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Cold Opening - Access Hollywood Oscars Red Carpet Edition Wow, it feels like ages since we last got a celebrity-centric cold opening. I believe the last one was the Depp vs. Heard cold opening during the homestretch of last season. Marcello & Heidi are barely even attempting to impersonate who they are supposedly playing, but …
Continue reading "March 11, 2023 – Jenna Ortega / The 1975 (S48 E15)"
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” …
Continue reading "March 4, 2023 – Travis Kelce / Kelsea Ballerini (S48 E14)"
Cold Opening - Trump in Ohio I guess it had to happen sooner or later: the return of James’ Donald Trump. Although, I should’ve known a cold open spoofing Trump’s infamous Ohio visit is a given. I don’t want to be salty here, but James has constantly proven that he’s MUCH more than just being …
Continue reading "February 25, 2023 – Woody Harrelson / Jack White (S48 E13)"
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 …
Continue reading "February 4, 2023 – Pedro Pascal / Coldplay (S48 E12)"
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 …
Continue reading "January 28, 2023 – Michael B. Jordan / Lil Baby (S48 E11)"
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 …
Continue reading "January 21, 2023 – Aubrey Plaza / Sam Smith (S48 E10)"
Cold Opening - Trump NFT’s I really knew SNL would parody Trump’s disastrous NFT announcement (which was hilarious in itself), but I hoped I would turn out wrong. Ok, I’m getting few chuckles from the various photoshopped cards with James’ Trump face on them; the one with Biden eating ice cream & James’ Trump melting …
Continue reading "December 17, 2022 – Austin Butler / Lizzo (S48 E9)"
Cold Opening - Blocking It Out for Christmas It feels right getting a non-political cold open with Steve & Martin hosting the show. The Mariah Carey joke feels a bit tired, but Bowen’s delivery of it was decent as expected. I’m not really liking, so far, how this cold opening is focusing on Bowen/Cecily/Kenan as …
Continue reading "December 10, 2022 – Steve Martin & Martin Short / Brandi Carlile (S48 E8)"
Cold Opening - Herschel Walker Meeting Good to see James’ solid Mitch McConnell back for the second time. Also, Kenan’s Herschel Walker is here. Is this the billionth southern Republican white lady Cecily’s played in her tenure? Man, the “Mitch McDonalds” line by Kenan’s Herschel is freakin’ terrible. This cold open is already putting me …
Continue reading "December 3, 2022 – Keke Palmer / SZA (S48 E7)"
Cold Opening - Fox and Friends Man, they are still trying to make these Fox and Friends cold opens happen? Bowen as Brian Kilmeade? At least it’s interesting to see him play a role like this. So far, this is the usual checklist/meme cold open that I was happy this new season avoided in its …
Continue reading "November 12, 2022 – Dave Chappelle / Black Star (S48 E6)"
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