if u are looking for gender bending solidarity maybe look elsewhere than a 40-year-old establishment comedy show news segment hosted by smug white guy
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
Just because a viewpoint is the right one doesn't mean it might help you lose an election.
― schwantz, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
Think I forgot one more negative in that sentence. I'll try again:
A morally-correct viewpoint can still be an election-loser.
― schwantz, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
i fuckin lost it when they showed the picture of Trump & Obama shaking hands and Jost said "President-Elect Trump showed how brave he is by meeting with the founder of ISIS."
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 18:12 (seven years ago) link
I mainly thought the target was Tinder, as in smug sillicon valley types competing to see who can be the most woke. But then come on, explain the target, apologize if others got hurt. Even if it's true that being pro-transgender helped Trump win, what a smug way to tell a tragic joke.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
The only people who should have to explain jokes are people in the Excelsior thread, to me.
― schwantz, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
"Ok everyone, I just want to be clear about who that joke was aimed at so that you can laugh correctly. Always be punching up, people!"
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Monday, 28 November 2016 19:24 (seven years ago) link
I re-watched some of Saturday's repeat, the show that aired the week the Access Hollywood story broke. There was no point in the whole election where Clinton winning seemed like more of a sure thing. Watching Kate McKinnon dance around to Kool & the Gang felt so strange.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 00:07 (seven years ago) link
the episode from the week before, with wiig, is great; particularly the late-in-the-show sketch with the cat adoptions
― akm, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 00:14 (seven years ago) link
The two Wiig cut for time skits are as good or better than most of what aired that night.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 01:01 (seven years ago) link
“We’ve actually tried to make ‘S.N.L.’ a safe space across the political spectrum,” Lorne Michaels, its creator, told me in his office near the “S.N.L.” studio on the 17th floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
fuck this show and fuck Lorne Michaels, this false equivalency horseshit got us where we are today.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 00:26 (seven years ago) link
...NBC and Trump have a 15 year business relationship, there's no 'false equivalency horseshit', he's actually their guy
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 00:29 (seven years ago) link
anyway john cena was funny
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 00:30 (seven years ago) link
agree ! he falls into the lineage of like peyton or eli manning being sortof stiff but also a capably funny performer and easy to write for imo
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 03:10 (seven years ago) link
I thought he was pretty good but not great, a bit stiff w/ the card reading but a natural performer. I figured wrestlers would have an advantage in SNL skits over most athletes.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 03:12 (seven years ago) link
SNL's false equivalency horseshit goes back to decades
Xp
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 03:12 (seven years ago) link
what's an example?
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 03:41 (seven years ago) link
Bringing Palin on springs to mind
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 03:53 (seven years ago) link
Strategery vs. Lockbox
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 03:56 (seven years ago) link
the dumb reporters asking dumb Gulf War questions sketch
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 13:59 (seven years ago) link
mostly in equating slapdash improv crap with comedy
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 14:08 (seven years ago) link
Jim Downey has been injecting a strain of conservativism into the show for most of the time it's been on the air. Just saw that he's returned this season after a few years' absence.
― The Pleasure Principal (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 14:14 (seven years ago) link
chance is the only good thing about this episode. the cavalcade of trump jokes are unilaterally dreary.
― the klosterman weekend (s.clover), Sunday, 18 December 2016 06:00 (seven years ago) link
chance is definitely gonna host in 2017
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 18 December 2016 06:32 (seven years ago) link
This cast is in desperate need of a leader or visionary or... something. I'm amazed how bad it is given the beyond-fertile environment
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 18 December 2016 09:58 (seven years ago) link
i liked the gay robot sketch. does fred armisen just pop back in periodically?
― flappy bird, Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:59 (seven years ago) link
even saturday night news was dire
― the klosterman weekend (s.clover), Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:17 (seven years ago) link
Some informed speculation on the missing footage here
http://screenrant.com/star-wars-rogue-one-reshoots-changes/
― Number None, Monday, 19 December 2016 00:08 (seven years ago) link
Oops, wrong thread
― Number None, Monday, 19 December 2016 00:09 (seven years ago) link
I lol'd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSvNhxKJJyU
― DJI, Monday, 19 December 2016 06:26 (seven years ago) link
okay that was good. this Southie stereotype has been so overplayed.
― rip van wanko, Monday, 19 December 2016 06:48 (seven years ago) link
this past week's was pretty awful except for the open and the bachelor skit.
― akm, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 18:47 (seven years ago) link
just godawful and finally the straw that broke the camels back for me and I'm not going to bother watching anymore.
always a bit awful when they have an actor hosting and they are shit in sketches too.
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link
the whole thing was awful, especially the cold open
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 18:51 (seven years ago) link
she was awful, her monologue was terrible. and I really like her (felicity jones). I thought this season was pretty good to great until this point so I'm not going to stop watching over this
― akm, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 19:04 (seven years ago) link
I thought the movie skit was hilarious
― (The caption: “fine dining.”) (DJP), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
I also liked the theatre skit
The dirty joke skit at the end would have been better had I not already known those jokes
oh right, the theater skit was funny. I seem to have missed the movie skit? what was that?
― akm, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 19:16 (seven years ago) link
oh right the horny robot thing. no.
Someone on the writing staff really thinks robots and sex are hilarious together.
― szyslakial moescreancy (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 19 January 2017 01:02 (seven years ago) link
the laughter in the trump sketch seemed muted, like the audience was distracted by the fact that this is really happening
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 19 January 2017 01:32 (seven years ago) link
that's not a criticism btw, this one thing is too terrifying to contemplate even in jest
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 19 January 2017 01:33 (seven years ago) link
Oh shit, Villasenor finally features in a sketch.
― szyslakial moescreancy (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 22 January 2017 08:35 (seven years ago) link
Oh shit, cringe-inducing cover of "To Sir With Love" in... tribute? to Obama's presidency. What the fuuuuuck why do they think this is a good idea.
― szyslakial moescreancy (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 22 January 2017 09:02 (seven years ago) link
maybe i am drunk and having a bad night but um i am really liking this episode
― why ruin a good tradition? (Will M.), Sunday, 22 January 2017 09:26 (seven years ago) link
It wasn't bad but then again I need some LAFFS and last week's ep was kinda dire
― szyslakial moescreancy (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 22 January 2017 10:01 (seven years ago) link
That ending was horrible, but could have been better if Cecily had had any kind of voice left. Possible explanation: Her voice was hurt because she has been marching in the cold? That happened to me, but the people at my church were very understanding this morning.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 22 January 2017 13:06 (seven years ago) link
My admiration for Obama aside, the ending would have normally made me cringe except, a) To Sir with Love is literally one of my 20 favourite films (had it #16 on a countdown once), and b) I enjoyed the thought of Trump sitting in front of the TV glowering, ready to pass an executive order making...weepy tributes to Barack Obama illegal.
― clemenza, Sunday, 22 January 2017 13:15 (seven years ago) link
Update was strong, loved Che's recurring Michelle Obama bit, and Leslie Jones killed. But the "friend zone" thing was incredibly stupid and annoying and hacky and pointless, and how did that even make it past the pitch stage, let alone get on the air?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 22 January 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link
I liked most of Aziz Ansari's monologue
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 January 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link