SNL 2/24/24

Doesn't come on until 8:30.

SNL - only watchable from 10/75 to 5/79

Fuck Lorne.

When do Tina and Seth get here?

They should have brought back Ching Change and Loose Change for this episode!

wow. This LOSER Gillis is bad.

This is truly terrible.

Gays. Down Syndrome. Masterbating. Can ridiculing CANCER be far behind?

Jeezus. It’s back to watching “Funny Girl” on TCM right now for me.

RACISM....How did I NOT see that coming?

Lighten up. You precious darlings wouldn't have survived the 60s-80s stand-up comedians.

ugh. This church skit is horrible.

I don't see Longfellow making it past this season.

This show fucking stinks again. Off to bed.

You really think I’m a precious darling, r10?

*twirls hair

Marcellos ass will go down as the only good part of this episode.

Well R14, humor has gone to its safe space since the PC 90s and is still afraid to come out so if you must, twirl sweetie, twirl.

I have no idea who the host is or who the musical guest is and neither one motivates me to watch to watch.

Shane Gillis should be a regular. He reminds me of someone who could have been in the original show.

Good comic acting. I liked the risky monologue. Refreshing.

What a shock.

Another bad, low-energy hip-hop act.

Just weeks after Ice Spice just stood there and shook her ass.

Proof that a gay guy should never play Capote.

I’m recording to watch after Jen Psaki tomorrow.

Interesting that the sex doll commercial is mocking incels, because that's 98% of Shane Gillis's fanbase.

Will someone wake up the musical guest?

He couldn’t bother to write new material for his monologue? That was disappointingly stale.

Marcellos ass. From the HR skit...

That was pretty dreadful.

Judging from tonight, Shane is about as edgy as Tim Conway, and less funny. My only guess is that the writers intentionally sabotaged him with corny material, like the dreadful church sketch. “How about an uptight white guy who catches Black like it’s a contagion?” Meh.

[quote]Judging from tonight, Shane is about as edgy as Tim Conway, and less funny.

Exactly.

[quote]My only guess is that the writers intentionally sabotaged him with corny material, like the dreadful church sketch.

Entirely possible. The entire cast kept their distance from him during the goodnights.

I was excited when I saw the ballerinas, violinist and opera singers and thought oh something different and interesting. Then the monotone rap started.

I want Marcello Hernandez to live on my face

[quote] My only guess is that the writers intentionally sabotaged him with corny material

I guess that’s a plausible explanation, but frankly, how could you tell? It’s not as if they consistently produce top- notch content, and deviated from that this week. On any given Saturday night, the writing is pretty awful.

That cold open was pathetic. Making the hypocrisy of supporting Trump all about personal insults? Weak. And not funny.

Was that the worst bomb ever in opening monologues? I don’t remember worse than that. The audience was silent for nearly ten minutes.

WTF?! 21 Savage is a piece of shit who has no voice and shouldn't be allowed on stage. Rap is fucking garbage.

If anything , bringing back this complete comedy non entity (I don’t give a shit about his incel podcast numbers, nor does anyone else) should signal Lorne’s time is over. NBC needs to finally get rid of him.

But he’s edgy!

Who?

R25 THANK YOU!!

They really went from Elordi to... Shane Gillis? How bizarre. Swoosie Kurtz next time?

Why not Wayland Flowers and Madame?

Low energy from start to finish. No high points or funny bits or lines (Marcello's ass was nice).

Musical guest......boring......

Marcello's ass is a meal. Where does he cruise?

The show was okay. Shane Gillis was fine and I thought his monologue was funny. I liked the HR skit. The worst part of the evening was hypocritical Bowen Yang and his take on Truman Capote - he ruined update. But on the positive side, lots of appearances by my Andrew Dismukes.

I'm getting tired of Lorne Michaels' stunt queen hosts.

Shane Gillis is not famous or popular enough to warrant hosting SNL. It's like when they had Elon FUCKING Musk hosting a year or 2 back.

[quote]Shane Gillis is not famous or popular enough to warrant hosting SNL.

Shane Gillis not famous or popular enough for you, there's a difference.

Elon Musk is one of the most famous and powerful men in the world. I don’t see the comparison.

An ugly fat man who tells maga “jokes”. He isn’t funny. He isn’t interesting. Saying random offensive words doesn’t make you Lenny Bruce. NBC must want to throw a bone to the maga crowd. That said, Gillis has nothing to offer. He need to go back to working his Walmart lawn & garden.

But he has a special niece.

[quote]The show was okay. Shane Gillis was fine and I thought his monologue was funny. I liked the HR skit. The worst part of the evening was hypocritical Bowen Yang and his take on Truman Capote - he ruined update. But on the positive side, lots of appearances by my Andrew Dismukes.

His was the best opening monologue in a long time. The Trump skit was good. In spirit he reminds me a bit of John Belushi.

Bowen Yang is an embarrassment. He turns everything into Amateur Hour.

