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Ramrouser said:
The guy who currently does Trump - James Austin Johnson - is great (much better than A. Baldwin).
I assume they'll bring back Maya Rudolph to play Kamala.
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Baldwin’s impression was pretty awful. It was funny the first time, but Baldwin is no impressionist.
 
lawtig02 said:
I think it’s been hilarious the last few years. 70% of it anyway, which is par for the course even in the best times. Weekend Update is especially good these days.
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Yeah, I think it's impressive how well they've sustained the show after undergoing a fairly significant generational change (losing Kate McKinnon, Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney, Aidy Bryant, Cecily Strong, Alex Moffatt, and Pete Davidson all in the space of a year or two). That group, plus Kenan and others, were together as a cast for, like, 5+ years and I thought it would take a while for the show to find its footing after they all left. But Kenan staying on has been huge - IMO he's probably an "SNL Mt. Rushmore" guy at this point, given his versatility and longevity - and people like Heidi, Ego Nwodim, Mikey Day, and Bowen Yang have effortlessly transitioned into leading roles. Plus several of the more recent cast hires have been excellent (Sarah Sherman, Marcello Hernandez, James Austin Johnson especially). Combined with the continued excellence of weekend update under Jost/Che, it's really been a great era for the show.
 
rodoheel said:
. . .. Combined with the continued excellence of weekend update under Jost/Che, it's really been a great era for the show.
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The bit where they cold read stories that the other has written for them is hilarious. I know it's probably staged, but they really pull off the "I can't believe I'm saying this live on TV" thing very well.
 
05C40 said:
The bit where they cold read stories that the other has written for them is hilarious. I know it's probably staged, but they really pull off the "I can't believe I'm saying this live on TV" thing very well.
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I hate myself for it but I almost didn’t make it through these five minutes I was laughing so hard.
 
This summer I read Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld. Pretty good . About a female writer for Saturday Night Live and the double standard that average guys can get hot women but the reverse isn’t true.
 
05C40 said:
The bit where they cold read stories that the other has written for them is hilarious. I know it's probably staged, but they really pull off the "I can't believe I'm saying this live on TV" thing very well.
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I don't think it's staged...

If it is, they deserve acting awards each time. Those two have great chemistry
 
lawtig02 said:
I hate myself for it but I almost didn’t make it through these five minutes I was laughing so hard.
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What's interesting about these sketches is that they distort and reflect the humor into something unfamiliar. I think that's what you're laughing at. I don't think you're laughing at the racial stereotype of black people abandoning their parents. I think you're laughing at Jost's embarrassment that comes from him telling racist jokes. And that, of course, flips a very old script. There's a certain amount of genius in writing material in which it's the white guy who is the primary victim of racist material.

Imagine if Greg Gutfield or any of the Fox News funny guys were telling those jokes. They wouldn't be at all funny, even if the comedic delivery is perfect. That's because the jokes aren't funny. At least that's my take.

It doesn't seem like it, but I would put this in the same category of humor as Looney Tunes and some of the Three Stooges. We are laughing because these two guys are doing unexpectedly mean things to each other. You can see this in the contrast between the jokes. Jost's jokes are almost never self-deprecating; he's either made to say racist shit (and unbelievably racist shit) or to mock his wife. Che, by contrast, is typically given jokes that are at his personal expense, like sexual inadequacy. It makes sense when you view it through the lens of playful meanness. Like Looney Tunes.
 
superrific said:
What's interesting about these sketches is that they distort and reflect the humor into something unfamiliar. I think that's what you're laughing at. I don't think you're laughing at the racial stereotype of black people abandoning their parents. I think you're laughing at Jost's embarrassment that comes from him telling racist jokes. And that, of course, flips a very old script. There's a certain amount of genius in writing material in which it's the white guy who is the primary victim of racist material.

Imagine if Greg Gutfield or any of the Fox News funny guys were telling those jokes. They wouldn't be at all funny, even if the comedic delivery is perfect. That's because the jokes aren't funny. At least that's my take.

It doesn't seem like it, but I would put this in the same category of humor as Looney Tunes and some of the Three Stooges. We are laughing because these two guys are doing unexpectedly mean things to each other. You can see this in the contrast between the jokes. Jost's jokes are almost never self-deprecating; he's either made to say racist shit (and unbelievably racist shit) or to mock his wife. Che, by contrast, is typically given jokes that are at his personal expense, like sexual inadequacy. It makes sense when you view it through the lens of playful meanness. Like Looney Tunes.
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100% agree
 
Dana Carrey as Biden
Jim Gaffigan as Walz
And Samberg as Kamala’s husband
Maya Rudolph as Kamala of course
Bowen Yang as Vance(hey, at least one current cast member got to play a role)
 
I thought the season premiere was next week. I’ll have to catch up tomorrow to see what I’ve missed.
 
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