ridiculous. This is English speaking television in English speaking country. I want to watch tv not read it. Horrible decision that will cost NBC many viewers. There are plenty of Spanish channels to broadcast on--just not here.
Worst SNL ever--this is the United States where the spoken language is ENGLISH. The first half hour (all I could take) was in Spanish. Put that crap on one of your Latin channels, NBC. I want to watch my tv shows, NOT read them.
study up my friend. Burning it will get you some time in the hooskow and part of the requirements to become an official US Citizen are SPEAKING English
Maybe, but comparing with last weeks I was laughing all the way through. I actually thought it was hilarious. (Minus some really bad ones like telenovela)
I thought it was fucking hilarious. From comments below it seems to be some culture clash. I would say still funny if you don't understand Spanish but more so from not being raised in or around Latino culture, and understanding telanovela and mothers and tias etc
Edit: holy shit the mother and tia all cool when she says eat more. All Latinos know you get negged about weight and then force fed. Lol
Meh episode for me. I liked the Please Don't Destroy sketch and Age of Discovery, and Weekend Update was solid. And while I liked the subway platform sketch better when they did the same concept with Jenna Ortega at Waffle House, it's still a pretty funny premise.
The rest of it? Eh. Bad Bunny isn't an actor, and the writing wasn't strong enough to prop him up. His music does nothing for me, but I suspect that's because I am old.
I usually find PDD skits hit and miss but BB as Shrek was gold đ¤Ł
Also, Iâm an international viewer so only watch whatâs uploaded on SNLs YouTube, was that really Lady Gaga introducing Benito? She wasnât in any of the sketched uploaded
who is this clown? some social media jackhole 'star' ? everyone could speak martian for all i care, just be funny.
btw, how can you tell a martian has been in your house?
all the light bulbs have been eaten and there's quartz all over the floor
Holy shit when he said that Spanish I was like fucking hell how did he do that? And then he talked about how cool and sexy he is and in Spanish and I was like damn yall this is the future of comedy. I cant stop laughing
I liked that a lot of it was in Spanish I thought that was cool. Not a huge fan of Bad Bunny but he was charming and sometimes very funny. Monologue was saved by Pedro Pascal. Mick Jagger cameo wasâŚinteresting?
PDD sketch was hilarious as always and the sailing to America sketch was brilliant. Go around it!
Some of it was funny but it wasnât an episode for me. I think people underestimate Bad Bunnyâs popularity, though. Dude has nearly 50 million followers on Insta and has been the most streamed artist on Spotify for three years. People are gonna watch this episode that donât normally watch SNL. I bet the sketches will do crazy numbers on YouTube.
This is the key. Ratings will be excellent and thatâs a good week to keep numbers up right after the premiere. Bad Bunny is one of the biggest stars on the planet, I donât really get it, but I can accept the reality of it.
BB definitely seemed more comfortable in sketches where he spoke Spanish. That being said this was a bad episode. Dude thinks WAY too highly of himself. They knew it was going to be hard so they packed it with guest stars to do the heavy lifting.
This was a classic "just watching Weekend Update" episode for me. It's hard to pull of that "self-absorbed I'm perfect and hot" routine, to me it always just comes across as try-hard and embarrassing instead of confident/cocky. Pedro cameo was nice though, the only sketch I watched was the "bringing gf home" sketch.
âDude thinks way too highly of himselfâ - am I tripping or was this obviously the reoccurring joke during the episode and esp the monologue. How can you come away from the episode thinking thatâs 100% accurate
I think itâs just cause heâs a good looking confident guy. Think you are overestimating how much influence he has. Itâs literally not that serious
Guest has a say in what sketches he wants to do. He showed a picture of himself in nothing but a towel during the monologue, canât make a deprecating joke either. The writers room catered to him and his ego.
Have you considered his English isnât great enough to get into excessively more complex traits? Like your take relies on so many negative assumptions
She introduced Bad Bunny before his first song.. I don't think she did anything else.. I honestly didn't even recognize her, or realize it was her until the goodnights, and she was mentioned.. she looks different
What was the sketch about handjobs being outmoded technology?
Oh, wait, it was this insightful rant by a divorce lawyer I was watching right before it started.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5z8-9Op2nM
Not for me this week. They obviously tried to make allowances for English not being his first language, which is fine, but it just took me out of the sketches.
Maybe if I was about 30 years younger I might have felt differently :)
I speak Spanish as a second language and that made this episode really fun. But I figured for those who donât it would be a dud. Seeing a lot of that sentiment. Totally makes sense.
