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
― challops trap house (Will M.), Monday, 21 May 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
They got careers out of it. 40 years from now they'll be badmouthing it like Jane Curtin (with less, and more, reason).
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 May 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
I really enjoyed their Oran "Juice" Jones sketch, 30+ years late. I just don't get why.
― incel clown posse (naus), Sunday, 3 June 2018 07:08 (five years ago) link
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.
― incel clown posse (naus), Sunday, 3 June 2018 07:31 (five years ago) link
season is over so it’s a rerun
― Clay, Sunday, 3 June 2018 07:38 (five years ago) link
I really enjoyed their Oran "Juice" Jones sketch, 30+ years late.
Same.
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 3 June 2018 08:31 (five years ago) link
I recognize Kate McKinnon's considerable talent... I just don't like her!
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 8 July 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
And female comedians have to be good and likeable, got it.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 9 July 2018 06:43 (five years ago) link
sometimes I feel this way about guys too, I'm so confused!?
― rip van wanko, Monday, 9 July 2018 10:34 (five years ago) link
I think Kyle Mooney has no talent and I don't like him. So kind of samesies.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 July 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
Crazy. Kyle is a genius.
― dan selzer, Monday, 9 July 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
I don't know you.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 July 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
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.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 July 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
really enjoying that SNL is on break right now
― Simon H., Monday, 9 July 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
I miss it. We watch it every Sunday morning during breakfast. We make our second coffee right before weekend update.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 July 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
He was about the only funny person in the cast last time I checked in
― President Keyes, Monday, 9 July 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
cast is pretty good now imo. is Cecily Strong coming back?
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 July 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
Cast is great right now. Writing as always, hit or miss.
― dan selzer, Monday, 9 July 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
yes
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 July 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
Kyle Mooney is the best. I absolutely loved this Weekend Update bit from earlier this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw_APcNRK5Y
― JRN, Monday, 9 July 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
Put me down as a Kyle Mooney non-fan. I've been hoping he'd leave from basically the moment he arrived.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 July 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
I don't like Kyle on SNL, but I loved Brigsby Bear
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 9 July 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
I think I've only watched 3 or 4 episodes over the last two seasons, though, so maybe he's somehow gotten less unfunny? I kinda doubt it.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 July 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
find kyle mooney funny at times but usually when he does something a little abstruse (his dutch backpacker rapper character cracked me up), don't really love him in a generic skit
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 9 July 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
No, he's terrible. But I can see where his schtick may appeal to some people.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 July 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
oh yeah and typical snl thread post: i stopped watching this show a year ago and don't think i'll ever go back, it's bad
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 9 July 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
Heidi Gardner should make waves. Millennial Girl may not be daringly original, but she kills it
― rip van wanko, Monday, 9 July 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
Baldwin as Trump kinda shook me out of habitual viewing. I'll come back when it stops.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 July 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
Mooney rules. https://www.hulu.com/watch/698979
― DJI, Monday, 9 July 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
The weird 3 camera sitcom sketches Mooney and Beck Bennett do every once and a while are sogreat imo.
All of the political cold opens are terrible aside from a stray single joke every now and then. They brought Fallon back to do Kushner ffs (the joke being he has a “ Mickey Mouse voice”. To me that’s such a damning example of how poor and out of touch the instincts are: take an inherently comical situation and make it unfunny.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Monday, 9 July 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
I do like the thread being developed that Jeff Sessions' ancestors are possums.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 July 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
Heidi Gardner should make waves. Millennial Girl may not be daringly original, but she kills it― rip van wanko, Monday, July 9, 2018 1:24 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― rip van wanko, Monday, July 9, 2018 1:24 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
agreed, best first season in a long time. i think she's gonna be the show's all star in the next couple of years.
― challops trap house (Will M.), Monday, 9 July 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
Most seasons only have about 2 really good episodes/capable hosts and then a handful of really good sketches scattered, but I still like to watch the show. I keep looking up Kyle Mooney thinking I am missing something. Nope. That whole awkward av club/amateur actor thing has no appeal to me.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, July 9, 2018 1:17 PM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't mind Kyle on SNL (he's pretty good imo), but yeah this movie was great, it really got passed over. One of the better movies about superfandom I've seen in a while.
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
Agreed about Heidi Garnder. I love this character:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE0ZZ3-9ofY
― JRN, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah she was a breakout star this past season imo
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 July 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
I really like the "girlfriend from every boxing movie" character, but I hope they use that sparingly.
I also like Mooney a lot. The Inside SoCal sketches are hilariously accurate if you're familiar with a certain kind of SoCal bro
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 9 July 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
Yeah, the girlfriend from every boxing movie was great. One time. It shouldn't be a recurring thing.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 July 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
second those SoCal sketches. I never say the word carnitas anymore without preceding it with "bomb-ass"
― evol j, Monday, 9 July 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
same
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 9 July 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
I kinda like Kyle Mooney, but the contrast between those two sketches is pretty telling. Heidi Gardner nails the teenage highschool kid; Kyle Mooney can't even play a convincing Kyle Mooney.
― Frederik B, Monday, 9 July 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
mooney haters are crazy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lzf8kfHY6A
― Mordy, Monday, 9 July 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link
It's like... he's clowning the type of guy he looks like
― rip van wanko, Monday, 9 July 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
― Frederik B, Monday, July 9, 2018 4:55 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
See, I think Gardner as the teen movie reviewer is a lot like some of Mooney's stuff, in that it's a very carefully observed study of a recognizable type. E.g.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc61ONXClhA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is3SalooJP4
― JRN, Monday, 9 July 2018 23:22 (five years ago) link
yes! we're boys again!
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 9 July 2018 23:31 (five years ago) link
yeah I remember liking a lot of the stuff from his youtube channel several years ago before he was on SNL. I think Gardner is better because her characters are more specific and she has more range.
And yeah, burning out great one/two sketch characters by making them come back every week is one of SNL's worst tendencies. Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer the first time was great, I couldn't believe they did the exact same thing the next week. "Meet Your Second Wife" was one of the best sketches they've done in years, and I'm glad they didn't bring it back.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 01:56 (five years ago) link
That's kind of a nuts first Mooney video there, the Oscars one - it is just one long unfunny joke for 4 minutes, and the co-stars look incredibly awkward. I don't think I've ever seen Kyle Mooney in a sketch where he wasn't "Loook attt meeeee!", but then I guess those are the ones that his fans like?
I agree that Inside Socal is great, but it's pretty much the opposite of that first video.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 07:50 (five years ago) link
I think what I'm trying to say is that Gardner is just better at acting. Her physicality in that youtuber sketch, the way she fidgets with her hair and waves her hands when she becomes flustered. Mooney mostly just starts talking slowly halfway through his sketches. I still like him. His relationship with Leslie Jones has been one of the better running jokes of the last few years.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 08:11 (five years ago) link
That Bailey Gismert character: I've encountered a few adult women who acted/spoke the same exact way. Terrifying.
― An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 11:50 (five years ago) link
Those 3 Mooney videos are all terrible. Do I need to be high?
― Yerac, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link