S43.E14: Charles Barkley / Migos

[formerlyfreedom]

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Charles Barkley hosts; Migos is the musical guest.

[Bruinsfan]

I called it! In the last sketch, when Keenan said "I shouldn't watch, but how bad could it be?" and they showed Charles and Kate making out with those cheek spreaders, I yelled that they should cut back to a stone statue of him AND THEN THEY DID!

The second funniest part of the show was the musical guest. I never knew how much I needed to see a guy combining a Fetish Ball outfit and Mr. T's jewelry collection flanked by dual Reggae Urkels!

[vb68]

OK, I'll start. I hate to say it, but I thought this one was dead until Update started. Then finally the crowd got into it, and Jost and Che did their thing, and it wasn't even near their strongest one. And Leslie always does her best to up the energy.  Otherwise everyone else seemed like they were basically walking through this episode. Kate always brings it in that last sketch as Sheila, though.

A sketch like The Grabbies should have been merciless, but it just laid there flat as a three day old can of Coke.

As Princess Sparkle noted in another thread, it's a huge mystery why Sir Charles has hosted more than any other athlete at four times.

Edited March 4, 2018 by vb68

[Peace 47]

I thought that was the strongest cold open they’ve had in awhile.  That was a good line about how CNN is “your source for impeachment porn,” because the evening shows do take on that flavor.  And it was a great line about how Trump runs the White House like a business—a Waffle House at 2 AM.  The crowd went nuts for that even before he got to the kicker about why it was like a Waffle House.

I thought the rest of the show was not bad, but man, Charles Barley is emphatically not an actor and I can’t believe they’ve had him back 4 times.  Lorne Michaels must have some gambling debts owed to Sir Charles that he’s still working off.

[Galileo908]

Sorry folks, was out late tonight and missed the whole thing, I'll watch it when I can.

I figured tonight was gonna be a mixed bag anyway (Seriously, this was his FOURTH time hosting?!), and I'm looking forward to Michael B. Jordan next week. I might be missing that one, too.

[opus]

I thought it was really good.

During the musical guest, though, I kept switching to college basketball.

[ebk57]

I enjoyed this show more than I thought I would, although I agree -  don't know why they keep having Sir Charles host. I loved the Waffle House line. I thought the open was strong until Kate showed up. I just don't think Mr. Magoo is her best impression. I did get a kick out of A-Rod inappropriately smiling throughout the sports sketch. I thought he was just having too much fun,  but he was also weirdly smiling through the goodnights, so who knows. It might be a thing with him. 

Anyway, not as bad as I feared. And yay - the show is back! 

Edited March 4, 2018 by ebk57

[opus]

1 minute ago, Galileo908 said:

 I'm looking forward to Michael B. Jordan next week

They announced Sterling K. Brown

[Bruinsfan]

Aw, I love Sir Charles. Not the smoothest cue card reader, but he is so clearly game for doing anything to get a laugh. I just wish they'd done a Where'd Your Money Go? skit with Barkley playing himself as the host.

Edited March 4, 2018 by Bruinsfan

[Galileo908]

Just now, opus said:

They announced Sterling K. Brown

Whoops, I messed up. Well, still looking forward to that.

[vb68]

1 minute ago, ebk57 said:

I did get a kick out of A-Rod inappropriately smiling throughout the sports sketch.

I have to admit that I don't think I would have recognized him if they hadn't introduced him. Haven't seen him for a few years. Dude has sadly hit middle age.

[Peace 47]

I meant to mention that I thought the roaches with AK-47s was a sharp piece of social commentary.  It was a good absurdist take on the insanity of the NRA’s position.   

[possibilities]

I thought this was one of the best episodes this season! I laughed at almost everything, and the things I didn't like were at least fresh (I appreciate the effort, and prefer they swing and miss than just phone it in).

I wasn't crazy about Homework Hotline, though I appreciate the idea behind it. I really didn't like Hump and Dump, because suicide threats are not funny to me, but again-- I didn't mind the idea of "shows where people act crazy and desperate are manipulative and not funny" + the idea of the host responding to it in a serious way plus the female constant not taking the guilt trip or the bait. It just wasn't fun, even if I kind of appreciate the sentiment behind it.

I usually don't really care for Last Call, but I thought the cheek spreaders were a great gag, and I do find some of the euphemisms amusing (red carpet). I think I'm just too grossed out by the slobbery kissing to really enjoy these, though.

