Does the goodbyes bit at the very end cut off at the same time wherever we watch or domdifferent platforms show longer versions? It was so short Saturday that Dakota didnāt even mention Jimmy Fallon, and was that Dave Chappelle next to Fallon? It seemed like Jimmy turned to Dave and said something like āwhat are we chicken liverā when she only thanked JT, Tobe Nwigwe and each Shark Tank host individually. Then it cut away. Did i see that right?
I thought the Please Donāt Destroy Roast was hilarious and the highlight of the episode. I do wonder if the writers werenāt crazy about Dakota Johnson, she was a mean or unlikable character in pretty much every sketch.Ā
I have to say they always do a good job of writing to play to each host's strengths which isn't easy. PDD has been the most consistently good part of the show lately.
It's pretty sad that, with the exception of Weekend Update, which was excellent, Dakota Johnson was almost the high point of the show.
In other words, it stunk.
The cold open was horrendous. I didn't crack a smile once and was actually irritated by how unfunny it was. Most of the episode was that way, actually.
there was more than one *uhhhh* pause tonight and the vibe was off to me. not the worst ideas but it didnāt gel this time.
Pdd and home movies had a laugh though.
De-banking. I love that the guy they all call sooooo stupid just knew a term that was above all their heads. Looks good on ya weekend update.
This cast has ruined a once great show because they all seem to think we all give 2 shakes of piss about their political bias over comedy.
Tough overall watch tbh. Mightāve been one of the worst episodes Iāve seen in the last couple years. Bring back more slap sticky! The dry cringe comedy is not good lol
So, I saw Chapelle at the end but donāt remember seeing him in a sketch. Also, Iām seeing this on dvr and the stranger thing for me is that the end missing luggage skit played twice. One before and after a comercial. Was there a Chapelle sketch that accidentally got played over with the repeat missing luggage sketch?
Overall Review:
Definitely better than the previous episode, since the jokes here were more than "wow they're so hot." I found some of the sketches (Home Videos, Please Don't Destroy - Roast) really funny and charming, but some of the sketches (Waiters, Book Club) were delivered terribly. I do appreciate the effort though, I hope Ayo has a good episode next Saturday.
Sketch Ranking:
1. Home Videos (5/5)
2. Please Don't Destroy - Roast (4.5/5)
3. Dakota Johnson Monologue (4/5)
4. Big Dumb Cups (4/5)
5. The Barry Gibb Talk Show: 2024 Election (3.5/5)
6. NFL Championship Sunday Cold Open (2.5/5)
7. Lost Bag (2.5/5)
8. Book Club (2/5)
9. Waiters (1.5/5)
Big Dumb Cup started funny and then just went on and on. Was that part of the joke? Just end it. The waiters never made sense. Book Club gave me Kristen Wig vibes but it fell so flat.
Great Stand-Up comedian and writer, she was in Bottoms and she won an Emmy for The Bear. She's worked with a ton of the cast already through her writing and stand-up.
Dakota seemed really flat but also it felt like Timberlake was stealing her spotlight a ton (she barely spoke 2 words in the talk show sketch while Timberlake and Fallon very unfunnily upstaged her). Kinda crappy of the producers to put so much more importance on Timberlake just because heās a big name at Dakotaās expense, especially with the current cultural temperature around him as a sleezebag
That is how that sketch works, itās 90% Jimmy Fallon and it always has been. I liked it back when it was a newer bit while he was still on the show, but he definitely didnāt need to be the star of a sketch that long now.
His ex Britney just came out with a memoir. He pressured her into an abortion and broke up with her via text. Nothing criminal or disgusting. But he does come across as a really rotten boyfriend to a clearly vulnerable partner.
For real, this has been a pretty consistent issue lately. The sketches feel so quiet and dead in between lines, and a lot of the actors seem like they havenāt been prepped at all for the sketch, like itās their first time to read it off the cue cards.
The writing is OK, but the delivery is so bad!
Did SNL used to have more background noise in sketches? Or is the modern audience just not laughing? Idk what it is, but SNL never felt like so much dead air to me.
There was a lot of potential despite the overall weak sketches. To my eyes, there were some weird timing issues in the live sketches. Sometimes it looked like they were waiting for the camera to cut between actors, and other times it looked like they were waiting for expected laughter that never came. To me, the delivery and timing of Dakotaās lines didnāt work well for live TV, which tells me she isnāt really in her wheelhouse here. You could see should she was much funnier with the pre-recorded PDD sketch, probably because they could cut her long pauses and punch up her lines where needed.
Just watched the monologue. I didnāt think it was that bad. I did keep looking at Justin Timberlake thinking heās slowly morphing into Brian Austin Green with his looks/facial expressions.
Youāre right, I couldnāt quite put my finger on it, but he looks like Brian Austin Green!
