Saturday Night Live

^^

I meant outside of this board of course. We are all geniuses after all.

ahem speak for yourself

just caught a rerun of last season's finale ... best episode in years? farting actress skit, erectile dysfunction skit, rap song, Robo-Chomo, WWE promo ... all GREAT. Scorpio, Jurassic Park ride above average. Dwayne is a very good host.

Kate MacKinnon *thanked Clinton* for "her grace"

roflmao

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/ted-koppel-cold-opening/n10770?snl=1

Okay Heidi Gardner's "Girlfriend from Every Boxing Movie" bit on Update was pretty great.

Larry David bombing super hard during the monologue passed through the unfunny event horizon and ended up making me laugh really hard.

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Agreed. The early 80s PSAs skit was pretty funny too.

The camp joke could have been a classic bit, but the delivery was too low-key even by David's usual standards. The "is it me or the the place" line was good though. He's done the Quadimodo routine before and much better (on Conan I think).

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About once a year somebody posts a YT vid on social media of an SNL sketch and is like "I was crying laughing this is incredible" and I click on it and it's always the same try-hard nonsense

this time it was "diner lobster"

i guess i get how someone could have this idea and think "that would be wacky and crazy let's do it" but nobody bothered to make it funny! it's just... "what if we did X but Y?"

maybe i should put this in the unreasonably angry thread because i'm unreasonably angry

I know what you mean

I don't really watch it anymore but I remember thinking "The Barry Gibb Show" was such a hilarious idea. and that Fallon & Timberlake actually pulled it off. Only problem being there were really no jokes in it. Like nearly every single SNL sketch it just culminated in one of the characters yelling at another for no reason.

The other sketch I saw people sharing this week, "Sitcom Reboot," was actually pretty funny, if (wonder of wonders) a little belabored. In its particulars it reminded me of the much better "Exodus International" sketch from Mr. Show.

The cool thing about the Lobster Sketch is that Mulaney has admitted it was an idea that got shot down in 2010, and he just really wanted to do it the one time he had as a host. 'Try-hard nonsense' is right, but it was kinda charming. Sitcom Reboot also an old idea.

i liked the drag brunch one kinda. mulaney is kinda off-putting to me

i guess i like it better as an irritable gesture: "they didn't let me make america sit through this so now i'm gonna make america sit through this goddammit"

That Irish Dating Show sketch from a month back was pretty insulting

pretty much all "gone viral" sketches i see from this show are pretty weak. but this was my favorite show during the Hartman era, and i still enjoy watching sketches featuring the original 7.

this sketch still kills me

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/standup-and-win/2868123?snl=1

this was my favorite show during the Hartman era, and i still enjoy watching sketches featuring the original 7.

mine too. also when i was aged 14 or whatever, the age at which SNL is the best thing ever.

i remember my parents thinking maybe we should change the channel when Phil Hartman was doing Charleton Heston reading Madonna's "Sex". he kept being asked to say the line "I like my vagina" over and over lol

"14... best thing" is a BS meme

good work slightly changing that To Catch A Predator sketch from 10 years ago, guys

I keep thinking DeNiro is Sam Waterston

Deniro is so painfully incapable, why do they keep hauling him back on stage? Then again everything about this show: why

I had it on last night while I was doing some mundane paper-worky stuff on my laptop and, aside from the bit at the end of Update where Michael and Colin did the jokes deemed too tasteless for air during the rest of the season, I don't think I looked up once.

DeNiro squinting/staring at the cue cards is expected; DeNiro squinting/staring at the cue cards for a wordless coffee-drinking movement is next level.

Deniro is so painfully incapable, why do they keep hauling him back on stage?

Baldwin stopped doing any kind of Trump impression once he'd been called out on badly copying Atamaniuk, but they keep etc etc

Deniro on SNL makes me appreciate Scorsese more and more.

he's old, guys

but yeah he shouldn't be doing snl things because he seems to barely care. not fun for anyone.

Then again everything about this show: why

Money. As I've pointed out many time on this thread, including this one in 2009:

SNL will not die until NBC becomes an all-infomercial channel. At which time it will show infomercials selling SNL-nostalgia compilation DVDs, featuring as host Eddie Murphy in the last throes of his decline.

i was under the impression this was the last year for a few of the women on the show (cecily, aidy, maybe kate?), if that's true their last sketch was that shitty singing trump cronies sketch which is just a cruel way to end their tenures

They got careers out of it. 40 years from now they'll be badmouthing it like Jane Curtin (with less, and more, reason).

I really enjoyed their Oran "Juice" Jones sketch, 30+ years late. I just don't get why.

Nor sure if I'm watching a new episode or a rerun from earlier in the season. I honestly cannot tell anymore. They made fun of Giuliani which means it's current to at least this past month.

season is over so it’s a rerun

I really enjoyed their Oran "Juice" Jones sketch, 30+ years late.

Same.

I recognize Kate McKinnon's considerable talent... I just don't like her!

And female comedians have to be good and likeable, got it.

sometimes I feel this way about guys too, I'm so confused!?

I think Kyle Mooney has no talent and I don't like him. So kind of samesies.

Crazy. Kyle is a genius.

I don't know you.

I don't think I have ever disliked someone on SNL the way I dislike him. He sucks the energy out of every skit. He may have been the worst part of the new Arrested Dev.

really enjoying that SNL is on break right now

I miss it. We watch it every Sunday morning during breakfast. We make our second coffee right before weekend update.

He was about the only funny person in the cast last time I checked in

cast is pretty good now imo. is Cecily Strong coming back?