But I thought "impeachment porn" and the waffle house were great. I can't stand Alec Baldwin but I still liked the cold open.

I also liked the monologue. It wasn't the funniest thing ever, but I was glad Barkley decided to speak up for LeBron and the NFL kneelers.

WU was fun, but I was totally surprised that they had Leslie turn down an invitation to see a game with Colin. I guess they decided to pivot away from her previous attitude. I'm OK with it, just surprised.

Loved the Grabbies, Ned's roach militia, and the construction workers.

The Champions was Ok, too. I think I would have liked it more if I followed sports.

Edited March 4, 2018 by possibilities

[rmontro]

Thought there were some funny sketches, but wow is Charles Barkley wooden.  I guess you have to give a pass to athletes though.  He was good on Hump and Dump.

It was uplifting to see Hilary Knight on Weekend Update with Leslie.  Wow, she's got a great smile, and seemed very natural on camera.  So much for giving a pass to athletes, I guess.

Didn't care for the musical guest (the Migos).

[Ottis]

Maybe it was my mood, but all the skits just seemed sad. Gun issues, mental health issues, sexual harassment issues, gender issues, White House issues.... I wanted to laugh, but couldn’t get there. The musical guest was different... bits of Cameo, raggae, rap, and a little south of the border. 

[ottoDbusdriver]

7 hours ago, Bruinsfan said:

The second funniest part of the show was the musical guest. I never knew how much I needed to see a guy combining a Fetish Ball outfit and Mr. T's jewelry collection flanked by dual Reggae Urkels!

 

7 hours ago, opus said:

During the musical guest, though, I kept switching to college basketball.

 

3 hours ago, rmontro said:

Didn't care for the musical guest (the Migos).

Seriously, can't they find any actual singers to perform ? The minute I heard the tell-tale signs of auto-tune on all 3 of the "singers" I pretty much checked out.
Even then you could barely understand the lyrics -- something about a "stir-fry" in the first song. -- I still don't know what the hell they were 'singing' about.

Never heard of Migos before this episode.  And now I know why.


While Charles Barkley may be a bit wooden, I like that he will do pretty much anything the writers ask -- that roach control commercial was pretty awesome.

The Homework Hotline made me chuckle -- at least they spelled with the elements correctly.  :)

Hillary Knight suffers from Julianne Moore syndrome -- her face looks WAY different when she smiles/laughs (way too toothy).

[Guest]

I can't be the only person who noticed the sweat stains every time Leslie Jones lifted her arms during the Weekend Update segment.

[wknt3]

12 hours ago, Peace 47 said:

I thought that was the strongest cold open they’ve had in awhile.  That was a good line about how CNN is “your source for impeachment porn,” because the evening shows do take on that flavor.  And it was a great line about how Trump runs the White House like a business—a Waffle House at 2 AM.  The crowd went nuts for that even before he got to the kicker about why it was like a Waffle House.

Thank Trump for Making Alec Great Again! The Trump cold opens are always great when Baldwin is angry instead of depressed and feeling obligated to do it. When I saw the tweets on the news I was pretty much expecting this, but they really pulled it off well. Until Kate showed up. Then it devolved from savage incisive political satire to "Chris Christie is fat!" territory pretty quickly. A little disappointing since if they feel the need to bring in Kate and her Sessions impression it wouldn't have been too hard to write some material in the same vein about how he has no hope of a good job after this, or how he has finally found a limit to how far he will twist the law to put minorities in their place. Maybe how he is the Waffle House overnight cook who can't walk out no matter what the manager does because if he loses his job he goes to prison?

Edited March 4, 2018 by wknt3
fix typo

[Gemma Violet]

Sessions is the only one of Kate's characters I don't like.  It gives me the creeps.

[vb68]

Here's a cut Star Wars sketch.  I really enjoyed it, and wish it made the show. Sir Charles still wasn't great, but it was probably better than anything else he did last night.

[Dev F]

1 hour ago, wknt3 said:

Thank Trump for Making Alex Great Again! The Trump cold opens are always great when Baldwin is angry instead of depressed and feeling obligated to do it. When I saw the tweets on the news I was pretty much expecting this, but they really pulled it off well.

