Mooney is funny but he doesn't strike me as an update anchor type. the fact that this guy has worked on the show for almost 10 years and was never put in the camera in any significant way seems weird, but i guess we'll see if he's good.
― one second I'm a goons, then suddenly the goons is me (some dude), Thursday, 23 January 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
Mooney is funny
This is still unproven.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 23 January 2014 21:44 (ten years ago) link
I thought Mooney was good on the frat pledge sketch, but other than that, meh.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 23 January 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link
nah I love his terrible NY comic guy routine
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 January 2014 22:01 (ten years ago) link
Huh, I never realized that the show was looking for a co-anchor for Cecily Strong -- always assumed she'd just do it solo.
That said, I've never been particularly impressed with her on Update. She doesn't seem entirely comfortable with the format, like she's not sure how to react after she delivers the punchline. Which I guess makes sense, since her roots are in improv/sketch, but I just happened to watch Amy Poehler's Update debut the other day, and she had lots of charisma and confidence on day one.
― jaymc, Thursday, 23 January 2014 22:02 (ten years ago) link
Cecily is good but she definitely seems like half of a team -- to be the first solo anchor in over a decade now i think you'd have to have a really big persona that doesn't leave room for someone else
― one second I'm a goons, then suddenly the goons is me (some dude), Thursday, 23 January 2014 22:03 (ten years ago) link
well Seth was solo for a while i mean but he was part of a team for a good long while before that
― one second I'm a goons, then suddenly the goons is me (some dude), Thursday, 23 January 2014 22:04 (ten years ago) link
Btw, I think the addition of Sasheer Zamata made this season's cast the biggest since 1991-92.
― jaymc, Thursday, 23 January 2014 22:12 (ten years ago) link
we'll see who makes it to next season. it's gonna be a bloodbath.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Thursday, 23 January 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
Kate's Bieber was incredible.
Zamata was great, left way more of an impression than any of the new guys this year. Noel is slowly fitting in. I don't think they know what to do with Kyle Mooney besides putting him in those slightly surreal shorts, which I do like. I'm really struggling to see why Brooks Wheelan was hired at all. I can't tell the rest of the new guys apart.
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 25 January 2014 23:44 (ten years ago) link
i don't necessarily want Beck Bennett to make the "adult with the body of a baby" thing a running character, but it would be nice if he did something else memorable and ensured his spot in the cast
― one second I'm a goons, then suddenly the goons is me (some dude), Sunday, 26 January 2014 02:06 (ten years ago) link
open + host monologue both hilarious to me
― Mordy , Sunday, 26 January 2014 04:41 (ten years ago) link
6yo jonah hill is killing it
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Sunday, 26 January 2014 04:48 (ten years ago) link
is that a jackie mason he was doing?
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Sunday, 26 January 2014 04:51 (ten years ago) link
overly precocious upper west side jewish 6yo?
― Mordy , Sunday, 26 January 2014 04:53 (ten years ago) link
so glad they have a more diverse cast so that they can cast black people as all the gangsters. progress!
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Sunday, 26 January 2014 04:55 (ten years ago) link
Jonah's done that 6yr old before. At least once. Still great imo
― dan selzer, Sunday, 26 January 2014 05:41 (ten years ago) link
every single Kate McKinnon desk character is gold, but Olya might be the best.
― Plasmon, Sunday, 26 January 2014 06:29 (ten years ago) link
^ this
Yeah, Jonah's 6yo is a recurring character. Still on fire!
WTF is Bastille?
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 26 January 2014 06:32 (ten years ago) link
A terrible British band, I think (the British part, I know they're fucking terrible).
Anyway, tonight's episode was fucking dire compared to last week's.
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 26 January 2014 06:39 (ten years ago) link
i'm having more fun watching some like it hot. ilx should collectively move over to pbs
― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Sunday, 26 January 2014 06:41 (ten years ago) link
I moved over to my computer and soon, I shall move over to my bed.
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 26 January 2014 06:42 (ten years ago) link
one time i thought i banged seal team six but it was actually sixteen seals
― balls, Sunday, 26 January 2014 06:49 (ten years ago) link
this episode was fantastic
I liked it too on the whole. Even the dinner at the boss's house sketch was funny in a painful way.
