SNL 10/5/24

Big 50th season and this is their choice as host? Why is he back and honestly who the fuck is he?

This isn't the 70s where comedians like Carlin and Pryor were king. Wherever they are they're laughing their asses off and not in a "wow you're funny" way.

Oh, I hope there’s a game show sketch. Not.

O see that Bowen must be Lorne’s boy-toy this season.

They're serious about keeping Yang as Vance? This isn't a put a gay guy in the role to irk Vance scenario, this is just bad casting as usual.

Haley Joel Osment's Vance impersonation is much better than Bowen Yang is doing.

Dana Carvey is using too much of George H.W. Bush impersonation in impersonating Biden.

My favorite show parts now are the opening credits and in between segments’ still shots.

Where did they find this fool?

Yang’s Vance is terrible. Amateurish. A missed opportunity.

I like Bargatze but this monologue is tedious.

Me bored.

The band looks so engaged in this monologue. Hope they stay awake.

Did the writing staff quit?

Is Lorne on life-support??

What’s writing this, AI?!

This is shit and I figured they’d mindfully go all-out with the best for the 50th season.

Omigod, enough! I’d rather be in bed!

Holy crap (literally).

Oh joy. An entire sketch in Spanish. Laughs abound. This is exactly like one of those channels I can't pass fast enough in the real world.

JFC, this show fucking sucks!

Marcello Hernandez is an overrated hack like Bowen Yang.

[quote] Omigod, enough! I’d rather be in bed!

Then why aren't you? No one is making you watch it.

You'd think that if you really hated it as much as you claim, you'd just turn it off.

The guy from Coldplay is sitting on a stool. Time for a contemplative song.

Love Coldplay.

I have to mute Coldplay. I can't believe people choose to listen to the sound of boredom.

LOL, Chris Martin doing the swaying bit like they're playing Red Rocks, and the audience is holding up lighters.

So, they replaced an obese "they" with a skinny TikToker who looks like a lesbian.

PLEASE STOP SINGING. PLEASE STOP PLAYING THE KEYBOARDS. PLEASE STOP.

Her song was longer than Coldplay's. That's one way to hold the budget on writer's salaries.

[The guy from Coldplay is sitting on a stool.]

And barefoot. Chris Martin is such a pretentious nimrod.

Those of you who don't like Coldplay need to consciously uncouple form this episode.

I think the show’s production plays too much to identity casting now, and not to clever writing anymore.

Oh, oh—handle your hardons: Looks like he’s still barefoot!

Chris Martin getting freaky deaky in da club!

Turned it off. The energy level is so low it’s like Ambien. They’re also doing something different with the lighting and sound quality this season. The whole thing is wrong.

Sushi Glory Hole? Even Andy Samberg has run out of ideas. Who's his rapping buddy?

r31 I think it's the host of the episode. Nate something

Thanks, R32.

Such wooden cue card reading, while Pinocchio remains unemployed!

Saw dust is more expressive.

I told you it would go downhill without ME.

I never laugh at Yang but I like his Vance.

Weirder still, I think Andy Samberg is sexy AF.

Nate Bargatze...never heard of him.

Nate's in the newest (not necessarily young) group of stand-up comics, along with Sebastian Maniscalco, Gary Gulman, Joe Pera, Mike Birbiglia, and others.

R31/R32, Andy was actually performing in that clip with his Lonely Island bandmate, Akiva Schaffer.

I liked the George Washington skit and actually laughed at the golfing debacle.

I thought the Mile High Hamburger skit was my favorite. So funny!

The first George Washington sketch was funnier, but this one worked too. Easily the funniest sketch of the episode.

I actually thought Sushi Glory Hole was so stupid it somehow became funny.

Chris Martin was off key more than he was on key. (Other than Yellow, The Scientist and The Speed of Sound, I have never understood why Coldplay is so huge.)

The rest of the show was pretty abysmal.

Who's the guy hosting?

43 replies. Its collapse is in slow motion.

Anyone else think the ice cream in the face was not a good move? Maybe it was an improv and he thought the 'VP' would get a face full of icecream but the way it played out was demeaning.

