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Cold Opening - A Special Mother's Day Message Good to finally see another non-political cold opening this season, after the last two damn near killed me. Always endearing to see the cast members with their moms, as this is the second of three Mother’s Day-centric pieces in this era, alongside the classic Reese Witherspoon monologue …
Continue reading "May 12, 2018 – Amy Schumer / Kacey Musgraves (S43 E20)"
Cold Opening - Michael Cohen Wiretap The return of Ben Stiller’s Michael Cohen impression, for the second episode in a row. Yay? Interesting format to this cold open, but I feel it won’t succeed in masking the lethargy & dead feel these usually have. Very poor utilization of Alex & Chris. The whole Pig Latin …
Continue reading "May 5, 2018 – Donald Glover / Childish Gambino (S43 E19)"
Cold Opening - Mueller & Cohen You probably already know my reaction to seeing YET ANOTHER Jeff Sessions appearance… This impression is getting more and more irritating & “cute”, such as his whole bit here about wanting to finally be “a real boy”. This is reaching the bottom of the gutter with such toothless, unfunny, …
Continue reading "April 14, 2018 – John Mulaney / Jack White (S43 E18)"
Cold Opening - Outnumbered I love Leslie’s smile as the cold open begins. Much like her casting as Omarosa, Leslie looks NOTHING like Harris Faulkner, as this is a role that the soon-to-join Ego Nwodim would’ve been perfect for. Some decent lines from Leslie, even when some of them are too on-the-nose, such as calling …
Continue reading "April 7, 2018 – Chadwick Boseman / Cardi B (S43 E17)"
Cold Opening - Anderson Cooper 360 Did we really need Kate’s Jeff Sessions ONCE AGAIN?! This era has been REALLY pushing this impression as one of its biggest. Not caring for Kate’s Sessions openly talking about how bigoted he is. This lazy & cowardly writing that plagues this SNL era is getting on my nerves, …
Continue reading "March 17, 2018 – Bill Hader / Arcade Fire (S43 E16)"
Cold Opening - The Bachelor Live I remember back when this episode originally aired being so excited to have a non-political cold open, as the beginning of this one with Alex had me (and I’m sure some others) to believe. Needless to say, you can imagine my reaction when Kate’s Robert Mueller showed up with …
Continue reading "March 10, 2018 – Sterling K. Brown / James Bay (S43 E15)"
Cold Opening - Presidential Address Interesting seeing Trumpwin delivering an address to the nation, even when it isn’t from behind the Oval Office’s presidential desk. Cecily’s Dianne Feinstein is making me laugh with how excited she gets when Trumpwin mentions the possibility of taking the guns away from people. Ugh at the obligatory gay joke …
Continue reading "March 3, 2018 – Charles Barkley / Migos (S43 E14)"
Cold Opening - Fox and Friends The debut of Alex & Heidi’s Steve Doocy and Ainsley Earhardt impressions. It’s also interesting to see someone other than Bobby playing Brian Kilmeade, Beck’s doing a solid job with the impression. Good chemistry between the three performers here, even when the writing for them isn’t that good. The …
Continue reading "February 3, 2018 – Natalie Portman / Dua Lipa (S43 E13)"
Cold Opening - George W. Bush Returns Great to see the return of Will & his Dubya impression right from the cold opening. I’m loving the biting take to this cold opening with Will’s Bush reminding us of how bad of a president he was. This is even funnier when you remember how many people …
Continue reading "January 27, 2018 – Will Ferrell / Chris Stapleton (S43 E12)"
Cold Opening - Press Conference Good to see a more traditional cold open that isn’t padded with wall-to-wall checklist/meme moments for maximum YouTube profit. I see that this was around the time regarding Trump’s relationship with his personal White House Physician. Aidy’s Sarah Huckabee Sanders impression always cracks me up, and her facial expressions & …
Continue reading "January 20, 2018 – Jessica Chastain / Troye Sivan (S43 E11)"