Saturday Night Live

Yeah. Def one of the better shows this season. Don't understand the negative responses.

I think that getting meta with the host is part of the SNL fun. I can see that the weekend update jokes may have been weaker, but I was dying at the failed speech writer and outraged senior guests

And Gaga/Kells both sound immaculate live. So I guess we can stop cutting artists slack for terrible SNL sound

oh yeah, I loved speech writer bit. But too much meta. nonstop meta.

Gagas clothes comment on the ye bit. Her Madonna 'cover'. Her old forgotten starlet sketch.

First two are a bit groany. The last is permissible use of guest IMO.

I didn't think it was much better or worse than any other episode this season, with the exception of Kerry Washington's episode (it reached a level of bad I'm not sure they can surpass). Gaga's good in sketches, though. If she wasn't a musician, she'd probably be at Second City or something.

i loved her Training Day speech in the theater camp sketch

Kate McKinnon's broccoli baby

yea lol'd @ this, also the last rose zone thing was p ok, just all hot garbage reality clips is otm x100

had the weirdest feeling there's a bill simmons email somewhere at the root of that thing

Gaga was decent, a good performer, not so awkward, but I was really tired of all the meta gaga references/jokes in every skit. I'm surprised everyone here liked this episode that much.

Same here. Also the meta stuff was kind of lame, but the mugging for the camera when they did it was just obnoxious.

Yeah i gotta give props

/Kate McKinnon's broccoli baby/

yea lol'd @ this, also the last rose zone thing was p ok, just all hot garbage reality clips is otm x100
--johnny crunch

Isn't this literally what Talk Soup has been for like the last half decade?

Been called "The Soup" for the last half decade iirc

but also otm

Isn't this literally what Talk Soup has been for like the last half decade?

Yeah, I made the same exact comment to my wife.

yeah i thought that sketch was dumb

rose zone would be more like red zone. the soup is more like sportscenter.

Was Brooks Wheelan anywhere in this episode?

http://31.media.tumblr.com/9a70720404ff42cdc9cfca56234c538c/tumblr_mwg2rcjwW11qag9zto1_r1_400.gif

so is this kid funny or what

dying at this baby-office sketch

Baby-body sketch killing.

Yes.

Bennett kind of Chris Parnell-ish there, no?

I don't know how or why this Outfield sketch is working, but it is.

yes so funny

ep has given me many lolz

Baby-body man sketch was so great.

Este Haim's bassface is worse than I thought. I haven't watched much live video of them, and I've seen people mention it, but wow. I still love them, though.

best wig on cicely strong

baby body was great. definitely feels like half tonight's show was just The Five New White Guys dumping their youtube/improve troupe repertoire on the table, though.

Good stuff. I love the good neighbors videos I think.

haha this is fucked up

Turkey sketch was amazing.

This was the best episode of the season front to back, quality-wise. Even Girlfriends Talk Show was funny, which is rarely the case for that sketch.

Singer for Haim sounds like she has a tiny Michael McDonald lodged in her throat.

'jesses girl' sketch was godawful sub-yt trash. this kid hosting was fine idk who he is tho like johnny manziels kid brother or

the turkey and baby sketches -- only two memorable ones of the night -- were both essentially KITH castoffs.

Outside of that there was nothing especially striking.

haim were great fun tho, including the faces. but they also overenunciated so much, which was weird, like they were covering their own songs.

like they were covering their own songs

Yes! I found this really weird but I didn't hate it.

'jesses girl' sketch was godawful sub-yt trash.

^^^ absolutely. Reminded me of those answer records that died out in the 70s, where a guy would ask questions and snippets of songs would play. And I don't think anyone's missed them.

Winston Sam Bass was good. "IM GOING TO THE SUPERMARKET!!!!!!"

ok a) it was more like the "Your Love" skit than anything else and b) wtf, it was hilarious

Jesus, this Rudd/One Direction episode was DEADLY. Rudd remains likable, etc. but he had nothin' to work with.

The divorce sketch was really stupid but I couldn't stop cracking up during it

Beyer's movements sold the shit outta that one. Also, Kate McKinnon's "sexy chicken" on the otherwise predictable Santa sketch was probably the show's highlight.

Don't know if SNL finally broke me and now it's Stockholm syndrome here on out, but I've been laughing more this season than I have the past few. Maybe it's Kyle Mooney, but it's probably not just him.

agree that the dancing sold the terrible writing in the divorce sketch. everything else was forgettable except for the return of bill brasky.

yeah i hate to be the guy who's all THIS IS BAD EPISODE AV CLUB D+ but

They brought back Jebediah Atkinson pretty quickly, but I'm glad they did. "Time is not linear for me!"

I had plenty of LOLs. The awesome staredown between Rudd and the little One Direction fan, Jebediah, Sharpton, the riffy last sketch, even healthy Santa Claus. Yeah, Michelangelo and the White Christmas Movie ones were dumb, but still...