Saturday Night Live

was one of the funnier eps in a while

I loved the Olive Garden skit

"I'm 53."
"Jesus..."

Sectional bit killed.

The political stuff mostly left me cold this week, but the monologue was great and Kate McKinnon killed on weekend update

Three good sketches - more than i remember in ages. Sectional, clown, and the amazingly bad borat accent in the tenement sketch that had the whole cast breaking

I thought it was the best episode in a while, though I felt like the borat accent/chocolate face kinda thing was lazy unless it's a whole meta commentary on how these historical actors are stealing from Borat.

Only thing I laughed at last night was the Manilow gag on Update.

search: monologue and tenement museum sketch
destroy: everything else

Nobody liked "Scott"? Easy target but fun. And the Pepsi ad bit.

I thought Scott was partially riffing on the Pepsi commercial before they did a whole sketch on the Pepsi commercial

What year did that last sketch slot unofficially become the dumping ground for weird shit. Like I def remember some weird stuff in that spot as far back as the Norm days

they are getting ready for the full sell out

http://www.avclub.com/article/snl-start-making-real-commercials-run-alongside-fa-253440

Maybe I am easily amused but the eyelashes skit slayed me.

xpost Go back and watch the OG cast's mid-show shilling for Kodak in season one. This is not a new thing.

look where I got Kodak

I thought it was the best episode in a while, though I felt like the borat accent/chocolate face kinda thing was lazy unless it's a whole meta commentary on how these historical actors are stealing from Borat.

― dan selzer, Sunday, April 9, 2017 5:43 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i thought it was a dumb sketch made funny by the fact that louie ck couldn't do a good accent and instead just kept accidentally doing borat-voice, which was so stupid it made the rest of the cast break

I thought it was dumb, then he raised the stupidity levels even higher by actually saying "MY WIFE," then I laughed

I was at the Tenement Museum last week and I was just pleasantly surprised how extremely well they actually recreated the old room

The Family Feud skit was actually funny!

Also, when did Harry Styles turn into a Gallagher brother?

this was alright, but the trump sketch was pretty tired this time out. again, better sketches at the end of the episode than I would have expected (like the basketball guys in the final one); nice United/Pepsi ad punchline in that one sketch. This was my frist exposure to post one direction harry styles, he seems very dull but not as toxic as I expected.

My take on Harry Styles is that he can sing his face off but has severe problems finding/writing (delete where applicable) songs worth singing.

the savage garden sketch resulting in the united / pepsi "jokes" is prob the laziest sketch in the history of this show

why does james murphy look like a young steve bannon

bad luck?

"Hello, I'm James Murphy and I'm considered important for some reason."

"Hello, I'm James Murphy and these are my analogue synthesizers you can't hear."

"Hello, I'm James Murphy and you'll be mildly relieved to learn that I'm not here to shout poetry at you until the music starts."

"Hello, I'm James Murphy are you paying attention now, Rolling Stone?!?"

ive said it once and ill say it again, bannon is the love child of james murphy and tim heidecker

Might be some George Lucas in there

Was the Asian guy in the Star Trek sketch the dude that played Sulu back in the 1970s?

90s? 80s?

Ah, yeah, he was in "The Last Voyage" sketch in '76 - Akira Yoshimura, SNL production designer. Nice cameo.

haha, i wondered who he was!

this episode was alright. Not amazing, but alright. LCD were great.

digging the Roxy vibes

One thing about LCD that is odd to me, and maybe becaues I live in CA, is that they never seemed like the huge deal some people made them out to be. their albums are really good, but a film and a big to-do about breaking up? were they that important to some people? Was this self-mythologizing?

the surveillance sketch made me irrationally happy

Yeah, that was a night's winner.

i didn't get the slavic rap video at all, sorry.

Yoshimura also played Sulu when Shatner hosted in the 80s, and apparently also played Sulu when Patrick Stewart hosted in the 90s!

