Ho, ho, Hoooo! Our season of celebrating the holidays comes to a close with this VINTAGE re-release of our very first edition of Tournament Talk. Fittingly, for this inaugural outing, we brought a few of our friends in to discuss and debate our Favorite SNL Holiday Moments.

We had a lot of fun looking back at 50 years of memorable holiday sketches, pre-tapes, and performances as we battled it out over our top 16 favorite Saturday Night Live holiday moments.

Thomas Sena joins us to intro the episode and (spoiler alert) talk about some of our favorite moments that didn’t make it to the competition.

Happy Holidays!

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We continue to celebrate the holiday season by looking back at a movie that is a must watch this time of year – Scrooged!

Bill Murray returns to acting after a four-year hiatus to star in this modern retelling of Charles Dickens’ immortal classic, "A Christmas Carol," that’s infused with the chaotic energy of the live television and Saturday Night Live. Though originally panned by critics – as well as Murray and others involved in making the film – it has endured as one of the modern Christmas classics.

The script, written by SNL’s Michael O’Donoghue and Mitch Glazer, famously got reworked during the filming but the final product has stood the test of time. Murray delivers a layered performance, the supporting cast is stellar, and the blend of dark humor and heart hits just right.

If you haven’t already, do yourself a favor and (re)watch this movie today!

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Christmas is coming early this year to The Not Ready for Prime Time Project. This week we’re re-releasing a VINTAGE episode of The Early Years of SNL as we look back at not only the best holiday episode of the original (or any) era, but also one of the best episodes of the entire first five years.

Candice Bergen returns to Saturday Night Live for the 3rd time to host the Christmas episode for the second year in a row. This one is loaded with killer sketches from “Adopt Belushi for Christmas” to “Santi-Wrap” to the iconic “Consumer Probe.” It's got a great monologue and two sketches, “Gary Gilmore” and “The Killer Trees,” which are sleeper gems you may have forgotten about. And, speaking of forgetting, we also get one of the most memorable “breaks” in show history as Candice forgets who is playing who in a sketch and calls Gilda by Candice’s own character’s name.

To top it all off, Frank Zappa performs three numbers – all of which are top notch. He even manages to sneak into a sketch.

We love this episode. We hope you do too. Happy holidays!

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

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