Saturday Night Live

jesus i'd never seen that. dying!

I had to watch it again just to see how many ways Will Forte pronounced "potato." Blake Lively is surprisingly game there, too.

Yeah, as one of the commenters noted, for Lively to not completely break as Forte goes more and more ballistic is really quite something.

Also noted, why does NASA look like a used-car salesman's office?

http://theforvm.org/files/thats-the-joke.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxj0-v_lnYY&feature=player_detailpage#t=9s

I don't know what's going on in this high school sketch - is it a Glee reference? - but I can't stop laughing at the sound of Hader's voice.

every sketch is abt gay ppl / double polo, popped collars or both

that said, i would watch the shit outta sopranos jr.

the firefighter sketch was sort of great. just letting hader chew scenery.

This skit is terrible.

ban digital shorts

I liked the Rosetta Stone ad.

kendrick does not sound v good

"you're still in philadelphia"

I'm on a dvr delay, so I just now noticed this Lonely Island track in the digital short is built on a Joy Formidable sample.

sadface at Kendrick, he sounded super tired to me

i thought this episode (with a few exceptions) had a lot of genuinely funny sketches, and also i thought kendrick lamar (and his band) was super fun to watch. dunno why i am so enthusiastic about it, but i enjoyed it enough to look for this thread and say i liked it.

kendrick and the band sounded good by snl sound standards. much better than heyho last week.

Adam Levine was surprisingly competent. I liked his Nev impression in the Catfish sketch.

Not having seen the Catfish film or show, I assumed it was competent anyway just because it's MTV.

His faux modest beefcake schtick was more palatable (even funny) than I expected it to be considering how unbearable his music is.

I was sad when he dissed Kara's Flowers. ;_;

Levine seemed to have the right comic persona, but pauses in his line delivery made some sketches awkward

I didn't even realize Catfish was a parody. I was also upset Adam dissed Kara's Flowers. Soap Disco! That was a fun song.

"Poetic Justice" sounded great but that's my least favorite song on the album

The Nev from Catfish impersonation was dead on and hilarious

the firefighter sketch was sort of great. just letting hader chew scenery.

― s.clover, Sunday, January 27, 2013 12:04 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Loved this. This character should be the next SNL movie, just Hader yelling "SHUT UP!" in that voice for 90 minutes.

sax on "Poetic Justice" was like, awww yeeaaahhhh

^said by Kenan Thompson as the ghost of MLK jr

the firefighter sketch was sort of great. just letting hader chew scenery.

― s.clover, Sunday, January 27, 2013 5:04 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This skit is terrible.

― dan selzer, Sunday, January 27, 20

I'm with Dan on that one. All the gay character skits were middle school humor formulaic.

yeah, some of those skits seemed irresponsibly bad to me.

i agree in general that snl's gay stuff is fairly offensively dumb usually, but at a certain point it seemed like the firefighter sketch stopped being a sketch and started turning into like avant-theatre absurdity.

so this MLK Jr sketch was horrid even by right-wing comedy writer standards?

this week finally embarrassed even u guys huh

Yeah, terrible episode.

will look prescient when Beebz stars in the next has-been Broadway revival of Grease in 2024 tho.

(I saw some of it w/out sound in a gay bar)

The fucking Californians...I can't recall any other recurring sketch in this show's history that has actually made me angry with its consistent awfulness.

my father asked me if Christopher Dormer had an opinion on SNL's decline.

Worst ever. Yuck.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/9cbfaec3c6b1d6d83d3a19f59015fe00/tumblr_mhyg7feEQK1qzraqfo1_500.jpg

Bieber looks like a dying kid getting a visit in the hospital. From some old lesbian named Lauren Michaels.

didn't think this was nearly as terrible as y'all. I've definitely seen worse, even this season. It helps if you just fast-forward through Californians.

I liked the Real Housewives thing, Corey, the one black guy that's in every commercial was great. There were a few other ok bits, the Grease skit was good.

I agree that it wasn't the worst ep this season. Bravo thing and Corey both solid (some of the best characters show up in weekend update). I even laughed at the horrible 'glice' skit in the end. The Californians is the new What's Up With That in that it appears in every show. I'm tired of the Californians, but the original was one of my favorites so I can deal with them milking it.

I'd rather watch a 90-minute loop of Sudeikis' What's Up With That dancing than two minutes of The Californians.

Glice was good, though, as was the Grease sketch.

miley cyrus and ellen impersonations are like the same voice.

I liked the monologue too.

i swear to god that kid looks more like kd lang every day.

haven't seen snl all season - could someone explain "the californians" in one sentence? (i realize i could just look it up but it'll probably be more entertaining this way)