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The iTunes 5★ reviewed podcast that reviewers call it "A great British spin on the world of tech", "Informing and entertaining" and "the best tech podcast by far…"
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Two brothers get together each week to discuss the long running sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, one a nerdy expert on all things SNL, the other a cynical casual viewer with much less love for its lore. Every week we recap the current episode (or classic eps during off weeks), discuss various issues related to the show and its history, and try to stump the expert with some SNL trivia.
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We lost a legend recently and this week on Saturday Night Jive we watched the Bob Newhart episode of SNL from the disastrous Season 20. In the height of SNL's "bad boy" era, they brought on the television icon to class up the joint a little bit. What results is an all-around solid and fun show, while maybe not the downright classic that George reme…
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And we're back with yet another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back! where we take a deep dive into an SNL recurring character and watch all their appearances. This week we watched one of the earliest SNL recurring characters, that's right, Ben gets introduced to King Ploobis, Scred, Puuta, Vosh and the rest of The Land Of Go…
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This week on Saturday Night Jive We watched Meatballs Part 2 because Bill Murray was in the first Meatballs. We've never seen the first Meatballs movie but that doesn't matter since this movie was never intended as a sequel to Meatballs. It was just a movie that resembled Meatballs a lot (we suppose as we've never seen it) that featured a character…
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358: "Robin Duke Only Exists To Titillate Me Sexually" - SNL S08E06 - Robert Blake / Kenny Loggins
This week on Saturday Night Jive we watched the illusive episode of SNL hosted by alleged murderer Robert Blake. Was it worth the wait? Absolutely not. But could it ever live up to our expectations? Let's talk about it. Also, how frigging hot is Mary Gross? This episode has Robert Blake punching Julia Louis-Dreyfus, a Little Rascals reunion, homoph…
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This week Ben had the option to pick anything he wanted to watch and he chose the Jeremy Irons episode of Saturday Night Live with musical guest Fishbone. Why did he do this? Because he likes Fishbone. So, what did we learn? Maybe you shouldn't pick an old episode of SNL for the musical guest because this is one of the most forgettable episodes eve…
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And we're back with yet another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back! where we take a deep dive into an SNL recurring character and watch all their appearances. This week we watched Goat Boy in all his glory. As we established the last time we did this with Mango we are giving ourselves an out. There are 10 SNL sketch appearan…
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The Other Sister directed by our good friend Garry Marshall and starring Juliette Lewis and Giovanni Ribisi as two mentally challenged adults who find love is a movie that shouldn't have been made. We shouldn't have watched it. In fact, this movie killed the podcast for a little bit as it sent George down an existential rabbit hole where he questio…
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Ummmm, this movie exists. It's about a bigfoot who plays basketball. Ben is insane and liked it. George is realistic and thinks it's a crappy TV movie starring a guy in a cheap looking monkey suit. You can check it out on YouTube, don't watch the whole thing, or any of it. No SNL cast members in Big And Hairy from 1998 but Enjoy! Full archive of al…
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Get ready for the most magical time of your life as Academy Award winner Javier Bardem dances with a CGI crocodile voiced by Shawn Mendes in the delightful Lyle Lyle Crocodile also featuring SNL alum Ego Nwodim. While George thinks this is a wonder of modern cinema (possibly due to a dangerous amount of psychedelic substances), Ben can't enjoy thin…
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we're talking some television pilots that never got picked up to see a full season that feature some SNL alums. We watched Norman's Corner starring the late, great Gilbert Gottfried and written by former SNL writer Larry David. The also late and also great Charles Rocket stars as a spaceship captain in the sci-fi sp…
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It's Hollywood's biggest night and Saturday Night Jive is celebrating. In honor of Robert Downey Jr. becoming the first SNL alum to win an Oscar we're talking about all the Saturday Night Live cast members who have ever been nominated for acting awards. This gives us an opportunity to talk about some actually good movies that we would otherwise nev…
