Month: July 2023

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December 1, 2018 – Claire Foy / Anderson .Paak (S44 E7)

Cold Opening - Trump in Argentina Mohammad bin Salman (FRA) joins Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) in Argentina I’ve said all that I can say really about how hacky, poorly aged, and genuinely unfunny these Trumpwin cold opens have always been enough already not to repeat myself. WTF at Kate’s Guiliani bit with her turning into …

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November 17, 2018 – Steve Carell / Ella Mai (S44 E6)

Cold Opening - The Ingraham Angle Mark Zuckerberg (ALM) downplays Facebook abuse Didn’t we just get an Ingraham Angle cold opening? This ain’t no Hardball to have it as the cold open every two or three episodes, SNL. This is pretty much following the same tell-don’t-show approach that’s been plaguing a lot of SNL’s political …

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November 3, 2018 – Jonah Hill / Maggie Rogers (S44 E4)

Cold Opening - The Ingraham Angle Jeanine Pirro (CES) doomsays migrant caravan The first of quite a number of Kate-as-Laura-Ingraham cold opens over the next few seasons. Kate’s solid here, but I am not caring for these very self-aware lines she’s given; basically telling us again and again why she’s here and how she sounds, …

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October 6, 2018 – Awkwafina / Travis Scott (S44 E2)

Cold Opening - Brett Kavanaugh Post-Game victorious GOP locker room celebrates Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation Hmm, an actual fun & loose concept for a cold open, with SNL treating the aftermath of Kavanaugh’s confirmation in the same vein as post-game celebrations? Am I watching an SNL from a different dimension? Very funny Mitch McConnell impression from …

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