I don’t know why they keep using the format. It’s lazy and doesn’t give any of the characters time to develop. It would be much better imo if they took one of the 2 or 3 really good impressions and gave them a full sketch as that character instead of padding it out with weak or uninteresting impressions.

Them breaking character saved that sketch somewhat. Honestly, it was just kind of uncomfortable up to then. And yes, no Vincent Price was a shame, I would have loved to see him get back together with Armisen and Jon Hamm for another one of those.

They weren’t all terrible. Hugh Grant was fine, and Al Pacino was great. Like you said, Gwen Stefani and Jodie Foster were strong too (Kate McKinnon looked almost indistinguishable from Clarice in that bit). Although agreed, most of the rest of them were basically just “dress up like them and say something related to…

“Common knowledge” on a website where people specifically go to discuss and read about TV maybe, but if a sketch requires behind the scenes knowledge of how it was made to be funny instead of annoying, I think it’s kind of a poor sketch.

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…