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You know what's not fun? Crank phone calls. You know what's even less fun? Staged crank phone calls. Get out your ass cream and dust off your offensive accents, we watch The Jerky Boys: The Movie from 1995 starring The Jerky Boys, Alan Arkin, Big Pussy, William Hickey, and the guy from Frankenhooker. No SNL alums this week, Ben picked some random s…
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It's been said many times on this podcast, George loves him some Mary Gross. For all you doubters out there, he proved why by forcing Ben to watch an episode of Saturday Night Live from Season 9 hosted by Michael Douglas. Coffee infused blood, totally rad 80s music videos, busty 7 year olds, a town without feet, a host with an open headwound, and b…
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Do you like Twin Peaks? Then you'll be utterly confused by Wild Palms almost as confused as SNL alum James Belushi who apparently didn't understand the script so just showed up on set and read his lines. Can't blame you, Jim. This is an indecipherable piece of nonsense. So the story is that ABC wanted to have another weird show to replace Twin Peak…
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You want Oscars? Get two-time Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey on the phone. Sweeten the deal with Academy Award winner Helen Hunt. Throw in Academy Award nominee Haley Joel Osment. But you really looking for Oscar gold? Then you need Jon Bon Jovi and, more importantly, SNL alum Jay Mohr. We watched Pay It Forward from 2000, a movie that is a fail…
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And we're back with yet another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back! where we take a deep dive into an SNL recurring character and watch all their appearances. Last time we gathered we watched the first 10 appearances of Mango and surprisingly couldn't stay away so we're back for one more slice of that sweet, sweet Mango pie.…
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We're digging into the Rob Schneider bucket once again this week as we watched Necessary Roughness from 1991 featuring the Robmeister calling plays for a football team full of underdogs. Let me ask you a question. If I said I found a movie that features Scott Bakula, Kathy Ireland, Larry Miller, Robert Loggia, Sinbad, Senator Fred Thompson and of c…
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We're finally here. A podcast years in the making We're finally going back for another taste of Ed's special sauce with Good Burger 2 starring Kel Mitchell and Kenan Thompson and featuring a cavalcade of SNL cameos like Leslie Jones, Pete Davidson, Ego Nwodim, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow, Andy Samberg, Mikey Day, Bowen Yang, and Maya Rudolph.…
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And we're back with another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back! where we take a deep dive into an SNL recurring character and watch all their appearances. We're also back to doing episodes of Saturday Night Jive after a hiatus that is all Garry Marshall's fault. This week we're talking Mango played by the inimitable Chris Ka…
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Everything (ish) we missed in 2023 [S21E07]
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All did not 'go well' and the episode was not published between Christmas and New Year. Thank you to editor Mark who continues to fix broken audio with patience far beyond what we deserve. This week the team cover topics they missed during 2023 and catch-up on listener's emails: Beeper Mini: Why is there a market for an iMessage on Android? (update…
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Electric vehicles (are like smartphones) [S21E06]
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This week the team discuss electric vehicles as 'mobile adjacent' technology: Ewan recounts his experience of EV-based car clubs in Denmark and Teslas in Saudi Arabia. Rafe brings the stats on growth of the EV market and paralells to the smartphone industry we've tracked for the life of 361. Ben recounts his experiences as a first-time EV owner and…
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Mobile networks (are they good yet?) [S21E05]
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This week the team go back to their roots and talk about mobile networks: Ewan is deeply underwhelmed with the offerings of the UK's mobile network operators, having spent time living and working around Europe and the Middle East. He's especially unimpressed with network availability on major transport links, having had almost-ubiquitous access to …
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This week the team talk about money, finance, 'fintech' stuff and the products we use: Rafe's been using 'helpful' tools including HM Revenue and Customs' app to manage his tax and NS&I's app to check for Premium Bond wins. He's also tried the 'green' debit card Tred. Ewan's also been big on Open Banking for money management trying Plum to setup ru…
