Saturday Night Live

"I'm just interested in A.I."

also I'm impressed they just let the concept of the sketch sit instead of playing everything to death, it's not like them to do that, dare I say the current crop of SNL writers are good at comedy

Exactly - it has almost an "alt comedy" vibe that I don't associate w/SNL... take a silly/random idea, and do it justice without overplaying it. A few of the sketches in the Kristen Wiig episode were like this as well (though I didn't think they were as funny).

(The "Jumanji" sketch from that ep. resonated for us, because we have that Ticket to Ride game sitting on our shelf; we played it once...)

The first Lisa from Temecula sketch was another one where I was like, wow, they're going to actually let the funny just be funny here and not step on their own toes

A. Whitney Brown on the new WTF

...and it's really good. Brown's a terrific storyteller, and Maron generally stays out of his way.

Joke Swap!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPH0HgotIE4

Che looked genuinely nervous about that Kendrick joke

Audience doesn't even know what the space laser shit is

most of that jewish stuff did not land at all.

generally pretty bad episode esp compared to the last few.

kendrick bit was funny though.

Bringing in a rabbi to do anti-semitic jokes in her presence is... not that funny?

I find Che and Jost to be so unpleasant 90% of the time. I would really like to see them both gone next season.

This episode was not that funny overall, but I appreciate that Jake Gyllenhall committed to every bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ9O_tl5Npk

Jason Reitman movie about the 90 minutes before the premiere.

Jon Batiste as Billy Preston!

More info and set photos:
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/saturday-night-first-look

Weird that Nicholas Braun is playing both Andy Kaufman and Jim Henson

Weird that people are hiring him.

aha JK Simmons as Uncle Milty

https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/66b128ddfee63a046034cd5d/master/w_1600,c_limit/SNL-First-Look-11.jpg

It doesn't fit chronologically, but perhaps they could do a sequel about Berle's episode, if only for the scene of Gilda Radner accidentally walking in on him and Alan Zweibel.

looks so bad. like a bad t.v. movie. could be a good cringey double-feature with the late night wars leno/letterman movie.

How much of the drug use are they going to depict, I wonder

it only covers the hours before the first episode so my guess is....a lot? dunno

a couple of them sort of look like the cast members if you squint, idk

xp - obviously I knew about Berle's infamous endowment, but I'd never heard that story and Gilda and Zweibel before, that's funny

Heard some Nickelback at lunch, brings me back to perhaps Melissa Villasenor's finest moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXjO8cqvNo

Speaking of Miltie ep---here's music guests Ornette Coleman & Prime Time:

what's it doin---anyway, if this don't show, it's still on Vimeo (I watched it; they're playing "Times Square.)
https://vimeo.com/20656866

Weird that Nicholas Braun is playing both Andy Kaufman and Jim Henson

OK, so apparently Benny Safdie was originally cast as Kaufman but had to drop out, which is too bad because I would've liked to have seen that.

funny, because that's the only thing that's caught my interest in seeing the movie.

It doesn't appear to be produced by Lorne Michaels, so maybe it won't be 120 minutes of blowing smoke up his ass (but it probably will be)

^^Apparently it is.

https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/saturday-night-movie-review-snl-jason-reitman-1235042845/

Subheadline:

Jason Reitman's love letter to Lorne Michaels has 1,000 great actors, about 10 decent laughs, and absolutely zero interest in anything beyond itself.

Can't say I'm surprised. He seems like a nice guy with good intentions, but I've never been a fan of his work. I hope he outdoes himself some day but there's something too calculated and too safe about his films to the point where they felt really shallow and never really engaging, if that makes any sense. In this case, I was expecting a feel-good Valentine to Michaels and the show as if he was getting on his knees and thanking them for everything they've done for comedy and by extension all of humanity.

*they feel really shallow

I’m curious how his father would have rendered this

New cast members:

https://deadline.com/2024/09/snl-season-50-cast-marcello-hernandez-ashley-padilla-1236079790/

In addition to the departures of Molly Kearney and Punkie Johnson, it came out today that Chloe Troast is also leaving--which especially sucks because I liked her a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDxYe2-8sI0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5E5DkBXyfw

Yeah I’m genuinely confused why they would let Chloe Troast go so soon, she’s great.

Maybe Troast realized that the writers had little idea how best to use her except as filler in the background of skits. It's a punishing grind to work there, so why keep on going if you think you're just spinning your wheels?

Her post was “unfortunately I was not asked back” rather than “I’m leaving for greener pastures” though.

Then I think we can blame Lorne. Again.

That's a pity, I thought Little Orphan Cassidy was the best thing anyone did in the last series, the jumanji sketch was the only other thing that came close

Good lord that moon sketch! Teary hysterics right now.

man, no doubt ... based on that skit, i'd say she's too good for this show. (and i generally enjoy the show.)

I thought she was used a bunch of always singing.

Yeah, it seems like either she'd be singing or playing kinda straight but skewed roles like the girlfriend in this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVjQImP8x5s

This one and "Lake Beach" were both such killer Country parodies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLQnU63I3IQ

Mya Rudolph's Kamala isn't the greatest SNL political impression ever, but she's got the voice and the mannerisms down; just in terms of accuracy, she had me laughing tonight (especially her reactions to Biden).

Carvey's Biden was excellent if slightly mean. Show overall wasn't that funny unfortunately (including the open). I did like Jean Smart breastfeeding a monkey. I do not give one fuck about Jellyroll?

"Guess what? And by the way..."--agree. Even fish-in-barrel Trump was funny: "They're doing freak-offs with the dogs, and they're making the geese watch--it's very sad." No interest in anything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nInAFSpw7ZQ