April 15, 2023 – Ana de Armas / Karol G (S48 E18)

Cold Opening - First Warm Day Of The Year Arrivals Show Interesting to see a non-political, New York-centric cold opening parodying the usual Central Park characters. James’ pervert look, with that fake third arm, is hilarious. Seeing him, of all cast members, playing such a very non-James role already made me laugh. This surprisingly turns …

April 1, 2023 – Quinta Brunson / Lil Yachty (S48 E16)

Cold Opening - Trump Indictment As expected, the cold open starts with our obligatory Trump indictment coverage. James’ performance remains as strong as ever, though the tell-don’t-show approach in this cold open, much like the previous Trump-starring one continues to waste his talents. Ok, the bit about Trump promoting his album, which he recorded with …

March 4, 2023 – Travis Kelce / Kelsea Ballerini (S48 E14)

Cold Opening - Fox & Friends They are still trying to make this recurring trio work? These lost it back during their original run several seasons ago. I’ll say that Bowen is no Bobby Moynihan when it comes to playing an idiot spewing random one-liners. The homoerotic portion about Hannity’s talk about Giuliani being “hot” …

February 4, 2023 – Pedro Pascal / Coldplay (S48 E12)

Cold Opening - MSNBC Reports Nothing that surprising with the cold opening addressing the incident with the Chinese spy balloon. Chloe is solid as usual in her anchor role, but what’s with the applause to Kenan’s General Hamilton? Just because he stopped the balloon? Kenan’s doing it a little too much with his stern looks …

January 28, 2023 – Michael B. Jordan / Lil Baby (S48 E11)

Cold Opening - Classified Documents An interesting, but fitting casting of Mikey as Merrick Garland. Oh, so this is covering the whole Mike Pence classified documents situation. Interesting how we aren’t getting a new Mike Pence impression as well. From the current cast, I could see Michael Longfellow doing quite a decent impression, and impressionist …

January 21, 2023 – Aubrey Plaza / Sam Smith (S48 E10)

Thoughts on the Season Thus Far: Since I’ve already done my midseason thoughts during my coverage of the first season I’ve done live recaps of (21-22), I’ll probably continue doing these for the seasons ahead. This season has already garnered much division at times from the fan community in general, in particular when it comes …