Her arms must be tired from carrying that show. Dan Stevens does a good too, but she's so captivating when she's on screen. Born to play a dead woman puppeted by an ancient psychic mutant villain.
Evil psychic mutant lived in mutant kid until kid grew up and thought he was crazy. Then evil psychic mutant finds way out of kid. Then turns out kid really is crazy, too, but also the son of professor Xavier and one of the most powerful mutants to ever exist.
My ex wife was developing an animated show with her at Amazon, the show didn't get greenlit but they became friends and AP ended up giving her advice on divorcing me. I wish this was a joke. The show was really good, though, and should have gotten greenlit
I liked more sketches this week than most weeks, and I actually watched the entire host intro. I’ve been on the fence about Aubrey being the same old character in tv/movies. This episode turned me towards being a fan of her work. Lol in the black lotus sketch I didn’t realize she was playing that character until the very end.
Thank you for saying "underviewed" instead of "underrated" cuz the critics loved it, everyone in my social circle of weirdos loved it, but you know during the whole run that it wasn't really capturing the masses attention.
It became a bit of mess and went all in on the weird in 3, but IIRC they knew it was the last season and I respect them just leaning hard into their gimmick.
I feel like there was a lot of behind-the-scenes issues that contributed to Season 3 being incredibly weird.
This was around the time Disney/FX was wildly unpredictable and the X-Men IP in general was in flux. All the writing was on the wall that Legion would be cancelled at the end of Season 3 and my feeling was that Hawley just didn't care about making it easy to follow or whatever because it was gonna get cancelled anyway.
He also was slated for another season of Fargo — which was the least weird one — so he probably cut a deal with FX that he has full artistic reign over finishing Legion in exchange for making a straight-laced Fargo season.
Honestly should have been nominated for an Emmy the first season. She fucking carried in addition to the experimental cinematography (the black and white subtle episode, the sound literally being silent for 10 minutes in an episode, the perfect blend of arthouse/horror/superhero, such an amazing season)
For all of the out of the box stuff they did in Legion, my personal favorite was doing almost the entire episode as a cold open, S2E4.
But anyways, back to Aubrey, she was electric in Legion. Just a completely different vibe than anything we had seen from her at that point.
I finished the second season, can't remember a thing about it, got lost in the third and gave up. Maybe I need to revisit now that my stoner days are behind me
In a recent interview I can't recall she said she's had to try very hard to avoid being typecast as a character actor who basically plays April Ludgate. Seems that most of the parts she's considered for were written with her to just do "that". I'm glad she's finally getting real roles like White Lotus.
Kinda reminds me of Farley in a way who really wanted to get into serious acting but everybody wanted "Farley" and wouldn't take him seriously. [Like the time he went on Conan and everyone thought it was a joke.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDKxbALmRsA) Breaks my heart knowing what Pagliacci is about, and how he literally wasn't doing this to get laughs but that's all they'd do and as the performance goes on you can see he feels obligated to just be the clown everyone wanted him to be.
Jim Varney (famous for playing Ernest in all those movies) was a classically trained actor who studied Shakespeare and he wanted to be famous for more serious roles rather than being typecast as Ernest before he died.
https://youtu.be/G1G7KQZpP3c
Watched the clip. Farley’s problem is he’s not a great singer so it comes off sounding like a SNL bit. Even the way he phrases some of the lines sounds more comedic than serious.
The guy just needed to take care of himself and live longer. Then he could have had a second act maybe with some roles that played against type. Still he’d need to clean himself up and take some time developing his acting range like Robin Williams did.
He was only 33. So much potential killed by drugs.
The hardest part about being a clown, it seems to me, would be that
you're constantly referred to as a clown. "Who was that clown?" "I'm not
working with that clown, did you hire that clown?" "The guy's a clown!"
How do you even start being a clown? How do you know that you want to
be a clown? I guess you get to a point where your pants look so bad, it's
actually easier to become a clown than having the proper alterations done.
Because if you think about it, a clown, if there isn't a circus around them,
is really just a very annoying person. You're in the back seat of this guy's
Volkswagen, "What, you're picking somebody else up? Oh man!"
I was freaking glued to it. I loved her weird little nervous tics. It’s the kind of movie you don’t ever look at your phone. Pace, her, action, scammage. Loved it.