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It's Ben's pick this week on Saturday Night Jive and since he's not bound by the rules of picking movies that relate to SNL we watched the Don Ho classic Joe's Apartment from 1996. A beautiful love story about a kid in the big city fighting against corporate greed and trying to make his way in a world that doesn't understand him. Also there's anima…
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You like hearing people talk about an old ass episode of SNL? Well, this is the podcast for you! This week on Saturday Night Jive we watched Season 20 Episode 5 hosted by Sarah Jessica Parker with musical guest R.E.M.. It's one of the worst episodes in the show's history. This was the week where Michael O'Donoghue died and the Republicans took cont…
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This week the team consider that we might be at the "money ruins everything" stage of social media (eh, Reddit?). Rafe speculates that 'social' media is now driven more by advertising than friendship groups. We also talk about 'dark social', rafeblandford.com (Rafe's personal website) and remember Jaiku. Ben re-tells the 'Nazi Bar' story often cite…
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we watched another cheat pick. Camp Nowhere from 1994 has no SNL alums in it but it does have Christopher Lloyd as a former drama teacher who lives in a van becoming the only adult supervision to a group of Lord Of The Flies wannabes. A bunch of shitty kids decide to start their own summer camp with no rules. It's t…
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This week on Saturday Night Jive George's wet dreams become a reality as we finally watch Welcome To Mooseport starring two-time SNL host Ray Romano in his feature film debut and two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman in his final time on screen. This 2004 comedy follows a small town handyman who runs for mayor against the former President of the Unite…
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we watched the John Leguizamo classic The Pest from 1997. John stars as the most annoying character ever put on film who is hunted by a Nazi in a spoof of The Most Dangerous Game. This film has a small SNL connection as the director of this also directed a Saturday Night Christmas Special. It also features that litt…
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Broken smarthomes & a ninja fox stole my bread [S21E02]
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This week Ewan's back on the road and tests the new 361 mobile recording setup. The team reflect the state of their smarthomes, it's not good... at all. The team discuss the various smarthome systems they use, the changes made since last season and how their attitude to setting up smart-home tech has changed over time. Reliability's certainly been …
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we're watching another old ass episode of SNL. From Season 24 it's the episode hosted by Ray Romano with musical guest The Coors. Why are we watching this one? Well, because George is a big fan of Ray Romano and wants to watch Welcome To Mooseport so we're watching this to make that movie canonical (so stay tuned fo…
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After a short (18 month) break the team are back, well rested and ready to discuss Apple's big 'virtual reality / augmented reality' announcement at their global developer conference. The team discuss: How does Apple's Vision Pro device compare to others? Is Apple 'doing' the metaverse now? Can we say 'foveated rendering' with a straight face? What…
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we watched the Ezio Greggio classic The Silence Of The Hams which features no SNL alum unless you count Dom Irrera who can be seen as an extra in Season 6. We got former SNL host Charlene Tilton as well as a cavalcade of D-level celebrities we've seen in other movies like Stuart Pankin, Rip Taylor, and Eddie Deezen.…
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And we're back with another installment of our award winning segment ...And We're Back! where we take a deep dive into an SNL recurring character and watch all their appearances. This week we're covering a collection of recurring characters from Mr. Rob Schneider. We could do The Richmeister, but instead we're gonna jump into the deep end and cover…
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we take another dip in the Rob Schneider pool and watched Surf Ninjas from 1993. The story of two young boys and their 30 year old friend who discover that they are actually the heirs to a kingdom on a magical ninja island. Only one thing stands in their way, cyborg Leslie Nielsen. With the help of a magical SEGA Ga…
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we watched a movie starring Bill Murray...'s brother, not the one you're thinking of. No, not that one either. It's the John Murray classic Moving Violations. Also starring Stacy Keach's brother, Meg Tilly's sister and an Academy Award worthy performance from the 'Where's The Beef?' lady. This movie has it all. Car …
