Saturday Night Live

pretty much all "gone viral" sketches i see from this show are pretty weak. but this was my favorite show during the Hartman era, and i still enjoy watching sketches featuring the original 7.

this sketch still kills me

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/standup-and-win/2868123?snl=1

this was my favorite show during the Hartman era, and i still enjoy watching sketches featuring the original 7.

mine too. also when i was aged 14 or whatever, the age at which SNL is the best thing ever.

i remember my parents thinking maybe we should change the channel when Phil Hartman was doing Charleton Heston reading Madonna's "Sex". he kept being asked to say the line "I like my vagina" over and over lol

"14... best thing" is a BS meme

good work slightly changing that To Catch A Predator sketch from 10 years ago, guys

I keep thinking DeNiro is Sam Waterston

Deniro is so painfully incapable, why do they keep hauling him back on stage? Then again everything about this show: why

I had it on last night while I was doing some mundane paper-worky stuff on my laptop and, aside from the bit at the end of Update where Michael and Colin did the jokes deemed too tasteless for air during the rest of the season, I don't think I looked up once.

DeNiro squinting/staring at the cue cards is expected; DeNiro squinting/staring at the cue cards for a wordless coffee-drinking movement is next level.

Deniro is so painfully incapable, why do they keep hauling him back on stage?

Baldwin stopped doing any kind of Trump impression once he'd been called out on badly copying Atamaniuk, but they keep etc etc

Deniro on SNL makes me appreciate Scorsese more and more.

he's old, guys

but yeah he shouldn't be doing snl things because he seems to barely care. not fun for anyone.

Then again everything about this show: why

Money. As I've pointed out many time on this thread, including this one in 2009:

SNL will not die until NBC becomes an all-infomercial channel. At which time it will show infomercials selling SNL-nostalgia compilation DVDs, featuring as host Eddie Murphy in the last throes of his decline.

i was under the impression this was the last year for a few of the women on the show (cecily, aidy, maybe kate?), if that's true their last sketch was that shitty singing trump cronies sketch which is just a cruel way to end their tenures

They got careers out of it. 40 years from now they'll be badmouthing it like Jane Curtin (with less, and more, reason).

I really enjoyed their Oran "Juice" Jones sketch, 30+ years late. I just don't get why.

Nor sure if I'm watching a new episode or a rerun from earlier in the season. I honestly cannot tell anymore. They made fun of Giuliani which means it's current to at least this past month.

season is over so it’s a rerun

I really enjoyed their Oran "Juice" Jones sketch, 30+ years late.

Same.

I recognize Kate McKinnon's considerable talent... I just don't like her!

And female comedians have to be good and likeable, got it.

sometimes I feel this way about guys too, I'm so confused!?

I think Kyle Mooney has no talent and I don't like him. So kind of samesies.

Crazy. Kyle is a genius.

I don't know you.

I don't think I have ever disliked someone on SNL the way I dislike him. He sucks the energy out of every skit. He may have been the worst part of the new Arrested Dev.

really enjoying that SNL is on break right now

I miss it. We watch it every Sunday morning during breakfast. We make our second coffee right before weekend update.

He was about the only funny person in the cast last time I checked in

cast is pretty good now imo. is Cecily Strong coming back?

Cast is great right now. Writing as always, hit or miss.

yes

Kyle Mooney is the best. I absolutely loved this Weekend Update bit from earlier this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw_APcNRK5Y

Put me down as a Kyle Mooney non-fan. I've been hoping he'd leave from basically the moment he arrived.

I don't like Kyle on SNL, but I loved Brigsby Bear

I think I've only watched 3 or 4 episodes over the last two seasons, though, so maybe he's somehow gotten less unfunny? I kinda doubt it.

find kyle mooney funny at times but usually when he does something a little abstruse (his dutch backpacker rapper character cracked me up), don't really love him in a generic skit

No, he's terrible. But I can see where his schtick may appeal to some people.

oh yeah and typical snl thread post: i stopped watching this show a year ago and don't think i'll ever go back, it's bad

Heidi Gardner should make waves. Millennial Girl may not be daringly original, but she kills it

Baldwin as Trump kinda shook me out of habitual viewing. I'll come back when it stops.

Mooney rules.

https://www.hulu.com/watch/698979

The weird 3 camera sitcom sketches Mooney and Beck Bennett do every once and a while are so
great imo.

All of the political cold opens are terrible aside from a stray single joke every now and then. They brought Fallon back to do Kushner ffs (the joke being he has a “ Mickey Mouse voice”. To me that’s such a damning example of how poor and out of touch the instincts are: take an inherently comical situation and make it unfunny.

I do like the thread being developed that Jeff Sessions' ancestors are possums.

Heidi Gardner should make waves. Millennial Girl may not be daringly original, but she kills it

― rip van wanko, Monday, July 9, 2018 1:24 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agreed, best first season in a long time. i think she's gonna be the show's all star in the next couple of years.

Most seasons only have about 2 really good episodes/capable hosts and then a handful of really good sketches scattered, but I still like to watch the show. I keep looking up Kyle Mooney thinking I am missing something. Nope. That whole awkward av club/amateur actor thing has no appeal to me.

I don't like Kyle on SNL, but I loved Brigsby Bear

― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, July 9, 2018 1:17 PM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't mind Kyle on SNL (he's pretty good imo), but yeah this movie was great, it really got passed over. One of the better movies about superfandom I've seen in a while.

Agreed about Heidi Garnder. I love this character:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE0ZZ3-9ofY

Oh yeah she was a breakout star this past season imo