I thought Jake was a great host last night,from a singing trucker to a flower.I thought this sketch was so funny and so wrong Who knew flowers and a bee were so kinky!
Last night was a real dud, IMO. No great sketches (though I thought the HGTV parody was at least pretty funny) so-so cold open, below-average weekend update. You could tell that Jake was giving it all to the material he had to work with, though.
The funnest line in the whole show for me was when the mother says “perverts and tuggers can’t see mama Bea make her dirt”
The writing has generally been on the upswing this season, but last night was awful. Felt like the product of a writing room that's run out of ideas.
Yup. Just an atrocious episode. I don't get it. They have so much material to work with right now and end up wasting time on the stupidest stuff. We actually had a Senator of the United States reading from a children's book and ranting about whether a Supreme Court nominee is concerned about "racist babies." You can't make this stuff up. It's comedy served on a plate. And they don't get Aidy Bryant to do really the one thing she's good at (being Ted Cruz) but yet can find time in the show to team her up with Bowen Yang and do some utterly pitiful bit in the middle of WU.
I was thinking the same thing. The only thing I could think of was that maybe she/they might be conscious of wearing it out, as they've gone to it a lot. As for the thing she does with Yang on Weekend Update - it's been done at least once before, and was really well received, so I guess they tried it again. I don't find it all that funny, but then I never thought Bill Hader's "Stefon" character was all that funny either (and I live in NYC and got some of the references), but that one was really popular.
So her and Yang had done this bit before? I see the show regularly but don’t remember it and that may well be because of how forgettable it is. I actually hate the way WU gets interrupted because I think most of those bits are just so awful. And usually WU is a nice break even if the show is crap. Although this week it wasn’t much good either.
Yes, most recently in January. I can't remember if they've done it before that though. There are weekend update sketches that I think are worse, though - both from Heidi Gardner: the "every boxer's girlfriend" and the "teenager movie reviews" I've never laughed once at those.
Those were brutal, for sure. The other one that comes to mind is the Kate & Aidy “meat” company thing. Just putrid.
Earlier this evening my wife and I were discussing the show. We thought the HGTV parody was the best skit of the show. Not a great show overall. I have to say Kyle Mooney is the secret weapon in a lot of skits. He was great, as a sap, in the HGTV parody. He doesn't seem to get much publicity outside the show.
Consensus seems to be my prediction came true. I only watched the opening and Weekend Update and did not think either was good so I bailed on watching the rest.
The male characters in the HGTV parody were played by Mikey Day, Jake Gyllenhaal, and James Austin Johnson.
Disagree with the bashers on this latest episode. Why'd You Like It was a brilliant five minutes of comedy, extremely well thought out. The one with the Flowers was inventive. The show is doing mostly original skits now, few recurring, which I appreciate.
I’d agree that Why’d You Like It was good. It was let down a little to have his wife brow beating him from the audience, but it was a very good idea and had some really good writing.
Dismukes is mostly underwelming. Maybe he'll get better, who knows. Aristotle whoever is a blank, only remember him from that one weekend update sketch. Cindy Sherman is... interesting, at least. She seems kinda weird. I want to like her because SNL can always use more weirdness. But so far she hasn't really knocked it out of the park with anything that I can remember. The meatball sketch was sufficiently weird but also way too weird and not enough funny. So, overall unimpressed with her so far, but hopeful. That we got these 3 in and lost Beck Bennett while still keeping Mooney seems unfair.
Am I the only one who finds Bowen Yang to be a one-trick pony? He seems to basically play… himself… in every sketch he’s in. I never found him particularly funny, personally, but his schtick is really beginning to wear thin. It would be nice to him try something else, anything else, just to see if he’s capable of doing it.
I kind of like how Weekend Update has gone from having 3 "guest interruptions" to just 1 or 2. There were times when it just seemed interminable.
Most of those "Guests" on Weekend update I cannot stand. I find the funniest part of Weekend Update is Che and Jost they could do away with those ridiculous "guests" and it would still be good just my opinion
I think a lot of the appeal from Stefon came from Hader's inability to keep a straight face. People love to see "SNL" performers crack up on camera. If Stefon had lacked that, I think the sketch would've faded quickly...
Or as I like to call it, "...right after John Mulaney goes away". And this is not to put it all on some ex-writer who isn't even a series regular; it has to do with the "politics" in the writers room in general, I think. One of those constantly-desperate situations where somebody says something could be funny, and for some reason everybody helps him bang it into a sketch even if they don't wanna say out loud it's going anywhere. Then it's on to the next grasping-at-straws/look-out-the-window-for-a-topic session. Ever notice how many sketches just...end? With no real point to that being the place to do that? That's because they have the wind-up, but none of the sketches makes "a pitch", and communicates the whole plot. This can work with one-panel gag cartoons, but not with a small dramatic piece lasting a duration on stage. Beginning...middle...end. Setup...execution...climax. Just because you don't have a curtain in that theater, doesn't relieve you of the necessity to metaphorically find a place to close it.