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September 30, 2024
Adam Nayman
Saturday Night Live Deserved Better Than Saturday Night
Jason Reitman’s movie is an ode to Lorne Michaels, afraid to take even small risks.
February 9, 2021
Seth Simons
The Comedy Industry Has a Big Alt-Right Problem
How safe spaces for transgressive humor, both online and in real life, helped breed a hateful ideology
March 23, 2018
MagazineRachel Syme
The Bad Actor
HBO’s "Barry" refreshes elements of noir, as a hitman dreams of Hollywood.
May 31, 2017
Alex Shephard
Al Franken’s Memoir Is the Best Political Book of 2017
The senator from Minnesota is the rare politician with a funny bone.
February 16, 2017
Jeet Heer
Trump’s unhinged impromptu press conference was a lesson for Sean Spicer.
February 9, 2017
Jeet Heer
Comedy Won’t Defeat Trump, But That’s Not the Point
Jokes helped him win the presidency. They will help his opponents survive it.
October 26, 2016
Nicole Narea
Bernie Sanders’s millennial diehards are finally #WithHer.
February 7, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
Bernie Sanders brought democratic socialism to the viewing public on Saturday Night Live.
November 9, 2015
Steven Cohen
Donald Trump and the New Southern Strategy
How xenophobia continues to drive the Republican Party
November 24, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Here's What SNL's Immigration Skit Got Right—and Wrong
September 16, 2012
Laura Bennett
The Tedious Accuracy of Jay Pharoah’s Obama Impersonation
February 17, 2010
Rochelle Gurstein
The Baby Lottery
January 11, 2010
Jonathan Chait
Roger Ailes Hated Your Party
August 12, 2009
Andrew Rice
Doubt
April 2, 2007
Michael Crowley
Hillary’s War
The real reason she won't apologize.

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