# Saturday Night Live - 5/11 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 11, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-5-11/658099 "2013-05-11T19:30:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-5-11/658099/1 "2013-05-11T19:30:20Z")
Guest host is Kristen Wiig. I boldly predict riotous applause as each of her unfunny, worn-out characters are trotted out doing the exact same things the characters always do in the exact same way in slight re-writes of the same old skits. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-5-11/658099/2 "2013-05-11T21:18:36Z")
Only slightly riskier a proposition than predicting Obama won’t seek a third term in 2016. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-5-11/658099/3 "2013-05-12T02:41:06Z")
I _want_ to like Wiig, and she clearly has talent, but I do not like any of her characters. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-5-11/658099/4 "2013-05-12T04:29:16Z")
And not disappointing the predictions so far. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-5-11/658099/5 "2013-05-12T05:28:59Z")
20 pounds of suck stuffed into a 10 pound sack of suck. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-5-11/658099/6 "2013-05-12T05:31:34Z")
I was wrong. 30 pounds. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-5-11/658099/7 "2013-05-12T05:38:58Z")
I got a couple of yucks from the blood thing. That was it. The for some reason it occurred to me that anyone who saw the first episode who was the age back then that I am now, is probably dead. So it makes even less sense that this show is still on the air. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-5-11/658099/8 "2013-05-12T05:57:31Z")
Huh, I actually liked of tonight’s SNL. I like Wiig, most of the sketches were OK (though I hate Gillie). It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t terrible either. I found the acupuncture sketch oddly relaxing. Oh, and the Old Spice commercial, that was fake, wasn’t it? 😕 It sure seemed like a parody even though it didn’t have any SNL actors in it. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-night-live-5-11/658099/9 "2013-05-12T06:30:32Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Oh, and the Old Spice commercial, that was fake, wasn’t it? 😕 It sure seemed like a parody even though it didn’t have any SNL actors in it. I must skipped over that in the replay. I was up to real time in the last 20 minutes or so, and I did get a lot of laughs out of our local public service messages in the local ad spots.