Saturday Night Live

lol I can get behind that

OK this is one of the best monologues in a while

actually a decent episode overall

Lorne all in for Bloomberg?

what gives you that idea?

this was probably the best episode of the season, even Lovitz was good as Dershowitz.

I promise Nora that her re-education camp will have an improv class. https://t.co/edxzOJFH98

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) February 6, 2020

Lorne is totally not a 1% shit

well this is totally horrific https://t.co/K8hksyjLpN

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) February 9, 2020

that cold open was strong, sharp writing, what's going on

it's just lazy, so lazy all the time

how about *not* recreating a debate?

"I'm George Stephanopolous" HAHAHAHA

oh look they have wigs and voices

it's gotta be accessible and light-hearted. what do you want?

oh does it

that's what made it a landmark in '75, sure

ayway accessible+lighthearted ≠ calcified

Morbius and Dennis Perrin: wishing it was still 1975 since...well...

Is Bernie the most popular Dem candidate on 4chan? Seems like his demo, tbh.

watching chevy as ford from season 1. yeah, it's better. there's just a feeling that's so palpable that the performer and the audience are one, there's no separation or condescension. that's the main thing that has been lost (for the most part)

xp it's yang

According to the 1 minute of “research” I’ve just done it seems everyone on 4chan is a Jewish hating Nazi so it’s inconceivable Sanders could have support there. I guess 4chan is different than what I thought it was.

it's ron/rand paul but they're not running

Actual power rankings

1. Hitler
2. Trump
3. Yang https://t.co/MSPzQmYssf

— Krispy Scream (@mitchysuch) February 9, 2020

im against "accessible and light-hearted" in political sketches

also against unperson

Watched the debate skit
This show is fucking embarrassing

debate skit was mostly dumb but rest of the episode was great.

at present this show has as much satirical teeth as idk a mildly amusing super bowl ad or Ellen's Oscar group selfie, and it's as eager to please the norms as both.

opinion: shit is so dire irl that this piffle serves as a needed tonic

one point of comparison between now and "the old days": back when Reagan was president, there was that sketch w/Hartman playing Ronnie as a secret geopolitical evil genius whose doddering persona was just a front for his agenda, which gave it more of an edge bc it served to highlight the reality better (he was both doddering and yet executing an agenda). w/Trump it would have more teeth to play him completely differently from the amped-up sputtering manbaby Alec Baldwin portrays (i recognize the reality yes) and go in another more creative direction. maybe not a facsimile of the Reagan evil genius thing but something that would be at least a little more interesting, comedically speaking. and be more insidiously accurate. the Baldwin thing is just embarrassing but then again i also find most of the present cast and the celebrity ringers who are basically acting as secondary cast members to be a little embarrassing too.

sudeikis reprising biden is much much better than the weird woody harrelson impression they trotted out earlier in the campaign. dratch really does have a resemblance to klobuchar, so i understand the impulse. but the message it sends when you don't use regular cast members for these roles is "our non-kate cast members aren't worth watching...and look we hired an asian guy!"

extremely popular major-network television in not being subversive enough SHOCKA

I'm reading Chris Kattan's autobiography, and he reveals something I find absolutely fascinating:

Lorne Michaels had a rule that the poster for any movie he produced had to have the characters in front of a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. It's true! pic.twitter.com/OiXOF4rTzr

— Mike McGranaghan (@AisleSeat) February 9, 2020

Used to find it funny - the height of 2016 lib smugness etc - that SNL stunt casted all the candidates they assumed wouldn't beat Hillary/Kate, and then when she lost they were stuck working around Alec Baldwin's schedule for their most important character. Now it's 2020 and he's the one of the only draws in the fucking cast.

I am really into the staging of this first David Byrne performance. The monologue/stand up was so great. The boomer dads cramming for a WWII exam/trivia was spot on.

Also the Bernie hand washing Stalin joke in the opening made me snort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boEvmhRtvMs

oh and the Laguardia sketch! so good.

Mulaney hosting the show generally guarantees a base level of quality although this time around wasn't quite as good as the last two, despite having a great monologue. Laguardia sketch was the highlight.

I thought that was a video of Jim Bakker's son at first.

i made it about 2 minutes into that youtube video, which is less time than he made it into that episode of SNL, so what is this annoying guy's point?

i only watched the first 10 seconds to see if it was a religious thing. I don't know how people have the time to listen to stuff like that. If I wanted to just tune out people's chattering I would call my mom.

hahaha

Remember how people used to freak out about having to give a 2 minute speech in class. And now we are awash in people soliloquizing for 15-20-80 minutes.

In class, you're standing in front of other people and you can't edit or redo if you stray off course

Also in class, someone is right there to call you out for wanking under the table while you're talking

this sounds specific.

That’s when you have to do the magicians trick of making some mesmerizing hand shape with one hand so nobody notices what the other hand is doing

So I’ve been told!

The three of us here who at least occasionally keep up with SNL thought this episode was largely a stiff. Byrne aside, of course. No one's fault, really; we like Mulaney. It was just boring and not especially funny.

Airport Sushi number was the only one that felt written by Mulaney; didn't approach the heights of his last two production numbers, but was fun and the Sack Lunch Bunch energy of Byrne and Gyllenhall helped out. Uncle Meme sketch was a decent premise and OK jokes, but dead in performance. Byrne songs were great (! that he's doing Toe Jam as part of American Utopia). Other sketches were barely written, Che and Jost should be fired, the former into the sun.

no discussion of the quarantine episode? Actually thought it was one of the better episodes of this season despite the obvious hurdles. Don't know why they started with that Drake spoof, but Pete's later "i've got 2000$" hip hop video was better. Kate and AIdy killed the zoom meeting, which cracked me up. RBG was surprisingly good, AIdy's visualization bit was great. Overall surprisingly good.

i mentioned it on the slack. i liked the middleaged mutant ninja turtles.

The Drake thing was a very weird choice to start.

yeah this was pretty good.

my first thought was "tom hanks and rita wilson have a really small kitchen"