SNL 2/1/20

Unless he shows hole, I'm out.

who is he????

how they pick these fuks?

he in sports. wooo wooo

how low can ratings go fore they fire em all??

Is he special needs?

r3 You're thinking of Charles Barkley.

Unless he is a former SC model I could care less.

oh yay, nother brain damaged NFL victim.....wheeee

Hope they git him in undies.....He hot

There better be a coronavirus skit with Boeing Yang.

Have we established that he is a sports ball player? Is he one who will be participating in the special event tomorrow?

and go!

wow they're touching impeachment. Thought they'd wimp out since last week they went in on repubs

I hope we don't have to deal with Kate McKinnon's creepy impersonations.

hahaha Kate as Lindsey sashaying

Kate is portraying Graham as if she reads DL

A bit OT: I saw some pic of Beck Bennett and his wife and they look like they are siblings.

is Cecily playing Bolton?

Pete as Hunter Biden? wtf

They need to get rid of Pete Davidson.

haha McConnell as a coal spokesman

hahaha Trump imitating Cosby and Weinstein with the walker

How are y’all posting this before I see it on my TV? And I live in NYC?

R21 it's on now...

haha coming clean about everything

yeah this is the trial we wish we had

God Almighty, Baldwin. For someone who has told us, and TOLD us, AND TOLD US how tired he is of playing Trump, you sure do play Trump a lot.

"say one nice thing about Nancy Pelosi"

"her body's innate"

Oh god, that person from the “Clowns”thread will have an aneurism.

R25, I thought he said "her body's an 8."

[quote] Have we established that he is a sports ball player? Is he one who will be participating in the special event tomorrow?

He plays football. He plays For the Texans. No, he is not in the Super Bowl.

Chloe Fineman has psycho eyes. I wouldn't be surprised if some mysterious "accident" happens at Studio 8H.

R27 you're probably right.

R27 is correct.

Will someone tell me who “Luke Combs” is? And why is this random football guy hosting??

Mmm. JJ Watt is such a big strappin' man.

JJ Watt is a great guy and very pro-LGBTQ. Hell, he did better in his monologue than a lot of the actors and comedians who are unable to read a damn cue card.

is JJ Watt against Trump ?

Nice bulge on the host. Sad opening skit. Pathetically bad, actually.

From the monologue it’s clear that most people had the same questions I did. Pity they couldn’t get an actual winner to host.

R34 But why is he hosting though?

I'm guessing lezzie Kate wrote this sketch.

Will he be naked during the show?

carrot penis

[quote] But why is he hosting though?

Doesn’t Lorne always try and get some football player to host on Super Bowl weekend? I imagine that’s why.

I want to see Mikie Day’s carrot.

Is it, R36? I was unsure whether that was maybe some abdominal prolapse thing going on. I like him and think he’s nicely at ease with the cast and trying comedy, though.

I love Chris Redd

They should have brought back Vanessa Bayer to do a Totinos parody.

JJ has great skin. I wanna lick pearly white anus.

That Old Spice parody was funny.

he's fit-fat

JJ Fad is hosting SNL?!?

Lol this guy is better than half the cast and most of the hosts.

He's doing very well.

[quote] JJ has great skin.

They heard you R47 — and worked it into the Olay commercial.

“Luminosity.”

WTF is this Arkansas dive bar karaoke musical guest?

OMG.

R51 Definitely Kyle Mooney, we got rid of Leslie, how can we not get rid of him?

Remember when SNL actually had cutting edge humor and music?

This shitty ass country shit ....give me a break.

I thought this was going to be Sean Combs?

[quote] OMG.

Dyatlov right?

Did somebody say combs?

[quote] Lol this guy is better than half the cast and most of the hosts.

It just goes to show that apparently it is NOT impossible to learn your lines in a week.

country has sounded the same for about 20 years now

Wouldn’t Tebow been more of a well known player to have host? Then they could have done an interesting Aaron Hernandez skit.

Is this Chazz!? Or, The Gong Show or 1980?

Talented musicians and a catchy tune, but....

What a waste of a music guest. I do like country, if it’s good. JJ is doing well though given the horrible SNL writing lately. Speaking of which here comes Weekend Update. Fire those 2.

When will they have Orville Peck on SNL?

Ditsy Gay Asian Persona castmember performance time. Sigh.

Black History on WU was funny.

Unhung hero....LOL

Without a doubt the worst show of the season, which is saying a lot.