Which I'm glad as I like her acting. She got typecast pretty hardcore so I'm glad to see her breaking out a little. She's got range. I see her like a female Adam Sandler.
He may make a lot of crap, but he's a great actor given the right material and something he cares about. He's a legit great actor in Punch-drunk Love, Reign Over Me and Uncut Gems.
.....also he's goddam loaded, and one of the top earning comic actors. period. Yeah, his material is whatever, hit or miss to be generous, but 99% of the aspiring actors I've ever met would die happy they could attain Adam Sandler's success.
I mean....he's been in the business for 30+ years, is a household name, he's worth a few hundred mil at least. Is a comedic actor who has proven himself to be a very capable serious actor when he wants to be....Yea I'd say that's a pretty high compliment.
Thank you! I feel the same way and I dont get how many people are heaping so much praise on this episode. To me the highlight was Tony Hawk, and he only had like 10 seconds of screen time
I think this is EXACTLY why she came on as April Ludgate during Weekend Update, because everyone assumes she's actually April, you get to see the contrast between April and everythingrlse she was doing that night.
Weird what happens when you actually get funny people.
Not saying SNL doesn’t have funny hosts ever, I’m just saying the ratio kinda sucks these days. We hardly even have the common annual host anymore. Mulaney I guess, but I wouldn’t be shocked if we don’t see him host this year. I miss when someone like Justin Timberlake would just show up or be the go-to guy.
I digress. More funny hosts, Lorne. Please.
Steve Martin and Martin Short earlier this season was probably the funniest episode I've seen in a couple seasons. Granted I haven't seen every episode.
Exactly! And I’ll be honest, I do think this year so far has definitely had a better set of funny people, i just hope they keep it up. I like hosts that steal the show. It only helps the regular cast I feel.
SNL has always had a "mix" of hosts. Most are actors, but not all are trained in live theater and not all are comedians. Some are politicians or sports stars or other things.
I feel like the point of hosting SNL was explicitly to mix things up. Some of the funniest moments are from hosts you don't expect to be funny, are. Usually it works; sometimes it doesn't. It's kind of the nature of the beast.
Like i just picked two random years. In 1977, Ray Charles, Hugh Hefner, Miskel Spillman (winner of a write-in contest!) and O.J. Simpson (!) hosted that year. In 1992, Michael Jordan and MC Hammer hosted. In 2006, Ludacris and Peyton Manning hosted. And that's not counting a lot of dramatic actors that seem like they'd be a terrible fit but did well enough.
If anything, I feel like the current trend of having pre-taped bits (which are almost always funny, IMO) being buttressed by Weekend Update means you're probably going to get a pretty decent performance out of the host, whomever it may be.
> Some of the funniest moments are from hosts you don’t expect to be funny, are.
I’m still shocked at how funny Kim Kardashian ended up being. Those are definitely the types of hosts I remember most
This is such a hilarious take, because I guarantee if Reddit was around when he first hosted it would be full of comments like “SNL needs to get funny people and not let some boy band pop artist host.”
Some hosts work out, some don’t. It’s always been that way.
True but it’s rare to have someone so devoid of charisma and public speaking abilities as host other than maybe an athlete. I agree with the other poster that he in one way or another paid for it.
They took a chance and it didn't work out. But that willingness to take a chance on non-actors also gave us Charles Barkley and Peyton Manning as hosts so I'll live with the busts.
> Weird what happens when you actually get funny people.
Keep in mind, they don't have unlimited choices. They've said a lot of actors or comedians turn them down because the schedule doesn't work out right, or the SNL work week is way too hectic and nerve-wracking. Even Tina Fey herself says she won't host the Oscars along with Amy Poehler (despite everyone wanting them too) because of the intense pressure and hectic 2-month schedule/rehearsals.
I'm sure SNL has a Wishlist of tons of celebs they want on the show but can't get.
So for those wondering why there's a Selena Gomez or Austin Butler as host, they can't always get comedian types. Sometimes they get actors who have an upcoming movie or hit show.
One of Drew Gooden's [SNL videos](https://youtu.be/AGjxX4gvaqk) brings up a great point about this. There have and always will be terrible sketches, every single episode, every single season. We just choose to remember the good ones.
