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?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 22 January 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link
I liked most of Aziz Ansari's monologue
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 January 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
i liked the Dirty Talk sketch. "What's up, you freakin' alcoholic?"
― circa1916, Monday, 23 January 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link
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
― johnny crunch, Monday, 23 January 2017 18:33 (seven years ago) link
Friendzone was great. About 5 years too late (at least), but whatever.
― rip van wanko, Monday, 23 January 2017 18:45 (seven years ago) link
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
― sleepingbag, Monday, 23 January 2017 18:51 (seven years ago) link
yeah she sounds like that
― akm, Monday, 23 January 2017 19:04 (seven years ago) link
Worked well for that sketch
― szyslakial moescreancy (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 23 January 2017 19:13 (seven years ago) link
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
― akm, Monday, 23 January 2017 23:49 (seven years ago) link
they should all be fired and the show cancelled imo
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 January 2017 23:54 (seven years ago) link
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.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 23 January 2017 23:55 (seven years ago) link
I thought her tweet was really funny and clever. Should have saved it for stand-up, I guess.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 12:31 (seven years ago) link
(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.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 12:43 (seven years ago) link
@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.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link
Whoa, whoa, slow down, a rational opinion on the internet?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 17:35 (seven years ago) link
heads must be shaken at it
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Transformed From The Norm By The Nuclear Goop (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 18:43 (seven years ago) link
Even Jenny Slate hung in for an entire season after dropping an f-bomb on her first televised appearance.
― Transformed From The Norm By The Nuclear Goop (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 18:44 (seven years ago) link
seeing as how this was the only show on NBC I regularly watched I guess yeah I am boycotting NBC
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 19:08 (seven years ago) link
i'm ok with a robust taboo around picking on politicians' children (like actual kids, not the adult ratfaces)
― goole, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 21:21 (seven years ago) link
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
― goole, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 21:22 (seven years ago) link
The recurring Steve Bannon bit is awful--can't see it surviving more than a few episodes. Even Baldwin seemed lost.
― clemenza, Sunday, 5 February 2017 04:54 (seven years ago) link
Barron should be left alone.
I like kristen stewart.
― Treeship, Sunday, 5 February 2017 04:56 (seven years ago) link
The steve bannon skeleton is funny
― Treeship, Sunday, 5 February 2017 04:58 (seven years ago) link
Idk
― Treeship, Sunday, 5 February 2017 04:59 (seven years ago) link
Y'all still watching this show?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h62m4d4MmA
http://i.imgur.com/RFZgiCS.png
― pplains, Sunday, 5 February 2017 05:11 (seven years ago) link
Surprise Melissa Mcarthy as spicer was great.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 5 February 2017 05:14 (seven years ago) link
Yeah that was an incredible skit
― Treeship, Sunday, 5 February 2017 05:16 (seven years ago) link
The Spicer sketch was very promising--"your words" and the circularity stuff was great. Bannon, though...
― clemenza, Sunday, 5 February 2017 06:05 (seven years ago) link
melissa mccarthy was amazing
― k3vin k., Sunday, 5 February 2017 07:06 (seven years ago) link
radical moose lambs
― ridiculous perm ban decision (voodoo chili), Sunday, 5 February 2017 15:27 (seven years ago) link
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.
― akm, Sunday, 5 February 2017 16:30 (seven years ago) link
Also, Totinos
― akm, Sunday, 5 February 2017 16:31 (seven years ago) link
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, 5 February 2017 16:32 (seven years ago) link
I have no idea how McCarthy was able to do that entire sketch without cracking up.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 5 February 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
Because she is a genius.
― daavid, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 04:25 (seven years ago) link
Also that skit where Vanessa Bayer and Stewart make out was like a gift from god.
― daavid, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 04:32 (seven years ago) link
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
― 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
― Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 05:40 (seven years ago) link
Have they ever done a sketch in recent years that doesn't drag on and on forever?
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 07:10 (seven years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Sunday, 12 February 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link
episode was meh but "guy who just bought a boat" on update was great
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 13 February 2017 04:41 (seven years ago) link
I liked Kate's Elizabeth Warren.
― dan selzer, Monday, 13 February 2017 05:41 (seven years ago) link
Rouuuughhhh episode.
― I cut this hair, I wash this hair, I mess this hair up (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 5 March 2017 08:54 (seven years ago) link
I mean, Kate McKinnon as Kellyanne Conway on her cellphone popping up here and there was definitely the best thing.
― I cut this hair, I wash this hair, I mess this hair up (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 5 March 2017 09:01 (seven years ago) link
WILL YOU EAT
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 5 March 2017 13:40 (seven years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Monday, 6 March 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link
The show should be Trump focused 100% of the time IMO.
― PURE, BEAUTIFUL OIL (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 6 March 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Monday, 6 March 2017 19:29 (seven years ago) link
like that People's Court sketch last month - awful
― flappy bird, Monday, 6 March 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link