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 …

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 …

April 15, 2023 – Ana de Armas / Karol G (S48 E18)

Cold Opening - First Warm Day Of The Year Arrivals Show (HEG) & (BOY) interview Central Park archetypes on year's first warm day Interesting to see a non-political, New York-centric cold opening parodying the usual Central Park characters. Mikey’s physicality and characterization as the runner is very funny, and pefect use of his underrated physicality. …