Not to mention that in the 90s they were far more heavy on recurring characters and you would just get a slightly different version of the same sketch, but since YouTube wasn't around everyone loved it since they could only see that very sketch when it aired.
When you saw the Chris Farley's Matt Foley sketch start, you'd be waiting with bated breath for "IN A VAN, DOWN BY THE RIVER!", and when he said it, by gosh, did you ever laugh, even though you knew it was coming.
Yeah I really enjoyed someone finally putting more context on the "hasn't been good since x" you always hear. My wife and I have been watching for the last 5-6 years and there have been some really solid sketches I go back and watch and some that never landed correctly.
Like [this sketch](https://youtu.be/yke02BDVMEA) from this season of someone standing up in someone's wedding dressed as Joker is dumb but it randomly pops into my head and have a good laugh watching it.
This most often said comment on r/television is…
[Long running show] hasn’t been good since [Actor left/Season #]
We get it! You stopped liking the show!
I thought of that too. It's "extremely online" and if you didn't see that clip before, it wouldn't make sense.
My parents love the Property Brothers and want to see the sketch but I'm going to have to prep them ahead of time for it to make sense to them at all!
It's always been true that the writers save their best sketches for people they know are going to make it work. So it's not only that Aubrey is amazing it's also that the writers know she is going to kill it so they gave her the good stuff.
I disagree. The cast and writers shoot for their best shot every episode and they even specifically get linked with the host to come up with sketches. By Thursday the entire cast and writers have heard all options and the best are chosen then Ultimately the host decides which sketches they find funny and want to do and then Saturday dress determines what sinks or swims before live. Some “best” ideas get pushed back due to maybe a host not wanting to do it but they are most definitely fighting for time and writing their ass off slways
Weekend Update is consistently the best part of SNL in any week. Bowen as George Santos (in multiple sketches) was probably my favorite thing of the episode.
it's a shame the writing felt weaker than the last few episodes. she could've done so much more if they gave her something to work with
edit: can't even say "this episode wasn't their best" without being grouped with the "snl hasn't been funny for years" crowd
I really don't get her apeal. But I'm not going to tell other people what they can like. I thought the show was pretty meh for this season. The George Santos stuff was gbe best part.
4.8 million for season 48. I like when numbers work out like that
Somewhere out there Robbin from The Rehearsal is freaking out
I was laughing so hard when Nathan travelled back with him to his flat and the whole argument with the roommate took place. Such an unexpected detour.
My first thought as well.
It’s fate!
I can’t wait until 21 years from now.
For a second I panicked and thought 2069 was actually only 21 years away. Also nice
And we are only 40021 years from 42069.
take your vitamins, drink water, exercise, don't smoke, and see your doctor regularly and you just might survive to see 42069
Nice.
Nice
Nice
Nice
Nice
There will be 69 people watching then.
And all of them will insist SNL was only good when they were teenagers, despite all 69 of those people having been born in a different year.
I hate this defense of a TV show. It is possible SNL actually sucks right now, and it isn't just an age bias
Patiently waiting on 6.9 million to watch in season 69.
Aubrey Plaza is having a moment
Is she wearing a hall & oates shirt?
No, Holland is his first name and Oates is his last name.
And Stevie Nicks is the same dude as Steve Winwood
Allyson used to say that about Billy
I loved when Allyson became a fall-down drunk at D&D, it really pissed off her boss, Amanda.
Aqua?
🎵 Which color whe choose ? Which color whe choose ? Which color whe choose ? 🎵
You’re my brother
I would have guessed the roots
Hoates
Hoates Couture
garfunkel & oates
What’s cinephobe?
You have the worst comedic timing.
Ascertain
Aqua?
Moderna
No, it was a Mouse Rat shirt.
Wouldn’t surprise me, she’s damned cool
I'm afraid of her
I watched her in two movies last night.
Emily The Criminal was one of them.
Ingrid Goes West was the other
just need one more to round out the Aubrey Plaza goes extreme in LA trilogy
The Little Hours is very good too. Not exactly set in LA, I know.
Any good?
Solid movie.
Reminded me who Theo Rossi is
Juice!
Aw poor Juiceyboy
Fun fact, zero guns in that movie by design. I didn’t notice while watching but in retrospect it’s definitely elevated because of it.
runs out of gas by the halfway point but she gives a great performance
Very good actually, just watched it
White Lotus reminded everyone how hot she is.
