Saturday Night Live

[dad]

A run of new episodes start next week. I guess February sweeps are still a thing?

Jan 30: John Krasinski/Machine Gun Kelly
Feb 6: Dan Levy/Phoebe Bridgers
Feb 13: Regina King/Nathaniel Rateliff

Fresh episodes Feb 20 & 27 with hosts/musical guests TBA

duly noted. high hopes for that one.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Oof

[E.H. Ruddock]

Machine Gun Kelly might be the worst thing I've ever seen

[Bammer]

Machine Gun Kelly might be the worst thing I've ever seen

I could have told you that before you wasted 3 minutes watching him

[E.H. Ruddock]

The only thing I laughed out loud about all episode was the coke coffee joke on weekend update

[Biff Pocoroba]

I thought it was a good episode; no standout sketches but most were B quality. Krasinski fit in well, even though he played it straight for the most part. He definitely wasn’t a cue card reading stiff and was obviously enjoying himself. Good to see Aidy back too. Jost & Che were the best part of Update; both had some good lines. No stunt casting or guests was a good thing.
I didn’t think Machine Gun Kelly was awful, it was funny when he & Pete fell off the stage during the goodbyes just as they cut.

[blueviper]

This episode felt subpar. While a few sketches had good ideas they didn’t seem to work when acted out on stage. A lot of jokes didn’t land with the audience.

I left during weekend update with the Scorsese/lebowitz part. Bleh

[doug rr]

picked up where they left off...mostly rubbish..meh

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[The Argonaut]

I’ll always laugh at foreskin jokes

I bet you will

[Strat]

Gosh, i actually enjoyed that episode.

Beck Bennet rules and his my pillow guy had me rolling.

Machine Gun kelly sucks and ill never understand the kids these days.

The Blue Georgia was awkwardly funny. Some of the jokes didnt land at all and i kind of loved it.

[The Argonaut]

Machine Gun kelly sucks and ill never understand the kids these days.

To be fair, his last album was produced by Travis Barker and is more similar to that kind of music from fifteen or twenty years ago than to what the kids these days are into.

[ghost]

Gosh, i actually enjoyed that episode.

Beck Bennet rules and his my pillow guy had me rolling.

Machine Gun kelly sucks and ill never understand the kids these days.

The Blue Georgia was awkwardly funny. Some of the jokes didnt land at all and i kind of loved it.

Co-signed. Game night, sex rat, the loser, my pillow, and subway all cracked me up. I think not watching it live helps. I just watch the clips on Youtube the next day. Sets the bar lower in my mind which leads to more lols.

[spike]

the cold open what still works was good

[Biff Pocoroba]

Machine Gun kelly sucks and ill never understand the kids these days.

To be fair, his last album was produced by Travis Barker and is more similar to that kind of music from fifteen or twenty years ago than to what the kids these days are into.

That’s exactly the vibe I was picking up on. A more guitar driven, garage band sound compared to today’s pop music but something I would have hated circa 2003. Good Charlotte was what I was specifically reminded of. It didn’t give me “this is music?”, old man feeling some SNL musical guest give me.

[epilogue]

Yeah I liked a lot of this episode. Definitely songs misses but overall enjoyable. I certainly thought much of it was funnier than the studio audience did.

[Stickman]

That open was great. O.J. was a great gag.

The Loser was good.

Update had some good lines. Mooney as Scorsese was hilarious.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[ghost]

I liked the phrase "bubble of cucks."

[Stickman]

Anyone else watching the vintage eps they air after the main show? Seeing STP and Faith No More live was great.

And I forgot how great The McLaughlin Group was. WRONG!