Articles Tagged ‘Saturday Night Live’

Presidential parodies prove more entertaining than actual debates

By Zoe Roth · Daily Trojan

October 8, 2012 at 3:35 pm

This past week, the most talked about television moments didn’t come from Glee’s multiple, melodramatic breakups or the much anticipated return of 30 Rock. On Wednesday night, it was President Barack Obama and his opponent Governor Mitt Romney who captivated audiences everywhere during the first of three presidential election debates. Nearly 67.2 million people tuned in to [...]

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Baseball film fails to live up to potential

By Marianne zumberge · Daily Trojan

September 24, 2012 at 10:42 pm

Baseball film fails to live up to potential

Despite its strong cast, Clint Eastwood’s Trouble with the Curve misses the mark.

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64th Primetime Emmy Awards Predictions

By MICHAEL CHASIN · Daily Trojan

September 20, 2012 at 10:14 pm

Though the Oscars have always been the most buzzed-about event of awards season — and likely will be for the foreseeable future — they might no longer be the most important. Long thought to be out of touch and subject to the whims of Academy politics, the ceremony’s self-righteous sanctimony and lack of any real [...]

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SNL finally gives us what we want in season premiere

By Zoe Roth · Daily Trojan

September 17, 2012 at 12:02 pm

Live from New York, it’s a show that we can actually relate to! Saturday Night Live’s 38th season premiered this weekend on NBC with a fancy new title sequence, a freshly plucked cast of supporting players and a bevy of hilarious and relevant sketches. While its formula is as tried and true as ever, Lorne Michaels [...]

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Republicans fail to assess national mood

By Burke Gibson · Daily Trojan

April 4, 2012 at 8:54 pm

Radical republicans beg the question: Are they actually comedians from Saturday Night Live?

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Does Lindsay Lohan’s comeback begin now?

By SHERIDAN WATSON · Daily Trojan

March 2, 2012 at 8:31 am

Hosting Saturday Night Live Saturday, appearing for interviews on the Today show Thursday and gracing magazine pages, it seems as if Lohan is everywhere. While this may seem like blast from the past, I can assure you that it is actually the year 2012. At this point, everyone knows who Lindsay Lohan is. She was [...]

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The wild week in Bon Iver news

By RYAN KINDEL · Daily Trojan

February 7, 2012 at 8:27 am

Last Tuesday, Bon Iver’s song “Holocene” was featured in a TV commercial for the upcoming Grammys. In the commercial, an idyllic snowy landscape turns into a flock of birds that then turns into a silhouette of B.I. frontman Justin Vernon, and then into the message, “WE ARE MUSIC,” and then into a message advertising the [...]

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Can Lana Del Rey get a little love?

By JAMES VIOLETTE · Daily Trojan

February 6, 2012 at 11:14 am

In the weeks following Lana Del Rey’s unpolished performance on Saturday Night Live, critics have run to the press with every reason not to like Del Rey. The evidence used to bolster their point is that she doesn’t write any of her own music, her lyrics are immature, she is the epitome of what happens [...]

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Bridesmaids can help change female comedy

By Cara Dickason · Daily Trojan

April 18, 2011 at 9:05 pm

Tina Fey has taken over. With the release of her critically lauded memoir Bossypants, Fey has officially become the queen of comedy. Fey established herself as a comedic voice for women with her Saturday Night Live career beginning in 1997 and led to her being the show’s first female head writer. But it wasn’t until [...]

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SPECIAL FEATURE: Prof loses tenure bid after appeal

On April 3, Assistant Professor of International Relations Mai’a Keapuolani Davis Cross, who had traveled cross-country from her tenure track position at Colgate University to ...

Center to host more concerts after deal with Nederlander

The Galen Center entered into a deal last week with Nederlander Concerts, a Los Angeles-based company that organizes concerts with venues, to increase the numbers ...

Annenberg creates community pay phones

A group of USC students, community members and local artists in Leimert Park are bringing the pay phone back into service — and hoping to ...

Opinion

’SC sets example in lowering dropout rate

A report sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation reveals that the nation’s higher education system is facing a dropout crisis. Produced in part ...

Should the Guantánamo Bay prison remain open?

The prison must be closed as it stands for hypocrisy and infringes upon international human rights.  One hundred of the total 166 inmates at the Guantánamo ...

The Internet celebrates 20th birthday

Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of the creation of World Wide Web. The organization responsible for building the Internet, CERN, also created the Large Hadron ...

Sports

Trojans begin three-game homestand against TCU

As the USC baseball team enters the final month of its baseball season 11 games under .500, it can at least feel good that it ...

USC faces North Florida in first round of tournament

For the No. 4 USC women’s sand volleyball team, its entire season has led up to this tournament. The team will finally be put to the ...

Jovan, Monica Vavic earn league awards

When it comes to dominating the competition in the pool, nobody does it better than the Vavic family. Following a season in which head coach ...

Lifestyle

An Exercise in Authenticity

Though Generation Um…includes a star studded cast—Keanu Reeves, Bojana Novakovic, and Adelaide Clemens—this film surprisingly has more of an indie vibe.  Set in New York ...

History behind shakes

Though finals loom as obstacles between now and summer, Ground Zero Performance Café has the perfect solution for both cooling down and serving your study ...

Play creates darker version of J.M. Barrie’s classic tale

Before Disney’s Peter, Wendy, John and Michael flew over “poor Nana” toward Big Ben and continued to the second star to the right and straight ...

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In Photos: Washington comes to USC

In Photos: Washington comes to USC

The Schwarzenegger Institute held an immigration reform forum titled "Washington comes to USC", with U.S Senators John McCain, Michael Bennet and former President of Mexico ...

In Photos: Armenian Genocide

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In Photos: Springfest 2013

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