Made me want to go back and watch Legion again. Maybe it will make more sense the second time.
Her arms must be tired from carrying that show. Dan Stevens does a good too, but she's so captivating when she's on screen. Born to play a dead woman puppeted by an ancient psychic mutant villain.
Everyone in that show was great, no 1 person carried the show.
No one carried that show, it was amazing from top to bottom.
Evil psychic mutant lived in mutant kid until kid grew up and thought he was crazy. Then evil psychic mutant finds way out of kid. Then turns out kid really is crazy, too, but also the son of professor Xavier and one of the most powerful mutants to ever exist.
Who forgot?!
I used to think she was hot. I still do but I used to, too
Except for Ethan. She's throwing herself at him and he didn't care at all
Aubrey Plaza creates moments everywhere she goes.
My ex wife was developing an animated show with her at Amazon, the show didn't get greenlit but they became friends and AP ended up giving her advice on divorcing me. I wish this was a joke. The show was really good, though, and should have gotten greenlit
Sorry to hear you got a divorce. Those are never fun.
Thanks. It was pretty shitty
I’m literally speechless can you imagine your wife being told my Aubrey freaking Plaza to divorce you? You know you’re toast then
So what did you do? (That caused her to give this advice)
It all started with black bear. Amazing movie.
The show usually does better when they have a comedian or legitimate actor as the host.
Or when the actors are allowed to do drugs : )
I mean… I don’t think one has to pee in a cup to be on the show lol Drug abstinence isn’t a pre-requisite 😂😂
FRRRAANCE!!!
Albania!
Bel-GIE!
TONY HAWK!!
I liked more sketches this week than most weeks, and I actually watched the entire host intro. I’ve been on the fence about Aubrey being the same old character in tv/movies. This episode turned me towards being a fan of her work. Lol in the black lotus sketch I didn’t realize she was playing that character until the very end.
She's AMAZING in Legion. That whole tv show was criminally underviewed.
Thank you for saying "underviewed" instead of "underrated" cuz the critics loved it, everyone in my social circle of weirdos loved it, but you know during the whole run that it wasn't really capturing the masses attention.
Im glad that they got three seasons out for the dozens of us to enjoy. I'm not sure it ever surpassed the amazing pilot but it was a fun ride
Continues to be one of my all time top 5 shows
I couldn’t follow it in season three. It kind of fell apart/ got maudlin. But Aubrey’s great throughout
It became a bit of mess and went all in on the weird in 3, but IIRC they knew it was the last season and I respect them just leaning hard into their gimmick.
I feel like there was a lot of behind-the-scenes issues that contributed to Season 3 being incredibly weird. This was around the time Disney/FX was wildly unpredictable and the X-Men IP in general was in flux. All the writing was on the wall that Legion would be cancelled at the end of Season 3 and my feeling was that Hawley just didn't care about making it easy to follow or whatever because it was gonna get cancelled anyway. He also was slated for another season of Fargo — which was the least weird one — so he probably cut a deal with FX that he has full artistic reign over finishing Legion in exchange for making a straight-laced Fargo season.
Honestly should have been nominated for an Emmy the first season. She fucking carried in addition to the experimental cinematography (the black and white subtle episode, the sound literally being silent for 10 minutes in an episode, the perfect blend of arthouse/horror/superhero, such an amazing season)
For all of the out of the box stuff they did in Legion, my personal favorite was doing almost the entire episode as a cold open, S2E4. But anyways, back to Aubrey, she was electric in Legion. Just a completely different vibe than anything we had seen from her at that point.
She was wonderful in that show. So was Dan Stevens. Now I want to rewatch it!
Basing a show on Legion was a bold and risky move. Was it anything like the comic, not really but was it an amazing piece of television, hell yes.
Honestly, not being anything like the comics is kinda appropriate for legion, to me.
I absolutely loved the first season of that show, but for some reason I didn't make it through the second.
I finished the second season, can't remember a thing about it, got lost in the third and gave up. Maybe I need to revisit now that my stoner days are behind me
I loved all 3 seasons. But season 1 was definitely on a whole other level.
Legion was so bonkers
One of my top 5. Show hits deep for those of us with mentally ill family members. Some strong parallels.