I liked the waterside sketch even though it was obvious right away where it was going. It was mostly the delivery by the host and Longfellow.

The Glory Hole Sushi was a desperate attempt to duplicate Dick in a Box success.

Fail.

Andy Samberg is much better looking than I Remember him. I loved the golf course one. The Weekend Update song was hilarious. I went back and watched Bargatze's opening monologue his first time on SNL and he was hilarious. This time not so much, but he was still funny. I like him.

I enjoyed the Waterslide skit.

R46 That was my favorite sketch of the night.

Entertainment Weekly must have some arrangement with Lorne, as they post links to all the segments.

I thought that was Justin in the Sushi Glory Hole bit, only because art tends to imitate life.

Jane Wickline looks like she could be Clea DuVall's younger sister.

R45, tbh, all I could think was jizz.

It didn't bother me but I wasn't sure it went to plan.

To be honest, I think the parodying of Biden slips into meanness. Just a bit too far. He's a good man.

[quote] To be honest, I think the parodying of Biden slips into meanness. Just a bit too far. He's a good man.

Yeah, this has been bugging me as well.

Waterslide was funny.

I didn't laugh at Weekend Update and that chick playing and singing just took up TOO MUCH FUCKING TIME......we got the message in the first six verses!

R45 - correct on the mean quality of it.

It’s as if SNL is now ashamed of its left-leaning past and is going to attack the left to compensate. Right or wrong, it’s not funny. Two weeks in a row.

^ I meant R54

I think you're reading a lot into it, R57, but that's art for ya.

I really like the jacket the host is wearing in R51’s pic. Anyone know anything about it or what that style and/or material is called?

Thanks!

Never heard of the host, looks like Generic-White-Guy-Heading-Into-Middle-Age, but he was just right in every sketch and he was the star of all of them.

I thought it was a funny show overall. Laughed out loud at the golf film, thought the actress in the Mile High Hamburger Challenge really went for it and was terrific, but none of the sketches bombed..

I would think the regular cast would be better at disguising the fact that they were reading off cue cards, but maybe the sketches changed a lot from dress rehearsal to air time.

I guess I must be the only one who got a big kick out of the Mile High Hamburger Challenge skit. I love it when the players break or try hard not to break into laughter. Heidi Gardner is one of my favorites.

Gotta say the new cast member Emil Wakim looked good in the last football sketch in that jersey.

Heidi Gardner is underrated. I used to love it when the Kate McKinnon fangirls on the original L Chat board would have meltdowns whenever Heidi got more screen time than Kate.

They gave us another cruel portrayal of Biden’s age. They showed our VP with ice-cream/cum dripping down her chin. The comments section is still flooded with “leftist bias!” and “Trump 2024 so they are not getting any kudos for both sidesing.

I really don't think the ice cream on Kamala's face was preplanned. You could see Maya's surprised look and you could also see Carvey look a bit surprised when he glanced over and saw her face.

I enjoyed the episode (except for the Spanish game show, which was stupid). I thought it was better than the premiere episode with Jean Smart - maybe because I had lower expectations this weekend ? Emil Wakin is a cutie - hope they give him more to do.

The only sketch which failed was 'Sushi Glory Hole'. Rather juvenile.

Agreed, r17.

Love the "George Washington" sketches. Here's the first one:

[quote] Emil Wakin is a cutie

He’s quite adorable.

The Mexican TV show was hilarious if you were familiar with the actual show. This was tame by comparison. But my favorite was the Golf Course Skit.

[quote] Gotta say the new cast member Emil Wakim looked good in the last football sketch in that jersey.

He looks like a cockroach.

Watkin’s looks didn’t strike me in that Football team lockeroom sketch, he’s too skinny. But Marcello Hernández looked like he has a hot, round little butt in that uniform.

I've never found Bargatze particularly funny.

I had no idea who the host was. I still don’t.

I thought the episode was funnier than the premiere.

R72 Confirmed!

Thanks, R75!!

R74, Are you being deliberately obtuse? WHAT'S TO KNOW? He's a currently popular stand-up comedian, as this THREAD has made clear. Does he need to be more for you to "know who he is," maybe a celebrity chef or a Mongolian throat-singer?