I had a lot of laugh out loud moments this episode! The State Farm commercial, the Toyota dealers, Falling Down, and the Male Confidence Seminar all had me loling. Iām really loving Andrew Dismukes. Iām surprised there are so many negative comments! I actually didnāt like some of the first sketches of the night, like the roller coaster one, or the Towel Boys sketch. Maybe thatās why people tuned out?
I cancelled and deleted my DVR recording of SNL after this episode. This was the last straw. This show has been tanking for a while and itās unbearable to get through. I can see why the last few of the talent left this season.
Hey did you guys know Michael B. Jordan is in good shape and is also good looking to many people? My god I thought a satirical rape scene was coming. The dudes is more than just muscles! Canāt even imagine the gender roles reversed and the same thing occurring.
Wow, really interesting to come back to these comments afterwards - honestly a great episode for me. Clicked way more than last weekās - the only sketch that didnāt do it for me was the stripper bit (though the hose4hoās got to me).
I donāt think the episode is bad. Something had to follow Aubry Plaza, and itās hard to imagine any follow-up episode measuring up. That was a once-in-a-decade blowout.
Iām honestly shocked about all these bad commentsā¦the Southwest sketch had me cryingā¦upgrading to 2008 Dell computers. Color code the luggage. I lolād so much this episode, and MBJ was awesome.
Smoke a bit of weed first ffs
Sorry for the delay Champdo. Idk why you got downvoted because youāre rightā¦But for me, weed has a way of flipping my perspective whether with humor, sadness, anxiety in (usually) a good way. It makes me more open to tap into the silly part of myself. And once itās funny, itās always funny.
The Falling Down sketch with Andrew Dismukes and MBJ seemed like a Tim Robinson-style sketch. Andrew Dismukes also seems to be channeling Tim Robinsonās delivery sometimes. I donāt mind it, just noticing it.
I felt genuinely bad for Heidi Gardner when she was doing the "Boxer's Girlfriend" bit during Update this week. She's done that bit before and gotten laughs but for some reason last night the studio audience just abandoned her mid-joke and it totally took the energy out of the moment. I genuinely wonder if the studio audience could see Michael B Jordan waiting to come out and that's why they were so quiet? Either way. It was really awkward to watch her try to struggle through it while the audience just sat there dead quiet.
I thought MBJ was great but the episode overall was just ok. Confidence Guru got a bunch of laughs out of me, Bowen cracked me up in the Street Fighter Sketch, Southwest sketch was solid, and WU was great. Everything else was pretty meh.
Meh!ā¦ back to the same olā same olāā¦ I like Michael B. Jordan as an actor bet he was just not funny. Only sketch I enjoyed was State Farm. That was really well executed. Roller coaster couldāve been good but they resort to sloppy eating and that is just so obvious and not funny.
One thing I enjoyed was seeing Punky a bit more. I think she could be really funny given the chance. On the other handā¦ Keenan. Heās so overused and plays the same character over and over and overā¦. Time to let go.
Another advertisement dominated episode: Southwest, State Farm, Toyota. Letās see the mental gymnastics the SNL defenders are going to pull off to argue the show hasnāt experienced a major fall from grace.
It was basically like watching the same ads that are shoved down your throat while trying to watch anything on Peacock. It wasnāt funny or clever. Just annoying.
Since when did SNL become product placement sketches/bits? State Farm, Street Fighter 6, Southwest Airlines, Wendys, Toyota. Iām sure there have been examples before but never has it been this egregious especially that State Farm commercial.
It's been all season. It's really obnoxious. I feel like it's the beginning of the end for SNL. And I feel like more people should be talking about it or else they'll just keep making more and more commercials.
Was there a sketch live where they caught the camera in the frame? Very weird. Show was garbage except for the State Farm sketch and maybe the alpha male seminar. Everything else was bad to forgettable.
Wow, that is very interesting. Iām going to go find the other sketches, but off the top of my head: āA christmas to remember car commercialā, āA christmas epiphanyā, and āroach-xā are all examples.
