Saturday Night Live

wait, the cast already has Thompson, Armisen, Moynihan, Samberg, Killam and Hader and you think the thing they're missing is "someone nerdy"?

Point taken. I just don't feel like they've had a Lovitz/Kazurinsky type in a while (Armisen comes the closest, but I'm just ready to see someone else doing what he does).

Maya Angelou skit was hilare, even though David Alan Grier did the better Maya Angelou impresh on SNL.

And yeah, Pharoah's definitely been on more since Brittain left.

it took me years to tell all the white dudes of this era apart! now they all seem very distinct, sure.

I can understand/sympathize with the "heavy dude playing non-heavy celebs, why because he is black" irritation but Kenan's Cornel West was so fucking lol

i always feel bad for pharoah, he is truly uncanny as an impressionist but they only give him that one thing to do, and only once every six weeks.

denzel washington as a customer service rep is all time tho

I just love that the show featured impersonations of both Cornel West and Geoffrey Canada.

omg I forgot about Geoffrey Canada

DYING

"I feel no shame in sitting on that pie...it's just human nature, I suppose"

Yeah, that one was ott lols. xp

this is why I said upthread that I love it when former cast members host

bronx beat was really great too

IMO pretty much every skit slayed

yeah it was a good night

was JT really playing fingerstyle guitar? props if so

i was working with a woman for a few months who was dead out of the bronx beat sketch, hit close to home

the channing tatum episode tho, wow, ouch

even the news bricked

haha okay now I want to see it

was JT really playing fingerstyle guitar? props if so

"White butler's really into it."

okay i'm going to watch this episode since EVERYONE is talking about how funny it is

though a lot of these same people think justin timberlake is funny so i am extremely skeptical

He is funny on SNL!

eh.........

he was good in this episode

But what about the sketch where he played a stripper? Or the one where he played an exotic dancer? Or the one where he danced all sexy? Or the one where he displayed no range and muttered monotonously while oiling his delts?

(Re: Channing Tatum)

haha, I was like, wait, what JT skits did I miss?

hahaha so in order to get bill o reilly on what up with that they had to promise him that he'd get to sit next to kate upton right?

Or just let him plug his new book.

I think when Brittain bailed/got canned, they had to use Pharoah more

Still would like to know what happened there, it seems super-sketchy for someone to leave or be let go in the middle of the season like that.

Molly Shannon and Dana Carvey both left midseason, but they were in a position to do that I guess.

no one in rehearsal was like "hey kristen... you're using the same exact voice as your character from the mystery word sketch"

Its pretty obvious that Wiig just gets to do whatever she wants at this point. Like during Rudolph's monologue, there was absolutely no reason she should have been hoisted up on the shoulders of the dancers. Like, can't Rudolph just have her moment without Wiig shoehorning her way in?

She is the cast member I'm most ready to get rid of.

think everyone knows if kristen isn't allowed to repeat some of her stuff the show would be about 20 minutes long each week.

I'm pretty sure I read that Brittain got an offer to do something else. Given that he and Pharaoh were probably the featured players most likely to get cut next year, he might've just figured it was a safe gamble? I'm just hypothesizing here, but I know people who know him, so maybe I'll get the real scoop sometime?

Yeah, I keep meaning to ask my buddy.

Is Maya's monologue online anywhere? (It's not on Hulu.)

okay I'm watching now, the first skit is killing me lol

"never say chicken"

THE GONG!!

the voice-over! hahahaha

hahaha @ "Do you wanna funk"! sylvester <3

ok i'll stop liveblogging now

don't want to be that guy but if i didn't laugh during the jeremy lin sketch, bronx beat, maya angelou pranks, or the parade of 15-second impressions that was the beyonce baby sketch, am i not going to laugh during any of this? sorry, i guess i am that guy. there are some things here that are funny in an abstract way (lin voice-over, "act of whimsy,") but nothing that tempts to laugh except for armisen's prince face which is not even a joke. (and his funny faces on portlandia are much funnier)

No, you are not going to laugh during any of this.

well you basically watched the entire episode

Tbh, I didn't really laugh during Jeremy Lin or Bronx Beat, but I thought they were nicely done.

can we get more reports on when people didn't laugh

I don't usually laugh during the musical segments, although there are exceptions.

Has "Weird" Al ever been a musical guest?

Trying to figure out what Sudeikis up to in each of those gifs

Sending the pitcher signals? Hard to tell, it really is.

was JT really playing fingerstyle guitar? props if so

It sounded pretty similar to the recorded version of "Holocene."

Who was that girl playing Nicki Minaj bcz tha was horrible

I mean not that Maya was anything like Beyonce but at least she was rly fucking funny

Nasim Pedrad, dude.