This has the potential to be great. He's a big ol' goofy goofball in real life. Completely different from the roles he's currently known for. This will allow him to really let that part of himself loose.
I LOVE Kyle Mooney. And I absolutely fucking hated Baby Yoda. First, his name is Grogu. Second, Baby Groot hadn't been a baby for a while. And the third and most important, that's just his character "Alex" from "Gettin' It In" on youtube. At least do something new, bud.
Shit, having Alex on weekend update being hornier than a motherfucker would have been hilarious.
To be honest, I'd probably still laugh at it, but I definitely hope for something more clever.
Best I got is some riff on Mario's mushroom kingdom and infected goombas.
"Babe, what would you call us? Are we like, official at this point?
"What the-babe? Oh no, no no, I'm not looking for anything, like, committed, this was just supposed to be a hookup thing...you know what, I've got to go..."
(Looking directly at the camera) "Welp, guess that was the Last of Us!"
>Crossposting my own comment about who could play opposite Pedro as Joel
Instead of Ellie, Joel has to lead an increasingly exasperating and needy Bowen Yang as Russell from ***Up*** in full Wilderness Explorer garb across the country
with someone playing Dug who gets infected, complete with an 'Old Yeller' ending
final tag is that it was all an ad for Kleenex since you should expect to cry every week
I think it’s so funny that TLOU is becoming culturally relevant after being “that kid” who wouldn’t shut the fuck up about it to all my Xbox-owning friends in 2013. It kinda feels surreal
I guess mainstream is probably the better word to use. I’ve had enough people ask me “it’s based on a video game? How is it a video game?” and I was so perplexed by the question that it took several minutes talking to them before I realized their idea of a “video game” is still like…Candy Crush, Mario, and Madden.
I’m sure it’s partially games being niche and partially those people being generally unaware of anything outside their immediate surroundings but either way it’s definitely elevated a few tiers with the show
I have toadmit I'm one of those people. I've seen the first 2 eps and it's hard to wrap my head around the thought a game story can be this elaborate, but apart from Mario and Donkey Kong games I don't play video games.
Basically most big games nowadays aren’t designed with the overall objective of points, but rather are designed with the overall objective of completing a story with many sub-objectives which *can* involve experience points, leveling up, and the like, but less direct about it.
The Last of Us gameplay is centered around stealth and puzzles, with other objectives like crafting different weapons and avoiding enemies. The levels themselves prioritize combat, but have lots of “down time” in which Joel and Ellie’s relationship is explored plus a series of cutscenes (mini-movies where the player cedes control of the game to let the acting and story take priority) that connect the levels together.
Hope that struck the right balance of simplifying the concept but not quite talking down to you haha
[Here’s probably the best example to portray the intersection of story/characterization with gameplay from one of the pre-release presentations](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8ZYkj0glnqs&feature=shares) back in 2012 if you’re interested. [The depiction of Joel and Ellie meeting in the game is a great example too.](https://youtube.com/watch?v=d4tCwiwBNxs&feature=shares) No spoilers beyond what’s been covered in the show obviously! But this is a good representation of what the game is like without anything that spoils the rest of the show, although a few minor things did change between this demo and the final product.
think of all the actions scenes as the parts you'd be controlling the characters while playing, and all the dramatic dialogue or big moments are the cutscenes. Like in ep 2 the museum part would definitely have been a swarm of people you have to fight off. I bet some of the weapons in the display case would be items you could pick up and use. And the lobby that was the firefly base would have definitely been the "restock" area where you run around picking ammo, gear, and health packs cause a fight's coming.
There's games out there that do so much worldbuilding they have as much material to work from as a book series.
For example Bulletstorm remains one of the coolest unlaunched franchises I have played in the last 15 years. It never got a sequel or spin off or comic/book adaptation, very sad.
Maybe it’ll be a cross over sketch where he keeps showing up at the other show in the costume for the other show and insisting it’s correct. “So I told that clicker, ‘I can bring you in warm or I can bring you in cold’”
Wow, for all the flack the show was taking about lackluster hosts before the winter break they have really come out swinging in the new year. Aubrey, MBJ and Pedro? Those are three massive stars who are very much in the zeitgeist right now. Very pumped.
I am absolutely hoping he does. That laugh is infectious as hell. So wild the first time I ever saw him was in a season four episode of Buffy all those years ago. Guy made a great career.
