Saturday Night Live

Not by roots or training, no, but in the sense that any friends hanging out together, cracking jokes and making fun of each other are "improvising" ... Like, none of these dudes are, are they? Did Danny McBride come from that scene?

Mcbride came from a different crew (jody hill etc.)

Right. But all those dudes - Freaks and Geeks folks plus McBride, Jonah Hill, etc., they essentially operate as an comedy group now.

Adam Scott talked about nearly fucking up Stepbrothers because he had no idea how to do improv

Yeah i get what u mean JinC

xpost Rose Byrne in "Neighbors" - a mess of a movie, anyway - is just struggling to add anything. Either she wildly repeats a line or just excitedly throws in a "yeah!" or something.

this ep was really strong i thought -- like an apology for last week's or something?

Yeah, even Update had some good stuff in it.

Disclosure violated my rule about having extra people on stage playing drums (who, at least, looked like they were having fun) and their music kinda sucked.

Good episode.

I've come to really enjoy Che and Jost's antagonistic relationship.

wow that was bad

at least Keenan can be relied on

Jost is becoming tolerable.

maybe they were all still recovering from what I hope is the deep, abiding shame they all feel for abetting a fascist demogogue

I know you don't like Amy Schumer, but...

lol

#noschumers

That was the best episode I've seen in awhile.

i sort of guiltily enjoyed black jeopardy. it's kind of hard to fuck up a jeopardy parody i guess

I was referring to the McConaughey/Adele episode (which did not feature Black Jeopardy, unless I missed something?)

McConaughy episode was terrible. Ep before was one of the better ones lately.

the "meet santa" sketch has to be one of the better ones they've done in a long time.

i laughed at a few of the sketches last night. i thought the aliens one was funny too (tho they broke way too much)

i've never seen this cast break so much. Not sure where it started. Ryan couldn't keep it together. Cecily was a total pro. Skit was pretty funny even without breaking. Admittedly, I find breaking to be pretty hilarious, unless it happens too often, or with material that's not even that funny.

<3 anthony crispino

Prime women be shopping joke too

Not sure where it started.

I think it was sometime during the peeing in a bowl part; Kate was going pretty hard (in a laid back way) and it was so ridiculous I think Aidy started losing it.

OMG

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

kate mckinnon is the best cast member they've had in a long time

imo

She was brought in to fill the Kristen Wiig vacuum, but she definitely came into her own very quickly.

mckinnon is legit

I watched the first three episodes this season, but I've fallen away from the ritual since then (and it's been a looooooooong ritual). I guess I could catch up with at least the abridged versions online, but I've got no intention of watching anything from the Trump episode on principle.

Boy, that's a real blurry "frickin'" pine tree there.

pretty much every woman in the current cast aside from Sasheer Zamata is reliably hilarious, and Zamata is the first dud female cast member they've had in literally 20 years

I love sasheer zamata

I don't think she's bad, but they don't seem to know what to do with her

by contrast they seem to know *exactly* what to do with Leslie Jones (maybe too much so)

i've never seen this cast break so much. Not sure where it started. Ryan couldn't keep it together. Cecily was a total pro. Skit was pretty funny even without breaking. Admittedly, I find breaking to be pretty hilarious, unless it happens too often, or with material that's not even that funny.

― dan selzer, Sunday, December 6, 2015 11:07 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Generally I find there's a correlation between how much the cast breaks and how bad the particular cast is, ever since the 90s. I mean, you know, very loosely -- I neither watch religiously nor sit there charting the breaking:quality ratio over time.

I find it simpler to loosely track the negative correlation between bad casts and funny sketches

idk, show me a chart

rubber chicken graph also acceptable

McKinnon is ok, but I wouldn't call her the best cast member in the last few years. Mooney is hilarious. Cecily Strong has tons of funny characters. Aidy Bryant is great. Keenan is probably the funniest person in the whole cast (but I guess he's an old-timer at this point).

I don't think she's bad, but they don't seem to know what to do with her <-- OTM

I'd say the last outright BAD person they cast was Colin Quinn

Yeah those are my favorites too. Keenan def the most reliably funny, his presence alone can save the most dire shit.

xp

(Jost was gunning for that distinction but the resurgence in Update this year works in his favor)

Vanessa Bayer is the most underrated person in the current cast IMO

Keenan is probably the funniest person in the whole cast (but I guess he's an old-timer at this point).

― schwantz, Monday, December 7, 2015 1:20 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Keenan is one season short for tied for most seasons of any cast member ever

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oh yeah she's great too!

when people say "keenan" do they mean kenan thompson? i really will never understand how people find him funny, he is so one-note

"people" meaning you guys itt

he was great during his nickelodeon days tho

Yeah I don't get him either. The one note is this meta "look I'm doing a skit" thing, ugh.

Zut alors!