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Our 93 Favorite Comedy Moments of 2024
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After taking a perfectly on-target shot at the parent company of the show he was promoting (“They used to call it HBO, but people found that too popular!”), our final image is of O’Brien — eyes crazed with a mania that’s no longer quite as exaggerated as it was six wings ago; his chin dripping a revolting combination of milk, drool, and maybe snot — having defeated Hot Ones, but at what cost? ), but it also introduced a new villain into the Rogue’s Gallery in the form of lo-res CGI Lorne Michaels The ultimate big-bad of this Joker origin story is the head honcho of a UCB- SNL dystopian hybrid that exerts authority, control, and sexism over comedy in Gotham, and Maria Bamford voices him like a little cartoon weasel. Written by Streeter Seidell, this depiction of a NewsNation town hall about AI that gets derailed by Beavis and Butt-head look-alikes contains all the elements that make an SNL clip forever rewatchable: a brilliantly random premise, a perfect kicker (the King of the Hill reference: genius), and multiple performers cracking up so badly they can barely say their lines.
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