Its very rare I laugh during a SNL. Finally the live line skit got me. Women who want to be murdered…murderers
I’m on Seattle feed, and it was clearly a “fuck” - I totally missed it, but my husband caught it and rewound on tivo for the confirmation. I’m surprised they didn’t edit it for west coast feed. Doesn’t bother me - I’m familiar enough with the word.
I agree with the OP - nothing terribly funny, but worth watching.
Agreed, on both counts. I honestly can’t remember an SNL season premiere that I haven’t been disappointed with on some level, and I think I’ve seen most of them, since 1985 or so. And Casey Wilson was great. I was looking forward to seeing her return this year. Sigh.
A truly memorable show. Not for the sketches, which were mostly overlong protractions of a lame one-joke premise (what’s unfortunately come to mean “classic SNL”), but as a milestone in human-cyborg relations. Allowing a PleasureBot to host the show was a truly ballsy move.
They’ve really come a long way, too; this one could almost pass for human, when it wasn’t talking. The eyes give it away, though.
Add me to the voices that are unhappy that Casey Wilson is gone.
I didn’t really like the episode - the good parts were too par apart:
- liked the opening with Khadaffi
- weekend update was only moderate, but the unfunny french comedian bit needs to end
- the stewardesses were great
- What happened with the digital shorts, they were awful.
- I missed the slip because I got tired of the biker chicks very early and fast forwarded, same with Grady.
I would give this show a generous C-.
Pretty solid? Solid waste more like it. I thought I’d give the show a try after a many year break and I should have just gone to bed. Awful. Even U2 bored me with their (I presume) new material.
U2 material wasn’t that new - in fact on the third performance they went back in time a little. Maybe you’re just showing your age. Lighten up.
It was a typo - I meant newer as in more recent. I didn’t expect them to do I Will Follow.
I don’t think it has anything to do with age - bad writing is bad writing. There are other shows out there that are edgy and funny. SNL is no longer one of them.
From what I understand, Seattle and some other stations will play a taped version of the east coast feed. They do this because they have some local programming that doesn’t end at :35 when SNL starts. So while everyone else on the west coast is getting the west coast feed, Seattle is replaying the friggin’ east coast feed.
Of course, the ironic thing is that all these measures are taken to prevent–God forbid!–people on the west coast hearing what happened, but the story is currently on the front page of cnn.com, complete with video footage of the slip-up. :smack:
It was decent. I liked the bit with the jabberwocky (get in the jabber position and … wocky, wocky, wocky). I totally laughed at the fuck. You could tell that Kristin Wiig was a little thrown off by it.
And I thought Casey Wilson went off for her own reasons. She’s doing a lot of writing from what I hear. She wrote Bride Wars and after that, I heard she’s writing more, acting in small parts here and there, I guess. (Yes, I did like her, too.)
I think Bono needs to hang it up. His voice sounds like it’s completely shot. Definitely not like it used to be.
Link, anyone?