SNL's Continued Downward Spiral Thread

Love Mulaney, and got Mrs. jlee to watch because he was a presenter with Awkwafina at the Oscars. He came through, and now we’re going through his stand-up specials together.

 

Funniest episode in awhile.

Love Mulaney. Had one “New York” issue with his very funny monologue. The male and female voices narrating the subway have been gone for a couple of years.

 

His specials are pretty great. I've watched all of them multiple times. The bit about how the person who wants him and his wife to have a kid most being their realtor had me ROLLING.

 

It's always weird how SNL can have a solid episode and then miss on every sketch the following week. You'd think there would be at least one solid bit a week - but some weeks feel like they clean out the reject pile - Idris Elba deserved better.

 

Also - watched the "vintage" edition at 10 p.m. with Luke Perry - I dont' remember many episodes from the Phil Hartman era being this bad - but it was bad. And people think the news segment these days isn't great? You couldn't even figure out when a joke was over when Kevin Nealon was doing it because he never landed the punchline.

 

Cold open was great. The Momo challenge chicken place commercial was funny, and Update had its moments — especially Davidson and Jones’ pieces. The rest? Meh.

 

I thought the soccer sketch was the funniest of the night.

 

The show has never seemed to be able to write for black guest hosts. Dwayne Johnson is the only person of color in the 5 timers club - and it isn't like there is a lack of funny people of color. It's odd. They do tend to shy away from sketches that touch on race though. Even the blackface sketch from last month seemed half-hearted.

 

Top 10 all time SNL skit?

 

Funny - I wish SNL was more daring like that. Shoot, Pete Davidson's commentary was pretty bold as well. The one critique about the above sketch? They could have nailed the ending by making the job something funnier than janitor. Commissioner of the PGA, Publisher of Better Homes and Gardens, or symphony conductor.

 

I thought there was some excellent writing in this one and the WNBA and soccer bits were really good.

Idris was pretty inconsistent in the live sketches and Leslie Jones is De Niro bad at reading off of the cue cards.

 

Actually, I always thought the punchline was that Chase's character was so intimidated after the conversation that he let Pryor's character negotiate a salary that was way above the position's pay grade. In that case, I thought janitor was an appropriate job to put in the sketch.