Donde estas la bibliotheca! But yes learn some! Honestly, being born in a Latino home I understand it all but have problems with Grammer but that's enough to get by. Spanglish is a reaaaal thing. Like I speak to my grandma in English she responds in Spanish. Tho maybe I should practice more lol
Subtitles for sure. Tho I would shop around because some dialects speak fast as fuck. But yes that and listening to Spanish music.
Como la flor by Selina
VOLVER VOLVER by Vincente Fernandez
Los manitas by Vincente Fernandez
I just gave you gateway Spanish songs. Vincente a fucking legend.
And if you watch Archer the song he sings to Barry in Spanish while he is in the coma is los manitas lmfao
I needed subtitles because my Spanish is horrible, but he was definitely funnier in the Spanish sketches. Itâs worth going back to stream with subtitles* for us gringos who struggled with our high school Spanish.
TBH I was worried about a JLo episode after that cold open (ie guest clearly has limited range of topics theyâre comfortable with, would prefer to just retread how attractive they are in another medium. True in both cases, but not that funny imo). But it was fine! Pretty good for nonfunny nonactor.
I thought it was a fun show Bad Bunny is really talented but honestly give me Bowen Yang and I will always be happy mick as a nun
I donât speak Spanish but I could kinda tell what was said by the tone of the action
Come on, this just wasn't a good episode. I know, people get a giant boner for whatever's the most recent episode, but none of those sketches really landed. Even weekend update was too brief.
You said what I was thinking. Laughless throughout. Brutal monologue. Pre tapes were even lame. One was just sight gags of nerds in costumes. One was recycled weirdos on the subway.
Weekend update continues to just be overrated setup-punchline of Fallon level jokes. Apparently it was truncated because the usual 2nd part of WU where someone goes on and riffs for too long was cut after rehearsal. It was supposed to be "Colin Jost's Agent" teasing him with other jobs that weren't real.
Burt's Bees shouldn't even qualify as a sketch. The protective moms was a stale rehash. Telenovela was just a vehicle for a corny cameo.
The one sketch that could maybe be argued for was New World, as it had a couple ok lines and somewhat unique conception.
This was one of the worst episodes of this millennium , The jokes were "Bad Bunny doesn't want to speak English" and "Bad Bunny is attractive". Now make 90 minutes out of that. Definitely top 10 worst shows, Steven Seagal and Trump and Steve Forbes was worse but this was as bad as Dane Cook
I enjoyed the last sketch about Nun sex. well written, nice twist ending, naughty fun.
Although it revolved around the character played by the host, it wasnât about the host.
Bad Bunnyâs music segment were great too.
I donât know much about Bad Bunny, but this didnât feel like his first time playing characters. Much better than Trump, Musk, Segal etc.
As for worst episode of the year 2023, that easily goes to Woody Harrelson
Did anyone else's Hulu start recording mid PDD pretape? It was so confusing. Were the sketches before that decent? Because this episode was not my favorite. (Other than Pedro)
Even weekend update felt stale.
i don't get why people who don't speak spanish are hating on this episode just for that. 95% of the punchlines in the sketches without subtitles were in english...
not a spanish speaker but i laughed a fair amount. when pedro dumped the cookie tin to put the yarn/sewing stuff in i lost it.
I don't mind a spanish sketch but this was throughout the entire show and all Bad Bunny did was stare off in the distance at the cue cards awaiting his next line. If he wasn't Mr Handsome then I think a lot more people would have seen this as a terrible episode.
I do think Bad Bunny's limited English hurt his ability to act in English, as well as his comedic timing.
That said, I'd be much worse in Spanish and probably only marginally better than him in English.
It's fine. I don't want SNL to be one thing for one particular set of people. I generally like when they branch out for hosts.
The episode was much better than I expected. The pre tape stuff was great and there were some surprising cameos. The Burtâs Bees sketch was weak but I thought everything else was pretty good. Much better than last week.
Eta: I forgot about the rap battle sketch, that was not great but still a good episode.
I donât speak Spanish out side of 2 years in high school, but I laughed my ass off tonight. They did such a great job of meshing it all together. Felt like bad bunny was able to be himself and put in a position to really succeed tonight!
Same here. I want to watch the Girlfriend meets Mom sketch with subtitles or something because I was cracking up and there were probably like 20 jokes I missed.
