Saturday Night Live

(I suppose anyone can go look those up)

Not if the documentary ever screens or streams or is released outside the US.

another show where they saved some of the funniest sketches for the second half. i don't know why they foisted that Fortnite thing on everyone as the first major sketch, it was awful. Driver as Pete Davidson's oil baron father, however, had me dying.

I think the less said about these kanye performances the best.

More folks are talking about the Kanye MAGA "I am not in the sunken place" rant that happened onstage after the show had just ended.

https://people.com/music/kanye-west-trump-speech-saturday-night-live/

Oh kyle mooney, you still suck so bad.

You’re nuts. I want Kyle and Beck Show.

Kyle still #1

This was pretty awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7HD2xG92-0

adam driver carries that entire sketch on his shoulders but he's incredible

echoes of the Prospector Will Ferrell sketch, but that's never a bad thing

yea Driver is so good in that

exactly, that was far and away the funniest part of the show. why did they stick it way in the back half? why did they subject us to some unfunny fortnite shit at the beginning? and I swear that Domenico's coffee sketch: didn't they do that last year or the year before, almost note for note?

I shut this off before Kanye started blathering

Pretty impressive of you not to watch something that wasn’t broadcast tbh

sic burn

did he not start blathering while it was running? that's what I heard. anyway don't give a fuck have a nice day

^^^ cosign. Seriously don't care about his MAGA hat, his SNL appearance, or his entire career.

some seriously hard men itt. i also got huge gus chiggins vibes from that oil baron sketch, especially with pete davidson in the jimmy fallon role of nearly breaking the entire time.

OK the "male supplement" ad was something that needed to happen

Loved this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxIg80kk_-s

That was good

Paul Simon just straight up sounding like the music in the NPR segments on Parks & Rec

Apparently the guy who thinks New Orleans accents are automatically hilarious still works at SNL but his partner who wrote the funny parts of Maine Justice doesn't

that sketch was terrible. as was most of this show. above posted sketch one of the few highlights.

Pedant alert: that's a Cajun accent, not a New Orleans accent. And proving that humor is subjective, that was my favorite of the night. The sheer wtf-ness reminded me of the infamous potato chip sketch. MAGA biscuit!

Also a fan of Kenan's Treece Henderson Trio. Gucci shoes!

Overall thought this was stronger than many recent nights, although the bar has been set pretty low...

that cajun sketch just made me miss jason sudeikis and maine justice

treece henderson after the "trees" song kinda confused me because they sound the same but tbf i was very tired. also i laughed at both of those a lot so

the treece sketches are funny even if the're the same fucking joke all the time. at least it's not overdone.

this season is pretty terrible so far :(

yessssss it is

agree with that and this

that cajun sketch just made me miss jason sudeikis and maine justice

won't be surprised if both Mckinnon and Cecily Strong leave after this year

there's a few talented people trying very hard with terrible material but i haven't found any recent material that's been posted funny. also i think cast members being unable to keep a straight face during sketches is definitely not inherently funny, keep it together and be a pro imo.

and Leslie Jones still can't read the cue cards

Yeah like Leslie Jones is a cool person but she's not been particularly strong as a cast member

If they lose Kenan, McKinnon and Strong after this year... good luck

Kenan is like Don Pardo at this point, it's hard to imagine the show without him unless he dies

I was just thinking she’s gotten a lot better.

I also thought last weeks was a pretty decent episode.

Also I have this belief that Melissa Villasenor is funny but no utilized properly but I have no proof of that

The white dudes except Pete and Kyle kind of blend together like a Tarem Killian king rat

and Taram Killem was the funniest one, it's a bummer he was fired two years ago, still have no clue why.

Yeah like Leslie Jones is a cool person but she's not been particularly strong as a cast member

If they lose Kenan, McKinnon and Strong after this year... good luck

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

you could say this about any year with a major cast exodus. Heidi Gardner is strong, this is only her second year. not caught up with any players they hired this year.

