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Posts Tagged ‘Saturday Night Live’

Luddite Coursework for Poor John McCain

By Denis Campbell • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain admits he has never used a computer. When I realised my own 77-year old mother can open an Internet browser, send e-mail, download photos of her grandkids and visit web pages, it felt my civic duty to introduce Senator McCain to the wonderful world of computing.
His daughter helps him “watch” [...]



Happily Ever (For A Few Years) After

By Denis Campbell • Jun 20th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

May and June used to be big wedding months. English Football star Wayne Rooney and his girlfriend spent $5 million dollars on an Italian wedding. But in the narcissism capital of America, Hollywood errr… Beverly Hills, CA 90210 (a city that prides itself on pouty Botox fattened lips, Viagra and silicon/saline implants), it is not [...]



For 33 Years, “Live, from New York…It’s Saturday Night”

By Denis Campbell • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Features, Lead Story

This Saturday Night the curtain falls on Season 33 of a program begun in the Fall of my freshman year at University. NBC’s Saturday Night’s first few episodes were mostly forgettable. The show began on 11 October 1975 at 11:30 pm where for 90-minutes cast members, Chevy Chase, Dan Akroyd, Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman, Jane [...]