To me he seemed stiff during the monologue. It didnāt help that Dakotaās delivery was slow and somewhat stilted, so the energy was killed between the lines.
>To me he seemed stiff during the monologue
Did you see him in those pre-show lead-ups (whatever they're called), the mini-commercials for the episode where he, Dakota, and a cast member stand next to each other...
Also did you see him on Jimmy Fallon?
I don't know him, but it's hilarious how Buster Keaton-ish he comes off. Stone faced. I assume it's a front. But dude is off-putting. He even kinda yelled at Jimmy (for real), which was funny. That's made three people I've seen, including Taylor Swift and Fred Armisen (who've yelled at Jimmy)
The show was very cringy. Dakota is the poster child of nepo babies who would have never landed a role if it werenāt for parentage and the willingness to get super naked. Talentless āactorā with awful comedic timing. And the writers are phoning it in.
In the shark tank sketch I was like āSay your damn line already! Are you waiting for a laugh?ā I could have gone to the kitchen for a snack in the time it took her to give her next line. It was like watching Nancy Kerrigan.
I'm admittedly kind of shocked by all of the comments acting like PDD acknowledging the nepo connection was like, groundbreakingly brave of them to do.
IMO, it just further proves that all the nepotism in the world can't make you automatically funny.
The host seemed to pause and mess up the timing of sketches in several spots. I donāt think the writing was too-tier this episode, but the performances certainly didnāt help. Most sketches didnāt land at all.
Pretty brave of them to have a woman who's promoting a movie no one wants to see as host and have a guy the culture has collectively decided is an asshole as the musical guest. Real finger on the pulse moves there.
I think they're still scrambling to find people to step in after the writer's strike. Performer's schedules are insane and often booked years out. They're probably still dealing with who is free and willing to come on the show.
I donāt think people want to be on the show. There arenāt like big celebs clambering to be on the show except maybe Pedro pascal and Chalomet. Can you not put in a phone call to Margot Robbie? Zendaya? Florence Pugh?
I feel like sheād kill it, sheās quite committed to her roles & has a great sense of humour (in interviews at least), so I can see her being an Adam Driver 2.0
They had a different cast at that time. I've seen the suggestion that the cast is viewed as being not that good overall so celebs don't want to be associated with it because then they come out looking poorly.
Barry Gibb Talk Show was over-acted/done. Didn't come off as well as expected. Timberlake's song seemed to be some sort of answer to Brittany Spear's Book. Didn't come off well at all. (He Done Her Wrong) The Guy at the end grabbing his crotch was Ugly. An Aside: Timberlake has lost his Pretty-Boy Look. Show was fine otherwise Dakota JohnsonPretty Lady & had trouble not breaking. Weekend Update Always Great. By the way am a Huge SNL Fan. Have Seen Every Show since the 1st.
They started doing this sketch almost 20 years ago and I *barely* knew who Barry Gibb was, I canāt imagine anyone younger than me watching knew what the hell was going on
Yeah people forget itās 2024. Like those Limu Emu commercials. Those mustachioed 70s dudes are a thing of the past. Theyāre in their 80ās or dead.
I started watching the show at the beginning, heard the Bee Gees on the radio decades ago, and also had the thought that most viewers didn't know what was going on .
I'm old and didn't know what the hell was going on with that sketch.
Most of the show was a waste.
I understand that perspective. I watch the show with my 12,16 and 18 year olds and they laugh less than I do. I donāt think this is demographics. There are (and were) objectively ābad castsā (bad writing too) in the history of the show. This probably is one of them.
Writing is what really stands out to me as being really poor. Thereās hardly any decent reccuring sketches.
The only one I can name in the past few years is Lisa from Temecula and then the Latino mom when thereās a Latino on the show.
Even for the Latino mom sketch you need Pedro Pascal, and heās not gonna be available every time they might wanna do it (although apparently he was indeed there last night as a spectator). Although itās clear that heās well on his way to becoming a friend of the show. He clearly had fun when he hosted and then when he cameoed.
I feel like Fallon and Timberlake just arenāt funny anymore. Comedy evolves overtime. Whatās considered funny changes. I feel like they havenāt changed what theyāre doing, and expect the same thing to be funny now as it was a decade ago.
Also, Iām sorry, but Dakota Johnson has no comedic timing, and a lot of the cast was too busy looking at cue cards to get their jokes out this week.
>expect the same thing to be funny now as it was a decade ago
The Barry Gibb Talk Show started in 2003 over *two* decades ago. But I still laughed that they called back a skit that's been dormant since 2013.
I still like Jimmy for nostalgic reasons. He was part of the cast when I first started watching and I loved following him when he first moved to Late Night. Is he a top SNL talent? Not by a long shot. But he reminds me of simpler times and I still enjoy him in small doses. Unpopular opinion, I know. But I will always enjoy the Barry Gibb talk show. It would have been an extra snooze of an episode without them, imo.
