A lot of wonderful new melodies and lyrics successfully made their way to my ears, brain, and feet in 2025. Here are the standouts, in collectible and solitary form:
jmunney’s Favorite Music of 2025
February 7, 2026
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Jeff’s Wacky SNL Review: Miles Teller/Brandi Carlile
November 2, 2025
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A screenshot of people who have been on your TV (CREDIT: NBC/Screenshot)
Jeff “jmunney” Malone watches every new episode of Saturday Night Live and then reviews all
the sketches and segments according to a “wacky” theme.
Welcome to November, readers of my Saturday Night Live reviews! For this edition, we’ve got a couple of mainstays of 2020s SNL for our guest lineup, with Miles Teller making his second hosting appearance since 2022 and Brandi Carlile hitting her fourth time as musical g., just a little over four years since her first.
Since this episode began airing the evening after Halloween, I would imagine that plenty of us were still in a spooky mood. Ergo, I shall be reviewing this episode by declaring what The Scariest Part of each sketch was.
Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 10/24/25
October 24, 2025
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Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–Bugonia (Theaters)
–Eli Roth Presents: Dream Eater (Theaters) – I might check this out at some point.
–Shelby Oaks (Theaters)
–Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (Theaters)
TV
–Star Wars: Visions Volume 3 (October 29 on Disney+) – I’m still stuck on Volume 1. Maybe I’ll get caught up one day.
Music
-Lily Allen, West End Girl
-Brandi Carlile, Returning to Myself
-Demi Lovato, It’s Not That Deep
-Mammoth, The End
-Miguel, CAOS
-Sigrid, There’s Always More That I Could Say
-Serj Tankian, Covers, Collaborations & Collages
Sports
-World Series (Starts October 24 on FOX) – Jays and Dodgers.
Jeff’s Wacky SNL Review: Jack Black/Elton John & Brandi Carlile
April 6, 2025
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a group of April Foolz (CREDIT: NBC/Screenshot)
Jeff “jmunney” Malone watches every new episode of Saturday Night Live and then reviews all the sketches and segments according to a “wacky” theme.
Happy April, everybody! And I’m not fooling when I say that.
The reason I’ve assembled you all here today is to convene in the wake of the April 5, 2025 episode of Saturday Night Live, which was hosted by Jack Black, along with the two-for-one musical guest combo of Elton John and Brandi Carlile. It’s been 19 years and 4 months since Mr. Black last hosted, and that was one of my favorite SNL episodes ever. As for Mr. John and Mrs. Carlile, they’ve both graced the 30 Rock stage with their presence before, but never yet combining forces! So there’s plenty worth getting excited about here.
Since this is the first episode of April this year, I’m going to take inspiration from that old axiom of “April showers bring May flowers” and review each sketch and segment by concluding whether they’re more like showers, or more like flowers. That’s not to say that one is good and the other is bad – instead, it all depends on all the context.
And, away… we… go:
Trump Tariff Speech: More than a shower, this is a steady rain that keeps on persisting.
Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 4/4/25
April 4, 2025
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Television A Minecraft Movie, Black Mirror, Brandi Carlile, Bunky Becky Birthday Boy, David Longstreth, Dirty Projectors, Djo, Elton John, Elton John and Brandi Carlile, Sleigh Bells, Song of the Earth, stargaze, The Crux, The Handmaid's Tale, The Luckiest Man in America, The Masters, Who Believes in Angels? Leave a comment
I knew that one day I would look in the mirror and see Paul Giamatti looking back at me (CREDIT: John Wall/Netflix)
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–The Luckiest Man in America (Theaters)
–A Minecraft Movie (Theaters)
TV
–The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 (April 8 on Hulu) – Final Season Alert!
–Black Mirror Season 7 (April 10 on Netflix) – I still haven’t finished Season 6, though!
Music
-Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth, & stargaze, Song of the Earth
-Djo, The Crux
-Elton John and Brandi Carlile, Who Believes in Angels?
-Sleigh Bells, Bunky Becky Birthday Boy
Sports
-The Masters (April 10-13 on ESPN, Paramount+, and CBS) – Will Rory McIlroy finally win this year?
Jeff’s Wacky SNL Review: Steve Martin Short/Brandi Carlile
December 11, 2022
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Lejends (CREDIT: NBC/Screenshot)
The long and short of it is, the December 10, 2022 episode of Saturday Night Live has been hosted by Steve Martin (a long fellow) AND Martin Short (his last name is “Short”). And what’s the story, morning glory (because I watched the show on Sunday morning)? Brandi Carlile is the musical guest! I believe that this lineup is worth the price of admission.
Because this episode had two guests, I will be reviewing each sketch with two words each.
Jeff’s Wacky SNL Review: Jason Sudeikis/Brandi Carlile
October 24, 2021
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SNL: Alex Moffat, Brandi Carlile, Jason Sudeikis, Chloe Fineman (CREDIT: NBC/Screenshot)
Jason Sudeikis used to be a cast member on Saturday Night Live, but now he’s the host. Not permanently, just for this episode (although possibly also future episodes as well). Brandi Carlile is the musical guest. Rock ‘n’ roll!
This time, I’m assembling my review in order of the birthdays of the first person to speak in each sketch. Just the dates and not the years, though. So, for example, someone born January 1, 1980 will go ahead of someone born on January 2, 1970. (For the musical performances, I’ll organize them according to the introducing person’s birthday.)
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