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Friday, May 17, 2013

Arts: The Saturday Night Live Sketch Predictor

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The Saturday Night Live Sketch Predictor
What will happen when Ben Affleck hosts tomorrow night? Argo see for yourself!
By Tara Ariano
Posted Friday, May 17, 2013, at 03:30 PM ET

This article originally appeared on Previously.TV, a brand-new TV commentary and recap site created by Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, and David T. Cole, the original founders of Television Without Pity. Visit Previously.TV for more.

11:29 p.m. Cold Open
At the IRS, officials try to come up with reasons to target investigations at organizations against which they have personal axes to grind, from the gym that kept charging Dave (Tim Robinson) for months after he quit to the coffee shop that won't let Doris (Kate McKinnon) bring her corgi inside.

11:35 p.m. Monologue
Host Ben Affleck is interrupted by Kenan Thompson with a question about where he keeps his Oscar, forcing Affleck to remind him (rather angrily) that he actually has two.

11:40 p.m. Commercial Parody
The smartphone wars escalate, with one side's phones getting thinner and smaller over the course of the spot, while the competition's get larger and more unwieldy.

11:45 p.m.
At Today, Matt Lauer (Affleck) and his co-hosts, Al Roker (Thompson) and Savannah Guthrie (Vanessa Bayer), refute a barrage of anonymous sources telling gossip columnists what Lauer is really like to work for, with Lauer growing increasingly angry as more and more reports roll in.

11:52 p.m. Commercial Parody
After his success with The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann (Jason Sudeikis) announces plans for lavish 3-D adaptations of other modern American literary classics, including To Kill a Mockingbird and The Grapes of ...

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