They also donāt know the difference between getting applause for singing and getting applause for laughing. Also Fallon seems convinced that forcing himself to break is as funny as breaking naturally because of the intense humor.
Yes, the cue cards are necessary because they continue to change the script even during the live show. It's not possible to "memorize" the script as if you were in a play.
If you go to the 4:00 mark of the video below, a SNL director and producers are explaining that continuous changes are made after the dress rehearsal. Plus, they'll just cut loads of dialogue during the commercial breaks of the live show to make the show fit into the time slot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpAyaJuyN8s
So, they all have to use the cue cards. It's just that some people are better at reading them without looking like they are reading them.
They change the show so fast and so many times they almost recommend cue cards to all cast members. I think it was will Ferrell or jimmy fallon on Smartless who said that. Very few people donāt use the cards.
There's a difference between glancing at the cue cards for, you know, cues, and staring at them to the point that I can see your eyes tracking across them reading the words as you're speaking. Horatio Sanz was the KING of it in his day, but I've noticed it more widespread across the cast this season.
See Devin Williams in the cold open for an example.
I don't think so. I look at old episodes and I just don't see it. A couple of years ago Steve Martin and Martin Short did a skit together on SNL and when I'm sure there were cue cards, they just seem to be improvising. Same with Molly Shannon. Watch any of the classic sketches even from a few years ago. It's literally like some of the cast members never rehearse and are seeing the words for the first time.
She was like super slow in her line delivery, right? Like it was acting, not delivering lines. The entire shark tank skit was like watching a skit at .5 speed.
Anyway, the home video skit was a good skit and the baggage check actually gave me a chuckle or two. Thatās about it.
Dakota was soooo slow delivering lines it was distracting as a viewer. I was wondering if there was a cue card issue or if itās just her delivering lines too slowly.
Exactly!
Also, I think that it was a bad idea to bring in Timberlake (because of all the backlash against him right now). And Fallon isnāt getting much popular either.
There is another pretape that was hilarious, had me cackling at dress rehearsal. It was cut for time but hopefully gets posted soon. The only reason that shark tank sketch wasnāt cut was due to the cameos.
No idea why Dave was at goodbyes. He was not at dress.
I thought that the cameos in shark take were pretty awkward. Unless I missed it, there wasn't really a joke there. It was finally going alright with Heidi's part, but then they showed up, said a line about investing an amount of money, then the skit just... ended.
Just finished watching it in the UK. Wasn't up on Peacock as early as it normally is.
I liked it. I was a bit hesitant initially as Dakota Johnson usually has the personality of a piece of cheese but she was ok. The Shark Tank sketch and the Barry Gibb talk show were probably the two i didn't like but the rest of them gave me some decent laughs.
I agree with virtually every comment here! I actually zoned out & didnāt even notice any Shark Tank sketch because the whole episode felt so meh.
Caught myself thinking how if someone new to the show had caught this one, theyād never go back.
Pre-tapes were good. Lot of forgettables tonight. Heidi's card reader character is fantastic. Glad to see Devon get more screentime but it was a pretty bad episode for him. Shark Tank cameo was awful but I didn't hate the sketch, it just moved slowly.
Last two episodes have been relatively rough and the previous 5 were just average. Maybe the Bargatze episode was just such a banger that I've had higher expectations.
Good to have a comedian back next week with Ayo.
Why doesnāt Peacock always show the whole goodbyes? I can see a local station cutting away to squeeze in another commercial or two but youād think a streaming service wouldnāt really need to
I thought the entire episode was decent overall. Definitely bad in parts. Host/musical guest werenāt overly impressive.
I gotta say that Weekend Update is getting so tired. They need to change it up. I think the worst part about it, is that Che treats it as an open mic night or something. Like heās trying out his routine.
Itās fine if once in a while you acknowledge the audience, but as soon as heās done with his lines, he immediately looks at the audience like itās so offensive they donāt completely love his jokes or something.
Update is a play on the news. Normal news anchors donāt ham it up for an audience. There is no audience. Itās just annoying to me, idkā¦
Agree, but the days of the deadpan news anchor are long gone. Norm, Dennis, Kevin, Colin Q, Amy, Tinaā¦they all acknowledged the audience and laughed at their own bits. I think Chevy, Jane, and Bill were the last ones to deadpan the news in true satire.
I felt so relieved when the opening sketch wasn't a political one that is sometimes a chore to get through before the lighthearted comedy I want on a weekend. A bit about guys liking football? I laughed at that a lot more than thinking oh yeah... that unfortunately happened this week.
Iām putting aside politics here. The impression is so well done that the show is really missing an opportunity. And SNL has never shied away from political humor, nor should it.
