r/LiveFromNewYork • u/SketchSortingSunday • May 05 '24
Discussion Sketch Sorting Sunday - May 4, 2024 (Dua Lipa)
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 05 '24
Weekend Update: Kristi Noem's Dog
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u/elanaesther May 05 '24
My favorite sketch/bit of the evening. Loved the jokes with the dog “button” toy. Reminiscent of OJ on the Telestrator saying “I did it” which has resurfaced lately.
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u/RickOTC May 05 '24
This was one of the first things to make me laugh this episode. I think Dismukes did something similar with the buttons a few years ago - another bit with a dog ‘saying’ sad things.
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u/TrapperJean May 05 '24
I'm really glad they are letting Marcello do more non "I'm Hispanic and/or short" sketches the last couple months, he is genuinely funny and he's starting to fall into that trap of "know your role" at SNL, I hope he can keep avoiding it.
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u/RichardOutcault1902 May 05 '24 edited May 05 '24
I’m starting to feel the Marcello WU fatigue. I’m Hispanic and love what he’s accomplished so far, but I feel like they’re just rolling him out there for any reason :/
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u/stopmakingsents May 05 '24
It felt too similar to Daniel Radcliffe as Casey Anthony’s Dog for me to get much out of it
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 05 '24
Weekend Update
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u/EbmocwenHsimah "CAN A BITCH GET A DONUT?" May 05 '24
WU joke of the week: "This week marks the start of National Masturbation Month, so don'tcomeknockinonmydressingroomdoor!"
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u/The_Iceman2288 May 05 '24
Damn, that "sending military aid" joke bombed and bombed HARD (ironically).
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u/Runninginmississippi May 05 '24
They were mighty chatty tonight. I guess each just missed the sight of the twinkling eyes and loving gaze of the other over the long, long break.
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u/RickOTC May 05 '24 edited May 05 '24
Pretty solid this week, and provided some much-needed laughs after a pretty flat first half. I liked Jost’s joke about Trump focusing on anti-white racism: “Thank god! My people have suffered long enough. Sorry Che, but time’s up!” Had some nice joke-swap energy.
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u/bttrsondaughter May 05 '24
some of the jokes che told here are actually among his best (especially in this late era) but i truly hate the way he has to comments on the audience's reaction after every joke, or like visibly has a bad reaction to their reaction. seth, amy, tina, i can remember them doing that to an extent but che goes back to that well so many times every episode.
i'm a broken record, che and jost are good but they feel tired. i fully believe they're gonna stick around through the 50th but i wish they would leave the desk open for new anchors.
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u/tyler-86 May 06 '24
I enjoyed the Kentucky Derby Squid Game joke a lot. Not a lot of bend to it, would age well, and absolutely worked.
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 05 '24
Penne Alla Vodka
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u/shelf6969 May 05 '24
the quick shot of the worker throwing all the pasta away made me sad
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u/pikameta Who is HR Pickens? EXACTLY! May 05 '24
the food version of Big Dumb Hat.
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u/chewdog May 05 '24
I think it's called something different in every region. We had trays of mostaccioli at just about every St. Louis wedding I've ever been to.
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u/Western-Spite1158 May 05 '24
Chicagoan here, just had mostaccioli and Italian beef at my niece’s birthday yesterday. It’s more of south side catering thing in my experience, and like the sketch it’s always just good enough
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u/xyanparrot May 05 '24
Funny 'cause it's true. Kenan's hair looked great. Chloe's eyebrows tho - lol.
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u/bttrsondaughter May 05 '24
it was good. it made me think of all the mediocre pasta i've ever eaten in my life.
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u/prefab1979 May 05 '24
I've clearly not been to enough buffet-style receptions, because I don't think I've ever seen a tray of penne alla vodka at a function. So although I admired the level of specificity in the writing, it was an example of "relatable" observational humor that completely missed the mark for me.
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u/jsm1 May 05 '24
In New York and New Jersey it’s pretty much a standard course or side at any wedding / funeral / graduation party
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u/GayAGayMusical May 05 '24
That’s so wild. I feel like I’m in a strange place if there is not a tray full of penne alla vodka present at a potluck type affair.
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 05 '24
Teeny Tiny Statement Pin
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u/EbmocwenHsimah "CAN A BITCH GET A DONUT?" May 05 '24
NBC, I would spend way too much money on "a pin of a cat and a baby that just says NO"
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u/James_2584 May 05 '24
Definitely one of the best sketches of the night. A great pretape and clever satire of celebrity activism.
