Saturday Night Live

Yeah that rapper bit was awesome. His characters don't generally seem to have the simple/loud quality that makes a "classic" SNL character, but that's fine with me.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/inside-socal-2-with-bill-hader/2818616

I will say this about Mooney--whenever he's in live sketches, and not playing some weird character, he delivers all his lines with these unnatural stock inflections. He makes everyone sound like sort of a dialed-back version of his hack comedian character Bruce Chandling. It's like the one thing he can't play is a normal person speaking normally.

I love him BTW

Probably my favorite Kyle Mooney thing, this pre-SNL "Inside Socal" bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc61ONXClhA

I love that one.

haha wow

those old inside so cals nail that dirtbike dc shoe culture so well. better than alpha dog.

Yeah absolutely. I still see dudes like that every day.

"Bomb-ass carnitas"

the way he says "brie"

My favorite little phrase in there is "newer-style movies"

The best part by far was Kyle Mooney's brief turn as the Dutch backpack rapper in the city council sketch. Another one of his closely observed character bits that is sure to be appreciated by ~.001% of the audience.

I had to pause the tv I was laughing so hard. "Real Hip Hope!"

That was the best bit of the episode by leaps and bounds. Killed me.

Store-bought flooooows

he delivers all his lines with these unnatural stock inflections

i'm not a huge mooney fan, but i suspect that this is his way of amusing himself during sketches where he doesn't have much to do/are boring

Yuck: http://previously.tv/saturday-night-live/donald-trump-will-host-saturday-night-live-november-7/

election years bring out the worst in SNL

It will either be brilliant or a trainwreck.

Very watchable in either case, I reckon.

Maybe it will be, but I don't be watching. Fuck Trump and anything that elevates (or sustains) his profile.

^^^

SNL's long past the point of having any kind of political perspective or agenda, at this point when they have politicians on it's just two gross camps of attention whores exploiting each other

so they embrace the inevitable w/ LD as Bernie, and nobody watched huh

I watched

He was probably the high point.

At least I'll have "Rocket! I'm flying on a rocket!" going through my head for another ten years.

well, no shit, Tracy Morgan is about as funny as a car crash

whoever this dude is who played anderson cooper was really, really bad and offensive

haha, let's make anderson cooper sound gay, because he's gay!

Larry David swoops down so TV rebloggers don't have to contend with tracy morgan

David was fine, McKinnon had a couple good lines, skit too long and my Facebook feed blowing up as usual.

whoever this dude is who played anderson cooper was really, really bad and offensive

― k3vin k., Sunday, October 18, 2015 1:24 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He is indeed really bad and offensive:
http://defamer.gawker.com/some-tweets-and-vines-snls-new-cast-member-should-proba-1727963575

Internet Rejoices After Larry David Nails It As Bernie Sanders On 'SNL'

Beloved Homophobe Tanks Comeback From Near-Fatal Crash Hey Look Larry David

alec baldwin was in a car crash?

it was called rock of ages

why do they have a 30yo cast member playin HilRod? they could at least eyebag 'er up.

Yeah, for real. It's like she and fake Coop weren't even trying. Aykroyd's mustachioed Carter was a better impression.

I liked kate mckinnon's hilary!

SNL history buff Morbs remembers when cast members weren't decades younger than the politicians they played oh wait right that never happened

Coop was horrible, and Chaffee yiiikes

Leslie Jones would have been a more age-appropriate Hillary.

Aykroyd's mustachioed Carter was a better impression.

It was indeed, but when you don't have out-of-this-world talent, you have to get literal.

"out-of-this-world talent"

is that a UFO allusion and is it in reference to Aykroyd, Carter, or both?

also when you have an old coot playing Sanders, you should go across the board.

Even accounting for the SNL myopia everyone suffers from, in what universe is Dan Aykroyd more of an out-of-this-world talent than Kate McKinnon?

lol wat

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZTRNR-pPowQ/T8yyYerIZlI/AAAAAAAABbg/cPBc_I_8ao0/s1600/5799156_std.jpg

I know the OG cast is sacrosanct (except not really if you've rewatched that stuff within the last 30 years) but, yeah, there have been a number of subsequent performers who were equally good if not better. Not saying Aykroyd is bad but McKinnon is at least his equal.

If we're talking about work done outside of SNL, there are plenty of talented people from old casts and newer casts alike who've done brilliant work (and also plenty who've been pitiful). If we're talking about work within the confines of SNL, though, there's Phil Hartman and then there's everyone else.

don't know Kate McKinnon's work, nor shall i