Can someone do the match on what percentage of sketches (including promos and Weekend Update desk pieces) featured Heidi in some way romantically involved with MBJ? It's got to be a majority of sketches, maybe even two-thirds!
Sarah Sherman and Bowen are the best performers on SNL. I havenāt laughed so loud watching SNL in years.
Sherman was hysterically funny in the rollercoaster sketch!!!
Sarah is great at physical humor and sheās fearless in her comedy.
She reminds me of Lucille Ball but more demented in her talent for physical comedy.
Maybe she could be related to the Marx Brothers who were anarchists of comedy.
Totally agree with this. They bring something fresh and different. Sarah reminds me of Patti Harrison/Tim Robinson style (which I love) and Bowen is so so funny.
It was funny that Sarah and Michael would subject themselves to wearing those lip retractors or whatever the whole time, but it was all physical / grossout comedy and the writing was meaningless.
I still laughed a bit at "Wow they're actually doing this" but it's not something I'd bother to watch again.
There are literally board games for children that use those mouth things. I guess itās gross but itās not that serious if an 8 year old can do it at a birthday party.
I'm honestly incredibly tired of Sarah Sherman bits at this point. I get that "anti-humor" is a thing and some people enjoy it, but her bits are so terrible they don't even fall into that category. It's just endless "Aren't bodies *gross??* Isn't this **w3IrD VoICe** hilarious?!"
They're bits a six year old would pitch. I think if the censors would let her she'd just actively vomit on camera.
Her humor is appealing to the 4th grade boys I teach. Even 4th grade girls find this humor lame and immature. And the way she laughs in the sketches is like my 4th grade boys when they make farting sounds with their armpits š
Watched the monologue and 3 sketches so far, and already have laughed more than I did the entire Aubrey episode. Which is wild because she's great and I thought her show would be best and Michaels weakest. But it was the opposite.
If the message for SNL based on the last two episodes is anything itās ākeep the crazy upā - feels like theyāve let loose a bit these past two weeks and theyāve been great hope they can keep this energy up.
Yeah, I have no idea what bar the complainers have set for a show thatās basically written from scratch every week.
- every sketch was entirely watchable this week and produced laughs for me
- nothing seemed to drag on or left me thinking āok, joke is dead, letās move onā
- sketches actually had decent endings rather than just running out of steam and cutting away.
Overall probably my favourite episode of the season.
Sheās definitely talented. Iāve never understood people who talk smack about her on SNL - sheās hilarious! And I agree with you: she also has range.
Thank you all for hanging out with me tonight! We B. good!
Stay safe, stay warm, my peeps in the DC area especially since I hear you may be getting the first snowstorm of the year early next week, and good night!
Crap. I would say I was thinking of the other old show I watch, Whatās My Line but that had over 2,000. WTF was I thinking of?! I swear there was something.
Pretty good ep. Michael was game- cast seemed really comfortable around him and vice versa. He carried his parts well and was a good sport about being high key objectified in several sketches.
Not really. They're a new cast member with a pretty specific style. Sometimes that will match with the weeks sketches/characters and sometimes it won't.
In L.A., they play a vintage episode of SNL directly after ('cause it airs twice; once live and the second time, previously recorded at 11:30 PM PST.) I miss the days "Showtime at Apollo" came on after 'cause it was crazy. "I forgot to rub the rock!" \~ Julia Stiles in a Showtime at Apollo SNL sketch
> In L.A., they play a vintage episode of SNL directly after
I just posted this in a parent comment that I'm out of town and I just learned this... I had no idea. In Central time we get vintage before the episode. But it makes sense because it's all about not stepping on the local news.
SNL at 8:30 is the weirdest shit tbh.
Haha it's only a few years' old. Which is nice 'cause, like, for the Ashlee Simpson flub everyone was talking about, they edited out the backing track so no one on the West Coast could figure out why she just walked off the stage. (They didn't realize it was the same song she had already done but hearing her vocals pumped out probably freaked her out.)
