So...what you’re saying is...you want this new version to look like the old version. Then what’s the point? They’re obviously (although not to you) going for a real world look. The real world isn’t saturated in color, dumbholes. I swear, does EVERYONE HAVE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT EVERYTHING? Slow news day? I’m sure…

I have been watching since a young girl with the original cast. There have been ebbs and flows but the legacy is it has given us so many inspired, interesting entertaining personalities like no other institution. Audiences are a bit different now than decades ago. I think in general audiences are going for the cheer…

Agreed. In fact, I generally prefer Elvis’ later work. Not that I don’t like This Year’s Model, but King of America and Blood and Chocolate are peerless records. Brutal Youth, Imperial Bedroom, Juliet Letters, Spike, and The Delivery Man are all great albums, and let’s not forget Painted From Memory. The man is…

Yeah, Elvis has made so many classics throughout his career. King, Trust, Spike, Blood and Chocolate, Imperial Bedroom, The Juliet Letters, hell, even Taking Liberties flows like a full album instead of a collection of odds and ends. Although I admit he kind of lost me around the time of Brutal Youth. I dip back in…

“...millionaire kissing up to millionaires and coasting on faded glories, the whole thing seems dire and dinosaur and not cute.”

Everything about this episode was creaky, exhausted, tired. Felt like it was from at least ten years ago. “To Catch a Predator” skits, really? Sorry to say, Tina Fey seems to be mightily coasting on the past while pushing her Mean Girls Broadway show and dragging out the comedy ghost of Sarah Palin etc. Really? 3…

The first half better be good—splitting something in two (e.g. Harry Potter finale) only works when the second half is hotly anticipated. 

“When I think of Amy Schumer now, she just exudes this constant air of resentment, and grievance. Like, the world has been so terrible to her and we’re all to blame somehow for whatever the fuck.”

Not really.

I’m 44 years old so that puts me at age 13-14 when Spaceballs was released. I can tell you it was wildly popular with my classmates (and remains so to this day). I can also tell you I was the stick-in-the-mud who hated it (and still do to this day). It is SO f’ing lazy and unfunny. And this is coming from someone who…

No, that’s only the point if you believe in that “You can’t criticize without creating” nonsense. My lack of specificity and whether I’m personally funny are different issues. I’ll assume we can relate on SNL, so I’ll just say I’m a very easy touch for SNL who has seen most of the episodes ever made and liked them,…

Also, why is Kate so fascinated with smoking in character when she’s so clearly not a smoker?

Fire the entire writing staff. It’s the only way. I can’t believe it takes 30 people to come up with this shit.

I get thrown by this site’ s reviews always praising the “chemistry” between Che and Jost. Aside from occasionally laughing at the other guy’s joke, they don’t interact with each other whatsoever. The whole segment comes across as if they go off and write their own bits alone, then just sit there waiting until its…

It’s easy. Perkins grade exclusively based a checkmark list of shoehorned woke-ness featured in the ep. Last weeks ep was bumped 2 letter grades becauase one of the cast members wore a #metoo shirt.

Comedy is subjective and that’s fine of course but these grades straight up don’t make sense to me. I feel like I’d have a better shot at predicting the grade for a given SNL episode if I just threw a dart at a grading curve. It’s sort of bizarre. This was one of the funniest SNL episodes I’ve seen in quite some time.…

Hey, I didn’t particularly like it myself, but it seems people aren’t giving the concept due credit. It was pretty brave, even if it didn’t quite work.

It’s not complex at all, though. Long uncomfortable build-up leading to (satisfying, ideally) comic pay-off. The wait to figure out what the hell is going on is part of the gag.

Did people miss the point? It was silent for the first part because there were no jokes. You weren’t supposed to laugh. It was a protracted build-up to the joke, which was supposed to be the pay-off.

Photos from the USO tour reveal a bawdy atmosphere where Tweeden herself did everything Franken did and worse.