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Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1750
Posted: 12/13/15 at 1:15pm
"Hey guys, crazy question: Is our friend Claire actually Chris Hemsworth?"
"I knew I shouldn't have hired these men when they showed up with little dance bags that said, 'Tisch School of the Arts' and then they asked if I supplied character shoes. Now, gentlemen, listen up: If you want to continue working at this establishment, you must expose your stinky peanut and testiballs."
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1751
Posted: 12/13/15 at 2:20pm
Last night's show was pretty good.
Am I right Bitches?
ETA: I am really impressed with his American accent!
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1752
Posted: 12/13/15 at 4:15pm
Being such a musical theatre nerd, I was a sucker for "Debra's Time." Cecily Strong is on fire this season.
Otherwise, I thought it was a sloppy episode, lots of line deliveries made it seem like the actors hadn't seen any of the dialogue before that moment, lots of missed cues and flubbed lines. And then they repeated a filmed bit because of timing issues. I think Hemsworth is game but after the giddiness of Ryan Gosling's stint last week, this was considerably less memorable.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1753
Posted: 12/13/15 at 7:05pm
I felt he was a bit of the problem for that episode as far as the line readings went.
Also, I've seen them do variations on the "host is a douche" before in the monologue, but it never involved depictions of physical violence when it's been a Marty Short or a Steve Martin, who could somehow make you laugh with their behavior and not turn against them. I think that set a certain tone with Hemsworth that wasn't great.
Another thing, maybe Che and Jost should only be allowed to mutter one thing per person per week when the camera has moved onto a new story with the other anchor? Or maybe only one a week, total.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1754
Posted: 12/15/15 at 3:40pm
I thought Will Farell's material was pretty funny.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1755
Posted: 12/20/15 at 12:16am
OK, I LOLed a couple times during Meet Your Second Wife. Leslie Jones didn't have to say a word!
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1756
Posted: 12/20/15 at 12:48am
MEET YOUR SECOND WIFE was genius on every single level. I'd say it deserves a place on the "funniest skits of all time" list.
This is episode in general is close to perfection. And Maya Rudolph. MAYA. F'ING. RUDOLPH.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1757
Posted: 12/20/15 at 1:02am
They are working on her Variety Show which she will co-host with Martin Short. It will be shot here in NY! TV is needing a variety show. Hopefully this combination where work where NPH failed.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1758
Posted: 12/20/15 at 1:19am
The only dud was the lesbian sketch, I thought. The rest of the episode was was pretty great. And I was just thinking how for a last show of the year the episode was short on surprise guests when suddenly there was Maya Rudolph walking away with the rest of the show
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1759
Posted: 12/20/15 at 1:29am
Well, like most sketches he's in, Keenan ruined that Lesbian sketch. I'm praying that this will be his last season. It's past time for him to leave.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1760
Posted: 12/20/15 at 1:45am
His Bill Cosby was wonderful.
His character in the Lesbian sketch, is a reoccuring charater.
ETA: I had to be difficult for him to do that as Cosby was his mentor.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1761
Posted: 12/20/15 at 10:28am
The Meet Your Second Wife skit was an instant classic. Hilarious, to the point, and I don't think anyone broke during it at all.
I'm a big Bruce Springsteen fan, so loved his music throughout as well. My wife and I were so excited when he did Santa Claus Is Coming to Town at the end.
The Christmas shows always seem to be the best.
I agree, it's time for Keenan to leave. That lesbian skit was the only weak spot in an otherwise very strong episode.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1762
Posted: 12/20/15 at 11:10am
Oh, and we got more Sarah Palin! How could I have forgotten!!!!
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1763
Posted: 12/20/15 at 12:25pm
That sketch with Sarah and two Hillarys was great!
I think the criticisms of Keenan are valid, although I think that that sketch would have stunk with anyone. My favorite Keenan characters were the "Zut alors!" guy on Update and the host of What's Up With That.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1764
Posted: 12/20/15 at 1:28pm
No one does Palin's word salad like Tina Fey!
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1765
Posted: 12/20/15 at 4:07pm
Meet Your Second Wife was genius, and how great to see a return of Bronx Beat! I loved the addition of Tina's character- the accent was spot-on and hilarious.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1766
Posted: 12/20/15 at 9:25pm
Phyllis Rogers Stone said: "…My favorite Keenan characters were the "Zut alors!" guy on Update and the host of What's Up With That."
Switch “Zut alors!” guy (Jean K Jean) with the “Hey, SHUT UP! We did this for YOU!! ” gym teacher and those are my favs. Jean K Jean rubbed me the wrong way from the start, it's just a rehash of Pierre Escargot from All That. I know that's not actually true, they're not the same character at all. But as an 80s baby I have a strong fondness for Pierre and Kenan+Parisian accent will always = Mssr. Escargot.
Honourable mention goes to Reese De'What from Cinema Classics. The alternate Casablanca ending sketch was where Kate McKinnon became a star for me, but even with how funny she was in that sketch I still remember Reese just as equally and he only bookends the sketch. Hearing him pronounce his last name puts me in stitches.
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Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1767
Posted: 1/23/16 at 11:52pm
The Screen Guild Awards was brilliant! Laughed out loud at Man With Camera. 
Also LOVED the Bachelor one!
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1768
Posted: 1/24/16 at 12:43am
Selena should have been the host and music guest. I do not like this host. I don't even know who she is.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1769
Posted: 1/24/16 at 7:43am
Nice to see Sarah Palin back with her Dinner Theatre patron outfit. I did think however that the sketch would have worked a little better if the cues would have been sharper and Tina had built her enthusiasm into a frenzy.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1770
Posted: 1/24/16 at 12:46pm
It was a very stressful show this week due to the blizzard. Last minute rehearsals, things not arriving. I am amazed how well the show turned out! I am sure many were put up in the Waldorf-Astoria last night!
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1771
Posted: 1/24/16 at 1:32pm
Great open, great monologue. Great bully pre-recorded bit. Great news.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1772
Posted: 1/24/16 at 2:04pm
It played understandably under-rehearsed to me but Ronda Rousey seemed to be genuinely having fun even if she didn't have much to do. Often that's all the show needs to make it work.
Loved the SAG award segment, the bullying bit (Vanessa Bayer is on fire this season), and especially Bland Man which I think is a great concept to showcase the incredible female cast on the show right now. Tina Fey's Palin seemed a bit more tentative than in past outings, but she's so good as that character and Darrell Hammond is such a perfect Trump that it was still a highlight of the evening.
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1773
Posted: 1/24/16 at 7:31pm
Was that new guy just not in any live scenes or did he not make it to the show?
Weekly SNL Saturday Night Live Thread#1774
Posted: 1/24/16 at 7:31pm
Call_me_jorge said: "Selena should have been the host and music guest. I do not like this host. I don't even know who she is."
She could barely handle the short opening bit and The Bachelor sketch. And she seemed lost during her second performance. I doubt she could have made it through a full show. I also found it rude and class-less that she couldn't even acknowledge the great finger snappers and the dancers that made her performances partly bearable at the end of each song.
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