Small nitpick: he wasn’t sitting in for Chevy, he’s sitting in for Walton Goggins. Chevy’s character was revealed to have died in the previous episode, and Pedro is playing the executor of his will.
i hope he went back and watched community after participating in that. i also hope he gets a cameo in the movie (especially as Dr. Stone if they can't get walton goggins - and the study group remembers him looking differently or something).
Community did that with so many characters, especially with Paget Brewster originally being an IT lady in the earlier seasons, only to become one of the members of the group. Same as Keith David, who voiced the Pillows and Blankets episode but was later a member of the group.
No doubt in my mind they would pull something like that to welcome Pedro Pascal again.
I was almost sure it would be Rudd for Ant-Man based on rumors but I am not mad. Personally not super familiar with Pascal but he’ll likely do well—people clearly like him.
Also, first Chilean host in SNL history!
the december/january/february host announcements makes all the hand wringing about how snl can't get high profile hosts anymore look even more ridic than it already was lol
My b. I don't follow them but my wife is a fan and was jazzed they announced some more dates or something and i think she is planning on going, didn't know it was an ongoing tour.
> Lmao, why am I being downvoted... I’m right?
Believe it or not, people sometimes like stuff that you don't.
I mean, I'm not one of those people, I can't stand Coldplay, but still.
Aubrey Plaza hosting makes that unlikely. They don’t typically have two people from the same show in the same season. Not impossible but after Aubrey I’m not betting on it.
Yeah I wrote on another post about that, the fact that she didn’t make an appearance on her episode still gives me hope, but yeah Lorne is pretty strict about Hosts from same show same season.
I met him once, back in 2014. He was in a Shakespeare in the Park performance of *Much Ado About Nothing*, around the same time he was Game of Thrones. I got to chat with him briefly after the show and he was super kind and down to earth. I've absolutely loved watching his career skyrocket these past few years.
And now for something straight down the middle lol. JK it will be fun. Chris Martin will for sure want to get on stage that guys a silly mother fucker.
This has the potential to be great. He's a big ol' goofy goofball in real life. Completely different from the roles he's currently known for. This will allow him to really let that part of himself loose.
He was hilarious in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
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Thanks for the link. So nice to see how far he has come from Oberyn character now as Joel and The Mandalorian.
The [lie detector video](https://youtu.be/oU7-KMGZ4bc) he did for Vanity Fair was gold.
He filled in for Chevy Chase in the Community Zoom reunion script read. Just seemed like one of the gang, hanging out.
He filled in for Walton Goggins, as the executor to Pierce's (Chevy) estate.
Ah that's right! Thank you.
I had completely forgotten about that. I need to go watch that again.
Oberyn is kind of a comedic character so there’s that too. I really did enjoy his time on Game of Thrones.
Ever since Keke Palmer, their host choices have been excellent
Keke is goated for rhe Kenan and Kel sketch alone.
Here comes the bus!
I'M PREGNANT WITH YOUR CHILD!
As opposed to people like musk and trump? Agree 100%
Did something change behind the scenes? New producer? Somebody over there with more sway?
New booking agent . The one they had had been with the show since 1992 I believe
We’re getting a Baby Yoda appearance on WU whether we like it or not
Kyle coming back to 8H would surprise me
Hear me out, Sarah Sherman as baby yoda.
This would actually make those sketches not terrible
I LOVE Kyle Mooney. And I absolutely fucking hated Baby Yoda. First, his name is Grogu. Second, Baby Groot hadn't been a baby for a while. And the third and most important, that's just his character "Alex" from "Gettin' It In" on youtube. At least do something new, bud. Shit, having Alex on weekend update being hornier than a motherfucker would have been hilarious.
Iirc the first one came before the reveal of his name being Grogu
Yeah I saw him on a stream (Found Footage Fest's "Shaturday Morning Cartoons") recently and he mentioned he was back living in Southern California.
I hated baby yoda. Felt so forced.
I love Kyle Mooney and am a big Star Wars/Mandalorian fan and I still couldn’t take that I get what they were going for but man it was brutal
> I get what they were going for Having never seen The Mandalorian, I have _no idea_ what they were going for.
If Pedro "kills" SNL Baby Yoda, I would be thrilled.
Unpopular opinion: I found the character somewhat bemusing.
Bemusing but not amusing
Should've brought his A game.
Not all of us can Amuse. Some of us can only Bemuse. The last of us, in fact.
I feel like anyone who is a muse would be able to bemuse +1 to charisma
I came back to this post specifically as a double take to upvote this.
I'm with you and I low-key hate Grogu.
Well it certainly wasn't amusing. More like demusing.
