November 2, 2024 – John Mulaney / Chappell Roan (S50 E5)

With the surprisingly good-and-funny prior cold open, with how dire the cold opens preceding it were, I am hoping this cold open keeps it up. I have no idea why Chloe’s “impression” of Kaitlin Collins has appeared in 3 out of 5 episodes so far this season. It sounds (like a Twitter user accurately put it) like Chloe heard about how said person sounds like and winged an impression, which sadly represents so much of these so-called “master of impressions” takes of hers with various celebs. Compare that to JAJ’s lived-in, layered vocal and personal impersonation of people he did on and outside of SNL.

April 14, 2018 – John Mulaney / Jack White (S43 E18)

Cold Opening - Mueller & Cohen You probably already know my reaction to seeing YET ANOTHER Jeff Sessions appearance… This impression is getting more and more irritating & “cute”, such as his whole bit here about wanting to finally be “a real boy”. This is reaching the bottom of the gutter with such toothless, unfunny, …