Saturday Night Live

hader has 1 year left on his contract. says he doesn't know what will happen after that

This was hilarious:

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/almost-pizza/1395374

Anyone else get the impression Drunk Uncle went on a little bit longer than scripted this time? Moynihan was in the zone.

For the second time, when Drunk Uncle started I thought I'd hate it, but both times he killed it. "Is this wi-fi organic?" Was that the line? Something like that.

And Almost Pizza was SNL at it's best.

Laughed out loud at almost pizza and drunk uncle. I'm such a hypocrite.

Lotta consensus here. Weekend Update winds up being a high point of the show more often than not these days, thanks largely to Hader and Moynihan. Another sure-fire high point being whatever Killam's doing in a given week. His star is on the rise, for sure.

Looks like the Zooey Deschanel Show is the new sketch they're going to suck all of the laughs and charm from through endless reiteration. This one was fine, but Lorne's predictable writing is on the wall.

Kristen Wiig does a really good Drew Barrymore impression, but ruins it by not even resembling her in the slightest. Armisen looks more like Barack Obama than she does Drew Barrymore.

Didn't love new girl in the Bravo skit but thought she was great as Penelope Cruz trying to read the complicated words.

drunk uncle was the most i'd laughed at SNL in a loooong time

how many of them have run? i'd like to see him again

I think he's done it 3 or 4 other times.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/weekend-update-drunk-uncle/1377369

is one of them.

http://www.nbc.com/app/search/?searchString=drunk+uncle&searchSubmit=

That Penelope Cruz skit was so wrong but I laughed so fucking hard at it

"Penelope, I'll help you; RE-FRIG-ER-A-TORRR!"

Jay Pharaoh should be doing shit like the school principal all the damn time and Will Smith and Jay-Z impressions very little of the time. Let the man breathe!

Moynihan's dancing during the Empire State of Mind sketch was great. Gotye seems like a chill bro. Loved the open with all the GOP hopefuls at the bar. Laser Cats 7. Josh Brolin was pretty great each time he was on screen, especially in the aforementioned high school dance sketch.

Californians was pretty amazing.

Seconding Jay Pharaoh expanding out. I will say that I thought his impressions tonight were more comedically heightened. Like he added little tics so it was less straight forward. I hope he doesn't get the boot.

also lolz at Game of Thrones having a 13 year old boy consultant

eli manning hosting may 5!

that's gonna be so terrible

didn't see last night, but agree that jay pharoah has got uncanny talent and i hope he/they can find space for it

I fell asleep after the second Gotye performance (btw that dude owns) but that stupid Empire State of Nind skit had no business being as funny as it was

Also loved The Californians and the slow hallway. Actually I really enjoyed most of what I saw.

You'll need to watch the final high school dance sketch on hulu or something. Even better than the last time they did it.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ivodhrB71qa29qto1_500.jpg

Loved this sketch and how Taran Killem was able to make the same stupid face that Kit Harrington makes.

Yeah, "Somebody That I Used to Know" is a damn good song

the californians bit just had me thinking: really, new yorkers making fun of people for ALWAYS talking about directions, that's not right.

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2012/04/what-were-made-of.html

I just watched Almost Pizza and then the very next video I watched had an ad for DiGiorno before it

Kate McKinnon's only on her 3rd episode and I think I love her already, "What Is This?" and "Helga Lately" are great

That wasn't her on What Is This, was it?

no it was bayer

o wait no she was the guest. was it her?

Uh, no. No, it wasn't.

And, yeah, she seems like she's gonna be pretty good for the show. She might make for a decent Wiig replacement. Lorne's probably gonna start trawling failed sketch shows for more performers like her and Killam.

I know she's ridiculously underused, but do people really not recognize Abby Elliott?

wait was that Abby Elliott? nvm, "Helga Lately" was dope though

Great show tonight. Eli was stiff, but was at least given funny things to do. Court room sketch had me laughing out loud.

Loved "What Is This?" and "Helga Lately" too. And Eli's "Little Brothers" bit was on par with Peyton's "United Way" thing from a few seasons ago.

I don't love Abby Elliott.

I thought it started strong but the last few skits were clunkers.

Was impressed with Eli. I usually get bummed when they have sportsfigures on, sometimes they're suprisingly great, but most of the time they're terrible. He was stiff, but he didn't constantly fuck up his lines and had some good moments.

Yeah, they definitely gave him some decent material and he was game and not distractingly stiff.

In the Cheech & Chong bit, the line "Let's just call NASA and explain what happened" cracked me up for some reason.

Good to see Hammer pants are back btw.

I watched for maybe the first time in months, since I was waiting for the cat to come back inside. Seemed OK. The court room sketch took forever to get going, for an erratic pay-off, but once it was just Eli making faces it was funny. Also, his big brother protection agency bit was good.

News sucked. Lots of "wait for it ..." pauses on Seth's part for laughs that never came, and the Dictator bit was a bust.

there are plenty of digital shorts i like but this 100th thing was the worst thing ive ever seen on tv

It was pretty terrible. Could Andy Samberg look and sound less like Nic Cage?

This Funkytown skit must appeal to the world's smallest demographic, to which I belong.

otm i loved that

Could Andy Samberg look and sound less like Nic Cage?

I'm sure Andy Samberg would be upset to learn that he doesn't look or sound like Nicholas Cage, seeing as how doing a note-perfect Nicholas Cage impression is the entire point of Get In The Cage. Rich Little is spinning in his grave.

That's not what I meant. I mean they keep bringing on celebrity guests, so it would be funny if they at least acknowledged his not at all Cage-ness. But even as an exaggerated cartoon version of an exaggerated cartoon person, it's never really worked for me. Doesn't help to have a sleepy, mumbling Liam Neeson on to make Samberg look extra tiny and non-Cage. Like, Bill Hader's Lindsey Buckingham is funny, because it's close enough, and ... anyway, I'm babbling a little. I just thought it was really shitty, boring, not funny, poorly performed, etc., this week.

But yeah, Funkytown. Why no robot voice joke?

Was Jay Pharoah's only appearance this week as a guy in a glittery diaper?

Yeah, it was a very 'blink and you'll miss'em!' episode for about half of the cast this week. I think Nasim and Taran were the only featured players with speaking parts. But they can at least look forward to their extensive guest appearances when Kristen Wiig hosts in 2020.

so is jon hamm just on this show now

i wish

wd watch the cast of mad men perform snl

armisen has some balls