I thought it was one of his better recent efforts, though to me it was because it felt looser than usual. Ordinarily Baldwin is very committed to the idea that Trump is just a dumb, humorless asshole -- it's actually what I initially liked about his impression; it seemed more accurate to me than Darrell Hammond's interpretation of the character as a self-aware shit-stirrer who was winding people up for his own amusement. But after a year and a half, Baldwin's take has started to wear thin, since there's only so many different ways you can spin the idea that Trump is a stupid idiot who's always miserable and never gets the joke.

This week, though, Baldwin got to range a little further afield, needling Mike Pence about his homophobia, showing glimmers of self-awareness about the chaos of his administration, and spinning tough-guy fantasies almost as if he were sharing his inner monologue. It felt much more like Anthony Atamanuik's improvisational and wide-ranging impression of the president -- which I know Baldwin has criticized in the past (weirdly, without mentioning Atamanuik by name, but it's clear who he's talking about) for being too "balls-of-his-feet-light," calling him "Gene Kelly Trump." But maybe he's realized (or at least the writers have realized) that you need to branch out a little bit or the impression is going to get really tiresome.

Edited March 4, 2018 by Dev F

[AriAu]

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Sessions is the only one of Kate's characters I don't like.  It gives me the creeps.

IT'S SUPPOSED TO!!! I think he/she could have gotten in a few more good cuts on Donny beyond "I was with your good friends at the Department of Justice". He is not a harmless, helpless  little backwards ass country bumpkin and she plays him as the legitimately creepy guy that he truly is.

Whatever else you may say about Chuck, and he really is a bad cue card reader, but he is really, really willing to go for it when they ask him to and nothing shows it more than that last sketch. Wow...both of them were alllllllll in.

And, while I cant figure out why Chuck has hosted 4 times, the writers clearly like him since they pulled up some good stuff.

Not the best Update-not as cutting as I expected given all the stuff they had to work with from just the last 72 hours let alone since the end of January!

[JZL]

10 hours ago, Bruinsfan said:

The second funniest part of the show was the musical guest. I never knew how much I needed to see a guy combining a Fetish Ball outfit and Mr. T's jewelry collection flanked by dual Reggae Urkels!

I thought the same thing.  And what an uplifting song about stir-fry! :rolleyes  This may be one of the worst Host/MG combos in the show's history. 

It seemed there was a lot of "polite laughter" in this one. 

[helenamonster]

As usual, I found the cold open meh with a few sparse laughs (your number one source for impeachment porn, running the country like a Waffle House at 2am) but just letting Alec-as-Trump monologue about the latest batshit news cycle is boring and unoriginal.

Add me to the list of people baffled that Charles has now hosted this show four times. I guess being game for anything makes him easy to write for, but it's a bizarre choice for someone who is not particularly good at it and also past his peak of popularity (maybe it's just because I don't follow sports, but I frequently forget exactly what sport he's even famous for playing). Still, I'd rather have a host that's bad but tries and isn't self-conscious than one who makes it perfectly clear that they are contractually obligated to be there.

Ned's Roach Away was inspired. The visual of Charles dumping the armed roaches had me rolling. And I was glad they hung a lampshade on how dirty Heidi's house was at the end. Who has that many roaches???

I loved Cecily's Hope Hicks impression. "Thank you so much for this internship or job or whatever this was." Also as someone who followed Leslie's coverage of the Olympics, I was so happy for her that she got to bring Hilary Knight out. She loooooves Hilary and was so excited when the women's hockey team won gold.

The popularity of Migos eludes me. That T-Pain-esque autotune was only popular for a very hot second and then swiftly went out of style about a decade ago.

11 hours ago, ebk57 said:

I did get a kick out of A-Rod inappropriately smiling throughout the sports sketch. I thought he was just having too much fun,  but he was also weirdly smiling through the goodnights, so who knows. It might be a thing with him. 

I think if any of us were in a serious relationship with Jennifer Lopez, we'd be smiling on the reg too.

3 hours ago, Ottis said:

Maybe it was my mood, but all the skits just seemed sad. Gun issues, mental health issues, sexual harassment issues, gender issues, White House issues.... I wanted to laugh, but couldn’t get there.

I think the humor is just a byproduct of the world we're currently living in. They kind of lampshaded it in the Grabbies sketch...when we're not talking about rape being an occupational hazard, we're talking about children being murdered at school.

