SNL's Continued Downward Spiral Thread

I wonder if it's become a formalized thing that if the host has a movie coming out, the first commercial is going to be the trailer for that movie.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, necessarily. I'm just noticing a pattern.

 

You want to promote your star by having them host SNL, you have to buy the first commercial.

 

No Stevie Nicks Fajita Roundup update?

 

I thought that the monologue and Celine piece were just Fallon level stuff. She’s good at that, but it’s was very just ok.

 

The monologue was definitely "meh" to me. Feels like they've done a variation on that so many times. Also, the cold open continues to exist in some weird version of SNL separate from everything else.

 

Yes! I was waiting for that to be one of the late late sketches. 50th Anniversary season and you have the chance to do an updated version like Stevie Nicks' Hibachi Hideout with her doing it and referencing the old place was wiped out by a landside and she had to rebuild. I wonder if it was brought up and quickly shot down

 

My Best Friend’s House, the digital short, was outstanding. Very much in my humor wheelhouse

And thanks to Dana Carvey there’s FINALLY a good Biden impression.

 

I still stand that Sudeikis did a great VP-era Biden, when he was still more spry, and he and Obama were in full bromance. But I agree, Dana has KILLED the "Sleepy Joe" era.

Mikey Day and James Austin Johnson were fine as Biden, but not spectacular. Woody Harrelson was nothing more than a fun stunt cast, and Jim Carrey was just doing himself, with a little bit of Fire Marshall Bill mixed in.

Other than Bowen Yang as Vance (which might as well have just been a "sticking it to Vance" to have him portrayed by the most outwardly LGBTQ+ member of the cast, like Kate McKinnon playing so many of Trump's inner circle/cabinet), they've got a great group going of Johnson/Trump, Rudolph/Harris, Gaffigan/Walz and Carvey/Biden.

Along those lines, where does Rudolph/Harris stand among the greatest SNL political impressions? Among the other ones I can picture:
- Carvey/HW Bush
- Hartman/Clinton
- Hammond/Clinton
- Hammond/Gore
- Ferrell/W Bush
- Pharoah/Obama
- Fey/Palin
- Baldwin/Trump

I'd give McKinnon and Poehler more credit for Hillary, but I feel their bits were more the actual cast member in a wig, rather than almost picture perfect replicas.

 

Great stuff. I always think of Hartman first as Clinton because of the great McDonald’s sketch. Hartman also did Reagan in a great sketch. Hammond’s take on Clinton was outstanding (as was his trump, before politics).

Carvey also did a great Ross Perot, at the same time as his HW Bush. I still say “CAN I FINISH” in that voice.

And thanks to Will Ferrell’s W Bush, I still say “strategery.”

 

McKinnon doing solemn Hillary at the piano after the election ... so contrived. That disqualifies her in my book, right out of the gate.

 

Lockbox.

 

They pretty much HAVE to use Rudolph, Carvey, Samburg and Gaffigan every week, they've already written the checks for a six-show run.
Really digging the reworked intro theme. It always "kinda" sounds the same, but year to year they tweak it enough that you probably wouldn't recognize it from three years ago.
The Friends House thing....I was figuring, well clearly they spent some money on the thing - I just don't see how they're going to pay it off. But it did pay off. Very funny.
Seems like Bowen Yang has been begging writers for stuff that allows him to take off his shirt.
I probably won't be buying that Stevie Nicks song - but I imagine she's now grateful that she always kind of sounded like a 70-year old woman singing back in the day. Extra points for Waddy Wachtel looking exactly like a 70-year old Waddy should look like. Marilyn Martin of "Separate Lives" with Phil Collins sang back-up.
The "castrato" sketch was all about the facial reactions.
I'm also certain the Maybelline sketch was paid for.