# SNL on 5/4/19 was one of the better ones in a while
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 6, 2019, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537 "2019-05-06T02:38:34Z")
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/1 "2019-05-06T02:38:34Z")
Modern day SNL is much funnier than the 90s version IMO, even though I think the cast from the 90s was one of the most talented (Farley, Hartman, Spade, Myers, Carvey, Sandler, Rock, etc)
But anyway, the intro monologue was really good. The Romano tour skit was one of the funnier ones I’ve seen in a while, the family reunion skit was pretty good, and the Farley song as the end was very touching.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbwlC2B-BIg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25IOsvWPQGQ
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/2 "2019-05-06T03:56:41Z")
The commercial for [Rectix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2FkgBIL-kI) was also pretty great.
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### Author:  [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/3 "2019-05-06T08:21:45Z")
[off-topic] I click the 3 links and see
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> Video unavailable
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Why does SNL do this? Too stingy to send all those photons half-way around the world?
There is a straightforward workaround (Google “Convert to mp3”) but it takes an extra 19 clicks per video. Will it be worth it?
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/4 "2019-05-06T08:55:53Z")
They do it because the rights are held by different entities in different countries. Just use a VPN like everybody else.
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### Author:  [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/5 "2019-05-06T09:14:15Z")
> [@friedo](#):
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> They do it because the rights are held by different entities in different countries. Just use a VPN like everybody else.
If I knew a good free VPN (with zero malware) I’d install it. I’ve not pursued this yet because my need seems quite minimal. (SNL is almost the only YouTube source that I’ve noticed doing this.)
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### Author:  [@Royal\_Nonesutch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Royal_Nonesutch)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/6 "2019-05-06T09:44:31Z")
> [@septimus](#):
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> [off-topic] I click the 3 links and see
> Why does SNL do this? Too stingy to send all those photons half-way around the world?
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> There is a straightforward workaround (Google “Convert to mp3”) but it takes an extra 19 clicks per video. Will it be worth it?
I get that a lot too with SNL clips on YouTube here in Krakow, but for some reason, I was able to watch those with no trouble for some reason.
Too bad Adam Sandler is to comedy what Totino’s pizza rolls and a quart of Thunderbird are to authentic gourmet Neapolitan cuisine.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/7 "2019-05-06T22:01:56Z")
The Rectix commercial was brilliant. Kristin Wiig was the only thing that saved the family reunion sketch. Opera Man simply doesn’t work with the current style of Weekend Update.
I then went to bed. I’ve heard there were a couple of good things in the last half-hour.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/8 "2019-05-06T23:14:01Z")
The last thing was Adam Sandler performing an original (not totally original, as he’d already performed the song on a Netflix special) song that talked about Chris Farley.
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### Author:  [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/9 "2019-05-07T01:19:13Z")
I haven’t gotten around to the Netflix special so that was the first time I saw the Farley song and I was wrecked. I think watching Sandler choking back the tears made it worse. He’s not good enough of an actor to have faked that.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/10 "2019-05-07T01:22:10Z")
Sorry, I can’t watch anything with Adam Sandler in it.
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/11 "2019-05-07T04:42:29Z")
> [@kunilou](#):
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> Opera Man simply doesn’t work with the current style of Weekend Update.
What does this even mean? The whole sketch is literally a one-shot of Adam singing.
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/12 "2019-05-07T04:43:30Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Sorry, I can’t watch anything with Adam Sandler in it.
Yet you felt the need to post in a thread about Adam Sandler why?
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### Author:  [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/13 "2019-05-07T13:56:38Z")
I thought it was a good show, but I, unlike mostly everyone else in this thread, find Sandler funny. I still wear a red-hooded sweatshirt. Shama-lama-ding-dong.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/14 "2019-05-07T14:42:23Z")
> [@friedo](#):
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> Yet you felt the need to post in a thread about Adam Sandler why?
There were no Adam Sandler warnings in the thread title, and I was curious about why W.C. particularly enjoyed the episode.
Do I pass?
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/15 "2019-05-07T16:02:47Z")
I thought it was OK - not great. Never having been a big fan of Sandler (on SNL or in movies), a lot of the material referring to him was lost on me. I was unable to appreciate the family reunion bit - had no idea what characters the actors were referring to, and suspect I wouldn’t have liked the characters if I had remembered them. But the Rectix was great! “It’s a PILL!” As well as the Romano travel bit.
Thought the lengthy music video “Clothes are holes” was an awfully long slog for minimal humor.
Is the current season drawing more past cast-members than previous seasons? I probably watch about 2/3 of the new eps, and it seems almost every one has at least 1 or more cameos by past cast-members.
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### Author:  [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/16 "2019-05-07T16:18:04Z")
I thought the about clothes are your public holes that cover your private holes was pretty funny.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/17 "2019-05-07T17:07:29Z")
> [@friedo](#):
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> What does this even mean? The whole sketch is literally a one-shot of Adam singing.
I mean that ever since Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the entire tone of Weekend Update has changed radically from the days of Kevin Nealand. Sure it still has goofy bits with goofy characters doing goofy things, but those things have virtually nothing to do with current events, (e.g., Hader’s Stefan, or Keenan’s Willie, Che’s neighbor.)
Singing the news just doesn’t fly as a concept anymore, no matter how silly it is.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/18 "2019-05-07T18:22:42Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#):
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> I thought it was OK - not great. Never having been a big fan of Sandler (on SNL or in movies), a lot of the material referring to him was lost on me. I was unable to appreciate the family reunion bit - had no idea what characters the actors were referring to, and suspect I wouldn’t have liked the characters if I had remembered them. But the Rectix was great! “It’s a PILL!” As well as the Romano travel bit.
Regarding the Romano travel bit, it helps if you remember seeing real commercials for Perillo Tours, which featured Steve Perillo and earlier his father Mario Perillo.
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### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/19 "2019-05-08T07:40:47Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> There were no Adam Sandler warnings in the thread title, and I was curious about why W.C. particularly enjoyed the episode.
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> Do I pass?
No. He didn’t ask why you opened the thread, he asked why you posted that. Imagine how annoying Cafe Society would be if every thread had a lot of “I don’t like [subject of thread], so I didn’t watch/read/listen” posts all over the place.
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### Author:  [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2019, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-on-5-4-19-was-one-of-the-better-ones-in-a-while/833537/20 "2019-05-08T09:55:55Z")
Dinsdale writes:
\> Is the current season drawing more past cast-members than previous seasons?
It’s not just former cast members, and it’s been going for more than just a year. For several years now, it’s become common for a random celebrity who isn’t one of the current cast members to suddenly appear in a sketch just out of the blue. They aren’t the guest host for that episode. Sometimes they are former cast members, but sometimes they have no long-term connection with the show. The most obvious one is Alec Baldwin and his regular appearances as Trump, even though he’s never advertised as a guest on the show. It’s become so common that the show has sometimes joked about how strange it is:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N6jVD6RymA)
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