Yeah, I wasn't a big fan of that episode. Even the one good sketch, the second wife, was actually just the same one good joke three times.
Re: Saturday Night Live
Posted: Mon December 21, 2015 3:16 am
by zeb
tragabigzanda wrote:Rudolph just leaps off the screen for me (she was in another skit too). Wish she was doing more stuff lately.
So good.
Re: Saturday Night Live
Posted: Mon December 21, 2015 3:30 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Re: Saturday Night Live
Posted: Mon December 21, 2015 3:50 am
by Biff Pocoroba
Above average show but one of the greats. I laughed out loud several times during the Meet Your Second Wife Sketch, I thought was on of the best in a while as well. McKinnon's bit during Weekend Update was good but mostly because of her trying not to crack. I would like to see Maya host again too.
Loved the goodbye segment to close. I always like those anyway but this one was particularly special.
Was there any Christmas specific sketches? I don't remember.
Re: Saturday Night Live
Posted: Wed January 27, 2016 3:15 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: Saturday Night Live
Posted: Sun March 06, 2016 5:31 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: Saturday Night Live
Posted: Sun March 06, 2016 5:37 pm
by LoathedVermin72
They are in desperate need of some better writers.
Re: Saturday Night Live
Posted: Sun March 06, 2016 6:06 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: Saturday Night Live
Posted: Mon March 07, 2016 5:19 am
by zeb
You guys are hard markers. I've enjoyed quite a bit of this season.
Re: Saturday Night Live
Posted: Mon March 07, 2016 5:28 am
by Norah
zeb wrote:You guys are hard markers. I've enjoyed quite a bit of this season.
Well Australia is a couple decades behind so I'm pretty sure you're watching Norm MacDonald on the Update desk.
Re: Saturday Night Live
Posted: Mon March 07, 2016 6:02 am
by zeb
Norm's the best.
Re: Saturday Night Live
Posted: Mon March 07, 2016 6:03 am
by Norah
He sure is.
Re: Saturday Night Live
Posted: Mon March 07, 2016 5:36 pm
by jwfocker
Tried getting back into SNL but it's just not consistent enough. One or two good skits sprinkled around a lot of painfully average routines. The weekend update is still pretty good but the cameos from everyone else on weekend update can ruin it.
Re: Saturday Night Live
Posted: Mon March 07, 2016 6:18 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Pharaoh's impressions were a great example of their lackluster writing. Instead of building a clever sketch through which he could display his (admittedly amazing) impressions organically, they simply had him go through a barely-connected monologue of impressions, at the end of which he said, "I made it all up." I mean, what? What a waste of his talent.
Re: Saturday Night Live
Posted: Mon March 07, 2016 6:51 pm
by jwfocker
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Pharaoh's impressions were a great example of their lackluster writing. Instead of building a clever sketch through which he could display his (admittedly amazing) impressions organically, they simply had him go through a barely-connected monologue of impressions, at the end of which he said, "I made it all up." I mean, what? What a waste of his talent.
Yep. Great impressions that didn't go anywhere. That could have been something special if it actually built to a joke or well, anything at all.
Re: Saturday Night Live
Posted: Sun March 13, 2016 5:25 am
by LoathedVermin72
This is a really good episode so far.
Re: Saturday Night Live
Posted: Sun March 13, 2016 5:50 am
by Iago's Revenge
LoathedVermin72 wrote:This is a really good episode so far.
So you've let the whole donut licking, I hate America thing go?
I'm convinced she can sing though. Finally.
Re: Saturday Night Live
Posted: Sun March 13, 2016 6:02 am
by LoathedVermin72
She is a fantastic host. Her Jennifer Lawrence was spot on.
