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i don't know what that means, i was just referring to the conversation earlier this week about everyone sounding bad on SNL

big upping Taylor Swift records, calling Miley's acting exceptional, you've softened over the years. I think it's a positive obviously.

positive in which column?

*updates xls*

i thought miley sounded great! i like her on snl comedy-wise too. kinda hope she keeps that

dug her getup for 'wrecking ball' btw

she did sound great; imo pop singers shouldn't dance and sing unless they've gone through the Beyonce Boot Camp

Poetry teacher character was brilliant. Bayer seemed to dominate this ep.

Set it to record, missed the last 20+ minutes because of its late start. Anything I should try to track down after the cheerleading sketch?

mornin miami, poetry class, and the kyle mooney thing were after so i'd say yes

this was mostly dire

interesting that bruce willis is hosting nxt week

nah hes the musical guest

lol I would love it if Katy Perry hosted and Bruno came out and played his version of "Respect Yourself" twice.

"mornin' miami" was definitely by and far the best of the night, although of course it was the one that came on right after i went to bed, so i just now watched it online

I passed out after Morning Miami so that's good to know

it is 'interesting' that Bruce is hosting for the first time just now with nothing to plug, especially since he makes like 3-5 movies a year, they should be able to just wait a few months to catch him on a promotional cycle.

i passed out after seeing that i had typed "by and far"

willis hosted way back in the 80s, was a pretty great host, did one of the first wayne's worlds. always wondered why he hadn't been back, figured he just wasn't interested.

Isn't Red 2 out soon? I saw a preview for it recently.

Red 2 came and went three months ago. the next sequel in his queue, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, is ten months away.

Oh weird I swear I saw a preview for it a month ago.

it was originally supposed to come out in october but they pushed it back to april

sorry, next august

it's so fucking bad

Red 2 was bad? I didn't even see Red until this year, and liked it, so hearing that is a drag.

first one was fun - sequel is the opposite of fun

the more i think about it, the more irritating it is that they did a pretty decent parody of Miley's video about the gov't shutdown, AND THEN felt the need to do a cold open that shoehorned Miley at the VMAs and the shutdown into the same labored premise.

Jay's Shannon Sharpe impression on Weekend Update KILLED me

I loved his Will Smith because it was more like he was doing an impression of his Fresh Prince of Bel Air persona

aka peak will smith

otm

Jay's Shannon Sharpe impression on Weekend Update KILLED me

― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, October 6, 2013 7:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was def loling @ this but idk i have reservations

i loved it but wondered how many ppl watching were loving it. also loved the possibility that somewhere stephen a smith was feeling hurt and neglected.

Before this ep I was just kinda like "eh Miley whatever" and then by the end of it I was like "oh hey I think I rly like this girl a lot"

For a young dumb 20 year old she is a little more intelligent and self aware and willfully self-mocking than most other young dumb 20 year olds!

^^^ this

why did this thing start late

Football game.

JUST WANT YOUR MOON.

^^laughed SO much at that.

The lady gaga voice is exactly like the Jacob the bar mitzvah boy voice

katy perry lookin good, especially in contrast to her backing band

Weekend Update seemed abnormally hilarious to me tonight. Go figure. McDonald's drive-thru joke was the. best.

cecily's killin' it

A lot of the sketches this season seem shorter than usual. Given that one the most frequent and longstanding criticisms of the show is that sketches drag on too long, beat a joke into the ground, etc., that's not necessarily a bad thing. But some of them also seem underdeveloped and end sort of arbitrarily.

I could be wrong about the length, btw. The actual number of sketches seems to be in line with last season, though with 12 (including cold open, monologue, and Weekend Update), last night's episode was at the upper end.

You counted?

Counted last night's via Hulu; counted the previous 15 episodes via that SNL Transcripts site.

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the centaur sketch being really short was its saving grace. in 2002 that thing would've been 15 minutes.