March 4, 2023 – Travis Kelce / Kelsea Ballerini (S48 E14)

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” …

February 4, 2023 – Pedro Pascal / Coldplay (S48 E12)

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 …

January 28, 2023 – Michael B. Jordan / Lil Baby (S48 E11)

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 …

January 21, 2023 – Aubrey Plaza / Sam Smith (S48 E10)

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 …

December 17, 2022 – Austin Butler / Lizzo (S48 E9)

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 …

December 10, 2022 – Steve Martin & Martin Short / Brandi Carlile (S48 E8)

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 …

December 3, 2022 – Keke Palmer / SZA (S48 E7)

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 …