Red 2 was bad? I didn't even see Red until this year, and liked it, so hearing that is a drag.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 6 October 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
first one was fun - sequel is the opposite of fun
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 October 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link
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.
― marky markers & the blinky bunch (some dude), Sunday, 6 October 2013 21:16 (ten years ago) link
Jay's Shannon Sharpe impression on Weekend Update KILLED me
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 6 October 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link
I loved his Will Smith because it was more like he was doing an impression of his Fresh Prince of Bel Air persona
― Neanderthal, Monday, 7 October 2013 00:55 (ten years ago) link
aka peak will smith
― shiny trippy people holding bandz (m bison), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 02:00 (ten years ago) link
otm
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 02:08 (ten years ago) link
― 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
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 02:12 (ten years ago) link
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.
― balls, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 02:14 (ten years ago) link
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"
― Stevie D(eux), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 02:58 (ten years ago) link
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!
― Stevie D(eux), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 03:00 (ten years ago) link
^^^ this
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 03:04 (ten years ago) link
why did this thing start late
― smangerz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 03:54 (ten years ago) link
Football game.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 04:20 (ten years ago) link
JUST WANT YOUR MOON.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 16:51 (ten years ago) link
^^laughed SO much at that.
― JRN, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
The lady gaga voice is exactly like the Jacob the bar mitzvah boy voice
― Saul Goodberg (by Musket and Pup Tent) (s.clover), Sunday, 13 October 2013 04:01 (ten years ago) link
katy perry lookin good, especially in contrast to her backing band
― Treeship, Sunday, 13 October 2013 04:07 (ten years ago) link
Weekend Update seemed abnormally hilarious to me tonight. Go figure. McDonald's drive-thru joke was the. best.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 13 October 2013 08:46 (ten years ago) link
cecily's killin' it
― some dude, Sunday, 13 October 2013 11:06 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Sunday, 13 October 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Sunday, 13 October 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
You counted?
― smangerz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 13 October 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link
Counted last night's via Hulu; counted the previous 15 episodes via that SNL Transcripts site.
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Sunday, 13 October 2013 15:00 (ten years ago) link
xls
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 13 October 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
the centaur sketch being really short was its saving grace. in 2002 that thing would've been 15 minutes.
― some dude, Sunday, 13 October 2013 15:37 (ten years ago) link
although i kinda don't wanna see any centaur-themed SNL sketch that doesn't involve Walken and Parnell
― some dude, Sunday, 13 October 2013 15:38 (ten years ago) link
harmonica was so sad.
― Saul Goodberg (by Musket and Pup Tent) (s.clover), Sunday, 13 October 2013 16:01 (ten years ago) link
at least they're not doing weekly Mr Pepper esque sketches these days
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 13 October 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
Peepers!
otoh, "who, judging by her name, is a mid-priced Toyota sedan"
― Saul Goodberg (by Musket and Pup Tent) (s.clover), Sunday, 13 October 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
what non-celeb impression running characters/sketches do they have at this point from the returning cast? Moynihan's got Drunk Uncle/secondhand news guy and I guess last night was the first time the "i miss my little kitty cat" guy got a new sketch since the first, he and Cecily have the obnoxious McDonald's duo, there's the ex-porn stars...I can't think of anything Kenan's got assuming they won't do 'What Up With That' without Hader/Sudeikis. feel like this could be a nice relatively non-repetitive season as long as they don't run that handful of characters totally into the ground.
― some dude, Sunday, 13 October 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link
I hope Jean K Jean lives on. ZUT ALORS!
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 13 October 2013 17:15 (ten years ago) link
kenan's kinda dominating this thing now. mooney's established his little corner already, wouldn't mind if they stopped trying to recreate samberg and let his more adam mckay type shorts just be the digital shorts now (audience reaction to 'boy dance party' suggests no way is lorne gonna stop any look at these silly dances shorts any time soon). him, at&t guy, and noel wells the only new ppl to have made much of an impression on me so far, in the sense of establishing themselves and looking like they're gonna hang around. the sketch w/ the seals and willis as some guy who fantasizes himself as some bruce willis character is the only live sketch i can recall really liking the next day.
― balls, Sunday, 13 October 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
and man during that boy dance party thing every time they showed willis all i could keep thinking was how long has it been since i went to six flags.
― balls, Sunday, 13 October 2013 17:25 (ten years ago) link
I liked the Gravity/shutdown cold open sketch. Lady Gaga Talk Show was probably my least favorite, mainly because I don't know if that was a good Michael Kors impression or not.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 13 October 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
making fun of Gaga five minutes before Katy Perry's performance just seemed like some kind of weird dog whistle to rile up their respective twitter stans
― some dude, Sunday, 13 October 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
It was not a good Michael Kors impression. As somebody who's probably seen way more seasons of Project Runway than I should have, it seemed like an impression that Willis came up with from being shown a single 5 minute clip and extrapolating from that. There was a bit of similarity, but mostly no good.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 13 October 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
― Saul Goodberg (by Musket and Pup Tent) (s.clover), Sunday, October 13, 2013 12:12 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^THIS
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 13 October 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
this ep wasnt great but was easily like 80 times better than mileys
Cosign. I feel like that one's for the writers or something, it's great but the audience never seems to care.
― ΙΧΘΥΣ blindness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 13 October 2013 23:36 (ten years ago) link
I guess last night was the first time the "i miss my little kitty cat" guy got a new sketch since the first,
Also Taran's jerky old brother character, right?
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Monday, 14 October 2013 01:55 (ten years ago) link
Crazy talk!
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Monday, 14 October 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
yeah, at least 90 times better
― some dude, Monday, 14 October 2013 02:10 (ten years ago) link
i like what a batshit trio of hosts Tina Fey, Miley Cyrus and Bruce Willis make to start the season with, though
― some dude, Monday, 14 October 2013 02:11 (ten years ago) link
Edward Norton is up next, but I already forgot who the musical guest is.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 October 2013 02:13 (ten years ago) link
so Fey and Willis had no current movie to promote, and neither does Norton...isn't that kinda weird?
― some dude, Monday, 14 October 2013 02:20 (ten years ago) link
Musical guest is Janelle Monae
― Popture, Monday, 14 October 2013 07:24 (ten years ago) link
This episode ran really, really short - like, maybe nearly 10 minutes. In addition to a couple of extended ad-break vamps with the band and the SNL title card, they re-ran the e-Meth commercial from episode 1!
― Walter Galt, Monday, 14 October 2013 12:45 (ten years ago) link
Did they cut the naked methhead in Kenan's house bit of that this time?
― ΙΧΘΥΣ blindness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 14 October 2013 13:38 (ten years ago) link