Saturday Night Live

The material was very poor, but a good actor can add value to bare lines through expressions, gestures, inflections and timing. He had nuthin' to add.

i searched awhile for an image of dan aykroyd doing motion capture expressions for the yogi bear movie

I thought this was a decent enough season starter but they had plenty of good material to use. Keenan still MVP, I don't care if he's the same in every single sketch, guy is completely lovable, which is not a term I'd use for many other cast members in the show's history.

Kyle Mooney's dad rap video was dumb

Other late in the show sketches were pretty good though I think the screw up with wardrobe and the ensuing breakdown saved that one panel sketch.

Billie Eilish's album is excellent, she wasn't a bad performer but singing over a vocal track in Bad Guy was kind of weak.

I figure it would be more efficient for me to start listing times when Mooney is funny instead of bad.

otm. I think the last time I found Mooney funny is that sketch with him and Beck Bennett as the brothers who fight and have to be hosed down (though that didn't work nearly as well the second time, and hopefully won't recur). And the failed comedian guy on Update.

Other late in the show sketches were pretty good though I think the screw up with wardrobe and the ensuing breakdown saved that one panel sketch.

I don't think the screwup was with wardrobe; it was the direction. The camera was supposed to be just on Kenan, which is why the wardrobe person ran on. During that sequence, the camera is never on who's talking; it looked like the director or someone else in the booth got confused and just went for the wide shot, but that happened to be the moment when the wardrobe person needed to help Aidy.

"Hello everyone, I'm so excited to be back and ruin things a second time," David's Sanders says in his opening comments.
"Last time, my slogan was 'Feel the Bern,' " he added. "This time, it's 'Let's burn this place to the ground.' "

Fuck your little neolib show, guys.

"let's bern this place to the ground" was the only part of Larry David's Bernie that got as much as a mild chuckle from me

Very worrisome, given the powerful and determinative role Saturday Night Live has historically played in presidential elections.

a symptom, you knave

Worth a watch re: SNL's role in Trump's election

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gQFvf19Jec

very good, tho i have never seen that Jost guy (v punchable)

I think he just does Weekend Update (he's been a writer since 2005 and became head writer in 2017)

The Rudy Ray Moore/Royal Family skit made me laugh. Kenan Thompson is still the best thing about this show by some distance.

The monologue was great. Very few are.

just caught up on the Woody episode, wow what an absolute disaster. that whole show I think the "five boys who play a different sport" line was the only thing that made me laugh

i thought the game show and local news skits at the beginning of this episode were 2 very good renditions of overused SNL rubrics

the opening political sketches are prob some of the most embarrassing "comedy" i've ever seen tho

Bowen Yang's weekend update bit was pretty good.

cryptosicko otm. Best sketch of the night. But ugh that old-guy news thing was interminable. I would've much rather seen another Heidi Gardner girlfriend-from-a-boxing-movie bit.

And every time I see Matthew Broderick, I can only think of how he killed two people and got off with a $175 fine.

But ugh that old-guy news thing was interminable.

it was weird to end update w this

overall not really a good ep imo

More SNL neoliberal crap. They hate Bernie, which is no surprise. This version of the show would be pro-Nixon in '68. https://t.co/nQnkcZJBI6

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) October 27, 2019

they are jokes and awfully mild ones, ffs

I really like the proportions of chance the rapper's arms. So weird but I couldn't stop looking at them during the opening monologue.

This was a really bad episode. Everything seemed way underrehearsed.

Most of the sketches were undercooked or awkward (the flying one was a mess; the physical demands of the bit totally threw off any sense of rhythm or timing), but I thought the graveyard skit was really funny, and Chance was an engaging presence throughout the episode.

yeah he was a good host. musical performances were really good too. again, I was stoned so I found the whole episode amusing enough. the flying sketch started stupid but got funny for some reason.

Yeah, every time he's on SNL I end up feeling bad for not being more familiar with his output (though I had "Sunday Candy" high up on my tracks ballot of whichever year that was).

I also gotta say that the set design, lighting, etc for the musical performances has been outstanding this season.

jesus Jost looks like a cast-off from that Fox News attempt at a comedy show

yeah I was going to say that about the staging for the musical performances. this week, plus camille cabello's set, were pretty impressive.

Taylor Swift and Billy Eilish had cool staging too, esp BI with that box room that rotated

Apparently it's "funny" to deadname and misgender Caitlyn Jenner in order to make a Kanye joke.

very cool, SNL 👍!! pic.twitter.com/A60iigPJc0

— Gamer Ghoul Ba'ath Water (@ComradeNoticeMe) October 27, 2019

hacky

Apparently it's "funny" to

still of Michael Che appears underneath, rest of sentence is moot

The semi-purist O'Donoghue SNL episode. If you only saw the censored scripts. https://t.co/zMrA5iMJye

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) October 31, 2019

"I don't think I could possibly hate Coldplay any more than I do," I thought to myself before this episode

Did they basically make a seven minute campaign ad for Elizabeth Warren last night?

seemed like it

The baghdadi dog should've been the cold open. I really appreciated the duolingo commercial.

The gift meat segment had me helpless with laughter, due much more to the delivery of the lines than any greatness in the script.

Aidy Bryant is becoming the new Kenan: just her presence and delivery will keep the worst sketch from completely sucking.

Too little Kenan last night means that I barely laughed at all. On the positive side, because we got well after the show had started last night, we were able to fast forward through Coldplay.

*got home

yeah, I liked the Farrow & Ball sketch mainly for Aidy.

harry styles is good

he is very good.

It's interesting that between him and Chance, the best hosts this season have been host/musical guest combos. The "Joan" skit was one of the best things I've seen on SNL in a while; an already funny premise, well executed, that just keeps getting increasingly absurd.

And of course Timberlake has been a go-to as well. Chance is a more interesting hosting phenom, since he's not the product of some boy band triple-threat factory.

I laughed a lot during that funeral sketch. And the drug one had some obvious jokes but I also thought it was great. He had a top monologue, not very many of those.

I guess when SNL created their youtube channel, they checked the 'maximum' box under the Ads heading