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I don't see how that's different from any other form of entertainment tbh, they all require tons and tons of work to do well

musical theater people are just more self-righteous and hammy about it

yo if you dont fuck with jesus christ super star (original with murray head and ian gillian) then i dont want any part of you

jesus is not all right with me, what can I say

why have you forsaken me

Okay so here's a FUN FACT FOR THE XLS:
I was Simon Zealotes in jcsuperstar back in college.

The one musical I stan for unreservedly is "Annie." That could be down to childhood nostalgia, but if I'm near a TV and it's on I will set everything aside to re-watch it.

it took stalinesque political skill to avoid being assigned any job on the musical of 9 to 5 my theater's doing this fall, but as documented in the mary poppins thread i did get happily caught up in that one last year. no idea what the 9 to 5 musical's like but suspect it won't produce quite as many delighted, weeping children.
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intermission on opening night and i just wanna thank donald j trump for the audience reaction

well then. SNL on the 8th oughta be interesting!

Yeah, can't wait to see what celebrated champion of women Alec Baldwin does

Ha! I actually thought about that too. Probably some too-close-to-home shit for him.

alec baldwin was obv an inspired choice for this role

remember there was that thread "who would be the democrat trump" or whatev and everyone said baldwin

whys lin manuel look like jim from the office now

i think it was a least partly bc he's been cast in the Mary Poppins sequel as Bert

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Something so calming about this gif.

I don't give a shit about Hamilton but he was good. Really weird how different he looks without that stache though.

Am I hallucinating or did 21 Pilots do a lame, 1970s sounding white reggae song?

i skipped past them bcz i am old & they looked annoying

Good advice, I watched it as it was broadcast and didn't walk away and get a drink like I should've.

Their songs are usually poetry-based (written by Joseph and Dun);[61] Joseph has stated that when poetry is too long, he needs to start rapping to fit the lyrics in.

millennials really don't understand what editing is

having never seen nor heard hamilton the fact that the songs were rewrites from that didn't resonate with me but it was still really good.

His 'never gon be president now' is from when Hamilton's scandalous Reynolds pamphlet was published, detailing his extramarital affair. It was a pretty perfect moment.

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can't believe i never got to see this with daveed

thought this was a really woeful episode. and for a broadway star miranda was surprisingly poor in the sketches - usually find that people with that musical theatre background are well suited for cameo appearances in comedy but I found him surprisingly poor. less said about the broadway rapping elements the better as far as I'm concerned.

but the main problem with this episode: the writing was garbage. even the trump/clinton wasn't all that great and with that cast and the week's events that should really be a slam dunk.

the writing on this show has been garbage since the new cast came in. which is too bad, cuz I like the new cast a lot! but it seems like they never have anything to work with

yeah i like a lot of the cast and sometimes they make it worth watching, unfortunately the sketch's are often so poor there's no saving them.

I don't think Lin-Manuel considers himself a particularly good rapper, when he free style battled on Fallon against Black Thought his response was 'why am I here?' He is a pretty good writer, though, and his monologue had some great lines. On the election

The way these grand-standing candidates be talkin’
They’re just a tweet away from facing off in Weehawken
They keep brawlin’, D and RNC keep fallin’
I like it better when it’s Kate McKinnon v. Baldwin

That's good writing to me? It seemed to me the show didn't know where to go with him, though.

The one where the guy phoned his mom was pretty sweet.

CHONK!

this was a good episode most of the way through

Better than the Lin-Manuel episode;

Some good stuff near the beginning but really petered out by the end.

The lampooning of the second debate had a really calming effect on me. It was so awful and cruel, to see it lampooned seemed relaxing.

thought this was a pretty awful episode again but much better than the miranda episode. nadir for me was the robot sketch, which was just excruciating. chonk definitely the highlight of the show, and weekend update wasn't too bad - not a huge fan of jost and che in general.

why do i keep watching this show? haha.

i liked the robot sketch. I liked the hamster sketch at the end too.

I hated the robot and hamster sketches!

Chonk was amazing agreed.

whats this i hear about an angry whopper is a good line

I didn't laugh out loud much but I really did love that bizarre clusterfuck of a sketch, had it aired later it'd be an all-time 5-to-1 classic

Just watched Chonk, and it's funny, but if that was the highlight...

It was. But agree with Will that the limo sketch should've been later, it would've capitalized on that weirdo energy they get around that time. Sometimes.

writers room really seemed to think ken bone was the big story of the week

The limo sketch would've been better if Kevin Roberts showed up

Truth.

thehamster sketch reminded me of early SNL; where it wasn't 'funny' so much as, well, here's a concept: what if who's afraid of virgina woolfe was played by hamsters? Ok, let's build a whole bunch of props and a set to support this dumb idea.

hamster sketch was really well done i thought. only highlight of the show for me. acting really sold it.

The sink was pretty good as well. And the short film - not so much the sketch, though Vanessa Bayer was good, but the short film itself. This season has been pretty weird at times. Shame about the live sketches, they're mostly rubbish, but a lot of good stuff around the margins.

Vanessa Bayer on Weekend Update was great

I love that bit but like so many it's getting a bit tired.

I have megacrush on Vanessa Bayer

Back of the line, pal

But really that character she did on WU is so perfect.