Cold Opening - Meet The Press Chuck Todd (KYM) & panel consider Jeff Bezos' penis Odd seeing Kyle, of all cast members, playing an anchor to a cold opening. He’s doing a solid job here and is proving to be an underrated straight man. I do remember him shining more in the upcoming Meet The …
January 26, 2019 – James McAvoy / Meek Mill (S44 E11)
Cold Opening - Tucker Carlson Tonight Roger Stone (Steve Martin) is wild & crazy The debut of Alex’s Tucker Carlson, an impression I remember being heavily critiqued around its debut, and even in the few other appearances it made afterwards. I’ll say, and with all due respect, I don’t get what’s wrong with it. So …
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January 19, 2019 – Rachel Brosnahan / Greta Van Fleet (S44 E10)
Cold Opening - Deal Or No Deal: Government Shutdown Edition Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) does Deal Or No Deal with government shutdown I’ve been growing very tired of both these cold opens and Kenan’s Steve Harvey. Not even a seemingly-promising change of pace such as this cold open’s premise is having me onboard. Ugh. Alec …
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December 15, 2018 – Matt Damon / Mark Ronson & Miley Cyrus (S44 E9)
Cold Opening - It’s A Wonderful Trump election loss improves everything 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, …
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December 8, 2018 – Jason Momoa / Mumford & Sons (S44 E8)
Cold Opening - Trump Brothers Bedtime Robert Mueller (Robert De Niro) visits Eric Trump (ALM) at 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 …
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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 10, 2018 – Liev Schreiber / Lil Wayne (S44 E5)
Cold opening - Jeff Sessions Farewell Robert Mueller (Robert De Niro) & others say bye to Jeff Sessions (KAM) The return of Kate’s self-indulgent and prosthetics-heavy Jeff Sessions. Cue the usual cutesy moments with Jeff showing us what he has. Not an even a walk-on from Mikey & Alex as Don Jr. and Eric Trump …
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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 13, 2018 – Seth Meyers / Paul Simon (S44 E3)
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, …
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