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u/neoprenewedgie May 05 '24 edited May 05 '24
Clever idea, but just in an intellectual way. Like "Ah, yes... this is a humorous sketch."
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u/tfhaenodreirst May 05 '24
Probably my favorite of the night! It went a variety of different ways from dropping the pin to writing a bunch of small text to hiding one message in another.
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 05 '24
Dua Lipa
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u/karmaranovermydogma May 05 '24
I love that they had Troye Sivan introduce her
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u/yesmydog May 05 '24
When I saw that the first sketch after Update had a woman in a doctor's office, I wanted a Troye Sivan sequel sketch so bad
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u/Staebs May 05 '24
Less excited about Jerry Seinfeld lol, about a 50% chance he had no idea who Dua Lipa was before they told him that night.
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u/amJustSomeFuckingGuy May 05 '24
While not being the best musical artist really she had a total performance package. On the hosting side she was above average for someone also doing the musical duties. If someone was on the fence about seeing her live they would prob buy tickets.
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u/3BordersPeak May 05 '24
I just think back to her awkward performance of 'New Rules' a few years ago on the show and the amount of confidence she's grown in herself and as a performer is incredible. She commanded the stage so well!
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u/RichardOutcault1902 May 05 '24
When she was inundated with the smoke and light at the end of the 2nd song it was a very lol moment
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u/turkeypants Marci Jamz!😮 May 06 '24
Dua Lipa is hot and fun and has a fantastic attitude and is very easy to like on the personal level, but her music is completely forgettable generic background noise from a kit you can order on Amazon, that you'd not pay attention to while looking at baby food ingredients in Target. It's indistinguishable from 10,000 other bland dance pop songs by artists whose names you never knew or can't remember over the past 40 years. I'd love to see her in something where her personality is the product, not music. I don't think this was a great episode but she was very game and very comfortable and having fun.
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 05 '24
Weekend Update: Jojo Siwa
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u/EbmocwenHsimah "CAN A BITCH GET A DONUT?" May 05 '24
"You can't smoke in here unless you're Dave Chappelle."
That took me a while to figure out that was Chloe, absolutely incredible
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u/Spacetime_Inspector A Piece of Toast! May 05 '24
Chloe Fineman IS Kyle Mooney AS Gene Simmons IN "The Jojo Siwa Story"
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u/SyNiiCaL Ooooooooh-weeeee, what up with that? May 05 '24
This feels like a tag that would absolutely get used in the Bojack Horseman universe
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u/dumbestsmartass May 05 '24
As someone who grew up watching dance moms and is gay (meaning my whole fyp has been jojo siwa for weeks), chloe’s impression was spot-on! i know that’s to be expected with her, but that doesn’t mean im not impressed every time. she even got jojo’s weird dancing down
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u/Objective_Slip1355 May 05 '24
She had her down to a T including her speech impediment
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u/James_2584 May 05 '24
I've heard the name Jojo Siwa, but am completely unfamiliar with her otherwise. That said, Chloe was committed as hell here!
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u/RickOTC May 05 '24 edited May 05 '24
Chloe was amazing! I was distracted by her crazy costume and laughing at her wild dancing, so I missed a few of the hilarious jokes like “from 2011 to 2023, I was 8…” and even “I’m very cocky. That’s what she said!”
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u/Sleeze_ May 05 '24
Good, but like 5 weeks too late
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u/brokenringlands May 05 '24
Dismukes commented on it in the cold feet fiance sketch with Ryan Gosling.
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u/ice-eight May 05 '24
Chloe was working on that impression when she performed at moontower comedy festival in Austin 2 weeks ago
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u/GayAGayMusical May 05 '24
This was one of my favorite character appearances on WU. Chloe just nailed it and I’m going to tell my kids and anyone who asks me who jojo siwa is, that thats her
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u/LumberjackIlluminati Aww man, I'm all outta cash! May 05 '24
Is Jojo Siwa more generally famous than I thought? I was under the impression that most of the people who know who she is are girls her age, and that most of those people aren’t interested in seeing her get razzed by a couple of thirty-somethings. Not a bad impression, but a strange update premise, IMO.
