In this special episode, we are joined by Bob Thompson, Trustee Professor of Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, to talk about Saturday Night, the 2024 film directed by Jason Reitman about the night of 1975 premiere of SNL. We discuss the viability of historical fiction in a post-modern media ecosystem that has been oral-history'd and behind-the-scene'd to death and how the film continues some of the longstanding critiques of SNL regarding issues of race and gender.
