I like Kyle Mooney. I did not like this episode. First half had some ok bits.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 2 February 2014 06:31 (ten years ago) link
liking the kyle mooney. first half was solid thx to melissa mccarthy but even she couldn't save the second half.
― balls, Sunday, 2 February 2014 06:36 (ten years ago) link
Kyle Mooney is still hit-or-miss. Sometimes, I'm on board but tonight's Super Bowl thing at the end was a dud - I just don't think I'll ever "get" Tim and Eric-style awkward humor (while I totally loved Tom Goes to the Mayor). That's what he was going for, right?
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 2 February 2014 06:39 (ten years ago) link
The episode as a whole needed more Kate McKinnon. She's the best.
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 2 February 2014 06:40 (ten years ago) link
She IS.
The Kyle Mooney thing at the end was one of his web characters that goes back a while pre-SNL. Lame on the web, lame on tv.
I knew they would bring Stefon back to send Seth off, but that whole thing fell a little flat. Too bad, because that will surely be the final time Stefon ever appears on SNL.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 2 February 2014 06:42 (ten years ago) link
Imagine Dragons predictably have EXTRA DRUMS. And strings. Who was rapping?
― atom bomb, vietnam, missiles on the moon (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 2 February 2014 08:19 (ten years ago) link
Kendrick Lamar
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 2 February 2014 08:23 (ten years ago) link
you probably know him better as Benzisto Mejustacar
― scott c-word (some dude), Sunday, 2 February 2014 11:08 (ten years ago) link
Show was humming along great until the museum sketch, which seems to have poisoned everything that came after it.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, February 2, 2014 1:03 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the beginning of that was the exact moment i went to bed, so i guess i made the right decision. thought McCarthy had some of her best sketches to date last night, especially the vision board one and the crazy politician one
― scott c-word (some dude), Sunday, 2 February 2014 11:39 (ten years ago) link
― Murgatroid, Sunday, February 2, 2014 1:40 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well, there's not much she could've done this week. I mean, it's not like Justin Bieber has been in the news lately or anything.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 2 February 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
I thought the CVS Valentines Day commercial was great.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 February 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
infinitely better than past times mccarthy has hosted merely cuz most sketches hinged on her character being "weird" or angry rather than mostly mining for fat joeks
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
Cvs was good and I liked the senator bit and the black history month thing. Maybe spent too much time on pretaped stuff.
― dan selzer, Monday, 3 February 2014 01:13 (ten years ago) link
I play Beth!
― the Norwegians are leaving! (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 3 February 2014 05:24 (ten years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2014/01/lorne-michaels-on-tonight-show-snl.html
― Mordy , Tuesday, 4 February 2014 23:35 (ten years ago) link
i loved the kyle mooney superbowl bit
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 23:44 (ten years ago) link
I did too. I like Mooney! He's probably not right for SNL though. I think he used to do that sports bit on Fallon or Kimmel or something?
― NO GODS, NO MUSTARD (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 23:48 (ten years ago) link
as an employee of S FM0 Ma and one of the possible 5 people who could be "Danny Trans", the museum sketch was disconcertingly odd.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 23:49 (ten years ago) link
pretty sure my first encounter with mooney doing that same sorta bit was as norm macdonald's "nephew" on the briefly lived, if brilliant, Sports Show
― Clay, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 23:51 (ten years ago) link
!
I actually searched on Twitter after the sketch aired to see if anyone from the museum had commented on it.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 00:25 (ten years ago) link
Sparkle is your real name Danny Cis because that'd be a giveaway.
― NO GODS, NO MUSTARD (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 00:30 (ten years ago) link
It was verified by our education staff that something similar had been staged during the Kahlo show a few years ago... and run ins like that happen in the galleries all the time. It was pretty accurate all things considered.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 05:38 (ten years ago) link
Didn't see that coming.
http://splitsider.com/2014/02/fred-armisen-is-late-nights-new-band-leadercurator/
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 10 February 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
UPDATE: A rep at NBC has confirmed the members of the 8G Band with Fred Armisen. From left to right in the photo, the band includes Seth Jabour (Les Savy Fav) on guitar, Kimberly Thompson (session drummer who has played for Beyoncé, amongst many others) on drums, Eli Janney (Girls Against Boys) on keyboards, and Syd Butler (Les Savy Fav) on bass.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 10 February 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
Armisen is more off-putting than anything else he is, certainly more so than funny or musically talented
― amerie guy (sleepingbag), Monday, 10 February 2014 23:24 (ten years ago) link
Two members of Les Savy Fav!