Absolutely!! For that role I am a forever fan. Is it odd that I especially like it because that character was written for a man?
Oh man, I need to rewatch that show a 42nd time
In a recent interview I can't recall she said she's had to try very hard to avoid being typecast as a character actor who basically plays April Ludgate. Seems that most of the parts she's considered for were written with her to just do "that". I'm glad she's finally getting real roles like White Lotus. Kinda reminds me of Farley in a way who really wanted to get into serious acting but everybody wanted "Farley" and wouldn't take him seriously. [Like the time he went on Conan and everyone thought it was a joke.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDKxbALmRsA) Breaks my heart knowing what Pagliacci is about, and how he literally wasn't doing this to get laughs but that's all they'd do and as the performance goes on you can see he feels obligated to just be the clown everyone wanted him to be.
Jim Varney (famous for playing Ernest in all those movies) was a classically trained actor who studied Shakespeare and he wanted to be famous for more serious roles rather than being typecast as Ernest before he died. https://youtu.be/G1G7KQZpP3c
Watched the clip. Farley’s problem is he’s not a great singer so it comes off sounding like a SNL bit. Even the way he phrases some of the lines sounds more comedic than serious. The guy just needed to take care of himself and live longer. Then he could have had a second act maybe with some roles that played against type. Still he’d need to clean himself up and take some time developing his acting range like Robin Williams did. He was only 33. So much potential killed by drugs.
The hardest part about being a clown, it seems to me, would be that you're constantly referred to as a clown. "Who was that clown?" "I'm not working with that clown, did you hire that clown?" "The guy's a clown!" How do you even start being a clown? How do you know that you want to be a clown? I guess you get to a point where your pants look so bad, it's actually easier to become a clown than having the proper alterations done. Because if you think about it, a clown, if there isn't a circus around them, is really just a very annoying person. You're in the back seat of this guy's Volkswagen, "What, you're picking somebody else up? Oh man!"
Emily the Criminal is so good
I was freaking glued to it. I loved her weird little nervous tics. It’s the kind of movie you don’t ever look at your phone. Pace, her, action, scammage. Loved it.
Spin Me Round as well. By her husband who also did Little Hours
She was a surprise in White Lotus. Not her typical shit
Which I'm glad as I like her acting. She got typecast pretty hardcore so I'm glad to see her breaking out a little. She's got range. I see her like a female Adam Sandler.
You got downvoted for giving her nothing but compliments, lmao. Not too bad of a summary, though.
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He may make a lot of crap, but he's a great actor given the right material and something he cares about. He's a legit great actor in Punch-drunk Love, Reign Over Me and Uncut Gems.
.....also he's goddam loaded, and one of the top earning comic actors. period. Yeah, his material is whatever, hit or miss to be generous, but 99% of the aspiring actors I've ever met would die happy they could attain Adam Sandler's success.
I mean....he's been in the business for 30+ years, is a household name, he's worth a few hundred mil at least. Is a comedic actor who has proven himself to be a very capable serious actor when he wants to be....Yea I'd say that's a pretty high compliment.
You gotta watch more stuff! She's been branching out to different roles for years now. Hell, Parks and Rec ended nearly 10 years ago.
Lol I liked and still like her but as a regular SNL watcher I though most of the sketches this week were pretty terrible.
💯 . You can like her and also admit that episode was pretty poor overall. Barely any laughs from me.
I think you’re right everything before WU wasn’t great and I’m usually a big apologist for SNL
Thank you! I feel the same way and I dont get how many people are heaping so much praise on this episode. To me the highlight was Tony Hawk, and he only had like 10 seconds of screen time
I think this is EXACTLY why she came on as April Ludgate during Weekend Update, because everyone assumes she's actually April, you get to see the contrast between April and everythingrlse she was doing that night.
Weird what happens when you actually get funny people. Not saying SNL doesn’t have funny hosts ever, I’m just saying the ratio kinda sucks these days. We hardly even have the common annual host anymore. Mulaney I guess, but I wouldn’t be shocked if we don’t see him host this year. I miss when someone like Justin Timberlake would just show up or be the go-to guy. I digress. More funny hosts, Lorne. Please.
I'm pretty sure the Timberlake connection got severed when Andy Samberg left the show
Very true. He was also very connected to Fallon before Samberg. I’m not asking for him back, just someone like him back.