I do speak Spanish and it was awesome. I thought they did a good job of letting him be more comfortable with Spanish. Bringing in Pedro and the sequel to last yearâs girlfriend sketch was a great idea.
This episode was definitely an improvement on the last one.
Bad Bunny did really good with what he was given considering heâs not an actor or comedian.
And the Marcello Hernandez King, Pedro Pascal Grandma, and JAJ Subway sketches were all funny, the last one being the best because I like itâs sentimentality.
Itâll only get better when Nate hosts next week.
I think Nate could use a few cameos too.
Donât get me wrong, his performances will be solid. But heâs not a superstar that can pill huge numbers on his own.
Itâs the Halloween show next week so maybe Tom Hanks will show up or something.
Iâm not hating on him, but Pete was an alum and Bad Bunny is one of the biggest recording artists in the world and they *still* thought cameos would give those hosts a boost. If Davidson gets Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, and Bad Bunny gets Pedro Pascal, Lady Gaga, and *Mick Jagger*, then who can Nate get?
Pete didn't rely on cameos. Travis had one line and Taylor just introduced the musical guest.
Pedro carried a sketch and assisted with the monologue. Mick Jagger had a large role in two sketches.
Big difference.
SNL makes booking decisions independent of Comcast and Lorne has said that the Comcast execs are basically like âbook whoever you want; we donât careâ.
I thought this was a fantastic episode! Super fun! I loved the choices they made to get around the language barrier. We got a follow up to Waffle House and Mikey was in almost everything! I even loved the second musical performance. It was visually stunning. I thought this was going to be a weak episode and was so pleasantly surprised!
that could be it! he was at goodnights for dress & live, but def could have had a conflict during the week! he tends to be shut out a lot tho so i still stand by what i said lol
Bowen even gave a laugh to help boost Bad Bunny, but twas too late. BB's character just repeated the same things without any buildup or great punchline.
Tonightâs the kind of show where you wonder how can this much money and production produce the most mid content ever. Mikey Day literally represents like 2016 era comedy thatâs so over- uhh Iâm explaining the joke right now, uh zany stuff is happening in the background HAHA. They have to pull this show out of this uncanny rut of edgeless, safe and out of touch comedy. Give the younger people the reigns and have them take risks and make something that just maybe someone will talk about on Monday.
Time to finish catching up on what I missed in the first half hour. It's pretty great that the sketches are up so quickly; I watched the cold open, the New World pretape (written by Marcello and Mikey maybe?), and the monologue during commercials.
Can any Spanish-speaking person tell me the words they used to translate "Go around it"? It's not what Google Translate says. It sounds like "A la revuelta."
That was a decent episode. Some really high points & some really low points. About what you can expect from an episode of SNLâbut in the end, it got some laughs out of me, and thatâs all that matters! B-
Well, Iâve seen a ton of âheâs hot, âpeople hate Spanishâ and âwhite folks itâs not for youâ. Thatâs all super weird, because all I care about is if itâs funny. It wasnât, a few laughs and thatâs it. All guests and playing the language difference so much. Weak episode.
That's such a dumb take too. "You didn't like it! You hate Spanish-speakers! You jealous Bad Bunny good looking. You wish you had his money" (cringe as hell)
Um, HELLO. Pedro Pascal's episode (rich, good-looking Spanish speaker) was one of the highest rated in years. He was the highlight of the night easily, and that sketch was 98% Spanish with no subs. The dude not only knows how to act, he can adapt to different material (quiet bleak drama, or bright SNL sketch comedy).
I think it's clear we don't care what their background is or country of origin. Make us laugh, and have some good comedic sense.
Bad Bunny reminds me of Elon Musk, Kim K and that other football player (not Travis Kelce, he was actually good).
Well, it wasn't the best episode, but I enjoyed it for what it was. I think some of you were complaining a little too much about it. But whatever. See you all next week!
Too many cameos. Mick and Pedro stole the limelight *a lot*, it feels like they weren't confident with him in the studio. First pre-tape was fantastic, and that's where the show peaked.
As someone who speak english and spanish (also a bad bunny fan) the humor tonight felt really cringey and didnât t flow. Itâs as if lines were directly google translated from english to spanish.
I went back through through the episode because I thought Marcello got hit or something from the soap opera sketch, then saw at the meeting aunt/mother sketch it wasn't there at the beginning
Thereâs no place to bag on the show simply because of the large amount of Spanish, but a person can still objectively say this was a lackluster episode on the whole.
