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that has got to be the worst spanish accent i've ever heard.

also that british sketch was funnier than every single episode of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. every one.

damn... these Muse guys suck ass

Yep.

was he playing an ipad?

Kate "Crazy Eyes" McKinnon

I fell asleep early but Kate McKinnon was beastly last night

i had to google who lea michele was :/

You are a lucky man.

Was that actually Carroll Spinney as Big Bird? Sure sounded like him.

Ah, OK, it was. Cool.

been waiting for kate m to finally look as comfortable on SNL as she did at UCB and this week definitely suggested she's turning that corner.

put me in with the "enjoyed muse" crowd, i don't need much of their music but I'm all for a band that suggests what radiohead would be like if they were more shamelessly prog - emphasis on "shamelessly"

call me a rockist but when i saw that dude's dubstep double guitar i was in love

may have loved the singer's dramatic yelps on song 2 even more

that has got to be the worst spanish accent i've ever heard.

It wasn't much worse than the one Antonio Banderas uses.

Man, do I feel badly for Aidy Bryant. Not a single appearance this week (unless you count .5 seconds of distress face during the goodbyes). It was rad of Lorne & Co. to hire her, but I was thinking at the time I heard the news that they wouldn't know what to do with her (or, worse, that they'd simply avoid doing anything with her) and that seems to be panning out. All of the other featured players have gotten fairly extensive airtime. I hope it doesn't take some 'Me want food!'-esque sketch for her to get a little recognition.

P.S. Christina Applegate was a really winning host but, aside from the debate sketch, that was a pretty meh episode.

my mom called me and told me how much she loved Bobby Moynihan's "I MISS MY KITTY CAAAAT" sketch

I loved the Odysseus & The Sirens sketch, which won't make it online because of the music. There is a pretty good compilation of sketches over the past years that have fallen the same fate.

Just caught the episode and it was pretty lukewarm, but I thought the Tech Talk sketch was amazing. Also, I love Jean K Jean. ZUT ALORS!

the tech talk skit was super preachy in a not really creative way -- it's cool if you're going to make the point that they're making, but setting it under the guise of "a talk show" so that you can use the characters as mouthpieces means that you should actually just write a blog post

also the thing where they funnelled feminist viewpoints of the debate thru the character of arianna huffington was... bizarre

also wussup with the one woman who they hired to obviously be the sequel to kristen wiig? in back-to-back sketches she used that midwest mom accent and then danced and made funny faces at the camera while everyone else in the scene played it straight

ZUT ALORS tho, fuck it, good enough for me

You mean the host? Christina Applegate was channelling Wiig something fierce in that last skit.

Kate McKinnon kind of taking the ball and running with it

Felt like Applegate was doing a straight Wiig impersonation in the Californians, but otoh I'm not sure what all can be done with that stock character.

oh shit was that her? ha, nevermind. i was on the phone when that skit came on so i was only paying half-attention. but yeah that was a bit blatant, wasn't it?

xxp

It's weird thinking that of the 5 cast members with the longest tenures in SNL history, three (Seth, Kenan, Fred) of them are currently active

head writer kenan thompson, let's make it happen

Fosse choreographer sketch felt like a Wiig leftover too

head writer kenan thompson, let's make it happen

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Monday, October 15, 2012 1:18 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wy-WNKiM0DY/T0Cgn3D2I9I/AAAAAAAAMMU/opi4CZBo-2Y/s1600/SNL+Lindsey+Buckingham+What+Up+With+That+Feb+19+2012.jpg

lol at jordan not knowing who christina applegate is or just now noticing snl going 'fuck it, fake talk show' when they have an idea but can't be bothered to go the extra mile and develop it. kate mckinnon has really established herself quick, her and taran killam are fantastic. episode was definitely meh though - only laughed at debate sketch which was a gimme but they nailed it, tech talk which was sloppy but funny enough in conception - kinda weird to hear nasim's sarcastic concern voice in triplicate though, and the californians which was probably the weakest one of those yet and definitely an idea that should be retired but i still laugh at hader and armisen every time. o and jean k jean was still great but i'm always up for comedy making fun of comedians - they could probably roll out a 'kings of catch phrase comedy' every two weeks and it'd take forever for me to complain.

tech talk was the worst. "how dare you criticize a company's products when they use cheap foreign labor"?

also everybody getting to pull out their finest chinese accents

so glad to see jean k jean back though

also everybody getting to pull out their finest chinese accents

― da croupier, Sunday, October 14, 2012 10:30 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was super uncomfortable to say the least.

i wonder if the same person who wrote tech talk also wrote that one a season or so ago where web commenters got punched and we were all supposed to clap

weirdest thing, where was Vanessa Bayer? She was killing it last season, stealing skits left and right and appearing constantly. It's like now that they've got Kate McKinnon and Cecily Strong they don't need Bayer anymore? Strong seemed kinda nondescript at first to me but she's been pretty good. Just surprised at how little Bayer there was in this episode after her appearing constantly through most of last season.

calm down, bayer's done plenty this season. sometimes an episode is light on a person.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/404167

I'm fine standing alone in my love of the Tech Talk sketch.

Bayer, Tim Robinson and Aidy Bryant were all mostly MIA in this episode. da croup is right, some weeks is different than others.

Kate McKinnon is continuing to kill it imo. I thought Sudeikis seemed re-energized and super engaged this week too.

also everybody getting to pull out their finest chinese accents

― da croupier, Sunday, October 14, 2012 10:30 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was super uncomfortable to say the least.

― Clay, Monday, October 15, 2012 1:32 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Cecily Strong has already done two racist characterizations in her first four episodes. Not real eager to see where she goes next.

Tough crowd.

Not really sure what else you could call this: http://www.hulu.com/watch/401537

wait til you guys get a load of samurai delicatessen or hans and franz

Not really sure what else you could call this

A fairly spot-on portrayal of a certain type of person within the broader latino community. She didn't come out in a comically large sombrero doing "si" jokes with absolutely no depth beyond the accent. It was a rounded-out character.

As for the Tech Talk sketch and the portrayal of the Chinese factory workers, yeah...how exactly would you have done that instead? It's not like they were reliving Mickey Rooney's character from Breakfast at Tiffany's, ffs.

agree that sudeikis seemed back in the swing of things which is an encouraging sign. fully engaged sudeikis can just easily kick sketches up a couple notches.

As for the Tech Talk sketch and the portrayal of the Chinese factory workers, yeah...how exactly would you have done that instead?

The "well we don't have anyone of this race on cast so alright you three get on the high wire" thing was a lesser, secondary point to the other, which is that the sketch was based around the idea that it's offensive to complain about a company's products because oppressed people in other countries work so hard to make them. Obv there are a million sketches where people put on accents, but this was in service of a deeply misguided "first world problems" sketch that pretends foxconn employees run apple.

obv it would have been hard (and more apt to piss off an advertiser) to write a sketch about how chinese laborers have MORE of a reason to be mad at apple than Wired contributors do (rather than that Wired contributors should leave Apple products alone), but that's when you throw a sketch in the trash and say "hey fuck it, Vanessa, wanna do Miley again?"