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Saturday Night Live Premiere Recap: Jean Smart Leads a Cavalcade of Cameos
The jam-packed premiere has a lot of catching up to do after an eventful summer. Luckily, Jean Smart is the perfect host to kick off season 50.
It’s hard to imagine what kind of show the cast would’ve put on had they gone live just hours after Donald Trump was nearly assassinated, other than “an uncomfortable one.” Watershed political moments aside, this season premiere felt in part like a clearinghouse for Brat Summer ephemera. • Although going back to the Hitler well for commentary about Donald Trump has long been considered partisan Paint By Numbers, the joke that arrives around the two-minute mark in this Weekend Update segment deserves special dispensation because holy crap. • Although the new cast members pop up sporadically, Ashley Padilla is the only one who gets anything approaching a moment in the episode, defending her business lady credentials amid so many steaming plates of fajitas in the Real Housewives sketch.
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