Election Day Special: Jim Carrey Spoofs "The Raven" for SNL

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Nov 03, 2020

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First and foremost, VOTE!

Today’s the day, and in honor of this critical election (and, who am I kidding, to take my mind off things), let’s take a quick look at SNL’s Halloween 2020 episode cold open.

Guess who’s back? Edgar Allan Poe, y’all! Autumn really is his season. He has so many delightfully dark and creepy poems (my favorite is “The Conqueror Worm,” but a poem about how the worms that feast on our corpses has the last laugh doesn’t adapt as well to parody, I guess) but “The Raven” has real staying power during spooky season.

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