Saturday Night Live

even though there's this weird gay connotation to jay pharoah's ben carson impression it's easily the best of the current ones imo, too bad he's gonna be out of the race soon

haha like hell he is

wait which part are you disagreeing with....

Man, no discussion of the Larry David episode?

Or how terrible that first Kanye song was tonight?

Kanye is an awful performer.

Larry David's opening monologue was great last week.

Does Kanye have something going on with him? Seems really off.

I was kind of wondering that myself. Really weird. Second song was better but seemed like he was barely in that.

Does Kanye have something going on with him?

do you mean physical health-wise? because kanye /always/ has "something going on with him" in some fashion or another

von miller read cue cards/performed better than like 90% of guest hosts

The whole Larry David episode was worth it just to see him in costume in the FBI training sketch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXpf37te_g0

So the Beyonce taped bit ... is this the second time this season that SNL has lampooned a pop star in the form of an apocalyptic Hollywood thriller? Didn't they do that with The Squad and Taylor Swift? And didn't they also do it with The Beygency?

Goddamn Kanye sucked.

If you, like me, enjoy impressions, check out Jay Pharaoh's appearance on Weekend Update this week. He does Dave Chappelle and Hannibal Burress! I don't think I've ever seen impressions of either guy before, by anyone.

Yeah that was pretty good. Not the best written bit but fun to watch.

future doesnt sound great live

His Chris Rock is nearly perfect. If I'd been in the other room and couldn't see Jay doing it, I'd have thought it was Chris.

the kevin roberts skit, and the outtakes, is one of the funniest things i've ever seen. idek why bc it's very dumb

future doesnt sound great live

superfluous "live" there

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/the-champ/2997383

this is still making me LOL

Yeah, Kenan really stole that

Arianna Grande's impression of Jennifer Lawrence is kind of frighteningly good.

Right? I'd seen her do most of, if not all, her singing impressions on Fallon before, but she's just really good at impressions all around.

Wow, you guys weren't kidding. She had the voice dead on.

she was surprisingly good overall imo

She has a background as a child actress/nickelodeon actress, so not her first time.

does this cast have *any* recurring sketches/sketch characters at this point? All I can think of are the teen girl talkshow thing and boss baby.

inside socal?

the bar lady at the end of the night

a bunch of stuff on weekend update. the girl at the porn shoots.

yeah there's a bunch of weekend update characters but that's not what I was asking about

just started watching this consistently again for the first time in many many years; this week's episode is the first funny-all-the-way-through episode I've seen in almost forever.

I just had a conversation last week with my wife about how my favorite part of "The Sound Of Music" is when Maria walks down the aisle to all of the nuns singing shit about her so I loooooooooooooooved the final sketch, even with the cue card flubs.

yeah there's a bunch of weekend update characters but that's not what I was asking about

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Thought it might be so, but I've only just begun semi watching, don't know what is called sketches and what isn't. Aidy Bryant as the girl who interrupt porn shoots should be a regular sketch imo. Also, the two ex-porn stars.

Watched the mermaid sketch which wasn't that funny, but Beck Bennett is a really undervalued straight man imo. That won't make you famous, but in this and in the Adam Driver porn star sketch he was outstanding.

Aidy Bryant as the girl who interrupt porn shoots should be a regular sketch imo. Also, the two ex-porn stars.

think these are both terrible but they are recurring sketches (ive seen at least 2 of the former and 3 of the latter)

I never watch past Weekend Update so I seem to have missed those

These Weekend Update cats are just so sluggish and eh, especially given the raw meat being thrown to them by the news.

given their complicity in Trump's campaign I find any attempts to joke about/criticize him as pathetically weak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8TR34viNo0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prf7qfyB55g

porn doctor is pretty funny, i thought, but that second one is sad/offensive

that second one is sad/offensive

yeah it is

this cast is just awful. i feel bad for keenan

I like this cast a lot! just seems like they haven't quite hit their stride with the material yet

hasn't that Aidy Bryant teenaqe-girl-hitting-on-her-friends'-dads appeared more than once?

behind the 8 ball (via hulu) but anyway, ariana grande is fucking hilarious

Rarely found Colin Jost funny on Weekend Update, yet I see he has sold out in advance 4 shows of stand-up at a 300 or seat theatre near me this weekend, at $25 a person.

Colin has been much, much funnier on WU this season IMO

Yeah I've warmed up considerably, I think it's had more to do with adjusting to/getting past a certain superficial douchiness than it does him getting funnier. They're also proving to be a pretty good team I think.

I kinda don't care about either of them in isolation but putting them together as a duo was a smart move

Aidy Bryant as the girl who interrupt porn shoots should be a regular sketch imo.

this is the worst. like what even is the premise here? why is it funny? why would a little girl walk onto a porn set and think it's real? like if this was a premise during an improv act it would still be difficult to buy into. as a reoccurring sketch it's even flimsier.

Feel like you can apply that thinking to the past 40 years of snl tbh