211 episodes
That Week In SNL (A Vintage Saturday Night Live Podcast) Andrew Dick/Tim Cicali
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4.3 • 73 Ratings
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Join us as we explore vintage episodes of SNL, analyzing the show and the bizarre pop culture ephemera that surrounded it. Tangents are had. Jokes are made.
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Off Week 58: The Richard Pryor Special? (May 5, 1977)
It's the last stop before we get to the Richard Pryor Show: Richard's NBC special that precedes the show by just a few months! It's a cameo-filled journey through the back stages of NBC and beyond, including an earth shattering performance by Maya Angelou and the first televised appearance of Sandra Bernhard!
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Off Week 57: MADtv's Fourth Christmas Episode (Dec. 12, 1998)
It's that time of year again! Time to check back into MADtv with season four's Christmas special from 1998! There's been a few scattered changes from last year (some of better, some for the worst) but we're definitely in the era of peak popularity for the show and you know the show is gonna ring all the bells it's got to ring. Spishak, Ms. Swan, Stuart, Rusty, the Vancome Lady; they're all here! And by gum, we discuss them all.
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Off Week 56: Flip Wilson...Of Course (Oct. 18, 1974)
We begin our Richard Pryor Show journey here, in 1974, with a Flip Wilson special. Produced by Lorne Michaels a full year before SNL started and only a few months after Flip's show had ended, it acts as a sort of passing of the torch moment from the old guard to the new guard. Too bad it never really comes together in any cohesive way...and too bad William is dead.
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Off Week 55: Invaders From Mars (1986)
We're again returning the Cannon Group well for this year's October Off Week and coming up with Tobe Hopper's Invaders From Mars remake from 1986, featuring Laraine Newman! It's got Hooper in the directors chair, Dan O'Bannon on script and Stan Winston on effects. Can such pedigree produce a fun, sci-fi romp? Tune in to find out!
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Off Week 54: Wayne's World (1992)
(Original Patreon air date: Sept 9, 2022)
It's the 30th anniversary of the first Wayne's World movie and so, here we are...trying our best to break it down but instead finding a surprisingly convoluted script for such a simple premise. Does the most successful SNL movie of all time still hold up all these years later? The answer...is somewhere in the middle. -
Episode 128: Sarah Michelle Gellar/Backstreet Boys (May 15, 1999)
Here we are! We're closing out the seventh season of That Week with the season finale of S24 and we've once again brought Jon Schneider along for the ride. Join us we cover one of the horniest episodes of sketch comedy ever produced and battle over the musical legitimacy of the Backstreet Boys!
Customer Reviews
Dey dem Chemistry Boyz
One thing many new podcasts try to generate is chemistry that comes across (or acrosst) natural, whereas this AWESOME and EPIC display of friendship, does just that on this pod!
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Been listening from the start, took a few years off and now I’m BACK binging; do yourself a favor, (if you love sketch comedy and friendship), give ‘em a shot!
Peece!
More voices needed?
I appreciate a podcast that goes deep into SNL episodes of yore. I also listen to Saturday Night Network and appreciate the variety of voices they have on each episode. I just listened to the Sarah Michelle Gellar/BSB episode and I have some comments to make regarding the boy band discussion. Max Martin and Swedish pop producers were responsible for the sound of BSB, NSYNC, and Britney, so the opinion that Backstreet Boys influenced Britney and other pop stars seemed blind spot-ish when they all worked with the same producers and writers. I understand this isn’t a boy band podcast, but I think certain discussions would benefit from more diverse viewpoints.
Tough Critics
Ride or Die SNL fans may find some of the critiques to be harsh; but these guys take a thoughtful and respectful approach to de-constructing your favorite sketches and cast members. It’s very Norm of them, to continue castigating Norm, at a time when it’s in very poor taste ;-)