Party on 'Saturday Night Live' relives the '90s in a prime- time special.(Time Out!)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May, 2007 | by Cox, Ted

Byline: Ted Cox Daily Herald TV/Radio Columnist If the '70s with the original cast was the golden age of "Saturday Night Live," the '90s was the gilded age: in some ways even more glittering and glitzy, and sometimes even more consistently funny, if not quite as brilliant or groundbreaking.

NBC celebrates that era with a new prime-time overview special, "Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation," airing at 8 p.m. Sunday on WMAQ Channel 5. If it's still a few years premature to indulge in full-fledged '90s nostalgia, it's nevertheless a welcome trip back to the "SNL" glory days. Compare it, for instance, to the season's best retrospective airing at 10:30 p.m. Saturday on Channel 5, which figures to be Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg's "(Bleep)...

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