Saturday Night Live

I am not on board with Kyle Mooney.

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

― balls, Sunday, January 26, 2014 1:49 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

you probably know him better as Benzisto Mejustacar

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

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, February 2, 2014 1:03 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the beginning of that was the exact moment i went to bed, so i guess i made the right decision. thought McCarthy had some of her best sketches to date last night, especially the vision board one and the crazy politician one

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

― Murgatroid, Sunday, February 2, 2014 1:40 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well, there's not much she could've done this week. I mean, it's not like Justin Bieber has been in the news lately or anything.

I thought the CVS Valentines Day commercial was great.

infinitely better than past times mccarthy has hosted merely cuz most sketches hinged on her character being "weird" or angry rather than mostly mining for fat joeks

Cvs was good and I liked the senator bit and the black history month thing. Maybe spent too much time on pretaped stuff.

I play Beth!

http://www.vulture.com/2014/01/lorne-michaels-on-tonight-show-snl.html

i loved the kyle mooney superbowl bit

I did too. I like Mooney! He's probably not right for SNL though. I think he used to do that sports bit on Fallon or Kimmel or something?

as an employee of S FM0 Ma and one of the possible 5 people who could be "Danny Trans", the museum sketch was disconcertingly odd.

pretty sure my first encounter with mooney doing that same sorta bit was as norm macdonald's "nephew" on the briefly lived, if brilliant, Sports Show

as an employee of S FM0 Ma and one of the possible 5 people who could be "Danny Trans", the museum sketch was disconcertingly odd.

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I actually searched on Twitter after the sketch aired to see if anyone from the museum had commented on it.

Sparkle is your real name Danny Cis because that'd be a giveaway.

It was verified by our education staff that something similar had been staged during the Kahlo show a few years ago... and run ins like that happen in the galleries all the time. It was pretty accurate all things considered.

Didn't see that coming.

http://splitsider.com/2014/02/fred-armisen-is-late-nights-new-band-leadercurator/

UPDATE: A rep at NBC has confirmed the members of the 8G Band with Fred Armisen. From left to right in the photo, the band includes Seth Jabour (Les Savy Fav) on guitar, Kimberly Thompson (session drummer who has played for Beyoncé, amongst many others) on drums, Eli Janney (Girls Against Boys) on keyboards, and Syd Butler (Les Savy Fav) on bass.

Armisen is more off-putting than anything else he is, certainly more so than funny or musically talented

Two members of Les Savy Fav!

xp I could understand that feeling as applied to someone like Morrissey or Woody Allen, i.e. where the person has been off-putting in ways mostly independent of their entertainment product. But I don't know how you could feel that way about Fred Armisen. I'd guess that you find him off-putting because he shows up in stuff and you already think he's not funny or musically talented?

go fred go

look forward to him occasionally appearing in musical sketches whenever the heck he wants still

does this mean he's done with that portland show? f--g a, fred armisen. go back to portland.

think the article said he would be absent from the band while doing other things, e.g. portlandia

yeah if Max Weinberg could run off and do Springsteen tours and still hold down the Conan gig i think Fred can go do Portlandia and the occasional movie role. i imagine he'll be in sketches and stuff a lot, although it's hard to picture him being a full-on Andy Richter type figure, because he's so rarely played 'himself' or anything resembling a normal guy on SNL or whatever, and when he does it comes off very weird.

thought he was hilarious in brooklyn 99 and broad city. hope he continues that type of thing.

tonight's episode was really enjoyable

I watched the Ellen cold open and bits of the Peter Pan thing and had to turn it off.

I liked most of it, but especially the Dance Floor Killer thing.

Colin Jost is redundant and unfunny. Cecily Strong should be flying solo on WU.

The strings in that 2nd Beck song are gorgeous.

I liked most of it, but especially the Dance Floor Killer thing.

ha this was ok. i'm hoping that them hiring 50% white extras for the soul train scene was meta.

I thought it was a woeful episode. The way the cohosts on weekend update laugh and smile was so annoying. Several skits started funny and then just dragged on. Plus Beck was a snooze.

enjoyed the 12 years a slave casting call and jedediah and shaq and barkley (though pharoah's flub there was part of a weird trend for the night) on update but thought the rest was pretty poor

The strings in that 2nd Beck song are gorgeous.
--Johnny Fever

Everythiiiiing in its riiiiight plaaace

Heh. I liked that song a little bit. But I still don't go for srs Beckness.

I dunno if "Trick, I am not Bill Withers. Do not lean on me, okay?" is a real Katt Williams line or not, but I'm still laughing about that one.