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Saturday Night Live – Season 47, Episode 19 Benedict Cumberbatch; Arcade Fire

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Saturday Night Live – Season 47, Episode 19

Benedict Cumberbatch; Arcade Fire

Aired May 7, 2022

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Alexis Pereira

New York Magazine/Vulture

05/09/2022

3/5

Benedict isn’t a comedian by any means, but he’s a good actor who commits hard, so he can definitely bring out the laughs...

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LaToya Ferguson

IndieWire

05/09/2022

A-

Really, the best thing about this episode was the range of sketches, as Cumberbatch is versatile enough that he wasn’t pinned down to just one type of sketch.

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Michael Martin

AV Club

05/08/2022

B

Cast in a wide range of roles from suburban dad to Western cowpoke to Downton-era dandy, Cumberbatch was completely successful.

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Karen Valby

Vanity Fair

05/09/2022

We may not have had a perfect season, but we had a near-perfect episode Saturday Night Live. It was the most wonderful night, the annual Mother’s Day special, and the cold open was the best one of the entire year.

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Dustin Rowles

Pajiba

05/09/2022

6.5/10

Cumberbatch delivers a nice self-deprecating monologue -- he makes fun of his name, of his awful red-carpet smile, and even slips in a decent Will Smith joke

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Dennis Perkins

Paste Magazine

05/09/2022

8.8/10

But Cumberbatch sort of killed it in his second hosting stint. Like last time, his monologue was charming as hell, with the accomplished stage actor looking quite at home as he was uniformly dapper and self-effacing.

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Synopsis

Host Benedict Cumberbatch; Arcade Fire performs.

Creator: Lorne Michaels
Executive Producer: Lorne Michaels
Network: NBC
Rating: TV-14
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2022

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