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I think Chloe Fineman is great too.

I think Cecily Strong is great, but she's seemingly almost never on these days.

feels like Chris Redd is now the MVP of the cast (along with Kenan)

and he's great on Kenan's sitcom

Aidy has that thing where I start giggling the second she opens her mouth - kind of like Will Ferrell.

oh

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— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) April 24, 2021

fuck them so much

An awkward and introverted child, Musk was bullied throughout his childhood and was once hospitalized after a group of boys threw him down a flight of stairs.

I'm laughing already!

I hate how I'll probably watch this because I can't resist a trainwreck in the best of times and well...

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— Jeremy Kaplowitz (@jeremysmiles) April 24, 2021

Couldn't get Grimes a gig, huh?

Looks like at least one cast member has an opinion about it:

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Last night was good? I think? The Statler and Waldorf sketch at least was a highpoint of the season.

I did something I rarely do and watched the entire episode, because my 15-year-old is a big fan of both Key and Rodrigo. Definitely above the standard of most of the SNL content I've seen lately, especially the Muppet Show sketch and for some reason the high school graduation sketch. But let me ask you this, touched off by watching this with a teen -- is the percentage of jokes that are about fucking always this high?

yes. there were two incest jokes last week

the writers feel honor bound to have at least one sketch a week that is bulging with sexual content, all of it scantily clad in smug winking innuendoes even a child can see-thru.

They should have an end-of-season "watch with your teen" clip show where there's no jokes about fucking and it's all stuff like Waldorf/Statler where I get to productively explain to the kid some of the underlying memework

Anyone watch the Musk ep? Yikes.

nobody's admitted to watching the full thing but we talked about it on his thread and I'm sorry to say nobody thought it was very good

I only watched the opening and weekend update during that ep and then, boom, wannabe theater geek Elon showed up as the third correspondant.

I saw both and despite being a decent sized key and peele fan and the opposite of a musk fan I’d say the musk episode was a bit funnier though they were both pretty bad.

I refused to watch the Musk episode after seeing a clip of Gen-Z Hospital

Oh that was especially bad.

i thought the musk episode was pretty funny by current day SNL standards... the kyle mooney baby yoda thing on SNL was the hardest i've laughed at SNL in a long time. the keegan michael key episode was just awful to me, so many song based skits my god, it was really bad, there was something try hard about his performances that didn't connect w/ me at all, like everything was delivered 10% too extra but not in a comedic way

er sorry... baby yoda on weekend update

The bouncers beating the shit out of Statler was pretty funny

yeah as much as I like Key and Peele, Key's overacting ruins it for me sometimes. I haven't seen the episode but I know exactly what you're talking about

Mooney as Yoda as moronic influencer is comedy gold imo.

And the Key episode didn't work much for me other than the Last Dance sketch, which was pretty good.

i think it's prob a bad sign when the host's monologue is entirely about how badly they've wanted to host SNL since they were a kid and how hard they're going to try during the show. it really came thru during the sketches. cool for keegan tho

the last dance sketch was prob the best thing

The bouncers beating the shit out of Statler was pretty funny

Yes.

Mooney as Yoda as moronic influencer is comedy gold imo.

I don't get almost anything he does tbh but this also is about as good as Mooney stuff gets.

i think it's prob a bad sign when the host's monologue is entirely about how badly they've wanted to host SNL since they were a kid and how hard they're going to try during the show.

I would have laughed really hard if he had gone for a full-throated defense of MAD TV instead.

I like Mooney but I always feel like he's trying to be on a different show than what SNL is

imo that's a plus to Mooney's weirdo skits, at least he's trying to break out of the skit setup rut

What did you guys think of the little guy with the big ears randomly doing 90 seconds of standup in the middle of Weekend Update, is that a thing the featured players do now

Standard thing for feature players. I thought his was pretty funny.

imo that's a plus to Mooney's weirdo skits, at least he's trying to break out of the skit setup rut

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I like him a lot..just feels like he should be working in the larger Mr. Show/Kids in the Hall diaspora, like Tim & Eric axis, I Think You Should Leave Now etc

I was pleasantly surprised at how funny I thought Andrew Dismukes’ Update segment was. It does seem to be standard for featured players, but often in a bad way: “OK, you’ve barely been in three sketches all season, so if you wanna come back, make this count.”

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yeah Dismuke has been there all year and barely gotten any screen time in sketches, it was good to give him this to see why he got hired. That was funny enough.

Looks like they hired him just in case they need someone to play Mulaney's little brother in a sketch.

I thought the Key ep was much better than the Elon Musk one fwiw but it was still on the low-average side.

I think that’s pretty standard. I remember brooks whatever his name was doing a bit on weekend update. Was Peter Davidson still featured when he did his first update standup? Felt like it’s a last chance for some of these featured types to make an impression. Thought he was pretty good.

That Update slot can pay some unexpected rewards. I thought Ego Nwodim's harried Disney mom on the Elon ep was great, better than anything Elon was involved in.

yeah that was really funny

Leslie Jones also basically did standup bits on Update too, it's been fairly common for the featured players in the last 4-5 seasons.

I didn't watch, but all of twitter seems convinced Cecily, Aidy, Kate and Kenan (and probably Pete) are gone after tonight.

That makes sense—they've all been there FOREVER, Kenan in particular—but it would be wild if they just do a total reinvention like 1986 or 1994.

Bowen Yang = Jon Lovitz in this scenario.

I watched and also looked at twitter during the episode and didn't see anybody saying that (or anything about the show)

apparently all of Eurovision are being cast in SNL next season though?

I didn't see anyone say that but maybe they were just assuming that since the four of them opened the cold open by themselves and there was extra applause. I wouldn't be surprised if Kate and Aidy both leave, they clearly could make the jump to movies or their own shows now. Kenan already has but honestly I don't think he will ever leave now, I think he'll stay on the show for another 15 years.

this episode was probably the strongest of the season, each sketch was funny which is something that barely ever happens. Anya TJ was one of the better hosts; she was in almost every sketch and didn't seem very cue-card reliant either.

Jost and Che trading jokes written for each other was definitely the hardest I laughed at anything on SNL all season (granted, not exactly a super high bar).

And I can't see SNL doing a total reinvention -- not keeping anyone from the previous season -- ever again. The two times they did that -- 1980-81 and '85-'86 -- were notoriously shitty seasons, despite a handful of decent performers (and Eddie Murphy singlehandedly saving the show in '81, obviously).