Aidy Bryant as the girl who interrupt porn shoots should be a regular sketch imo. Also, the two ex-porn stars.
think these are both terrible but they are recurring sketches (ive seen at least 2 of the former and 3 of the latter)
― uncle tenderlegdrop (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 19:52 (eight years ago) link
I never watch past Weekend Update so I seem to have missed those
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 20:32 (eight years ago) link
These Weekend Update cats are just so sluggish and eh, especially given the raw meat being thrown to them by the news.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 20:33 (eight years ago) link
given their complicity in Trump's campaign I find any attempts to joke about/criticize him as pathetically weak
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8TR34viNo0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prf7qfyB55g
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 20:50 (eight years ago) link
porn doctor is pretty funny, i thought, but that second one is sad/offensive
― Treeship, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 20:51 (eight years ago) link
that second one is sad/offensive
yeah it is
― uncle tenderlegdrop (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 20:55 (eight years ago) link
this cast is just awful. i feel bad for keenan
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 21:15 (eight years ago) link
I like this cast a lot! just seems like they haven't quite hit their stride with the material yet
hasn't that Aidy Bryant teenaqe-girl-hitting-on-her-friends'-dads appeared more than once?
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 21:17 (eight years ago) link
behind the 8 ball (via hulu) but anyway, ariana grande is fucking hilarious
― Treeship, Friday, 25 March 2016 01:48 (eight years ago) link
Rarely found Colin Jost funny on Weekend Update, yet I see he has sold out in advance 4 shows of stand-up at a 300 or seat theatre near me this weekend, at $25 a person.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 March 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link
Colin has been much, much funnier on WU this season IMO
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Friday, 25 March 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I've warmed up considerably, I think it's had more to do with adjusting to/getting past a certain superficial douchiness than it does him getting funnier. They're also proving to be a pretty good team I think.
― Hadrian VIII, Friday, 25 March 2016 22:44 (eight years ago) link
I kinda don't care about either of them in isolation but putting them together as a duo was a smart move
― Οὖτις, Friday, 25 March 2016 23:20 (eight years ago) link
Aidy Bryant as the girl who interrupt porn shoots should be a regular sketch imo.
this is the worst. like what even is the premise here? why is it funny? why would a little girl walk onto a porn set and think it's real? like if this was a premise during an improv act it would still be difficult to buy into. as a reoccurring sketch it's even flimsier.
― kurt schwitterz, Saturday, 26 March 2016 20:11 (eight years ago) link
Feel like you can apply that thinking to the past 40 years of snl tbh
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 March 2016 04:26 (eight years ago) link
Maine Justice is really the sketch that made the least sentence but I liked that the actors seemed to realize how dumb it was and just decided to fuck around
― Neanderthal, Monday, 28 March 2016 04:27 (eight years ago) link
the best snl skits are the absurd ones that aren't really making fun of anything in particular. my favorite this year was kevin roberts, "can a bitch get a doughnut?"
― Treeship, Monday, 28 March 2016 05:30 (eight years ago) link
Maine Justice was one of my favorites ever, though it wasn't quite as good when they tried to repeat it (and I think it was just two and done with that one).
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 28 March 2016 12:43 (eight years ago) link
If anyone's interested, Sasheer Zamata was on This American Life having a conversation with her mother this week. That might sound boring, but it totally wasn't.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 28 March 2016 12:44 (eight years ago) link
Maine Justice is the one my brother and I quote the most mostly due to how ridiculous it was.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 28 March 2016 13:15 (eight years ago) link
That and the potato chip sketch.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 March 2016 13:51 (eight years ago) link
If it were still April 1 I'd honestly think tonight's entire show was a prank.
― fappy bird (rip van wanko), Sunday, 3 April 2016 04:27 (eight years ago) link
Waste of Peter Dinklage IMO. He sold Space Pants, which was pretty lazy but at least entertaining. None of the other sketches had, like, endings.
At least I can report, with relief, that none of Gwen Stefani's new songs will be relentlessly stuck in my head this time around.
― a spate of non-fatal hammer attacks (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 3 April 2016 07:51 (eight years ago) link
When have snl sketches ever had endings
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 3 April 2016 15:07 (eight years ago) link
Space...Pants?