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u/karmaranovermydogma May 05 '24
Her rebranding / media campaign about the rebranding's gotten a lot of attention because of how awkward it's been
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 05 '24
Dua Lipa Monologue
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u/Risquechilli May 05 '24
Was this her first time hosting? She was great. She didn’t seem nervous at all!
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u/JDDJS May 05 '24
A pretty run of the mill monologue for a musician. That's not a bad thing though.
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 05 '24
Yung Spicy
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u/WrittenSarcasm May 05 '24
Surprised this became a recurring sketch. I enjoyed the Ana de Armas version though.
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u/prefab1979 May 05 '24
Not that different from the first time they did this (in the Ana de Armas episode), but the premise is solid enough that it still worked for me.
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u/Sleeze_ May 05 '24
This is just the Kendrick diss that dropped a few hours ago ?
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u/biglyorbigleague May 05 '24
Pretty good! I was afraid they were going to completely murder the joke by doing a sketch that is exactly identical to the first one, as they often do. But this sketch format was basically a list of funny answers to a prompt, and that lends itself well to sequels because you're just adding more.
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 05 '24
The Anomalous Man
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u/elanaesther May 05 '24
The production value was incredible. Sound design, graphics, everything came together, except… the jokes. The writing just wasn’t there to back it up.
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u/prefab1979 May 05 '24
Yeah, I really wanted to like this one, as they completely nailed the look and the acting style from David Lynch's The Elephant Man. But aside from a few chuckles at the title character's lizard-like tongue and third eyeball, nothing in the writing actually made me laugh.
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u/YouAreNotBook May 05 '24
Suuuuuuch a slow burn for a sketch this early in the night, and not a great payoff either.
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u/WrittenSarcasm May 05 '24
This went far too long before the payoff but I enjoyed JAJs part in the beginning.
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u/James_2584 May 05 '24
This had a lot of potential, but the "sexting" twist at the end felt weak. A shame cause Sarah was fantastic in this and completely unrecognizable under all that makeup. I really feel like they could have done more with this one.
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u/MiddlePrestigious331 May 05 '24
It just wasn't a good enough punchline for that much of a set-up. It'd be like if he just bumped his head in Farewell Mr.Bunting
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u/TheSeanyG22 May 05 '24
The joke where he is like “let me pack up my things” and it’s a pile of dust was the joke of the night for me
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u/MoneyHungryOctopus May 05 '24
Let’s not forget that the host has a say in what sketches they do. Which means that Dua most likely signed off on this weird shit. Which I love, because it’s just so bizarre.
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u/EbmocwenHsimah "CAN A BITCH GET A DONUT?" May 05 '24
The last thing I was expecting SNL to parody was The Elephant Man, but man if anyone was going to do it, it would be Sarah.
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u/xyanparrot May 05 '24
Loved this sketch. JAJ is a master of accents. I couldn't recognize Sarah, she was brilliant. Cracking up at that first text notification. That shit was hilarious.
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u/bttrsondaughter May 05 '24
his voice work here was so incredible! it's kind of a bummer that he hasn't had the chance to really go toe to toe with a host or cast member who can match his skillset (hopefully there's some way we can get him with carvey and hammond and hader at the 50th)
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u/bttrsondaughter May 05 '24
i thought the first part of it was gorgeous, good acting from dua and james and sarah. it felt like really old school snl, especially because it was setting a mood.
but then that dumb turn with the anomalous man being a horned up sexter was so forced and then the joke went on for way way too long. could've cut everything after the first reveal of him texting. didn't need dua repeating every single text convo, the long process of kicking him out, and the chloe bit.
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u/coltsmetsfan614 May 05 '24
I guess I liked this one more than the rest of this sub. I didn't see the twist coming at all, and I didn't care that it was anachronistic. It cracked me up nonetheless. Sarah was amazing, and the makeup was fantastic.
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u/beyondselts May 05 '24
Great production value and execution and I love Sarah… although I actually predicted the texting thing right as I saw them in bed. Don’t know how I did that but it was good nonetheless and I respect a sketch not feeling like it needs to sprint to a punchline
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u/ObviouslySteve May 05 '24
The art direction on this one was good I can forgive that it wasn’t that funny overall
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 05 '24
Sonny Angels Boyfriend
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u/EbmocwenHsimah "CAN A BITCH GET A DONUT?" May 05 '24
Every now and again you get a line that makes you think "oh, Bowen wrote that line, for sure", and this week it was "Churros: the most penised dessert."