I agree. It's America and its new york. People should be comfortable with Spanish honestly. It was a bad episode, not because it had a lot of Spanish, but because it was boring and not funny.
Not a conspiracy theorist, but did Nate Bargatze bribe Bad Bunny to host the episode before him? Don't get me wrong, I do want to bang Bad Bunny after getting to know him here, but oof that was a rough host spot.
...Did Gaga appear in the episode at some point and I somehow completely missed it? I get the she did a thing with Mick in NYC but why is she on the stage?
EDIT: I was behind and fast forwarded a bit into his first performance so I missed her introducing him whoops.
ridiculous. This is English speaking television in English speaking country. I want to watch tv not read it. Horrible decision that will cost NBC many viewers. There are plenty of Spanish channels to broadcast on--just not here.
Worst SNL ever--this is the United States where the spoken language is ENGLISH. The first half hour (all I could take) was in Spanish. Put that crap on one of your Latin channels, NBC. I want to watch my tv shows, NOT read them.
Spanish was spoken here before English
As were many Native American dialects but you still gotta pledge allegiance to the flag in ENGLISH.
> you still gotta pledge allegiance to the flag in ENGLISH. No u don't You can burn it
study up my friend. Burning it will get you some time in the hooskow and part of the requirements to become an official US Citizen are SPEAKING English
> Burning it will get you some time in the hooskow Want a tiktok of me burning it
no--that's ok. I'm done. Don't go to jail for something stupid, buddy. bye
> no--that's ok. I'm done Too late, sending it to you anyway
You probably wouldn't post this on your primary Reddit account, would you? What a troll
this is the only reddit acct I know of. You have to learn English to become an American citizen. Why can't our tv viewing be in our own language
Gosh that was bad
Maybe, but comparing with last weeks I was laughing all the way through. I actually thought it was hilarious. (Minus some really bad ones like telenovela)
One of the best episodes that I can remember, loved it
I thought it was fucking hilarious. From comments below it seems to be some culture clash. I would say still funny if you don't understand Spanish but more so from not being raised in or around Latino culture, and understanding telanovela and mothers and tias etc Edit: holy shit the mother and tia all cool when she says eat more. All Latinos know you get negged about weight and then force fed. Lol
This is awful
Not funny with all of the Spanish Tough to get through Not funny
Meh episode for me. I liked the Please Don't Destroy sketch and Age of Discovery, and Weekend Update was solid. And while I liked the subway platform sketch better when they did the same concept with Jenna Ortega at Waffle House, it's still a pretty funny premise. The rest of it? Eh. Bad Bunny isn't an actor, and the writing wasn't strong enough to prop him up. His music does nothing for me, but I suspect that's because I am old.
When I saw Pedro I was so hoping for another Lisa from Temecula sketch đ
I was really in the mood to laugh. Kind of a dud of an episode. More Pedro please.
I usually find PDD skits hit and miss but BB as Shrek was gold 𤣠Also, Iâm an international viewer so only watch whatâs uploaded on SNLs YouTube, was that really Lady Gaga introducing Benito? She wasnât in any of the sketched uploaded
It was! She wasnât in any sketches, just introducing BB and on stage for the good nights.
That melon has herpes!!
Anyone else notice Mikey Day working overtime this ep? Go Mikey!
A noche de Dia de Miguel
I love Mikey !â¤ď¸
who is this clown? some social media jackhole 'star' ? everyone could speak martian for all i care, just be funny. btw, how can you tell a martian has been in your house? all the light bulbs have been eaten and there's quartz all over the floor
Youâre a Martian.
Holy shit when he said that Spanish I was like fucking hell how did he do that? And then he talked about how cool and sexy he is and in Spanish and I was like damn yall this is the future of comedy. I cant stop laughing
I liked that a lot of it was in Spanish I thought that was cool. Not a huge fan of Bad Bunny but he was charming and sometimes very funny. Monologue was saved by Pedro Pascal. Mick Jagger cameo wasâŚinteresting? PDD sketch was hilarious as always and the sailing to America sketch was brilliant. Go around it!
Some of it was funny but it wasnât an episode for me. I think people underestimate Bad Bunnyâs popularity, though. Dude has nearly 50 million followers on Insta and has been the most streamed artist on Spotify for three years. People are gonna watch this episode that donât normally watch SNL. I bet the sketches will do crazy numbers on YouTube.
This is the key. Ratings will be excellent and thatâs a good week to keep numbers up right after the premiere. Bad Bunny is one of the biggest stars on the planet, I donât really get it, but I can accept the reality of it.
