SNL 1/22/22

Who ARE these people.

At first glance, I thought it said Foreskin.

Well. I know who Will Forte is. As for manskin I don't have the foggiest.

Hot

I sure want to taste Robby Benson's manskin.

Love Will Forte. So looking forward to his first-time hosting SNL.

Maneskin sounds like a condom brand.

While I love Will Forte, I’m not a McGruber fan. I suspect we’ll see that character, but hopefully not throughout the show.

I am loving Maneskin. They make me love thrash rock. Lead singer is totally sexy. I haven’t heard and seen something as interesting as them in a while. I’m 52.

Maneskin performance at MTV EMA, Nov 2021:

Maneskin is an Italian hard rock band, how interesting. They won the Eurovision Song contest in 2021.

This is the performance I am. I hate the whole men with makeup thing - but this guy pulls it off with major sex appeal.

Awful. Rhythmless, tuneless rubbish. And the lead singer is a textbook poser douche.

[quote]I sure want to taste Robby Benson's manskin.

References like this prove that DL is full of ancient queens.

Damiano looks like a junkie whore who sucks cock for Fentanyl.

How much do the reps for these unknown musical acts pay Lorne to perform on SNL?

Will Ryan Phillippe make an appearance?

I like Will, so hoping for the best.

Nobody watches snl anymore.

R16 don’t embarrass yourself just because you’ve never heard of them. Maneskin is very popular and gets a lot of radio play.

Kate gets Ingraham's cunty smile/sneer perfectly.

Chickpea Mash. lol

Wordle sucked.

And Lorne is simply rotating his production staff into hosting gigs.

Kristin! ❤️

McGruber antivaxxer...yawn. So Wiig did some pretapes as well?

What the hell did Ryan do to his face???? Horrifying.

Who was the guy in the McGruber skit with Forte and Wiig?

That was Ryan Phillipe with a new face.

R27 = Ryan Phillippe....He is on the tv show...

Thanks. I didn't recognize him and have not seen the TV show. I agree, he did not look like himself at all.

It looks like they gave Forte a Bill Hader castoff skit. You can tell it was written for Hader. Kid Klash.

Boyer was — Swedish!?

R20 What’s radio?

so Davidson gets to play all the ethnic white characters now? The opening segment was a good idea but poorly executed. Davidson didn't even try to do a proper Djokovic accent.

I am loving that SNL is finally dragging that despicable Laura Ingraham though. It's about time

When will SNL drag Laura Ingalls Wilder?

omg the ever hot ryan phillipe got way to much fillers, i dint recognize him....

forte not good, can see why he never hosted.

[quote]Maneskin sounds like a condom brand.

The band might be good, but Maneskin is an incredibly stupid name, Italian rock bands are not known to have catchy names.

Here's some ridiculous Italian band names: Litfiba · Negramaro · Le Vibrazioni · Gianna Nannini · Fleshgod Apocalypse · Pillow Fight Club · Goblin · Marlene Kuntz · Starfuckers Premiata Forneria Marconi · Jacula · Latte e Miele · Saint Just · Le Orme · Graveworm · Mandragora Scream · Dope Stars Inc.

They couldn't even do a threeway skit. Would have been way better if Forte and Day would have been the ones into each other and the wife had to fight her way in...This show really cannot land anymore.

Starfuckers and Premiata Forneria Marconi are two separate bands.

PFM had some US success, they are a prog-rock band.

The musical guests look like drag queens without the wigs....Yawn...

The main singer looks like his next gig could be swimming in a Womens Swim Tournament.

[quote]The band might be good, but Maneskin is an incredibly stupid name

The bassist who formed the band is half Danish. Måneskin is Danish for "moonlight". Still not the most rocking name but no more stupid than Cinderella or Twisted Sister.

Oh!! Cher.

I am SO jelly.

holy shit the lead singer needs to whiten those teeth

yellow as fuck

best musical guest in long time....shades of david bowie....sexy fukker

That singing was so bad it reminded me of Jason Dottley.

omg che looks sick, wtf?

I prefer when SNL gets different musical acts and hosts. The last 15 years they've had an unprecedented amount of multiple repeat celebs most of whom I can't stand

that said there are many talented musical acts they never put on.

haha yes drag Andrew Windsor

The asian queen makes me ashamed to be queer.....

