Saturday Night Live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8TR34viNo0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prf7qfyB55g

porn doctor is pretty funny, i thought, but that second one is sad/offensive

that second one is sad/offensive

yeah it is

this cast is just awful. i feel bad for keenan

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?

behind the 8 ball (via hulu) but anyway, ariana grande is fucking hilarious

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.

Colin has been much, much funnier on WU this season IMO

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.

I kinda don't care about either of them in isolation but putting them together as a duo was a smart move

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.

Feel like you can apply that thinking to the past 40 years of snl tbh

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

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?"

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).

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.

Maine Justice is the one my brother and I quote the most mostly due to how ridiculous it was.

That and the potato chip sketch.

If it were still April 1 I'd honestly think tonight's entire show was a prank.

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.

When have snl sketches ever had endings

Space...Pants?

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.

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.

Dan otm the floating corpse was amazing

never saw maine justice before but it's great, lol

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

When Sudeikis gets up on his desk and starts shaking his feet, the best!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh75XWRaugg

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.

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.

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

maybe having that total dud colin jost as head writer muddies the waters

lorne probably going senile too

the church lady opener was godawful, otherwise i laughed a bit @ this last 1 idk; that mom hair sketch was fine

This may have made the whole season worth it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie6LpKOJVf0

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Like the Drake as Hulk Hogan sketch last week, I just...don't know what to say or feel.

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!

http://uproxx.com/tv/snl-potato-chip/

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/taran-killam-jay-pharoah-to-leave-saturday-night-live-w433408

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

Also, shout out to Kenan, who's gonna tie Hammond's record if he sticks around this season

I haven't been watching for awhile but I assumed Killan was one of the more popular cast members?

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?

he's the lead in an upcoming lorne michaels produced movie!

as the straight man for bobby moynihan to go nuts around but still kinda surprising they didn't pick up his contract.

he was one of like 3 people on the cast who can actually act

huh, he's also the writer-director of a movie with arnold schwarzenegger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We%27re_Killing_Gunther

killam was really becoming almost a will ferrell-like figure as far as amount of screen time vs. the rest of the cast was concerned. he was in like half of the sketches! i was burning out on him a little bit but he will definitely be missed. jay pharaoh i always felt was never really used as well as he could be (i.e. get him to learn like 3 new impressions a year and let him loose every ep)