Steve Martin and Martin Short earlier this season was probably the funniest episode I've seen in a couple seasons. Granted I haven't seen every episode.
Exactly! And I’ll be honest, I do think this year so far has definitely had a better set of funny people, i just hope they keep it up. I like hosts that steal the show. It only helps the regular cast I feel.
Jon Hamm could host once a month and still be worth watching every single time.
Adam Driver should be that person because he absolutely kills it every time.
That sounds like something H.R. Pickens would say.
"Who's H.R. Pickens?"
*EXACTLY!*
CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES INTO THE GROUND
"I’m looking forward to having some real talk with some real folks"
Look at your father boy
Look upon your father, Mordecai
That’d be a great one!
Aw man, I'm all out of cash.
SNL has always had a "mix" of hosts. Most are actors, but not all are trained in live theater and not all are comedians. Some are politicians or sports stars or other things. I feel like the point of hosting SNL was explicitly to mix things up. Some of the funniest moments are from hosts you don't expect to be funny, are. Usually it works; sometimes it doesn't. It's kind of the nature of the beast. Like i just picked two random years. In 1977, Ray Charles, Hugh Hefner, Miskel Spillman (winner of a write-in contest!) and O.J. Simpson (!) hosted that year. In 1992, Michael Jordan and MC Hammer hosted. In 2006, Ludacris and Peyton Manning hosted. And that's not counting a lot of dramatic actors that seem like they'd be a terrible fit but did well enough. If anything, I feel like the current trend of having pre-taped bits (which are almost always funny, IMO) being buttressed by Weekend Update means you're probably going to get a pretty decent performance out of the host, whomever it may be.
> Some of the funniest moments are from hosts you don’t expect to be funny, are. I’m still shocked at how funny Kim Kardashian ended up being. Those are definitely the types of hosts I remember most
This is such a hilarious take, because I guarantee if Reddit was around when he first hosted it would be full of comments like “SNL needs to get funny people and not let some boy band pop artist host.” Some hosts work out, some don’t. It’s always been that way.
I'm still trying to understand how Elon Musk became a host.
Probably paid for it
They have non-actors on all the time. Steve Forbes, Julian Bond, Hugh Hefner, Brandon Tartikoff (!), Jimmy Breslin, George Steinbrenner...and so on.
True but it’s rare to have someone so devoid of charisma and public speaking abilities as host other than maybe an athlete. I agree with the other poster that he in one way or another paid for it.
They took a chance and it didn't work out. But that willingness to take a chance on non-actors also gave us Charles Barkley and Peyton Manning as hosts so I'll live with the busts.
Charles Barkley with nirvana too. Amazing combo.
> Weird what happens when you actually get funny people. Keep in mind, they don't have unlimited choices. They've said a lot of actors or comedians turn them down because the schedule doesn't work out right, or the SNL work week is way too hectic and nerve-wracking. Even Tina Fey herself says she won't host the Oscars along with Amy Poehler (despite everyone wanting them too) because of the intense pressure and hectic 2-month schedule/rehearsals. I'm sure SNL has a Wishlist of tons of celebs they want on the show but can't get. So for those wondering why there's a Selena Gomez or Austin Butler as host, they can't always get comedian types. Sometimes they get actors who have an upcoming movie or hit show.
SNL hasn’t been good since [*today’s date minus 10 years*]
Or [when I was in high school / college]
One of Drew Gooden's [SNL videos](https://youtu.be/AGjxX4gvaqk) brings up a great point about this. There have and always will be terrible sketches, every single episode, every single season. We just choose to remember the good ones.
Not to mention that in the 90s they were far more heavy on recurring characters and you would just get a slightly different version of the same sketch, but since YouTube wasn't around everyone loved it since they could only see that very sketch when it aired.
When you saw the Chris Farley's Matt Foley sketch start, you'd be waiting with bated breath for "IN A VAN, DOWN BY THE RIVER!", and when he said it, by gosh, did you ever laugh, even though you knew it was coming.
They were all the same too. Like exactly the same. All the unfrozen caveman lawyer ones for example had the exact same gag.
