Kate has that old-school SNL DNA where you run a funny bit into the ground until it’s annoying. The alien abduction sketch was a prime example–the first was legitimately great, but by the third she’s clearly just trying to get other actors to break and it looked desperate.

oh my god, that was insufferable. I couldn’t tell if it was a shtick (“I’m giving up in mid-sketch because I’m so anxious!”) or the typically Kate-ish style (“I’m not even memorizing or bothering to read my lines because “KATE” is so funny and universally beloved that no one cares if I do the actual sketch!”) that…

Same. Perkins baffled me with this spicy take last week:

Ego Nwodim had my favorite sketch two weeks in a row.

“When you bring the character back and have Kate break down again, it’s clear that it’s not real.”

The first Wenowdis worked because of the surprise factor of Kate breaking down. When you bring the character back and have Kate break down again, it’s clear that it’s not real. There’s still an appealing intimacy but they better not do that a third time or it’ll just look manipulative.

I feel like they now throw Rudy into these as often as possible for some kind of guaranteed response. I just don’t enjoy that impression, but I saw a review claiming it was the only time the sketch came alive and look at the women saving the material, and so on, so I guess it works for many viewers.

The precious little pup in the Christmas Morning filmed piece is Chloe Fineman’s Shiba Inu pup, Peach.

I don’t even know her name. I just call her “Not Aidy Bryant”

(personally I think Leslie Jones would have brought an energy to it that would have transcended not getting the mannerisms)

I wish I could have been in the room when Jost went home to Scarjo after she heard that joke LOL, bet it was tense

And he mumbled a few of his lines.

I’m glad they had the discipline to limit it to two of Wiig’s greatest hits. I like Secret Word and even though it’s always the same the actors pull it off. Maybe I just like Old Hollywood jokes. Sue was never funny. It’s just mugging. And I don’t expect anyone else to get this, but Wiig’s time on the show was a lot…

Kenan’s on hand as host Grant Choad to do his thing making something out of very little. (His host responds to Mindy’s racist Broadway flop solo number with a perfectly pitched, “No! That is not okay—not even for the time we are supposed to be in.”)

As a sucker of old timey accents and the juxtaposition between old-timey movies with current pop culture, I also thought it was a great skit, if only because of the performances and because Bowen held his own with Kristin

The Best: The USO sketch

I assumed that Chloe and Kristen didn’t have Who prosthetics because they were supposed to be in another sketch that ended up not happening.

That Aidy Bryant doppelganger is like something out of a Twilight Zone Episode. We’re through the looking-glass here, people.

His review is much superior to Dennis bitter Perkins review of the show. In agreement I’d rather have someone who doesn’t sound like a bitter old punk rocker reviewing albums for a ‘Zine, but have someone who is critical but also understanding of people’s taste. 

Dude. I loved both your long comments. They were knowledgeable, balanced in their criticism, and incredibly insightful. Reading Dennis can be extremely cringe, especially with the over the top praise he gives his favourite performers week after week. I honestly wish you wrote the reviews here.