Saturday Night Live

(just to clarify, the "37" reading is still bad)

gender binaries are dumb but come on, 37? that's absurd.

if u are looking for gender bending solidarity maybe look elsewhere than a 40-year-old establishment comedy show news segment hosted by smug white guy

Just because a viewpoint is the right one doesn't mean it might help you lose an election.

Think I forgot one more negative in that sentence. I'll try again:

A morally-correct viewpoint can still be an election-loser.

i fuckin lost it when they showed the picture of Trump & Obama shaking hands and Jost said "President-Elect Trump showed how brave he is by meeting with the founder of ISIS."

I mainly thought the target was Tinder, as in smug sillicon valley types competing to see who can be the most woke. But then come on, explain the target, apologize if others got hurt. Even if it's true that being pro-transgender helped Trump win, what a smug way to tell a tragic joke.

The only people who should have to explain jokes are people in the Excelsior thread, to me.

"Ok everyone, I just want to be clear about who that joke was aimed at so that you can laugh correctly. Always be punching up, people!"

I re-watched some of Saturday's repeat, the show that aired the week the Access Hollywood story broke. There was no point in the whole election where Clinton winning seemed like more of a sure thing. Watching Kate McKinnon dance around to Kool & the Gang felt so strange.

the episode from the week before, with wiig, is great; particularly the late-in-the-show sketch with the cat adoptions

The two Wiig cut for time skits are as good or better than most of what aired that night.

“We’ve actually tried to make ‘S.N.L.’ a safe space across the political spectrum,” Lorne Michaels, its creator, told me in his office near the “S.N.L.” studio on the 17th floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

fuck this show and fuck Lorne Michaels, this false equivalency horseshit got us where we are today.

...NBC and Trump have a 15 year business relationship, there's no 'false equivalency horseshit', he's actually their guy

anyway john cena was funny

agree !
he falls into the lineage of like peyton or eli manning being sortof stiff but also a capably funny performer and easy to write for imo

I thought he was pretty good but not great, a bit stiff w/ the card reading but a natural performer. I figured wrestlers would have an advantage in SNL skits over most athletes.

SNL's false equivalency horseshit goes back to decades

Xp

what's an example?

Bringing Palin on springs to mind

Strategery vs. Lockbox

the dumb reporters asking dumb Gulf War questions sketch

mostly in equating slapdash improv crap with comedy

Jim Downey has been injecting a strain of conservativism into the show for most of the time it's been on the air. Just saw that he's returned this season after a few years' absence.

chance is the only good thing about this episode. the cavalcade of trump jokes are unilaterally dreary.

chance is definitely gonna host in 2017

This cast is in desperate need of a leader or visionary or... something. I'm amazed how bad it is given the beyond-fertile environment

i liked the gay robot sketch. does fred armisen just pop back in periodically?

even saturday night news was dire

Some informed speculation on the missing footage here

http://screenrant.com/star-wars-rogue-one-reshoots-changes/

Oops, wrong thread

I lol'd

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

okay that was good. this Southie stereotype has been so overplayed.

this past week's was pretty awful except for the open and the bachelor skit.

just godawful and finally the straw that broke the camels back for me and I'm not going to bother watching anymore.

always a bit awful when they have an actor hosting and they are shit in sketches too.

the whole thing was awful, especially the cold open

she was awful, her monologue was terrible. and I really like her (felicity jones). I thought this season was pretty good to great until this point so I'm not going to stop watching over this

I thought the movie skit was hilarious

I also liked the theatre skit

The dirty joke skit at the end would have been better had I not already known those jokes

oh right, the theater skit was funny. I seem to have missed the movie skit? what was that?

oh right the horny robot thing. no.

Someone on the writing staff really thinks robots and sex are hilarious together.

the laughter in the trump sketch seemed muted, like the audience was distracted by the fact that this is really happening

that's not a criticism btw, this one thing is too terrifying to contemplate even in jest

Oh shit, Villasenor finally features in a sketch.

Oh shit, cringe-inducing cover of "To Sir With Love" in... tribute? to Obama's presidency. What the fuuuuuck why do they think this is a good idea.

maybe i am drunk and having a bad night but um i am really liking this episode

It wasn't bad but then again I need some LAFFS and last week's ep was kinda dire

That ending was horrible, but could have been better if Cecily had had any kind of voice left. Possible explanation: Her voice was hurt because she has been marching in the cold? That happened to me, but the people at my church were very understanding this morning.

My admiration for Obama aside, the ending would have normally made me cringe except, a) To Sir with Love is literally one of my 20 favourite films (had it #16 on a countdown once), and b) I enjoyed the thought of Trump sitting in front of the TV glowering, ready to pass an executive order making...weepy tributes to Barack Obama illegal.