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On Saturday Night Live, performers have the ghosts of Samurais to wrestle, the shoes of Chevy Chase to fill.
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On a new sitcom, actors have only themselves to prove. But that's what happens when you're on Saturday Night Live, a 20-year-old pressure cooker where expectations run higher than almost anyplace else on TV. It's serious stuff for a guy who makes a living being silly. "As long as my family likes it, as long as my friends call me on Sundays and say "That was funny last night,' that's all that matters." I don't want to set myself up for it again," Meadows says somberly, yet confidently, in an interview with the Times. If nominated, she would join fellow In Living Color alum Jamie Foxx, who won an Oscar in 2005 for Ray."I've been through this before. Good luck to Lopez this Oscar season! She’s already been nominated by for Film Independent’s Spirit Awards, and the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association, so she’s on her way. (I love Lopez quoting Britney Spears but attributing it to Mother Teresa.) I wish Yang’s trainer would just be his own recurring character and make this less an ensemble. This one suffers a little bit by comparison, despite Yang and J. You likely remember their SoulCycle sketch from the David Harbour episode in October. The workout audition sketch returns! Always great to see Bowen Yang in his element. She’s every abusive husband’s nightmare.” Ninety-five percent (hyperbolic) of her movies she plays a character who gets beaten by her husband, abandoned…But she overcomes it all to find happiness. Cleghorne is supportive: “Yeah! Good for her… I also think her body of work is saturated with women who make bad choices.
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For her role as Ramona Vega, a veteran stripper, Lopez is campaigning for Oscar attention in the Best Supporting Actress category. Nearly 30 years after In Living Color, Lopez is hoping to use her SNL appearance as part of her PR awards blitz around (the Will Ferrell-produced!!!) Hustlers. While Cleghorne appreciates Lopez’s symbolism and business savvy, she also brings it back to her origins: “J. Lo should do a sketch wherein she is confused for ‘everyone’ - America Ferrera, Penelope Cruz, Selena Gomez, Selma Hayek, and Antonio Banderas.” Sketch comedy can be a great intervention here. Unfortunately, ‘Latinx’ - the new politically correct term for people of ‘spanish’ heritage - has become a conflation without distinction which is reductive and mean-spirited.
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She adds: “There is a vast difference between Mexican Americans, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans. Related: Jennifer Lopez on Oscar Buzz, the Super Bowl and Her Amazing Year at 50 “I use her as a way into looking at the history of Puerto Rico and Hollywood, ergo the history of Latinos in and Hollywood in Spanish-speaking America.” Today, Cleghorne is an educator and has taught students at a college level about Lopez’s legacy. I am joined tonight by former SNL cast member, Ellen Cleghorne. She’s also been impersonated by Maya Rudolph, Cheri Oteri, and even Lucy Lawless way back in 1998.Ī little contrast: the show’s musical guest, DaBaby, blew up earlier this year on his lead single, the Suge Knight ode, “Suge.” So tonight’s show welcomes a historic host back to Studio 8H, as well as a young upstart bringing new life and energy to a (sometimes) stodgy setting. Subsequently, she pulled double duty as host and musical guest during season 26 and 35. Welcome back to SNL in Review, fellow Coneheads! Tonight’s host, Jennifer Lopez, made her first Saturday Night Live appearance as a musical guest in February 2000.