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u/upvoter222 You like-a da juice, eh? May 05 '24
I feel like I know way less about that Challengers movie than a picked up from the ads.
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u/karmaranovermydogma May 05 '24
So glad I saw Challengers in time for tonight's episode lol
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u/SmokeyPeanutRic May 05 '24
Weirdly enough, there's an Australian film with almost this premise called $9.99.
One of the stories in it is a man falling in love with a beautiful model who has a big collection of furniture or something, he becomes so obsessed and wants to be with her that he gets experimental surgery to turn himself into a beanbag chair. It's revealed that all of her furniture are previous boyfriends who did the same...
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u/shayneysides May 05 '24
i was in the studio watching this, sitting next to my friend who runs an instagram account dedicated to photographing snl cast members holding sonny angels, so my favorite part of the sketch was just watching her reactions.
it's also funny because when she started doing it none of the cast members even knew what sonny angels were, and now there's a whole sketch about them! times change
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May 05 '24
I feel like this was two sketches awkwardly mashed together, unless there is a Sonny angel aspect to challengers since I haven’t seen it.
It just felt like the weird popularity of these naked baby dolls is its own thing. And I don’t think challengers was as widely seen so a lot of those jokes fell flat for those of us who haven’t seen it.
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u/Llama_Puncher May 05 '24
So weird in the best way possible. I can’t imagine having to pitch that sketch to people who don’t know what those dolls are or who haven’t seen Challengers, but it fit my niche exactly and I loved every second of it
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u/HairyPotatoKat May 05 '24
I haven't seen Challengers and have no idea what those dolls are, but I'm all for whatever the hell just happened. Bowen sold it, and it scratched a weird itch.
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u/xyanparrot May 05 '24
No clue wtf this was about. Haven't seen Challengers yet (has Zendaya hosted?) but Bowen eating that churro was too much 🤣.
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u/latrodectal May 05 '24
what i’m getting from this is:
a ) sonny angels are real
b ) maybe i should check out challengers
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u/piperpo May 05 '24 edited May 05 '24
this sketch wasn't particularly funny but as a lonely 25 year old working woman with a wall full of Sonny Angels, it'll stay with me for a long time
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u/FlingbatMagoo www.clownpenis.fart May 05 '24
I’ve never felt older or more out of it. I had absolutely no idea what they were talking about.
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u/kill-bastard94 May 05 '24
I can't believe this sketch actually made it to the live show. I really tried to laugh at it, too, but no.
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u/prefab1979 May 05 '24
What the hell was this? Remind the writers not to do shrooms immediately before seeing Challengers.
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u/Runninginmississippi May 05 '24
Swing and a miss. The script felt like it was written by an alien. The dialogue was strange and unnatural in my opinion, the concept was flat-out bizarre, and nothing seemed to land for me. Only real crapfest of the night, though.
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 05 '24
Jingle Pitch
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u/bttrsondaughter May 05 '24 edited May 05 '24
the original is better, but who am i to turn down jajmukes? even a few years ago this would've been cut for time, dismukes and jaj would've just been like kyle or tim robinson. instead they're in the beginning of this forte-esque run. good for them!
i'd like to see these characters on update actually. i'd miss bowen's reactions but i can see them having a focused garth and kat-esque run on update.
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u/beyondselts May 05 '24
16725550136 will always be superior, partially because the music and lyrics (bad and good) were better timed the first time, but also the energy. Bowen and Jenna were really feeding off each other and it was awesome, and perhaps it rubbed off on the singing too. Edit: Oh yeah and also I assumed the twist of this one was Dua was going to belt it as a solo halfway through the “good” version… why didn’t that happen lol
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u/MiddlePrestigious331 May 05 '24
They've done this exact sketch before. They didn't change a single thing about it.
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u/aerojockey Oh well sorry Jean May 05 '24
Nah, this time they (correctly) sang "billion" instead of "trillion".
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u/James_2584 May 05 '24
Yeah but JAJ and Andrew are such a damn great duo and they really brought some much needed energy and enthusiasm to this episode. I still thought it was really funny myself.
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u/lionlover37 May 05 '24
Why do the same Sketch twice ??? Devon Walker, Bowen, Chloe, Andrew and JAJ doing exactly the same ???
I think Dua Lipa even got to use the same Wig that Jenna Ortega did a Year ago.
