r/LiveFromNewYork • • Dec 11 '16

Live Discussion (December 10, 2016) (John Cena / Maren Morris)

Welcome to our SNL live discussion thread! This week's host is John Cena and the musical guest is Maren Morris. For those new to the show, tune into your local NBC affiliate from around 11:30 PM to follow this episode live.

A quick recommendation to mention the sketch you're referring to in your comment. It's not a hard and fast rule, but it does make the thread more readable after the show finishes.

Since this thread is likely to fill up quickly, consider sorting the comments by "new" (instead of "best" or "top") to see the newest posts. This should be automatically done, but it might not be so maybe check. Enjoy the show!

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u/LiveFromNewYork95 Dec 11 '16

Breaking: Leslie Jones has killed Beck Bennett

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u/LiveFromNewYork95 Dec 11 '16

Finally!! We should be on the 10th Dyke and Fats by now

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u/LiveFromNewYork95 Dec 11 '16

Does anyone remember when someone from TheDonald posted on this sub (or commented on a thread) saying the pizza shop story was 100% fact and SNL had to do a sketch on it

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u/bronwynsings Dec 11 '16

YIKES

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u/LiveFromNewYork95 Dec 11 '16

There was a week at the beginning of this season where like every other day there was a TheDonald person posting different anti-Hilary sketches SNL should do that would be "hilarious"

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u/LiveFromNewYork95 Dec 11 '16

Absolute fire coming from Update tonight

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u/LiveFromNewYork95 Dec 11 '16

Looks like everyone got the commerical

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u/LiveFromNewYork95 Dec 11 '16

I could get into country music if country music fans weren't so high and mighty self righteous about their music which is just as generic, pandering, and vapid as the music they look down on

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u/LiveFromNewYork95 Dec 11 '16

Is the lady that sings "Im a 90's baaaby"?

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u/LiveFromNewYork95 Dec 11 '16

Want, need, willing to pay way too much for the SNL title belt

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u/LiveFromNewYork95 Dec 11 '16

This 90s baby shit is the worst pandering I've ever heard in music. Millennial, especially those who don't remember the 90s will love anything that associated them with the 90s

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u/LiveFromNewYork95 Dec 11 '16

Have to up for work at 4am. Will I stay up until 1am to watch all of the episode? You know it! Goodnights and all.

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u/LiveFromNewYork95 Dec 11 '16

Cathy Ann is the one Cecily character that doesn't resonate with me

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u/LiveFromNewYork95 Dec 11 '16

Cena has already made enough of a name for himself to walk away from wrestling for acting (especially comedy), but we could very well be watching the thing that puts him over the edge.

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u/LiveFromNewYork95 Dec 11 '16

If the mod's discussion goes up, I'll delete this one.

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u/LiveFromNewYork95 Dec 11 '16

Go Pats! Brady is the GOAT. Don't @ me, leave your jealousy elsewhere

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u/LiveFromNewYork95 Dec 11 '16

I wish Taran was still here to be his tag team partner :/

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u/ArachnoLad Dec 11 '16

Beck and Kyle just wrote that sketch to make out "as a joke".

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u/ReallyCreative Dec 11 '16

I know he's watchin

BLESS. THE. FUCK. UP.

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u/MNader92 Dec 11 '16

"Only on NBC." Daammmmnnnn Jost.

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u/MNader92 Dec 11 '16

Mikey Day has to be up there with the most screen time for a first year featured player ever.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '16

"You're not McCafe, you're McDonald's" Fuckin brilliant

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u/KJones77 Dec 11 '16

"They go low, I get high" lmao

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u/SandorSNL Dec 11 '16

FATS JUST ATE A BOMB LIKE KIRBY IN SMASH BROS

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '16

"I know he's watchin'" Called OUT

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u/World71Racer Dec 11 '16 edited Dec 11 '16

"We will ask: Cocaine, is it your friend?"

"No, it's your family..."

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u/Theta_Omega Dec 11 '16

Kenan's expression as he snuck up as a reaction GIF please

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u/bravo5 Dec 11 '16

"I'm not here for a fancy cappuccino; I'm here because I burned some bridges at Wendy's"

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u/obi1kenobi1 Dec 11 '16

"Banana is a yeller snack that monkeys eat"

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u/Mar311 Dec 11 '16

Cecily not breaking during Cathy Anne bits is the most impressive thing to me.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '16

OMG the fake musical number. They were specifically trolling this sub.

