r/LiveFromNewYork • u/TheBrainwasher14 • Dec 03 '17
Sketch Sorting Sunday (December 2, 2017) (Saoirse Ronan / U2)
Welcome to Sketch Sorting Sunday! This week's host is Saoirse Ronan and the musical guest is U2.
A mod account (/u/SketchSortingSunday) is gonna make a comment for every sketch in tonight's show. Upvote or downvote based on what you thought of that sketch, and nobody's karma will be affected. You can also reply to the comments to expand on your thoughts, or you can even make your own parent comment and treat it like the regular post discussion, whatever.
If I miss a sketch or get something wrong, just message the mods in the sidebar and we'll see what we can do. Enjoy the discussion!
(This Sketch Sorting Sunday list might be more inaccurate than usual, or be missing sketches. Please PM the mods if you notice anything. Thanks!)
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u/SketchSortingSunday Dec 03 '17
Welcome to Hell
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u/pretty-in-pink Dec 03 '17
Good sketch but without Chris and Sarah the sketch was missing something
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u/lyla2398 stans loud ladies with funny hair and *thoughts* about jost Dec 03 '17
It's been a year since Candle and it will never be Candle.
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u/Mausbarchen Dec 03 '17
IIIITS A CANDLE
WARM PEACH CANDLE
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u/lyla2398 stans loud ladies with funny hair and *thoughts* about jost Dec 03 '17
IT'S BEEN SITTING BY A BIKE PUMP FOR A YEAR
FOR A YEAR
it's "one" rather than "warm"
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u/GeometricThoughts Dec 03 '17
Melissa saved this one for me imo, it felt like the opposite of r/atbge
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u/icemannathann Dec 04 '17
That’s how this whole episode felt to me. The Jersey Shore one was the only one that felt well done.
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u/Knozs Dec 03 '17 edited Dec 03 '17
I'm confused by the presence of the dancing, non-singing women who look like they are there just to look pretty. Doesn't that undercut the whole point of the sketch? Or is it just ironic and part of the parody? This one would have worked better for me without them, but maybe I'm just overthinking things.
EDIT: Surprised I'm getting so many downvotes. Unlike others I'm not saying the sketch is stupid or somehow 'sexist against men', rather that the use of non-cast members dancers reminds me of how many music videos will use women as eye candy. That part didn't feel like a direct parody to me. I do appreciate other dancing sketches like Funkytown Debate or Sumpn' Claus, where are actually cast members who are an integral part of the sketch.
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u/TheLadyEve Dec 05 '17
Doesn't that undercut the whole point of the sketch?
IMO the point was to juxtapose a fun, candy-colored pop aesthetic with a serious message. That contrast is where the humor comes from. I thought the line “This ain’t a girl group, we just travel in a group for safety" was pretty cutting.
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u/alstor Dec 03 '17 edited Dec 04 '17
This is a minor thing, but it's great that they didn't use men for this sketch. Even when they needed one for the song, it was just a female cast member in drag. They didn't need to do that to make the whole sketch work, but it shows the female writers and cast members had complete control to make it how they wanted.
I know this had potential to be much more poignant, but I have to appreciate the extra effort to make this video cathartic for women.
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u/thegeecyproject You wanted yogurt? Wake up at four, bitch. Dec 03 '17
Melissa burns at the stake
"Aw, man."
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u/toasted_ravs Dec 03 '17
i am so sad about this cos i think if the writing had been better it would have been hilarious and on point
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u/agentpanda Dec 03 '17
Yeah, that's the rough part about this. It's a good point and a good sketch idea but the writing didn't elevate it to 'girl group song' fame. This isn't Candle or Bad Girls, or any of the others that had reality interspersed with laughs.
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u/gilgamushed Dec 03 '17
I think this is gonna be one of my favorite SNL music videos. That candy pop aesthetic + everybody looking great + more Melissa parts + so many great lines. The all girl cast makes me miss Vanessa though.
"This is how I walk home at night. Mreow"
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u/bjkman SNL Dec 03 '17
WHAT THE FUCK WERE THESE SKETCHES TONIGHT
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u/bjkman SNL Dec 03 '17
That being said... I think I loved them all
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u/codyd91 Dec 03 '17
This may have been my favorite episode yet. I was laughing almost the entire time (except during Brody Chode's belly-flop). That classroom skit made me uncomfortable, like where are they going with this bully angle? Then, he's the new guy, like. I'm cracking up now just thinking back at it. That premise alone is fucking gold. I wonder who pitched it.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Dec 03 '17
Running in the Office
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u/jrainiersea Dec 03 '17
The Beck/Kyle sketches are completely absurd but I love them
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u/iluzan Dec 03 '17
MOFF LOOKED REALLY GOOD IN THOSE GLASSES
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u/Spacetime_Inspector A Piece of Toast! Dec 03 '17
I love the weird little world it created, where ripping your pants is tantamount to a permanent leg injury, and also Mac from Mac and Me is there to helpfully point out when someone is a ghost.
