My impressions: 50/50 Split on this week's show, w/Jenna Ortega as host. Positives: Cold Open. Oscars. Thought they all did a great job w/this - irony running high! While Keenan was very funny doing Mike Tyson as head of security = a VG premise, better yet was the Colin Farrell/Brendan Gleason bit. I was already laughing before Mikey Day, as Colin, even opened his mouth, just the look & expression. When they both began speaking, laughter increased to busting a gut levels ~ Found it thysterically funny! & still do, upon a rewatch of Cold Open... the "Oscar" of this episode! Jenna Ortega's monologue W/E Update: Several bits got me, VG Jingle Pitch The 1975 1st song, I'm In Love With You Negatives: Ridiculousness Parent Trap Please Don't Destroy: Road Trip James Austin Johnson at the end of W/E update. A time-filler, waste of him there. (*For a very funny, & VG piece w/him doing Bob Dylan, I'll upload that separately. I'd done so on another thread recently, maybe a couple of months back.) The 1975 2nd song, Oh Caroline Waffle House Neutral/OK The Exorcism I skipped the Molly Kearny piece during W/E update.
It seems like most of the bands are lip synching this year. I was impressed with The 1975 cut don't know much about them. But it sounded too polished to be live, but are they that good and it was?
A really solid show this week. All the negatives LiliacTeardrop listed were my favorites! Go figure! Especially ridiculousness, which I’ve rewatched three times and still crack up over. Waffle House and Please don’t Destroy were high points. The news was great as usual, and Molly’s take on the self-outed Lt. Gov Randy was priceless, although I guess it’s kind of sad that self-owning sanctimonious hypocrites are such comedy gold.
Rewatching three times is a good start. I think, as of today anyway, I can easily double that...including a DVR pass with the CC turned on. (Sadly, the word I thought was there but wanted to verify "visceral", referencing the "Finding Nemo fish", or something like that, was totally skipped over by the CC crew. I'm calling the word visceral.) Anyway, for my perceptions that was an outrageously funny episode. And that. I agree. It came to me in the course of watching that was an interesting almost reference to Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"--not quite the same story though. Anyway Ridiculousness was as funny as anything I've seen on SNL in quite a while.
This is a great article on SNL’s longtime cue card master Wally. I couldn’t handle this kind of pressure, and it turns out I likely couldn’t handle the physical toll as well. The SNL crew is part an amazing and sadly vanishing breed of live TV talent. Wally Feresten, the man behind SNL’s cue cards, is tiptoeing into the limelight dan c
I am finding that this season the skits benefit from being shorter than previous seasons; more jokes in less time and not stretching it out and padding.
Coming up: 4/1: Quinta Brunson / Lil Yachty 4/8: Molly Shannon / Jonas Brothers 4/15: Ana de Armas / Karol G
Wally is HILARIOUS on Late Night with Seth Meyers, where he is also the cue card man. He is very loved over there.
100 bucks sez that sketch has been pitched for awhile, with Sarah Sherman as the "possessed" and the guest host being the vicar. Sarah's version likely had more...uh..."fluids" involved.
For me this was the funniest sketch of the night.Road Rage and Signing,hands down the best of the night..both hands
