Podcast Corner: Five decades of Saturday Night Live
L-R: Chevy Chase, an SNL icon; and Marc Maron, a great what-if for the US comedy institution
From Talking Sopranos (The Sopranos) to Office Ladies (The US Office) to, closer to home, Talking Ted (Father Ted), many beloved TV series are well covered with rewatch podcasts featuring former stars.
Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone aka the Lonely Island, along with SNL’s former head writer, now late-night chat show host Seth Meyers, are taking that template and going through their history digital short by digital short (though considering there are over 100 such sketches, they might speed things along after the first couple of episodes, ‘Lettuce’ and ‘Lazy Sunday’, went in-depth on the sketches of the same name). It was a more quaint time online, almost 20 years ago, when the Lonely Island gained notoriety, culminating in their biggest hit, ‘I’m on a Boat’.