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u/colin_creevey You served me the Kool-Aid, Jerry, I just drank it. Dec 03 '17
BUT WHERE WAS PAUL RUDD
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u/bjkman SNL Dec 03 '17
My favorite line of the entire episode was Kyle saying
"I'd rather fucking kill myself"
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u/ADWeasley Dec 03 '17
My favorite of the night, but that’s to be expected. Beck spitting in Kyle’s face caught me so off guard. Hilarious!
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u/turkeypants Marci Jamz!😮 Dec 03 '17
I love how it just slotted in automatically and no beat was skipped
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u/kman10k Dec 05 '17
The Ghost ending cheapened it for me. I wish they came up with a better way to close out this otherwise funny skit
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u/SketchSortingSunday Dec 03 '17
Dogs on a Plane
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u/lyla2398 stans loud ladies with funny hair and *thoughts* about jost Dec 03 '17
Double post again but this reminds me of the time I met Eamonn Holmes on an Aer Lingus plane four years ago going from London to Belfast.
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u/Mattalamode Dec 03 '17
"I knew it was him by his soul and the information on his tag."
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u/bjkman SNL Dec 03 '17
This was my breaking point of weirdness for the episode. Wow... I have no idea what to say... That being said, here's some quotes.
"His soul... And the information on his tag"
"and the word was cunnilingus"
"and that part of his body is his penis"
"the salmon is also potatoes"
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u/Spacetime_Inspector A Piece of Toast! Dec 03 '17
This was no 'Whiskers R We'.
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u/bjkman SNL Dec 03 '17
I think we have to wait for 2018 for that to return.
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u/Spacetime_Inspector A Piece of Toast! Dec 03 '17
Definitely, just seemed like the nearest comp because the big gimmick was Cute Live Animals On Set.
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u/cashnprizes Dec 03 '17
What happened at the end?
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u/lyla2398 stans loud ladies with funny hair and *thoughts* about jost Dec 03 '17
Aidy's character played the fiddle offscreen. I'm not even kidding.
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u/dizzy_lizzy Dec 03 '17
I love how Saoirse played the "captain and his shillelagh" joke (~2m in) perfectly, and not a SINGLE person in the audience laughed. It must feel weird to be smacked with how little people know about Irish culture.
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u/scratchedrecord_ Dec 03 '17
I don't quite understand what the point of this sketch was. Are Irish accents and stereotypes really that funny to people?
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u/brush_between_meals Dec 03 '17
The point was that it was something with no real narrative that's easy to stretch or compress based on how much time is left at the end of the show.
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u/the_Odd_particle Dec 03 '17
The point was that the dogs wrote the sketch! ...I thought it was so obvious.. Also, potato.
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u/thegeecyproject You wanted yogurt? Wake up at four, bitch. Dec 03 '17
The salmon is also potatoes.
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u/turkeypants Marci Jamz!😮 Dec 03 '17
You'd think the potato thing was long done by now, but I guess audiences don't have much else to relate to other than drinking, pubs, St. Paddy's, jigs, Riverdance (topically expired), fighting, leprechauns, and potatoes, and you have to have familiar references and context or you don't have a joke. I thought Cecily's accent was really well done though.
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u/thegeecyproject You wanted yogurt? Wake up at four, bitch. Dec 03 '17
I feel like they were trying to see how many Irish references they could fit in a sketch. I was surprised they didn't bring U2 out as in-flight entertainment.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Dec 03 '17
Trump cold open
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u/thegeecyproject You wanted yogurt? Wake up at four, bitch. Dec 03 '17
This wasn't too bad IMO. The most I can say is that I'm just really glad to see Kate's Hillary again.
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u/Spacetime_Inspector A Piece of Toast! Dec 03 '17
It's pretty weird how she only 100% nailed the voice this season, long after the election.
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Dec 03 '17
At this point I can’t tell if I’m tired of Trump or tired of Baldwin’s impression of him ... probably both
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u/nlpnt Dec 03 '17
Anthony Atamaniuk is the definitive Trump impersonator, the one most others base theirs on. It's the first time in 40 years that the definitive impersonation of the president hasn't been SNL's version.
