I never heard of the host. Can’t recall that ever happening before. Comedian Bill Burr. I wonder if he filled in for someone who cancelled late or was fired late.
His monologue was good but not 100% PC
Bill Burr is a pretty well-known comedian and co-starred in a movie with Pete Davidson over the summer. The musical guest was a fill-in, though, as Morgan Wallen (country performer) was originally scheduled but on Wednesday, he violated the COVID rules and was dropped.
I see another case of “twitter erupted” over his monologue. It’s great that every moron with a keyboard can now give an opinion on anything.
That’s really nothing new; for a long time, anyone with a keyboard has been able to offer an opinion on anything, and before that anyone with a quill pen, and before that, anyone with working vocal cords.
It’d have been better if he tried to be funny instead of trying to be edgy. His whole shtick of being non-PC is tiresome. His good points get drowned out by his lecturing. When he’s not being the voice of the worst guys I have ever met, he’s pretty funny.
I adored the Sam Adams sketch. I should be personally offended every time a Boston dude is there and they target us (Mayor of Dunks with Casey Affleck, for example) but no lies detected.
It wasn’t even very edgy: trashing white women is a major part of the popular culture (as witness the “Karen” phenomenon).
The writing as a whole seemed pretty weak to me, as was the case last week. Maybe there are constraints on the writers (due to COVID precautions) that account for some of it. But I’m waiting for anything that could get near the historic heights SNL has hit.
I don’t know why, but my DVR didn’t record this episode. Damn it.
Agreed. The monologue seemed to be nothing but edgy political commentary delivered with snark. Which nowadays is like shooting fish in a barrel and everyone does it through comments sections below articles.
No, there absolutely is something completely new. Sure, anyone could write whatever they wanted on a sheet of paper with a typewriter, ballpoint pen, or quill pen, but in the normal circumstances that apply to most of us, how many people would see it? Today any moron can post any crap on social media (or a personal blog or website) and have a potentially huge audience. The internet changed everything, and is largely responsible for today’s plague of disinformation and general idiocy, not to mention blatant exhibitions of illiteracy.
I wish I was you.
On the other hand, that’s the shortest SNL I’ve ever watched - my FFWD button got quite a work out. I had no idea who the host was, who the band was, found the fly vomit to be unnecessary (and yes I knew the reference), Herman Cain “too soon”, Kate McKinnon on WU crazy (but funny) - can you tell I didn’t like this episode? At all.
I’ve known of Bill Burr for probably twenty years. He’s one of those guys that comedians find hilarious, but probably too angry in the wrong ways to become a household name.
This week was way better than last week’s show. The cold opening was a bit better - and shorter - and the show didn’t reply on old sketches as much. Not that they were special but they were watchable.
Weekend Update finally had some good jokes, mean, hard-hitting jokes that made the audience back off. That’s what it should be and usually isn’t. Pete Davidson did a nice bit there, too.
You don’t know who Jack White is? He was in the White Stripes, the Raconteurs, and the Dead Weather. He also co-wrote a song with Beyoncé for Lemonade.
About 1/3 of Bill Burr’s act is kind of funny, the other 2/3 is like he bought it from Andrew Dice Clay when he retired in 1992. He’s a comedian who shoots for the back of the room, but never quite gets there.
I liked the first sketch, where the neighbors kept using the wrong words, and getting all pissed when corrected. Was a bit of a downward slide from there.
This will sound weird, but it was a little more “overtly political” than most. I think one actor called out “Vote Biden!”
Didn’t understand at all what was going on w/ the Kate McKinnnon bit on update.
(FWIW, there’s a Season thread going on here. Do we want to keep that one going or give each episode a new thread?)
By and large, nobody would see it, but for some reason mainstream ‘news’ organizations report the bleatings of these cheeto-stained assgoblins as if anyone should care. Feeding the trolls and stirring up controversey has superseded informative journalism. And the cash rolls in, so it’s not going to change anytime soon.
Possibly best known for the song used in the opening credits of the movie Napoleon Dynamite, “We’re Going to be Friends.”
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Maybe someone needs to bump the omnibus thread each Saturday, to avoid having new threads made each week.
Maybe, although I think Seven Nation Army might have been the bigger hit.
It was. So were Fell In Love With a Girl and Hardest Button to Button…and a bunch more. We’re Going to be Friends never charted, from what I can tell.
Sure, but I bet more people know it. (Lots of people don’t follow the charts, but do see movies.)
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I was never a White Stripes fan, and his pop songs weren’t impressive… but his guitar work was. That was the opposite of pop music.
Jack White was digging deep and putting a twist on classic blues licks.
I did find a video of him jamming with The Edge and Jimmy Page, so he’s getting some respect from his elders, and I’m going to see if I can get some more of his work.