Saturday Night Live

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

So ... three live dogs in two episodes? I like where this is heading.

Next Year's Cast: ALL DOGS!

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That Harry Styles is a real entertainer!

i liked his monologue outfit, very Homer Simpson via Kramer

i authentically loled 3x during the "Joan" sketch bc i related and also bc Doug was so cute w his fat neck <3

I know Cecily Strong works with animal rescue and usually when there are dogs in sketches it seems like she's there so I wonder if this increase in dogs is completely due to her.

Doug stole the show

impeachment open sketch was fucking awful again

I can't remember the last time I actually thought a monologue was good, his was great

Joan bit was ace; Aidy's been on a whole new level lately (and she was hilarious from the beginning). Chris Redd killed, and I lol'd at Heidi Gardner fainting in the otherwise crapulent cold open. Hell, I even thought the otherwise always-meh Mooney was good as the Dean guy.

History has been made, as last night featured the first SNL musical guest I have literally never heard of.

me too and I thought she was awesome. granted I was so high I couldn't even stand up but I watched that performance of 1950 three times. Also, rest of the episode was pretty good for once this season. Even the debate sketch was funny.

The political stuff remains deadly, but I liked the house party song and I laughed, somewhat to my shame, at the puppet skit.

I don’t know King Princess either, but she sounded promising. Something about the performance seemed off from a technical standpoint—the vocals were too low, maybe—but I’m curious enough to check her out on record.

there were a lot of taped backing vocals doing the harmony which is how that song sounds as recorded but I don't think they needed to be there but as I said somewhere else (maybe about LDR) that seems to be par for the course these days as annoying as it is. this will sound rockist of me but it was just kind of cool to see someone actually playing a guitar (well) and singing at the same time in a pop song.

First song seemed super-compressed. Ferrell always brings the funny.

The drums were mic'd weird, I couldn't really hear the cymbals but I could see he was hitting them pretty hard.