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Seth Meyers Revives <em>Saturday Night Live </em>(For a Week)

The show’s former head writer returned for an episode with some excellent sketches—but also a dire parody of Kanye West’s meeting with Donald Trump.
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The return of a beloved alumnus to can sometimes make for a nostalgia-filled episode, stuffed with cameos by former castmates and revived sketches. So when Seth Meyers came back to host the show for the first time since departing in 2014, he could’ve trotted out guest appearances from famed collaborators like Bill Hader or Amy Poehler, and it wouldn’t have felt . But Meyers’s episode ended up avoiding those sentimental pitfalls, and instead featured

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