Saturday Night Live

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?

this ep wasnt great but was easily like 80 times better than mileys

Crazy talk!

yeah, at least 90 times better

i like what a batshit trio of hosts Tina Fey, Miley Cyrus and Bruce Willis make to start the season with, though

Edward Norton is up next, but I already forgot who the musical guest is.

so Fey and Willis had no current movie to promote, and neither does Norton...isn't that kinda weird?

Musical guest is Janelle Monae

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!

Did they cut the naked methhead in Kenan's house bit of that this time?

nope, it was still there. why would they cut it?

I thought maybe my perception that Miley's episode was way better than Bruce's was because I watched them in different formats (Hulu vs. live TV), but I just A-B'd the list of sketches, and nope: Miley's ep just had more sketches that worked for me, and as a host, she brought more to the show.

It seemed like Bruce struggled with a lot of the cue cards - the Armageddon sketch, the Seal Team 6 sketch. It sounded like he kept mumbling through a lot of the lines.

re: that harmonica intro - wouldn't the (admittedly feeble) joke have worked better if they gave Moynihan a harmonica that *wasn't* in the correct key? His playing didn't suck enough for the joke to really work!

Ha, yeah, I thought the same thing about the harmonica bit.

either that or bruce willis just isn't that impressive

nope, it was still there. why would they cut it?

I must've just missed it or something. I thought it would be weird if they did.

His playing didn't suck enough for the joke to really work!

Haha, my gf (whose least-favorite instrument is the harmonica) said as we watched this, "I can't tell any difference between what they're doing."

I would be perfectly happy to never see Taran Killam's annoying 30-something guy who still lives with his mom sketch ever appear again.

the barbershop sketch was lousy. although it was almost worth it for Kenan's terrible fake barber-ing where the comb wasn't even close to dude's hair.

yeah i like Killam generally but that sketch can gtfo (xp)

the 24 hour energy drink thing was laughs of pain (dated too many actresses)

I liked the Kenan-Jay banter in the barbershop sketch, but Bruce dragged the energy down, and it didn't really go anywhere?

the 24 hour energy drink thing was laughs of pain (dated too many actresses)

This was good, though it was a little too "ladies be crazy." My wife said she'd have preferred to have seen "24 hour energy for dating comedians" -- the tag at the end -- as the whole commercial.

Actually, the one sketch I really liked was the beer-pong one!

the fact that everyone in the sketch was an actress/actor AND a comedian made it funnier/less problematic imo

beer pong definitely showing Good Neighbor getting to do their thing. Reminded me of their viral "toast" bit in ways.

oh yeah i loved that. been watching a lot of Kyle Mooney youtubes lately.

bruce's harmonica playing was downright embarrassing. too many sketches for him were just 'tough guy movie but something is goofy' by-the-numbers.

November 2: Kerry Washington/Eminem

Ooh, that's exciting. Kerry Washington, that is.

this wes anderson bit is very lol

cute. Norton as Owen W p good.

Not as good as Tom Hiddleston doing Owen Wilson as Loki but still pretty funny.

almost every other sketch dragged on like 3x too long tho.

except the pest control sketch had some great lines. 'a leader of just a respected citizen'

or, not of.

actually no the proper line is this: "I can’t tell if he was a leader or just a charismatic citizen"

Pest control sketch was the best of the night, though I'm not sure the people in the office were really necessary. Could've just been a two person sketch.

This might have been the worst episode in a couple of years. Wes Anderson thing was cute, I guess, but I didn't find anything to like in the rest of it. Really brutal.

^^

Every sketch felt like a ten-minutes-to-1:00am half-assed throwaway.

guy whose misinformed abt the news is classic & steve harvey was good, couldve been better

also i def liked the virgin waitstaff 1

whose who's

or hoos

didn't watch 12 days not a slave, got an immediate 'this will be bad and long' vibe off it. enjoyed virgin waitstaff and probably laughed most at the last sketch which could've been unwatchable but norton really sold it. thought he was a pretty great host w/ some pretty weak material, hope he hosts again. janelle monae was pretty great i thought, not sure i quite realized how 1) beautiful and 2) tiny she is.

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Ed Norton episode was weird; almost every skit started out terrible and then had me cracking up halfway through while still thinking "this is pretty bad"

Faves were the pest control and stranger danger sketches, biggest laugh was "don't dance! they'll try to imitate you!" from 12 Days Not A Slave

Best done was the Wes Anderson sketch. Tilda Swinton was A+

stranger danger killed me, one of those increasingly rare opportunities for Nasim Pedrad to shine

read a passing rumor that she's working on a pilot, which explains some of her decreased presence on the show

Yeah, been missing her the last few episodes, and arguing with my girlfriend who doesn't like her. I think she stole this episode and I can't get "I'm gonna get some candy" or whatever out of my head.

Def a weird episode. I have a theory that sometimes when they make a really super elaborate digital short that the skits suffer. How much time/energy was spent on that Wes Anderson thing? I didn't hate the episode though. I liked 12 Days Not a Slave, esp Kate Mckinnon's face.

And the Ed Norton sitting in a chair halloween skit was so weird and low budget but oddly funny to me.

she worked on the mulaney pilot (costarred maybe?) which was apparently great but nbc passed on it cuz i guess it seemed too much like a 'good nbc sitcom' which is precisely what nbc isn't in the market for anymore. fox however is so they've picked it up but apparently nbc won't let nasim out of her contract w/ snl. she feels underused this season but that seems the case almost w/ every cast member (eg killiam seemed barely on it last week) somehow, the only one who seems to get consistent work in every episode is mackinnon which makes sense since she's yknow by far the most talented current cast member. anyone want to make predictions on which of the new cast members are regular cast still w/ the show in two years? i'm guessing wells, mooney, bennett, and o'brien, w/ decreasing certainty there.

I agree on three of those, torn on O'Brien. He's gotten on the show a good amount so far, but I'm not sure anyone likes that.

The two other guys, whose names I don't know, are basically indistinguishable from each other and will probably disappear.

i literally listed o'brien purely on the basis of him cracking me up w/ every 'son' in that virgin waitstaff sketch.