Saturday Night Live

Looks like chappelle has entered his old-man-reactionary phase

indeed his work has lost the woke nuance of "I'm Rick James, bitch!"

is he now the living embodiment of 'when keeping it real goes wrong'?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/06/saturday-night-lives-final-pre-election-take-biting-criticism-of-donald-trumps-media-coverage/

Not sure the opening last night was as biting as this guy thinks, but it was entertaining

Baldwin's Trump is freaking awful. Not only is it a poor impression on its face, but the performance is charmless, lifeless, joyless.

the performance is charmless, lifeless, joyless

Thus perfectly capturing its subject.

Yeah, I thought it was a pretty good Trump. Really captures the dead-eyed, rat-mouthed horror.

Solange, man... do people like her? She seemed really boring. But both of her songs started off like they were going to go into old school 2-step garage tracks and I admit I was a little disappointed they didn't.

People LOVE Solange even though she's kind of boring.

"cranes in the sky" is the best song of the year, latest LP is fire

I liked that Solange performance, appreciated the mannered minimalism

never really dug into her stuff though

I pulled up a youtube of her performance, got bored, skipped ahead, and caught her doing jazz hands partway through. Then I bailed out.

People I know seeing and hearing her for the first time on SNL did not find her charismatic. She was ok I thought. On twitter she got grief for the jazz hands and the hat she wore on the first song

RIP former US attorney general Janet Reno, onetime guest on Will Ferrell's "Janet Reno Dance Party" on SNL

I approve of jazz hands and headgear

I view Solange kind of the same way I view Carly Rae Jeppson, only CRJ did have one massive song that I really, really liked that made me see how people could transfer its shine onto her other material, which I find competent but uninspiring. Solange doesn't have that massive gateway song that appeals to me so I don't get the devotion. Like... she's okay. I'm not mad people like her, I just don't understand why people as so into her.

i think alec baldwin's trump is really good, the facial expressions aren't great, but the mannerisms and the voice are decent.

this fucked me up. i feel so bad for kate mckinnon. after hillary lost i thought about her and vaughn meader after JFK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG-_ZDrypec

Front to back this was the best episode of SNL I've seen in a very, very long time. The bulk of that was due to Chappelle and ATCQ, but everything was laser focused tonight.

Oddly, I think the loudest I laughed was during the bar sketch when the frog dropped.

Yeah, the end of her performance fuckin' got to me.

How many more seasons does Kate have on her contract? She's going to split to Hollywood after this season, isn't she?

is five years a long run for an SNL cast member? i figure she had at least 2-3 years left. didn't realize she'd been on since 2012.

that opening bit is horrific

as a non-American, it astonishes me that this show is still a going concern

I didn't know so many of my friends still watch my show. It wouldn't even occur to me to turn it on.

Hadn't watched it live in eons, watched a bunch of it last night, thought it actually was notably *not* laser focused. The timing was off (flubbed punchlines and gags in the election night skit and elsewhere, sometimes unintentionally funny; even the Kids on Trump bit seemed off and easy), relied too much on gross-out gags (eating the vitamin powder, spraying milk, spraying fountains of bar drink while they tangle tongues). I guess I liked some of the weirder things, like the Kyle Mooney/Leslie Jones bit, but even that was played for OMG shock a lot. Ironically, the flubbed skit-skit might have been my favorite, and even that was seemed off.

Impressed how much Chapelle was smoking. - during skits, between skits ...

Loved Tribe Called Quest. I actually expected them to do something even more confrontational, because what do they care? One of their founding members is dead, and they're old enough that they're not getting back on live TV any time soon. Even so, the right act for the right week.

i feel so bad for kate mckinnon.

You might consider reordering your priorities. (i assumed she was not performing this in character, bcz "I told the truth.")

Number None otm. Can we shoot Lorne Michaels and his fucking pandering into space with Bill and Hil please?

Really makes you wonder what skits didn't make it. There is talent among the players, but there is absolute zilch material. How do they get away with it? Lone must not give one single fuck anymore.

that cold open was uncomf and cringey as fuck imo

yeah heard what it was and was like nope. not even going to attempt to watch that. /innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

opening monologue was on point though

i liked the Chappelle-Chris Rock watching the returns sketch, but bcz it was angry, not funny

where was the anger when they were trying to dress up a wannabe dictator like soupy sales a year ago?

Checked this thread. Shakey was mad right away. Morbs mad as well, but it was at McKinnon's Hillary not looking old enough. they could at least eyebag 'er up.

are u mad at him being funnier than SNL?

Loved Tribe Called Quest. I actually expected them to do something even more confrontational, because what do they care? One of their founding members is dead, and they're old enough that they're not getting back on live TV any time soon. Even so, the right act for the right week.

I mean how much more confrontational did you want them to be than to open with the song from the new albumthat's their take on "In the Flesh"? Should they have burned down the studio and murdered people?

x-post: I'm answering strongo. What are you doing?

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that cold open was snl's equivalent of pitchfork's two "sorry :(" pugs, only with much graver stakes

Xpost The song was a great choice.

as a non-American, it astonishes me that this show is still a going concern

― Number None, Sunday, November 13, 2016

In answer:

SNL is like the Tonight Show, or Today - it's a franchise in a non-prime time slot. Whether it is funny or not is beside the point to the network execs who keep it on the schedule. It will probably survive another 25 years because it is super cheap to produce - and what else are they going to put on at that time slot that could draw more viewers?

― Aimless, Monday, October 20, 2008

Only 17 years to go before my prediction is confirmed.

Thought McKinnon's opening, Chappelle's monologue, and the election-night sketch (agree there was some awkward line deliveries) were all great. Didn't watch the rest.

This is kinda rich coming from a show that had Trump on as a host not so long ago. Fuck SNL tbh

SNL is also a network show that is extremely well suited to YouTube

p sure Trump being on SNL had zero effect on the election results tbh.

also at this point I am incapable of having an emotional response to anyone other than Leonard Cohen singing "Hallelujah"

the Hallelujah ouroboros of people covering Jeff Buckley covering John Cale covering Leonard Cohen

@Morbius - obviously it's trivial in the grand scheme of things, but HRC was McKinnon's signature character, and there was even a big feature in Rolling Stone a couple months ago about her take on the character and her future with it. She plays a variation on the same character in a lot of stuff - the leering, creepy sorta thing - but the characters are never as distinguished or dignified as HRC. she's screwed unless she gets some good movies soon

xps DJP - how is it their take on "In the Flesh"?

McKinnon's screwed? She's clearly the most used and talented member of the cast. They're gonna bring her in for impressions every week on weekend update. They routinely build sketches around her characters, I don't see that changing now that Hillary lost.

She might leave, but only if she feels she's outgrown the show, not because the show has no use for her.

HRC will probably be a more interesting character to bring back during the coming nightmare than she would be as president

I still can't stop thinking about McKinnon and Vaughn Meader. this was the role of her lifetime. @iatee, you're probably right, i hadn't thought about that