It's Back! --- ** SNL ** --- Saturday Night Live ---

[liberalla]

1st show of the NEW season is tonight!

Owen Wilson, hosting (1st time)

Kacey Musgraves is musical guest (2nd time)

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Who will be Sinema? There's a lot to work with for her!


This has been your friendly reminder!

[Hawaii Hiker]

1. I think they have a new guy this year who does a good Trump impersenation

Beck Bennett and Lauren Holt have left SNL

[liberalla]

2. I hadn't heard about a new guy as trump... that will be interesting!

I'll miss Beck Bennett though! He was good in so many skits/roles...

[Hawaii Hiker]

4. It;s this guy

Link to tweet

[liberalla]

7. He's got the voice down!

He looks familiar, but I couldn't say why... thanks for the video!

[Rebl2]

10. Had to stop

this video. Sounds way to much like him😐

[SunSeeker]

12. Right? Me too. Trump has given me PTSD I think.

I find the sound of his voice physically painful, nausea-inducing.

[a kennedy]

11. He does a great impersonation of the orange piece of shit.....

[Sympthsical]

3. Almost forgot about this

So glad they brought on Bowen Yang full time. I suppose an Emmy nomination will do that for you.

So many great skits he's been in and/or wrote. Sara Lee, Zillow, Soul Cycle. But, of course, everyone knows him as the iceberg.

[smirkymonkey]

5. Yes! I am so looking forward to it!

I will really miss Beck Bennett. Who is Lauren Holt?

I predict either Kate McKinnon or Cecily Strong as Kyrsten Sinema. Kate would seem the most likely choice, but Cecily seems to have an edge with characters like that.

I just don't find Bowen Yang very funny. I really wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, but he just hasnt seemed to have found his groove there.

[Hawaii Hiker]

8. Bowen Yang got a promotion on SNL

Holt - https://thecinemaholic.com/why-did-lauren-holt-leave-snl-where-is-she-now/

Yang promotion - https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/beck-bennett-leaving-snl-n1280184

[underpants]

6. Kate McKinnon or Cecile strong will be Sinema if they have a skit.

[SunSeeker]

13. I was just about to say that! Either one would be brilliant! nt

[applegrove]

9. Sinema could be Sarah Paulson?

[UTUSN]

14. K&R

[Doodley]

15. Anyone else just doesn't think SNL is funny anymore?

It isn't funny to see Trump behaving like a spoilt five year old. We see that every time he opens his mouth, or to see a governor in denial of basic facts. Just repeating reality isn't funny to me. It isn't comedy that is daring. It isn't ironic. There are no punchlines. But it is obnoxious! Anyone else see it this way?

[Initech]

16. SNL At Home was unwatchable.

Last year was better, sort of. They occasionally have a good sketch here and there but otherwise I do agree.

[underpants]

17. Eh. Trump was an easy joke. I think they hit it more than not.

No punchlines is a bit of a counter comedy thing these days.
Weekend Update is still funny to me but not necessarily the fake guests.
It’s tough coming up with completely new material on the fly from Monday to Wednesday basically and then rewrite rewrite rewrite. SNL does use or have catch phrase easy skits like Wayne’s World Wild and Crazy Guys Stewart Smalley Church Lady etc. anymore. It makes it harder but the creative side seems to not want to play it safe.

I’ve watched from probably the end of the first season on pretty steadily. SNL has ebbs and flows but this is a above the middle part right now in my opinion.

[Doodley]

18. Is it satire? Satire is supposed to mock authority figures. To me it is hard to mock what's already

absurd to the extreme. Is it trying to say something? If so, I'm not hearing it. It has done a lot to normalize fascism. It let Trump on its show as a guest and gave him exposure as if he was acceptable. It helped Trump and his machine of lies and prejudice to be elected. It is seen by the right as attacking Trump and the right, even though it presents something that really presents more of a reality than an exaggeration. By mimicking Trump, it minimizes how dangerous he is. Under the label of comedy, it sends out a signal that this isn't really how Trump is, when it actually is. I cannot find that funny.

[c-rational]

20. Well said. Bingo.

[c-rational]

19. Ding, ding, ding yes I agree.

[Boomerproud]

21. I love Owen Wilson but no SNL for me.

The writing has sucked for years. Just old.