lotta strong sketches this week
― flappy bird, Monday, 17 December 2018 05:07 (five years ago) link
The first half mostly. Fell apart towards the end. Sentimental xmas video was great. Ornaments skit was surprisingly funny.
― dan selzer, Monday, 17 December 2018 12:55 (five years ago) link
Damon with his Good Will Hunting haircut, lol.
Pretty enjoyable episode! Nothing particularly memorable or spectacular. Weekend Update was pretty good, with the joke exchange. The mix on the second Miley song was ridiculous, 99% her vocal, arrgh
― rip van wanko, Monday, 17 December 2018 13:37 (five years ago) link
Heidi is a star.
― dan selzer, Monday, 17 December 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
loved to see the return of The Wife of a Boxer in Every Boxing Movie Ever
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 December 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
It helps a lot when they have a host who can actually do stuff.
Gotta say, the Miley performance was bad even by the standards of an SNL performance
― bros before HOOS (voodoo chili), Monday, 17 December 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
I enjoyed last night's show. The Millenial Millionaires, the Urn. Nothing totally LOL (except maybe Mulaney).
― Yerac, Sunday, 20 January 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
Agreed that this was an uncommonly and consistently funny episode. The Mule bit was fantastic.
The video is linked in this review if you live somewhere that doesn't block it (eg, not Canada):
https://tv.avclub.com/rachel-brosnahan-makes-the-most-of-a-not-quite-marvelou-1831901562
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Sunday, 20 January 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
yeah, those jokes about buzzfeed were lazy and not funny. ^^^ Even just remembering how they broke the orphanage thing, the dossier and printed the Brock Turner letter off the top of my head.
― Yerac, Sunday, 20 January 2019 18:13 (five years ago) link
They really need to get rid of Jost and Che.
― Yerac, Sunday, 20 January 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
I guess I'm in the minority in liking Jost and Che. They fit the template of preppy smugness first established by Chevy Chase for Update, and they're constant attempts to one-up each other are usually great.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Sunday, 20 January 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
they both suck and jost as head writer is a drag on this show
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Sunday, 20 January 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link
otm on them sucking and the head writer thing.
― Yerac, Sunday, 20 January 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link
Che is not great but Jost is the fucking pits
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Sunday, 20 January 2019 18:39 (five years ago) link
it's like they are both playing the straight man. I think Jost plays a good-to-great straight man but still this is not a good formula!
― calumy (rip van wanko), Sunday, 20 January 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link
I really really want some lower back spikes. Dipped in poison.
― Yerac, Sunday, 20 January 2019 18:47 (five years ago) link
Jost has been moralizing more lately, I liked him more when he was Norm-lite
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link
The name change office sketch, for being a bunch of super-cheap and easy jokes, really made me laugh.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah, I laughed at that. Especially since my brothers and I have rhyming names so I was like HEY!
― Yerac, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link
I've seen an exceptional amount of anti-SNL chatter tonight but can't tell why?
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Sunday, 10 February 2019 06:32 (five years ago) link
nvm I am once again sorry I asked
Keep being asked if this is real. Sorry! pic.twitter.com/sCQ981xia8— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) February 10, 2019
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Sunday, 10 February 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link
oh dear lord
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 10 February 2019 16:07 (five years ago) link
There were a couple of okay sketches last night--the one where Kenan Thompson played a middle aged dad with a popular amateur porn account displayed an astonishing awareness of contemporary gay lingo--but SNL's current attempts at topical humour are almost never not awful.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Sunday, 10 February 2019 16:33 (five years ago) link
That Women of Congress sketch was fucking terrible and gives credence to that piece about SNL's cold opens being god awful political propaganda (I know this wasn't a cold open). Them Trumps at least has a joke in it; that had zero.
Thank god Kenan is still on this show because he saves basically every skit he's in these days (so does Kate McKinnon). This season has been pretty crappy.