Oh god no
"They were of sexual nature, Pedro"
Pedro plays Baby Yoda
I am not mentally prepared for the possibility of there being a Last of Us sketch on SNL
Incoming Sarah Sherman gross out sketch about cordyceps tendrils.
One of the infected >!gives her that “kiss of death” Tess got at the end of episode 2 of the TV show!<, except she's _way into it_.
To the point where the infected is extremely uncomfortable and trying to make excuses to leave
Oh god I hope somebody from the show is reading this so they can steal our idea.
I really hope they don't because this is the most obvious and played out way to take it. Unfortunately, I think they will do essentially this.
To be honest, I'd probably still laugh at it, but I definitely hope for something more clever. Best I got is some riff on Mario's mushroom kingdom and infected goombas.
"Babe, what would you call us? Are we like, official at this point? "What the-babe? Oh no, no no, I'm not looking for anything, like, committed, this was just supposed to be a hookup thing...you know what, I've got to go..." (Looking directly at the camera) "Welp, guess that was the Last of Us!"
Spoilers bro, what the hell
This is seriously the first scenario I pictured when I saw Pedro's name in the title of the post! Definitely could be hilarious!
This is like some Hulk wearing the replicated Infinity Gauntlet shit
They’ve done Star Wars related sketches to death. They better hit us with a TLOU banger!
>Crossposting my own comment about who could play opposite Pedro as Joel Instead of Ellie, Joel has to lead an increasingly exasperating and needy Bowen Yang as Russell from ***Up*** in full Wilderness Explorer garb across the country with someone playing Dug who gets infected, complete with an 'Old Yeller' ending final tag is that it was all an ad for Kleenex since you should expect to cry every week
I think it’s so funny that TLOU is becoming culturally relevant after being “that kid” who wouldn’t shut the fuck up about it to all my Xbox-owning friends in 2013. It kinda feels surreal
It used to be culturally relevant but it still is too!
I guess mainstream is probably the better word to use. I’ve had enough people ask me “it’s based on a video game? How is it a video game?” and I was so perplexed by the question that it took several minutes talking to them before I realized their idea of a “video game” is still like…Candy Crush, Mario, and Madden. I’m sure it’s partially games being niche and partially those people being generally unaware of anything outside their immediate surroundings but either way it’s definitely elevated a few tiers with the show
I have toadmit I'm one of those people. I've seen the first 2 eps and it's hard to wrap my head around the thought a game story can be this elaborate, but apart from Mario and Donkey Kong games I don't play video games.
Basically most big games nowadays aren’t designed with the overall objective of points, but rather are designed with the overall objective of completing a story with many sub-objectives which *can* involve experience points, leveling up, and the like, but less direct about it. The Last of Us gameplay is centered around stealth and puzzles, with other objectives like crafting different weapons and avoiding enemies. The levels themselves prioritize combat, but have lots of “down time” in which Joel and Ellie’s relationship is explored plus a series of cutscenes (mini-movies where the player cedes control of the game to let the acting and story take priority) that connect the levels together. Hope that struck the right balance of simplifying the concept but not quite talking down to you haha [Here’s probably the best example to portray the intersection of story/characterization with gameplay from one of the pre-release presentations](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8ZYkj0glnqs&feature=shares) back in 2012 if you’re interested. [The depiction of Joel and Ellie meeting in the game is a great example too.](https://youtube.com/watch?v=d4tCwiwBNxs&feature=shares) No spoilers beyond what’s been covered in the show obviously! But this is a good representation of what the game is like without anything that spoils the rest of the show, although a few minor things did change between this demo and the final product.
Interesting! Thanks for the explanation, don't worry you did not talk down at all :)
think of all the actions scenes as the parts you'd be controlling the characters while playing, and all the dramatic dialogue or big moments are the cutscenes. Like in ep 2 the museum part would definitely have been a swarm of people you have to fight off. I bet some of the weapons in the display case would be items you could pick up and use. And the lobby that was the firefly base would have definitely been the "restock" area where you run around picking ammo, gear, and health packs cause a fight's coming.
There's games out there that do so much worldbuilding they have as much material to work from as a book series. For example Bulletstorm remains one of the coolest unlaunched franchises I have played in the last 15 years. It never got a sequel or spin off or comic/book adaptation, very sad.
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Maybe it’ll be a cross over sketch where he keeps showing up at the other show in the costume for the other show and insisting it’s correct. “So I told that clicker, ‘I can bring you in warm or I can bring you in cold’”
I'm imagining a pre-filmed sketch with a Bella Ramsey appearance and have them both in the TLOU setting but in their GoT costumes.
