tech talk skit was not at all acceptable btw
― 乒乓, Saturday, 20 October 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
Okay, let's call a goddamn moratorium on the overused song-as-monologue trope. Seriously. Stop it.
That debate cold open was fantastic, though.
― false pie promises (Old Lunch), Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
I thought the debate opening was pretty good; I'm still getting used to Jay Pharoah, and I think Sudeikis has been funnier as Romney. The questioners were good.
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
Did they let Bruno Mars write that Haters sketch? Ugh.
LOUIS C. K. hosting!!!!! Had this been announced before?
― false pie promises (Old Lunch), Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
Who's this mulatto fop singing on my television set
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 21 October 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
Well. This episode sure has taken a quick turn towards unwatchability.
― false pie promises (Old Lunch), Sunday, 21 October 2012 04:10 (eleven years ago) link
I liked the Sad Mouse thing.
― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 21 October 2012 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, Stefon moved to tears.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 21 October 2012 04:29 (eleven years ago) link
hader to the rescue
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 21 October 2012 04:30 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, Sidney Appelbaum more than made up for Bruno Mars.
― false pie promises (Old Lunch), Sunday, 21 October 2012 04:31 (eleven years ago) link
lol'd like twice, terrible ep
cant wait 4 louie
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 21 October 2012 05:21 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it only got good when Bruno Mars was marginalized or absent altogether. Some high highs but overall the worst episode I've seen in a long time. Like in several years.
― false pie promises (Old Lunch), Sunday, 21 October 2012 05:40 (eleven years ago) link
who would've thought that bruno mars would produce something horrifyingly terrible
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 21 October 2012 06:02 (eleven years ago) link
Was Kenan even there this week?
― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 21 October 2012 06:03 (eleven years ago) link
Just in the opening monologue.
Good to see Aidy Bryant finally get some airtime, though. And the Donkey Punch The Vote sketch at the end was funnier than about 90% of the rest of the show.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 21 October 2012 06:09 (eleven years ago) link
I still think Sad Mouse was sweet, if not really funny. Also, Stefon. Also, the debate cold open.
The rest...what a disaster for NBC.
― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 21 October 2012 06:11 (eleven years ago) link
Why do they gotsta ruin my Louis C.K. experience with fundot at the musical guest? This is why we can't have nice things.
― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 21 October 2012 06:12 (eleven years ago) link
Their last good musical guest was Meat Loaf in 1981, so who cares.
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 21 October 2012 06:20 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, I predicted garbage from the day it was announced, but I live to be proven wrong and pleasantly surprised (a la Seth MacFarlane). It's just that it was so much worse than I'd imagined.
But, yeah, edit this down to the cold open, Stefon, maybe Donkey Punch and the haunted ride (I really love that bit but I can dig that it might not be everybody's groove) and you've got a solid half hour amidst the crap. I can always find something to love in even the worst episodes.
― false pie promises (Old Lunch), Sunday, 21 October 2012 06:23 (eleven years ago) link
I can always find something to love in even the worst episodes.
Lorne designs them that way. I'm sure good stuff gets left in the writers' room every week.
― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 21 October 2012 06:26 (eleven years ago) link
Well, I live in hope that "Bruno Mars does shitty singing impersonations for ten minutes" and "the Raping Yeti" weren't the cream of this week's writing crop.
― false pie promises (Old Lunch), Sunday, 21 October 2012 06:30 (eleven years ago) link
Oddly, the frontpage ad on Hulu for the Bruno Mars SNL seems to be taken from a sketch that didn't even air.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 21 October 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
people still say "mulatto"?!
― all the other twinks with their fucked up dicks (billy), Sunday, 21 October 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
no, just cankles
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 21 October 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
I'mma give 'Sad Mouse' another chance. I checked out about halfway through the Pandora sketch so I wasn't a particularly receptive audience at that point, but in theory, it fits the bill for the type of slightly more dramatic work SNL used to feature all the time but slowly moved away from (like this classic short). And I really want to support any move in that direction. Even if Bruno Mars is unfortunately a part of it.
― false pie promises (Old Lunch), Sunday, 21 October 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, for anyone who's curious (especially since, to my knowledge, there's never been any follow up publicity about his exit), Paul Brittain is back doing regular improv gigs at iO in Chicago.
― false pie promises (Old Lunch), Sunday, 21 October 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
I think you're all being to hard on Bruno. He was a fine performer, he didn't fuck up or look like a deer in the headlights, I mean, would you rather have a sports figure (excepting the few who are actually entertaining). The material was mostly pretty week but I'm not blaming him for it.
