It’s a complete misconception to play Trump as a louder version of his IRL persona, the joke would be to play him as totally competent and soft spoken and thoughtful behind the scenes.
― omar little, Thursday, 18 October 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
xpost yeah, I almost said she's been at the top for the last couple of years but i didn't really want to do the research on who she usurped. Sudekis doesn't seem right (I only remember him for being married to Olivia Wilde, for Maine Justice and his dancing).
― Yerac, Thursday, 18 October 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
Then the double joke would be that the IRL leaks reacting to Trump’s incompetence and how scared the GOP inner circle is would be theyre negatively reacting to how measured and decent he really is.
― omar little, Thursday, 18 October 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
It's not really stunt casting when she's part of the ensemble.
It's stunt casting when each role - Sessions, Rudy, Graham - is her under garish piles of gender-swap make-up.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 October 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
Maybe Bill Hader.
― Yerac, Thursday, 18 October 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
this show is not interested in effective political satire. Lorne Michaels and the entire writing staff should be fired and the show either cancelled or completely retooled if that's what you want from this garbage.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 18 October 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
Hader was great.
I don't even like the current weekend update crew, which feels lazy and hedged in.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 October 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
I miss "What's Up With That."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 October 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
Damon's Kavanaugh may not have been a great impression but it was funny and engaging nonetheless, seemed like a needed spark of life
― the dutiful and the banned (rip van wanko), Thursday, 18 October 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
this show needs more cecily strong. she needs better material though. she def. has star quality.
― akm, Thursday, 18 October 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
How is Kate not new Kristin Wiig?
― Freddy "Boom Boom" QAnon (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 18 October 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
not as funny
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 18 October 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, October 18, 2018 3:13 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Kate is def in that Key & Peele vein of people who just have completely mastered this as an artform and craft, which I guess doesn't mean they necessarily has the personal touch of a Wiig or a Farrell or whoever
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 18 October 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
I feel like I would've liked Farrell more in SNL if he hadn't had that terrible recurring cheerleader character.
― Yerac, Thursday, 18 October 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
It’s a complete misconception to play Trump as a louder version of his IRL persona, the joke would be to play him as totally competent and soft spoken and thoughtful behind the scenes.― omar little, Thursday, October 18, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wfPlgKFh8
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 18 October 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
mckinnon also seems to have graduated to a stage where she doesn't need to be in that many sketches any more and probalby makes a shit ton of money anyway, while it seems like MIkey Day is in every single thing and kind of continually sucks
― akm, Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
there's a guy named MLKey Day?
― President Keyes, Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
is it consensus that Heidi Gardner is the next big star once McKinnon leaves?
― alpine static, Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
seems to me that she should be
McKinnon’s HRC was great. All the Trump people she’s played - terrible
― flappy bird, Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
Or maybe alex moffat will do something so that people will remember his name ( I just had to look his name up and it didn't even sound familiar).
― Yerac, Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
Who?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
Beck Bennett has a weird body
there's a guy named Luke Null that it seems like has never been in a sketch, I just noticed him when they had their Moms on at the end of the show
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
he's already gone lol no longer in the credits
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
Total nullity
― coetzee.cx (wins), Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:30 (five years ago) link
https://www.metatube.com/en/videos/366136/SNL-Late-for-Class/ (sorry for sketchy websites, i can't access snl on youtube from canada)
omg the lack of laughter is astounding
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
Alex Moffatt plays Eric Trump. xxxp
― Freddy "Boom Boom" QAnon (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
haha wow xp
― the dutiful and the banned (rip van wanko), Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
yeah I know, I just had no clue what his name was. Total void, besides him playing eric.
― Yerac, Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
this is alex moffat's third season on the show. the only thing i really remember him doing, bar parts in sketches where he has few lines, is a character on weekend update called "guy who just bought a boat"
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
jesus that late for class sketch....
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
Oh I remember that guy (Luke Null). He gave me a 21 Jump St. Penhall vibe.
― Yerac, Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
Luke (null)
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 18 October 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
man when you watch Hartman in that Reagan sketch, his timing is so good and his characterization is really on point. the current cast is just lethargic.
― omar little, Thursday, 18 October 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
Current cast and skits are like they rehearsed for something up until the last minute, then everyone lost the scripts and they had to cobble together a show overnight.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 October 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
Basically the SNL equivalent of zombie Simpsons.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 October 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
It's kind of bizarre, since improv comedy has become such an industry-- that SNL continues to pull these non-entities from such a big pool. Like, maybe these guys audition well and just fail to shine in the written sketch format?
― President Keyes, Friday, 19 October 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
There was an interview with Nick Kroll I just saw, where he says that yes, he did at one point audition for SNL, and fellow comedians who didn't make the cut that year included Ellie Kemper and Jordan Peele. So clearly SNL attracts top talent, but that top talent for whatever reason does not always make it to the cast. I wouldn't be shocked if they sometimes come across a really talented person and don't pick them for that reason, worrying that they won't stick around.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 October 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
I kinda doubt they're worried about that tbh
I do think a lot about the fact that Key & Peele got their start as third-stringers on MadTV. auditioning for a sketch comedy show must be a lot like scouting baseball or football, where at best you get it half right and at worst all-time greats like Albert Pujols and Tom Brady get picked in the 13th round
― frogbs, Friday, 19 October 2018 14:23 (five years ago) link
I don't think the show is failing to find talent, they're just not giving the talent much to work with. I feel like I could go on forever listing cast members who seemed anywhere from bad to slightly above average when they were on the show but who have absolutely flourished elsewhere: Hader, Will Forte, Sudeikis, Armisen, Chris Parnell, Poehler, Tracy Morgan, Maya Rudolph, Wiig, etc.
― evol j, Friday, 19 October 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
idk some of those people were better than slightly above average on SNL
― President Keyes, Friday, 19 October 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link
yeah i mean they went on to "greater things" i guess bc they leveraged their strengths out of snl but imo the wiig/hader/forte/sudeikis years were some of the most watchable years in this show's history. what i wouldn't give to have forte back :(
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Friday, 19 October 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
evol's list is insane. poehler wiig rudolph average?? i think he has a point with sudeikis and morgan. hader was brilliant on snl. armisen went on to portlandia yechh
― the dutiful and the banned (rip van wanko), Friday, 19 October 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
yea wasn't Hader leaving SNL seen as a big mistake at the time
what exactly has he done besides that weird movie with LeBron?
― frogbs, Friday, 19 October 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link
he just won an emmy for his hbo show
― voodoo chili, Friday, 19 October 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
Barry! Xp
― DJI, Friday, 19 October 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
oh yeaaaah
never mind
― frogbs, Friday, 19 October 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
He did a good Documentary Now thing
― (I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Beer (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 19 October 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
yeah but why work with HBO when he could still be on SNL impersonating Sheldon Whitehouse or someone
― President Keyes, Friday, 19 October 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
― frogbs, Friday, October 19, 2018 10:00 AM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that's a very weird way to describe Trainwreck
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 October 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link