Saturday Night Live

Put me down as a Kyle Mooney non-fan. I've been hoping he'd leave from basically the moment he arrived.

I don't like Kyle on SNL, but I loved Brigsby Bear

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.

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

No, he's terrible. But I can see where his schtick may appeal to some people.

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

Heidi Gardner should make waves. Millennial Girl may not be daringly original, but she kills it

Baldwin as Trump kinda shook me out of habitual viewing. I'll come back when it stops.

Mooney rules.

https://www.hulu.com/watch/698979

The weird 3 camera sitcom sketches Mooney and Beck Bennett do every once and a while are so
great 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.

I do like the thread being developed that Jeff Sessions' ancestors are possums.

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

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.

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.

I don't like Kyle on SNL, but I loved Brigsby Bear

― 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.

Agreed about Heidi Garnder. I love this character:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE0ZZ3-9ofY

Oh yeah she was a breakout star this past season imo

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

Yeah, the girlfriend from every boxing movie was great. One time. It shouldn't be a recurring thing.

second those SoCal sketches. I never say the word carnitas anymore without preceding it with "bomb-ass"

same

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.

mooney haters are crazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lzf8kfHY6A

It's like... he's clowning the type of guy he looks like

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, 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

yes! we're boys again!

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.

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.

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.

That Bailey Gismert character: I've encountered a few adult women who acted/spoke the same exact way. Terrifying.

Those 3 Mooney videos are all terrible. Do I need to be high?

xpost I do kind of like his relationship with Leslie Jones.

i only know Mooney from AD, where he is funny because his name is a reference and he is just a random looking guy who could just as well be preparing your Taco Bell order and that alone is the entirety of the joke.

I like Mooney's bad comedian character, Bruce somebody. Beyond that, I can take or leave him. He doesn't stink up the joint, but I never, ever think, "Oh good, Mooney's in this sketch!"

Gardner is great, though Yerac is otm re: Girlfriend In Boxing Movie should not be recurring.

Really dug Chris Redd this season. Sometimes just his reaction shots -- e.g., as the FBI agent listening in on Michael Cohen and Trump -- crack me up.

Bruce Chandler is amazing

SNL is garbage and should be cancelled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgs81IOU0m4

I'm the verbal catcher's mitt and you've been caught

^^^ This was the moment where I first thought that Kyle Mooney sucks really bad.

Yeah, that makes me think bad things about Mooney fans.

Carey did you know Kali is a huge a fan of Kyle? For what that's worth.

He's nothing special in most skits that don't clearly involve his input, but I think his characters and skits and especially videos w/ Beck are great.

I only really know him from SNL. Something about him makes me mad. I also don't like mumblecore movies.

^^^ This was the moment where I first thought that Kyle Mooney sucks really bad.

― Yerac, Tuesday, July 10, 2018 1:28 PM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, that makes me think bad things about Mooney fans.

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, July 10, 2018 1:45 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/ed/e6/f6/ede6f6dc527cafa2434ab8ad5c4252e1.jpg

Yeah, that makes me think bad things about Mooney fans.

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, July 10, 2018 1:45 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like what a fuckin jackass thing to say

Lol it is shame upon shame that I have brought to my family by finally introducing ‘judging people for their taste in culture’ to ILX, which has withstood it for so long.

eat me!

This past season may be the first season that I thought Jost and Che were ok doing Weekend Update.

they're the most consistently strong part of the show imo. Jost is great, the Norm influence is clear & appreciated

Jost was completely awful in his first season or two, but has since improved dramatically. And Che's unscripted asides are reliably funny.

it must be noted how poorly SNL acquitted itself last night at the emmys. che and jost were remarkably tepid, and lacked chemistry. the armisen/rudolph thing bombed (this is the first time I've ever thought maya was bad in anything!). (I wish armisen would just go away, how does he still get work?) the whole program was a bore.

Armisen, like Jimmy Fallon, strikes me as an unfunny person who tries really hard to be seen as funny.

Imo Armisen is a sort of twisted straight man a la Will Ferrell. That is, his characters are huge and ridiculous, but what makes them funny (or "funny," depending) is that they are played straight and he doesn't break. The "humor" comes from watching people react and keep it together around them.

Armisen's cannibal character on The Last Man on Earth was hilarious.