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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
July 29, 2017  | By David Bianculli  | 1 comment

NBC, 11:29 p.m. ET

 

Tonight’s SNL is a repeat of the show, from last season, hosted by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the star and composer of the Broadway smash Hamilton. This episode was performed live on Oct. 8, 2016, a month before the presidential election – and one day after news broke about the 2005 recording in which Donald Trump boasted of groping and gabbing women, using unforgettably vulgar language. That news, and that videotape and audio, broke on a Friday. The next night, Miranda opened SNL by singing his way through the backstage halls of Saturday Night Live ­– and pausing in front of a picture of Trump, who had hosted SNL once, and who now was the Republican candidate for the 2016 presidential election. Looking at the picture, Miranda sang a line straight from Hamilton: “Never gon’ be President now.” The audience laughed and applauded, but Donald Trump, a month later, got the last laugh. Or at least the next one…

 
 
 
 
 
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R. Dunn
Aw, boo-hoo...Bianculli are you & your smug, hateful, liberal-progressive fellow kommrades still butt-hurt that TRUMP is the US President? You sound kinda bitter posting that review...HAHA
Jul 29, 2017   |  Reply
 
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