Saturday Night Live

I enjoyed last night's show. The Millenial Millionaires, the Urn. Nothing totally LOL (except maybe Mulaney).

Agreed that this was an uncommonly and consistently funny episode. The Mule bit was fantastic.

The video is linked in this review if you live somewhere that doesn't block it (eg, not Canada):

https://tv.avclub.com/rachel-brosnahan-makes-the-most-of-a-not-quite-marvelou-1831901562

yeah, those jokes about buzzfeed were lazy and not funny. ^^^ Even just remembering how they broke the orphanage thing, the dossier and printed the Brock Turner letter off the top of my head.

They really need to get rid of Jost and Che.

I guess I'm in the minority in liking Jost and Che. They fit the template of preppy smugness first established by Chevy Chase for Update, and they're constant attempts to one-up each other are usually great.

they both suck and jost as head writer is a drag on this show

otm on them sucking and the head writer thing.

Che is not great but Jost is the fucking pits

it's like they are both playing the straight man. I think Jost plays a good-to-great straight man but still this is not a good formula!

I really really want some lower back spikes. Dipped in poison.

Jost has been moralizing more lately, I liked him more when he was Norm-lite

The name change office sketch, for being a bunch of super-cheap and easy jokes, really made me laugh.

Oh yeah, I laughed at that. Especially since my brothers and I have rhyming names so I was like HEY!

I've seen an exceptional amount of anti-SNL chatter tonight but can't tell why?

nvm I am once again sorry I asked

Keep being asked if this is real. Sorry! pic.twitter.com/sCQ981xia8

— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) February 10, 2019

oh dear lord

There were a couple of okay sketches last night--the one where Kenan Thompson played a middle aged dad with a popular amateur porn account displayed an astonishing awareness of contemporary gay lingo--but SNL's current attempts at topical humour are almost never not awful.

That Women of Congress sketch was fucking terrible and gives credence to that piece about SNL's cold opens being god awful political propaganda (I know this wasn't a cold open). Them Trumps at least has a joke in it; that had zero.

Thank god Kenan is still on this show because he saves basically every skit he's in these days (so does Kate McKinnon). This season has been pretty crappy.

i wonder if theyll ever cancel this show

I'm curious who wrote "Women of Congress". Dreadful indeed

I do like Kate McKinnon's Wilbur Ross, who is basically just her Guiliani with a more frozen face

still baffled by love for for Kenan Thompson and his one-note obviousness+loud schtick

the man has been doing nothing but sketch comedy for 25 years straight, give him a break

i wonder if theyll ever cancel this show

nope. the production costs are really cheap for the ad revenue it generates. even if ratings crash for a season or two they'll retool it, recast it, or rebrand it and try to keep it going. its a money thing.

He’s leaving to host a variety sketch show of some sort or competition or something.

thank god

Is he leaving? The show's on NBC, probably for the summer season. He can do both.

to everyone hating on SNL so much: you try working with 30 other people to come up with ~40 minutes of funny material every week and you have no other commitments and it's your full-time job and it pays pretty good. not as easy as it looks.

— josiah hughes 🐇 (@josiahhughes) February 10, 2019

aaand it's only 21 weeks/yr

that Family Feud sketch had to be the worst version they've ever done, right?

Also feel bad for Don Cheadle for hosting such a lame ep

That Lollipop sketch was one of my favorite this season.

That was good. So were the Roach-Ex and Puppy Pound fake ads, the cake competition, Fresh Takes (the school show with the loose-lipped teacher), and Beck Bennet's Jules thing on Update. I thought this was the best episode in a while.

best game show sketch of the year so far, even if it was a little clunky in spots

also Toilet Death Ejector

That game show was so great. John Mulaney should host every year.

And the Bodega Man sketch was pretty good/loling.

Game show sketch was repeat/extension of similar one some seasons ago, I remember guest knowing all these people then host brings out the contestants door man.

Super good episode through and through (minus music guest). Bodega sketch was epic and refreshing for them. Didn’t they do an epic musical kinda thing last time he hosted?

Header is always a great of course.

The musical sketch from Mulaney's first time hosting was an unrealized one that he had crafted back when he was a writer on SNL that he finally got to sneak in as a host. So, either he had more of these stashed away, or the success of the first one made them go for it again.

He's the best host they've had in...I dunno, decades? Is that overstating it? His "Cha Cha Slide" dance turned an underfed sketch premise into a outrageously delightful bit of physical comedy.

this was and will be the only snl ep i watch this season

how was he never a cast member? granted there was a talent there when he was a writer, but still

This was great died laughing at the McKinnon mulaney to have and have not sketch

Loved Mulaney. Hated Thomas Rhett, the musical act.

lol yeah when he first came on I just kept getting more and more irritated

how was he never a cast member? granted there was a talent there when he was a writer, but still

He is a much, much better performer with a lot more stage experience than he was 11 years ago?

Here he is this week talking about his first onscreen SNL appearance: https://youtu.be/-BAcIdzPgAs

I watched 5 seconds of the musical guest singing, went NOPE, and FF'd it.

The Bodega Man sketch part with the 'man who doesn't work there but is watching soccer on tv'...omg.

I remember when they brought him out to do a weekend update bit when he was a writer. He looked like he was 12. I agree, he probably wasn’t ready!

I bet he’s working on a new hour because his monologue was funnier than his entire last comedy special.

"Electric Shoes" fka "What Up With That"

Tame Impala is so boring and tuneless now it makes me sad

More like LAME Impala amir... nah, too easy

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