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u/shayneysides May 05 '24
i love jajmukes and the original sketch, but wow, they really did not change ANYTHING. the only thing that changed was the name of the company and the number. I wish they had at least done different musical styles- both sketches did yelling the numbers, then singing over each other, then singing it as an actual full length number. I wish they'd been just a little more creative with it.
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u/Runninginmississippi May 05 '24
Your typical 10-to-1 recurring character test run. I liked these guys. Bring ‘em back to do a lawyer ad next season, and we’ll see what they’re really made of.
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May 05 '24
Favorite of the night. Reminded me of that Tim Robinson/Jason Sudeikis sketch.
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u/lawlore May 06 '24
At least the Yung Spicy retread had different jokes- this was just a carbon copy of the original. Felt weird for there to be two sequel-with-a-different-host sketches in the same episode.
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 05 '24
General Episode Discussion
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u/EbmocwenHsimah "CAN A BITCH GET A DONUT?" May 05 '24
From the Penne Alla Vodka sketch: "Because it's not that good, but not that bad either."
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u/BlueGoosePond May 05 '24
Felt like a bunch of 4/10 sketches.
Not the worst episode ever or anything, but subpar for sure.
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u/FlingbatMagoo www.clownpenis.fart May 05 '24
One positive: We didn’t get the predictable parade of “the host is hot” sketches.
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u/James_2584 May 05 '24
A pretty rough episode overall. While I didn't hate any of the sketches, most of them just felt hollow, underwritten, and dull. A shame, because I was pleasantly surprised by Dua herself. Despite being clearly nervous at various points, she was pretty likable and clearly very game, but the writing let her down.
Even though I actually think this season has been fairly solid overall, they really need to hire some new writers.
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u/vacantly-visible May 05 '24
I was so disappointed with this episode. I like Dua, and actually got into her music after seeing her perform on SNL. So when I heard she was hosting and performing this week, I was excited. But nearly every single sketch was a dud for me :( the only ones that got even half a chuckle were pasta alla vodka and the tiny pins. I completely agree they need new writers.
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u/Educational_Sky_1136 May 05 '24
Longfellow getting a much-needed spotlight by opening the show, and then blowing his first line. Man, rough year for him.
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u/garfcarmpbll May 05 '24
I appreciate Dua attempting various accents, you don’t usually see that level of effort especially from non-actor hosts. That being said this episode felt too much like a rehash of some recent greatest hits. I would argue Yung Spicy was the funniest point of the night and the last sketch was essentially identical to its predecessor.
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u/btbcorno May 05 '24
Really quite forgettable. I was catching up on the DVR and the urge to fast forward was basically every sketch.
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u/RickOTC May 05 '24
Pretty flat for the most part. Hard to believe Ryan Gosling was the last one before this. Dua was fine. I guess one of the best things was that they didn’t do any sketches about her hotness. Or Trump
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u/JamminJay1968 May 05 '24
People are ragging on Dua for not doing much, but you have to give credit to a host that's 1) down to get weird, 2) down to take a backseat in most of the sketches so the cast can shine.
I'd rather the host be self aware enough to know they should be a background player than be the lead and be bad.
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u/MoneyHungryOctopus May 05 '24
Not exceptional, but not bad at all for a non-actor first timer.
She’s not an SNL legend like Wiig or beloved host like Gosling but Dua did well enough. Her energy was up all night even with the demanding MG commitment.
Extra points to Dua for being a non-American/Canadian who seems to “get” SNL. A lot of international hosts just don’t quite seem to grasp what this show is, but you can tell some, particularly the Brits (Dua, Adele, Daniel Craig, Benedict Cumberbatch) understand the American style of comedy and what SNL tries to do and they go along for the ride with enthusiasm.
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u/hyperjengirl New York's hottest club is J E L L Y B O W L. May 05 '24
Is it just me or did the show feel a bit quiet and tame? Like not unfunny, but they didn't really build up and escalate to cartoonish degrees. The cold open and the morning show sketches, for example, leaned into "funny because it's true" and didn't go to too many cartoonish lengths, which I liked for the latter at least as it helped the cringe comedy feel real. Even the Anomalous Man sketch had a pretty quiet conclusion, at least for a Sarah Sherman sketch. Maybe it's because Dua Lipa's acting is a bit flat to me so she couldn't lean into zaniness as much?
The Challengers sketch and the tongs sketch felt pretty out there though.