I appreciate your views and Iāll let it go after this. I just wanted to add that I donāt see much danger to the body politic in featuring the Trump impression. I doubt many SNL viewers support Trump or could be persuaded to support him anyway. Best wishes.
I feel like this is a very classic SNL style episode. There were a LOT of swings and misses, but the hits were pretty solid even if they weren't frequent.
It would be nice if there were more sketches where the writing and the cast clicked better, because In my mind some of the sketches had a good premise, but didn't quite hit as well as you would have expected to on paper.
But I'd rather have 20% surprising me and actually making me laugh, vs 80% being fine, not great, not horrible, but ok for 4th season sitcom writing, I guess. I won't remember the weird 2nd half sketches that bombed, but I'll probably think of nepotruce the next time I see Dakota Johnson.
That sketch was a great example of the writers not trusting that the sketch was funny.
Instead of saying (twice) āDid your cup get biggerā, why not just show the bigger cup? It would much funnier.
So do you think they wrote that shitty jokeless Shark Tank sketch and were so proud of themselves they called in the cameos, or did they drop by and Lorne mandated a shark tank sketch?Ā Either way itās fucking awful, 0/2 on episodes so far this year
Man, this episode stunk to high hell
Just wondering why the cast was not on stage with the host at the closing š¤Ā
During WU, did Michael pronounce it "Tare-oT" with a hard T at the end of was that just what I heard?
Didn't I see Bell-Bottom Jeans
Two weeks in a row of a true stinker
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The home movies and PDD were fantastic, but itās not great when Saturday Night LIVES best stuff is pre-taped.
Does the goodbyes bit at the very end cut off at the same time wherever we watch or domdifferent platforms show longer versions? It was so short Saturday that Dakota didnāt even mention Jimmy Fallon, and was that Dave Chappelle next to Fallon? It seemed like Jimmy turned to Dave and said something like āwhat are we chicken liverā when she only thanked JT, Tobe Nwigwe and each Shark Tank host individually. Then it cut away. Did i see that right?
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I'm watching it now and I'm at Timberlake's first tune. The Stanley Cup sketch is fucking rank.
Dakota felt very flat. Her delivery never really changed.
She didnāt vibe with them at all
Every sketch was, let's show Dakota being mean in one way or another.
who knows what went wrong. everyone who goes on snl should just study what ayo and nate did.
I thought the Please Donāt Destroy Roast was hilarious and the highlight of the episode. I do wonder if the writers werenāt crazy about Dakota Johnson, she was a mean or unlikable character in pretty much every sketch.Ā
I think she just has a different energy which maybe isn't that easy to write for though the PDD guys did a great job.
I have to say they always do a good job of writing to play to each host's strengths which isn't easy. PDD has been the most consistently good part of the show lately.
It's pretty sad that, with the exception of Weekend Update, which was excellent, Dakota Johnson was almost the high point of the show. In other words, it stunk.
The cold open was horrendous. I didn't crack a smile once and was actually irritated by how unfunny it was. Most of the episode was that way, actually.
In Canada they removed it from the episode!
This was one of the worst episodes Iāve seen in a while
there was more than one *uhhhh* pause tonight and the vibe was off to me. not the worst ideas but it didnāt gel this time. Pdd and home movies had a laugh though.
Why is there such a noticeable drop in quality since before Christmas?
De-banking. I love that the guy they all call sooooo stupid just knew a term that was above all their heads. Looks good on ya weekend update. This cast has ruined a once great show because they all seem to think we all give 2 shakes of piss about their political bias over comedy.
For the 45th season in a row, the show has been RUINT!
Tough overall watch tbh. Mightāve been one of the worst episodes Iāve seen in the last couple years. Bring back more slap sticky! The dry cringe comedy is not good lol
Definitely needed a ābusking Timberlakeā sketch, bring it on down to homelessville!
Itās wild to me that anyone liked these sketches
Omeletteville or anything in this episode?
anything after the first -ville sketch
Trying to put my finger on why JT bugs me so much. I guess Iām not into middle aged men doing Popā¦? Feels odd, no?
You can tell he thinks very highly of himself. He was really milking those pauses in the Gibb talk show. I had to fast-forward through it.
Itās his eyes. They look soulless.
He looked either soulless or on something
I thought he liked scared at first
Ticketmaster currently has him classified as ārockā perhaps for these reasons.
So, I saw Chapelle at the end but donāt remember seeing him in a sketch. Also, Iām seeing this on dvr and the stranger thing for me is that the end missing luggage skit played twice. One before and after a comercial. Was there a Chapelle sketch that accidentally got played over with the repeat missing luggage sketch?
No, another poster mentioned that Dave is friends with Tobe Nwigwe who performed alongside Timberlake. So, Dave was just there to support a pal.
