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Not Ready for Primetime SNL Podcast

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Ryan McGee and Mike Ryan discuss SNL and other parts of pop culture.

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Ryan McGee and Mike Ryan discuss SNL and other parts of pop culture.

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English


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Saturday Night Live: Season 50, Episode 18: Quinta Brunson

5/4/2025
Ryan and Mike are back along with the show for its final stretch of Season 50 episodes. If you seek additional entertainment, join the others that have already subscribed to our Patreon! We will be posting both SNL and non-SNL content throughout the Spring over there. This week will feature both reviews of the 3rd batch of episodes of Andor S2 and thoughts on the latest MCU film Thunderbolts*. https://www.patreon.com/NotReadyForPrimetimeSNLPodcast

Duration:00:34:40

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Check It Out: Andor, Season 2: Episodes 1-3

4/28/2025
As promised, Ryan and Mike are covering each 3-episode installment of the fantastic STAR WARS show ANDOR over the next four weeks. "Check It Out" is our name for episodes that don't directly cover episodes of Saturday Night Live, and serves a sub-series within the feed. We released this installment last week on our Patreon, but are releasing it here each week the day before the new batch of episodes drops. If you want to hear these first, be sure to sign up for our $5/month Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/NotReadyForPrimetimeSNLPodcast

Duration:00:39:27

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Saturday Night Live, Season 50 Episode 17: Jon Hamm

4/13/2025
Ryan and Mike are back with a review of the final episode of the show before its final run this May! If you seek additional entertainment, join the others that have already subscribed to our Patreon! We will be posting both SNL and non-SNL content throughout the Spring over there. https://www.patreon.com/NotReadyForPrimetimeSNLPodcast

Duration:00:34:03

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Saturday Night Live, Season 50 Episode 16: Jack Black

4/8/2025
Ryan and Mike are back, belatedly, with a review of this week's episode. We had announced the delay, but we apologize all the same! In this episode: thoughts on a wild crowd, Jack Black's energy, and we finally learn how many days a week Billy Zane is actually Billy Zane. (That's not related to the episode but it's a fact you'll learn anyway.) If you seek additional entertainment, join the others that have already subscribed to our Patreon! We will be posting both SNL and non-SNL content throughout the Spring over there. https://www.patreon.com/NotReadyForPrimetimeSNLPodcast

Duration:00:30:55

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Saturday Night Live, Season 50 Episode 15: Mikey Madison

3/30/2025
Ryan and Mike are back along with the show in its second-to-last batch of episodes. We look at the surprising sidelining of this week's host, the increasingly high profile of Marcello Hernandez, and the proper technique for avoiding lines at events. If you seek additional entertainment, join the others that have already subscribed to our Patreon! We will be posting both SNL and non-SNL content throughout the Spring over there. https://www.patreon.com/NotReadyForPrimetimeSNLPodcast We currently have a single, $5/month tier for now. The plan is to create 2-4 additional podcasts per month over there, provided there's enough audience for the upper end of that spectrum. Thanks to all that have already joined!

Duration:00:33:39

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Check It Out: Everybody's Live with John Mulaney

3/21/2025
We are launching "Check It Out," a series within a series here on the podcast about topics outside of weekly reviews of SNL. We recorded this one last week and posted it exclusively on our Patreon, but now it's here for those that haven't signed up just yet. However, we would love it if you DID subscribe to get first access to content like this in the future. https://www.patreon.com/NotReadyForPrimetimeSNLPodcast We currently have a single, $5/month tier for now. Thanks again to all that have already joined!

Duration:00:39:53

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Saturday Night Live, Season 50 Episode 13: Lady Gaga

3/9/2025
Ryan and Mike are back with a look at one of the more entertaining episodes of the season. We also get into more George C. Scott movies than either of us intended. If you seek additional entertainment, join the others that have already subscribed to our Patreon! We will be posting both SNL and non-SNL content throughout March over there as well. https://www.patreon.com/NotReadyForPrimetimeSNLPodcast We currently have a single, $5/month tier for now. The plan is to create 2-4 additional podcasts per month over there, provided there's enough audience for the upper end of that spectrum. Thanks to all that have already joined!

Duration:00:41:19

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Saturday Night Live, Season 50 Episode 13: Shane Gillis

3/2/2025
Ryan and Mike are back after a long, post-SNL 50th Anniversary content hangover that may or may not have carried over into the content of this week's episode. This was a complicated one to unpack for sure! If you seek additional entertainment, join the others that have already subscribed to our Patreon! We will be posting both SNL and non-SNL content throughout March over there as well. https://www.patreon.com/NotReadyForPrimetimeSNLPodcast We currently have a single, $5/month tier for now. The plan is to create 2-4 additional podcasts per month over there, provided there's enough audience for the upper end of that spectrum. Thanks to all that have already joined!