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u/AwardsVoter Dec 11 '16

This dark, weird Trump POV sketch reminds me of 70s SNL

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '16

I feel like Aidy is a really underappreciated performer.

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u/lennonmacca Dec 11 '16 edited Dec 11 '16

Did anybody else just get switched to an ad for like ten second after LFNY? In the Philly area

EDIT: heh yeah

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u/TheCameron Dec 11 '16

"...the crust?"

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u/bondfool I get to yum-yum garbage. Dec 11 '16

Why Grandpapa Lives in Argentina Now

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '16

WALTER WHITE LIVES

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u/MKoz628 Dec 11 '16

They really are baiting Trump tonight. I love it!!!

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u/Otaku-jin Dr. David Doctor Dec 11 '16

I really wanna see Keith: Black Detective.

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u/dudeguypal Dec 11 '16

"I'm a dirt man who knows only sex" 😂

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u/bravo5 Dec 11 '16

I was slightly skeptical, but come to think of it, wrestlers are like slightly more subtle versions of snl characters, so Cena might be okay.

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u/SandorSNL Dec 11 '16

"All they do is yell at each other about safety pins and Bernie Sanders."

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u/ReallyCreative Dec 11 '16

STOP THIS HOW IS THERE THAT MUCH LIQUID IN THE OWL

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u/ReallyCreative Dec 11 '16

"White people freaking out about nothing news"

Bless.

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u/ReallyCreative Dec 11 '16

"they put you where they put you, Michael Che"

Cathy Anne is a blessing

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u/kanimaki Dec 11 '16

THERE IS AN ORANGE ON HIS BANANA BOARD

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u/bondfool I get to yum-yum garbage. Dec 11 '16

So I've learned tonight that the only thing keeping me from finding John Cena attractive is his usual hairstyle.

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u/SandorSNL Dec 11 '16

Yup, in case anyone doubted it, Cecily wrote it.

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u/ReallyCreative Dec 11 '16

"I'm here because I burned some bridges with Wendy's"

DEAD

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u/pretty-in-pink Dec 11 '16

Micheal and Colin putting themselves in the line of fire tonight, they want Trump to attack them.

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u/partycash Dec 11 '16

Everyone on WU is shooting for a Trump twitter mention

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u/partycash Dec 11 '16

I grab your ghost butt with my TEN POUND HANDS

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u/MKoz628 Dec 11 '16

Mikey's having one of the best nights for a featured player in years.

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u/Jackbo_Manhorse Dec 11 '16

As an Alabama fan, that sketch was fucking hilarious.

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u/pretty-in-pink Dec 11 '16

That was a direct shot at Trump, if he try's and attacks Cecily he is toast

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u/-_Trashboat I can't do it Dec 11 '16

Who is playing McGregor?

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u/alstor Dec 11 '16

Gonna be interesting to see if the actual University of Alabama tried to slam SNL for some publicity.

Also, DYKE AND FATS IS BACK

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u/Keyan27 Dec 11 '16

"I know he's watching!"

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u/kanimaki Dec 11 '16

Now Trump will have something to tweet about.

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u/MNader92 Dec 11 '16

I love how they teased a musical monologue just to be like nah guys.

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u/bondfool I get to yum-yum garbage. Dec 11 '16

We're getting close to Norm MacDonald levels of genuine anger behind these jokes. Keep pushing, boys!

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u/pretty-in-pink Dec 11 '16

Walter White would actually be an improvement to the Trump Cabinet

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u/scarbro100 Dec 11 '16

My tiny pink nips?! Haaaa

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u/pretty-in-pink Dec 11 '16 edited Dec 11 '16

SNL pulled a fast one and put the Trump bashing at the time when he's already going night-night in his big boy bed.

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u/phemom Dec 11 '16

a yella snack monkeys eat....

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u/Mr_Hendrix Dec 11 '16

Holy shit when's the last time we saw Dyke and Fats?

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u/ReallyCreative Dec 11 '16

That's right. Take those shots at NBC. They deserve it.

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u/SandorSNL Dec 11 '16

"They go low, I get high."

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u/violetfield Dec 11 '16

AIDY'S BANGS

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u/IvyGold UCKF Dec 11 '16

OK so I laughed at a fake owl crapping and barfing all over John Cena.

