be the musical guest on SNL when your hit song has the words “Saturday night” in it
NEW EPISODE: It's Christmas Time with Eddie Murphy and Lionel Richie from Dec. 11, 1982! The only time a cast member hosted the show while still in the cast, plus the only appearance of Steve Martin in the Ebersol era!
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December 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
NEW EPISODE: It's Christmas Time with Eddie Murphy and Lionel Richie from Dec. 11, 1982! The only time a cast member hosted the show while still in the cast, plus the only appearance of Steve Martin in the Ebersol era!
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LISTEN: dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...
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Episode 152: Eddie Murphy/Lionel Richie (Dec. 11, 1982) | That Week In SNL
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December 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Our Christmas episode is up now on the Patreon!
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the John Denver/Muppets Christmas special is one of the weirder mixes of melancholy and earnest you'll ever see, with occasional bits of "oh right you're watching the Muppets" to right the ship before it gets sad again. And you can listen to me talk about it/the sinister forces bankrolling it here!
PATREON EXCLUSIVE: It's time for John Denver & The Muppets: A Christmas Together from Dec. 5, 1979; a bizarrely moody and depressing special with an abundance of baffling music choices, set-pieces and Du Pont propaganda!
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December 16, 2025 at 4:20 AM
the John Denver/Muppets Christmas special is one of the weirder mixes of melancholy and earnest you'll ever see, with occasional bits of "oh right you're watching the Muppets" to right the ship before it gets sad again. And you can listen to me talk about it/the sinister forces bankrolling it here!
PATREON EXCLUSIVE: It's time for John Denver & The Muppets: A Christmas Together from Dec. 5, 1979; a bizarrely moody and depressing special with an abundance of baffling music choices, set-pieces and Du Pont propaganda!
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December 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
PATREON EXCLUSIVE: It's time for John Denver & The Muppets: A Christmas Together from Dec. 5, 1979; a bizarrely moody and depressing special with an abundance of baffling music choices, set-pieces and Du Pont propaganda!
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NEW EPISODE: We're returning to the Hader/Wiig/Samberg era once again with Steve Buscemi and The Black Keys from December 3, 2011! We've got some legendary sketches, some debuts, some finales and a Maya Rudolph cameo! It's an episode of SNL!
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LISTEN: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
December 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
NEW EPISODE: We're returning to the Hader/Wiig/Samberg era once again with Steve Buscemi and The Black Keys from December 3, 2011! We've got some legendary sketches, some debuts, some finales and a Maya Rudolph cameo! It's an episode of SNL!
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NEW EPISODE: From November 23rd 1991, it's Macaulay Culkin and musical guest Tin Machine! Featuring: Home Alone gags! The best Lorne Michaels performance ever! Kieran Culkin! George Wendt! Da prayers! Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
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LISTEN: dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
NEW EPISODE: From November 23rd 1991, it's Macaulay Culkin and musical guest Tin Machine! Featuring: Home Alone gags! The best Lorne Michaels performance ever! Kieran Culkin! George Wendt! Da prayers! Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
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LISTEN: dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...
Thanksgiving episode is up on the Patreon!
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Episode 150: Macaulay Culkin/Tin Machine (November 23, 1991) | That Week In SNL
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November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Thanksgiving episode is up on the Patreon!
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PATREON EXCLUSIVE: As SNL continued to struggle in ratings, on February 13th 1982, NBC tries out a new pilot in it's time slot: Steve Martin's Twilight Theater, a collection of sketches, music videos, tone poems, animation, cameos and general weirdness.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
PATREON EXCLUSIVE: As SNL continued to struggle in ratings, on February 13th 1982, NBC tries out a new pilot in it's time slot: Steve Martin's Twilight Theater, a collection of sketches, music videos, tone poems, animation, cameos and general weirdness.
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NEW EPISODE: From November 14, 2009, it's another infamous outing of the show: January Jones/Black Eyed Peas! A host who isn't good at live sketch comedy. THREE performances from the Black Eyed Peas. And only one man trying to carrying the night to the finish line.
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LINKS BELOW!
November 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
NEW EPISODE: From November 14, 2009, it's another infamous outing of the show: January Jones/Black Eyed Peas! A host who isn't good at live sketch comedy. THREE performances from the Black Eyed Peas. And only one man trying to carrying the night to the finish line.
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LINKS BELOW!