- Patrick Stewart/Salt-N-Pepa (1994) ... Sulu (uncredited)
- Jimmy Smits/World Party (1990) ... Scientist (uncredited)
- Kyle MacLachlan/Sinéad O'Connor (1990) ... 2 Live Crew Member (uncredited)
- Woody Harrelson/David Byrne (1989) ... Connie Chung (uncredited)
- Garry Shandling/Los Lobos (1987) ... Senator Daniel Inouye (uncredited)
- Mark Harmon/Suzanne Vega (1987) ... Senator (uncredited)
- William Shatner/Lone Justice (1986) ... Sulu (uncredited)
- Oprah Winfrey/Joe Jackson (1986) ... Professor Chin (uncredited)
- George Wendt and Francis Ford Coppola/Philip Glass (1986) ... Eskimo (uncredited)
- Olivia Newton-John (1982) ... Barbarian (uncredited)
- Johnny Cash/Elton John (1982) ... Kenjo Yoshimura (uncredited)
- Daniel J. Travanti/John Cougar (1982) ... Prince Andrew impersonator / Disguised police officer (uncredited)
- Buck Henry/Andrew Gold/Andrae Crouch & Voices of Unity (1980) ... Prince Amanawahu (uncredited)
- Steve Martin/Paul & Linda McCartney/3-D (1980) ... Incredible Person (uncredited)
- Elliott Gould/Gary Numan (1980) ... Godzilla's Lawyer (uncredited)
- Chevy Chase/Marianne Faithfull (1980) ... Tribesman (uncredited)
- Teri Garr/The B-52's (1980) ... Guard (uncredited)
- Martin Sheen/David Bowie (1979) ... Vietnamese Soldier (uncredited)
- Maureen Stapleton/Linda Ronstadt/Phoebe Snow (1979) ... Josh (uncredited)
- Michael Palin/Eugene Record (1978) ... Tongsun Park Impersonator (uncredited)
- Steve Martin/Jackson Browne (1977) ... Contestant (uncredited)
- Elliott Gould/Leon Redbone, Harlan Collins & Joyce Everson (1976) ... Sulu / Student (uncredited)
- Peter Boyle/Al Jarreau (1976) ... Chinese Food Delivery Boy (uncredited)
- Candice Bergen/Martha Reeves/The Stylistics (1975) ... Bee (uncredited)
- George Carlin/Billy Preston/Janis Ian (1975) ... Student (uncredited)

they never seemed like the huge deal some people made them out to be. their albums are really good, but a film and a big to-do about breaking up? were they that important to some people?

no idea, perhaps they are mediocre enough to be huge. to me they will always be tied to the early 00s electroclash and i preferred the Rapture and Fischerspooner back then.

were they that important to some people?

They were that important to music critics living in NYC (and, by extension, music critics who wished they lived in NYC).

Maybe because they were an electronica group that broke somewhat into the mainstream?

I remember people raving about the Stone Roses as if they were the next Beatles ("No really, forget those other groups I said were the next Beatles, this is the real deal!") but they seem to be treated now as just another group from that era.

anyway if anyone can explain the significance or what was funny about the slavic rap video I'd appreciate it

this ep was not that good but chris pine is a gd host

he slightly resembles bill hader a bit? also is good at being a dumb bro, snl needs that

he sang in every single skit. i get that he can actually sing but did he need to do it in every skit he was in?

get the feeling they're saving some material for the finale with Melissa McCarthy next week. How have ratings been now that they're going live in the West Coast? I went back and read an article from last year about this show needed a save and soon; it does seem like Baldwin and Trump honestly saved this show this year. Ensemble cast is good but McKinnon aside they still don't seem to have a single break out star; but maybe that's for the best.

my friend ted's dad. ted runs feeding tube records here where i live. great story. every show!

http://www.villagevoice.com/2017/05/19/meet-snls-78-year-old-heart-of-the-show/

Moynahan and Vanessa Bayer both leaving after this season. Sorry to see her go, him not so much

i used to dislike moynahan a lot but i've heard him a few times on comedy bang bang somewhat recently and he's v funny there