Cecily's YOU DON'T KNOW ME during Weekend Update was unexpected and fantastic.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 26 January 2014 06:51 (ten years ago) link
I'm so done with Kyle Mooney tho, for real.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 26 January 2014 06:52 (ten years ago) link
I am not on board with Kyle Mooney.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 01:44 (ten years ago) link
― balls, Sunday, January 26, 2014 1:49 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The ex-porn stars needs to be the next SNL movie.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 01:46 (ten years ago) link
has anyone posted Heterosexual Mens Figure Skating?
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 03:28 (ten years ago) link
http://dailypicksandflicks.com/2014/01/26/snl-cold-open-the-u-s-men%E2%80%99s-heterosexual-figure-skating-championships-video/
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 03:29 (ten years ago) link
Beck Bennett has solidified his place on the cast IMO; that sketch was objectively horrible and I still was cracking up at him
― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 03:37 (ten years ago) link
I'm weirdly fascinated by this article on the SNL after-party:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/fashion/SNL-Saturday-Night-Live-Lorne-Michaels-after-party.html
― jaymc, Saturday, 1 February 2014 06:08 (ten years ago) link
Show was humming along great until the museum sketch, which seems to have poisoned everything that came after it.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 2 February 2014 06:03 (ten years ago) link
Also, QUIT PUTTING KYLE MOONEY ON TV.
I like Kyle Mooney. I did not like this episode. First half had some ok bits.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 2 February 2014 06:31 (ten years ago) link
liking the kyle mooney. first half was solid thx to melissa mccarthy but even she couldn't save the second half.
― balls, Sunday, 2 February 2014 06:36 (ten years ago) link
Kyle Mooney is still hit-or-miss. Sometimes, I'm on board but tonight's Super Bowl thing at the end was a dud - I just don't think I'll ever "get" Tim and Eric-style awkward humor (while I totally loved Tom Goes to the Mayor). That's what he was going for, right?
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 2 February 2014 06:39 (ten years ago) link
The episode as a whole needed more Kate McKinnon. She's the best.
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 2 February 2014 06:40 (ten years ago) link
She IS.
The Kyle Mooney thing at the end was one of his web characters that goes back a while pre-SNL. Lame on the web, lame on tv.
I knew they would bring Stefon back to send Seth off, but that whole thing fell a little flat. Too bad, because that will surely be the final time Stefon ever appears on SNL.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 2 February 2014 06:42 (ten years ago) link
Imagine Dragons predictably have EXTRA DRUMS. And strings. Who was rapping?
― atom bomb, vietnam, missiles on the moon (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 2 February 2014 08:19 (ten years ago) link
Kendrick Lamar
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 2 February 2014 08:23 (ten years ago) link
you probably know him better as Benzisto Mejustacar
― scott c-word (some dude), Sunday, 2 February 2014 11:08 (ten years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, February 2, 2014 1:03 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the beginning of that was the exact moment i went to bed, so i guess i made the right decision. thought McCarthy had some of her best sketches to date last night, especially the vision board one and the crazy politician one
― scott c-word (some dude), Sunday, 2 February 2014 11:39 (ten years ago) link
― Murgatroid, Sunday, February 2, 2014 1:40 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well, there's not much she could've done this week. I mean, it's not like Justin Bieber has been in the news lately or anything.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 2 February 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
I thought the CVS Valentines Day commercial was great.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 February 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
infinitely better than past times mccarthy has hosted merely cuz most sketches hinged on her character being "weird" or angry rather than mostly mining for fat joeks
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
Cvs was good and I liked the senator bit and the black history month thing. Maybe spent too much time on pretaped stuff.
― dan selzer, Monday, 3 February 2014 01:13 (ten years ago) link
I play Beth!
― the Norwegians are leaving! (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 3 February 2014 05:24 (ten years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2014/01/lorne-michaels-on-tonight-show-snl.html
― Mordy , Tuesday, 4 February 2014 23:35 (ten years ago) link
i loved the kyle mooney superbowl bit
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 23:44 (ten years ago) link