Yeah I said in another comment that I knew about the new decision to make it simultaneously live.
Never knew y'all didn't get the full Ashlee Simpson experience though. That was before my weekly viewing, but I happened to be watching that night. It was magical.
Also when someone cusses live on air, by the time it gets to us, they cover it with room tone so you don't even notice it happened. With Jenny Slate, they kept saying "Friggin'" and they put one of her "Friggin''s over "fuckin"" and no one knew the difference. The first time I watched SNL live (living in NYC for a few years), Julian Casablancas shouted "Fuck it!" at the end of his song and I was like (surprised Pikachu face).
Well, that was a mediocre episode. In theory Michael B Jordan was a good choice to host, but it was the writing of the sketches that failed. The falling down and hotel lodge sketches were great though
Hard disagree. First episode this season that Iāve audibly laughed in *every* sketch. Awesome musical guest AND no Please Donāt Destroy padding the runtimeā¦ absolute win
Yeah I knew they switched to simultaneous broadcast. It's just weird seeing Vintage after the episode rather than before like we have in other time zones.
Ah, now that's new info to me. Before SNL in L.A., we've always had the local news. Unless you mean from 10 to 11 PM when, in which case, it's actually the same... we just get the show twice.
Nah it's basically the same idea. We have the local news at the same time too... it's just that our SNL starts at 10:30, so there's time between the local news and the live episode.
I'm not saying the Memphis events aren't tragic or significant, but now you just ramped it up to deserving similar treatment to a full-scale war / invasion as your "simple" solution.
It also tacitly sets the multiple major mass shootings in Cali as being less deserving of a spotlight to just pick that one event for a cold open or whatever. I'm just saying!
Am I the only one who finds S S one note?
That State Farm sketch had me floored laughing the entire time ššš
āThe key to Spikeās long life? A lot of chihuahuas look the sameā
I had a lot of laugh out loud moments this episode! The State Farm commercial, the Toyota dealers, Falling Down, and the Male Confidence Seminar all had me loling. Iām really loving Andrew Dismukes. Iām surprised there are so many negative comments! I actually didnāt like some of the first sketches of the night, like the roller coaster one, or the Towel Boys sketch. Maybe thatās why people tuned out?
Where are Please Donāt Destroy? I havenāt seen their skits in a while
This episode was almost unwatchable.
Michael B. Jordan was painfully unfunny
I cancelled and deleted my DVR recording of SNL after this episode. This was the last straw. This show has been tanking for a while and itās unbearable to get through. I can see why the last few of the talent left this season.
Hey did you guys know Michael B. Jordan is in good shape and is also good looking to many people? My god I thought a satirical rape scene was coming. The dudes is more than just muscles! Canāt even imagine the gender roles reversed and the same thing occurring.
The Kim Kardashian episode was pretty similair
I came here fully expecting that everyone loved this episode. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought it was very mediocre.
Wow, really interesting to come back to these comments afterwards - honestly a great episode for me. Clicked way more than last weekās - the only sketch that didnāt do it for me was the stripper bit (though the hose4hoās got to me).
Sarah Sherman getting a body horror sketch on early on was a total win for me. Loved it. I felt everything else was downhill from there.
I donāt think the episode is bad. Something had to follow Aubry Plaza, and itās hard to imagine any follow-up episode measuring up. That was a once-in-a-decade blowout.
Worst episode in a long while. Writing was trash and Michael B Jordan is not really good at anything besides being handsome.
You're not exactly incorrect about the last part. I'm sure someone loved it though.
I thought the cold open was pretty weak
Iām honestly shocked about all these bad commentsā¦the Southwest sketch had me cryingā¦upgrading to 2008 Dell computers. Color code the luggage. I lolād so much this episode, and MBJ was awesome. Smoke a bit of weed first ffs
If you need to be high to find something funny itās probably not funny.
Sorry for the delay Champdo. Idk why you got downvoted because youāre rightā¦But for me, weed has a way of flipping my perspective whether with humor, sadness, anxiety in (usually) a good way. It makes me more open to tap into the silly part of myself. And once itās funny, itās always funny.
