Saturday Night Live

drake is kind of like the dean martin of the 2010's

Permanently drunk?

shout out to the guy in the audience who turned around and said "YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL" to Vanessa Bayer and then mimed cunnilingus to the camera

http://i.imgur.com/399g0PG.png?1

Haha!

New Weekend Update co-anchor.

ugh, i was hoping for mulaney. maybe his sitcom will be good.

He wrote some of the best update bits, so that's a good sign.

bah was hoping for Mooney

Mooney is funny but he doesn't strike me as an update anchor type. the fact that this guy has worked on the show for almost 10 years and was never put in the camera in any significant way seems weird, but i guess we'll see if he's good.

Mooney is funny

This is still unproven.

I thought Mooney was good on the frat pledge sketch, but other than that, meh.

nah I love his terrible NY comic guy routine

Huh, I never realized that the show was looking for a co-anchor for Cecily Strong -- always assumed she'd just do it solo.

That said, I've never been particularly impressed with her on Update. She doesn't seem entirely comfortable with the format, like she's not sure how to react after she delivers the punchline. Which I guess makes sense, since her roots are in improv/sketch, but I just happened to watch Amy Poehler's Update debut the other day, and she had lots of charisma and confidence on day one.

Cecily is good but she definitely seems like half of a team -- to be the first solo anchor in over a decade now i think you'd have to have a really big persona that doesn't leave room for someone else

well Seth was solo for a while i mean but he was part of a team for a good long while before that

Btw, I think the addition of Sasheer Zamata made this season's cast the biggest since 1991-92.

we'll see who makes it to next season. it's gonna be a bloodbath.

Kate's Bieber was incredible.

Zamata was great, left way more of an impression than any of the new guys this year. Noel is slowly fitting in. I don't think they know what to do with Kyle Mooney besides putting him in those slightly surreal shorts, which I do like. I'm really struggling to see why Brooks Wheelan was hired at all. I can't tell the rest of the new guys apart.

i don't necessarily want Beck Bennett to make the "adult with the body of a baby" thing a running character, but it would be nice if he did something else memorable and ensured his spot in the cast

open + host monologue both hilarious to me

6yo jonah hill is killing it

is that a jackie mason he was doing?

overly precocious upper west side jewish 6yo?

so glad they have a more diverse cast so that they can cast black people as all the gangsters. progress!

Jonah's done that 6yr old before. At least once. Still great imo

every single Kate McKinnon desk character is gold, but Olya might be the best.

^ this

Yeah, Jonah's 6yo is a recurring character. Still on fire!

WTF is Bastille?

A terrible British band, I think (the British part, I know they're fucking terrible).

Anyway, tonight's episode was fucking dire compared to last week's.

i'm having more fun watching some like it hot. ilx should collectively move over to pbs

I moved over to my computer and soon, I shall move over to my bed.

one time i thought i banged seal team six but it was actually sixteen seals

this episode was fantastic

I liked it too on the whole. Even the dinner at the boss's house sketch was funny in a painful way.

Cecily's YOU DON'T KNOW ME during Weekend Update was unexpected and fantastic.

I'm so done with Kyle Mooney tho, for real.

I am not on board with Kyle Mooney.

one time i thought i banged seal team six but it was actually sixteen seals

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The ex-porn stars needs to be the next SNL movie.

has anyone posted Heterosexual Mens Figure Skating?

http://dailypicksandflicks.com/2014/01/26/snl-cold-open-the-u-s-men%E2%80%99s-heterosexual-figure-skating-championships-video/

Beck Bennett has solidified his place on the cast IMO; that sketch was objectively horrible and I still was cracking up at him

I'm weirdly fascinated by this article on the SNL after-party:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/fashion/SNL-Saturday-Night-Live-Lorne-Michaels-after-party.html

Show was humming along great until the museum sketch, which seems to have poisoned everything that came after it.

Also, QUIT PUTTING KYLE MOONEY ON TV.

I like Kyle Mooney. I did not like this episode. First half had some ok bits.

liking the kyle mooney. first half was solid thx to melissa mccarthy but even she couldn't save the second half.

Kyle Mooney is still hit-or-miss. Sometimes, I'm on board but tonight's Super Bowl thing at the end was a dud - I just don't think I'll ever "get" Tim and Eric-style awkward humor (while I totally loved Tom Goes to the Mayor). That's what he was going for, right?

The episode as a whole needed more Kate McKinnon. She's the best.

She IS.

The Kyle Mooney thing at the end was one of his web characters that goes back a while pre-SNL. Lame on the web, lame on tv.

I knew they would bring Stefon back to send Seth off, but that whole thing fell a little flat. Too bad, because that will surely be the final time Stefon ever appears on SNL.

Imagine Dragons predictably have EXTRA DRUMS. And strings. Who was rapping?

Kendrick Lamar