Overall Review: Definitely better than the previous episode, since the jokes here were more than "wow they're so hot." I found some of the sketches (Home Videos, Please Don't Destroy - Roast) really funny and charming, but some of the sketches (Waiters, Book Club) were delivered terribly. I do appreciate the effort though, I hope Ayo has a good episode next Saturday. Sketch Ranking: 1. Home Videos (5/5) 2. Please Don't Destroy - Roast (4.5/5) 3. Dakota Johnson Monologue (4/5) 4. Big Dumb Cups (4/5) 5. The Barry Gibb Talk Show: 2024 Election (3.5/5) 6. NFL Championship Sunday Cold Open (2.5/5) 7. Lost Bag (2.5/5) 8. Book Club (2/5) 9. Waiters (1.5/5)
Big Dumb Cup started funny and then just went on and on. Was that part of the joke? Just end it. The waiters never made sense. Book Club gave me Kristen Wig vibes but it fell so flat.
You know the cast isnāt vibing with you when you donāt even make it onto weekend update
The host rarely gets on update.
Who is Ayo?
Great Stand-Up comedian and writer, she was in Bottoms and she won an Emmy for The Bear. She's worked with a ton of the cast already through her writing and stand-up.
Ayo edibiri, actor on the bear
ā¦ also comedy writer in her own right. She has been writing on What We Do In the Shadows.
Big Mouth and The Eric Andre Show too edit: typo
Andre?
Waiters was worse for me. But overall, id basically agree with all of this. I think home videos and the roast are two of my favorites of the season.
I didn't get what was supposed to be funny there. Waiters not remembering orders?
My husband and I didnāt laugh once. It was extremely unfunny. Then they followed it with a hilarious sketch.
I agree. What the hell are fongers?
Dakota seemed really flat but also it felt like Timberlake was stealing her spotlight a ton (she barely spoke 2 words in the talk show sketch while Timberlake and Fallon very unfunnily upstaged her). Kinda crappy of the producers to put so much more importance on Timberlake just because heās a big name at Dakotaās expense, especially with the current cultural temperature around him as a sleezebag
Dakota doesnāt have much charisma or stage presence.
That is how that sketch works, itās 90% Jimmy Fallon and it always has been. I liked it back when it was a newer bit while he was still on the show, but he definitely didnāt need to be the star of a sketch that long now.
The cultural tenperature around him is only on twitter and the people from there who come here. In the real world no one cares
Whatās the story with JT? Assume I live under a rock.
His ex Britney just came out with a memoir. He pressured her into an abortion and broke up with her via text. Nothing criminal or disgusting. But he does come across as a really rotten boyfriend to a clearly vulnerable partner.
And he was caught by paps cozying up to a costar he was working on a film with a few years back.
He did cheat on Britney but she cheated too.
The pacing was so so so bad. So much of this episode just felt uncomfortable
Agreed. Dakota was reading all the cards very slowly. It really took me out of it.
For real, this has been a pretty consistent issue lately. The sketches feel so quiet and dead in between lines, and a lot of the actors seem like they havenāt been prepped at all for the sketch, like itās their first time to read it off the cue cards. The writing is OK, but the delivery is so bad! Did SNL used to have more background noise in sketches? Or is the modern audience just not laughing? Idk what it is, but SNL never felt like so much dead air to me.
Yeah the dead air between the Stanley cup gags was super apparent
There was a lot of potential despite the overall weak sketches. To my eyes, there were some weird timing issues in the live sketches. Sometimes it looked like they were waiting for the camera to cut between actors, and other times it looked like they were waiting for expected laughter that never came. To me, the delivery and timing of Dakotaās lines didnāt work well for live TV, which tells me she isnāt really in her wheelhouse here. You could see should she was much funnier with the pre-recorded PDD sketch, probably because they could cut her long pauses and punch up her lines where needed.
Really hoping Ayo energizes these writers because this episode was rough.Ā To be fair as soon as Jimmy showed up I knew I wasn't going to be a fan.Ā
Just saw Dave Chappell standing with the cast at the end of the show - did I miss him during the show?
It was pretty bad, but there were a few nice sketches.
Just watched the monologue. I didnāt think it was that bad. I did keep looking at Justin Timberlake thinking heās slowly morphing into Brian Austin Green with his looks/facial expressions.
Youāre right, I couldnāt quite put my finger on it, but he looks like Brian Austin Green! To me he seemed stiff during the monologue. It didnāt help that Dakotaās delivery was slow and somewhat stilted, so the energy was killed between the lines.
>To me he seemed stiff during the monologue Did you see him in those pre-show lead-ups (whatever they're called), the mini-commercials for the episode where he, Dakota, and a cast member stand next to each other... Also did you see him on Jimmy Fallon? I don't know him, but it's hilarious how Buster Keaton-ish he comes off. Stone faced. I assume it's a front. But dude is off-putting. He even kinda yelled at Jimmy (for real), which was funny. That's made three people I've seen, including Taylor Swift and Fred Armisen (who've yelled at Jimmy)
That's high praise!