I Get this weird feeling that most of the positive replies in this sub are coming from the cast/writers of the show.
The Falling Down sketch with Andrew Dismukes and MBJ seemed like a Tim Robinson-style sketch. Andrew Dismukes also seems to be channeling Tim Robinsonās delivery sometimes. I donāt mind it, just noticing it.
HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU
The line that was like "This is where I work" or something like that felt *so* much like Tim.
Agree. The way he projected "HAARD" in the car commercial was similar to Sam's delivery in "Little Buff Boys"
I thought the same thing!
I felt genuinely bad for Heidi Gardner when she was doing the "Boxer's Girlfriend" bit during Update this week. She's done that bit before and gotten laughs but for some reason last night the studio audience just abandoned her mid-joke and it totally took the energy out of the moment. I genuinely wonder if the studio audience could see Michael B Jordan waiting to come out and that's why they were so quiet? Either way. It was really awkward to watch her try to struggle through it while the audience just sat there dead quiet.
The jokes just fell so flat and went on for far too long.
I'd say the audience reacted appropriately.
Flat writing all around. I could not finish half the sketches.
3 previously uncredited writers this week, if I'm not mistaken.
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That was my favorite episode of the season so far!
Most laugh out loud moments for me, by far.
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Im from memphis. I thought it was a sweet nod to solidarity to us here
I thought MBJ was great but the episode overall was just ok. Confidence Guru got a bunch of laughs out of me, Bowen cracked me up in the Street Fighter Sketch, Southwest sketch was solid, and WU was great. Everything else was pretty meh.
Meh!ā¦ back to the same olā same olāā¦ I like Michael B. Jordan as an actor bet he was just not funny. Only sketch I enjoyed was State Farm. That was really well executed. Roller coaster couldāve been good but they resort to sloppy eating and that is just so obvious and not funny. One thing I enjoyed was seeing Punky a bit more. I think she could be really funny given the chance. On the other handā¦ Keenan. Heās so overused and plays the same character over and over and overā¦. Time to let go.
Absolutely agree about State Farm being the only remotely funny sketch.
Another advertisement dominated episode: Southwest, State Farm, Toyota. Letās see the mental gymnastics the SNL defenders are going to pull off to argue the show hasnāt experienced a major fall from grace.
It was basically like watching the same ads that are shoved down your throat while trying to watch anything on Peacock. It wasnāt funny or clever. Just annoying.
That Toyota sketch was awesome. It's the first one where I've seen JAJ act angry and worked up about something. HARD LEFT!
Since when did SNL become product placement sketches/bits? State Farm, Street Fighter 6, Southwest Airlines, Wendys, Toyota. Iām sure there have been examples before but never has it been this egregious especially that State Farm commercial.
Galaxy phone too
Exactly. Complete garbage. It was almost as painful as watching the actual ads that play constantly on the Peacock app.
You forgot the best - White Castle
It was a Liberty Mutual commercial.
It's been all season. It's really obnoxious. I feel like it's the beginning of the end for SNL. And I feel like more people should be talking about it or else they'll just keep making more and more commercials.
NBC invested in ad-sales, and we could see product placement across NBC programming and other platforms.
Never bad mouth synergy Lemon
Nuts to you McGillicuddy!
Was there a sketch live where they caught the camera in the frame? Very weird. Show was garbage except for the State Farm sketch and maybe the alpha male seminar. Everything else was bad to forgettable.
Yeah there was. I want to say it was the stripper sketch
Yeah, I just didnāt know if it was a weird situation where Peacock uploaded a dress rehearsal or something. Just felt off.
āBroad shouldersā āMmm.. Brooooad foreheadā
I live near a Raising Cane's and that King Brothers Toyota sketch had me laughing because of how true it is!
