Joker: Folie A Deux is a musical follow-up to Joaquin Phoenix's turn as DC Comics villain Joker, this time with Lady Gaga; and Saturday Night dramatizes the very first show of what would become SNL.
Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.