Saturday Night Live

OK SNL can just fuck off for real with that China-Obama skit.

"How many jobs have you created?" "None" AARCCCHHHGDSS!O#IF$@H!!!

"Wah! Wah! SNL is only supposed to make fun of the OTHER guys, not my guy! Wah!"

I thought the China-Obama thing was funny!

Good episode all around, actually. JGL seemed a little frantic but he did a good job.

He was entertaining, Kenan MVP of this ep though. Between Reba and What Up With That.

Jason Sudeikis's bboy dancing is still the mvp of "what up with that" imo.

I don't know, seeing Moyinahan in those wrestling tights twirling the snake kinda did it for me.

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Of course a lot of my love for this episode comes from the fact that it wasn't last week's episode.

yah this one tailed off a little near the end with the thanksgiving sketch and some other crap but it was a pretty funny episode overall, the return of "what up with that?" almost killed me. the china/obama thing was one of the better recent cold opens (which are usually pretty awful, they should maybe try something other than lame political humor here for a change?) but it went on way too long.

I loved the Wilson Phillips/En Vogue part of the thanksgiving sketch.

I'd be fine with them making fun of Obama. But sorry, dumbass misrepresentations of policy debates you don't understand isn't funny. Neither is Fred Armisen.

Neither is Fred Armisen.

Agreed; that guy is especially horrible.

i mostly just liked the "making sex with me" punchlines.

Armisen was funnier when he was under the radar. Ferricito 4EVA

I loved the Wilson Phillips/En Vogue part of the thanksgiving sketch.

― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Sunday, November 22, 2009 6:48 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

y'know I was thinking during the sketch that they've done probably a dozen different variations on that kind of 'tense family dinner' sketch with a dozen different casts over the years but they're pretty much always really funny to me, then they broke out a wacky singing routine which feels like a much more recent vintage SNL cliche and it kinda ruined it for me.

also ugh @ the announcement that Blake Lively is hosting soon, which should be at least Megan Fox bad, if not January Jones bad. lots of funny women exist in show business, why can't any of them host SNL? or even be cast members, Wiig aside? I'm really quickly starting to hate Jenny Slate.

Jenny and Nasim are both duds (on SNL anyway). Still not really into Abby Elliott either.

Abby did a fantastic Sarah McLachlan a few weeks ago though, plus she is super cuet.

Who was the translator in the opening sketch? She was awesome.

That was Nasim.

I do miss Casey Wilson, thought she had more potential than Elliott tbh.

(is it just me or is there something very samey about their overall "looks")

it must be tough for Michaela who had a bit of traction and who had a recurring role as Hoda Kotb to see one of the other new girls take that role so effortlessly. Not that it was a bravura performance or anything, playing the straight man for Kristen' s Kathie Lee...

it was flat and awkward

al gore was good in what up with that

(is it just me or is there something very samey about their overall "looks")

I have a difficult time telling them apart.

yeah for half the Obama sketch I was trying to figure out if the translator was Jenny or Nasim (and when she was funny I figured out it was the latter)

Al Gore's Update bit was pretty next level imo

i love "what up with that?"

it's pretty much a mess but it's a mess that i love

Yeah, I was losing my shit at "What Up With That?"

i was realizing the other day that what up with that and jean k jean are my two most looked-forward to repeated sketches

take that, kenan-haters

jean k jean is the best

joseph gordon-leavitt is almost as much of an annoying ham as justin timberlake

kinda tired of "bill hader as host of a show" sketches but wiig kinda killed this "secret word" sketch

haha shit this is the best digital short in forever

to be honest i'm pretty tired of "wacky game show" as an SNL trope in general, it's right up there with "uncomfortable dinner party with one normal couple and one CRAZY couple" and "fake talk show" as played-out sketch boilerplates

this show is at the point where if someone was like "andy samberg is gonna write a show about fucking a black, male reba mcentire" i would be like "alright sure why not" & the sketch ended up being amazing - one of the first time samberg ever exceeded my expectations

yo this episode is good! jack johnson sketch is kind of low hanging fruit but i'm diggin it

andy samberg is gonna write a song* obv

is this jeremy piven as ozzy??

if you're not joking, that's DM of DMB fame

loll ok - i honestly couldn't recognize it who was, even tho the face looked vaguely familiar - good sketch

"it's pretty much a mess but it's a mess that i love"

OTM, this is how i feel about SNL in general these days

is this jeremy piven as ozzy??

lol I had the same thought before I realized it was Dave

who are you people who cannot recognize faces on this show. it has like five people on it. nasim and jenny look nothing alike. go outside.

http://sparkiepop.com/audio/whatupwiththat.mp3 ← keep the earworm going!

jgl is def going to become a jt nightmare if he gets to host again

Nothing they cooked up this week has anything near the staying power of Omeletville (though that's been beaten into the ground, ffs).