And mulatto? That's weird.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 21 October 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
I'll admit to coming into the episode with a pretty strong bias against Bruno Mars. But the same was true of the Seth MacFarlane episode and he definitely pulled that one out. I know nothing about sports and the sports dudes are usually stiff as hell when they host but they don't usually come across as so completely in love with themselves as Bruno does so it's more fun to see them goofin' around out of their element.
― false pie promises (Old Lunch), Sunday, 21 October 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
It is very difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish between being in love with what you are doing and being in love with yourself.
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Sunday, 21 October 2012 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
bruno mars hosting gig due to whatever internet input they were soliciting (purely speculative on my part) and hopes for another timberlake probably right?
― balls, Sunday, 21 October 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
also w/ athletes hosting i think there's been a big difference between major pro team athletes hosting (a la barkley, the mannings, or oj and fran tarkenton way back when) and olympic athletes (phelps, kerrigan), the pro athletes have had alot more experience w/ media, building their brand, major ad campaigns, etc. by the time peyton hosted he'd already been in nearly an hour's worth of awful awful snl type sketches for oreo or whoever. these guys also have big, well known personas or auras that snl can play off even if the athlete host isn't a natural (eg michael jordan).
― balls, Sunday, 21 October 2012 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
good point. Barkley and the Mannings were relatively great, Phelps was terrible.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 21 October 2012 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
Man there have been some awful sketches this season: Pandora, My Kitty Cat, Foot Locker/Gangnam Style, Haters, Dance Studio...
― I hate Tig Notaro so much I gave Louis C.K. a dollar (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 22 October 2012 05:10 (eleven years ago) link
I liked My Kitty Cat for no defensible reason.
― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Monday, 22 October 2012 05:17 (eleven years ago) link
kitty cat will probably be seen as a beloved classic 10 years from now
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 22 October 2012 06:25 (eleven years ago) link
It's funny to imagine the writers watching alien and thinking, "who brought the cat?" The parodies of various aliens crew members were also good. Already a beloved classic imo.
― overfaded aeropostale bootcuts I have owned (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 October 2012 06:32 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I liked it.
And I know everyone thought I was crazy by noting how little Vanessa there was last week. Well she barely did better this week.
― dan selzer, Monday, 22 October 2012 07:53 (eleven years ago) link
SNL is a total Rorschach test. Quality-wise, I don't think there's anything universally agreed upon except maybe that the late '80s/early '90s era was the show's peak. The highly subjective and wildly differing opinions of what works and what doesn't and what's good and what isn't is probably due to some formula Lorne's worked out that keeps the show successful. "There are too many highbrow sketches this week. We need something dumb that some people will love and that other people will spend all week complaining about on the internet."
― false pie promises (Old Lunch), Monday, 22 October 2012 12:34 (eleven years ago) link
I think valuing Sandler/Schnieder/Spade/Farley over, say, the first five years would be pretty far from universally agreed!
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 22 October 2012 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
meyers, carvey too?
― s.clover, Monday, 22 October 2012 13:03 (eleven years ago) link
I saw he and J3t Ev3l3th were doing a two-person thing, but I had the impression it was a one-off -- he's not, like, on a team, is he?
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Monday, 22 October 2012 13:03 (eleven years ago) link
and yeah, the cat sketch is like the only memorable bit this season.
― s.clover, Monday, 22 October 2012 13:04 (eleven years ago) link
xpost
Yeah, he's back in Challenger!
― false pie promises (Old Lunch), Monday, 22 October 2012 13:10 (eleven years ago) link
Dude, yr chronology is effed. That's early to mid-'90s. I'm talking about Hartman/Hooks/Lovitz/Carvey et al.
― false pie promises (Old Lunch), Monday, 22 October 2012 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
And anyone who still trumpets about the first five years as Best Evah!!! probably watched the show at the time and not once since and also complains about how music went south ever since disco happened. IMVHO.
― false pie promises (Old Lunch), Monday, 22 October 2012 13:17 (eleven years ago) link
This show sucks.
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 22 October 2012 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
I've watched the last few episodes after staying away for about 5 years--and it seems like the show has improved quite a bit.
― Binders Full of Mittens (President Keyes), Monday, 22 October 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
I think you're all being too hard on Bruno.
^^ This
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 October 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
11/10 - Anne Hathaway / Rihanna11/17 - Jeremy Renner / Maroon 5
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
Just watching the Bruno episode, hes great so far wtf
― Mr. Zone A (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 1 November 2012 00:02 (eleven years ago) link