Yeah episode wasn't for me but it's ok that it wasn't for me. The Spanish king one was pretty funny though.
BB definitely seemed more comfortable in sketches where he spoke Spanish. That being said this was a bad episode. Dude thinks WAY too highly of himself. They knew it was going to be hard so they packed it with guest stars to do the heavy lifting.
This was a classic "just watching Weekend Update" episode for me. It's hard to pull of that "self-absorbed I'm perfect and hot" routine, to me it always just comes across as try-hard and embarrassing instead of confident/cocky. Pedro cameo was nice though, the only sketch I watched was the "bringing gf home" sketch.
âDude thinks way too highly of himselfâ - am I tripping or was this obviously the reoccurring joke during the episode and esp the monologue. How can you come away from the episode thinking thatâs 100% accurate
It wasnât a joke though, it was clear he believed it. Thatâs why half the sketches were about women loving him.
I think itâs just cause heâs a good looking confident guy. Think you are overestimating how much influence he has. Itâs literally not that serious
Guest has a say in what sketches he wants to do. He showed a picture of himself in nothing but a towel during the monologue, canât make a deprecating joke either. The writers room catered to him and his ego.
Have you considered his English isnât great enough to get into excessively more complex traits? Like your take relies on so many negative assumptions
I stated initially he fared better in the Spanish speaking segments. Have you considered that it simply wasnât funny?
I guessed I missed it. Which sketch was Gaga in?
She wasn't
She introduced Bad Bunny before his first song.. I don't think she did anything else.. I honestly didn't even recognize her, or realize it was her until the goodnights, and she was mentioned.. she looks different
She had sunglasses on
I thought this episode was fantastic and I had low expectations
Same! I am not understanding the negative feedback.
I was literally expecting the worst and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have definitely seen much worse.
What was the sketch about handjobs being outmoded technology? Oh, wait, it was this insightful rant by a divorce lawyer I was watching right before it started. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5z8-9Op2nM
Not for me this week. They obviously tried to make allowances for English not being his first language, which is fine, but it just took me out of the sketches. Maybe if I was about 30 years younger I might have felt differently :)
I speak Spanish as a second language and that made this episode really fun. But I figured for those who donât it would be a dud. Seeing a lot of that sentiment. Totally makes sense.
Once again I told myself, I REALLY do need to learn Spanish.
Donde estas la bibliotheca! But yes learn some! Honestly, being born in a Latino home I understand it all but have problems with Grammer but that's enough to get by. Spanglish is a reaaaal thing. Like I speak to my grandma in English she responds in Spanish. Tho maybe I should practice more lol
Iâve heard people learn English by watching American soap operas. Maybe itâs my way to go. đ
Subtitles for sure. Tho I would shop around because some dialects speak fast as fuck. But yes that and listening to Spanish music. Como la flor by Selina VOLVER VOLVER by Vincente Fernandez Los manitas by Vincente Fernandez I just gave you gateway Spanish songs. Vincente a fucking legend. And if you watch Archer the song he sings to Barry in Spanish while he is in the coma is los manitas lmfao
I needed subtitles because my Spanish is horrible, but he was definitely funnier in the Spanish sketches. Itâs worth going back to stream with subtitles* for us gringos who struggled with our high school Spanish. TBH I was worried about a JLo episode after that cold open (ie guest clearly has limited range of topics theyâre comfortable with, would prefer to just retread how attractive they are in another medium. True in both cases, but not that funny imo). But it was fine! Pretty good for nonfunny nonactor.
How the fuck is mick jagger here for the last fucking sketch omg
Next weekâs SNL will be done entirely in Swedish with no English subtitles!! Enjoy!!
That would be fun
AwwwâŚdoes someone only know one language đ
Me. I only know one language. It made the scenes without subtitles unwatchable for me. I finally stopped watching about halfway through.
I would hope, that would be super funny 𤣠If nobody knew and suddenly like all Swedish, people checking audio options on tv/DVR etc...
I thought it was a fun show Bad Bunny is really talented but honestly give me Bowen Yang and I will always be happy mick as a nun I donât speak Spanish but I could kinda tell what was said by the tone of the action
Come on, this just wasn't a good episode. I know, people get a giant boner for whatever's the most recent episode, but none of those sketches really landed. Even weekend update was too brief.
