CNN on Saturday Night Live’s successful stretch the last few years:
“Back in 1995, ‘SNL’ suffered badly when the show lost Mike Myers, Phil Hartman, Kevin Nealon, Adam Sandler, Ellen Cleghorne and Chris Farley within the space of a year.”
Oh, yeah — losing Ellen Cleghorne was huge.
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05 August | 14:53 | anna
cast schmast! it's all about the writing now. tina fey is brilliant!
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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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