Saturday Night Live

^^^ ditto

Big beautiful boobs and buildings.

i like cecily strong. don't think she gets a lot of attention even though she is a staple of most sketches.

I watched the clip of the Anderson Cooper sketch--there is some kind of lack of giving a shit about making comedy in the writing that must come from needed people to feel like they should chuckle every ten seconds or so. Like, if the joke of the scene is that these media pundits are all robots following a programmed loop then why are they making cracks about how crappy the set is? Or saying "I'm the good one"?

I thought this week's episode was the best this year. It helps to have a pro like Kristen Wiig, of course, so that they don't have to shoehorn in some unfunny celebrity into every sketch.

Far from my favorite character, but can't believe they did a Target sketch and DIDN'T include Wiig's Target lady.

lol this bit rules

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

And the Wiig character they did do was one of my least favorite of hers (the surprise party thing).

OTOH, I think that the Chappelle episode was much better than this one (and the Cumberbatch one, which was even worse than the Wiig).

That Goddesses sketch should definitely have been on instead of that recycled Wiig character sketch. At least they didn't bring back Gilly or the Target Lady.

http://www.avclub.com/article/colin-jost-receives-37-kinds-criticism-transphobic-246323

Is the Jost Tinder joke like the "sleep, that's where I'm a viking" gag in that some people read it one way and other people read it another way; and if you read it the first way (emphasis on "37") it's not TOO bad, but if you read it another way (emphasis on "gender identity") it's pretty much a literal hate crime on live television, and he's so fucking stupid that he never bothers clarifiying and just links to thinkpieces

(just to clarify, the "37" reading is still bad)

gender binaries are dumb but come on, 37? that's absurd.

if u are looking for gender bending solidarity maybe look elsewhere than a 40-year-old establishment comedy show news segment hosted by smug white guy

Just because a viewpoint is the right one doesn't mean it might help you lose an election.

Think I forgot one more negative in that sentence. I'll try again:

A morally-correct viewpoint can still be an election-loser.

i fuckin lost it when they showed the picture of Trump & Obama shaking hands and Jost said "President-Elect Trump showed how brave he is by meeting with the founder of ISIS."

I mainly thought the target was Tinder, as in smug sillicon valley types competing to see who can be the most woke. But then come on, explain the target, apologize if others got hurt. Even if it's true that being pro-transgender helped Trump win, what a smug way to tell a tragic joke.

The only people who should have to explain jokes are people in the Excelsior thread, to me.

"Ok everyone, I just want to be clear about who that joke was aimed at so that you can laugh correctly. Always be punching up, people!"

I re-watched some of Saturday's repeat, the show that aired the week the Access Hollywood story broke. There was no point in the whole election where Clinton winning seemed like more of a sure thing. Watching Kate McKinnon dance around to Kool & the Gang felt so strange.

the episode from the week before, with wiig, is great; particularly the late-in-the-show sketch with the cat adoptions

The two Wiig cut for time skits are as good or better than most of what aired that night.

“We’ve actually tried to make ‘S.N.L.’ a safe space across the political spectrum,” Lorne Michaels, its creator, told me in his office near the “S.N.L.” studio on the 17th floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

fuck this show and fuck Lorne Michaels, this false equivalency horseshit got us where we are today.

...NBC and Trump have a 15 year business relationship, there's no 'false equivalency horseshit', he's actually their guy

anyway john cena was funny

agree !
he falls into the lineage of like peyton or eli manning being sortof stiff but also a capably funny performer and easy to write for imo

I thought he was pretty good but not great, a bit stiff w/ the card reading but a natural performer. I figured wrestlers would have an advantage in SNL skits over most athletes.

SNL's false equivalency horseshit goes back to decades

Xp

what's an example?

Bringing Palin on springs to mind

Strategery vs. Lockbox

the dumb reporters asking dumb Gulf War questions sketch

mostly in equating slapdash improv crap with comedy

Jim Downey has been injecting a strain of conservativism into the show for most of the time it's been on the air. Just saw that he's returned this season after a few years' absence.

chance is the only good thing about this episode. the cavalcade of trump jokes are unilaterally dreary.

chance is definitely gonna host in 2017

This cast is in desperate need of a leader or visionary or... something. I'm amazed how bad it is given the beyond-fertile environment

i liked the gay robot sketch. does fred armisen just pop back in periodically?

even saturday night news was dire

Some informed speculation on the missing footage here

http://screenrant.com/star-wars-rogue-one-reshoots-changes/

Oops, wrong thread

I lol'd

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

okay that was good. this Southie stereotype has been so overplayed.

this past week's was pretty awful except for the open and the bachelor skit.

just godawful and finally the straw that broke the camels back for me and I'm not going to bother watching anymore.

always a bit awful when they have an actor hosting and they are shit in sketches too.

the whole thing was awful, especially the cold open

she was awful, her monologue was terrible. and I really like her (felicity jones). I thought this season was pretty good to great until this point so I'm not going to stop watching over this

I thought the movie skit was hilarious

I also liked the theatre skit

The dirty joke skit at the end would have been better had I not already known those jokes

oh right, the theater skit was funny. I seem to have missed the movie skit? what was that?