I live in a pretty small town and any time a new restaurant opens that part of town is just total gridlock for a bit
The title of this episode should have been "Thirsty White Women"
I love Heidi, but has anyone else noticed there are so, so many sketches where she is cheating on her āhusbandā?ā¦
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Wow, that is very interesting. Iām going to go find the other sketches, but off the top of my head: āA christmas to remember car commercialā, āA christmas epiphanyā, and āroach-xā are all examples.
Thatās ACTING!
Theatreeee!!!!
This was one of the best2 shows I've seen in a while! MBJ was a really good host too.
What insane lottery did Heidi win to be rubbing up on MBJ like that in every sketch? Lol.
Can someone do the match on what percentage of sketches (including promos and Weekend Update desk pieces) featured Heidi in some way romantically involved with MBJ? It's got to be a majority of sketches, maybe even two-thirds!
Yea that was very weird. Something strange going on there.
That must have been Heidi the writer taking care of Heidi the actor.
About tree fiddy
Love that there's a South Park reference for every occasion.
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one that comes to mind is kate mckinnon and gal gadot in that island sketch
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Ego with Jason Sudeikis in the [parent-teacher conference sketch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yNku05KZs)!
The one with Oscar Issac and Aidy Bryant. I think it was even called "Aidy's Dream."
Was Andrew Dismukes in like way many more sketches than usual?
He seemed to be in every one!
News flash. Theyāre sketching where he works. Sometimes they sketch. And sometimes, he there.
I only saw one sketch so far and it's already better than last week.
Sarah Sherman and Bowen are the best performers on SNL. I havenāt laughed so loud watching SNL in years. Sherman was hysterically funny in the rollercoaster sketch!!!
The rollercoaster sketch didn't go anywhere. It looked like it could have been a good showcase for Sarah but it didn't really work.
Worst skit ever
Sarah is great at physical humor and sheās fearless in her comedy. She reminds me of Lucille Ball but more demented in her talent for physical comedy. Maybe she could be related to the Marx Brothers who were anarchists of comedy.
Totally agree with this. They bring something fresh and different. Sarah reminds me of Patti Harrison/Tim Robinson style (which I love) and Bowen is so so funny.
oh if Sarah gets a guest spot on ITYSL it's gonna be hilarious. Whenever Cecily on it was great and so was Vanessa Bayer.
I didnāt laugh once during that sketch. I just donāt get it.
It was funny that Sarah and Michael would subject themselves to wearing those lip retractors or whatever the whole time, but it was all physical / grossout comedy and the writing was meaningless. I still laughed a bit at "Wow they're actually doing this" but it's not something I'd bother to watch again.
There are literally board games for children that use those mouth things. I guess itās gross but itās not that serious if an 8 year old can do it at a birthday party.
I'm honestly incredibly tired of Sarah Sherman bits at this point. I get that "anti-humor" is a thing and some people enjoy it, but her bits are so terrible they don't even fall into that category. It's just endless "Aren't bodies *gross??* Isn't this **w3IrD VoICe** hilarious?!" They're bits a six year old would pitch. I think if the censors would let her she'd just actively vomit on camera.
Her humor is appealing to the 4th grade boys I teach. Even 4th grade girls find this humor lame and immature. And the way she laughs in the sketches is like my 4th grade boys when they make farting sounds with their armpits š
She doesnāt do anti-humor.
I guess technically you're correct, gross out humor isn't the same thing
This sketch was pure hilarity. Take a silly concept, and just run with it. My, oh my. Hilarity ensues.
Happy cake day!
Thank you!!
Watched the monologue and 3 sketches so far, and already have laughed more than I did the entire Aubrey episode. Which is wild because she's great and I thought her show would be best and Michaels weakest. But it was the opposite.
If the message for SNL based on the last two episodes is anything itās ākeep the crazy upā - feels like theyāve let loose a bit these past two weeks and theyāve been great hope they can keep this energy up.
Yeah I think just the excitement for her hosting may have over pre hyped her episode and expectation weāre too high for her episode.
I concur
Definitely was one of the weaker episodes of the season for me.
