{"podcast":{"title":"That Week In SNL (A Vintage Saturday Night Live Podcast)","slug":"that-week-in-snl-a-vintage-saturday-night-live-podcast-853403","podcast_index_feed_id":853403,"rss_url":"https://thatweekinsnl.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://thatweekinsnl.libsyn.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/9/9/d/2/99d2dd6672341680/PODCAST_LOGO2.jpg","author":"Andrew Dick","episode_count":238,"summary":"Join us as we explore vintage episodes of SNL, analyzing the show and the bizarre pop culture ephemera that surrounded it. Tangents are had. Jokes are made.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-10T12:21:44.043149+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/that-week-in-snl-a-vintage-saturday-night-live-podcast-853403"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 153: Sting (January 19, 1991)","slug":"episode-153-sting-january-19-1991","published_at":"2026-01-16T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/that-week-in-snl-a-vintage-saturday-night-live-podcast-853403/episode-153-sting-january-19-1991","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/that-week-in-snl-a-vintage-saturday-night-live-podcast-853403","url":"https://thatweekinsnl.libsyn.com/episode-153-sting-january-19-1991","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thatweekinsnl/thatweekep153.mp3?dest-id=575590","summary":"We're kicking off 2026 with another one of those quietly important episodes of the show, featuring the debut of a number of sketches that would go on to define the early 90s era of SNL. We get the first Richmeister sketch, the debut of Deep Thoughts (kicking off with FOUR of those tonight) and the first Coffee Talk, here in it's original form with host Paul Baldwin. And hey, we even get the widely loved Sinatra Group sketch in there as well! Elsewhere, things are pretty damn odd though (including one that never made it in reruns of this episode) and the Gulf War had just kicked off only a few days before so that's a lingering thing as well. And the sweetest plum of them all? Andy is sick! Ladies and gentlemen, we are BACK!","meta_description":"We're kicking off 2026 with another one of those quietly important episodes of the show, featuring the debut of a number of sketches that would go on to d…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6050,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/that-week-in-snl-a-vintage-saturday-night-live-podcast-853403/episodes/episode-153-sting-january-19-1991/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/that-week-in-snl-a-vintage-saturday-night-live-podcast-853403/episode-153-sting-january-19-1991.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}