Saturday Night Live

the beavis and butthead sketch was so goddamned funny, made more so by Garner breaking. It takes some kind of balls to make a sketch about B&B 30 years after their heyday.

Yeah, I was just gonna say (xpost) that the laughter during the Beavis & Butt-head sketch was great - honestly it was half the fun of it. (The extras sitting in "studio audience" were extreme pros for keeping straight faces throughout...)

Also, part of what I loved about it was (as you say) the "randomness" of the concept – why B&B? I like that they weren't going for some "larger point" or whatever... also, they knew when to end the sketch. (The cold open was also great, for similar reasons – though a lot of that was also just Kate McKinnon doing her thing, and Gosling not keeping it together.)

But the cast breaking ... that's always funny, but it's not necessarily because the *skits* are funny.

My wife loves the current Weekend Update guys; I think she watches just that segment on YouTube every week.

the caitlin clark appearance this week was good.

probably said above but my favorite WU stuff with Che and Jost is when they write jokes for each other, don't see it before the show, and Jost is forced to say incredibly offensive stuff

I've rewatched it, and seeing everyone break is funny, but I think my favourite part is still the little squint Kenan's character does near the start when he first notices Ryan Gosling

Watching the Kristen Wiig ep. now… dang, these opening monologues are star-studded.

Beavis and Butthead sketch was hilarious, I haven't laughed that hard at SNL since BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BASKETBALL

"oh come on, you sat em next to each other?"

"I'm just interested in A.I."

also I'm impressed they just let the concept of the sketch sit instead of playing everything to death, it's not like them to do that, dare I say the current crop of SNL writers are good at comedy

Exactly - it has almost an "alt comedy" vibe that I don't associate w/SNL... take a silly/random idea, and do it justice without overplaying it. A few of the sketches in the Kristen Wiig episode were like this as well (though I didn't think they were as funny).

(The "Jumanji" sketch from that ep. resonated for us, because we have that Ticket to Ride game sitting on our shelf; we played it once...)

The first Lisa from Temecula sketch was another one where I was like, wow, they're going to actually let the funny just be funny here and not step on their own toes

A. Whitney Brown on the new WTF

...and it's really good. Brown's a terrific storyteller, and Maron generally stays out of his way.

Joke Swap!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPH0HgotIE4

Che looked genuinely nervous about that Kendrick joke

Audience doesn't even know what the space laser shit is

most of that jewish stuff did not land at all.

generally pretty bad episode esp compared to the last few.

kendrick bit was funny though.

Bringing in a rabbi to do anti-semitic jokes in her presence is... not that funny?

I find Che and Jost to be so unpleasant 90% of the time. I would really like to see them both gone next season.

This episode was not that funny overall, but I appreciate that Jake Gyllenhall committed to every bit.