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As with all things 2020, theres a before and an after.
Then came the canceled plans and improvisational experiments of March.
Here are some of seasons best sketches, on both sides of the pandemic divide.
Its a cleverly engineered and perfectly barbed sketch that is wrong in all the right ways.
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What happens if the sunniest place on earth goes very, very dark?
Thankfully, it doesnt so much poison childhood memories as inoculate against gratuitously dark art.
The choreography is brilliant, in its awkward way, and perfectly captures romance borne of desperation.
Do you wear your clothes to school?
she asks one kid, while genuinely doing her best.
Turns out a commercial parody can be funny, incisive, and strangely consoling all at once.
The Corporal
Ever sinceDyke and Fats,Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant have been theSNLdouble act to beat.
Over the course of this season, they soldapple-picking tours,groceries,choir robes, and more.
If they couldnt find creative ways to engage the old material, it would feel like pandering.
a Dixie Carter trademark thats a touchstone.
Kids dont notice this stuff, but thankfully adults remember and then they become writers.
You do the math).
It isnt lyrically complex, but its honest.
Its nice to feel like we arent alone.
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