Well that was...problematic.

R63 No, sweetie.

He's gorgeous.

r69, no, it wasn't. It could've been. But it wasn't.

"The Pilot Hunk". Ha, Ha, I love that!

Look at those shoulders.

This must be "Intern Writers' Takeover" week.

food dudes haha i like that one

Yup, R77. I really want to see him naked, and then coming down off the stage, through my TV screen, and power-fucking me.

this country guy wow fat ugly horrible beard

That hog singer has serious thigh chafing.

Why don't they ever get the hunky, straight boys doing gay shit like walking around in their underwear and kissing male cast members like they did in the old days?

They keep recycling that bachelor bit - it was funny the first time but eventually it’s just a one time gag of “can I steal you?” They need to fire Colin Jost and Michael Che and hire New writers but they won’t. The ratings are stable. Quality doesn’t matter.

Oh, he’s everything.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, JJ Watt started a fundraising campaign with a goal of $200,000 and ended up raising more than $41,000,000. He is a Houston hero in the best sense of the word.

Also, the best hosts really do seem to be the non-actors -- I remember Al Gore, John McCain, and Peyton Manning being so-o-o-o much more natural/at ease/better prepared than Robert De Niro (who never even tries to make it seem as though he's not reading every line off of cue cards).

[quote] JJ Watt is a great guy and very pro-LGBTQ. Hell, he did better in his monologue than a lot of the actors and comedians who are unable to read a damn cue card

Sports people are actually pretty good on SNL. Peyton Manning didn't need any cue cards either

Lol a nice thick meaty sub.

Jesus ...that musical act. Totally shitty red meat country. Horrifyingly bad. “Cold beer never broke my heart.” Really? Fucking hell....

SNL is for utter retards.

They really need to have this porn-quality hunk cutie host more often. Is two weeks from now too soon again? PS: Once Lorne relinquishes show control finally in about 82 years, they gotta scratch the whole program’s stagnant every segment, from opening layout to closing Kenny G saxophone music to stage sets to formats. Get this show out of the 1990s, geez.

I think you mean the 1970s.

Well, I tried to add a couple of decades to my observation to give them at least a little bit of credit. Yeah, you’re right.

The word inside NBC is that once Lorne Michaels goes, they will make major changes to the show's production.

The Teamsters crew at 30 Rock costs a fortune the network can't recoup.

They will likely move it to Brooklyn and tweak the format to bring costs down.

r87, they all use cue cards. The SNL sketch scripts are being edited up to the moment they air.

Actors are trained to memorize huge swaths of text and only encounter teleprompters at awards shows and on SNL. Sportsballers, politicians, etc. are almost never performing on camera unless they're standing a podium reading a teleprompter. Thus, it follows reason, those who have more experience reading words in front of them aloud would be able to read words in front of them aloud with more ease than those who rarely, if ever, have had to read words in front of them aloud.

Yummy.

I like that the show still looks like it did in 1975.

It's the writing that's the problem. And some of the weak cast members.

I didn't know who the host was, but he turned out to actually be pretty darn good in the sketches, better than a lot of well-known actors who have hosted. Plus he wasn't reading cue cards, hardly at all. Plus, he actually was different in terms of playing different characters in a few of his sketches. Well-done!

So what do the other brothers look like? What if he’s the “ugly one?”

Like this, R98. Nice trio.

Yeah - the musical guest was some country throwback. I couldn't believe he's had 7 #1 singles - it's classic redneck uninspired country music cliches.

The host did a decent job - but yeah, his brothers are hot.

Wow, can they star in an updated versions of the Rockland Brothers pornos?

He was very natural.

Thought the Frozen thing was pretty funny.

r99 Wow, he's actually the ugly one.

Men like JJ Watts are the reason why I love sports. Football is gay male fantasies come to life.

Those of you complaining about the quality of the jokes obviously haven't tuned in since Gilda Radner was a cast member. SNL hasn't been funny since the 80's, and after Trump got elected the jokes hit a new low and it was the same shit every single episode. The ratings have plummeted so low that they've resorted to having NFL players host and C-List country singers as musical guests.

R104 That’s what Aaron Hernandez said.

The ratings haven’t plummeted. That is a lie.

JJ Watt was great, and the show was a good one.

When Lorne leaves, the worst thing they can do is change things. If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it. Ratings will fall apart if the show has a different look and feel — and it won’t make any of these “SNL SUCKS” people any happier.