― jaymc, Monday, 10 February 2014 23:34 (ten years ago) link
xp I could understand that feeling as applied to someone like Morrissey or Woody Allen, i.e. where the person has been off-putting in ways mostly independent of their entertainment product. But I don't know how you could feel that way about Fred Armisen. I'd guess that you find him off-putting because he shows up in stuff and you already think he's not funny or musically talented?
― the Norwegians are leaving! (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 10 February 2014 23:50 (ten years ago) link
go fred go
― COMME des ÇIGARBOX (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 00:04 (ten years ago) link
look forward to him occasionally appearing in musical sketches whenever the heck he wants still
― eric banana (s.clover), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 00:28 (ten years ago) link
does this mean he's done with that portland show? f--g a, fred armisen. go back to portland.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 00:31 (ten years ago) link
think the article said he would be absent from the band while doing other things, e.g. portlandia
― the Norwegians are leaving! (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 00:47 (ten years ago) link
yeah if Max Weinberg could run off and do Springsteen tours and still hold down the Conan gig i think Fred can go do Portlandia and the occasional movie role. i imagine he'll be in sketches and stuff a lot, although it's hard to picture him being a full-on Andy Richter type figure, because he's so rarely played 'himself' or anything resembling a normal guy on SNL or whatever, and when he does it comes off very weird.
― scott c-word (some dude), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 01:56 (ten years ago) link
thought he was hilarious in brooklyn 99 and broad city. hope he continues that type of thing.
― the Norwegians are leaving! (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 02:05 (ten years ago) link
tonight's episode was really enjoyable
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 2 March 2014 07:55 (ten years ago) link
I watched the Ellen cold open and bits of the Peter Pan thing and had to turn it off.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Sunday, 2 March 2014 07:57 (ten years ago) link
I liked most of it, but especially the Dance Floor Killer thing.
Colin Jost is redundant and unfunny. Cecily Strong should be flying solo on WU.
The strings in that 2nd Beck song are gorgeous.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 2 March 2014 08:02 (ten years ago) link
ha this was ok. i'm hoping that them hiring 50% white extras for the soul train scene was meta.
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 2 March 2014 08:05 (ten years ago) link
I thought it was a woeful episode. The way the cohosts on weekend update laugh and smile was so annoying. Several skits started funny and then just dragged on. Plus Beck was a snooze.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 March 2014 23:03 (ten years ago) link
enjoyed the 12 years a slave casting call and jedediah and shaq and barkley (though pharoah's flub there was part of a weird trend for the night) on update but thought the rest was pretty poor
― balls, Sunday, 2 March 2014 23:47 (ten years ago) link
The strings in that 2nd Beck song are gorgeous. --Johnny Fever
Everythiiiiing in its riiiiight plaaace
― VegemiteG I R L (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 02:50 (ten years ago) link
Heh. I liked that song a little bit. But I still don't go for srs Beckness.
― brains hangin (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 06:01 (ten years ago) link
I dunno if "Trick, I am not Bill Withers. Do not lean on me, okay?" is a real Katt Williams line or not, but I'm still laughing about that one.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 9 March 2014 05:52 (ten years ago) link
That MRA sketch was a disaster.
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 9 March 2014 06:07 (ten years ago) link
thought it was great thru update, mooney short the only thing i liked after that. dunham was awesome. sometimes i wonder if dvr was invented specifically to ffwd thru the music act on snl.
― balls, Sunday, 9 March 2014 06:53 (ten years ago) link
He wasn't sweating enough to do a real good Katt Williams.
― DonkeyTeeth, Sunday, 9 March 2014 06:55 (ten years ago) link
I don't hate Colin Jost (I think). He's the guy who created Drunk Uncle with Moynihan after all. But he really has no business being on camera, much less co-anchoring Update. Cecily's got this, Lorne.
Ooh Child short was fun. I've already forgotten most of the rest of it, except Moynihan as the older brother in the tween girl show sketch was gold.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 9 March 2014 07:08 (ten years ago) link
Oh right, the monologue...Kate McKinnon playing an old lady is always a good time.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 9 March 2014 07:09 (ten years ago) link
Is it wrong of me to wish Kate McKinnon would do her Russian woman again?
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Sunday, 9 March 2014 07:13 (ten years ago) link
I don't understand the National. Like I never heard of them and suddenly it seems like everyone likes them. And they sound like mature music for Interpol fans?
― brains hangin (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 9 March 2014 08:54 (ten years ago) link
National frontman is totally Thom Yorke cosplaying as Walter White amirite
― I'm a dais, I'm a dais (zero of the signified), Sunday, 9 March 2014 09:08 (ten years ago) link