2 hours ago, Gemma Violet said:

Sessions is the only one of Kate's characters I don't like.  It gives me the creeps.

The real Sessions gives me the creeps so I think Kate's impression is quite apropos.

[JZL]

14 minutes ago, helenamonster said:

I loved Cecily's Hope Hicks impression.

I wondered about that.  Was that an actual impression or just Cecily as ditzy?  Isn't part of the irony that Hicks was the Communications Director but no one has ever heard her speak?

[ahisma]

I actually laughed out loud a lot this episode. I agree that Barkley is wooden but game, and some combination of writing and chemistry pulled it all together. The only sketch I didn't like was Hump or Dump; it was just sad. Kenan was the MVP of the night, and It was nice to see Pete get to do several sketches. 

[SomeTameGazelle]

I thought that Hump or Dump needed to go somewhere stronger in order to justify the contestant's threats of suicide -- it was kind of ultimately pointless. And since they had already included the bits with the call screener in the Homework Hotline I thought the bit with the contestant screener felt even weaker than it was.

[BookThief]

5 hours ago, RogerDodger said:

I can't be the only person who noticed the sweat stains every time Leslie Jones lifted her arms during the Weekend Update segment.

I hate to be the one to have to tell you this...but...women sweat.

9 hours ago, rmontro said:

Thought there were some funny sketches, but wow is Charles Barkley wooden.  I guess you have to give a pass to athletes though. 

I think you mean ath-a-letes.

[ottoDbusdriver]

The Kyle Mooney portion of Weekend Update was just painful to watch.  I see what they were going for -- but it wasn't even the slightest bit funny.

It's like Lorne lost a bet to someone and was forced to put Kyle's segment on WU and book Migos as the musical guest.


Was glad to see Pete Davidson get in more sketches, but was really surprised by the near absence of Melissa Villasenor -- I think she was in 1 sketch.

Went back and re-watched the Ned's Roach Away segment -- details on the box:
-- The Ultimate Roach Exterminator
-- Terminates Roaches onsite
-- Sets Up Secure Perimeter
-- Not Safe for Children or Pets
-- Do Not Shake Box
-- Contains 1 Cockroach Militia

[peeayebee]

13 hours ago, opus said:

They announced Sterling K. Brown

Not Michael B. Jordan? How about Courtney B. Vance?

 

6 hours ago, Ottis said:

The musical guest was different... bits of Cameo, raggae, rap, and a little south of the border. 

Well, I admit it -- I kinda liked them. I don't typically like rap, nor am I knowledgeable about it, but this seemed old-school, and I liked the rhythms. I didn't really watch them perform, but I let it play while I was on my computer.

 

5 hours ago, wknt3 said:

Until Kate showed up. Then it devolved from savage incisive political satire to "Chris Christie is fat!" territory pretty quickly. A little disappointing since if they feel the need to bring in Kate and her Sessions impression it wouldn't have been too hard to write some material in the same vein about how he has no hope of a good job after this, or how he has finally found a limit to how far he will twist the law to put minorities in their place. 

 

Yeah, I practically groaned when her Sessions popped up. At least we didn't have to see the tail. I really dislike this impression.

 

2 hours ago, JZL said:

I wondered about that.  Was that an actual impression or just Cecily as ditzy?  Isn't part of the irony that Hicks was the Communications Director but no one has ever heard her speak?

I believe Hicks has kept a really low profile. Although Cecily was kind of enjoyable, I couldn't stop thinking about how she was likely just making up a personality and sound for Hicks.

Yes, Barkley was wooden and stumbled over his lines constantly, but I still liked him. I loved how during the monologue he said, "I'm hosting for the 4th time FOR NO REASON." I also liked him in the construction sketch where he describes in detail an outfit he would wear to the Academy Awards then adds, "I don't know. I'm just spit-balling."

The bar sketch with Kate was great. The lines on these sketches are always gross and hilarious. Using those dental implements was inspired.

Edited March 4, 2018 by peeayebee

[Racj82]

6 hours ago, ottoDbusdriver said:

 

 

Seriously, can't they find any actual singers to perform ? The minute I heard the tell-tale signs of auto-tune on all 3 of the "singers" I pretty much checked out.
Even then you could barely understand the lyrics -- something about a "stir-fry" in the first song. -- I still don't know what the hell they were 'singing' about.

Never heard of Migos before this episode.  And now I know why.


