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Cold Opening - Super Bowl LV More than pleased to see a non-political cold open for a change. That’s some freaky makeup on Alex. By the way, I don’t know ANYONE in this cold open, as I’ve stated several times before that I’m not a sports guy, but SNL does a good job when it …
Continue reading "February 6, 2021 – Dan Levy / Phoebe Bridgers (S46 E11)"
Cold Opening - What Still Works? Ah, a favorite open of mine from this season. The debut of Cecily’s Marjorie Taylor Green impression, which again sounds like Cecily’s wacky girl stock voice from her other 3,474 characters and impressions. Not caring for Cecily’s scene so far, despite it being well-performed, I guess Cecily’s three horrible …
Continue reading "January 30, 2021 – John Krasinski / Machine Gun Kelly (S46 E10)"
Cold Opening - Pence Gets the Vaccine Sadly, this is the final appearance of Beck’s Mike Pence impression, as this is Beck’s final season on the cast. Lauren stuck in silent, dull, non-comedic thankless role #3636. Maya returns for the umpteenth cameo this season. Not caring for the ”YAS KWEEN” material nor Maya’s deified and …
Continue reading "December 19, 2020 – Kristen Wiig / Dua Lipa (S46 E9)"
Cold Opening - The Situation Room OH GOD, the debut of Kate’s Dr. Fauci. And it sounds just like her Giuliani and her Ross “impressions.” As I mentioned before when she returned for the Billie Eilish episode. Ah, such a powerhouse performance from our designated forever star. That vaccine line is way too lame & …
Cold Opening - Michigan Election Hearing Already dreading this cold opening from the usual wink wink, self-aware opening lines. Here’s Lauren stuck in thankless, background role #636 of her tenure. While a far past-her-prime cast member gets to be the “funnee” one here. A fart? Fucking really SNL? I guess we’re scraping the bottom of …
Continue reading "December 5, 2020 – Jason Bateman / Morgan Wallen (S46 E7)"
Cold Opening - Biden Victory Always happy to see Beck’s Wolf Blitzer. Not caring for the joke about Wolf’s beard, despite Beck’s reliable delivery. OH GOD, it’s Carrey’s Biden. Mercifully, this will be the last time we’ll see him, even though the temporary replacement is not that much better. We’ll get to that when we …
Continue reading "November 7, 2020 – Dave Chappelle / Foo Fighters (S46 E6)"
Cold Open - A Holiday Message from former Vice President Joe Biden Much like the use of the Fly, Bob Ross, and Mr. Rogers, this cold opening is using a beloved cultural figure to mask the lack of premise. This time doing Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” as the basis from Which Carrey’s Biden anchors …
Continue reading "October 31, 2020 – John Mulaney / The Strokes (S46 E5)"
Cold Open - Final Presidential Debate At least this will be one of the last times I have to put up with Trumpwin & Carrey’s Biden. Yet another cameo from Maya this season while most of the cast are still in their dressing rooms & some random celebs take all the important roles. I went …
Continue reading "October 24, 2020 – Adele / H.E.R. (S46 E4)"
Cold Open - Dueling Town Halls This overlong text crawl opening is going on forever. I’m still hearing Fire Marshall Bill in Carrey’s Biden impression, and his wild mugging & physicality are not doing him any favor nor succeeding in hiding the lack of a take on the Democratic nominee. Just got a laugh (first …
Continue reading "October 17, 2020 – Issa Rae / Justin Bieber (S46 E3)"
Cold Opening - Vice Presidential Debate Bidenfly (Jim Carrey) teleports to Mike Pence's (BEB) head during debate Yet another wink wink, tell-don’t-show opening lines from the moderator, as played here by Kate, about the debate much like the previous by Beck. This only shows to me the level of self-satisfaction and flat-out giving up on …
Continue reading "October 10, 2020 – Bill Burr / Jack White (S46 E2)"