Oct 10, Bill Burr/Jack White
Cold Open was the VP debate, with Maya Rudolph as Kamala and Beck Bennett as Pence. It was ok. It was more exciting than the debate itself, at least!
Burr’s monologue was OK. It seemed a little “shock jock” for me but if I’m not mistaken it’s 100% what he usually does. I guess it caused some controversy, calling out white women for being “woke” and saying Pride Month is too long “for people who were never enslaved.” Kinda like he took a crayon and wrote down “people I’d like to offend” in a plot graph and filled in the gaps between while slowly getting drunk. Yay for Bill Burr.
The ESPN bit was pretty funny, with Burr playing a sportscaster who was focused on winning a bet on a Bears win, and the other, black sportscasters making a point about another black American killed by police. I think the acting and timing on this one was pretty good.
Man, I just watched this last night and can’t remember half the sketches…
Weekend update was good as usual. It was very interesting to see Kate McKinnon play a fairly silly character then break character and talk about how she’s bored!
The Sam Adams commercial made me laugh but it was fairly predictable. I dunno why but I always laugh when I see random sad-sack characters with a cast on their arm. It’s always just the extra gut punch to make them that much more sad. Kudos to the props dept for that one.
I always like Jack White. He didn’t have anything to promote (he came on when the regular guest blew covid protocols) so he just rocked out on two Jack White songs. Bang!
What else? There was another sketch I thought was funny but my morning brain is not recalling.