December 15, 2018 – Matt Damon / Mark Ronson & Miley Cyrus (S44 E9)

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 …

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

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 …

November 10, 2018 – Liev Schreiber / Lil Wayne (S44 E5)

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 …

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 …