maya rudolph was great
i feel like kate mckinnon only ever plays one character. is that just me?
― Non stop chantar (crüt), Sunday, 29 September 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
that is, every character she portrays she plays the same way
― Non stop chantar (crüt), Sunday, 29 September 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
are you sure you're not talking about Keenan?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 29 September 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
(I love Keenan)
I caught most of Eilish's set on the Coachella live stream and thought she was pretty good. Try that (if still available) to get a better idea of her. I agree last night wasn't that good.
― nickn, Sunday, 29 September 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
I thought the entire show seemed clunkily executed so eilish may have been hit by that too.
I lol'd at McKinnon's delivery of "I have the energy of a mother of five boys who all play a different sport, let's do this" and Harrelson/Biden's straw joke.
― Yerac, Sunday, 29 September 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
that is, every character she portrays she plays the same way― Non stop chantar (crüt), Sunday, September 29, 2019 2:59 PM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Non stop chantar (crüt), Sunday, September 29, 2019 2:59 PM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
YESSS. There's an unappealing thirstiness about her as well
― Famous Anus (rip van wanko), Sunday, 29 September 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
but she's funny so thirsty doesn't seem the right word? I kind of categorize it as a strong confidence in her comedy.
― Yerac, Sunday, 29 September 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
And Bowen Yang wasn't funny at all, the material was poor but he just doesn't seem to be a comic performer.
― nickn, Sunday, 29 September 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
The material was very poor, but a good actor can add value to bare lines through expressions, gestures, inflections and timing. He had nuthin' to add.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 29 September 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
i searched awhile for an image of dan aykroyd doing motion capture expressions for the yogi bear movie
― Tart Prepper (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 30 September 2019 04:52 (four years ago) link
I thought this was a decent enough season starter but they had plenty of good material to use. Keenan still MVP, I don't care if he's the same in every single sketch, guy is completely lovable, which is not a term I'd use for many other cast members in the show's history.
Kyle Mooney's dad rap video was dumb
Other late in the show sketches were pretty good though I think the screw up with wardrobe and the ensuing breakdown saved that one panel sketch.
Billie Eilish's album is excellent, she wasn't a bad performer but singing over a vocal track in Bad Guy was kind of weak.
― akm, Monday, 30 September 2019 13:05 (four years ago) link
I figure it would be more efficient for me to start listing times when Mooney is funny instead of bad.
― Yerac, Monday, 30 September 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
otm. I think the last time I found Mooney funny is that sketch with him and Beck Bennett as the brothers who fight and have to be hosed down (though that didn't work nearly as well the second time, and hopefully won't recur). And the failed comedian guy on Update.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 30 September 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
I don't think the screwup was with wardrobe; it was the direction. The camera was supposed to be just on Kenan, which is why the wardrobe person ran on. During that sequence, the camera is never on who's talking; it looked like the director or someone else in the booth got confused and just went for the wide shot, but that happened to be the moment when the wardrobe person needed to help Aidy.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 30 September 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
"Hello everyone, I'm so excited to be back and ruin things a second time," David's Sanders says in his opening comments."Last time, my slogan was 'Feel the Bern,' " he added. "This time, it's 'Let's burn this place to the ground.' "
Fuck your little neolib show, guys.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 September 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
"let's bern this place to the ground" was the only part of Larry David's Bernie that got as much as a mild chuckle from me
― Non stop chantar (crüt), Monday, 30 September 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
Very worrisome, given the powerful and determinative role Saturday Night Live has historically played in presidential elections.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 30 September 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
a symptom, you knave
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 September 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
Worth a watch re: SNL's role in Trump's election
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gQFvf19Jec
― flappy bird, Monday, 30 September 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
very good, tho i have never seen that Jost guy (v punchable)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 September 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
I think he just does Weekend Update (he's been a writer since 2005 and became head writer in 2017)
― flappy bird, Monday, 30 September 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
The Rudy Ray Moore/Royal Family skit made me laugh. Kenan Thompson is still the best thing about this show by some distance.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Sunday, 6 October 2019 04:58 (four years ago) link
The monologue was great. Very few are.