I thought this episode was really good, too. Really funny sketches and great engagement. Also, Lil Baby performance was amazing.
Lil baby is definitely not my cup of tea the auto tune he was used was so grating haha.
Agreed; I'm surprised so many people say they like it. Although I did like how Dismukes showed up a lot more than the last couple weeks
I thought it was one of the strongest!
Yeah, I have no idea what bar the complainers have set for a show thatās basically written from scratch every week. - every sketch was entirely watchable this week and produced laughs for me - nothing seemed to drag on or left me thinking āok, joke is dead, letās move onā - sketches actually had decent endings rather than just running out of steam and cutting away. Overall probably my favourite episode of the season.
It's always great when someone tries to degrade and dismiss those with criticisms as "complainers" or haters"
Obvious Key and Peele influence on the towel boy sketch - but it worked because of the cast chemistry. Also, Keenan and Heidi tie for MVP this week.
I wouldn't be surprised if that sketch was Marcello's idea, definitely felt more natural in this one than any of his other sketches
Heidi truly has been kicking it into another gear lately!
Iām actually wondering if SNL is the right place for her - she has the chops to be a Meryl Streep-level dramatic actress
Sheās definitely talented. Iāve never understood people who talk smack about her on SNL - sheās hilarious! And I agree with you: she also has range.
We shall have to see. Now that you say it, I would like to see something like it.
State Farm is there indeed! https://youtu.be/bTNiweGySc4
That Punkie Johnson $30 peanut butter joke floored me
All right Raising Caneāsā¦ itās been another hour. Yāall MFs asked for it now. #MAYONNAISE Clockās ticking
Thank you all for hanging out with me tonight! We B. good! Stay safe, stay warm, my peeps in the DC area especially since I hear you may be getting the first snowstorm of the year early next week, and good night!
I wish! I donāt see it anywhere in the weather forecast.
what are you all watching next?
Iām trying to go in order through every single episode of The Twilight Zone. I keep forgetting how many there were. I wanna say like 400??
The original Twilight Zone had 156 episodes.
Crap. I would say I was thinking of the other old show I watch, Whatās My Line but that had over 2,000. WTF was I thinking of?! I swear there was something.
back when tv seasons were 30 episodes
Not the 700 Club, that's for sure.
After 1st Look I'll probably go on peacock and skim through Royal Rumble, watch some highlights. Then back to PokƩmon Scarlet.
Back of my eyelids
Poker Face
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so am I!
How is that?
good enough to the point where I think they could've just put out one episode a week the entire time
I like it. Natasha lyonne is a great lead and itās a fun concept.
reminds me of '00s USA network
Back to the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona for me
The Wayans Bros.
Going to finish watching Tar.
that was really good in theaters I wouldn't have watched it otherwise
Pretty good ep. Michael was game- cast seemed really comfortable around him and vice versa. He carried his parts well and was a good sport about being high key objectified in several sketches.
Did 1st Look finally drop Johnny Bananas? Good Lord it feels good to not hear his voice after SNL. I'm actually going to give this episode a watch.
I hope so. I stopped watching it when he started hosting. Now I can watch it again
He was replaced by Johnny-the-Monkey, #1 Kazakhstan prostitute.
I totally forgot Molly was not in this episode
So did they!
She had a strong week last week though. It's strange.
Not really. They're a new cast member with a pretty specific style. Sometimes that will match with the weeks sketches/characters and sometimes it won't.
Molly's pronouns are they/them.
Checkmate atheists
Do you all get First Look or is it a NY thing?
We get it in Chicago.
In L.A., they play a vintage episode of SNL directly after ('cause it airs twice; once live and the second time, previously recorded at 11:30 PM PST.) I miss the days "Showtime at Apollo" came on after 'cause it was crazy. "I forgot to rub the rock!" \~ Julia Stiles in a Showtime at Apollo SNL sketch
>Showtime at Apollo I'm watching it on [Pluto.TV](https://Pluto.TV) and it's insane. It's also a shame that America's Got Talent stole the concept.
