yeah even accounting for me being old, it often feels like a roundup of "This Week In The Internet"
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 15 February 2021 01:49 (three years ago) link
akm you could argue that the Gorilla Glue sketch was bad (it certainly wasn’t great) and it was definitely mean but it wasn’t racist
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Monday, 15 February 2021 03:24 (three years ago) link
out of curiosity, i gave the glue sketch a half a gander and obvious point: i could certainly see how someone unfamiliar with #gorillagluegirl could easily see it as racist, i.e. "lol, black people are dumb enough to use glue as hairspray"
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 03:27 (three years ago) link
I watched it and it’s kind of racist that Kenan says “boo boo” but the captions say “doo doo”
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 15 February 2021 04:22 (three years ago) link
It’s like a black character can’t be named Latrice Commode and say things like “we will get you monies” without being called racist these days
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 15 February 2021 04:32 (three years ago) link
hahaha. I'm going to give Kenan the benefit of the doubt, always.
the dating sketch was saved by Mikey Day, which it pains me to say because I refuse to believe an adult man is named "Mikey".
― akm, Monday, 15 February 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
Although Kenan finally got his own sitcom that starts tomorrow, wondering if that takes off if he'll stay on for another year. He's bringing Chris Redd with him for that.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 15 February 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
He's the MVP of the show and has been for a long time, you can absolutely rely on him to be funny almost always,
otm
also would like to know his secret to eternal youth he looks amazing
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Monday, 15 February 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
he tends to get a lot of mileage out of thin premises, even if they seem like a non-starter
like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzOrj3LiT38
― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 February 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
Looked up Martin Short's Nathan Thurm, and found this video where he explains the inspiration - hilariously, it's an impersonation of SNL's head make-up artist, but as they point out, the whole key or strategy for writing that character is basically the blueprint for the previous four years in Washington:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noLHVHxh6JU
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:36 (three years ago) link
Chloe Fineman as Britney Spears is weak spot in SNL cold open episode of "Oops I did it again"....Aidy as Ted Cruz (with resort given braids) , Pete Davidson as Cuomo, & Cecily as Gina Carano
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 21 February 2021 04:55 (three years ago) link
The white rap trio schtick is really tired
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 21 February 2021 05:59 (three years ago) link
This episode mostly worked though.
― akm, Sunday, 21 February 2021 07:34 (three years ago) link
Other than taking down Cruz and some jabs at Cuomo, this one was remarkably non-political after years of politics dominating the humor. Soon we'll all be back to talking about how SNL has become boring and shitty and we'll know that life is slowly returning to its normal channels.
― Compromise isn't a principle, it's a method (Aimless), Sunday, 21 February 2021 19:33 (three years ago) link
I thought this week's was decent. The host was game for all kinds of stuff and there were some decent bits. I liked the community organizer who dressed like Freddy Kreuger, for some reason.
― DJI, Monday, 22 February 2021 04:22 (three years ago) link
Soon we'll all be back to talking about how SNL has become boring and shitty
some of us never left
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 22 February 2021 04:23 (three years ago) link
i enjoyed the mr. chicken legs sketch, and the ad agency one
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 22 February 2021 04:34 (three years ago) link
Did not like chicken legs. Loved ad agency. Surprised there isn’t more chatter about Che’s Israel joke.
― dan selzer, Monday, 22 February 2021 13:02 (three years ago) link
i like chicken legs because it was just absurd and stupid and Cecily Strong really got into singing that dumb song.
I'm sure everyone on ILX is fine with Che's Israel joke. It certainly made some people on Twitter angry.
― akm, Monday, 22 February 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
oh I didn't mean here. I just didn't notice it on twitter. Not that I was spending a lot of time on twitter. But I figured it'd be enough noise that I'd have seen it! I thought it was great.
Decent episode over all.
― dan selzer, Monday, 22 February 2021 21:39 (three years ago) link
Chicken Legs sketch felt a bit like body-shaming some of the dorky male cast members, but we always made fun of my grandpa for his chicken legs, so I liked it nostalgically.
