I assume I’m just not the target audience, as I had never heard of the host or musical guest. But this was the least funny ep I can recall. Never heard of that show they were parodying, and I guess Drake refers to women as “tingz”? The only humor for me was Weekend Update, and even that included a couple of horribly unfunny guests.
Should I assume this ep was just aiming at a different demographic than I and my wife?
If you don’t recognize either host, then the answer to that question is always going to be “yes”.
There have been times in the past when I did not recognize either host/musician, but still found some humor/derived some enjoyment from the show.
This season has been particularly not-good so far, but I thought this week was pretty funny. I chortled aloud several times. I’d never seen “Kenan & Kel,” but I was aware of the show. KeKe Palmer seemed to fit right into the show as the host.
Comedy is one of those things where everyone’s mileage varies, so … I am looking forward the Steve Martin and Marty Short on the 10th.
I thought the episode was delightful. I had heard of the musical guest (Syza) and didn’t care for her too much, but Keke Palmer was awesome. Funny, I had recently watched Nope, in which she was outstanding, but I didn’t remember her name and she looked quite different. She was great in the skits and wow, has she got some pipes. All that being said, I didn’t get a lot of the jokes either,@Dinsdale.
No clue about the Drake thing, or the Hello Kitty thing or lots of things I can’t recall at the moment.
Surely you’ve heard of Arby’s or Taco Bell? I thought that commercial parody was pretty funny. And the skit about “Forceington’s Ridge” seemed obviously to be a parody of Dynasty or Dallas.
Now if you recognized none of it, perhaps this show is no longer for you.
I actually like when they have host that I don’t recognize because it makes me look them up and see what the younger generation is watching. Same with musical guest. I like learning new things and feeling like at least I am trying to keep up with the kids.
I knew who the host was because I had just caught ‘Nope’ on Peacock. No idea on the musical guest, but that’s pretty par for the course these days. It sounded like Keke called the musical guest ‘Scissor’, closed captioning said ‘Sza’. But the closed captioning for SNL is laughably bad.
I liked the cold open, but making fun of Herschel Walker is pretty much fish in a barrel.
I thought the “gritty reboot of '90s era ‘urban’ comedy” skit was amusing too. Was that an actual sitcom they were parodying? If it was I have no idea what it was supposed to be.
BTW, good news for the old fogies; this week’s hosts are Steve Martin and Martin Short, with Brandi Carlile as the musical guest.
Now if none of them are recognizable, you are really out of it.
Cool, the musical guest is the former singer for the Go-Gos; finally a musical guest I’ll recognize!
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Yes, I know Brandi Carlile from Belinda Carlisle; not quite that out of it yet).
I haven’t watched the whole episode yet, but I agree on the Drake sketch. That may as well have been in a foreign language—it’s not just that I didn’t find it funny, I didn’t get any of the references…like who is Aubrey and what’s a Ting? I’m old enough that I rarely recognize the hosts and almost never recognize he musical guest. But I still usually find it funny enough anyway. That sketch had me bewildered.
Keenan had his start, with Kel Mitchell, on a a ‘90s Nickelodeon show All That, including in a recurring sketch “Good Burger” (which was even made into a movie), then in their own show called Keenan and Kel.
Many late twenty to thirty-somethings have nostalgia for those shows (Keke possibly among them) and many of us who had kids watching lots of Nick then are familiar with them as well.
Yeah Steve Martin and Martin Short, and … they are throwing us old farts our bone next week. (Oh those old guys who were in that show with Selena Gomez!)
Steve Martin…Is he that guy that does the arrow through his head thing?
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Aubrey is Drake’s actual first name and “Tingz” is a rapper slang for beautiful women implying intimately … making fun of Drake mentioning so many women as romantic items in his songs I guess.
Ah ok, thanks. I was aware of ‘Good Burger’ the movie, but had no idea those Nickelodeon shows existed.
Nope - I make a point of closing my eyes as I drive down the road so I don’t see any fast food signs! 
Sure, I’ve heard of the restaurants, just didn’t find the sketch funny. What does it mean to question the “physics” of the offer? Isn’t exactly new to mock the quality of Arby’s. I remember when I was in college 40 years ago, the rumor was that the “beef” cam in bags in liquid form. And Jon Stewart mocked them for years.
And I assumed the 1st skit was a takeoff on old primetime soaps. Just didn’t realize why it was worth parodying now, or why this parody was funny.
That is sorta our idea, but too often, it just makes us feel horribly old and out of it. I’d say probably 50/50, that we see someone we didn’t know, but are impressed by what they bring to the show, and consider seeking more of them. This one was - for us - a big fail. One of my personal problems was that I often couldn’t understand what the host said. Which kinda makes me further lessen my interest.
Anyone enjoy the ultrasound skit? And was the choir skit anything other than a reason to let the host sing?
IMO, this show was largely to allow the host to showcase herself, more than an effort at producing entertaining ensemble comedy. And whatever her “brand/talents” are, they don’t appeal to me. There weren’t enough host-free moments that appealed to me.
That one had Sarah Sherman’s (or Sarah Squirm, as she was known in her stand-up days) signature all over it. She’s known for her gross-out, absurd ‘body horror’ style humor. It’s hit or miss for me; her ‘singing skin tag’ sketch from last season was inspired lunacy; her ‘googly eyes’ sketch from one of the past weeks was just dumb, I thought. The ultrasound bit was ok.
Another thought - it is early in the season, but they seem to be having difficulty including a couple of the newest cast members, especially Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, and Devon Walker.
SNL has been on the air for 40-someodd seasons. If you assembled carefully you could probably assemble two hours of funny stuff from all those episodes. Yes, I’m humor-impaired.
I thought the joke was making the obvious use of stunt doubles in those old shows even more obvious with the obvious disjointed cuts between stars and stuntwomen (plus the fact that one of the stars was pregnant and obviously wouldn’t do those stunts.)
As for why do a parody of an old show, how many times did we sit through Kristin Wiig’s Broadway diva screwing up by saying the “Secret Word” in a parody of a 60-year old game show even us old farts only remember from watching when we were home from school sick.