Saturday Night Live Season 37 - Page 2

If by opening sketch you are referring to the cold open then no loss there - it blew.

 

Digital short was awesome I thought.

Yep, she's kind of like Kylie Minogue. A worldwide superstar...except in the U.S.

I thought the Katy Perry show was OK. I always love the Queen Elizabeth & Prince Phillip sketches.

Last night's SNL was fairly funny with Jimmy Fallon--I missed seeing Justin Timberlake on the show. That would have been great. Seeing Rachel Dratch, Chris Kattan, and Amy Poehler was a flashback to Fallon's early days on SNL. Even my mom says he is the best person to come from SNL--I think so too.

Yes. She is definitely better that way.
It was quite a fun show and it the cast seemed to be having a blast as well. In the credits it said that Tina Fey wrote one skit.

I missed the end of the show, but I don't think I really missed anything. Was there anything worth talking about?

NO.    Nothing that jumped out at all.
 

 

I think they need to stick with professional actors for the host job.

Barkley was soooo uncomfortable looking.

In a seperate issue......
My local NBC station wont carry SNL so they allow a local independent channel to carry it. The problem is they seem to have chimps running the controls on saturday night.

Every week, the audio is screwed up for to cold open. This time they kept switching to a streached SD version making everyone look fat. The worst part was they did this just as Kelly Clarkson came on making here look Huuuuuge. I felt really bad for her.

The whole thing appears to be available at
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/january-7---charles-barkley/1377371

The clips usually are available when I wake up in the morning, but this time (possibly due to the NFL delay) there was only the monologue.
Barkley almost cracked up near the end of the Lord Windemere sketch.

I haven't quite finished it but I thought Barkley's best bit was his sports translator advertisement.

I only saw a bit of Daniel Radcliffe hosting last night--I can't tape anything anymore, so SNL is the first show to go. I hate XFINITY for that. This is the first time I can remember that I can't watch shows later. Don't mention DVRs--it's too expensive on our system.

Okay, I have never seen Channing Tatum or Bon Iver. Can someone tell me what they've been in or what they've recorded? Am I missing something?

You aren't missing much with regards to Tatum, he is just eh in the roles I have seen him in, but with that said, I don't mind him and I think he could be good on SNL. He seems personable and should do whatever they ask.

I have no idea who or what a Bon Iver is.

I can only recall seeing Tatum once. He starred in The Eagle which recently ran on a premium movie channel.

Paul Brittain quit the show this past week, stating that he was underutilized. He's not far wrong on that assessment. Brittain was too little, too quirky-looking, and too low-key-bizarre to really be a good fit on the show. It's too bad.

Wiig and Sudeikis are reportedly out the door too, once this current season wraps in May. This means the secondary cast gets to move up -- nothing but good things. This is probably the best "secondary cast" on SNL in years, so I can't wait for them to make the next step.

Not the least reason being, Wiig is utterly incapable of subtlety. She's incapable of being anyone other than, "Awwww-don't-make-me-sing-HERE'S A DANCE ROUTINE" Kristen Wiig in every piece she does.

Her characters, because they're so overused and so unbelievably fucking hammy, distract the viewer from the entire sketch, because when she's in a sketch, it's not even really a sketch. It's Kristen Wiig showing off. It's become extremely grating.

R.I.P., Lord Wyndemere. I will have SWEETS in your honor.

PauIl Brittain has already left??? That was the biggest surprise last night. Channing is a bad host, and Bon Iver was a bad musical guest. I just saw one song, but why were they on there???

Did they have a cold open last night? Or were we subjected to Utah Censorship again? The show started with the Host starting his stripper skit. No usual "Live from New York..." opening.

If there was one, and we were just censored, what was it we were we protected from?

Sounds like y'all got "Utah'd" once again -- the cold-opening was "NEWT GINGRICH: MOON PRESIDENT" (set in the FAR-OFF YEAR of 2014), and wasn't exactly flattering to anyone involved (Mitt shows up as a cross-dressing refugee from Earth, for instance).

For an episode with so much stripper-related content, it's funny (and/or sad) that this, of all things, would get the axe. Every other sketch, Tatum was grinding someone like a fresh cup of coffee.

I watched SNL and just wondered who on Earth Channing Tatum was. Looking at his imdb page I wonder why he was on the show.
I had heard Bon iver on All Songs Considered and they have received great critical acclaim. If you look on their wikipedia page, you can see that their latest album did very well - hitting the top of various charts in multiple countries.

The open of "Gingrich in Space" was completely poor.   Really poor.  Actually, for a campaign with lots of potential moments, this whole handling of it has been bad.   There weren't many good moments last night (IMHO).  And for all the smack thrown at Del Ray, when she listed off bad acts that came to SNL, she missed the two that came right to my mind:  Ashley Simpson who walked off when her lip sync didn't match, and Kei$ha who got so frazzled she looked like she got hit by a truck

Brittain's absence shouldn't have been a surprise. The press about his departure earlier in the week said his departure was "immediate."

Don't know why half the musical guests are booked on SNL. Bon Iver is nominated for a Grammy or two, so I guess that equals trendy, which equals SNL-worthy.

Tatum has several movies coming out (The Vow, 21 Jump Street, G.I. Joe 2, Magic Mike), so I guess he was just seen as an easy booking who had movies to shill.

Hold on, utah censors programming?

Is this one affiliate or the entire state? I need more on this.

Tony; The issue is that the Salt Lake City NBC Station is owned by the LDS Church. They often refuse to air certain things. In the past they have:

Refused to air an episode of the Tonight Show when there was a guest on they did not like.
Refuse to air "The Playboy Club"
Refuse to air Saturday Night Live.

SNL is now shown on the local CW station.

Now, the CW station is claiming SNL this week had some techincal difficulties, and that is why the cold open was not shown. I am just so used to the censorship around here I might have jumped the gun this time, but I still think it is suspicious that the technical difficulty happened during a sketch that made fun of Mitt.

The sketch didn't poke much fun at Mitt, almost all at Newt.. but actually from talking to our local NBC, lots of them had issues with SNL because the feed wheel was changed, as NBC was pre-prepping the superbowl already, and had moved some of their digital feeds around.  It's also likely on this one occassion, it was some unattentive slob at the board who didn't get the heads up.   FYI, a few others stations missed parts of the open as well due to that.

 

If they did it for the Mitt reason, they missed out.. but the refusal to air Playboy Club, let's just say they saved you some pain and misery.

The cold open was way funnier than the repetitive fake debates we've been subjected to.  It was the only time this season where an election sketch had an actual premise.

 

Some so-so moments, but the Downtown Abbey short had me and my wife in tears.  We just started watching, so it was quite timely for us.

"Downton!!!" :p

The cold open was hilarious. It involved impersonations of several of the GOP candidates, but honestly it didn't go beyond light ribbing. I have no idea why it would get censored -- my guess is that it probably was a technical issue of some sort.

Not much else stood out, but the Downton Abbey spoof was pretty funny. I wasn't sure what the Lana Del Rey skit was supposed to be getting at -- it was like they couldn't decide whether they wanted to poke fun at her or at people complaining about her.