The show has ALWAYS had the negativity that it isn’t good because of the writing, the cast, the host, the music, whatever. That won’t change with a new format — and ratings will fall. NBC isn’t stupid, and as long as ratings are as strong as they are, this is what you’ll see.

Btw, let me add that JJ is a hunk and a half. Seeing him in those tight jeans made my night.

I didn't watch this. But it seems that I am officially old, as for the first time, I have no idea who the host OR musical guest are.

R109 Don’t worry you’re not old, it was a sports ball person and a third rate country act.

We’ve been talking about JJ Watt for years. Here’s a thread from 2014.

"innate" is kind of a funnier passive compliment, though.

West Coaster here. I though he'd be horrible. But he was great! By the way, for non sports fans, he's like the very best defensive player when healthy. Like insanely good.

What year did they freeze the monologue set with this one. Before this set there were MANY changing, opening sets.

R114 couldn’t find a date, but here’s a video of them going from the cold open to the opening monologue set during the opening credits that’s pretty cool.

Damn, those Teamsters are worth whatever they're getting paid!

Thanks r115, that was very educational and entertaining.

He is hot and cute and knew his lines. I'm just mad they didn't get his shirt off. Better than gross Adam Driver.

R114 OK, more research, they don’t have a shot from every year, but it looks like there was a change to the current one between 2002 and 2004 resulting in the three doorway back drop they use today.

It wouldn’t let me post in the preview window or here, but search Evolution of Saturday Night Live Monologue set AOL

Any nudes leaked? I need verificatia of sizemeat.

I must eat my words....he was hot and fun and funny,

how much 2 suk him?

[quote]OK, more research, they don’t have a shot from every year, but it looks like there was a change to the current one between 2002 and 2004 resulting in the three doorway back drop they use today. It wouldn’t let me post in the preview window or here, but search Evolution of Saturday Night Live Monologue set AOL

Oh, God... this subthread is feeling very Gap Playlisty to me. And we know how that doesn't end. By March next year you'll be comparing individual subway tiles [italic]if you don't stop now.[/italic]

“Sportballers?” We call them athletes, dude.

If you did not know who JJ Watt is, you’re really out of touch with mainstream America. He’s wildly popular and famous in the nation’s most popular tv pasttime. It’s hard to find Americans who don’t know him

JJ Watt was great and he was better than most of the SNL cast I think he has a career if he decides to give up football.

He probably will be a commentator after leaving the NFL

LOL at the pizza sketch.

Didn't intend to, and only watched out of morbid curiosity, but turns out the best, funniest and most prepared actor host was Elijah Wood, way back in 2003 (2004?). The usual critics (online AND 'professional') noted that he never had to check out a cue card and was totally into each sketch, as if it were a part in a movie. Go figure.....

I want him in me quite deeply

I want all the Watt brothers in me quite deeply, but JJ is the biggest.....have been lusting after him for years!

[quote] I didn't watch this. But it seems that I am officially old, as for the first time, I have no idea who the host OR musical guest are.

SNL's musical guests have been mostly shit for years now. Ashlee Simpson was the one where they just shrugged their shoulders and no longer cared after that.

I wonder if JJ and his brothers used to rub one out together......*sigh*

Gee he sure is big and sexy! And a sport.

He didn't look as cut last night but God he was sexy.

Those big hands...whew.

I want him to fingerbang me......for hours.

I never heard of the host. The opening was not good.

Thank you, R136. Your reply gave us infinite insight into this topic, and made our very lives richer.

Was their any particular reason to have a random football player host SNL? I mean, it just seemed so random.

I wonder if Aaron Rodgers was jealous.

[quote]Was their any particular reason to have a random football player host SNL? I mean, it just seemed so random.

R138. Well, I hear that it's Super Bowl weekend, which could have something to do with it. But I really don't know.

I don't know him.

[quote] any particular reason to have a random football player host SNL?

Except, not really. JJ is well known within the NFL (he’s been a professional football player since 2011), and he is very visible outside of football especially with regard to his charity work. As he demonstrated last night, he did an excellent job with the material. He was better prepared and funnier than a lot of the cast and many of the hosts. He’s not random to most people who follow football.

He's known outside the NFL too - been on many magazine covers.

At r122 's request:

The picture from Justin Timberlake's first host in October 2003 shows him in front of the new 2003 3 door set.

