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Can ‘SNL’ Get Back to Making Stars?

The Town with Matthew Belloni

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The show is almost succeeding in spite of itself. I think, you know, two things have happened. One is they went against what worked in the past, which was small cast. They blew it on Julie Louis Dreyfus. Tim Robinson for people under 35 is like a comedy God because of his Netflix series. He was on the show. It's pretty rare, you can't go through the first 35 seasons of SNL and point to three people that they blew it on. So I think once you have a small cast, they blowing it on him. Yeah. No, 24 people in the cast is way too many.

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