Saturday Night Live

anyway john cena was funny

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

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.

SNL's false equivalency horseshit goes back to decades

Xp

what's an example?

Bringing Palin on springs to mind

Strategery vs. Lockbox

the dumb reporters asking dumb Gulf War questions sketch

mostly in equating slapdash improv crap with comedy

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.

chance is the only good thing about this episode. the cavalcade of trump jokes are unilaterally dreary.

chance is definitely gonna host in 2017

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

i liked the gay robot sketch. does fred armisen just pop back in periodically?

even saturday night news was dire

Some informed speculation on the missing footage here

http://screenrant.com/star-wars-rogue-one-reshoots-changes/

Oops, wrong thread

I lol'd

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

okay that was good. this Southie stereotype has been so overplayed.

this past week's was pretty awful except for the open and the bachelor skit.

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.

the whole thing was awful, especially the cold open

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

I thought the movie skit was hilarious

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?

oh right the horny robot thing. no.

Someone on the writing staff really thinks robots and sex are hilarious together.

the laughter in the trump sketch seemed muted, like the audience was distracted by the fact that this is really happening

that's not a criticism btw, this one thing is too terrifying to contemplate even in jest

Oh shit, Villasenor finally features in a sketch.

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.

maybe i am drunk and having a bad night but um i am really liking this episode

It wasn't bad but then again I need some LAFFS and last week's ep was kinda dire

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.

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.

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?

I liked most of Aziz Ansari's monologue

i liked the Dirty Talk sketch. "What's up, you freakin' alcoholic?"

Aziz is a good host & this ep was p decent, tho its hard for me to imagine how the beat the bkworm game show sketch got slotted so early

Friendzone was great. About 5 years too late (at least), but whatever.

hard for me to imagine how the beat the bkworm game show sketch got slotted so early

imo asiz was selling this and was funny and i thought it was gonna be maybe good? and then it just ended :[

Oh shit, Villasenor finally features in a sketch.

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was that her real voice? she sounds kinda loopy

yeah she sounds like that

Worked well for that sketch

Yikes, this is fucking stupid. She should not be suspended for this (funny) tweet

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/23/media/saturday-night-live-writer-suspended-barron-trump-tweet/index.html

they should all be fired and the show cancelled imo

it is cheap to produce, draws a decent audience in a dead time slot, and makes money. the show will live forever, like Today or Tonight.

I thought her tweet was really funny and clever. Should have saved it for stand-up, I guess.

(xpost) The other thing is, maybe it's enough that they come up with one memorable bit every few years that gets lots of attention and outlasts the rest of the show. I only watch intermittently, but Tina Fey's Palin was worth whatever mediocrity surrounded it. Baldwin's Trump isn't quite as good, but it'll last too, I'd say. There are other examples, I'm sure, for people who watch more regularly.

@DennisThePerrin

A comedy writer getting fired for a joke blows, but what happened to Katie Rich has nothing to do with Trump, who doesn't own NBC.

It's about corporate structure and the rigidity that's enforced. No matter how funny you are, working in corporate comedy makes you a cog.

You're there to serve its needs. This is especially true with SNL. Image trumps content; if content sullies the image, it'll be flushed. Social media has made this more acute.

Katie Rich is not a victim of censorship; she's on the receiving end of business as usual. I wish her well, and suspect she'll do fine.