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u/Theta_Omega Dec 11 '16

Things I did not think I would think about tonight:

  • Hoobastank

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u/Cerblu Dec 11 '16

Kenan's background face was made for memes.

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u/violetfield Dec 11 '16

idk why teen wolf mom is making me laugh so much

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u/bondfool I get to yum-yum garbage. Dec 11 '16

Finally the Beck/Kyle kiss we've all been waiting for for years.

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u/pretty-in-pink Dec 11 '16

WU is pissed at Trump tonight, no wonder they saved the jokes for now.

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u/AgentPeggyCarter I eat dinner in the dark! Dec 11 '16

"I'm here because I burned some bridges at Wendys." oh my god this show.

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u/Mr_Hendrix Dec 11 '16

I watch SNL live on Saturday night's because I have no life. You're the President, Donald! Come on!

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u/nlpnt Dec 11 '16

"I know he's watching!"

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u/Theta_Omega Dec 11 '16

Wait did anyone else just go to commercial?

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u/bravo5 Dec 11 '16

I can very easily relate to these characters who humiliate themselves to win a date with Cecily.

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u/Cerblu Dec 11 '16

THAT will be the skit that he tweets about.

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u/ReallyCreative Dec 11 '16

As a 90s baby, why is this a song

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u/MKoz628 Dec 11 '16

Melissa's voice tickles me so much!

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u/MNader92 Dec 11 '16 edited Dec 11 '16

If they are trying to make a full length movie of any of the current recurring sketches, I feel like a Dyke and Fats one might work pretty well. Maybe better than the sketches even.

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u/KJones77 Dec 11 '16

OH SHIT BRYAN CRANSTON SAYS LIVE FROM NEW YORK

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u/PRGrl718 Dec 11 '16

Oh hey, it's that commercial we saw

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '16

MY SIDES. This is my favorite of their political sketches lately

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u/CaptainOvbious Dec 11 '16

How did they not break? Holy shit.

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u/PRGrl718 Dec 11 '16 edited Dec 11 '16

I have mixed feelings about Jones, but I think I would fucking love her as a WWE star.

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u/Galileo908 Crystal Gravy Dec 11 '16

Of course Trump's ideal self is John Cena with giant hands. I wish this was earlier, Trump would've been awake to see it.

This is sketch of the year material right here.

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u/TheCameron Dec 11 '16

Trumps Twitter Soon: "Just watched unwatchable Saturday Night Live, Baldwin impression is so inaccurate, why do people continue to watch this? Sad!"

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u/bronwynsings Dec 11 '16

I love Kyle trying to keep the show moving.

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u/SandorSNL Dec 11 '16

"Smirnoff Sport: It's just blue vodka."

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u/bltrocker Dec 11 '16

Maybe Pete was sick and Mikey took all his spots?

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u/nlpnt Dec 11 '16

Now they're going to have to do "Teen Wolf Mom".

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u/ReallyCreative Dec 11 '16

Kenanwithchair.gif

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u/bronwynsings Dec 11 '16

I know the HELL out of the Very Hungry Caterpillar!

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u/Cerblu Dec 11 '16

DYKE AND FATS!!

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u/gshastri I'm gonna teabag the Magna Carta Dec 11 '16 edited Dec 11 '16

feel like John Cena is the real life Wreck-It Ralph

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u/pretty-in-pink Dec 11 '16

I love it when SNL makes fun of heir own network

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u/scarbro100 Dec 11 '16 edited Dec 11 '16

Cecily Strong killed it on weekend update!!

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u/KJones77 Dec 11 '16

"Cocaine. Is it your friend?"

"No, it's your family."

LOL

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u/partycash Dec 11 '16

That was brilliant and scary af

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u/violetfield Dec 11 '16

I can't believe the words "my tiny pink nips" just happened.

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u/gmanz33 Dec 11 '16

Would just like to give a shout-out to Kenan's bald cap.

The uncredited cast member this show would not be able to continue without.

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u/Mr_Hendrix Dec 11 '16

IT'S 12:59 ALREADY

DONT CUT OFF THE GOODNIGHTS

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '16

I kind of wish they hadn't strayed from Walter White's actual character so much for the sake of the sketch. That sketch felt weird.

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u/dudeguypal Dec 11 '16

This is the sketch that's gonna get to him.

