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Originally Posted by Conz
at this point, i'm just starting the episodes from the first sketch. i hate cold opens and monologues flop at a 80% clip. You have Jim Carrey and you make him do... his famous Elvis impression? it was solid, but the guy used to be an amazing standup, is world famous for 20 things, and he's doing an Elvis song about pie?
Vanessa Bayer's mouth is insane. she's so damn goofy, I can't stand her. You know I'm a SNL fanboy apologist, but screw it, while I'm ranting:
I tried to stick up for Colin Jost, but the dude is just a dud. Calling him Seth Meyers lite isn't even far, as Seth Meyers has more charisma in his pinky finger, and i don't even put Seth in the upper echelon of WU anchors. The dude tells obvious, and somewhat tame jokes, and he can't sell any of them. Pause WU after Jost presents a story, guarantee you can predict the punchline to the joke almost every time.
Che is easily funnier, but he's still stumbling. dude needs to get his delivery down better and take over solo by next season. Just now dawned on me that Drunk Uncle and the Girl at the Party are the same character basically if you boil it down. Both never fail though.
Sasheer whatever - I mean, not to beat a dead horse, but i find it funny that their big diversity hire is basically worthless. What has she done? Her purpose is to maybe play Michelle Obama once a season? She stinks.
Leslie Jones is good at what she does, but that's gonna get old quick if they don't let her branch out from "loud black woman" soon.
Kate McKinnon has a decent little body on her. ... I'd watch.
I'll take my opinion that Keenan is solid and the glue of the cast to my grave. For all the hate he gets, he's often never the worst part of a group sketch. I like him when he yells in sketches a lot more than Bobby when he does the same.
Beck Bennett sucks when he isn't playing the straight man (or a sick Nick Offerman) when he tries to play a goofy characer (Jim Carrey character sketch) it just doesn't work. On the opposite end, Kyle Mooney sucks when he plays somewhat normal characters. These two should never leave their comfort zone.
You have to be pretty bad as an announcer for me to even notice you, Darrel Hammond. He's terrible. Either go full Pardo or get someone completely different to do that job.
Taran was great in the Carrey reunion sketch. Jay Pharoah as always, wasn't.
Unpaused for 6 seconds on Iggy Azelea... good god.
Jim Carrey as the old man in the billionaire sketch (which ended abruptly... seriously, they're terrible at ending sketches. The zombie sketch was horrendous despite Davidson playing a decent zombie) was the best part of the episode. Whoever wrote his dialogue needs more work. I'm sure it was Jim Carrey.
He was the best member of the cast this week by a pretty wide margin, but some sketches, which i don't even remember right now fizzled.
aight, im out
Yeah, you could tell that even Carrey thought it was a lame monologue.
Bayer is the worst. Just the worst.
I'm not hating on Jost as much as others, but I definitely get why people are. I certainly don't think he's significantly worse than Seth Meyers.
Yeah, I'm not seeing anything special at all about Sasheer. It's like Lorne found the first black chick with decent stage presence and signed her. Leslie Jones is way more talented and interesting, and even though she's doing the same thing, well, plenty of people on SNL did the same thing during their tenure, but it was entertaining and funny enough that you still enjoyed them doing it. (Sandler, Farley, Lovitz, etcetcetc)
Kate McKinnon is probably the hottest chick on the show. I'd like to think she doesn't bulldyke it up too much in her personal life, and rides on the femme side a bit more.
I've come to have a lot of respect for Kenan over the years. Yes he tends to do the same kind of thing. Yes he's corny. But he is one of those people that makes me laugh whenever he's in a sketch. He's just a naturally very funny person, similar to Ferrell or Farley (not putting him on their echelon, just comparing them in that aspect).
Agreed about the Carrey sketch. God, Jay Pharoah is such hit or miss. I wonder if the guy has Aspberger's in real life. He's such an uncomfortable performer.
Yeah, Carrey was great in the billionare sketch. Also great as the demon in the Halloween store sketch at the end.
Jim Carrey as a host is almost an unfair, but still accurate barometer to judging the strength of your cast. He's probably in the top 5 sketch performers OAT, but the SNL he hosted ~'98 with the Ferrell bunch is considered by many as the strongest episode of the show literally EVER from start to finish, because it was a perfect marriage of most talented cast with the GOAT host (as far as sketch and character abilities, obviously for their own reasons you have to consider Baldwin, Walken, Goodman, and potentially even Timberlake into the mix).
But man oh man, a lot of the sketches this week were a C- or D, and it was Carrey alone that kept them from being F--.