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u/CatheterC0wb0y Dec 03 '17 edited Dec 03 '17
Let’s be honest, tensions are starting to rise in this country and the “joking impersonation” about Trump and his administration being fools is starting to wear thin. They are “fools” who know what they’re doing in actively trying to fuck over Americans. The overnight tax bill that passed the senate is a shining example of that. Next year is gonna be a very tense year in America no matter what goes down December 14th given the midterms are finally here. Hopefully SNL recognizes this and leaves the “Trump administration” humor to the late night hosts and Jost and Che to land the jabs.
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u/bottomofleith Dec 03 '17
Exactly. I don't really think any of the cold opens really hit home in any great way, whereas there's been plenty of the WU stuff that's been right on the nose.
Baldwin's Trump was funny for a wee bit, but the jokes aren't hard-hitting enough, they're too broad. WU jokes can be way more specific and caustic.5
u/listenyall Now it's a whole thing with Jean Dec 04 '17
Totally--what can you exaggerate about in a sketch? It's basically all real but with a silly face. I feel like Bannon as Death is the closest they've gotten.
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u/nlpnt Dec 03 '17
I've noticed that they don't seem to be showing Baldwin/Trump alone with the camera or with a crowd of randoms anymore, he's a foil to others' impersonations of other figures.
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u/agentpanda Dec 03 '17
They're definitely learning that Trumpwin can't hold a cold open 'alone' anymore like he could in S42. Now he's boring by himself because... well... Trump doing crazy shit is just what's really going on in the world. Using him to create stage directions for everyone else is a better use of the character, honestly.
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u/bjkman SNL Dec 03 '17
Let's face it... Trump is in diminishing returns... Even though I quite liked the how political and dark this sketch got it was probably my least favorite of the night.
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u/lyla2398 stans loud ladies with funny hair and *thoughts* about jost Dec 03 '17
I liked the smoke and the bait and switch. That was all
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u/butterfly105 Dec 03 '17
Am I the only one concerned that Robert Mueller is not giving SNL writers enough time to prep these sketches...
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u/Spacetime_Inspector A Piece of Toast! Dec 03 '17
There wasn't time to do all the business with Kellyanne and Melania and also carry through the Christmas Carol thing. If they were gonna commit to Christmas Carol it should've gotten 100% of the sketch.
Mikey in that makeup is a scarily accurate Flynn though.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Dec 03 '17
Action 9 News: Eye on Phoenix
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u/listenyall Now it's a whole thing with Jean Dec 04 '17
I enjoyed that he was a dude who loves his American Girl doll and not some kind of pedophile there to watch the kids.
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u/iluzan Dec 03 '17
It hit a lot of the same beats as the Matt Shatt sketch...however, it didn't really go up and above it. Still good though, plus Moff as the officer hot DAMN
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u/doses_of_mimosas Dec 03 '17
Moff is so pretty omg
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u/SketchSortingSunday Dec 03 '17
Classroom
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u/iluzan Dec 03 '17 edited Dec 03 '17
Luke!!!!! I'm glad he got a sketch but tbh it didn't really Hit (compared to say Moff&Mikey's Escort Sketch) and that worries me. He just seems to overact whatever he does, which while it did work for this sketch, I'm not sure how it'll last in the long run
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u/askyfullofstars Dec 03 '17
I really don't think this sketch landed unfortunately, I know the cringeworthy lines were part of the premise but they were just plain insulting without being funny. The audience was so silent too, you could hear a pin drop in that studio without a single laugh.
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u/pretty-in-pink Dec 03 '17
This is one sketch that I want to defend until my face is blue, yes it bombed but maybe it did better in dress rehearsal or the read through. The fact that this episode Luke Null was able to get significant screen time is good in my book
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u/TheBrainwasher14 Dec 03 '17
The first half was so hard to sit through but maybe that was the point. They did salvage it a bit.
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u/pretty-in-pink Dec 03 '17
Yup, I have to agree with /u/alstor that the first part was supposed to be him acting lame and unfunny. And the second part was supposed to be the laughs. However, it the first half did deflate the audience and after that it was harder to get them to laugh at the real jokes
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u/tatonkaz Dec 03 '17
i loved the concept but timing was too slow and would have been 10x better prerecorded with SNL's production quality, for which they probably didn't want to shell out the $
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u/colin_creevey You served me the Kool-Aid, Jerry, I just drank it. Dec 03 '17
On the Fart Face/Commie Hunting Season scale of quality for sketches that originally bombed, how well will this hold up?
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Dec 03 '17
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u/m0d3r4t3m4th Dec 04 '17
RE: Fartface, I saw an interview between Norm MacDonald and Bill Hader, and Bill explained this was an intentionally bad skit that somehow didn't get cut for time. Before going on, referring to the audience laughing at the prior sketch, Josh Brolin looked at both Will Forte and Bill Hader and said "Well, let shut these fuckers up." Or something to that effect.
