Saturday Night Live

chandling wasn't on this week

The Black Jeopardy was pretty good and I love Keenan.

But I hated his reaction lines. "YES! WE ALL KNOW A GUY LIKE THAT! THERE'S ONE IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD!"

I mean, I got the joke the first time.

This sketch is so pitch perfect it almost hurts.

people on facebook from my hometown were saying this as well, but they were all white, and my hometown has less than 100 black people in it, so it just feels weird to make that comment, unless you're/we're talking about Tom Hanks' trump hat dude, though there's a bunch of them in my hometown.

Love Bruce. As mentioned just above it was cut for time. Will have to watch it. There's two other Bruce bits cut for time in the past that are great, online.

bouie really liked the black jeopardy sketch. i had the opposite reaction (didn't find it so funny) but figured it just wasn't targeted to me:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/10/snl_s_black_jeopardy_sketch_was_the_most_astute_analysis_of_american_politics.html

But I hated his reaction lines. "YES! WE ALL KNOW A GUY LIKE THAT! THERE'S ONE IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD!"

I dunno, I just enjoyed the delivery, with his increasing amounts of shock and joy and perplexity

black jeopardy isn't that funny and it weirds me out to see a million white people enthusing over a sketch that is mostly black people (affectionately) making fun of black people

chapelle show syndrome

i also think snl is bad in general though so take me with a grain of salt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRRHjT8IxmY

i watched kevin roberts and thought it was pretty weak too so i guess i'm just an snl scrooge
bruce chandling made me laugh though

Kevin Roberts sketch is funnier if you watch how hard it was for Larry David to keep it together all week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXpf37te_g0

I wonder if Mooney's pissed that he has so much good stuff that's getting cut

in favor of that terrilble 'here's our musical halloween show' sketch, yeah, he should be (unless he wrote that)

that was especially bad

Tom Hanks in the WU bit seemed like he was channeling Will Ferrell's Harry Caray impersonation.

I'm just catching up to the thread but I think Vanessa Bayer's newscasters of the future is the best Update bit since Garth and Kat

better than Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy?

It's close.

Nov. 12: Dave Chappelle / A Tribe Called Quest

http://www.stereogum.com/1909651/a-tribe-called-quest-confirmed-for-snl-with-host-dave-chappelle/news/

Sick!

lol @ mysterious lurker

Dave Chapelle is such a brilliant host idea that there's no way it will live up to my expectations </debbie downer>

seriously tho speaking of Comedy Central shows I'd love to see Key and/or Peele host at some point

Maybe Paul Mooney can join the writing staff for the week like he did when Pryor hosted

Let Mooney do a digital short or something. Dude needs to be on TV more.

Mooney's done.

Ugh, that's awful.

http://observer.com/2016/11/dave-chappelle-defends-trump-rips-clinton-shes-not-right-and-we-all-know-it/

there are gonna be so many 1500 word pieces on the internet about this week's sketches

it's gonna be like an avalanche of "why you should think this was funny" or "why this was an important snl sketch" pieces

Fuuuuck.

“They should not be having that conversation in front of black people. You go ahead and feel something about your rights. But if you’re putting sexism and homophobia and transphobia in front of racism, you should be ashamed of yourself.”

Yup, every group should fight a separate little war for respect and never support each other, this is a great idea.

yeah JCLC the real takepocalypse is next week

That Halle Berry joke is so fucking good

“She’s going to be on a coin someday. And her behavior has not been coin-worthy,” he said.

otm

maybe this is why she loves bankers so much

British ppl should be permanently banned from American comedy programs

i bet chappelle really liked the black jeopardy sketch

im sure there will be a lot of ppl making the neither chappelle or snl have been funny in 10+ yrs.......half of that is def true

Looks like chappelle has entered his old-man-reactionary phase

indeed his work has lost the woke nuance of "I'm Rick James, bitch!"

is he now the living embodiment of 'when keeping it real goes wrong'?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/06/saturday-night-lives-final-pre-election-take-biting-criticism-of-donald-trumps-media-coverage/

Not sure the opening last night was as biting as this guy thinks, but it was entertaining

Baldwin's Trump is freaking awful. Not only is it a poor impression on its face, but the performance is charmless, lifeless, joyless.

the performance is charmless, lifeless, joyless

Thus perfectly capturing its subject.

Yeah, I thought it was a pretty good Trump. Really captures the dead-eyed, rat-mouthed horror.

Solange, man... do people like her? She seemed really boring. But both of her songs started off like they were going to go into old school 2-step garage tracks and I admit I was a little disappointed they didn't.

People LOVE Solange even though she's kind of boring.

"cranes in the sky" is the best song of the year, latest LP is fire

I liked that Solange performance, appreciated the mannered minimalism

never really dug into her stuff though

I pulled up a youtube of her performance, got bored, skipped ahead, and caught her doing jazz hands partway through. Then I bailed out.

People I know seeing and hearing her for the first time on SNL did not find her charismatic. She was ok I thought. On twitter she got grief for the jazz hands and the hat she wore on the first song

RIP former US attorney general Janet Reno, onetime guest on Will Ferrell's "Janet Reno Dance Party" on SNL