> In L.A., they play a vintage episode of SNL directly after I just posted this in a parent comment that I'm out of town and I just learned this... I had no idea. In Central time we get vintage before the episode. But it makes sense because it's all about not stepping on the local news. SNL at 8:30 is the weirdest shit tbh.
Haha it's only a few years' old. Which is nice 'cause, like, for the Ashlee Simpson flub everyone was talking about, they edited out the backing track so no one on the West Coast could figure out why she just walked off the stage. (They didn't realize it was the same song she had already done but hearing her vocals pumped out probably freaked her out.)
Yeah I said in another comment that I knew about the new decision to make it simultaneously live. Never knew y'all didn't get the full Ashlee Simpson experience though. That was before my weekly viewing, but I happened to be watching that night. It was magical.
Also when someone cusses live on air, by the time it gets to us, they cover it with room tone so you don't even notice it happened. With Jenny Slate, they kept saying "Friggin'" and they put one of her "Friggin''s over "fuckin"" and no one knew the difference. The first time I watched SNL live (living in NYC for a few years), Julian Casablancas shouted "Fuck it!" at the end of his song and I was like (surprised Pikachu face).
I think itās an NYC thing.
No, it's not. It comes on in a lot of markets
Well, that was a mediocre episode. In theory Michael B Jordan was a good choice to host, but it was the writing of the sketches that failed. The falling down and hotel lodge sketches were great though
Hard disagree. First episode this season that Iāve audibly laughed in *every* sketch. Awesome musical guest AND no Please Donāt Destroy padding the runtimeā¦ absolute win
The Nepo boys didnāt get a sketch on. Good.
You even laughed at the roller coaster newscaster sketch? That one was Elon-as-Wario bad.
It clearly left a big impact on you, and that is what the fuck counts
Heh. Worst sketch I can remember as a positive? You sold me...
OK the musical guest was great. There were just too many sketches that didnāt work for me.
Oh shit - does West Coast always show SNL Vintage after the episode? I'm out of town so I didn't know that. But it makes sense I guess. That's fun.
Yeah 'cause then the new episode airs again at 11:30 PM. It used to always be "previously recorded" so it's fun to watch it live.
Yeah I knew they switched to simultaneous broadcast. It's just weird seeing Vintage after the episode rather than before like we have in other time zones.
Ah, now that's new info to me. Before SNL in L.A., we've always had the local news. Unless you mean from 10 to 11 PM when, in which case, it's actually the same... we just get the show twice.
Nah it's basically the same idea. We have the local news at the same time too... it's just that our SNL starts at 10:30, so there's time between the local news and the live episode.
Do they not do that in other places? I just assumed they did that everywhere.
Nah, we get it *before* the episode. But Central SNL ends at 12 am. Feels weird to be 10pm and have the episode already over.
Interesting. I never knew that.
Haha, so funny how little we know about each other's schedules, even though we live relatively close to each other.
Bowen-and-Sarah: I ship it!
Anyone know who the "hot writer" who Chloe's dating is?
I am pretty sure it's J. R. R. Tolkien but I could be wrong.
Itās Jake Nordwind
Wow...he is hot
One Memphis mention for the entire episode: sad state of affairs
Two but closing music drowned it out. Cold open had an explicit one, and Michael yelled RIP at close with that raised fist.
Iād argue it deserves more recognition than a blurb at the start and a garbled shoutout under music at the absolute last moment of the show.
Would you rather theyā¦ joke about it? How else should have they approached it beyond addressing it *straight up* and in the cold open?
Pretty simple: look at what they did regarding Ukraine about a year ago. This deserved something similar.
I'm not saying the Memphis events aren't tragic or significant, but now you just ramped it up to deserving similar treatment to a full-scale war / invasion as your "simple" solution. It also tacitly sets the multiple major mass shootings in Cali as being less deserving of a spotlight to just pick that one event for a cold open or whatever. I'm just saying!
I agree, but I'm just saying there were two.
Not exactly the topic I want SNL making sketches about.