While Charles Barkley may be a bit wooden, I like that he will do pretty much anything the writers ask -- that roach control commercial was pretty awesome.

The Homework Hotline made me chuckle -- at least they spelled with the elements correctly.  :)

Hillary Knight suffers from Julianne Moore syndrome -- her face looks WAY different when she smiles/laughs (way too toothy).

Migos is one if the biggest musical acts in the world right now. That's what they found. I would never ever watch them live and I didn't last night but why SNL got them is clear. As there music is catchy. They just need to stay in their studios.

This whole season has been dullsville to me. I never get much out of political humor and the #metoo type sketches just go over like a wet fart for me. The cast doesn't have good chemistry and the energy isn't there. I think they need to clean house soon. 

4 minutes ago, peeayebee said:

Not Michael B. Jordan? How about Courtney B. Vance?

 

Well, I admit it -- I kinda liked them. I don't typically like rap, nor am I knowledgeable about it, but this seemed old-school, and I liked the rhythms. I didn't really watch them perform, but I let it play while I was on my computer.

 

Yeah, I practically groaned when her Sessions popped up. At least we didn't have to see the tail. I really dislike this impression.

 

I believe Hicks has kept a really low profile. Although Cecily was kind of enjoyable, I couldn't stop thinking about how she was likely just making up a personality and sound for Hicks.

Yes, Barkley was wooden and stumbled over his lines constantly, but I still liked him. I loved how during the monologue he said, "I'm hosting for the 4th time FOR NO REASON." I also liked him in the construction sketch where he describes in detail an outfit he would wear to the Academy Awards then adds, "I don't know. I'm just spit-balling."

The bar sketch with Kate was great. The lines on these sketches are always gross and hilarious. Using those dental implements was inspired.

Sterling K Brown is a double get. Co star of black panther and Emmy winner on nbc's biggest show. It's a no brainier for them. Michael B Jordan will always be around to jump in.

[BoogieBurns]

14 minutes ago, peeayebee said:

Or was it Courtney B. Vance?

Michael J Fox?

[Guest]

1 hour ago, BookThief said:

I hate to be the one to have to tell you this...but...women sweat.

 

Thanks for the heads up.  This place is truly educational as well as entertaining.

Of course, most women aren't in the cast of a popular late night sketch show with a staff of wardrobe, makeup, lighting and electrical professionals to help with such issues.

Edited March 4, 2018 by Guest

[HunterHunted]

5 hours ago, vb68 said:

Here's a cut Star Wars sketch.  I really enjoyed it, and wish it made the show. Sir Charles still wasn't great, but it was probably better than anything else he did last night.

I thought the cut sketch was pretty darn funny. Although, I think "Where's the bathroom" would be a much more accurate thing to know how to say.

[Kaiju Ballet]

16 hours ago, vb68 said:

A sketch like The Grabbies should have been merciless, but it just laid there flat as a three day old can of Coke.

So true. Even the premise was just too easy for a show like SNL, and a lot of the lines were pretty cheap shots. The NRA parody was a lot more clever, and even if it didn't land perfectly, that's the sort of thing that the writing staff should be aiming for. (pun intended)

16 hours ago, ebk57 said:

I did get a kick out of A-Rod inappropriately smiling throughout the sports sketch.

3 hours ago, ottoDbusdriver said:

really surprised by the near absence of Melissa Villasenor -- I think she was in 1 sketch.

This reminded me why I've never warmed to Melissa Villasenor on SNL. Most non-actor guests (who aren't hosting) tend to smile, maybe out of nerves or the sheer excitement of being in front of a live studio audience. It's something that's kinda charming and easy to give a pass for, because they're there to be who they are for the purposes of the sketch and not as a character that could be played by one of the cast members. That's actually how I realized it was really A-Rod. Melissa tends to smile in the same way in most if not all of her appearances on stage. It's hard to buy her as a cast member, and it's distracting.

12 hours ago, rmontro said:

It was uplifting to see Hilary Knight on Weekend Update with Leslie.  Wow, she's got a great smile, and seemed very natural on camera.

She really stood out on WU, and I thought she had a lot of on-air charisma. Cecily was great as Hope Hicks--that's exactly the kind of witty writing that was missing from the opener (despite the one or two good lines that others have already pointed out)

3 hours ago, ottoDbusdriver said:

The Kyle Mooney portion of Weekend Update was just painful to watch.  I see what they were going for -- but it wasn't even the slightest bit funny.