Hard to believe but "Beggin" was a originated by the Four Seasons in 1967. So smart of them to bring it back.

And it was written by 2 Italian Americans, sung by an Italian American, and now made a hit again by a group from Italy.

Jesus, the writing gets worse and worse.

I do like the boat guy character. He's like an updated 80s douche

DAVIDSON LA GIGGLER IS DISGUSTING

SLOP.....This show has just become unwatchable trash. Pete Davidson looks like he hasn't bathed in 3 days. Weekend Update wasn't funny. wtf?

[quote]The bassist who formed the band is half Danish. Måneskin is Danish for "moonlight". Still not the most rocking name but no more stupid than Cinderella or Twisted Sister.

Still, it's a silly name, especially if a band is trying to expand beyond Italy and Europe markets.

Looking at the name, an American would assume it's pronounced MAN SKIN, not the Danish pronunciation. So, yes, it's a terrible name for any band who is looking for international fame. They were on Fallon, or Seth Meyers, a few weeks ago, the band's name was pronounced MAN SKIN.

It's hilarious that their hit in the US is a 55 year old song by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

Moffat on WU was hilarious.

[quote] omg the ever hot ryan phillipe got way to much fillers,

Oh, is that all what we're pretending it is??

"Fillers"...

[quote]It's hilarious that their hit in the US is a 55 year old song by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

The original is perfection. Valli is superb. Ahead of its time.

forte specializes in playin creepy guys..... alas not funny.

Hader did creepy better.

[quote]Hader did creepy better.

Speaking of Italians, I loved when Bill Hader did the Italian talk show host, he seemed to based it on Marcello Mastrionni.

The Måneskin singer has a bit of a Perry Farrell vibe going on.

this is campy as fuck

I can see why they won Eurovision

first song was OK this second one is trash

This would be edgy if it were 1973.

Retro Glam Rock!

The singer is Damian David...He supports LGBT Rights....Which is awesome since he seems like one of us. He has a "girlfriend"....I'm surprised her name isn't Zendaya...

[quote]first song was OK this second one is trash

Again, the FIRST song is not an original, it's a [bold]55 year old song[/bold]originally a big hit for Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

wow he's 1 of those who looks much better in photos than live on tv

R66 Nothing's edgy anymore. And you just know that lead singer is missing his mother's pasta while he's in NYC.

I think American fans love their style and unabashed nudity more than their music.

macgruber shit is so lame.

RYAN WTF WITH UR FACE?

I love his Italian nose.

Manskin is a fake band, right? Is Will Forte the lead singer? They are awful.

Ugh. Manskiin lead singer was winking at the camera and flitting his wrists. And you can tell it's just a put on. They will do anything for attention. The music is blah gypsy metal. Boring. Without his flouncing around, there would be nothing. Freddie Mercury is turning in his grave, as they used to say. THIS is why I hate us.

"The singer is Damian David...He supports LGBT Rights....Which is awesome since he seems like one of us. He has a "girlfriend"....I'm surprised her name isn't Zendaya.."

He is a fucking opportunist. Trying to appeal to the gays for record/ticket sales. He is shameful.

Damn that music sucked.

January 29 Host: Marley Jenkins Musical Guest: Spinhop

Maneskin's core demographic is teen girls hot for them and oldies who like the nostalgic sound. They play around with gender presentation, as Gen Z does. Carry on.

That thing about the spaceships, jars of beer, toddlers, and Model T cars was a continuation of a sketch that Forte did years ago and it’s so hilariously weird and strange and specific it’s incredible.

The song is actually pretty good when you hear Frankie Valli sing it, as opposed to someone with a voice that sounds like a rusty spring door being opened.

they were hella better than lana fukin del rey....

This was their Eurovision winning performance.

Welp. The world ending.

Ryan P. finally looks old.

Why so many period jokes on SNL?

I’m shocked they did nothing about West Elm Caleb on Weekend Update.

Who is Lorne leaving all his money to? Does he even have a charitable foundation? Does he collect art, or cars or real estate? What do we know about him?

Why was half the episode clips from his TV show?

Maneskin -- Well, they're no Greta Van Fleet.

[quote]Damiano looks like a junkie whore who sucks cock for Fentanyl.

I like that in a man.

Jennifer Damiano from Next to Normal joined the cast?

I’m available!

Ha Greta T. hosted this shitshow yet?