― Yerac, Sunday, 6 October 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
just caught up on the Woody episode, wow what an absolute disaster. that whole show I think the "five boys who play a different sport" line was the only thing that made me laugh
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 6 October 2019 13:44 (four years ago) link
i thought the game show and local news skits at the beginning of this episode were 2 very good renditions of overused SNL rubrics
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 6 October 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
the opening political sketches are prob some of the most embarrassing "comedy" i've ever seen tho
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 6 October 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
Bowen Yang's weekend update bit was pretty good.
― Yerac, Sunday, 6 October 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
cryptosicko otm. Best sketch of the night. But ugh that old-guy news thing was interminable. I would've much rather seen another Heidi Gardner girlfriend-from-a-boxing-movie bit.
And every time I see Matthew Broderick, I can only think of how he killed two people and got off with a $175 fine.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 6 October 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
But ugh that old-guy news thing was interminable.
it was weird to end update w this
overall not really a good ep imo
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 6 October 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
More SNL neoliberal crap. They hate Bernie, which is no surprise. This version of the show would be pro-Nixon in '68. https://t.co/nQnkcZJBI6— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) October 27, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 27 October 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
they are jokes and awfully mild ones, ffs
― akm, Sunday, 27 October 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
I really like the proportions of chance the rapper's arms. So weird but I couldn't stop looking at them during the opening monologue.
This was a really bad episode. Everything seemed way underrehearsed.
― Yerac, Sunday, 27 October 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
Most of the sketches were undercooked or awkward (the flying one was a mess; the physical demands of the bit totally threw off any sense of rhythm or timing), but I thought the graveyard skit was really funny, and Chance was an engaging presence throughout the episode.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Sunday, 27 October 2019 14:27 (four years ago) link
yeah he was a good host. musical performances were really good too. again, I was stoned so I found the whole episode amusing enough. the flying sketch started stupid but got funny for some reason.
― akm, Sunday, 27 October 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
Yeah, every time he's on SNL I end up feeling bad for not being more familiar with his output (though I had "Sunday Candy" high up on my tracks ballot of whichever year that was).
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Sunday, 27 October 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
I also gotta say that the set design, lighting, etc for the musical performances has been outstanding this season.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Sunday, 27 October 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
jesus Jost looks like a cast-off from that Fox News attempt at a comedy show
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 28 October 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
yeah I was going to say that about the staging for the musical performances. this week, plus camille cabello's set, were pretty impressive.
― akm, Monday, 28 October 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
Taylor Swift and Billy Eilish had cool staging too, esp BI with that box room that rotated
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 October 2019 14:27 (four years ago) link
Apparently it's "funny" to deadname and misgender Caitlyn Jenner in order to make a Kanye joke.
very cool, SNL 👍!! pic.twitter.com/A60iigPJc0— Gamer Ghoul Ba'ath Water (@ComradeNoticeMe) October 27, 2019
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Monday, 28 October 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
hacky
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 28 October 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
Apparently it's "funny" tostill of Michael Che appears underneath, rest of sentence is moot
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 28 October 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
The semi-purist O'Donoghue SNL episode. If you only saw the censored scripts. https://t.co/zMrA5iMJye— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) October 31, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 November 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
"I don't think I could possibly hate Coldplay any more than I do," I thought to myself before this episode
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 3 November 2019 07:18 (four years ago) link
Did they basically make a seven minute campaign ad for Elizabeth Warren last night?
― Frederik B, Sunday, 3 November 2019 12:59 (four years ago) link
seemed like it
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 3 November 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
The baghdadi dog should've been the cold open. I really appreciated the duolingo commercial.
― Yerac, Sunday, 3 November 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
The gift meat segment had me helpless with laughter, due much more to the delivery of the lines than any greatness in the script.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
Aidy Bryant is becoming the new Kenan: just her presence and delivery will keep the worst sketch from completely sucking.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 3 November 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link