Majors’ makes six straight monologues without a gimmick, musical number, audience Q&A, or celebrity drop-by.

The Broadway skit hit for me, because it’s a fantastic parody of “Everybody Today is Turnin’ On” from “I Love My Wife,” with updated drug references. Actually, no, it’s a parody of that lost classic, but also of Bea Arthur and Rock Hudson’s amazing performance of it:

I laughed at Sarah Sherman’s bit...but it ran about twice as long as it probably should have.

I don’t understand the comparison to Melissa, who (to my eye) has a completely different delivery, persona, etc.

Athari’s look was totally Gigolo Joe, no?

I’m glad they’ve figured out how to use him because he CAN be funny but I really thought they were keeping him around almost out of sympathy and he was heading for some sort of spectacular public flame-out.  He’s an odd duck but seems to have gotten his shit together and we’re now getting a look at why he was cast on…

And he hasn’t broken egregiously in a while, which is a serious improvement. But they’ve also clearly made the move to put him exclusively in pre-taped bits, except the handful of impressions that aren’t lived in but guaranteed to get Gen Z emo college students wet enough to make up for his inability to act or keep a…

Can you link to the Melissa Villasenor outburst you mention in the article? 

Aristotle Athari has been in basically two sketches this entire season, and both of them have been squarely in my wheelhouse. The Laughingtosh 3000 bit was so insanely tight. From the first seconds, it was clear that the studio audience was just looking for the punchlines, but I was riveted immediately by how…

Adam Feldman, the Time Out New York theater critic, pointed out that Cecily and Bowen’s sketch was likely heavily influenced by Bea Arthur and Rock Hudson:

He also, while in New York, participated in Arts in the Armed Forces’ annual Broadway performance, on Monday night. I’ve been going since 2014, and they usually read one play, but Adam Driver said they decided to go back to their original format of a selection of monologues. Majors was the only member of the group to…

Best part of the episode was the little girl who played Coraline celebrating after the sketch.

well, after that showing i’d put good money on sarah squirm taking over weekend update in a few years. fit her like a glove.

This episode felt almost host-less.  The monologue was pretty bad considering the host is a professional actor. 

I dunno about you guys, but I think Pete Davidson making some important decisions in his life (many hinted about) including moving out of Mom’s basement that he owns has made a huge improvement in his sketches. Even dating (the) Kardashian has likely led to a spike in available footwear.

As when the still-absent Kate McKinnon trots out another of her male political impressions, this one’s not particularly lifelike to the Texas Republican and perennial right-wing troll.

I gotta say, the Strange Kids sketch really tickled me. People these days always try to seem like they’re “above” spooky shit, so it’s gratifying to see “oh HELL no” reactions.

Minor quibble, but you really think white audiences were baffled by the sight of Regé-Jean Page? From Bridgerton?? The “wine mom” demographic would like a word with you.

This is the first episode of SNL in a while that truly gave the spotlight to the new guard. JAJ was pretty lowkey this week, but he already got so much exposure since the season began, so it’s not an issue, especially if this means giving Aristotle, Please Don’t Destroy and (finally) Sarah Squirm more screentime. If a…

While I overall I enjoyed the episode, I felt this episode really struggled with ending the sketches. Like it’s a common issue with SNL, but here it really came across that they had struggled with figuring out how to end some neat concepts.