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JIM THIELMAN: That One Episode Of ‘SNL’ Seemed Like It Took 50 Years

Fifty years ago, I suggested to my girlfriend’s parents that we all watch this hilarious new show called “Saturday Night Live.” I tuned in this past Saturday, when NBC broadcast the show’s first episode. I wanted to see how cool I had been. The episode didn’t even hold up that well 50 years ago. Comedian George Carlin, surrounded by the …


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RON SCHALOW: He Is What He Is

It’s getting a little chippy out there. An old guy can’t even drop dead at the bowling alley without some jamoke claiming that the man’s last cough was deliberating misleading to skew coronavirus numbers in order to make Donald Trump look bad. It’s tough, I tell you. Last week, I saw two facially naked Norwegian-Americans mug an elderly masked man …