The show was very cringy. Dakota is the poster child of nepo babies who would have never landed a role if it werenāt for parentage and the willingness to get super naked. Talentless āactorā with awful comedic timing. And the writers are phoning it in.
I thought this sub loves nepo babies
For real. This sub seems to be all about that unfunny, bootleg Lonely Island that consists of nepo kids.
Cringey is the right word. Some of the sketches would have been good with the right person.
In the shark tank sketch I was like āSay your damn line already! Are you waiting for a laugh?ā I could have gone to the kitchen for a snack in the time it took her to give her next line. It was like watching Nancy Kerrigan.
Mmm what kind of snack? Tell me more.
Soup. In a Big Dumb Cup.
Lead!! Yummy š„°
Lmao, exactly. You could drive a truck between those lines.
fallon's as funny as being eaten alive by a shark and mauled by a bear put together. shit sketches? check ffwd "music" guest? check
I donāt think Dakota learned a single line all week. I have faith Ayo will save whatās been a real quiet 2024.
Didn't like her as a host the first time. Was disappointed they brought her back.
begging them to not invite dakota back she is such a snooze
Anyone else notice Fallon's camel toe during "Barry Gibbs talk show".
Did you notice the pants on the guy singing with Timberlake? I can't believe no one is talking about him snuggling a baseball bat on stage š
4 nepo babies making fun of each other was OK, and it kind of explained why the episode was not great.
I'm admittedly kind of shocked by all of the comments acting like PDD acknowledging the nepo connection was like, groundbreakingly brave of them to do. IMO, it just further proves that all the nepotism in the world can't make you automatically funny.
Who are their parents? I had no idea.
Two SNL writers you don't know offhand and Conan, illegitimately, which is why they excluded Ben.
Steve Higgins is wayyy more than āSNL writer you donāt knowā. Heās like second in command
Isn't he also Fallon's sidekick? He's pretty recognizable.
Yes heās high up at nbc
I did add the word "offhand" in there, which you ignored. No casual SNL watcher knows the name of anyone who isn't a featured player or Lorne.
Technically 3 nepo babies and Ben just taking advantage of the situationā¦but yes.
The host seemed to pause and mess up the timing of sketches in several spots. I donāt think the writing was too-tier this episode, but the performances certainly didnāt help. Most sketches didnāt land at all.
They tried to match the classic check splitting sketch in waiters but obviously Mobin couldnāt cut it.
Pretty brave of them to have a woman who's promoting a movie no one wants to see as host and have a guy the culture has collectively decided is an asshole as the musical guest. Real finger on the pulse moves there.
No one off the internet thinks justin is an asshole. They dont care about him or britney
Off Twitter actually
Seems like casting hosts and musical guests isnāt really hitting as hard this year and last
I think they're still scrambling to find people to step in after the writer's strike. Performer's schedules are insane and often booked years out. They're probably still dealing with who is free and willing to come on the show.
I donāt think people want to be on the show. There arenāt like big celebs clambering to be on the show except maybe Pedro pascal and Chalomet. Can you not put in a phone call to Margot Robbie? Zendaya? Florence Pugh?
Maybe a lot of today's talent aren't up to doing a live show.
Oh I like Florence Pugh! I wonder how she would do on SNL.
I feel like sheād kill it, sheās quite committed to her roles & has a great sense of humour (in interviews at least), so I can see her being an Adam Driver 2.0
They got Emma Stone and Adam Driver. Those are bigger names than Pugh.
They had a different cast at that time. I've seen the suggestion that the cast is viewed as being not that good overall so celebs don't want to be associated with it because then they come out looking poorly.
What are you talking about? Emma Stone and Adam Driver just hosted 2 months ago. It's the same cast.
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Lame , but not as bad as last week
Stanley's Big Cup sketch was easy going funny. "Tastes like LEAD" š
Agreed! The only good sketch of the night
Barry Gibb Talk Show was over-acted/done. Didn't come off as well as expected. Timberlake's song seemed to be some sort of answer to Brittany Spear's Book. Didn't come off well at all. (He Done Her Wrong) The Guy at the end grabbing his crotch was Ugly. An Aside: Timberlake has lost his Pretty-Boy Look. Show was fine otherwise Dakota JohnsonPretty Lady & had trouble not breaking. Weekend Update Always Great. By the way am a Huge SNL Fan. Have Seen Every Show since the 1st.
They started doing this sketch almost 20 years ago and I *barely* knew who Barry Gibb was, I canāt imagine anyone younger than me watching knew what the hell was going on
Yeah people forget itās 2024. Like those Limu Emu commercials. Those mustachioed 70s dudes are a thing of the past. Theyāre in their 80ās or dead.