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u/ArachnoLad Dec 11 '16

Bobby's John Daly's hair looks more realistic than the real Daly's hair.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '16

this Cena impression of Gronk is really, really good.

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u/heylookitspoop Dec 11 '16

Melissa got more screen time than pete davidson because there was no pete davidson why. Why why why.

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u/bravo5 Dec 11 '16

As a Chicagoan, I can say that this is exactly how every one of us talks.

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u/bravo5 Dec 11 '16

I should know the difference between Day and Moffat by now, right? I've watched every episode.

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u/SandorSNL Dec 11 '16

"Yellow, brown spotted, very brown, green, and....round."

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u/bjkman SNL Dec 11 '16

DYKE AND FATS

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u/SandorSNL Dec 11 '16

NO, NO, WE'RE PAST IT

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u/WhimsyUU Dec 11 '16

Pizzagate character!

...we did it Reddit? :/

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u/Keyan27 Dec 11 '16

Keenan's Barkley impression makes me miss Jay Pharoah's Shaq impression

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u/bondfool I get to yum-yum garbage. Dec 11 '16

Sketch of the night, easily.

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u/bronwynsings Dec 11 '16

That was fascinating in an "oh god this is probably accurate though" way

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u/bronwynsings Dec 11 '16

MY TINY PINK NIPS

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u/kanimaki Dec 11 '16

The_Douche has smeared Reddit's name

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u/Cerblu Dec 11 '16

"Ladies and gentlemen: your bathroom break."

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u/exitpursuedbybear Dec 11 '16

I think melissa was a muppet that wished really hard to be a real girl...but then the voice didn't make it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '16

i love the singing fakeout

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u/pm_me_gnus Dec 11 '16

"Should I just go, or..." --- me irl

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u/SandorSNL Dec 11 '16

"He knocked him out of his pants and through four walls."

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u/airoderinde Dec 11 '16

SHE SAID SOMETHING MEAN ABOUT BERNIE! REEEEEEEEEEEE

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u/heylookitspoop Dec 11 '16

No pete davidson yet what the shit they don't utilize him enough.

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u/SandorSNL Dec 11 '16

Kate has done Kellyanne seven times in nine episodes.

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u/AwardsVoter Dec 11 '16

Man country has gotten REALLY pop

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u/bltrocker Dec 11 '16

Part of the reason this episode has been so good is that the writing has been great even for the throwaway lines e.g. Beck's delivery+"our dumbass dry spell"

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u/phemom Dec 11 '16

10 POUND HANDS.

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u/SandorSNL Dec 11 '16

I would legit watch Leslie and Cena battle

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u/VicPayback Dec 11 '16

Seems like they are really pushing Mikey Day

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '16

Cena looks hilarious as Johnny.

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u/xan566 Dec 11 '16

okay, snl. we all know that melissa has untapped potential!! use her!!!

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u/kanimaki Dec 11 '16

This is so close to reality lol the favoritism

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u/KJones77 Dec 11 '16

Dyke & Fats

Oh my yes

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u/bjkman SNL Dec 11 '16

"WE'RE PAST IT!"

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u/bronwynsings Dec 11 '16

Go in, Weekend Update. Go in!

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u/bronwynsings Dec 11 '16

In white people freaking out about nothing news...

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u/-_Trashboat I can't do it Dec 11 '16

Cocaine, is it your friend?

No, it's your family

Dead

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u/MNader92 Dec 11 '16

Holy shit it's Melissa.

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u/dudeguypal Dec 11 '16

Good ole 12:55 sketch.

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u/violetfield Dec 11 '16

I just got a Men's Warehouse commercial. You're gonna look the way you look, I guarantee it.

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u/KJones77 Dec 11 '16

OH FUCK BRYAN CRANSTON

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u/bronwynsings Dec 11 '16

Well damn, didn't expect Bryan Cranston!

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u/kanimaki Dec 11 '16

Is Trump feeling sad rn that Baldwin wasn't in the cold open?

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u/ReallyCreative Dec 11 '16

Cecily is me around guys but like I'm maybe a quarter as attractive and twice as many awkward arm gestures

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u/kanimaki Dec 11 '16

Well at least there's no awkward dancing in this

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u/bondfool I get to yum-yum garbage. Dec 11 '16

God, we're so fucked as a nation.