Kenan is like Don Pardo at this point, it's hard to imagine the show without him unless he dies

― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion)

tim meadows, chris parnell, darrell hammond (although he actually is don pardo now)

You *could* say that about any major cast exodus but often there's felt like a bunch of younger players ready to take the mantle

I think the bigger problem is the writer's room, it's terrible this year which makes ppl like Kenan or McKinnon who have a lot of charisma more vital

If they lose Kenan, McKinnon and Strong after this year... good luck

and Aidy! I thought last year was her (and Cecily's) send-off, happy but confused to see them back!

and Taram Killem was the funniest one, it's a bummer he was fired two years ago, still have no clue why.

I thought it was because he went off to direct that movie (not a lorne production iirc) that was gonna make him basically unavailable for an entire season of SNL - and he already had 6 seasons -- most ppl stop at 7 or 8 right? so it figures they'd just cut him loose.

Heidi Gardner is strong, this is only her second year. not caught up with any players they hired this year.

Heidi Gardner is already great, Chris Redd has shown greatness, Ego Nwodim is the only new cast member so far this season and we basically have seen nothing of her but if she's as good on SNL as she has been on e.g. Comedy Bang Bang she'll do super well. Agreed that the writing is brutal tho. Remember when they only thing they couldn't write was an end for a sketch? At least the beginnings and middles were ok :(

I like Gardner a lot, and Redd has promise...Gardner is tending to shine on the news where you can tell she's kinda up there doing bits that she already had prior to SNL, getting around the writing problem

I guess I'm kinda coming around on Pete Davidson for some reason? Some of his news things are super awkward but they kinda work? I've thought he was pretty much useless and was just around so they had someone who could play teenage dudes in sketches

also xpost forgot Aidy, she's always good

the Trump Brothers thing is pretty funny but they are overusing it

Alec Baldwin's Trump is definitely one of the worst fucking abominations in the history of comedy

but I guess I feel like we deserve it

but yeah compared to Anthony Atamunuik, it's like yr fucking boss getting blitzed at the office Christmas party

i'm still enjoying the trump kids - might be overusing but, critically, i don't think it ever runs overlong, which imo burns me out on update segments more than frequency. i bet by november i'll take that back

I remember when Taran Killam (I had to look it up) was let go (along with Jay Pharaoh) he gave an interview where he sounded confused/sad/disappointed he was let go. didn't know about any movie he directed.

Anthony Atamunuik

this guy is so fucking good, I wish his show had gotten more love. more love than SNL at least.

i can't put my finger on what was wrong/off with The President Show, but yeah he was good on it. Maybe ppl are just a little too trumped-out to tune into something called The President Show

I remember when Taran Killam (I had to look it up) was let go (along with Jay Pharaoh) he gave an interview where he sounded confused/sad/disappointed he was let go. didn't know about any movie he directed.

― flappy bird, Wednesday, October 17, 2018 12:07 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah those two being asked to leave felt really weird

Maybe ppl are just a little too trumped-out to tune into something called The President Show

it was definitely cold comfort sometimes but otoh I still laugh at that initial clip of him getting excited about driving a truck and then quickly devolving into a super-dark rumination on drowning after crashing it into the bottom of a river

Killing Gunther was the movie

apparently he was also in Hamilton at the same time? sounds like dude was just wild busy with non-SNL activities

When asked what happened in this interview--

You sign for seven years, so I had one more year. I had sort of had it in my head I would make this upcoming year my last year, but then heard they weren’t going to pick up my contract. I was never given a reason why, really. I can assume until the cows come home. But I do know I’m directing this movie and I’ll have two months of post-production that would have bled into the SNL production schedule, so we kind of communicated that.

in my mind i remembered this as a lot less "wtf?" and more "oh makes sense," weird.

Also I have this belief that Melissa Villasenor is funny but no utilized properly but I have no proof of that

she isnt. her main #1 go to bit of her stand up is to do racist ass asian voices like it's 1945 or something.