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<em>Saturday Night Live</em> Takes a Swipe at Celebrity Journalism

The show’s sharpest sketch yet on the #MeToo movement skewered E!’s confused coverage of the Golden Globes, while a Bill Murray parody of Steve Bannon fell flat.
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has so far struggled to produce memorable comedy about the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement. The ongoing revelations about sexual assault and institutional misogyny in Hollywood have proven too much of a moving target for the show, which has seemed a little creatively adrift overall after its big ratings comeback during the 2016 election. But Saturday night’s episode, hosted by Sam Rockwell, found an easier angle to score a few topical jabs, mocking E! and

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