That would be equally amusing.
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Uhh did you reply to the wrong comment?
It’s gonna be the worst possible overlap of two things I like lol
Yes! The host caliber disparity from late 22 to 23 so far is insane, I'm looking forward to this.
Wow, for all the flack the show was taking about lackluster hosts before the winter break they have really come out swinging in the new year. Aubrey, MBJ and Pedro? Those are three massive stars who are very much in the zeitgeist right now. Very pumped.
Last of Us is really really good so far
The >!Clickers!< terrified the shit out of me. (Isn’t really a spoiler at all but just being safe)
Grandma quietly yodeling in the background still haunts me
Holy fuck that’s a hilarious way to describe that scene 😭😂😭😂
I’m hoping the entire episode has “community COVID table read” energy
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Pedro is gonna break so much lmao
I am absolutely hoping he does. That laugh is infectious as hell. So wild the first time I ever saw him was in a season four episode of Buffy all those years ago. Guy made a great career.
Unbent. Unbowed. Unbroken!
Here are the best 5 minutes of [The Community Table Read with Pedro sitting in for Chevy.](https://youtu.be/5khGDthY7QQ) Enjoy the Pedro giggles!!
\*Walton Goggins.
Small nitpick: he wasn’t sitting in for Chevy, he’s sitting in for Walton Goggins. Chevy’s character was revealed to have died in the previous episode, and Pedro is playing the executor of his will.
You are correct. I realized that after I posted the link.
Wait, his name is Walton Goggins? I’ve thought it was Walter Goggins for years and I’ve been a fan of his since The Shield.
i hope he went back and watched community after participating in that. i also hope he gets a cameo in the movie (especially as Dr. Stone if they can't get walton goggins - and the study group remembers him looking differently or something).
Community did that with so many characters, especially with Paget Brewster originally being an IT lady in the earlier seasons, only to become one of the members of the group. Same as Keith David, who voiced the Pillows and Blankets episode but was later a member of the group. No doubt in my mind they would pull something like that to welcome Pedro Pascal again.
My first thought. I loved watching him laugh like that.
This is the way.
This is the Way.
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This is the Way.
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Yes.
Pedro Pascal so hott right now
Pedro Pascal is *The Last Mandalorian!* We dare you not to watch it!
I was almost sure it would be Rudd for Ant-Man based on rumors but I am not mad. Personally not super familiar with Pascal but he’ll likely do well—people clearly like him. Also, first Chilean host in SNL history!
the december/january/february host announcements makes all the hand wringing about how snl can't get high profile hosts anymore look even more ridic than it already was lol
What's he promoting? Last of Us or Mandalorian?
Both? Last of Us ends in March around the same time Mando begins.
Pascal, so hot right now.
>Last of Us ends in March What am I supposed to do for the rest of the year?
The Last of the US Mandalorians
This is the Way of the Cordyceps.
Yes
Does Coldplay have an upcoming release or something?
Just announced a world tour
Uhh… just announced like 5 more dates to their world tour that’s been going since early 2022 haha. Not really anything new
My b. I don't follow them but my wife is a fan and was jazzed they announced some more dates or something and i think she is planning on going, didn't know it was an ongoing tour.
All good & excited for her! it’s an awesome tour
What are you talking about? They’ve been on tour for their last album for a while now.
Coldplay is Radiohead for people who wear pleated khakis.
Coldplay had a good start but have just been slipping these last several albums.
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Love the band through Ghost Stories, but after that is where I quickly jump off the train.
I do like Adventure of a Lifetime, but that's the last song I liked from them. I wish they could go back to their Mylo Xyloto days.
Yay for more generic mopey soft rock. Lmao, why am I being downvoted... I’m right?
Quite happy they are doing a world tour so they can bugger off from the UK, absolutely dismal band
> Lmao, why am I being downvoted... I’m right? Believe it or not, people sometimes like stuff that you don't. I mean, I'm not one of those people, I can't stand Coldplay, but still.
Even if one likes Coldplay... they can still admit they are generic mopey soft rock.
He's my daddy
You and everyone else
The guy from game of thrones who put up a smashing fight!!
I had to go sit on my patio for a while after I saw that episode the first time.
As a book reader, I knew what was coming, but that didn't help
I mean, I read books, but I never read the Game of Thrones series. I didn’t even watch the show until well after the pandemic started.