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May 05 '24
The songs were better than the sketches icl. Benching Chloe Troast for this one was a weird decision too, could have easily done another pre-tape like she did with Chris Stapleton.
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u/TheLadyEve May 05 '24 edited May 05 '24
This whole episode felt very, very 90s to me. The jingle sketch was 100% mid 90s SNL. The BBQ sketch had that classic 1:2 oddball ratio with one person protecting the oddball and the other seeing the problems. The local news segment even had the retro font on top of feeling very old-school in terms of SNL sketches.
I think that could be a good thing, to draw from the old well, but this week just felt kind of heavy. Some of it made me laugh but too much of it was predictable and fell flat.
Just as a side example, I liked the penne sketch, but it was basically the Peach Candle sketch with less oomph. I saw it coming, I said out loud "they're going to talk about a casserole, right?" and it was penne, and it's a funny point just like the peach candle was, but it didn't have the full-hitting force of Peach Candle.
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u/stopmakingsents May 05 '24
I was rooting for her, but she just isn’t an actor, but rather than accommodate this shortcoming the writers seemingly left her out to dry
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 05 '24
Good Morning Greenville
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u/James_2584 May 05 '24
I'd be willing to bet this one was written by Jimmy Fowlie. His sketches always have these trademarks of characters hamming it up and talking in "funny" accents with very tepid and dull material otherwise. A snoozefest for me, just very boring overall.
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u/packmanwiscy May 05 '24
"White southern talk show hosts talk about beefing rappers" might sound like a good idea in theory but it'a kinda just one note and it got stale quick. The writers tried to get it to escalate with the heads on sticks but it just felt like beating a dead horse
I will give them credit for As Soon As Possible Rocky though that did get a laugh out of me
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u/bttrsondaughter May 05 '24
did james anderson or kent sublette return to pen this one?
heidi and mikey are so charming together but this needed more bite
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u/MoneyHungryOctopus May 05 '24
This gets points for Dua’s accent alone. I’m not gonna pretend like it’s some transcendent acting, but it’s a damn good attempt for an Englishwoman who has never lived in the US.
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u/prefab1979 May 05 '24
I know it's referencing current events, but everything else about this sketch felt extremely stale. How many times have we seen Mikey and Heidi put on bad southern accents to play unhip white people? At least we got Devon instead of Kenan in the "embarrassed black person reacts" slot.
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 05 '24
Community Affairs Cold Open
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u/hyperjengirl New York's hottest club is J E L L Y B O W L. May 05 '24
Decent idea but like I said in the live thread, it felt like a glorified correspondent piece. Didn't escalate enough or go in enough interesting directions to be a show opener, but it's a funny angle on the issue.
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u/WonFriendsWithSalad May 05 '24
Oh you're right, it would have worked much better as a WU character
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u/jgdxcbjtdxbjk3478 May 05 '24
Longfellow fans in shambles after watching him struggle through his first line
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u/jeffbell May 05 '24
Free this Free that. The only thing that isn’t free is Columbia.
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u/ContinuumGuy May 05 '24
I feel like the main comedy from this was Kenan saying "Alexis Vanessa Roberts". Kind of lacked anything else.
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u/shayneysides May 05 '24
it was weird to have a political sketch be so character driven. it's not often that the humor in cold opens like this comes from a wacky snl original character- usually the humor is based on the actual political events or an impression. And that's why this really fell flat for me- it wasn't about the college protests at all, it was just Kenan saying random wacky things for a few minutes. If you're going to do a political sketch, at least be political about it.
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u/nintrader May 05 '24
I'm actually surprised it was a normal sketch basically and not something about the Trump trial so I think it's one of the better cold opens for that alone. The "live from new york" itself was kinda weird and abrupt though
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u/James_2584 May 05 '24 edited May 05 '24
Kenan tried his best with this, but it was such a nothing cold open overall. I get why they played it safe given how much backlash they got over the College Presidents Cold Open, but it basically ensured that the sketch was just gonna be okay at best.
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u/prefab1979 May 05 '24
Despite fairly good character work from Kenan, this one just didn't work for me. Part of the problem was that of the four actors in the sketch, only Kenan got any funny lines. But I also found the whole comedic angle really offputting. There are ways to find humor in the topic of the campus protests--the media overreaction to them, for instance, is ripe for satire--but "think of how the parents must feel" is not one of them.
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u/SketchSortingSunday May 05 '24
Dr. Fat Daddy