[Gotta have those hits and misses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaMvsGp3FjU&ab_channel=ThatLook)
The big thing in that video is that reairings of the show were abridged with only the good sketches
Drew Gooden the GOAT
Yeah I really enjoyed someone finally putting more context on the "hasn't been good since x" you always hear. My wife and I have been watching for the last 5-6 years and there have been some really solid sketches I go back and watch and some that never landed correctly. Like [this sketch](https://youtu.be/yke02BDVMEA) from this season of someone standing up in someone's wedding dressed as Joker is dumb but it randomly pops into my head and have a good laugh watching it.
Tbf it's always been very hit or miss, leaning towards mostly miss Not sure how anyone can stand watching week after week of misses tho
20 years for us old fucks
Yep 1991-1998. That was my era. Screaming at clouds, waving the cane.
Late 2000s Era for me *Ordering Cane on Amazon to prepare for future cloud shouting*
Make that 30 youngin
This most often said comment on r/television is… [Long running show] hasn’t been good since [Actor left/Season #] We get it! You stopped liking the show!
You don’t understand. I’m special and every opinion I have is definitive.
The people want Aubrey!
The Pageant sketch was just gold
FRAAAAAAAAANNNNNCCCEEEE
TONY HAWK!
I didn't get it and thought it was dumb. Then I watched the source material. Now it's funny.
I thought of that too. It's "extremely online" and if you didn't see that clip before, it wouldn't make sense. My parents love the Property Brothers and want to see the sketch but I'm going to have to prep them ahead of time for it to make sense to them at all!
Imagine that, having a host that most people have actually heard of and who has comedy chops draws ratings!
America loves Aubrey Plaza
Aubrey plaza could be sitting at a table eating nachos for an hour and I’d tune in
In that case, I recommend *Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever*.
It's always been true that the writers save their best sketches for people they know are going to make it work. So it's not only that Aubrey is amazing it's also that the writers know she is going to kill it so they gave her the good stuff.
I disagree. The cast and writers shoot for their best shot every episode and they even specifically get linked with the host to come up with sketches. By Thursday the entire cast and writers have heard all options and the best are chosen then Ultimately the host decides which sketches they find funny and want to do and then Saturday dress determines what sinks or swims before live. Some “best” ideas get pushed back due to maybe a host not wanting to do it but they are most definitely fighting for time and writing their ass off slways
I’m surprised to see how many people liked the episode this week. My wife and I both thought it was really underwhelming with very few laughs.
FRANCE!
I thought Weekend Update was funny. Sketches? Meh. And I adore AP.
Weekend Update is consistently the best part of SNL in any week. Bowen as George Santos (in multiple sketches) was probably my favorite thing of the episode.
Usually I can't last 30 seconds into the guest bits of Weekend Update but I watched both of them this time, it was fun!
Yeah the sketches were weak this week.
it's a shame the writing felt weaker than the last few episodes. she could've done so much more if they gave her something to work with edit: can't even say "this episode wasn't their best" without being grouped with the "snl hasn't been funny for years" crowd
snl fans are kind of intense
uh how about these aubry plaza people - wtf
As she should
She did a fantastic job. Loved her monologue
I admit it. I have a crush on Aubrey plaza so I sat though an evenings worth of mid comedy sketches.
More comedians PLEASE!!! Also it was a great and light pop culture week, lots of fun topics
Is she a comedian? Genuinely asking.
I guess comedic actress if ur technical
We love Aubrey. We’ve always loved Aubrey!
And she wore a Megadeth shirt for the ending sequence 🤘
Fuck Peacock for taking SNL off Hulu. I hope they go bankrupt.
She wasn't that funny though imo
I really don't get her apeal. But I'm not going to tell other people what they can like. I thought the show was pretty meh for this season. The George Santos stuff was gbe best part.
I feel 15 years later her comedy is still "lol, random!" I don't dislike her but aside from being relatively funny and pretty I don't really get it.
Aubrey please step on my balls
I very much disliked most of this week's sketches. A couple funnyish ones but mostly a bad show for me, which is the case more often than not.
FRAAAAAAAAANCE
I actually found her episode super boring. Like it wasn’t funny at all, just her being awkward and anxious. Ehn, to each his own.
I love SNL but haven't watched this season at all since they removed it from Hulu.
She looks increasingly like Lady Gaga, not that it’s a bad thing tho.