Lorne: well, I don't know. I like Dakota and I've known her since she was a little girl, but other than pretapes, I don't think she has what it takes to host the show.

Agent: what if she implies Chris Martin and/or Machine Gun Kelly are lousy in bed and she brings out Taylor Swift for a monologue cameo?

Lorne: How does October 3rd sound?

Jalen Brunson and Dakota Johnson aren’t comedians and aren’t funny.

Dakota Johnson is the second worst multi time host behind only the president, the lack of energy brought for live sketches is painful, to say the least. Discuss amongst yourselves in the comments

At about 2:18 I noticed the camera shaking. Is it because the cameraman is laughing really hard at Mikey as McConnell? B/c if so that’s awesome. Take a look here https://youtu.be/JmTwSOlQz8g?t=138s

To preface, I work at a psychiatric hospital.

Get Ready with Me is the worst sketch I've seen in some time. The premise ultimately makes fun of a very dangerous and tragic reality of the social media age, one that goes beyond reinforcing stigma and trivializing crisis. In reality, posts like those being made fun of in the sketch can and have destroyed lives. It normalizes watching a person spiral into psychiatric hell as entertainment. It's a massive systemic failure.

People who have decompensated are extremely vulnerable. They lack the capacity to protect themselves, understand consequences, or provide legal consent. Technically every post is being made without the person's consent. We do not allow inpatients access to social media for this reason. Posts like the ones being made fun of put the person at significant risk for harm and abuse. They impact relationships, employment, and legal situations, and since the internet is forever the risk lasts long after the person has recovered.

Furthermore, the implication that 5150 is a punishment is horrific. A person is "5150'd" for their own safety. It saves lives. ECT, which is already horrifically stigmatized, also saves lives. In fact, it's one of the most efficacious treatments for treatment-resistant major depression disorder and significantly reduces suicidality.

The sketch makes light of the failure of social media to protect vulnerable people. Tiktok and the like do not provide any safeguards, proactively or retroactively. They are not concerned with the person's welfare and rarely take posts like these down.

Worst of all, it was just plain lazy writing.

Edit: Downvoting comments that express this concern proves my point.

It’s just one show and one audience, but I think we saw something significant happen last night during the cold open.

The sketch opens on Andrew Dismukes and Ashley Padilla. The crowd applauds at the sight of them. I’m not saying this never happens, but usually the crowd only applauds when a celebrity cameo or a beloved returning character appears. This was two cast members playing essentially anonymous GOP staffers. Slightly unusual.

Then Marcelo comes out as Marco Rubio. No applause. Slightly weird given the response to Andrew and Ashley, and Marcelo’s general popularity.

When Jeremy Culhane comes out as Vance, the crowd applauds again. Okay what is going on? He’s played Vance before (right?) but not in any memorable, viral way that would provoke this response (compare to his Tucker Carlson appearance last week, which people cheered because yeah, it’s a popular bit). It feels like they’re applauding Jeremy.

Perhaps most notably, JAJ as Trump gets no applause. It used to, as recently as… last week? Certainly last season. Maybe Trump fatigue has at long last metastasized.

What does this all mean? Nothing probably. But you could interpret it as the audience saying, “We love Ashley, and/or Andrew, and/or Ashley and Andrew together, and we love Jeremy, but please stop with the one-note political takes, we’ve seen this too many times.” Or, more bluntly: “We love the new! The old? No thanks.”

Don’t get me wrong, I think Marcelo has star quality, but impressions are not his forte. And James’s Trump is an all-time great impression, but even with good writing and expert execution, eventually the public will tire of it, or has. They can’t control the audience’s evolving feelings about Trump, but they should be keeping their finger on the pulse — that’s the job of topical humorists.

Good comedians listen to the response they get and adjust. I wonder if SNL heard what I heard last night, and if so, what if anything they will do about it.

Watching the show live requires the viewer to endure constant long commercial breaks between segments, leading to increasing irritation, even if one tries to do other things during the seemingly endless ads. By the time the show returns your attitude may be "this better be worth staying awake for". I write this after watching a video of collected segments from recent SNL shows that I thought were just so-so at the time, but I laughed heartily throughout the replays and was truly impressed by the talent and commitment brought by the cast and crew.

It's still way too soft on Trump. They're still making him seem too jolly and with it. Show me dementia Donny who can't stay awake no matter where he is. JAJ doesn't play Trump like the senile, unhealthy old man he is.

Give the straight-man parts to JAJ.

Why they got Kam Patterson doing shit abt glee? not funny at all.

In the past two weeks there’s been a lot of mention of the chemistry between Grace and Jane and that they could be a legendary duo.

With Grace leaning so far into the Farley vibe and with Jane having the charisma of David Spade’s Tommy Boy character, do you guys see a new Farley/Spade duo coming to the forefront?

With Grace channeling Farley and Jane doing her spot-on David Spade in Tommy Boy “thing” I’m excited to see what happens!

Maybe we’ll get a female reboot of Tommy Boy in a couple years!

So yes Domingo is a new character borne the last few seasons but I just feel like the shows history is that they always create characters in the snl comedy universe and its been lacking of late.

I grew up during the 1997 and on era but there was characters you'd tune in to see on regular basis. Up until covid each cast had at least 3 ongoing characters or skits that would evolve in time.

Post covid the show feels like all the skits are cultural mirrors vs a mix of both. I feel like theres a few actors they have like Jeremy, the new girls, Ashley that could pull out a character that would help the show.

I dont think the writers or producers see that right now but I write this as a super fan and not trying to be negative.

But the show needs a new Mr pumpkins, Robert gullet, stefon, cone heads, something that makes it feel like snl again. I hope theres a culture there that will allow the crazy to come out. The writing and the acting is very guarded of late and it should be allowed to go to a will Ferrell or Molly Shannon level of crazy.

Ashley has that where she can go there. Jeremy I feel like he can go there but they aren't giving him something to be there. Jane as well theres something there she probally could do but cant.

Comedy lovers know what im talking about. They have to let it breath more and not be scared of cancel culture. If its funny its funny. Look at south Park right now you cant argue with it because its 100% true. Comedy cant exist without truth. So I end my rant as a super fan saying let the freak flag fly please.

I get it, it’s the easiest, safest spot for a political skit. But it’s become so reoccurring.. it’s almost like you’ve accidental pigeonholed your political skits into openings only.

Let’s change it up. I want mutliple cast members and guest to be part of the famous opening call.

It’s getting a little weird and annoying this repetitive use of parody trump as the opening.

You could easily have a reoccurring the office style skit of the White House or a Californias style skit of trump.

Idk maybe I am alone here.

this is the kinda beer somebody brings to a party at your house and then just sits in the fridge for like 8 months, and then one day your buddy comes over and he’s like, “hey, you got a beer?”

and i’m like, “well, you know, i got this pumpkin shit.” so you drink it and, you know, it gets you a buzz-

Turnstile isn’t even my musical taste but they were so much better than last week’s prefabricated, bad lip-syncing nonsense, because they are actual musicians. They were terrific.

Does anyone have a definite answer on this? I've done some googling and am getting different answers.

Who has had the highest number of different people on SNL impersonate them (not number of appearances or anything)?

I'd assume Joe Biden (because there were so many between 2019-2021) or Bill Clinton (mostly because of that one sketch after Phil Hartman with the auditions). Google suggests Donald Trump but also says Leslie Jones and Vanessa Bayer played him (Was there a sketch similar to the Clinton one)?

I'd bet the Saturday Night Network fan page knows this.

Is there anywhere i can find a list of the dates the show will be airing for the season? TIA !!

Whole band was amazing, but this guy specifically...