Not a great week tbh. The Irish dating show had predictably bad accents all around (except for Cecily, who is usually pretty good) but the premise was in a middle ground of being too focused to get laughs for being completely absurd (like the Aer Lingus one) but also too bizarre to really go along with (as everyone…

That was her? I couldn’t even tell which person was doing that one. And yes, it was much better.

It was so good. I loved how they had it be realistically completely ineffective too.

Honestly, who whole system of private schools is kind of fucked up. Like, leaving the religious ones aside, it’s basically saying that some kids deserve a better education than others before they even get a chance to prove themselves, and entrenching existing class and racial divides (since the other half of the…

None of them had them right really. Canadian accents are usually largely indistinguishable from American accents, except for with a handful of words (but even then, not all Canadians say “aboot” intead of “about”).

I don’t know how anyone could possibly think Cecily Strong’s accent in that sketch was good. She couldn’t even pronounce her own name.

I occasionally watch the musical acts (if its an artist I like), but I always skip the Weekend Updates. Youtube is great for that. Although its very clear that skipping the musical performances on SNL is something most people on Youtube do, based on the numbers they do.

I think you’re kind of right about that, and it shows with how little screen time most of the new performers get. Luke Null gets so little screen time that I still don’t think I could pick him out of a lineup of generic white guys. And while I do like Cecily Strong, she is kind of sucking up too many of the main…

Getting shitfaced on St Patrick’s day is definitely not just an American Irish thing.

You were right up until you said their accents were decent. They were both terrible. Cecily was actually decent enough in the Aer Lingus sketch a few weeks ago, so I can only assume she was doing a shit one on purpose. Beck Bennet was probably the only one who was low-key enough that it wasn’t noticeably awful.

Whoa, easy there, pre-Mecca Malcolm X. Racial disenfranchisement hasn’t really worked out so great anywhere.

I completely agree on both counts. I’m just saying that I do think some people get too hung up on treating the symptom.

Some people (or a lot of people) really want to believe that there’s just one simple thing wrong in the world and if you could just remove that one thing, it would all be okay. Probably because its a lot easier than having to consider the idea that even if Donald Trump fell over and died of a heart attack right now,…

I thought the Bigfoot one was probably the weakest of the night. That or the Black Panther one.

It was also actually ending the sketch on a funny note. A problem with a LOT of SNL sketches is that they sort of just get dragged on and then peter off, it’s nice when they actually end on a decent one-liner.

This was the best of the season so far, hands down. Not that every sketch was a hit, but Doctor Love, Family Dinner Shrek, Dying Mrs. Gomez and Family Feud were all good enough to carry the other sketches. The this is US one was fairly good too, especially Brown’s Ben Carson impression and the closer about Kellyanne…

Wallowing in low tiers only matters to competitive players. The vast majority of people who play the game are not doing it in any way competitively.

That probably is part of it. Although a lot of big movie stars do not really “do” social media, which I also think is part of the problem. The sort of ivory tower celebrities of the past who want their privacy and live in their own world are losing out to the newer “share everything” celebrities of today. Will Smith…

One pretty simple reason for dropping viewership is that it’s on TV. Stream it live an internationally on services people actually use (Netflix, Twitch, YouTube etc) and maybe the kids will actually watch some of it. Make it international and it will do even better.

He also would have gotten the same backlash though if he made the movie about a small-town Missouri police station WITHOUT any mention of the idea of racism in the police force.