Saturday Night Live

don't care about Killam but Pharoah is a loss, always good to have a really talented mimic in the cast

yah he's a gem and could do anyone except i hate that i live in a world where ATTENTIONTEACHERSANDSTUDENTS is a reoccurring sketch

Armisen's just down the hall!

ten weeks a year

also ugh, please no armisen obama ever again

are you ready for pete davidson obama though

lol yes

I'm ready for sasheer zamata obama

Lorne should take a shot at Trump.

they should just have Trump on all the time playing himself, they all enjoyed promoting him so much

Still don't understand why Lorne felt the need to Riefenstahl his institution like that.

yeah it was super gross

I was trying to remember if there was a reason why I never started watching this past season and, oh yeah, there was that thing they did that turned me all the way off.

Killam's Schwarzenegger movie is probably why he was let go:

“I don’t know fully. I don’t know the other side of it. You sign for seven years, so I had one more year. I had sort of had it in my head I would make this upcoming year my last year, but then heard they weren’t going to pick up my contract. I was never given a reason why, really,” he said.

“But I do know I’m directing this movie [‘Why We’re Killing Gunther’ starring Arnold Schwarzenegger] and I’ll have two months of post-production that would have bled into the ‘SNL’ production schedule, so we kind of communicated that,” added Killam.

is pete davison actually ever funny or do they just need a guy who can play a "teenager" in skits or a stoner?

i remember ppl losing their minds for his first weekend update monologue, which apparently bought him infinite goodwill. idk he's fine i guess

I was hoping for one more Jebidiah Atkinson bit. Guess I'll have to wait for the inevitable Lorne-produced Jebidiah Atkinson film.

don't worry he'll come back to visit 500 times to do that character and only that character

I don't find Davidson funny at all. My millennial son thinks he's great. Different strokes.

I will miss Taran Killam, esp the Les Jeunes de Paris dance sketches.

All My Millennial Sons

I liked Pete Davidsons weekend updtate skits, but can't remember a single funny thing he's done in a sketch. Except getting his head cut off.

the 'kid who fucked a teacher' courtroom sketches (plural. PLURAL.) are pretty funny

I watched one of his Weekend Update skits and it just seemed like a bad stand-up bit

yeah, I feel like Weekend Update has been leaning a bit too heavily on that lately: Davidson, Leslie Jones, Brooks Wheelan

Would prefer more Bruce Chandling

what i want is for them to take the characters they make for weekend update, and instead of endlessly forcing them to sit in that chair when they hit and do the same thing but with more current references, maybe explore their lives in a sketch or two? i wanna see drunk uncle at christmas! i wanna see wally dealing with his terrible life!

or was it willy? given my name i should probably remember this

i mean it may have been a bit much to create one of stefon's nightclubs but can you imagine

Brooks Wheelan?

I just want Will Forte to come back and do more Tim Calhoun skits for the election.

oh guess he's appeared on the tonight show!

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

god bless will forte.

wonder why they all of a sudden needed to cut to bored jimmy after every joke, is this to cover the "reaction videos" contingent

If I don't see Jimmy laugh how do I know it's funny

it's like porn

http://www.vulture.com/2016/09/lin-manuel-miranda-to-host-snl.html

Miranda will take on hosting duties on October 8, joined by first-time musical guests Twenty One Pilots.

will go from passively to actively ignoring for this ep

you show em

nobody who isnt in Lorne's tax bracket has even seen this guy perform

have never heard of any of these people

it's the Hamilton guy, keep up with the musical crowd Shakes

few things make me want to commit suicide more than having to sit through a modern American musical

I can't believe you don't care about culture.

what can I say, I had to sit through the Lion King once

but this one's Broadway hiphop!

if you think the modern american musical makes you wanna end it all, wait til you hear twenty one pilots

Here's where I point out LMM used to rap in a cape on The (New) Electric Company

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hTWuN0WCu4

terrible music I have no problem ignoring. but enthusiasm for Broadway garbage pops up in the strangest places, and I'm always a little taken aback when I come across people who profess to love it, like their aesthetic sensibilities were formed on some other planet where quality songwriting, acting, storytelling, staging, etc. were all subsumed under the spectacle of a bunch of people doing silly shit in fancy costumes on an expensive stage. I think I just have basic issues with what constitutes a "good" Broadway musical that do not line up at all with what they are these days. (For what its worth there *are* musicals I like, but I admit it's a narrow subset - a lot of times the basic artifice of the Broadway musical often prevents me from having any kind of emotional or intellectual engagement with the material, there's just some built-in ridiculousness to it that is hard for me to get past)

xp

I stumbled across that New Electric Company clip while searching for things to entertain my kids and it cemented a pigheaded desire to never, ever, ever see Hamilton deep in the foundation of my being

For the record, I've been holding off my take on Hamilton until I actually see it. But I really do wonder what LMM means to people who don't live in New York

special snowflake story: i saw the lion king in the west end (tickets via a relative who was pumbaa's understudy) and i don't remember a single second of it; it's all gone, blocked, except for using the crowded bathroom at intermission and being very cold walking home. years later in new york i was passed by a bus wearing a banner ad for the broadway production, emblazoned w the single enormous word UNFORGETTABLE

there were fart jokes

The costumes, in the posters that are all over Penn Station and half of Manhattan, make The Lion King look almost watchable. They're very cool. But then I remember it's a musical, not just a dance thing, and my interest fades.

I was baffled to realize that it is basically the plot (and in many cases the exact dialogue) from the movie transferred to the stage, with extra nudge-nudge/wink-wink jokes (like the fart jokes) added. And this is a thing adults were enthusiastically praising to me.

a lot of the costumes did look cool. but was consistently distracted from them by every other awful thing that was happening.

The Fela musical was great, but it was essentially a (insanely skilled, and very faithful-to-the-arrangements) Fela tribute act with bits of his bio between songs. The only part that didn't work was, not coincidentally, the only song written specifically for the show.