― DJI, Monday, 22 February 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link
imo when snl stops hiring skinny white dudes en masse i will give a shit about chicken leg ass dudes' feelings about their legs
― class project pat (m bison), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 00:12 (three years ago) link
I... liked a lot of this episode. More weird sketches please. It felt like they were having fun.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 18:29 (three years ago) link
Rough episode
― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 28 March 2021 08:02 (three years ago) link
Baby boomers getting vaccinated rap was good bcz it made a couple of jokes, and pegged the style at exactly the mid-90s point when the boomers would have switched off from having a concept of current rap, so any lameness was on brand. (Meanwhile the white rapper guy who was musical guest can confirm to boomer viewers that they were right to cut off at the shiny suit era.)Not sure there was an actual joke in anything else? Kamala Harris making out with her husband was an embarrassment- are we supposed to have any idea who she’s married to? Shame her into giving me my $38,000 or fuck off. Barfly awards feels like the sort of thing that could recur twice a year, if you actually have enough gags to fill it and aren’t too scared either to reach for a touch of pathos (Rowley Birkin style), or to have a character or two that celebrate their drunken joie de vivre. Playing the school teacher w/ enthusiasm might have managed both? I did chuckle at a couple of set-ups in the sketch though.
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Sunday, 28 March 2021 10:48 (three years ago) link
this was awful; was the audience severely reduced? because even in a bad episode there is usually audience laughter, and it was dead silent through a lot of this (as it should have been).
I love Maya Rudolph but she was not good in a single sketch here, and my wife was pretty put off by the accent in the opener.
The filmed musical rap was amusing but this reminds me that someone said recently the problem with SNL now is that its run by musical theater kids and really rings true.
― akm, Sunday, 28 March 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
I mean, this was one of the best skits they’ve done in years IMO so that theory bears out:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve1kmdHTY24
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Sunday, 28 March 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
Yeah, and am I crazy or did she do that same accent in two other sketches? Really weird.
― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 29 March 2021 08:11 (three years ago) link
This one one pretty good, and Bowen Yang had his best bit yet (the Iceberg).
― nickn, Sunday, 11 April 2021 08:02 (three years ago) link
The writers are relearning how to write a sketch show without Trump. The sketch with Kate and Aidy as young boys was ace.
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Sunday, 11 April 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
Yeah, well, we're all kind of learning how to live life without Trump.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Sunday, 11 April 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link
That task would be made much simpler if the media weren’t still covering him and his idiot spawn 24/7.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 12 April 2021 02:20 (three years ago) link
they've been putting some pretty funny stuff near the end of the show these days.
― akm, Monday, 12 April 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
feels like Aidy Bryant is now the MVP of the cast (along with Kenan)
― akm, Monday, 12 April 2021 15:18 (three years ago) link
feels like Bowen Yang is now the MVP of the cast (along with Kenan)
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Monday, 12 April 2021 15:18 (three years ago) link
I think Chloe Fineman is great too.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 12 April 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
I think Cecily Strong is great, but she's seemingly almost never on these days.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 April 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link
feels like Chris Redd is now the MVP of the cast (along with Kenan)
and he's great on Kenan's sitcom
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 12 April 2021 15:40 (three years ago) link
Aidy has that thing where I start giggling the second she opens her mouth - kind of like Will Ferrell.
― DJI, Monday, 12 April 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
oh
🚀🚀🚀 pic.twitter.com/WyTGhSsSVg— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) April 24, 2021
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 24 April 2021 19:10 (three years ago) link
fuck them so much
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Saturday, 24 April 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link
An awkward and introverted child, Musk was bullied throughout his childhood and was once hospitalized after a group of boys threw him down a flight of stairs.
I'm laughing already!
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 24 April 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
I hate how I'll probably watch this because I can't resist a trainwreck in the best of times and well...
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 24 April 2021 19:47 (three years ago) link
https://t.co/zwdc8sxEgC pic.twitter.com/1MtPSSKVnb— Jeremy Kaplowitz (@jeremysmiles) April 24, 2021
― frogbs, Saturday, 24 April 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link
Couldn't get Grimes a gig, huh?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 24 April 2021 21:39 (three years ago) link
Looks like at least one cast member has an opinion about it:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzxMdcyXIAEorrO?format=jpg&name=large
― jaymc, Saturday, 24 April 2021 21:56 (three years ago) link
Last night was good? I think? The Statler and Waldorf sketch at least was a highpoint of the season.
― akm, Sunday, 16 May 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link
I did something I rarely do and watched the entire episode, because my 15-year-old is a big fan of both Key and Rodrigo. Definitely above the standard of most of the SNL content I've seen lately, especially the Muppet Show sketch and for some reason the high school graduation sketch. But let me ask you this, touched off by watching this with a teen -- is the percentage of jokes that are about fucking always this high?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 16 May 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
yes. there were two incest jokes last week
― akm, Sunday, 16 May 2021 19:10 (three years ago) link
the writers feel honor bound to have at least one sketch a week that is bulging with sexual content, all of it scantily clad in smug winking innuendoes even a child can see-thru.
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Sunday, 16 May 2021 19:15 (three years ago) link