Saturday Night Live

eally it could just be Bill Hader making fun of politicians instead of Hader as Carville making fun of politicians and it wouldn't make much difference.

it's funnier to hear stuff like "it's like a midget with a big car...he's not taller, he's just crafty" coming from a drawling cueball

^True.

Probably my favorite SNL impression is Armisen as David Paterson (although that's starting to wear thin), and it bears very little resemblance to the actual dude, i.e. he doesn't talk like that, he doesn't have a vendetta against NEW JERSEY. It's basically a character named "David Paterson," loosely based on the real-life person.

it's all taste, but the only time i have beef is when i think they failed to capture what makes them funny, like his pacino, which sounds more like jackie gleason in smokey and the bandit.

his impressions just seem really canned to me -- vocally he ain't bad, but the mannerisms in the branson & carville (esp the carville) are really stilted and awkward

the game show sketches are almost always lame (and 8 mins long), but "i got it" or w/e was pretty decent (a really good idea but kind of limited in lols by nature)

game show sketches have been a lazy SNL formula for decades, but i'm ok with ones like that and the Burn Notice sketch that just take take the concept to an absurd place.

i guess any game show that isn't hinged on 8 mins of kristen wiig making faces is a win in some regard

yeah the fact that they've done the 'secret word' sketch more than once just as a vehicle for her stupid actress character is despicable imo

i guess any game show sketch that isn't hinged on 8 mins of kristen wiig making faces is a win in some regard

i can never hate her because she's still great in lower key and duo sketches (love that improv musical duo with fred armisen) but any "people stare blankly while kristen spazzes" bit is straight up mary gallagher hell.

Still like Target Lady, but I know what you mean.

Gabourey Sidibe promos are lol: http://www.hulu.com/watch/143828/saturday-night-live-snl-promo-gabourey-sidibe

hahahahahaha

those are great

ugh John Mulaney is so terrible on camera, they better not be thinking about putting him in the cast or something

Sidibe was fun but man did she blow a lot of lines/cues

she was not funny at all. couldn't even nail the doorbell sketch which was easy pickings.

pretty bad show, esp mgmt

i thought she was pretty funny -- my fav sketches were steve harvey, stoop sketch & bill hader's gay dude on weekend update

i thought john mulaney was p good

yeah I enjoyed the steve Harvey sketch

steve harvey made me laugh. snl made me laugh! it's not every day...

wake up, you got a boner over nothing

wtf was that cherry spitting stuff?

lonely island dudes running out of ideas or scrambling when the host said she didn't want to do an ironic rap song

wake up, you got a boner over nothing

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lol yes -- also "ring ring, it's 8:30 at night -- that's PM. that's on you."

the one mgmt peformance i saw was a hot mess, is that supposed be a song?

Which did you see? The Brian Eno one?

the one mgmt peformance i saw was a hot mess, is that supposed be a song band people like?

I think most people aren't as into the new album. That said, I liked the Brian Eno performance. (Didn't like the first performance tho.)

I liked both performances. I like the new album, but I haven't listened to it enough yet. I really loved the first one. The big trendy hits and the weird psyche stuff. I don't know if people are supposed to like them, they were hyped because 3 of the songs from the first album(and e.p.) were really catchy and merged a bunch of different trends and there's all this invented controversy about the new album not having such obvious hits, so yeah, it's funny that they're playing this stuff on SNL, and relatively mainstream radio (Matt Pinfield...), but I doubt this album will be the party jam of the summer.

controversy isn't really invented so much as a straight-up - this album is a disappointment - i think. "Brian Eno" is catchy though

I don't know, I think Flash Delirium is great. It's just not the anthem the past hits were. I'm not totally sold by their whole "we're really into obscure 80 psyche bands" or whatever because I think most of the first album isn't much different and it's something I like. I liked it when Jennifer Gentle did it (similarly acid-drenched syd-damaged post-indie rock neo-psych or whatever) and I like it here.

wtf was that cherry spitting stuff?

That was the only part of the episode I liked.

Thing is, it was kind of awesome. I'm just wondering, wtf WAS it?

I mean, was it a prody or something? Some phenomenon? Some culture? Anything at all? It can't have been nothing.

I mean, I have never seen anyone put on a Mace Windu costume and spit cherries.

iron chef

lol Ok.

I felt it must have been Japanese.

see to me it just felt like a retread of the "extreme challenges" digital short with samberg & wiig doing a bunch of bizarre competitions

Dudes, I love Betty White.

I hope they give Seth the night off and let Tina and Amy do the Weekend Update.

lol at bobby m literally having to help betty white get off the couch

they should've canceled this episode and let jay do a 1.5 hour set

otm

I turned this on just in time. Jay-Z sounds amazing.

snl hasn't aired anything this dope since the jeopardy parodies

yeah this is killer

seriously, this performance just shit on all of network television

i assume he's not doing a second performance?

They're letting him go on and on. Fantastic.

the only way i can be happy about hearing "empire of state of mind" is when it interrupts "bonnie & clyde 03"

Holy shit.