Singer for Haim sounds like she has a tiny Michael McDonald lodged in her throat.
― SWM seeks intrinsically and gravely disordered action (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 24 November 2013 08:41 (ten years ago) link
'jesses girl' sketch was godawful sub-yt trash. this kid hosting was fine idk who he is tho like johnny manziels kid brother or
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 24 November 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link
the turkey and baby sketches -- only two memorable ones of the night -- were both essentially KITH castoffs.
Outside of that there was nothing especially striking.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Sunday, 24 November 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link
haim were great fun tho, including the faces. but they also overenunciated so much, which was weird, like they were covering their own songs.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Sunday, 24 November 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
like they were covering their own songs
Yes! I found this really weird but I didn't hate it.
― polyphonic, Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:06 (ten years ago) link
'jesses girl' sketch was godawful sub-yt trash.
^^^ absolutely. Reminded me of those answer records that died out in the 70s, where a guy would ask questions and snippets of songs would play. And I don't think anyone's missed them.
― SWM seeks intrinsically and gravely disordered action (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:57 (ten years ago) link
Winston Sam Bass was good. "IM GOING TO THE SUPERMARKET!!!!!!"
― Nerd Trombones (thebingo), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:12 (ten years ago) link
ok a) it was more like the "Your Love" skit than anything else and b) wtf, it was hilarious
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
Jesus, this Rudd/One Direction episode was DEADLY. Rudd remains likable, etc. but he had nothin' to work with.
― Walter Galt, Sunday, 8 December 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link
The divorce sketch was really stupid but I couldn't stop cracking up during it
― SHAUN (DJP), Sunday, 8 December 2013 21:28 (ten years ago) link
Beyer's movements sold the shit outta that one. Also, Kate McKinnon's "sexy chicken" on the otherwise predictable Santa sketch was probably the show's highlight.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 8 December 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link
Don't know if SNL finally broke me and now it's Stockholm syndrome here on out, but I've been laughing more this season than I have the past few. Maybe it's Kyle Mooney, but it's probably not just him.
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 8 December 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
agree that the dancing sold the terrible writing in the divorce sketch. everything else was forgettable except for the return of bill brasky.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Sunday, 8 December 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
yeah i hate to be the guy who's all THIS IS BAD EPISODE AV CLUB D+ but
― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 8 December 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
They brought back Jebediah Atkinson pretty quickly, but I'm glad they did. "Time is not linear for me!"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 8 December 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
I had plenty of LOLs. The awesome staredown between Rudd and the little One Direction fan, Jebediah, Sharpton, the riffy last sketch, even healthy Santa Claus. Yeah, Michelangelo and the White Christmas Movie ones were dumb, but still...
― schwantz, Monday, 9 December 2013 04:56 (ten years ago) link
sooooooooo many white ppl
― mitch hedberg and kevin hart (sleepingbag), Monday, 9 December 2013 05:03 (ten years ago) link
Sharpton skit was terrible.
Jebediah was fantastic.
Sounded like 1D were going for their Mumford album.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 9 December 2013 05:06 (ten years ago) link
Jebediah was good and appreciated the meta moment referring to his only been on 3 weeks ago, but it seemed like a page out of that Kristen Wiig character, Aunt Linda, who did movie reviews. Wonder if it was written by the same person.
I felt like it was the Cecily episode. She was everywhere. The script with her past lovers was my favorite of the evening. But I don't know about Weekend Update, I'm usually a sucker for it and have mostly found the past few years w/ Seth to be pretty dependable. I noticed this week and last I think were the first with a different writer, with no material from Seth? I felt like these two weeks were particularly bad. I'm not complaining about Cecily's delivery, but the writing seems to have dropped off. I see the guy who wrote it these last two weeks has been on for years, but maybe Seth used to also contribute and has stopped in advance of his leaving?
― dan selzer, Monday, 9 December 2013 05:42 (ten years ago) link
script = skit
― dan selzer, Monday, 9 December 2013 05:44 (ten years ago) link
Jebediah should stick to historical material. gimmick works way better when there's a writers geeking out quality to it.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Monday, 9 December 2013 05:45 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, the Update jokes were really flimsy. I like Vanessa's little Jacob character (sometimes her accent slips into fake-British) and Jebediah was fun. Is Seth back for any episodes in the new year, or is he spending January getting ready for his show?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 December 2013 05:47 (ten years ago) link
Jesus Christ, that Michaelangelo sketch. Only real punchline in it (besides Jay Pharaoh mugging down the camera lens saying "Kill yourself!") was a less funny version of a famous Simpsons joke ("And, uh, incidentally, thanks for not making fun of my genitalia." ― Montgomery Burns / "I thought I did." ― Marge Simpson)
The Rudd-as-a-1D-fanatic thing was such a wasted opportunity I thought.
