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Podcast: Wasn't That Special: 50 Years of SNL Podcast
Episode: Season 42 (2016-17): Politics Shocks the Show Back to Life, Bayer and Moynihan Say Goodbye
Description: This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wasntthatspecial.comWe have said it in prior seasons - sometimes, huge political and cultural shifts push Saturday Night Live to rise to the occasion. It happened with the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the late 1990s. It happened when Sarah Palin joined the Republican presidential ticket in 2008.And it happened again in 2016, as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton battled it out…