Weekly SNL thread

ray-andallthatjazz86 Profile Photo
ray-andallthatjazz86
#1725Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/8/15 at 5:05pm

An embarrassment on every level. Though I did love Vanessa Bayer's reaction during the live tweeting bit and Cecily Strong/Kate McKinnon harmonizing.

The best part was Ivanka Trump coming out and pausing for applause...and nothing. Priceless.


"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

SNAFU Profile Photo
SNAFU
#1726Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/8/15 at 5:17pm

When I was up there yesterday dropping things off, I was told, when asked how the show was, "No one on the floor out there has the sense of fun they usually have." It showed!

 


Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!

SmoothLover Profile Photo
SmoothLover
#1727Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/8/15 at 7:55pm

The writing was really off probably because the writers probably felt they had to be careful for what ever reason.

SNAFU Profile Photo
SNAFU
#1728Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/8/15 at 8:15pm

The writing was off because Trump kept saying; "I won't say that, will do this or I don't like this."


Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!

uncageg Profile Photo
uncageg
#1729Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/8/15 at 8:38pm

Yeah, on Saturday morning news it was reported that he refused to do a lot they had written saying "it went to far"....


Just give the world Love.

MrSweetNAwful Profile Photo
MrSweetNAwful
#1730Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/8/15 at 9:17pm

uncageg said: "Yeah, on Saturday morning news it was reported that he refused to do a lot they had written saying "it went to far"..."

 And somehow the Live Tweets wasn't "going too far"!?


You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl

"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor

"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl

"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott

SmoothLover Profile Photo
SmoothLover
#1731Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/9/15 at 3:49am

The trick was probably to make fun of people in Donald's current world rather than the Donald. Amarosa being Secretary of State could have been a entire sketch. The actor that does Chris Christie could have had a sketch and Carly Fiorina could be spoofed for days...Joan Crawford thing scaring Trump where ever he goes.

 

The opening fell so flat and Larry David could not even save it.

Roscoe
#1732Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/9/15 at 9:02am

They missed no opportunity to depict Trump as an irredeemable scumbag, and they trashed his supporters via Drunk Uncle and even his sponsors via the Porn Girls, but it never took off somehow -- it just felt toothless and tentative, entirely lacking in the goforbroke brutality of the 1976 episode they ran earlier in the evening.  There was more aggression in any single image of Tina Fey's Palin than in the entire episode.


"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

Kad Profile Photo
Kad
#1733Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/9/15 at 12:03pm

I found the episode very uncomfortable to watch- and not just because of Trump's total lack of comedic chops. The sketches were lame and toothless, the performers could barely muster their usual enthusiasm (even Kate McKinnon!), and Trump was putting forth the bare minimum. I believe I read it was calculated he had a total of 12 on-screen minutes.


"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

Jordan Catalano Profile Photo
Jordan Catalano
#1734Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/14/15 at 11:44pm

"Arons List" legit made me LOL.


Also, that was a really beautiful opening to the show.

Phyllis Rogers Stone
#1735Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/15/15 at 1:30am

It was the most solid episode in a while. 

EricMontreal22 Profile Photo
EricMontreal22
#1736Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/15/15 at 4:23am

I was wondering if I found it so amusing tonight just because I'm jetlagged--I also thought it was one of the most solid episodes in a long time.  While an obvious target, I loved the school drama club skit this week

Call_me_jorge Profile Photo
Call_me_jorge
#1737Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/15/15 at 5:56am

I thought that Hamilton bit during weekend update was fun.


In our millions, in our billions, we are most powerful when we stand together. TW4C unwaveringly joins the worldwide masses, for we know our liberation is inseparably bound. Signed, Theater Workers for a Ceasefire https://theaterworkersforaceasefire.com/statement

CapnHook Profile Photo
CapnHook
#1738Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/15/15 at 10:00am

Very solid. Loved the music video with the girls singing about their first crushes. Love the drama club sketch. Loved the introduction. Loved Elizabeth directing herself in her opening.


"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

 Musical Master Profile Photo
Musical Master
#1739Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/15/15 at 11:55am

This week is a huge improvement compared to the awfulness of last week.

Jordan Catalano Profile Photo
Jordan Catalano
#1740Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/15/15 at 11:57am

That last sketch though was so damn ghetto. 

ray-andallthatjazz86 Profile Photo
ray-andallthatjazz86
#1741Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/15/15 at 1:31pm

Banks is a true comedian and a great performer. I didn't think the opening landed the way other people did, but I love Black Jeopardy and the experimental high school theatre sketch. Kate McKinnon switching to an American accent to say "oh my God, you haven't seen Hamilton?" was my favorite part though.


"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

SmoothLover Profile Photo
SmoothLover
#1742Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/20/15 at 9:12am

The actor was doing a good Ben Carson but audience response was so tepid. I think it is hard to parody someone who is already a parody of himself.

haterobics Profile Photo
haterobics
#1743Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/22/15 at 12:16am

Allegiance ran an Adele-inspired ad tonight meant to look like an SNL Digital Short:

 

 

FindingNamo
#1744Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/22/15 at 1:17am

I liked the Thanksgiving with the family bit tonight and the kids news segment had me squealing with laughter.


Twitter @NamoInExile Instagram none

jasonf Profile Photo
jasonf
#1745Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/22/15 at 10:42am

I thought that was definitely one of the stronger episodes this season so far.  I laughed out several times - the Adele dinner scene was an instant classic, I thought.  

The only disappointment I had was that blues sketch - it had so much potential but felt underwritten. It needed another pass or two by an editor.

I also have to say that Kyle Mooney is becoming the new Fred Armisen to me - the actor who does the same damn annoying thing in EVERY single sketch. I don't get Lorne Michaels' obsession with actors who do that. Shouldn't variety in characters be important (see: Kate McKinnon, Taran Killiam, Aidy Bryant)?


Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.

haterobics Profile Photo
haterobics
#1746Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/22/15 at 10:47am

jasonf said: "I also have to say that Kyle Mooney is becoming the new Fred Armisen to me - the actor who does the same damn annoying thing in EVERY single sketch."

 

Always hard to tell if they can only do one thing or they keep being asked to do that one thing again and again, though. Especially if they aren't also a writer.

jasonf Profile Photo
jasonf
#1747Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/22/15 at 12:33pm

That's true, but I think the really talented people rise above that. It's the same reason I didn't like Kristen Wiig - even though she was given a wide range of characters, she basically was the same person in everything she did. Contrast her with Kate Mckinnon where it sometimes takes thirty seconds to even realize it's her.  

 

I'm not saying it might not be the writing, but in the case of Wiig and Armisen, after eight years or so each, I think they pretty much proved they were the same thing over and over. Mooney's only been on for two seasons, but so far I'm not impressed.


Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.

FindingNamo
#1748Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/22/15 at 12:52pm

I love Mooney and Bennett's mumbling millennials, they crack me up.  I also don't mind when there are similarities between characters of some of the actors.  It doesn't seem like that big a problem on a show that has plenty of folks who are expert impressionists along with those who are playing variations.  I'll take a comedic world that includes chameleons like Bill Hader and stars like Wiig.


Twitter @NamoInExile Instagram none

SNAFU Profile Photo
SNAFU
#1749Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread
Posted: 11/22/15 at 8:20pm

I always felt that Wiig, like Molly Shannon before her, had three or four characters that they would dress up in different costumes and rename them. Shannon surprized me with her Stand Up Comedian character when she pulled that out during the end of her run.


Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!