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Cold Opening - It’s A Wonderful Trump Funny seeing a parody of the classic movie, as I quite recently saw the first John Goodman episode, which had a parody of It’s A Wonderful Life with Dana doing his great Jimmy Stewart while portraying a random politician as its cold open. Man, even the title of …
Continue reading "December 15, 2018 – Matt Damon / Mark Ronson & Miley Cyrus (S44 E9)"
Cold Opening - Trump Brothers Bedtime A good & different setting for a cold opening, and it also helps that I’m a big fan of Mikey & Alex’s Don Jr and Eric Trump impressions, respectively. You Know, as much as I hate to say it, the routine of Eric saying dumb things is slowly starting …
Continue reading "December 8, 2018 – Jason Momoa / Mumford & Sons (S44 E8)"
Cold Opening - Trump 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 a flying vampire?! The hell is that supposed to be funny …
Continue reading "December 1, 2018 – Claire Foy / Anderson .Paak (S44 E7)"
Cold Opening - The Ingraham Angle 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 writing in recent decades, especially the …
Continue reading "November 17, 2018 – Steve Carell / Ella Mai (S44 E6)"
Cold opening - Jeff Sessions Farewell The return of Kate’s self-indulgent and prosthetics-heavy Jeff Sessions. Cue the usual cutesy moments with Jeff showing us what he has. The mention of Mueller here just made me cringe, and is making me prepared for who’s about to come. Robert De Niro returns as Mueller to thunderous applause …
Continue reading "November 10, 2018 – Liev Schreiber / Lil Wayne (S44 E5)"
Cold Opening - The Ingraham Angle 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, how horrible, bigoted, and proud of …
Continue reading "November 3, 2018 – Jonah Hill / Maggie Rogers (S44 E4)"
Cold Opening - Kanye & Trump Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) welcomes Kanye West (CRR) to the Oval Office After two very solid, fun cold openings in a row, we now return to SNL’s very tired, attention-seeking Trumpwin cold opens. It is especially desperate to do a parody of the real-life meeting between Kanye & Trump, …
Continue reading "October 13, 2018 – Seth Meyers / Paul Simon (S44 E3)"
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 …
Continue reading "October 6, 2018 – Awkwafina / Travis Scott (S44 E2)"
(Note: Before I start my new set of reviews, I wanted to both thank all of those who asked about me during my hiatus from online venues and deeply apologize to those who got worried due the aforementioned hiatus; should've checked up with all of you. I apologize once again and hopefully the summer reviews …
Continue reading "September 29, 2018 – Adam Driver / Kanye West (S44 E1)"
Overall Thoughts on the Season: Season 48 was certainly a unique one. On one hand, it was one of the many transitional/new era seasons in SNL’s history, with so many big names departing the show and others replacing/trying to fill their places, as well as many writers trying different approaches of humor as the season …