ITA. That was Luke Null/New Kid in Classroom sketch potentially career-ending bad. Why was most of the dreck greenlit last night? The SW parody sketch wasn't great (Thanks, @HunterHunted!) but it was much better than most of the live sketches.

4 hours ago, SomeTameGazelle said:

Hump or Dump needed to go somewhere stronger in order to justify the contestant's threats of suicide -- it was kind of ultimately pointless.

Also agreed with the "someone didn't think this through"-itness of using suicide as a theme in the Hump of Dump. Without a payoff, it was offensive in how it was trivialized.

Migos--I was mesmerized by the spinning disk one of the singers wore (I amuse easily) and the style and energy they brought to the stage, even I had no idea what they were singing about either.

[rmontro]

I said earlier that Charles Barkley is wooden, and he certainly is, but I still enjoyed him.  He's fairly entertaining as a sports commentator, so I'm a little surprised he's wooden as a comedy actor.  But I guess that shows how different the two things are.

[Tachi Rocinante]

Barkley was not turrible.

Kyle Mooney is not funny.

Hillary Knight couldn't stop smiling - she seemed like he was genuinely enjoying herself.

Migos is studio-created dreck.

Kate's impression of Sessions is creepy because it''s awful.  By far her worst.

[Bruinsfan]

Aw, I love Kate's impression of Sessions, between the Forrest Gump delivery and all the references to being a human/possum halfbreed.

Kyle Mooney is ONLY funny in sketches where he's Leslie's boyfriend IMHO, and those are basically her lifting him out of leaden unfunniness by force of sheer enthusiasm. I assume he's still on the show because he's a package deal with Beck?

[Psychobunny]

Best part was the credits where the Migos guys just wanted to check out the gold medal. You could just see them thinking “Damn, that’s some bling I’ll never have!”

[helenamonster]

On 3/4/2018 at 12:47 PM, JZL said:

I wondered about that.  Was that an actual impression or just Cecily as ditzy?  Isn't part of the irony that Hicks was the Communications Director but no one has ever heard her speak?

Perhaps impression is the wrong word..."I enjoyed Cecily as Hope Hicks" is more accurate. She did make a joke at the start of the segment along the lines of "communicating is not my strong suit, that's why they made me communications director." People like Hope are easy targets I think because they mostly stay in the shadows so you can project a lot onto them. That's why I'm surprised more hasn't been done with Jared.

[izabella]

On 3/4/2018 at 11:47 AM, JZL said:

I wondered about that.  Was that an actual impression or just Cecily as ditzy?  Isn't part of the irony that Hicks was the Communications Director but no one has ever heard her speak?

I was curious so I googled, "Hope Hicks speech" and there's a video on youtube called Meet Hope Hicks.  And, yes, she sounds a lot like Cecily's impression.  Maybe she's not ditzy on the inside, but she sounds like a young girl, including the uptalk.

Edited March 6, 2018 by izabella

[Bruinsfan]

Oh man, imagine being in a meeting of the Cabinet and having to listen to vocal fry like you're buying frozen yogurt from a teenage clerk in a mall food court...

[BoogieBurns]

12 hours ago, izabella said:

I was curious so I googled, "Hope Hicks speech" and there's a video on youtube called Meet Hope Hicks.  And, yes, she sounds a lot like Cecily's impression.  Maybe she's not ditzy on the inside, but she sounds like a young girl, including the uptalk.

Some of the best people speak with uptalk. :-/

[lou ann b]

Just got around to watching the show last night. .thanks bronchitis. ..but I think Charles Barkley is kind of charming,and I thought he was enjoyable. 

Was Kyle Mooney high?  Holy God, that was terrible. 

[candall]

I wasn't all that charmed.  I'm not sure being a good sport translates into hosting Saturday Night Live four freaking times.  Did they run out of talented, relevant, professional actors?

SNL is hot for the first time in years--weird time to take your foot off the accelerator, show.

[lou ann b]

Just got around to watching the show last night. .thanks bronchitis. ..but I think Charles Barkley is kind of charming,and I thought he was enjoyable. 

Was Kyle Mooney high?  Holy God, that was terrible.

Guess this is why the term " mileage varies" was created.  And for an example of a truly awful host, i have two words : January Jones.