― akm, Sunday, 10 February 2019 18:32 (five years ago) link
i wonder if theyll ever cancel this show
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Sunday, 10 February 2019 18:35 (five years ago) link
I'm curious who wrote "Women of Congress". Dreadful indeed
― calumy (rip van wanko), Sunday, 10 February 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
I do like Kate McKinnon's Wilbur Ross, who is basically just her Guiliani with a more frozen face
― akm, Sunday, 10 February 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
still baffled by love for for Kenan Thompson and his one-note obviousness+loud schtick
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 10 February 2019 20:06 (five years ago) link
the man has been doing nothing but sketch comedy for 25 years straight, give him a break
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Sunday, 10 February 2019 20:15 (five years ago) link
nope. the production costs are really cheap for the ad revenue it generates. even if ratings crash for a season or two they'll retool it, recast it, or rebrand it and try to keep it going. its a money thing.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 10 February 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
He’s leaving to host a variety sketch show of some sort or competition or something.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 10 February 2019 20:24 (five years ago) link
thank god
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 10 February 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
Is he leaving? The show's on NBC, probably for the summer season. He can do both.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 10 February 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
to everyone hating on SNL so much: you try working with 30 other people to come up with ~40 minutes of funny material every week and you have no other commitments and it's your full-time job and it pays pretty good. not as easy as it looks.— josiah hughes 🐇 (@josiahhughes) February 10, 2019
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Sunday, 10 February 2019 22:05 (five years ago) link
aaand it's only 21 weeks/yr
― calumy (rip van wanko), Sunday, 10 February 2019 22:29 (five years ago) link
that Family Feud sketch had to be the worst version they've ever done, right?
Also feel bad for Don Cheadle for hosting such a lame ep
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 19 February 2019 09:44 (five years ago) link
That Lollipop sketch was one of my favorite this season.
― Yerac, Friday, 22 February 2019 00:28 (five years ago) link
That was good. So were the Roach-Ex and Puppy Pound fake ads, the cake competition, Fresh Takes (the school show with the loose-lipped teacher), and Beck Bennet's Jules thing on Update. I thought this was the best episode in a while.
― DJI, Friday, 22 February 2019 00:39 (five years ago) link
best game show sketch of the year so far, even if it was a little clunky in spots
also Toilet Death Ejector
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 3 March 2019 08:02 (five years ago) link
That game show was so great. John Mulaney should host every year.
― Yerac, Sunday, 3 March 2019 15:19 (five years ago) link
And the Bodega Man sketch was pretty good/loling.
― Yerac, Sunday, 3 March 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link
Game show sketch was repeat/extension of similar one some seasons ago, I remember guest knowing all these people then host brings out the contestants door man. Super good episode through and through (minus music guest). Bodega sketch was epic and refreshing for them. Didn’t they do an epic musical kinda thing last time he hosted? Header is always a great of course.
― dan selzer, Monday, 4 March 2019 02:50 (five years ago) link
The musical sketch from Mulaney's first time hosting was an unrealized one that he had crafted back when he was a writer on SNL that he finally got to sneak in as a host. So, either he had more of these stashed away, or the success of the first one made them go for it again.
He's the best host they've had in...I dunno, decades? Is that overstating it? His "Cha Cha Slide" dance turned an underfed sketch premise into a outrageously delightful bit of physical comedy.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Monday, 4 March 2019 02:58 (five years ago) link
this was and will be the only snl ep i watch this season
― you know who deserves sitewide mod privileges? (m bison), Monday, 4 March 2019 03:04 (five years ago) link
how was he never a cast member? granted there was a talent there when he was a writer, but still
This was great died laughing at the McKinnon mulaney to have and have not sketch
― Mordy, Monday, 4 March 2019 03:12 (five years ago) link
Loved Mulaney. Hated Thomas Rhett, the musical act.
― banjoboy, Monday, 4 March 2019 06:37 (five years ago) link
lol yeah when he first came on I just kept getting more and more irritated
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 4 March 2019 08:19 (five years ago) link
how was he never a cast member? granted there was a talent there when he was a writer, but stillHe is a much, much better performer with a lot more stage experience than he was 11 years ago?Here he is this week talking about his first onscreen SNL appearance: https://youtu.be/-BAcIdzPgAs
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Monday, 4 March 2019 10:28 (five years ago) link
I watched 5 seconds of the musical guest singing, went NOPE, and FF'd it.
The Bodega Man sketch part with the 'man who doesn't work there but is watching soccer on tv'...omg.
― Yerac, Monday, 4 March 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link