Saturday Night Live

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.

Update was strong, loved Che's recurring Michelle Obama bit, and Leslie Jones killed. But the "friend zone" thing was incredibly stupid and annoying and hacky and pointless, and how did that even make it past the pitch stage, let alone get on the air?

I liked most of Aziz Ansari's monologue

i liked the Dirty Talk sketch. "What's up, you freakin' alcoholic?"

Aziz is a good host & this ep was p decent, tho its hard for me to imagine how the beat the bkworm game show sketch got slotted so early

Friendzone was great. About 5 years too late (at least), but whatever.

hard for me to imagine how the beat the bkworm game show sketch got slotted so early

imo asiz was selling this and was funny and i thought it was gonna be maybe good? and then it just ended :[

Oh shit, Villasenor finally features in a sketch.

― szyslakial moescreancy (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, January 22, 2017 1:35 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was that her real voice? she sounds kinda loopy

yeah she sounds like that

Worked well for that sketch

Yikes, this is fucking stupid. She should not be suspended for this (funny) tweet

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/23/media/saturday-night-live-writer-suspended-barron-trump-tweet/index.html

they should all be fired and the show cancelled imo

it is cheap to produce, draws a decent audience in a dead time slot, and makes money. the show will live forever, like Today or Tonight.

I thought her tweet was really funny and clever. Should have saved it for stand-up, I guess.

(xpost) The other thing is, maybe it's enough that they come up with one memorable bit every few years that gets lots of attention and outlasts the rest of the show. I only watch intermittently, but Tina Fey's Palin was worth whatever mediocrity surrounded it. Baldwin's Trump isn't quite as good, but it'll last too, I'd say. There are other examples, I'm sure, for people who watch more regularly.

@DennisThePerrin

A comedy writer getting fired for a joke blows, but what happened to Katie Rich has nothing to do with Trump, who doesn't own NBC.

It's about corporate structure and the rigidity that's enforced. No matter how funny you are, working in corporate comedy makes you a cog.

You're there to serve its needs. This is especially true with SNL. Image trumps content; if content sullies the image, it'll be flushed. Social media has made this more acute.

Katie Rich is not a victim of censorship; she's on the receiving end of business as usual. I wish her well, and suspect she'll do fine.

Whoa, whoa, slow down, a rational opinion on the internet?

heads must be shaken at it

Yeah, no, I don't buy it, Perrin. How many previous SNL writers have been suspended for edgy tweets? This has everything to do with Trump.

Considering the direction their flag is flying, kinda starting to think an NBC boycott might be in order.

Even Jenny Slate hung in for an entire season after dropping an f-bomb on her first televised appearance.

seeing as how this was the only show on NBC I regularly watched I guess yeah I am boycotting NBC

i'm ok with a robust taboo around picking on politicians' children (like actual kids, not the adult ratfaces)

and yeah the joke was less about the boy than about the way his parents will raise him. but once you're in "actually" mode, you're done

The recurring Steve Bannon bit is awful--can't see it surviving more than a few episodes. Even Baldwin seemed lost.

Barron should be left alone.

I like kristen stewart.

The steve bannon skeleton is funny

Idk

Y'all still watching this show?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h62m4d4MmA

http://i.imgur.com/RFZgiCS.png

Surprise Melissa Mcarthy as spicer was great.

Yeah that was an incredible skit

The Spicer sketch was very promising--"your words" and the circularity stuff was great. Bannon, though...

melissa mccarthy was amazing

radical moose lambs

Kristen Stewert used to really bug me but I've grown to like her more after she started doing roles that seemed more suited to her laconic talents. She was good in this, I like that she seemed to demand that she wear the same eyeshadow in every skit regardless of who she was playing.

Also, Totinos

Also, I'm quite sure I saw alessia cara on something else six months ago, and admittedly I was fairly stoned last night while I watched this, but were both her performances fucking amazing?

I have no idea how McCarthy was able to do that entire sketch without cracking up.

Because she is a genius.

Also that skit where Vanessa Bayer and Stewart make out was like a gift from god.

Also, I'm quite sure I saw alessia cara on something else six months ago, and admittedly I was fairly stoned last night while I watched this, but were both her performances fucking amazing?

― akm, Sunday, February 5, 2017 10:32 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no, but I often have that reaction to musical guests while watching SNL stoned

Have they ever done a sketch in recent years that doesn't drag on and on forever?

Eight fucking minutes? That's nearly half a sitcom episode

how did the episode hosted by Alec Baldwin end up being the most inconsequential and anodyne show of the season so far? unnecessary reprise of McCarthy as Spicer, a single dumb Trump sketch, and Baldwin didn't play Trump in every sketch like he should've. HMRPH

episode was meh but "guy who just bought a boat" on update was great

I liked Kate's Elizabeth Warren.

Rouuuughhhh episode.

I mean, Kate McKinnon as Kellyanne Conway on her cellphone popping up here and there was definitely the best thing.

WILL YOU EAT

Real problem with the cue cards this week. Octavia Spencer stumbled over her lines quite a bit. The Zoo-oopolis voiceover skit was great, though. Total foam - just obscure impressions. Best sketch. Constant Trump stuff getting tiresome. They need to recharge.

The show should be Trump focused 100% of the time IMO.

Sure, if it's good. There's been so much crap and it detracts from the good stuff. I mean, the first Melissa McCarthy/Sean Spicer skit was fantastic in every way - hilarious on its own and effective in rattling the President. the second one was not only unfunny but unnecessary. Sessions as Gump was just dumb. Love McKinnon as Kellyanne, would love to see more sketches that revolve around her.