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we watched Harry And The Hendersons from 1987 starring 3-time SNL host John Lithgow and the immortal Kevin Peter Hall in a bigfoot costume. This film left George in a world of wonder while Ben is too jaded and cynical to enjoy such whimsy. Rick Baker won an Oscar for making a terrific character that for some reason …
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we're watching another old ass episode of SNL. From Season 20 it's the episode hosted by John Travolta with musical guest Seal. Believe it or not, John Travolta is a heterosexual man but you'd be right to be confused when you see him singing as Barbra Streisand, playing gay Dracula, and wearing eyeliner as a mafia d…
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we watched Old Dogs a confounding film from 2009 starring SNL hosts Robin Williams and John Travolta as well as Matt Dillon, I realize I'm just clinging to the fact that our podcast is tangentially SNL related anymore but we'll get back to the show next week when we watch John Travolta host the show. But first, Old …
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we're watching a notorious episode of Saturday Night Live. It's Season 35 Episode 6 hosted by January Jones with musical guest Black Eyed Peas. The lovely Miss Jones was starring on an Emmy winning television show at the time so one would only assume she could hold her own on a live sketch comedy show. All that hope…
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we watched Ed from 1996 starring Matt LeBlanc and a guy in a monkey suit. No SNL alum in this piece of shit but there's nothing in the rule book that says an SNL podcast can't watch a movie about a monkey playing baseball that doesn't have an SNL cast member in it. Matt LeBlanc is actually the only Friends star who …
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we watched Tiptoes starring Gary Oldman as a dwarf. It's a nonsensical film about Matthew McConaughey who is the only non-dwarf in a family of dwarves and he's about to get married to Kate Beckinsale (who sometimes wears a hat). She doesn't know anything about his family and freaks out when she realizes her soon-to-…
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we watched the 1989 classic No Holds Barred otherwise known as the single greatest movie ever made. Starring one-time SNL host Hulk Hogan (check out episode 206 of our podcast for a full rundown of his Season 10 episode) and written by Hulk and WWF president Vince McMahon, this movie is either accidentally brilliant…
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we're talking about the 1995 family comedy Man Of The House starring SNL alum Chevy Chase. After a string of flops (see our episodes on Nothing But Trouble and Cops And Robbersons) Chevy didn't want to do another film but eventually agreed to sign on because he liked the dramatic elements of the script. One could ar…
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we're talking about the 1989 classic Second Sight starring two people who hosted SNL. Bronson Pinchot and John Larroquette star in this comedy about a detective and a psychic trying to solve a case of a missing cardinal. Don't worry, Stuart Pankin is in the film too. It's a big old pile of crazy. Enjoy! Full archive…
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we're watching Tremors 3: Back To Perfection. Why? Because SNL alum Mary Gross plays Tourist Mom, probably the most respected role in her filmography. This direct to DVD sequel has Michael Gross (brother to Mary) shooting graboids and ass blasters with the help of a plucky sidekick and a lady who runs a convenience …
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we're doing another cheat pick. There are no SNL alums in the 1996 film Bogus but we watched it anyway. It does feature Andrea Martin who is related to SNL alum Martin Short and was offered a spot on Season 10 (according to rumors) so that counts, right? This movie stars a pre-Sixth Sense Haley Joel Osment who creat…
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we're talking the Anthony Michael Hall classic from 1997 Trojan War. This movie is most famous for at one time being the lowest grossing movie of all time, making a hefty $309 at the U.S. box office. If you ask us, around 60 theater goers are owed a refund and we've started a class action suit to get their $4.59 bac…
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we watched a film that parodies the disaster movie genre that was all the rage in the 1970s. No, not Airplane!, it's The Big Bus from 1976 starring Stockard Channing, Joey Baloney, Richard Mulligan, the guy who played Richard Mulligan's partner in A Fine Mess, Rene Auberjonis, Sally Kellerman, Ned Beatty, Harold Gou…
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This week on Saturday Night Jive we're talking about the 1992 comedy Brain Donors. There are no SNL alum in this film but it was directed by Dennis Dugan who after watching Problem Child, Beverly Hills Ninja, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, You Don't Mess With The Zohan, Grown Ups, Jack And Jill, and Grown Ups 2 feels like an honorary member of …
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