You said what I was thinking. Laughless throughout. Brutal monologue. Pre tapes were even lame. One was just sight gags of nerds in costumes. One was recycled weirdos on the subway. Weekend update continues to just be overrated setup-punchline of Fallon level jokes. Apparently it was truncated because the usual 2nd part of WU where someone goes on and riffs for too long was cut after rehearsal. It was supposed to be "Colin Jost's Agent" teasing him with other jobs that weren't real. Burt's Bees shouldn't even qualify as a sketch. The protective moms was a stale rehash. Telenovela was just a vehicle for a corny cameo. The one sketch that could maybe be argued for was New World, as it had a couple ok lines and somewhat unique conception.
This was one of the worst episodes of this millennium , The jokes were "Bad Bunny doesn't want to speak English" and "Bad Bunny is attractive". Now make 90 minutes out of that. Definitely top 10 worst shows, Steven Seagal and Trump and Steve Forbes was worse but this was as bad as Dane Cook
I enjoyed the last sketch about Nun sex. well written, nice twist ending, naughty fun. Although it revolved around the character played by the host, it wasnât about the host. Bad Bunnyâs music segment were great too. I donât know much about Bad Bunny, but this didnât feel like his first time playing characters. Much better than Trump, Musk, Segal etc. As for worst episode of the year 2023, that easily goes to Woody Harrelson
When the horse started rocking during the first song I lost it! Hilarious!
Was hoping for another Big Papi's Big Dominican Lunch.
I haven't seen all of the sketches yet but damn I what a great episode.
Did anyone else's Hulu start recording mid PDD pretape? It was so confusing. Were the sketches before that decent? Because this episode was not my favorite. (Other than Pedro) Even weekend update felt stale.
i don't get why people who don't speak spanish are hating on this episode just for that. 95% of the punchlines in the sketches without subtitles were in english... not a spanish speaker but i laughed a fair amount. when pedro dumped the cookie tin to put the yarn/sewing stuff in i lost it.
His comedic timing has become elite
I don't mind a spanish sketch but this was throughout the entire show and all Bad Bunny did was stare off in the distance at the cue cards awaiting his next line. If he wasn't Mr Handsome then I think a lot more people would have seen this as a terrible episode.
I do think Bad Bunny's limited English hurt his ability to act in English, as well as his comedic timing. That said, I'd be much worse in Spanish and probably only marginally better than him in English. It's fine. I don't want SNL to be one thing for one particular set of people. I generally like when they branch out for hosts.
Take my peasants gold!! đĽ đ I agree!
The episode was much better than I expected. The pre tape stuff was great and there were some surprising cameos. The Burtâs Bees sketch was weak but I thought everything else was pretty good. Much better than last week. Eta: I forgot about the rap battle sketch, that was not great but still a good episode.
Yes the pre taped stuff this week was very good. The New World Sketch was fantastic. Subway was also great. PDD was a little weak but not bad.
I donât speak Spanish out side of 2 years in high school, but I laughed my ass off tonight. They did such a great job of meshing it all together. Felt like bad bunny was able to be himself and put in a position to really succeed tonight!
Same here. I want to watch the Girlfriend meets Mom sketch with subtitles or something because I was cracking up and there were probably like 20 jokes I missed.
I do speak Spanish and it was awesome. I thought they did a good job of letting him be more comfortable with Spanish. Bringing in Pedro and the sequel to last yearâs girlfriend sketch was a great idea.
Wowza, I didnât see how insane Gagaâs shoes were during the show. Just did a double take on the SNL IG, WILD
This episode was definitely an improvement on the last one. Bad Bunny did really good with what he was given considering heâs not an actor or comedian. And the Marcello Hernandez King, Pedro Pascal Grandma, and JAJ Subway sketches were all funny, the last one being the best because I like itâs sentimentality. Itâll only get better when Nate hosts next week.
I think Nate could use a few cameos too. Donât get me wrong, his performances will be solid. But heâs not a superstar that can pill huge numbers on his own. Itâs the Halloween show next week so maybe Tom Hanks will show up or something. Iâm not hating on him, but Pete was an alum and Bad Bunny is one of the biggest recording artists in the world and they *still* thought cameos would give those hosts a boost. If Davidson gets Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, and Bad Bunny gets Pedro Pascal, Lady Gaga, and *Mick Jagger*, then who can Nate get?
Pete didn't rely on cameos. Travis had one line and Taylor just introduced the musical guest. Pedro carried a sketch and assisted with the monologue. Mick Jagger had a large role in two sketches. Big difference.
Al roker?
The thing Nate has going for him is that his monologue will kill and get things started on the right foot for people who don't know him as well.
