Saturday Night Live

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.

That MRA sketch was a disaster.

thought it was great thru update, mooney short the only thing i liked after that. dunham was awesome. sometimes i wonder if dvr was invented specifically to ffwd thru the music act on snl.

He wasn't sweating enough to do a real good Katt Williams.

I don't hate Colin Jost (I think). He's the guy who created Drunk Uncle with Moynihan after all. But he really has no business being on camera, much less co-anchoring Update. Cecily's got this, Lorne.

Ooh Child short was fun. I've already forgotten most of the rest of it, except Moynihan as the older brother in the tween girl show sketch was gold.

Oh right, the monologue...Kate McKinnon playing an old lady is always a good time.

Is it wrong of me to wish Kate McKinnon would do her Russian woman again?

I don't understand the National. Like I never heard of them and suddenly it seems like everyone likes them. And they sound like mature music for Interpol fans?

National frontman is totally Thom Yorke cosplaying as Walter White amirite

Or Warren Zevon with no sense of humor.

Why would anyone put a band that boring on national tv?

Also, Weekend Update has turned into an absolute shitshow

eve sketch was pretty good and really killer olivia pope impersonation

Yeah, Seth Meyers' Weekend Update persona might have been "smug prick" but that's preferable to the blank slate that is Colin Jost's nothingness.

yeah zameer's olivia pope was great

pretty much hated this episode. ugh, Parsons' was so much better.

In both episodes there were sketches that started funny and then just ran too long

Kate McKinnon playing an old lady is always a good time

But yes to this

It's been fun seeing all the "men's rights" men come out of the woodwork to complain about the jewelry party sketch.

But just a moment ago, I saw a story about how SNL and Lena Dunham "mocked" the bible in the Garden of Eden sketch.

I thought the Parsons episode was terrible and this one was pretty good, though I didn't see the end of the Parsons due to DVR not catching it running late. Garden of Eden was great though it helps to be a Girls fan. I thought jewelry party sketch was great, despite of/because of Cecily's accent. I wonder if whoever wrote that watched 90 Day Fiance on TLC that ran recently. I'm thinking yes. I really loved the rap show skit and it's driving me nuts because I can't find the original video that I'm sure fed that...some like 40 minute video of a downtown NYC 80s artist woman doing this "jazzy" rap that sounds pretty much exactly like what they were doing and is oh so terrible. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Loved the Will Smith skit.

"My flute amp!"

The intro to "What are you even doing?" sounded a lot like "Me Plus One" by Annie.

apple-shaming was a great gag i thought

Cecily's accent in that sketch

Have seen complaints that there are no Latino women on the show

There have never been any. And yet Latin@ accents are a common trope (see: Fred Armisen's recurring talk show/frequent dancing sketch).

See also: Tracy Morgan's Dominican Lou; Kate MacKinnon's Penelope Cruz; Vanessa Bayer's maid in Californians.

Armisen has some Venezuelan roots

but his castmates do not.

snl: hey can we do some latin@ comedy accents?
fred: i am half-venezuelan, so yes.
snl: SIMONNNNNN

I was excited to watch Louis CK tonight, but aside from a few brief moments it was a lackluster show, really disappointing.

Why can't Snl find decent musical acts.

Yeah, this week was a huge dud.

And should I complain about Colin Jost again? I'm going to anyway. That guy is a piece of white bread soaked in toilet water.

I actually didn't mind this week's episode. Maybe my expectations were low. Also, Sam Smith was great.

liked the weird pajamas one

and i did laugh a bit at the fitzpatrick for student president thing.

And should I complain about Colin Jost again? I'm going to anyway. That guy is a piece of white bread soaked in toilet water.

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Seriously, he's gotta go. He looks like he knows he's not supposed to be on TV. No reason Strong can't do Update solo.

Sam Smith sounded good, but that song is totally a slowed down version of "won't back down" by tom petty

i skipped the sketch where they were about to sing mr big stuff and the one where vanessa bayer looked like stefanie powers in hart to hart for some reason but other than a kinda weirdly weak and short weekend update (i'm not sold on jost yet but i'm not nearly as FUCK THIS GUY as you guys) i enjoyed every sketch this week. there were several lines during the rom com sketch at the end that killed me, i actually immediately watched it again after it was over.

I'm surprised Sam Smith didn't do "Money On My Mind". Maybe even he realized how shrill and annoying the chorus is.

I think I laughed harder at the baby / boss sketch than anything on the show in 20 years; just pure visceral sight-gag laughs. Just slaughtered me.

I thought that and Black Jeopardy and Dyke & Fats were pretty great. And Mooney's film was probably his best yet.

hated the boss piece the same way I hated Mr Peepers back in the day.

Baby boss sketch has been funnier in the past. Some of the timing was off on this one, but when Aidy got cake in the face a second time I lol'ed.

And Mooney's film was probably his best yet.

Yeah, this was probably first week I didn't hate him.

i enjoyed it though i prefer the more absurdist things he does w/ beck bennett than the spot on takes on amateur videos he's done. beck bennett's seems to have established himself the most of the new ppl, other than him and mooney's shorts the main effect of the new ppl has been to make the still pretty damn new ppl seem like old hands. like it doesn't feel like this is only cecily strong's second season. nasim feels like from a totally different era, like the last season david spade was still there, i'm curious what percentage of her appearances this season have been as either a child or kim kardashian.

It feels like Nasim Pedrad has hit a wall.

well she was gonna be on that mulaney sitcom and then ended up back here and like i think literally all she's had is kardashian appearances and the occasional sketch where she plays a kid.

And Arianna Huffington, but that bit won't work so well without Meyers. Can't imagine Jost riffing with her (or doing it well, at least).

I like Nasim when she does characters but not her impersonations.

I like Nasim but I feel like they blew it when they kept her and dropped Jenny Slate. Who has done some great stuff on Kroll Show lately.

I loved Slate on the finale of Kroll, where she played both Liz and her niece.