G Thurnberg yes next plz god.

R94 The public transportation she would have to take to get here would take months, so no.

Hey it’s Che Diaz! I made it to SNL!

oh honey, go git a makeover.....

Take my finger!

-Love, Che.

YOU ARE FIRED

Was the purchase of a Ferry a made up story or did it really happen? Are they going to turn it into a booze/coke cruise?

Lorne honey, finding yourself is so 5 years ago. I’m not a home wrecker. And I don’t do traditional. You’re not in an open relationship? I answered your DM to be on the show after I had 5 edibles.

-Che Che

Ha R90! Weren’t they supposed to be the next big thing?!

The best thing about watching the show was seeing DL fave Jason Brooks in the Lexus commercial.

Big dick Jason Brooks from Days of our Lives?

che was fired yrs ago.....jus look at his face.

R103 Hell yeah!

The whole thing seemed like an undercover commercial for that Peacock streaming service. Sign up for Peacock and save MacGruber. I watch SNL on Sunday afternoons on Hulu. It makes it easy to fast forward through the musical guests. The last music I bought was a Christmas CD for my father, couldn't care less.

I no longer know who most of the SNL hosts or musicians are

It’s always weird to me when cast members who aren’t on the live show are then there on stage for the goodbyes. I saw Melissa Villesenor and that new Atari guy, but don’t recall them being in any sketches. I didn’t see Cecily or Andrew, Punkie, or Chris at all, even at the end but might have missed them. So, do they come in and just hang out all night while their cast mates get airtime? That’s got to suck.

Sarah Sherman is the breakout star this season.

I love Will Forte, but maybe he wasn’t asked to host in the last 12 years if his only breakout character was the deeply unfunny MacGruber.

R110 Sketches get dropped last minute all the time. Some of them may have done bits that didn't make it to air.

Yes, R105.

Melissa Reeves picked a good one to have an affair with. Jason and his deep strokes.

R101 it's real.

Before the former Saturday Night Live cast member Will Forte made his hosting debut on the show yesterday, one of the more memorable moments from his eight-year tenure circulated online. In a 2005 sketch, Forte played a timid, overwhelmed spelling-bee contestant. When asked to spell the word business, he produced a deadpan, 75-letter sequence of consonants. As would so often occur during his time on SNL, Forte bulldozed past absurdity to find fresh hilarity. The current cast member Bowen Yang shared the clip on Instagram with the caption “legend.”

Forte is a champion of eccentricity, adeptly playing awkward, tightly wound characters whose veneer often comes close to shattering—if it hasn’t already. Last night, Forte revisited his version of weird, bringing a playful looseness that generated this season’s strongest night thus far. After the previous particularly bleak episode, Forte’s presence was a welcome shift for SNL. Instead of wrestling with the bizarreness of our present reality, the show leaned into a jubilant zaniness of its own. Forte’s comedy felt like a release—and the cast responded with vigor.

It took 12 years after leaving the cast for Forte to get the call to host—a major oversight on SNL’s part—and he used his monologue to highlight the discrepancy. “It was really fun to see Kristen [Wiig] host, then Bill [Hader], then Andy [Samberg], then Fred [Armisen], then Kristen again, then Bill again, then Jason [Sudeikis],” he said, summarizing his former teammates who received the honor before he did. “I’m not bitter about it. Save the best for last, right? Save the best for way last.” Then Lorne Michaels showed up to rib him. Standing beside next week’s host, Willem Dafoe, he told Forte there’d been a mistake. “You think I would book someone named Will, then someone named Willem?” Michaels asked, ultimately blaming the mix-up on autocorrect.

The setup was clear: Forte had had to wait more than a decade to receive hosting duties, and he was there to have fun. With a chip planted sarcastically on his shoulder, Forte used the episode to showcase his uninhibited energy. In “Kid Klash,” a spoof on the ’90s Nickelodeon kids’ game show Family Double Dare, Forte’s host, Mark Zazz, turned sinister. When Tatum (Aidy Bryant) couldn’t locate a flag in an oversize tub of whipped cream, Zazz forced her to keep playing long past the buzzer. “The whipped cream is adversity and the flag is your unfulfilled potential,” he told her, sneering. Bryant came close to breaking character as the situation devolved into a grim fever dream of children’s television.

