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Doing thumb-thing about those Sox

By Bill Simmons
Page 2 columnist

Monday, April 1, 2002

Remember that unbearable "Saturday Night Live" season from the mid-1990s, when Janeane Garofalo and Chris Elliott were on the cast and the wheels came flying off? Cast members openly jumped ship during the season. Some sketches were so excruciating that you actually felt sorry for the audience whenever the "APPLAUSE" sign came on. They even botched their treatment of the O.J. trial, which was only the greatest running vehicle for comedy fodder in the history of the show. Why would Comedy Channel ...

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