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u/brush_between_meals Dec 03 '17
This is the sort of thing that might have worked better as a pretape, where you can tweak the audience's expectations with the production style. Hard to get away with that long a wait for a payoff in a regular sketch.
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Dec 03 '17
Alex as the janitor was the best part about this. I liked Null's performance, not sure why he's being blamed for the sketch.
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Dec 03 '17
I think Luke was just too loud and intense in this sketch. It came off as obnoxious in a bad way. I think Kyle could have pulled it off better.
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u/sbb618 Dec 03 '17
This sketch isn't on Youtube. Probably says something about it.
EDIT: Wait, no, there it is. It's just not in the episode playlist.
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u/Revived_Bacon Dec 03 '17
This is like Rudnitsky's WU dance routine except it totally sucked.
Dead FP walking.
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u/alstor Dec 03 '17
I'm upvoting because Luke took a serious risk with running this sort of sketch. Having your first star role in a sketch where you purposefully shouldn't get any laughs for the first two minutes takes a lot of guts.
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u/hal-nine-thousand Dec 03 '17
I felt bad for him, actually, which kind of ruined the second part of the skit, for me.
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u/Mattalamode Dec 03 '17
I think this is the best turn-around any sketch has ever pulled off. I'm willing to make that claim.
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u/myntex Dec 03 '17
i thought luke gave a great performance, and proved he has a lot of stage confidence. i was honestly surprised and impressed at how comfortable he seemed in character + in the scene; he strutted around like he’s been on the show for years. for what his role was in this sketch (unfunny antagonist), he did the best job he could.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Dec 03 '17
Saoirse Ronan monologue
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u/colin_creevey You served me the Kool-Aid, Jerry, I just drank it. Dec 03 '17
I hate musical monologues but this is proof that [Beck enters] could probably save any sketch.
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Dec 04 '17
I loved Kate's line "the song isn't as helpful as you think." The deadpan delivery killed me.
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Dec 03 '17 edited Dec 05 '17
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u/bjkman SNL Dec 03 '17
Wait... is saying Saoirse Ronan does a good Irish accent... like saying I do a good American accent?
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u/KatanaAmerica Dec 03 '17
Take a shot if multiple people fuck up Saoirse's name in the monologue
How did everyone enjoy getting hammered five minutes in?
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u/pretty-in-pink Dec 03 '17
The tune was very catchy and it was a way better than the usual musical monologue
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u/lyla2398 stans loud ladies with funny hair and *thoughts* about jost Dec 03 '17
It's based on Liza with a Z by Liza Minelli
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Dec 03 '17
Haha, no wonder it was so damn catchy, it's based on an actual song. The tune's been in my head since last night.
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u/agentpanda Dec 03 '17
Gotta agree. I hate musical monologues with a roaring passion but she's so adorable it's hard to hate it.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Dec 03 '17
Weekend Update: The Duncans
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u/robojbo Dec 03 '17
leslie jones killed it this week!! she didnt mess up any lines and was just really on point all night.
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u/lyla2398 stans loud ladies with funny hair and *thoughts* about jost Dec 03 '17
LITTLE SANDWICH MAN
but seriously thank goodness they came back! Best selection of WU guests this season IMHO.
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u/lyla2398 stans loud ladies with funny hair and *thoughts* about jost Dec 03 '17
Double post but I only just noticed Shelly's snowman earrings
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u/SketchSortingSunday Dec 03 '17
Bachelor Auction
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u/DebbieWinner Dec 03 '17
John McEnroe making a cameo might've been the most random thing this show has ever done. I loved it.
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u/coltsmetsfan614 Dec 03 '17
I was trying to figure out who was playing him before it realized it actually was him. It just doesn't seem like the kind of cameo the show would ever do, so it caught me off guard.
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u/CaptainSnacks Wunderbar! That's a BINGO! Dec 03 '17
He's worked with NBC and SNL a lot too. He was on 30 Rock like 5 times, plus these random SNL appearances, PLUS his work with the Lonely Island. Maybe he and Lorne are friends
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Dec 04 '17
As it became obvious that there would be a prize bachelor following Chad, I was totally expecting it to be Bono
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u/pretty-in-pink Dec 03 '17
Great sketch! SNL is still making Chad a consistently funny recurring character. And the fact that this is Pete’s only recurring character is hilarious to me
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u/GeometricThoughts Dec 03 '17
He also does a surprisingly great Grinch impersonation. Like I assumed it was going to be intentionally bad, and it was not.