Forte continued to add outlandish layers to rudimentary characters. In what could have been a cheap scene about a threesome, Forte played an overzealous “experienced third” who had been hired to join a married couple. Entering their hotel room in a Tiger King–style silk shirt, he spent the skit getting comfortable in his surroundings. “Now, let’s see if this bed can handle my motion,” he said before violently, repeatedly, rocking the headboard. In classic form, Forte overextended the gag far past the punch line. He’s more than comfortable making audiences uncomfortable—until their tension breaks into laughter.

During his time on SNL, Forte didn’t amass the number of recurring characters that some of his fellow cast members did. But last night, he brought back his most famous one: the perpetually inept action hero MacGruber, a spoof of the classic TV drama MacGyver’s star. The original “MacGruber” bits escalated over the course of an episode, serving as a recurrent interstitial between sketches. Last night’s version (with Wiig and Ryan Phillippe) updated that format for the COVID era. Over three brief scenes, MacGruber revealed that he was an anti-vaxxer, and he eventually got wrapped up in QAnon. The story line was one of the few that engaged directly with our current reality. Watching MacGruber wax on about conspiracy theories while the bomb he was meant to dismantle ticked away was poignantly on the nose. It revealed the funny nestled inside the madness—all thanks to Forte’s character work.

Forte also resurrected the topic-specific country singer Clancy T. Bachleratt, who, with his music partner, Jackie Snad (played by Wiig), sang only about “spaceships, toddlers, Model T cars, and jars of beer.” Forte and Wiig’s energy breathlessly ratcheted up over the course of the sketch, reaching a climax during the “Soon-to-Be New Official Song of the NFL,” which showcased their screaming vocal runs.

Forte’s hosting stint asserted him as one of SNL’s contemporary legends. His deliciously oddball presence invigorated the stale season, serving as a reminder of how wonderfully wild the show can be when it doesn’t force comedy to respond to a moment it fails to fully understand. Watching Forte was a relief. “I waited 12 friggin’ years for this,” Forte said. So did we.

Was Kristen Wiig brought on because Cecily Strong was off this week?

I guess Cecily was busy with her one woman show

Wasn't Kate McKinnon good at Impressions at one point? She didn't even try to do Ingrid Bergman at all. She's basically just phoning it in as Laura Ingraham too. I remember when she played Ellen DeGeneres the first time she was so funny , what happened with that?

They really need to fire half of the cast. There is so much dead weight, and most of the older cast members (except Kenan) seem to be tired and depressed.

R121 I agree, Lorne always at very least seemed fiscally responsible, so paying for all these people to be on cast and then hiring other former cast members to come on on top of that seems wastefully. There should definitely be a cut off of years being there, eight even seems to much, maybe six?

I think that it's been said Lorne has been feeling generous because of (a) COVID causing crippling unemployment for actors, and (b) he's retiring soon.

Lorne is never generous, he is strategic. He would have old cast member hosting every week if he had a piece of them like he has of Forte.

And to think Lorne could have had him on when he was on The Last Man on Earth. Saturday's show was one long advert for MacGruber. Plainly and simply stated.

As someone mentioned above, Forte plays creepy very well.

Oops, let's try that again

Has Forte’s sexuality ever been established, or has there just been no real interest in knowing?

R127 Good question. Would probably need to ask his wife.

[quote]Has Forte’s sexuality ever been established, or has there just been no real interest in knowing?

Didn't Forte and his MUCH younger wife have a baby last year?

Yes, they did: "Will Forte is married. The 51-year-old Saturday Night Live alum married his fiancée, Olivia Modling, on July 31 in a surprise ceremony, ET can confirm. Forte and Modling welcomed their now 10-month-old daughter, Zoe, in February."

"Olivia is reportedly in her early 30s and she graduated from University of Alabama, finishing her studies at the school in 2013. Meanwhile, Will, who is a Saturday Night Live alum, is currently 51.

She works for a boutique festival agency which produces and markets touring music events and creates events for companies in different industries. Olivia and Will met at a party back in 2018 when they were both invited by a mutual friend. The pair reportedly hit it off immediately and made their relationship public in 2019 and got engaged in April 2020. They are parents to a daughter named Zoe Douglas Forte who was born on February 15th 2021."

I've always found Forte to be incredibly creepy. I don't get his appeal. Even his comedy is odd and not in a good way.

Ryan Phillippe's face looked kind of busted.