Not Ready for Primetime SNL Podcast

"Check It Out" is our catch-all title for non-SNL topics that we discuss periodically. Movies, TV, music...it's all under that umbrella.  As with many of our podcasts this summer, we are publishing this a few days after initially posting on our Patreon.  We once again want to highlight our summer promotion over on said Patreon! We are keeping a special $3/month rate throughout the summer, so if yo...

"Check It Out" is our catch-all title for non-SNL topics that we discuss periodically. Movies, TV, music...it's all under that umbrella.  As with our "Superman" podcast, we are publishing this simultaneously with our Patreon feed, rather than a few days after posting there first. Once again: We also wanted to highlight our summer promotion over on Patreon! We are keeping a special $3/month rate th...

"Check It Out" is our catch-all title for non-SNL topics that we discuss periodically. Movies, TV, music...it's all under that umbrella.  This week: we are actually dropping our review of James Gunn's "Superman" simultaneously with our Patreon feed, rather than a few days after posting there first. Given the attention around the movie, this made sense. But we also wanted to highlight our summer pr...

"Check It Out" is our catch-all title for non-SNL topics that we discuss periodically. Movies, TV, music...it's all under that umbrella.  This is an episode we posted on our Patreon last week, and are sharing here now. In this week's discussion, we look at the film F1 and the Disney+ show Ironheart. (Spoilers for both, but they have both been out for a bit at this point.)We are keeping a special $...

"Check It Out" is our catch-all title for non-SNL topics that we discuss periodically. Movies, TV, music...it's all under that umbrella.  This is an episode we posted on our Patreon last week, and are sharing here now. In this episode at least both of us eventually dub "freewheeling," we cover a lot of topics around 2025 movies that have already been released, just about to release, or those we're...

"Check It Out" is our catch-all title for non-SNL topics that we discuss periodically. Movies, TV, music...it's all under that umbrella.  We published this immediately after it premiered on our Patreon, but we are sharing it now here on the free feed. We go deep on our thoughts on the final (?) installment of this long-running franchise. After a brief break, we'll be back soon producing episodes o...

We have reached the end of our season-long coverage! Thanks to all that have taken this season long journey with us. But fear not: We will be posting content throughout the summer on our Patreon. Those episodes may or may not not make it to this feed before the start of Season 51, but if you want the latest and greatest you should definitely consider signing up. We have a single $5 tier for those...

"Check It Out" is our catch-all title for non-SNL topics that we discuss periodically. Movies, TV, music...it's all under that umbrella. In this one, we go deep on the final three episodes of this fairly stunning series for nearly an entire hour of analysis. We released this to our Patreon subscribers yesterday, but making it available for all of you now.  If you seek content like this earlier, jo...

Ryan and Mike are back with a look at the second-to-last episode of the season. This was a strong, silly episode that among other things showed that SNL has finally cracked how to cover the current President after almost a decade. Also, Ryan gets approximately 35 names wrong in this episode, so enjoy the journey. If you seek additional entertainment, join the others that have already subscribed to...

We posted this on our Patreon earlier this week, but are now sharing here on the main, free feed. "Check It Out" is our catch-all title for non-SNL topics that we discuss periodically. Movies, TV, music...it's all under that umbrella. If you seek content like this earlier, join the others that have already subscribed to our Patreon! In the meantime, we will continue to drop SNL episodic recaps her...

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*. htt...

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 episod...

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

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...

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 thr...

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/NotReadyForPr...

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/NotReadyForPrimetimeSNLPodca...

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://ww...

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 ce...

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.

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...

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/NotReadyF...

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 ther...

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...

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!