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I’m not sure how I feel about this, but at least they’re not letting them compete in the Team Event. The fact that they let them compete as a team for whatever they were calling Not!Team Russia any given year was ridiculous.

I feel bad because he seems perfectly nice in an aw shucks way, but he is not working at all. He looks like he’s wearing a bad 90s wig and every time he’s on screen I’m reminded of that Steve Buscemi meme:

What’s weird is they’re one of the only couples who seem to regularly do bedroom scenes. If they just changed the setting, hardly anyone would notice the modesty.

After Jason promised Sam’s grave he wouldn’t kill Cyrus, I held my breath as Joss scrolled through his contacts, because Jason is already lying for one of Carly’s kids. He can’t take credit every time they fuck up.

I came here to say the same thing!

It’s already been established, it’s $750 per Beatle. He could have received $1500 if he had brought Ringo along, as Lorne doesn’t care how the money is distributed between them. I had the same thought about the musical guests, but SNL is about both the sketches and the musical guests (even though I typically fast forward through them.) There were several sketches during the concert, so it felt like an even trade.

Yeah, SNL has always chased the zeitgeist. It’s how it’s remained relevant after so many years. The first Domingo sketch used a Sabrina Carpenter song, and it became a thing during her tour. It would have been a missed opportunity not to acknowledge it while she was a guest. Where they made a mistake with the Domingo sketch was having one during the Charlie XCX episode. That’s why it felt overplayed. It made sense here, though.

Have you watched the Ladies and Gentlemen… documentary? It did a phenomenal job honoring the musical performances throughout the years.

I hope he comes back to host again soon. He’s just so effortless. The laugh he got off the simple setup of his half braided hair and the line “I don’t do anything halfway.” And Kristen Wiig still annoys me, but the 40th and 50th anniversary have shown how strong the late-00s cast was. Sudiekis/Armisen/Wiig/Forte/Poehler/Rudolph/and we can count Kenan since he was there too made a strong showing last night.

I also want to give credit to the deep cut of having Nick Jonas as Marius in the One Day More portion of the broadway sketch. Every time the anniversary special for Les Miserables plays on PBS (which is often) I always have a “wait, Nick Jonas?” moment when he appears.

It made the best use of the format. It’s a great vehicle to shuffle through a ton of cameos. Kind of like the audition or music compilation sketches they love to do. Speaking of, they could have done an SNL audition sketch where old cast members got to do their favorite celebrity impressions auditioning for the show throughout the decades. Also, after 20-some years, they had both Mike Meyers and Eddie Murphy in separate sketches, but they couldn’t sneak in a Shrek reunion. Guess it’s too early to start promoting Shrek 5. Now that would have made a scared straight tale to tell! He must have been so mad. Not only did they give Bill Murray an Update bit, they put him at number 4 for the best update hosts! The show has really let up on stroking his ego in recent years.

Especially since he’s basically been in the cast this season.

So I was watching the 25th Anniversary recently and there were so many clips of actors in black face, especially in the 80s package. I’m surprised the acknowledged it!

I was mad the Bronx Beat was about to end without a Linda mashup. What a relief!

Alex Moffat! I thought I saw him.