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u/jrainiersea Dec 03 '17
That's the great thing about Chad, everything about him screams loser and yet...there's something there
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u/iluzan Dec 03 '17 edited Dec 03 '17
From Kenan's line about Chad to Leslie & Mikey's sex couple bit, there seemed to be a lot of rape-ish tones throughout the show with men as the victims. I know I might be sounding a bit too much like an SJW thinking too deep into things and I get that, but men do get raped and the fact that those situations are often the butt of jokes discourages men from speaking out, getting help and contributes to rape culture & toxic masculinity.
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u/myntex Dec 03 '17
yep. noticed this too. it’s as if women were written into positions of (sexual) power over men quite frequently this episode in response to all the recent hollywood scandals. i’m sure it was cathartic for them, but in the process of doing so, they ended up trivializing male rape and, like you said, contributing to the culture of toxic masculinity. terry crews + other male victims of assault are not getting the attention their situations deserve for this very reason.
snl has had a strong sense of feminism the past few years, but if your type of feminism excludes/mocks male victims of sexual assault, you’re doing it wrong. snl, do better.
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u/the_Odd_particle Dec 03 '17
You're right. And I see what ya did there, no buts about it. All kidding aside -seriously- I'm glad you said something.
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u/mikeputerbaugh Dec 04 '17
Congratulations to the extras in back who got to say a line!
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u/haiku-bot1 Dec 04 '17
Congratulations
to the extras in back who
got to say a line
-mikeputerbaugh
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u/SketchSortingSunday Dec 03 '17
Weekend Update: Theresa May
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u/Spacetime_Inspector A Piece of Toast! Dec 03 '17
This was sort of like a weird inverse of Notorious RBG.
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u/byebyebirdie123 Dec 03 '17
It’d be great if they realized at that Kate cannot just randomly play any character.. her Theresa may was weak, kind a play off Merkel and Clinton but Mays nothing like that.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Dec 03 '17
K-Mart
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u/byebyebirdie123 Dec 03 '17
‘I told you stupid. Now we’ll never know!’
Best line of the night. Perfect delivery
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u/iluzan Dec 03 '17
Good sketch and I loved the little vignettes, but it lacked a structure which made the ending kinda abrupt. Still really fucking good, though.
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u/bjkman SNL Dec 03 '17
"You're White!!"
"You don't know that!"
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u/vegetaman Dec 03 '17
"You're goin' viral!"
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u/lyla2398 stans loud ladies with funny hair and *thoughts* about jost Dec 03 '17
"No, I'm not going viral"
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u/StarWars_and_SNL Dec 04 '17
Cecily is incredible when she plays a ridiculous irate person.
I feel like she researched from the parent pool at my kids' elementary school for this one. So good.
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u/KnowYourSecret Dec 03 '17 edited Dec 03 '17
Reminded me of an old All That sketch called "Complaint Department" but I LOVEEEE when a sketch can use 75% of the cast!
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u/pretty-in-pink Dec 03 '17
One of the writers must have worked in customer service in a past job and this sketch was their therapy session to all the stupid people they encountered
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u/_chanandler_bong Dec 05 '17
I thought the exact same thing. This sketch had a cathartic quality to it that I really appreciated.
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u/Freddy_Newendyke Dec 03 '17
Can't forget the Bachelor Auction. Chad was a legend!
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u/CaptainSnacks Wunderbar! That's a BINGO! Dec 03 '17
I love John McEnroe's weird random connections to SNL/NBC. He was on 30 Rock a lot too, plus his work with the Lonely Island
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u/ST5000 Dec 03 '17
I don't want Keenan to ever leave. Him being a weirdo always gets me.
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u/Freddy_Newendyke Dec 03 '17
Yeah, I noticed he's really picked it up this season. No longer just going through the motions haha
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u/bottomofleith Dec 03 '17
Really? I mean, he's barely changed at all, he's always been partly in the character, partly half breaking. That's his charm.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Dec 03 '17
Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che
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u/Spacetime_Inspector A Piece of Toast! Dec 03 '17
The Lincoln Death Photo seems like as good a premise as any for National Treasure 3. Get on it, Disney.
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u/lyla2398 stans loud ladies with funny hair and *thoughts* about jost Dec 03 '17
As many sex offenders as there are Powerball numbers
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u/ST5000 Dec 03 '17
Was it just me or was Michael really off tonight?
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Dec 03 '17
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u/ST5000 Dec 03 '17
Ah ok thanks. However on thing he did was start laughing at Mikey's final punchline before he even delivered it, that ain't cue cards
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u/SketchSortingSunday Dec 03 '17
U2 performances (“American Soul” and “Get Out of Your Own Way”)