754: The Prequel Problem

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Live, from The Incomparable, it’s Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night,” a film that purports to capture the 88 minutes before “Saturday Night Live’s” first live broadcast 50 years ago. All of our panelists agree it’s a well-made movie. There are many actors and comedians playing actors and comedians. But does it all hold together?...

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0:50.4	What's good, Norm?
0:52.4	Recording. It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, and I'm wearing milk bone underwear.
0:57.7	That's my favorite one.
1:00.6	You know Woody Harrelson as a graduate of Hanover College, right?
1:05.3	Oh, I do now.
1:06.7	Oh, yeah.
1:07.5	That's how I got to meet Woody Harrelson.
1:09.6	All the jokes on Cheers about Hanover, Indiana are because he's a graduate here.
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1:24.2	All right.
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