Duration:00:44:09

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Reviewing "SNL50: The Anniversary Special"

2/17/2025
Our first on-the-go podcast features the two of us sharing our wildly out-of-order thoughts on an overstuffed special that was less of a celebration than we might have anticipated and more an "extra-stuff episode with every star you expected and also a half-dozen you definitely didn't". Listen to find out our favorite performance, stand-out jokes, and one to seven conspiracy theories about what certain sketches, songs, and notables absences might say about the state of the show. We also talk plans for the rest of the season and beyond for this podcast. Enjoy!

Duration:00:46:49

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Reviewing "SNL50: The Homecoming Concert"

2/16/2025
One of us was there! One of us watched from home! We both had thoughts! Hear what it was like to be in Radio City Music Hall, and what the performances there might suggest about what sketches appear in the 50th Anniversary Special.

Duration:00:34:53

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From The Patreon Vault: Reviewing "Ladies & Gentlemen ... 50 Years of SNL Music"

2/6/2025
Another drop from the vault, with a review of the excellent Questlove-directed documentary "Ladies & Gentlemen ... 50 Years of SNL Music". This was another awesome documentary and we have a lot of fun breaking it down. If you seek additional exclusive episodes ahead of their appearance here, join the others that have already subscribed to our Patreon! We have a lot of content already up for your listening pleasure, and we're only adding more as the weeks go on. https://www.patreon.com/NotReadyForPrimetimeSNLPodcast

Duration:00:55:31

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From the Patreon Vault: Reviewing the documentary "More Cowbell"

1/29/2025
Another drop from the vault, with a review of the Peacock documentary "More Cowbell". It's about...well, you can guess. If you seek additional exclusive episodes ahead of their appearance here, join the others that have already subscribed to our Patreon! We have a lot of content already up for your listening pleasure, and we're only adding more as the weeks go on. https://www.patreon.com/NotReadyForPrimetimeSNLPodcast

Duration:00:42:10

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Episode 109: Timothée Chalamet

1/26/2025
Ryan and Mike are back to discuss the last episode before the big 50th Anniversary celebration in February! If you seek additional entertainment in the next few weeks, join the others that have already subscribed to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/NotReadyForPrimetimeSNLPodcast We currently have a single, $5/month tier for now. The plan is to create 2-4 additional podcasts per month over there, provided there's enough audience for the upper end of that spectrum. Thanks to all that have already joined!

Duration:00:38:24

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From The Patreon Vault: Reviewing the documentary "Season 11: The Weird Year"

1/23/2025
Another drop from the vault, this time with our review of our favorite of the four SNL documentaries currently streaming on Peacock If you seek additional episodes, including the already-up review of the documentary "More Cowbell", join the others that have already subscribed to our Patreon! We have a lot of content already up for your listening pleasure, and we're only adding more as the weeks go on. https://www.patreon.com/NotReadyForPrimetimeSNLPodcast

Duration:00:38:42

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Episode 107: Dave Chappelle

1/19/2025
We are testing out the new feed with this episode! If everything goes correctly, you'll see this if you never stopped subcribing to the old feed. We'd love to hear if this is all working as expected! Eventually we'll get back down to one feed, whichever way that ends up being easier for all. We hope this reaches those of you that didn't know we were still doing this for Season 50!

Duration:00:35:57

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Episode 106: Eddie Murphy

12/22/2019
We're back. For like, this. Not permanently. We can't stress enough how little your excitement should be. We talk Eddie Murphy on "SNL" and all things "The Rise Of Skywalker." We enjoyed one of those things very much.

Duration:01:06:02

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Episode 105: Donald Glover

5/6/2018
Ryan McGee and Mike Ryan are back to talk about Season 43, Episode 19. Be sure to subscribe to us on iTunes or Google Play for the latest and greatest talk about the show. Ryan and Mike will be breaking down (almost) every episode in written once next again this year, bringing some Maine Justice to the sketch-comedy landscape.

Duration:01:03:59

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Episode 104: John Mulaney

4/15/2018
Ryan McGee and Mike Ryan are back to talk about Season 43, Episode 18. Be sure to subscribe to us on iTunes or Google Play for the latest and greatest talk about the show. Ryan and Mike will be breaking down (almost) every episode in written once next again this year, bringing some Maine Justice to the sketch-comedy landscape.

Duration:00:42:28

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Episode 103: Chadwick Boseman

4/8/2018
Ryan McGee and Mike Ryan are back to talk about Season 43, Episode 17. Be sure to subscribe to us on iTunes or Google Play for the latest and greatest talk about the show. Ryan and Mike will be breaking down (almost) every episode in written once next again this year, bringing some Maine Justice to the sketch-comedy landscape.

Duration:00:42:12

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Episode 102: Bill Hader

3/18/2018
Ryan McGee and Mike Ryan are back to talk about Season 43, Episode 16. This podcast has everything. Be sure to subscribe to us on iTunes or Google Play for the latest and greatest talk about the show. Ryan and Mike will be breaking down (almost) every episode in written once next again this year, bringing some Maine Justice to the sketch-comedy landscape.

Duration:00:41:03