Did Louise Lasser have a nervous breakdown while hosting Saturday Night Live or was it all part of the act? Regardless, the result was one of the most excruciatingly awkward episodes in the show’s history.
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Noted creep Hugh Hefner hosted a third-season episode of Saturday Night Live that is a uniquely unpalatable combination of cringy, fawning, and unfunny.
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Gerald Ford press secretary Ron Nessen thought he could get Saturday Night Live by hosting the show. That is not how things played out.
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Frank Zappa was an even bigger asshole than usual when he hosted Saturday Night Live in 1978.
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Five thousand words on music, memory, childhood, sadness, imprisonment, despair AND the First ever Blues Brothers Con at Old Joliet Prison. It was a trip, y’all!
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It took three viewings and twenty-nine years but I kind of fucking love the otherwise universally reviled 1991 horror-comedy Nothing But Trouble.
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I’d love to return to spooky Old Joliet Prison for the second ever Blues Brothers Convention but I need your help to make the magic happen!
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I only spent a single day at the first and possibly last Blues Brothers Convention but I got more out of it professionally and emotionally than I ever could have imagined.
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I’ve learned to love the deeply flawed unconditionally. That includes 1980’s The Blues Brothers, which I dig to the extent that I am going to a convention for it but I need your help!
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