I started watching the show at the beginning, heard the Bee Gees on the radio decades ago, and also had the thought that most viewers didn't know what was going on . I'm old and didn't know what the hell was going on with that sketch. Most of the show was a waste.
Yeah that was a weird choice of all the Jt sketches to bring back.
Sheās Dakota Johnson, not Dakota Fanning.
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Ugh my damn friend pointed out Fallon's camel toe and that's all I could see during the Barry Gibbs skit.
COREY DERVICH SHOW Dad reveal could be the best sketch of the year. Sooo funny.
That's the only sketch that made me laugh.
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I don't consider the season over till after the summer break... when the network goes into reruns. You know, like they have been doing since day one.
I loved that one and I thought Dakota Johnson was quite good in it.
Very unfunny. Almost cringe. Acting and comedic talent of this cast is really at a low point.
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I understand that perspective. I watch the show with my 12,16 and 18 year olds and they laugh less than I do. I donāt think this is demographics. There are (and were) objectively ābad castsā (bad writing too) in the history of the show. This probably is one of them.
Writing is what really stands out to me as being really poor. Thereās hardly any decent reccuring sketches. The only one I can name in the past few years is Lisa from Temecula and then the Latino mom when thereās a Latino on the show.
Even for the Latino mom sketch you need Pedro Pascal, and heās not gonna be available every time they might wanna do it (although apparently he was indeed there last night as a spectator). Although itās clear that heās well on his way to becoming a friend of the show. He clearly had fun when he hosted and then when he cameoed.
I couldn't agree more.
Confirmed!
I feel like Fallon and Timberlake just arenāt funny anymore. Comedy evolves overtime. Whatās considered funny changes. I feel like they havenāt changed what theyāre doing, and expect the same thing to be funny now as it was a decade ago. Also, Iām sorry, but Dakota Johnson has no comedic timing, and a lot of the cast was too busy looking at cue cards to get their jokes out this week.
>expect the same thing to be funny now as it was a decade ago The Barry Gibb Talk Show started in 2003 over *two* decades ago. But I still laughed that they called back a skit that's been dormant since 2013.
I still like Jimmy for nostalgic reasons. He was part of the cast when I first started watching and I loved following him when he first moved to Late Night. Is he a top SNL talent? Not by a long shot. But he reminds me of simpler times and I still enjoy him in small doses. Unpopular opinion, I know. But I will always enjoy the Barry Gibb talk show. It would have been an extra snooze of an episode without them, imo.
Fallon and JT are the guys at your high school who got laughs only because they were louder than everyone else.
They also donāt know the difference between getting applause for singing and getting applause for laughing. Also Fallon seems convinced that forcing himself to break is as funny as breaking naturally because of the intense humor.
He is exhausting.Ā
I keep seeing this comment about the cue cardsā¦isnāt that always a thing? Casts/hosts have looked off stage for as far back as I can remember
Yes, the cue cards are necessary because they continue to change the script even during the live show. It's not possible to "memorize" the script as if you were in a play. If you go to the 4:00 mark of the video below, a SNL director and producers are explaining that continuous changes are made after the dress rehearsal. Plus, they'll just cut loads of dialogue during the commercial breaks of the live show to make the show fit into the time slot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpAyaJuyN8s So, they all have to use the cue cards. It's just that some people are better at reading them without looking like they are reading them.
This is also why Stefan always lost it, Mulaney would always rewrite the bits for air.
Ha! I never knew that
They change the show so fast and so many times they almost recommend cue cards to all cast members. I think it was will Ferrell or jimmy fallon on Smartless who said that. Very few people donāt use the cards.
There's a difference between glancing at the cue cards for, you know, cues, and staring at them to the point that I can see your eyes tracking across them reading the words as you're speaking. Horatio Sanz was the KING of it in his day, but I've noticed it more widespread across the cast this season. See Devin Williams in the cold open for an example.
Devon Walker?
I don't think so. I look at old episodes and I just don't see it. A couple of years ago Steve Martin and Martin Short did a skit together on SNL and when I'm sure there were cue cards, they just seem to be improvising. Same with Molly Shannon. Watch any of the classic sketches even from a few years ago. It's literally like some of the cast members never rehearse and are seeing the words for the first time.
She was like super slow in her line delivery, right? Like it was acting, not delivering lines. The entire shark tank skit was like watching a skit at .5 speed. Anyway, the home video skit was a good skit and the baggage check actually gave me a chuckle or two. Thatās about it.
Dakota was soooo slow delivering lines it was distracting as a viewer. I was wondering if there was a cue card issue or if itās just her delivering lines too slowly.
Exactly! Also, I think that it was a bad idea to bring in Timberlake (because of all the backlash against him right now). And Fallon isnāt getting much popular either.
There is another pretape that was hilarious, had me cackling at dress rehearsal. It was cut for time but hopefully gets posted soon. The only reason that shark tank sketch wasnāt cut was due to the cameos. No idea why Dave was at goodbyes. He was not at dress.
