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i'm more outraged when i see the writing staff for daily show or colbert, they appear to be 99% white men.

best article ending ever

Was talking about this during the Emmy's. Noted that Jimmy Kimmel wins for having a writing staff that actually had considerably larger amounts of women then any of the other late night variety shows up for awards.

This is just the first step in Lorne's plan for an accurate representation of global demographics, along with the advent of SNL Mexico (which, yes, is a real thing that's happening and that I wouldn't even be aware of if people I know hadn't auditioned for the cast). I look forward to SNL Laos and SNL Côte d'Ivoire (the improv scene there is off the hook).

what's the over under on how soon some dude polls these

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the fuck is this, leave me alone, man. i haven't even started a thread in like months.

about the same representation of people who are funny

lots of lolz imo

the breaking bad fanservice is kinda bizarre tho. maybe lorne is a big fan

Wow the sound mix for Arcade Fire is SHITTY

"You'll feel like you're walking on clown nine" made me lol.

“I think there’s lots of parts of America that could care less about ‘Saturday Night Live,’” Becker added. “Lots of African-Americans, lots of gays and lesbians. And Dr Morbius, for sure."

They can keep doing the tipsy ex-porn stars-selling-things commercial sketches forever, and I'll laugh at all of them.

It's no secret I'm a Kate McKinnon stan, but I want to see them develop her smoking ER doctor from the cold open into a proper character.

IAWTC. Both of them, though I doubt they'll ever top "my eye got sucked out by a butt."

yeah I was wondering if it was just me or if the AF mix sounded hoorrrrrible

I had never heard Arcade Fire before last night, I had no idea they sound like that, it was funny.

i've only heard them a little but this is some new direction right? James Murphy produced disco new wave? With dubbed out 12" style b-side mixes?

they don't usually! def a new direction for them

the Phantom Zone moment was kinda o_O

Kenan screaming "NO! YOU GET NO LINES! YOU GOT TO EARN THAT!" was p hilarious

AF mix not only sounded horrible, but was kind of hilarious in that the conga player was apparently playing his ass off, yet no congas could be heard.

Really? I actually took note of how loud the congas were at the beginning of the second song.

They can keep doing the tipsy ex-porn stars-selling-things commercial sketches forever, and I'll laugh at all of them.

These are funny, but I also find them really depressing!

Yeah, they over-corrected on the second song; one conga was awkwardly louder than the other (and nearly everything else in the mix).

I could barely tell any of the new cast members apart, but I loved all the hazing. Drunk Uncle was better than usual, I thought.

Are The Arcade Fire more of a synthy band now? Maybe now I would actually dig them. I liked the lone new wavey song on their last record, "Sprawl 2."

AF worked with James Murphy on the new album, so it's definitely different than they've sounded in the past.

"Sprawl 2" was prob their high point so far I think (though hearing it at every fucking dance party for 6 months kinda killed it)

yes to drunk uncle, no thank you to ditzy exporn stars

Kenan finally is the alpha dog of SNL

Cecily was definitely a bit nervous at the update desk, but I think she will improve. Was Nasim even there last night? Also, I had no idea Andy Samberg just got married to Joanna Newsom.

Oh, Andy, Andy, noooo...

Kenan was great during the game show bit.

Was Nasim even there last night?

She was one of the non-English speaking passengers in the airport sketch. That was the only time I saw her all night.

all fey's characters were way dark this episode.

"if you speak they will know you are simple"

lol'd hard at "for staring at the mayor"

Love Tina's dark humor

GIRLS parody was funny, I thought. Airline boarding sketch was simultaneously hacky and hilarious.

Kyle Mooney is so, so funny in those mumbly YouTube clips. (He's on the new Stephen Merchant HBO show Hello Ladies as well (or at least was in the pilot; and he was pretty funny). His 80s stand-up comedian character wasn't so great, but he has done funny character types before...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc61ONXClhA

I thought the Girls thing was rly weak (lol get it it's a poor person from an impoverished country bein all waky) but the airline boarding thing was one of the more clever things I've seen from SNL in quite a while

I liked the GIRLS thing pretty much for the impressions - as another McKinnon fan, her Jessa ("I've gotten so bored of orgies") was very funny.
And though the main gag was pretty obvious, the execution was pretty good.

I was really disappointed w/ how bad whoever Hannah was

like that was completely absolutely nothing like her. The other 3 were totally spot on though

Hannah was the new girl, wasn't it?

Yeah, Noel Wells.

I thought the Girls thing was rly weak (lol get it it's a poor person from an impoverished country bein all waky)

I think the point was showing the ridiculousness of a show about the most first-world of first world problems when juxtaposed with an outsized version of poverty

Yeah, and I thought the Hannah was good. Some of the mannerisms were uncannily similar.

having never watched Girls, I just sort of assumed that every episode is like this

also it kind of seems silly and point-missy to satirize a show that is already kind of deliberately self-satirical

That's entirely dependent upon whether you think the show's satirical points are useful/interesting/entertaining.

the one line that still has me dying from the infomercial

'what's that thing that you put stuff in?'
"your mouth"

I really want to know how that sketch originated because it's so stupid and simple and killer and effective and hilarious

Yeah, totally. Strong and Bayer kill every single time. I could do without the mis-timed entrance bit, mainly because whoever the third person is (usually the guest host) can't do drugged-out deadpan nearly as well as the other two.