Saturday Night Live

The Deirdre/Jared short should've been in the first hour.

another dire episode with maybe two funny bits. I'm old and have no idea who BTS are but I agree with teenagers across the world that they were the best thing on the show.

always thought Doug Martsch was a hot guitarist, good to see him getting his due with a new audience

He's big in Korea, iirc.

https://uproxx.com/tv/colin-jost-hate-saturday-night-live/

Michael Che defended his co-host with a foul-mouthed twitter attack on the writer of this article

che and jost are both terrible. che just thinks being mean-spirited and mumbly is edgy humor, but it just makes him a dickhead who is difficult to understand

Che probably didn’t like the line in the article about him being only slightly funnier than Jost.

A cool thing to do when you're famous is cuss out critics on twitter

Kinda thin-skinned for someone in his line of work, and his response is not really funny either . But Lorne apparently likes both he and Jost, so they have nothing to worry about

here is Che smearing @Steven_Hyden, who criticized Jost in Uproxx today https://t.co/AHg72RBr49 pic.twitter.com/tZjNHwiZmh

— Seth Simons (@sasimons) April 20, 2019

I think che and jost are fine.

they are the worst WU hosts since colin quinn

I hate them both pretty equally.

I think che and jost are fine.

― akm, Saturday, April 20, 2019 11:14 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I agree, but you gotta factor in the opportunity cost of who's not there/what you're missing

That should be more of a factor when deciding whether or not to watch Saturday Night Live, rather than when deciding who should be on Saturday Night Live.

wtf Jost is easily the best cast member besides McKinnon rn, not saying much but I like his watered down Norm MacDonald schtick fine. now I will read this article... "sucking off stray dogs" is a good line tbh

TS: Worst Scarlett Johansson decision: Ghost in the Shell or dating Colin Jost.

Hyden coming back to Jost and Johansson dating again and again in that article is really lame, but he's clearly a fan of his show (his baseball club is otm and how I feel about SNL, albeit as a much more casual fan/observer). Can't say I disagree with much else, I didn't know Jost was an Ivy League boy, that changes things considerably imo.

baseball club analogy*

I saw a bunch of Ghost In The Shell on Hulu. It wasn't nearly as terrible as the cultural appropriation outrage police made it out to be. I hold her working with Woody Allen three times against her way more than GitS.

dating Colin Jost.

Jesus christ Scarlett

also I think it's weird that anyone is so strongly anti-Che/Jost, they're about average when it comes to being shit at Weekend Update

Chevy Chase made his SNL bones a host of Weekend Update and he was pretty bad, too.

The smug preppy asshole is a dependable comic persona, and while I don't think that Colin Jost is its best current practitioner (that'd be Anthony Jeselnik), he plays the part pretty well, and I enjoy him (and Che) on Update most of the time.

Some real great performances from Al Franken, Robert Smigel and Adam Sandler in this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQvVxY20yOY

as an example of the best it has to offer, that's a good reminder that snl has always always always sucked

It suddenly occurred to me how many SNL cast members of that era became afaict prominent Hollywood Republicans. Victoria Jackson, Dennis Miller, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Adam Sandler, even GE Smith, if his appearance at the RNC convention was anything to go on.

i think Lovitz, too?

and you hate to hear it, but Norm's been on twitter stanning Jordan Peterson and Megan McCain. it's possible he's doing a bit, but i really don't think so.

yes lovitz too. norm is not doing a bit

wow -- i had no idea so many of these people were right-leaning (victoria jackson yes, but all of them? yikes!)

there is no "bit" funny enough to make stanning for jordan peterson and megan mccain amusing

jesus -- what is wrong with them?!

i mean most white people their age are conservative so not that weird?

and quite a few of them are rich too

are they? "most white people their age"? is it really that bad?

i think i know the answer i just feel horrified at the thought

norm is the biggest bummer but i take comfort in the fact that i haven't found him funny in years. so maybe his dipshit (srsly fucking Peterson?!?) conservatism sucked the comedy out of him. lovitz was the only other one on that list who's made me chuckle since like 1996 so eh whatevs.

now mike judge otoh :-(

not me, I still think Norm is funny and I liked his Netflix show

I give him a bit of a pass because he's pretty open about calling his views 'underdeveloped' and he avoids getting political in his comedy, but yeah it's kind of shitty. Should've figured as soon as I saw stuff like this

Scripture. Faith. Grace. Christ, Glory of God. Smart man says nothing is a miracle. I say everything is.

— Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) October 31, 2017

it’s like cool, man, yeah. but it just never ever stops there, does it?

brainworms don't care how fully developed your views are

I think you can add Dana Carvey to that list too

didn't know about Sandler, all I can see is he donated once to Rudy Guiliani? I don't know if he's a "prominent Hollywood Republican" in the same way as say, Dennis Miller

btw these guys are right about one thing, SNL should stop making everything about Trump because it's not really funny or clever and treating him like a cartoon character (who you were more than happy to have on as a host) only normalizes this piece of shit further

Shawn Mendes is really skilled at smiling while singing.

I've come to view Alec Baldwin's Trump impression as God's punishment on our country, we deserve it

it is truly salt in the wound

finally a tribute to Chris Farley in song

I figured we were close to everyone realizing that he wasn't that funny, just fat and loud, but here we are

I figured we were close to everyone realizing that he wasn't that funny, just fat and loud

Neat challop

That Clothes/Holes thing was one of the worst songs they have ever done.

I really liked Romano Tours and Rectix. I'm surprised no one had done a rectix type sketch before.

When the pic of Shawn Mendez popped up before the performance I thought it was a glam shot of Colin Jost.

I realized during the tedious Sandler Reunion thing that I have only seen three Adam Sandler movies (Punch Drunk, 50 first dates and Wedding Singer).

Mike Judge is, afaict, sort of a libertarian like the South Park guys, but I'm pretty confident that neither of them is remotely pro Trump or necessarily even Republican. Doesn't necessarily make anything better, but it could be worse.

Norm has always been a reactionary! He is funny though.

Norm thinks George Will is an intellectual lol

Rectix was kinda funny--the medical disclaimer that included "may change the power dynamic in your relationship" was a nice touch--and the Snapchat bit was a funny premise that they blew once they let the Sandler and Bennett characters in on the joke, but this was purely one of those "lets indulge a former cast member" episodes.