Shane Gillis does one of the best Trump impressions

The worst part of the show was the droning, tuneless, talentless "singer". And the production on the first number had potential but the fog machine obscured the footwork. I bet those two dancers were pissed afterward.

Awful episode. Completely, utterly unfunny. Embarrassingly so.

Especially the Fugliana doll skit.

Lorne is fucking with NBC. He’s gotten away with churning out shit year after year.

He knows it’s shit and now is trying to see just how lousy he can get away with.

The only thing worth watching was Marcello Hernandez's butt cheeks.

Anyone else notice a weird, nervous energy throughout the show? The cast members were not hitting their beats well, and Shane acted like a got a death note from a Mexican drug cartel right before his opening monologue.

R55 They seemed even less prepared than they usually are.

Even Heidi Gardner's predictable cracks up in the middle of her skits seemed off.

Show was mediocre at best (which is the norm for SNL these days.

However, Shane’s Trump was the best I’ve seen; Better than James Auston Johnson’s, which I thinks is very good.

If Gillis hadn’t been fired, it’s obvious he would have been playing Trump full-time.

I agree, R57— I think his Trump impression landed him the job in 2019, but he doesn’t have an arsenal of other characters to contribute. Also, he looks like a scallop, which is very limiting.

A scallop?

The Forrest Gump sketch was cute. That's all I have to say about this episode.

I agree about the tense, nervous energy.

Even when the camera pulled away at the very end of the show during the hugs, the audience was just sitting there staring, not applauding. The cheering was a sound effect. So bizarre.

The audience clearly knew his baggage and purposely made it hard for him.

Bowen, of all people, gave him a big hug.

Terrible cold open and monologue. Overall an average episode.

I didn’t think the sketches were bad. Gillis was decent in them as well.

However, he didn’t own his monologue. If you’re going to deliver a politically incorrect, edgy monologue then own it. When an audience sees you crumbling when your material isn’t hitting, they’re not going to laugh. Personally, I don’t find making fun of the mentally handicapped entertaining. Gillis might fit in well here though with the number of posters who like to use the word “retard.”

Don't be a tard, r64, liking the word and acting like one are two different opinions.

I don’t think he was making fun of Down’s syndrome kids. He was making jokes about them, but not putting them down (so to speak).

I disagree, R65. The word is offensive.

then don't act like one, r67.

The church and game show sketches would have been passable with Louis CK in Shane’s place. He would have nailed the racial humor.

His joke was something to the effect of people with Down always being happy.

“They’re not worried about the election...”

I chuckled. He would’ve been a decent cast member.

I thought he was quite funny.

And he must be a nice enough guy if Bowen embraced him. Because you know that little bitch would have stood to side stage glaring and hissing otherwise.

His type of material and act has to be really held back for something like SNL. He was much funnier in his standup special beautiful dogs than the monologue here. Sketches were pretty mediocre.

This guy is kinda likable, but they wrote jokes for a douche bag. The jokes were crude and annoying in a huge D-bag way but this guy is kinda likable.

His self-deprecating monologue was sad. The, I love happy tards, was saccharine for a d-bag.

He wasn't slimy enough to carry the HR skit. Fell flat.

If the Jamaican skit was not thrown out, I am wondering what the shit 30 is going to be. Oh, wait, Keenan needed another skit.

I had to put it on pause.

I went to a coffee outlet in Charleston, S.C. a year ago managed and staffed by people with DS. Could this be the chain Shane was talking about?

[quote] The audience clearly knew his baggage and purposely made it hard for him.

You reap what you sow.

I actually liked the church skit it was hilariously silly with Ego who is quickly becoming my favorite cast member.

It would have been funnier with a Cousin from Temecula...

R77....Oh, that would have been great...Too bad the writers aren't that imaginative.

Another glorious view.

Marcello was a theater kid. You know what that means..He was pretty bland at first but he (and Punkie Johnson) seem to have found their stride....I don't see Michael Longfellow or Devon Walker continuing past this season.. They are just so generic.

R79 nothing is advertised unless it's for sale.

Devon has risen to the top this season. I don't think he'll be going anywhere.

I'd like to bury my face in Marcello's bush.

R82 I think Devon will be gone. They give him throwaway parts in sketches, and he has zero charisma or personality.

If SNL fired cast members for being devoid of charisma and personality, it would have to fire the entire current cast.

R85 Sounds like a great idea. Can Sarah "listen to me scream" Sherman be first?

I'd love to see Sarah play the monster in an "Alien" reboot just to watch her jaw unhinge.

Andrew and Marcello are not the same person? Do we really need two of them, especially considering how unfunny they are?

R88 Leave this house!

R89 No

Devon does a great Tim Scott. But unless Scott becomes Trump’s VP pick (doubtful) there’s not much demand for that

Longfellow did a great Rob Lowe last week. I was surprised and impressed as up to now he’s basically played himself

R91 Devon does a TERRIBLE Tim Scott. Just because he's black like Scott doesn't make him good at playing him.

I thought he was good, r92. He nailed the weird hoarse voice.

The guy that does Trump is terrible. They should hire Shane Gillis to do Trump all the time