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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.

I googled them to see who they were and apparently the internet is mad™ about perfectly acceptable 90s style pop rock

Trying to remember if J. Lo's last appearance consisted mostly of sketches about how incredibly hot she was

Seriously what was going on with that

You know what's better than watching Saturday Night Live live on Saturday night? Watching old Saturday Night Lives. Ran through the first three episodes of season 12 last night. Lorne's second year back, with the all-new (aside from season 11 carryovers Lovitz and Dunn and Miller) 'classic '80s' cast. Man, they sure started strong right out of the gate, certainly moreso than all of the other all-new casts I've seen. Secret MVP: Kevin Nealon. Here's to hoping Lorne quickly got over his obsession with having Sam Kinison and Buster Poindexter make regular appearances on the show.

are these streaming somewhere? that was my favorite period (actually, the pre-Michaels return period was my favorite)

As annoying as all of the fawning over J.Lo was in, like, three skits in a row, the last half of the ep was a total dead zone. Like, I don’t even get what was supposed to be funny about some of these sketches.

isn’t jennifer lopez like 80 years old now

she works out

Portrait of old J.Lo in her attic.

Sorry but the reviews are gold

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holy shit I finally got around to watching King Princess "1950," that was incredible

https://youtu.be/hHvWML7vOYg?t=4252

goddamnit

oh just click it

Still running through s12. It's really stunning how good this cast was from the start. Halfway through the season, I've already seen probably a dozen sketches that wind up in every 'best of' clip show that touches on this era. And I feel like a broken record but goshdarnit I just prefer SNL as more of a variety show that doesn't fill every non-musical moment with wackiness. Like it's okay if sketches sometimes flirt with poignancy, or if a short film is just weird and somewhat impenetrable and clearly not interested in laughs. Let this shit breathe a little and it feels alive rather than desperate.

I would love to be one of Eddie's writers this week.

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) December 16, 2019

"if a short film is just weird and somewhat impenetrable and clearly not interested in laughs"

they haven't done this in a long time, but these things used to be some of the coolest things on the show (like the Gilda Radner one).

didn't watch JLo but did watch this week's, which was, again, ok. Though revisiting mind-reading-dog didn't work at all the second time. best segment was the Macy's ad.

Bowen Yang seems to be standing out a lot, considering it's his first year.

I feel I would be remiss in failing to point out that season 12 (1986-7) is also, at times, kinda shockingly regressive. Like Carvey's Chinese chicken salesman that for some reason doesn't feature among his list of recurring characters even though we're already up to an ill-advised three appearances halfway through the season. Let's just say there's some material here that you're never likely to see in any future retrospectives.

All of Bowen Yang's characters are the same character. They all speak the same way and all make the same 'funny' faces. All that changes from skit to skit are the costumes and the lines.

Like Kenan Thompson

Aka he's an american improv comedian in the ucb mold

Xp. Foh

I feel like there was a backlog of jokes that they couldn't really do right before because their cast was not that diverse, so Bowen Yang is doing a lot of those jokes now and skewing it younger. I was a little surprised that all the dirty jokes in the Sara Lee sketch got on air.

Whether or not you find Thompson funny it’s hard to argue his one note isn’t “saying something in a funny voice with odd emphases” + meta/winking isn’t-this-funny smile

that is his one note but i'm not tired of it yet.

it's the notes he doesn't play

reese de'what!

really sad none of you are anticipating Murphy

don't tut tut at me dr morb.

i would be if i watched this show

i don't anticipate anything that I am not actively eating or touching.

I mean I WAS until I heard Dennis Perrin wasn't writing for the episode

Like Kenan Thompson

So, you're saying Yang will never leave the cast, no matter how many more years they keep the show going, until he becomes the next 'SNL mascot'?

Keenan is like a one man Simpsons- always on, sometimes still funny

xp lord I hope not

for a long time I thought morbs WAS Dennis Perrin and he was just sharing his tweets on ilx

I am mad that no one has invited Dennis Perrin to post directly onto ilx to save morbs some time.

Yang's not affable enough to be a Kenan or Tim Meadows