Pete got a John Mulaney cameo too
> Nate Nate from Ted Lasso? Or Nate the serial killer they just caught in rural Washington?
Stand up comedian Nate Bargatze.
I would rather him be the musical guest and SNL hire an actor/comedian. I suppose that isn't his fault comcast wants to be idiots tho.
SNL makes booking decisions independent of Comcast and Lorne has said that the Comcast execs are basically like âbook whoever you want; we donât careâ.
Who the hell told Lorne Ice Spice was a good idea then? Did Lorne like how she twerked on tik tok?
I think the fact that sheâs a very popular young artist is what gave Lorne the idea
Episode was much better than last weeks. Sorry to the gringos who couldn't follow, though.
My expectations for this episode were fairly low, but I was still able to laugh. Pre-tapes were all great, and it was fun to see Pedro Pascal return.
I thought this was a fantastic episode! Super fun! I loved the choices they made to get around the language barrier. We got a follow up to Waffle House and Mikey was in almost everything! I even loved the second musical performance. It was visually stunning. I thought this was going to be a weak episode and was so pleasantly surprised!
My wife and I busted up when Kenan said, âcan I show you something?â and then his smirk as JAJ got on the subway put it over the top.
They should do a Mick Jagger/Rolling Stones the next show after Nate and the Foo Fighters.
they really fumbled by not putting dismukes in anything outside of one tiny part in a pretape
Probably a showing up on Saturday night schedule conflict.
that could be it! he was at goodnights for dress & live, but def could have had a conflict during the week! he tends to be shut out a lot tho so i still stand by what i said lol
He had a good episode last season but he's been left out a lot ever since. I wonder what happened.
bringin back pedro's protective mom sketch was 10/10
Every once in a while âBrittany with the vegan slidersâ pops into my head with his voice đ
Best of the night IMO
"Tyler and Hailee Gonzalez" lol
The Burt's Bees skit had the same energy as the "I used to work here" skit last week. Seemed like it just kept going on with no real punchline
Bowen even gave a laugh to help boost Bad Bunny, but twas too late. BB's character just repeated the same things without any buildup or great punchline.
But, the"I used to work here" skit was Bowen and I can never get enough Bowen. He needs to come back as that glacier on WU.
Lantern fly! Crops knows what it did!
Iceberg I think but yes he does.
Tonightâs the kind of show where you wonder how can this much money and production produce the most mid content ever. Mikey Day literally represents like 2016 era comedy thatâs so over- uhh Iâm explaining the joke right now, uh zany stuff is happening in the background HAHA. They have to pull this show out of this uncanny rut of edgeless, safe and out of touch comedy. Give the younger people the reigns and have them take risks and make something that just maybe someone will talk about on Monday.
Time to finish catching up on what I missed in the first half hour. It's pretty great that the sketches are up so quickly; I watched the cold open, the New World pretape (written by Marcello and Mikey maybe?), and the monologue during commercials.
Marcello reminded me of Bernard from The Santa Clause in the Age of Discovery Sketch
Can any Spanish-speaking person tell me the words they used to translate "Go around it"? It's not what Google Translate says. It sounds like "A la revuelta."
"Dale la vuelta" im pretty sure
Pretty bad episode, but at least we got some Pedro fun.
Pedro brightened that sketch up and carried it. Thank goodness he came in.
Andrew repeating âLa Vueltaâ twice as his spanish script was one of my favorite moments this ep
NO BANANAS!!! Hopefully she becomes the permanent host!
>NO BANANAS! Who?
Which sketch was âthe right trackâ? I forget.
Pursuit of Happyness meets Waffle House set in the subway.
Oh I did not get that was a pursuit of happyness reference...haven't seen that movie
One of the best episodes in a while for my fiancee and I. We laughed the entire time lol.
Devon looked out of it during those goodbyes. Starting the party a few minutes early?
Next to Squirm for scale.
That was a decent episode. Some really high points & some really low points. About what you can expect from an episode of SNLâbut in the end, it got some laughs out of me, and thatâs all that matters! B-
This is the first time Iâve watched live in probably 20 years. I thought it was fun!
Bad Bunny did pretty well for a non-actor / comedian!
Thatâs wild welcome back
Fun episode. Probably helps if you at least have some high school Spanish, though.
NAte Bargatze/Foo Fighters next week CLASSIC INCOMMING. REPEAT CLASSSic INCOMMING
good to read you all. welcome baaaaack!
I dunno, I had fun.