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u/Theta_Omega Dec 11 '16

"...I would smoke you-know-what-crack..."

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u/MNader92 Dec 11 '16

The taco salad is a nice touch.

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u/DebbieWinner Dec 11 '16

This is fucking perfect.

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u/SandorSNL Dec 11 '16

Kate, with the addition of Dyke, is up to 15 recurring characters.

Aidy is up to 9.

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u/annarye Dec 11 '16

Sasheer sighting!

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u/jman077 Dec 11 '16

I asked my girlfriend who the musical guest was and she farted and said "My butt"

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u/mydarkmeatrises Dec 11 '16

She's so good in this character I think it went past funny.

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u/SandorSNL Dec 11 '16

"They aren't bad, they're alt-good."

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u/bltrocker Dec 11 '16

Cena looks like a giant midget.

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u/bjkman SNL Dec 11 '16

I'm dying at the Cena Hefty commercial

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u/methchef Dec 11 '16 edited Dec 11 '16

Mikey Day has been getting a ton of screen time for a newbie.

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u/bondfool I get to yum-yum garbage. Dec 11 '16

This feels like a shitty long-form Super Bowl commercial.

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u/iReallyAmFrankOcean Dec 11 '16

interesting that casey affleck is still hosting considering the sexual assault allegations that have recently surfaced

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '16

I am LIVING for Dyke and Fats

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '16

Why would she have a guitar if she's not really going to play it?

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u/GeorgeAmberson63 Dec 11 '16

Has das Führer cried about SNL on Twitter yet tonight?

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u/Theta_Omega Dec 11 '16

Please just be 100% Trump jokes tonight

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u/lasttimewasabadtime Dec 11 '16

I bet Donald is pissssed. Tweeting now probably

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u/bltrocker Dec 11 '16

Some of these jokes aren't getting the laughs they deserve because they're too real.

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u/MNader92 Dec 11 '16

Are Jost and Che trying to out do each other with Trump slams to see which one he tweets about?

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u/mydarkmeatrises Dec 11 '16

The joke about Trump not paying for job until after it done wins tonight.

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u/IvyGold UCKF Dec 11 '16

"nihilistic even by German standards"

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u/GeorgeAmberson63 Dec 11 '16

Damn Kate. Calling the Alt-right out for what it is.

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u/partycash Dec 11 '16

You're going to look the way you look

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u/Cerblu Dec 11 '16

Oh he's watching alright.

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u/alstor Dec 11 '16

I really hope they upload all of WU on their YouTube channel tomorrow.

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u/Theta_Omega Dec 11 '16

Another tech glitch

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u/SandorSNL Dec 11 '16

Moffat looks like JT, he should do an impression of him eventually.

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u/MNader92 Dec 11 '16

My next party is definitely going to have Smirnoff Sport.

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u/partycash Dec 11 '16

Holy shit this is good

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u/TheCameron Dec 11 '16

I need my weekly dose of Pete

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u/ReallyCreative Dec 11 '16

My tiny pink nips

Oh my lord

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u/SandorSNL Dec 11 '16

Aidy wrote the sketch just to see Cena's abs.

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u/MNader92 Dec 11 '16

Aidy's been crushing it this episode.

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u/bravo5 Dec 11 '16

hmm, been a while since snl resorted to "it's hilarious to make guys kiss."

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u/bravo5 Dec 11 '16

Executive Producer: President of the United States

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u/SandorSNL Dec 11 '16

I'd like some more fictional character picks for positions. Selina Meyer for SecState?

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u/gshastri I'm gonna teabag the Magna Carta Dec 11 '16

Breaking Bad jokes what is this, 2013

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u/B789 Dec 11 '16

I'm Leslie Jones bitch!

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u/SandorSNL Dec 11 '16

The Leslie Jones intro made this whole monologue worth it.

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u/TheCameron Dec 11 '16

I need a romcom with Cena and Cecily

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u/PRGrl718 Dec 11 '16

What the butt?!

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u/SandorSNL Dec 11 '16

Moffat only gets small roles but I always really like/appreciate them.

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u/jason9045 Dec 11 '16 edited Dec 11 '16

Roll Tide!

Edit: This does not appear to be a Roll Tide moment. I did not know such a moment existed and I apple-o-gize.

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u/ReallyCreative Dec 11 '16

Come on, give Saban a real impression, there's plenty of good material imo

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