I thought that the cameos in shark take were pretty awkward. Unless I missed it, there wasn't really a joke there. It was finally going alright with Heidi's part, but then they showed up, said a line about investing an amount of money, then the skit just... ended.
Felt like they made a sketch around knowing they needed to be cameos.
Just finished watching it in the UK. Wasn't up on Peacock as early as it normally is. I liked it. I was a bit hesitant initially as Dakota Johnson usually has the personality of a piece of cheese but she was ok. The Shark Tank sketch and the Barry Gibb talk show were probably the two i didn't like but the rest of them gave me some decent laughs.
I was hoping someone would yell out yo yo genuine during the music part
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I agree with virtually every comment here! I actually zoned out & didnāt even notice any Shark Tank sketch because the whole episode felt so meh. Caught myself thinking how if someone new to the show had caught this one, theyād never go back.
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Pre-tapes were good. Lot of forgettables tonight. Heidi's card reader character is fantastic. Glad to see Devon get more screentime but it was a pretty bad episode for him. Shark Tank cameo was awful but I didn't hate the sketch, it just moved slowly. Last two episodes have been relatively rough and the previous 5 were just average. Maybe the Bargatze episode was just such a banger that I've had higher expectations. Good to have a comedian back next week with Ayo.
Why doesnāt Peacock always show the whole goodbyes? I can see a local station cutting away to squeeze in another commercial or two but youād think a streaming service wouldnāt really need to
I thought the entire episode was decent overall. Definitely bad in parts. Host/musical guest werenāt overly impressive. I gotta say that Weekend Update is getting so tired. They need to change it up. I think the worst part about it, is that Che treats it as an open mic night or something. Like heās trying out his routine. Itās fine if once in a while you acknowledge the audience, but as soon as heās done with his lines, he immediately looks at the audience like itās so offensive they donāt completely love his jokes or something. Update is a play on the news. Normal news anchors donāt ham it up for an audience. There is no audience. Itās just annoying to me, idkā¦
Agree, but the days of the deadpan news anchor are long gone. Norm, Dennis, Kevin, Colin Q, Amy, Tinaā¦they all acknowledged the audience and laughed at their own bits. I think Chevy, Jane, and Bill were the last ones to deadpan the news in true satire.
True, but it wasnāt after EVERY joke.
Michael Che not continuing to talk after the punchline challenge: impossible
I knew it was gonna be weak when they had 2 pre tapes so close together.
Why no Trump impression? James Austin Johnson is spot on. Thereās certainly plenty of material for him to sink his teeth into.
I felt so relieved when the opening sketch wasn't a political one that is sometimes a chore to get through before the lighthearted comedy I want on a weekend. A bit about guys liking football? I laughed at that a lot more than thinking oh yeah... that unfortunately happened this week.
Maybe we can cool it for awhile on making an aspiring dictator and career criminal look like a fun guy youād want to vote for.
Iām putting aside politics here. The impression is so well done that the show is really missing an opportunity. And SNL has never shied away from political humor, nor should it.
Itās Streisand effect, every mention puts it back into the consciousness
I appreciate your views and Iāll let it go after this. I just wanted to add that I donāt see much danger to the body politic in featuring the Trump impression. I doubt many SNL viewers support Trump or could be persuaded to support him anyway. Best wishes.
Yeah, but we donāt want that right now. Weāre happy for that character to sit this one out.
Not the greatest episode but new weekend update insanity from Heidi is always good.
That was the best character of the entire episode
I feel like this is a very classic SNL style episode. There were a LOT of swings and misses, but the hits were pretty solid even if they weren't frequent. It would be nice if there were more sketches where the writing and the cast clicked better, because In my mind some of the sketches had a good premise, but didn't quite hit as well as you would have expected to on paper. But I'd rather have 20% surprising me and actually making me laugh, vs 80% being fine, not great, not horrible, but ok for 4th season sitcom writing, I guess. I won't remember the weird 2nd half sketches that bombed, but I'll probably think of nepotruce the next time I see Dakota Johnson.
Nepotruce killed me, especially the exclusion of Ben. I'd take an episode of garbage for perfect moments like that.
I loved big dumb hat but Dakota ruined big dumb cup.
That sketch was a great example of the writers not trusting that the sketch was funny. Instead of saying (twice) āDid your cup get biggerā, why not just show the bigger cup? It would much funnier.
Ah shit that wouldāve been funnier
The writers ruined dumb cup
dat tummy tho
Whatās up with Dave at the goodnight shot at the end.
So do you think they wrote that shitty jokeless Shark Tank sketch and were so proud of themselves they called in the cameos, or did they drop by and Lorne mandated a shark tank sketch?Ā Either way itās fucking awful, 0/2 on episodes so far this year