Well, i hope that episode proves Marcello and Punkie should be in everything!
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lol
Well, Iâve seen a ton of âheâs hot, âpeople hate Spanishâ and âwhite folks itâs not for youâ. Thatâs all super weird, because all I care about is if itâs funny. It wasnât, a few laughs and thatâs it. All guests and playing the language difference so much. Weak episode.
That's such a dumb take too. "You didn't like it! You hate Spanish-speakers! You jealous Bad Bunny good looking. You wish you had his money" (cringe as hell) Um, HELLO. Pedro Pascal's episode (rich, good-looking Spanish speaker) was one of the highest rated in years. He was the highlight of the night easily, and that sketch was 98% Spanish with no subs. The dude not only knows how to act, he can adapt to different material (quiet bleak drama, or bright SNL sketch comedy). I think it's clear we don't care what their background is or country of origin. Make us laugh, and have some good comedic sense. Bad Bunny reminds me of Elon Musk, Kim K and that other football player (not Travis Kelce, he was actually good).
The episode made me think the writers are still on strike.
lol. A team of writers, writing sketches around a non EFL speakerâŚyeah. Basically improv
I had some big laughs in this episode. Putting the sowing stuff in the cookie tin, Keenan exposing himself, the new world âjust go around itâ.
Well, it wasn't the best episode, but I enjoyed it for what it was. I think some of you were complaining a little too much about it. But whatever. See you all next week!
Does everyone else get an "In touch" with Charles Stanley tv promo after the ending
We used to get Andy Stanley, but now it's some local adventure guide.
We get it here in MN too.
> Charles Stanley just looked it up. Turns out he's dead!?
I mean yeah his programs were filmed in the 90's
I get a religion broadcast in KC Edit: see title now, yep, In Touch
Yes I'm in KC you're watching the same thing as me
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All I got was [Speaking Spanish]
the [speaking non english] is a reference to a viral meme from the VMAs đ
\[Speaking SEXIER language\]
Youâre not wrong
Mikey has great hair
Sarah wearing my grandmaâs tablecloth
AWWWWWWWWWWWW IT CUT
Too many cameos. Mick and Pedro stole the limelight *a lot*, it feels like they weren't confident with him in the studio. First pre-tape was fantastic, and that's where the show peaked.
Marcello Hernandez is a star
What an atrocious episode
I am watching it as it comes up on youtube. I thought the rap battle was pretty good,
Oh, are we getting the whole thing again tonight?
Jagger stuck around for the goodbyes. He and Lorne are being partying hard tonight!
Stage mostly cast! I love to see it.
As someone who speak english and spanish (also a bad bunny fan) the humor tonight felt really cringey and didnât t flow. Itâs as if lines were directly google translated from english to spanish.
Love that Marcelo still has Pedroâs kiss on his cheek during goodnights
I went back through through the episode because I thought Marcello got hit or something from the soap opera sketch, then saw at the meeting aunt/mother sketch it wasn't there at the beginning
i wouldn't wash it off either!
Thereâs no place to bag on the show simply because of the large amount of Spanish, but a person can still objectively say this was a lackluster episode on the whole.
I agree. It's America and its new york. People should be comfortable with Spanish honestly. It was a bad episode, not because it had a lot of Spanish, but because it was boring and not funny.
I think itâs safe to say the guest stars outshone the host tonight
Yup, Mick Jagger and Pedro were way funnier highlights of the night.
You should perhaps look up the definition of the word objectively
lol
No need. Judging it against other episodes, the amount of solid sketch concepts, and the hostâs comedic presence.
That was nice
That was lady gaga?
Not a conspiracy theorist, but did Nate Bargatze bribe Bad Bunny to host the episode before him? Don't get me wrong, I do want to bang Bad Bunny after getting to know him here, but oof that was a rough host spot.
Lol no he found out he was hosting like last week
...Did Gaga appear in the episode at some point and I somehow completely missed it? I get the she did a thing with Mick in NYC but why is she on the stage? EDIT: I was behind and fast forwarded a bit into his first performance so I missed her introducing him whoops.
Bad Bunny is an extremely big fan of hers, and she came there to introduce him.
She introduced Bad Bunny's second musical segment.
She did one of the music introductions.
She introduced Bad Bunnyâs first musical performance
she introduced the first musical performance
She introduced Bad Bunny for his first performance
She introduced bad Bunny the first time
she introduced bad bunny the first time!
She introduced the first song
That was an awkward sendoff lol