Vacation is done. Special Monday night stream is go. We've got:
- Steve Martin's Twilight Theater
- Graham Chapman and Douglas Adam's Out of the Trees pilot
- She TV
- Peeping Times, a Barry Levinson produced special with baby David Letterman
8 PM ET.
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- Steve Martin's Twilight Theater
- Graham Chapman and Douglas Adam's Out of the Trees pilot
- She TV
- Peeping Times, a Barry Levinson produced special with baby David Letterman
8 PM ET.
twitch.tv/thatweekinsnl
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Vacation is done. Special Monday night stream is go. We've got:
- Steve Martin's Twilight Theater
- Graham Chapman and Douglas Adam's Out of the Trees pilot
- She TV
- Peeping Times, a Barry Levinson produced special with baby David Letterman
8 PM ET.
twitch.tv/thatweekinsnl
- Steve Martin's Twilight Theater
- Graham Chapman and Douglas Adam's Out of the Trees pilot
- She TV
- Peeping Times, a Barry Levinson produced special with baby David Letterman
8 PM ET.
twitch.tv/thatweekinsnl
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New SNL review's up. bronwynjoan.com/blog/2025/11...
Classic SNL Review: December 3, 1988: Danny DeVito / The Bangles (S14E07) — Bronwyn Douwsma
Sketches include “Pumping Up With Hans & Franz”, “Big Red”, “Sex Tonight”, “Scrooge II”, “Mexican Bandit”, “The Bastard Battalion”, "Buddy Precisely” and “Guardian Angels”. The Bangles perform “In...
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November 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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NEW EPISODE: In celebration of the show now hitting it's 50th anniversary, we're going back to the earliest episode we've yet to cover: it's third. Rob Reiner/No Musical Guest from Oct. 25, 1975! Its got Andy Kaufman! The Lockers! John Belushi as Joe Cocker & more!
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October 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
NEW EPISODE: In celebration of the show now hitting it's 50th anniversary, we're going back to the earliest episode we've yet to cover: it's third. Rob Reiner/No Musical Guest from Oct. 25, 1975! Its got Andy Kaufman! The Lockers! John Belushi as Joe Cocker & more!
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PATREON EXCLUSIVE: It's The Paul Lynde Halloween Special from Oct. 29, 1976! One of the greatest freaked-out, psychotronic 70s variety specials ever produced! Flimsy sketches! Disco music! Kiss in their primetime television debut! Bafflement!
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October 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
PATREON EXCLUSIVE: It's The Paul Lynde Halloween Special from Oct. 29, 1976! One of the greatest freaked-out, psychotronic 70s variety specials ever produced! Flimsy sketches! Disco music! Kiss in their primetime television debut! Bafflement!
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Anddddd…notch the first SNL this season I dropped out of on the wall. Couldn’t even finish the first post-monologue block of sketches.
October 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Anddddd…notch the first SNL this season I dropped out of on the wall. Couldn’t even finish the first post-monologue block of sketches.
NEW EPISODE: From Oct. 18th 1986, it's Malcolm-Jamal Warner/Run-DMC!
We return to the second golden age of the show with a young, 16 year old host from the biggest show on TV and special appearances by Sam Kinison, Buster Poindexter & Spike Lee!
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We return to the second golden age of the show with a young, 16 year old host from the biggest show on TV and special appearances by Sam Kinison, Buster Poindexter & Spike Lee!
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October 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
NEW EPISODE: From Oct. 18th 1986, it's Malcolm-Jamal Warner/Run-DMC!
We return to the second golden age of the show with a young, 16 year old host from the biggest show on TV and special appearances by Sam Kinison, Buster Poindexter & Spike Lee!
LINKS BELOW!
We return to the second golden age of the show with a young, 16 year old host from the biggest show on TV and special appearances by Sam Kinison, Buster Poindexter & Spike Lee!
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The Ashley Padilla era of SNL begins now.
October 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The Ashley Padilla era of SNL begins now.
SEASON PREMIERE: We're back for the ninth season of the podcast and kicking it off in style with Reese Witherspoon and Alicia Keys from September 29, 2001! Join us as we explore the strange energy of the first post-9/11 episode of SNL!
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LISTEN: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
October 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
SEASON PREMIERE: We're back for the ninth season of the podcast and kicking it off in style with Reese Witherspoon and Alicia Keys from September 29, 2001! Join us as we explore the strange energy of the first post-9/11 episode of SNL!
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LISTEN: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
NEW EPISODE: Barely making it through it's first televised airing in some parts of the country, unseen in others, and more or less cancelled before the whole thing was even over, 1969's Turn-On was never meant to be seen again...until it escaped.
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September 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
NEW EPISODE: Barely making it through it's first televised airing in some parts of the country, unseen in others, and more or less cancelled before the whole thing was even over, 1969's Turn-On was never meant to be seen again...until it escaped.
LISTEN: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
LISTEN: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...