― Walter Galt, Monday, 9 December 2013 07:57 (ten years ago) link
Jebediah turned out way better than I would have expected for an snl character based on Dr Morbius
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Monday, 9 December 2013 12:48 (ten years ago) link
hahaha
― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 9 December 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
http://splitsider.com/2013/12/snl-held-an-audition-of-exclusively-black-female-performers-last-week/
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 12 December 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
They just wanted to make sure they all actually do suck.
I'd love to see them get someone like Danitra Vance. They need to go back to having more people with non-improv stage backgrounds.
― Ludicrous Positions IV: Tender Arenas (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 December 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
Bresha Webb is fantastic.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Friday, 13 December 2013 02:14 (ten years ago) link
http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/saturday-night-live-adds-sasheer-zamata-black-cast-member/
― jaymc, Monday, 6 January 2014 21:12 (ten years ago) link
she was great at UCB - psyched
― da croupier, Monday, 6 January 2014 21:26 (ten years ago) link
This was published before her selection
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/saturday-night-live-casting-is-more-than-a-black-and-white-issue/2014/01/03/e5387280-6ccf-11e3-a5d0-6f31cd74f760_story.html
Felix Sanchez,chairman of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts who called out the Kennedy Center for not having Latin nominees for the Kennedy Center Honors (which they responded to this year with 2 selectees) is not happy with Saturday Night Live.
Hank Stuever’s Dec. 19 Style review of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” [“It’s still a good try!”] limited the context to a racial perspective. This season, controversy swirled around the show’s lack of female African American cast members, but journalists failed to note that the “SNL” cast also had no Latinos and no Asians.
In fact, in the show’s 39 seasons, it has never had a Latina cast member. Only two Latinos have ever been hired as cast members: Chilean American Horatio Sanz, who left the show in 2006, and Fred Armisen, whose mother is Venezuelan and who left the cast last season .
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 January 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
http://cjzero.com/gifs/KateMcKinnonBieberSNL.jpg
― Plasmon, Sunday, 19 January 2014 06:01 (ten years ago) link
drake was solid imo
― balls, Sunday, 19 January 2014 06:14 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, dude was funny.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 19 January 2014 07:41 (ten years ago) link
I missed the first 15 mins, but I'll catch it on hulu tomorrow.
i just posted this on twitter; then again i've been drinking:
Drake is really funny! SNL should hire him and curtail his rap career -- like Will Smith without the crap Oscarbait post-apocalypse sci-fi.I mean, The Fresh Prince was funny before he went mersh/scieno; maybe Drake's latent Bar Mitzvah Boy has better things in store.
I mean, The Fresh Prince was funny before he went mersh/scieno; maybe Drake's latent Bar Mitzvah Boy has better things in store.
― Esa-Pekka Merkerson (get bent), Sunday, 19 January 2014 09:14 (ten years ago) link
also from twitter:
Sasheer Zamata is a star; she barely did anything and she's already Kate McKinnon levels of burning up the TV screen.
― Esa-Pekka Merkerson (get bent), Sunday, 19 January 2014 09:24 (ten years ago) link
he was pretty incredible i thought
his katt williams was absurdly good
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 19 January 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
people say this about timberlake but i think drake could actually be on the cast... he's got a lot more charisma than any of the white dudes they added as featured players this season
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 19 January 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
timberlake is super tryhard too but drake was smooth
also kate mckinnon's bieber was SCARY GOOD
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 19 January 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
Good Mornin' Miami should definitely keep recurring.
Bayer's poetry teacher wasn't as good as last time; the gulps/verbal tics felt forced.
Drake was great, best host of the year so far, shit, best cast member so far.
Zamata's timing was amazing.
Still don't know who most of the other new guys are. When AT&T Guy comes on I assume it's a commercial. Except he's not as funny as he is in the commercials. And he's not funny in the commercials.
Oh wait, Noel Wells, her Nancy Grace killed.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 19 January 2014 15:09 (ten years ago) link
Ugh, forgot about that awful Indiana Jones sketch. Really really fucking wrong and horrible.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 19 January 2014 15:11 (ten years ago) link
I guess that gif doesn't show up? Maybe this: http://cjzero.com/gifs/KateMcKinnonBieberSNL.jpg
So good.
― Plasmon, Sunday, 19 January 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
How many Christie skits?
such a shame for them that the POTUS's crimes aren't funny
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 January 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Debbie_Downer.PNG
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Sunday, 19 January 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
lol
― Sufjan Grafton, Sunday, 19 January 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
https://31.media.tumblr.com/ca130b7bb0ff6c0b8711d375a972808d/tumblr_mznov99PqU1qzqoygo1_400.gif
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 19 January 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
i enjoyed the performance of aubrey drake graham in this episode of saturday night live
― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Sunday, 19 January 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
i caught only the news (pretty good as always) and the skit with drake and nasim p. in some kind of disney live show? was kind of unbearable. but i guess i should hulu this huh.
― goole, Sunday, 19 January 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link