It appears that this is the longest used set at 16+ years.

I kinda liked the early sets that had a "sketch troop in a church basement" vibe like the set Hefner used.

Thank you r119

Excellent work R144, and fuck you R122! As a librarian, whose profession is to research, I like a challenge, especially one that will not necessarily have a clearly stated answer, but need to be teased out by examining multiple sources and piecing information together.

And not to kick GapPlaylistGuy while he’s being shat upon on so many other threads, my answering an interesting question has very little to do with the OCD nature of assembling lists. I in fact answered GPG’s request for more lists by referring him to the Gap corporate archives, where he could easily obtain any and all information about his beloved lists. But instead of pursuing that definitive answer, he prevails at requests for former employees who he imagines keeping monthly music programs I guess with their paystubs from their teenage/twenties retail hell jobs.

How could any American not know who JJ Watt is? He’s all over media and commercials

R146 I’ve heard of Tebow, the one who kneels, the Mannings, but couldn’t tell them apart or know their first names, Rothenberg, Giselles’ husband Brady, Gronk from the threads here and Drew Debeers (but not spelling that right I think) and that’s it. Oh and was introduced to that cutie pie Hesiman trophy winner from the south in December, but don’t recall his name, there’s only so much room to store extraneous shit. Oh and wasn’t there one that killed dogs Mike something?

This JJ guy threw a nice bulge.

He knew his lines.

I liked him.

Good Ole Lorne encourages the actors not to memorize the lines. I have said this many times to no avail. I used to tape it and fast forward. Now I tape and just delete.. I saved the one with the comic ( can’t remember his name) you guys raved about and last week’s episode. Might actually watch this week’s.

R147, I guess if you live in a cave cut off from mainstream America.

[quote]How could any American not know who JJ Watt is? He’s all over media and commercials

R146. I truly never heard of him. I watch MSNBC, CNN. I'm not on Facebook, Instagram. But I read tons of news, current events, culture and pop-culture information. I have never seen him. I read about him briefly when his name surfaced this weekend. but I would still have to go back and re-read it to say who he is. I still don't know.

R151, you read tons? Then you need to read a ton more.

I haven't watched commercials since the invention of dvrs and Netflix. I haven't watched any kind of sports. I'm still angry at my dad way then hogging our one TV whenever sports was on. He would fall asleep and when I would try to change the channel he would wake up.

Why was he selected to host SNL? I'm assuming that it's because it was Super Bowl weekend, but other than that, I never heard of him. Will he go away now that the football season is over, or is he on some show or in the public eye? I don't know this guy at all. Not even a tiny little bit. Never heard of him.

He's been injured recently, so he actually had time to prepare for this.

Scrolling down thru the comments, I don't see anyone mentioning that he is one of the names on a short list to be an OUT football star.

Yes he is either gay or bi (I don't know much else about him since I don't follow any sports).

He's had several blind items on the gossip boards about coming out but ended up retreating back into the closet.

Maybe he'll make an announcement soon (until then he is another notch in the closeted guy as SNL host belt).

r156 as stated in earlier threads, I volunteer to establish said.

R154, you’re unusual, not a normal American.

[quote]Scrolling down thru the comments, I don't see anyone mentioning that he is one of the names on a short list to be an OUT football star.

Oddly, this time, the comments were confined largely to reality.

R156? ZZZZZzzzz

R156, just stop, dude. 🛑

I’ve been really enjoying his Only Fans, especially how much he enjoys being degraded by fem bottoms.

Pizza sketch was the best - "you want to have sex with me? okay but I will need like an hour to rest first"

JPJ Watt is engaged, and the rumors about him being out are ridiculous.

I know the engagement is no proof, but neither is lying about him on gay gossip boards.

He gay, versatile, and has a 10 inch cock and impeccable anal hygiene though the power of his butt is a warning to prospective tops. He has a French lover who's an executive in the luxury business. Watt has a pied à terre in Paris, on one of those little alleys behind a high wooden wall, and he speaks decent French.

R165 Very romantic, I hope they have a wonderful Valentine’s Day planned and he gets lots of luxury goods goodies.

Finally, a slap down for common sense. Gaywashing of straight men reeks of shame.

I did like the line in the black oil of Olay commercial, where one guy asks about applying the under eye thing, is this gay, and JJ says it's just gay enough

With the bump, I was hoping it was an announcement that he had come out.

r169 i doubt it he got married.