Saturday Night Live

i hadn't seen that character. it was funny. she is crushworthy, though I like cecily strong more in that department. and I'd be happy if Nasim Pedrad came back.

I think the child-actor character started like her first season on the show. Totally worth searching that sketch out.

This sketch is so pitch perfect it almost hurts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7VaXlMvAvk

Yeah I thought that was one of the best sketches in a long time

TS: Kevin Roberts vs David S Pumpkins

Kevin Roberts by a mile.

David S. Pumpkins felt like an attempt to re-Reynolds. Can't be done.

hanks is a great host imo

I wish I could find the "I stubbed my toe" bit Hanks did in place of a monologue once. It had Abraham Lincoln.

i think kate mckinnon's alien abduction one w/ryan gosling is all time top 10

xxxp Wait it's Roberts isn't it? Guhhh.

Kevin Roberts is my fav and I use "Can a bitch get a doughnut?" in conversation more than anyone would think possible.

Jeet Heer et al loved this sketch, there was even a WaPo blog about it apparently

i think kate mckinnon's alien abduction one w/ryan gosling is all time top 10

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, October 24, 2016 8:22 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes!

black jeopardy is always good

the final sketch was good again this week too. feel like this has been a really strong season? note I have barely watched this show over the past 10 years.

In general, this cast kills it even when the material isn't that strong.

the veteran new york stand up comedy guy on the news always kills me, and i loved hanks as a guest on it

jost?

seriously the french voiceovers on funny animal youtubes.... that was first 30 minutes worthy

no kyle's character, bruce chandling (i had to look it up)

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/weekend-update-bruce-chandling-on-women/2937465

aaagh my stream died before we got to the news which means I missed a Bruce CHandling it which means I am sad :(

Love Bruce Chandling. My wife HATES Bruce Chandling.

Bruce Chandling was cut for time, but is on youtube. I normally don't like him, but found Mooney quite moving after Hanks came on.

it's a variant of the neil hamburger thing - the hacky comic juxtaposed w pathos. The bit's not as aggro as Hamburger but Mooney does it v well imo

didn't see the most recent bruce chandling but i often feel that it goes over really poorly with the studio audience which makes it come over kind of badly, though i personally find it funny

yw http://www.avclub.com/article/punchline-star-tom-hanks-finally-returns-stand-cut-244735

chandling wasn't on this week

The Black Jeopardy was pretty good and I love Keenan.

But I hated his reaction lines. "YES! WE ALL KNOW A GUY LIKE THAT! THERE'S ONE IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD!"

I mean, I got the joke the first time.

This sketch is so pitch perfect it almost hurts.

people on facebook from my hometown were saying this as well, but they were all white, and my hometown has less than 100 black people in it, so it just feels weird to make that comment, unless you're/we're talking about Tom Hanks' trump hat dude, though there's a bunch of them in my hometown.

Love Bruce. As mentioned just above it was cut for time. Will have to watch it. There's two other Bruce bits cut for time in the past that are great, online.

bouie really liked the black jeopardy sketch. i had the opposite reaction (didn't find it so funny) but figured it just wasn't targeted to me:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/10/snl_s_black_jeopardy_sketch_was_the_most_astute_analysis_of_american_politics.html

But I hated his reaction lines. "YES! WE ALL KNOW A GUY LIKE THAT! THERE'S ONE IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD!"

I dunno, I just enjoyed the delivery, with his increasing amounts of shock and joy and perplexity

black jeopardy isn't that funny and it weirds me out to see a million white people enthusing over a sketch that is mostly black people (affectionately) making fun of black people

chapelle show syndrome

i also think snl is bad in general though so take me with a grain of salt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRRHjT8IxmY

i watched kevin roberts and thought it was pretty weak too so i guess i'm just an snl scrooge
bruce chandling made me laugh though

Kevin Roberts sketch is funnier if you watch how hard it was for Larry David to keep it together all week:

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

I wonder if Mooney's pissed that he has so much good stuff that's getting cut

in favor of that terrilble 'here's our musical halloween show' sketch, yeah, he should be (unless he wrote that)

that was especially bad

Tom Hanks in the WU bit seemed like he was channeling Will Ferrell's Harry Caray impersonation.

I'm just catching up to the thread but I think Vanessa Bayer's newscasters of the future is the best Update bit since Garth and Kat

better than Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy?

It's close.

Nov. 12: Dave Chappelle / A Tribe Called Quest

http://www.stereogum.com/1909651/a-tribe-called-quest-confirmed-for-snl-with-host-dave-chappelle/news/

Sick!

lol @ mysterious lurker

Dave Chapelle is such a brilliant host idea that there's no way it will live up to my expectations </debbie downer>

seriously tho speaking of Comedy Central shows I'd love to see Key and/or Peele host at some point

Maybe Paul Mooney can join the writing staff for the week like he did when Pryor hosted