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 3 April 2016 15:12 (eight years ago) link
I think I always have the same conversation with my wife after the first episode after a break. She'll say "why isn't this episode better they had weeks to write it!" and I'll say "I think the point is they haven't been working for a few weeks."
Not a good episode but some ok moments. Glory Hole skit was unbelievably stupid but I laughed. Underwater honeymoon was probably my favorite, really sold by Taran's amazing oscar worthy performance as corpse floating underwater.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 3 April 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link
just watched Space Pants. felt like two disparate sketches merged into one. Mafia dudes felt like they were in a holding pattern. as an actor I felt awkward watching it. just a mob boss sitting there asking the same questions w/ a gun pointed at two dudes w/ them giving filler answers.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 3 April 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link
Dan otm the floating corpse was amazing
― fappy bird (rip van wanko), Sunday, 3 April 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
never saw maine justice before but it's great, lol
― k3vin k., Sunday, 3 April 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link
me and my bro used to do the Jason Sudeikis "Dey got some good schoos up there, das troo, das troo" thing for a solid month
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 3 April 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
When Sudeikis gets up on his desk and starts shaking his feet, the best!
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 3 April 2016 21:17 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh75XWRaugg
― schwantz, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 22:58 (eight years ago) link
I'm not sure why I like this cast so much when the writing is generally so terrible. it's like they just don't know how to write sketches or characters.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 23:17 (eight years ago) link
I like quite a few of the current cast but, yeah, I've been finding a lot of the sketches woeful for quite some time now, and often a whole episode won't contain a single good sketch, just funny moments within the sketches, generally based on the delivery of lines. real fallow period in that respect for sure.
― the unbearable jimmy smits (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 23:26 (eight years ago) link
so true! the cast seems so likeable and talented, with the right collective sensibility, but where's the beef?? are they lazy? on drugs? wtf
― always be charging (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 23:34 (eight years ago) link
maybe having that total dud colin jost as head writer muddies the waters
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 23:35 (eight years ago) link
lorne probably going senile too
― always be charging (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 23:36 (eight years ago) link
the church lady opener was godawful, otherwise i laughed a bit @ this last 1 idk; that mom hair sketch was fine
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 00:09 (eight years ago) link
This may have made the whole season worth it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie6LpKOJVf0
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 22 May 2016 13:29 (eight years ago) link
...
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 22 May 2016 16:21 (eight years ago) link
Like the Drake as Hulk Hogan sketch last week, I just...don't know what to say or feel.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 22 May 2016 16:22 (eight years ago) link
Was that a ten to one bit?
I just saw Second City perform last week for the first time in, oh, 20 years? Let's say 20 years. Anyway, hit or miss as usual, but I know they've been making efforts to move improv away from the usual white male default, and this cast included two African-American women and a Korean-American man. The last got me thinking and doing some lazy research, and I was shocked to learn that not only has SNL never had an Asian-American cast member (actually, that's not that shocking) but has only twice had an Asian host, once with Jackie Chan and the other Lucy Liu (who I think cohosted). There have been over 800 episodes!
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 May 2016 20:11 (eight years ago) link
http://uproxx.com/tv/snl-potato-chip/
― You say tomato, Isao Tomita (RIP) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 28 May 2016 23:21 (eight years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/taran-killam-jay-pharoah-to-leave-saturday-night-live-w433408
― Don't boo, vote (DJP), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 13:07 (eight years ago) link
That's wild, Killan is like their Phil Hartman/Darrell Hammond utility player, you'd think he'd be on the show for a decade
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 9 August 2016 13:32 (eight years ago) link
Also, shout out to Kenan, who's gonna tie Hammond's record if he sticks around this season
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 9 August 2016 13:36 (eight years ago) link
I haven't been watching for awhile but I assumed Killan was one of the more popular cast members?
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 13:37 (eight years ago) link
I don't think he's that popular. Like he's great and dependable and has his moments to shine, but you don't see him jumping out and leading a movie or sitcom you know?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 9 August 2016 14:02 (eight years ago) link
he's the lead in an upcoming lorne michaels produced movie!
― mizzell, Tuesday, 9 August 2016 14:09 (eight years ago) link