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Plus: 21 of the Most Hated Characters in Television History
Alyson Lewis
September 03, 2025
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This issue is about ‘SNL,’ Woody Allen, Bowen Yang, Johnny Carson, and much more.
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Lorne, what are you doing?
After all the criticism in recent years along the lines of Saturday Night Live's Cast Is Just Too Big, SNL producer Lorne Michaels appeared to get the message with last week’s comedian purge. Over the course of five days, Heidi Gardener, Emil Wakim, Devon Walker and Michael Longfellow were all given their walking papers, reducing the show’s roster to a more manageable size.
Boy, did Woody Allen get a bum deal, says Bill Maher.
On this week’s Club Random podcast, Maher lamented how liberals and the left orchestrated a witch hunt for Allen — a Democrat, mind you! — during the #MeToo era. While Allen survived scandal in the 1990s, the #MeToo movement reignited scorn for the director starting around 2017.
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