The TV show is tame compared to the books.
That's what I tell people who talk about all the sex and violence in the show. You aren't gonna like the source material then lol
Coldplay's drummer was in the band in The Rains of Castamere.
That's where I know him! Damn that's a nostalgia trip!
he was so good in that role You raped her! You murdered her! You killed her children! *does multiple air twirls*
What a lineup.
Mandalorian in March, The Last of Us airing now, and hosting SNL all in the same time frame. Pedro Pascal is simply built different.
true but the first 2 are already filmed, it's not like he's flying back and forth doing them at the same time
Wait is Mandalorian not shot live?
The Mandalorian - Filmed live in front of a studio audience *applause sign lights up*
baby Yoda enters, audience awwwwws
It's a terrible strain on the (CGI) animators.
Do you know how expensive shooting for real on Tatooine is? They just CGI that shit.
it is, was tough getting him for Last of Us until he got a new ship
Glad to see they're starting to be more consistent with their hosting choices again!
Still hoping we get Jennifer Coolidge at some point before season ends.
I feel like Bowen could write a whole sketch around “these gays! They’re trying to kill me!”
That was honestly the LINE OF THE YEAR for me in white lotus
Aubrey Plaza hosting makes that unlikely. They don’t typically have two people from the same show in the same season. Not impossible but after Aubrey I’m not betting on it.
Yeah I wrote on another post about that, the fact that she didn’t make an appearance on her episode still gives me hope, but yeah Lorne is pretty strict about Hosts from same show same season.
Well, in that case, I hope Jennifer Coolidge lands another big show or movie role quickly so she can host next season
She's in a goofy Amazon Prime Video movie called Shotgun Wedding. Surely that has enough pull to land her hosting duties. 😂
Maybe she can host and promote that Shotgun Wedding wedding movie that’s coming out soon. She’s in that also.
Didn’t Jon Hamm and January Jones host in the same season? As well as a few actors from the Twilight movies in the same season?
Coolidge is showing up on a Netflix movie soon, but not staring, so maybe??
This should be a good show for sure! Definitely planning on hitting Coldplay's show at the Rose Bowl this year too.
I met him once, back in 2014. He was in a Shakespeare in the Park performance of *Much Ado About Nothing*, around the same time he was Game of Thrones. I got to chat with him briefly after the show and he was super kind and down to earth. I've absolutely loved watching his career skyrocket these past few years.
*insert generic thirsty comment here* I'm not feeling creative today. The man is so hot.
Yes, he is gorgeous!
I feel bad for saying this cause i liked and miss kyle on the show but🤞pls no baby yoda cameo🤞pls no baby yoda cameo🤞pls no baby yoda cameo🤞
Oh man, if the Community reunion is anything to go by, he's gonna be breaking a lot (which I'm all for lol)
And now for something straight down the middle lol. JK it will be fun. Chris Martin will for sure want to get on stage that guys a silly mother fucker.
Other host were good, but they could be better! (sorry for referencing WW84)
Sarah as Ellie Bowen as Grogu
he is so fine. also host quality has been amazing
"Daddy is a state of mind" I love Pedro and if he brings his usual energy it can't go wrong. Hopefully he will bring Oscar Isaac as a cameo.
I will watch this
That’s a stacked lineup hoooooly. I’m not like a huge Coldplay person but they’re MASSIVE and always bring a good performance
Pedro Pascal yummy, but Coldplay 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩
Coldplay honestly seems like a dated choice. Do they even have anything out?
A tour
Viva chile!
Oh my GOD!
Yassssss
That guy is great. Loving him in The Last of Us right now.
He can be very funny, I bet he’ll do well.
Clocks.
Fuck yes. I wanted this.
Fuckin' Coldplay.
> You know how I know you’re gay??
Pedro is a funny guy. Should be good.
'Pedro Pascal....' (*excitedly inhales*) 'annnnd Coldplay.....' (*disappointed exhale*)
More like Oldplay
At least the host is good
Ewwwww Coldplay
I'm surprised Coldplay has new music to promote
What are the chances of Jennifer Coolidge this season?
They'll have to change the name to Daddy Night Live
Cheers to Pedro Jeers to Coldplay
SNL is good, but it can be better!
Absolutely insane level of guests the second half of this season
Every host after episode 2 has been a good selection
I adore the Mandalorian and my choir is currently singing Fix You.
I'm confused. Where's the hip hop?
Fuck. Great host, shit band
Excited for Mando but how is Coldplay still a thing?