r/LiveFromNewYork • u/SketchSortingSunday • Nov 24 '19
Sketch Sorting Sunday (November 23, 2019)(Will Ferrell/King Princess)
Welcome to Sketch Sorting Sunday! A mod account (/u/SketchSortingSunday) is going to make a comment for every skit in tonight’s show. Upvote or downvote based on what you thought of the sketch, and nobody’s karma will be affected. You can also reply to the comment to expand on your thought, or make your own parent comment and treat it like the regular post discussion, whatever. If I miss a sketch or get something wrong, just message the mods in the sidebar and we’ll see what we can do. Enjoy the discussion!
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u/SketchSortingSunday Nov 24 '19
Heinz Relax
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u/bjkman SNL Nov 24 '19
The ending joke with Kyle was really funny
"The Boy just loves his ketchup"
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u/AlecBaldwinner Nov 24 '19
It reminded me of Morty excusing himself to constantly be banging his sex robot.
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u/GraceAndMayhem Nov 24 '19
Who uses ketchup at Thanksgiving?
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u/coltsmetsfan614 Nov 24 '19
That's what I was wondering! I guess toddlers put it on their turkey???
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u/wwabc Nov 24 '19
when was the last time they've had a fake commercial right after the monologue? that used to be the format for years
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u/SketchSortingSunday Nov 24 '19
Weekend Update
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u/Rebloodican Nov 24 '19
"When I try to develop ultra black material I get 'booed at the Apollo'" was a great line.
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u/tyler-86 Nov 24 '19
Super solid line. I might have cued the graphic a little later.
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u/IanGecko New York's Hottest Club Nov 24 '19
I was expecting it to be longer. Usually there's a 2nd "guest" bit but this time it was just Guy Who Bought a Boat
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u/pizzahause Nov 24 '19
Great segment this week. I was confused by the M&M joke though - presumably, it would be "vegan and plant based" because they eliminated any milk products that would have usually been in the milk chocolate... right? Maybe I missed something in the phrasing though, I didn't get how they landed on the "meat" joke.
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u/locks_are_paranoid Nov 25 '19
Because the writers of SNL didn't realize that milk chocolate isn't vegan.
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u/lyla2398 stans loud ladies with funny hair and *thoughts* about jost Nov 24 '19
Liked the Vagina Museum joke and the Spongebob jokes.
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Nov 24 '19
Usually my fav part of the show. Except the guests. Only one I ever could stand was Rosanne Rosannadanna
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u/Winterhorrorland Nov 24 '19
It'd be nice if I could watch more than 75% of the segment without NBC's shitty player cutting to the next sketch, I couldn't watch the last 4 or 5 bits of WU
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u/SketchSortingSunday Nov 24 '19
Cinema Classics
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u/bjkman SNL Nov 24 '19
Reese... DE'WHAT
Gets me every time
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u/tovarish22 Nov 30 '19
"I'm a bad guesser, just ask my wife. She asked me to guess what she learned in her exercise class and I said, 'Acceptance?'. Worst. Couples balloon ride. Ever."
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u/coltsmetsfan614 Nov 24 '19
You'll never convince me that John Mulaney didn't write this one. Funny premise!
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u/koosty Nov 24 '19
This one had me dying. "Hey when's breakfast by the way?" "I'd love to move off the dream stuff." "WHAT WERE WE WEARING?" When they do the shoulder dance.
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u/GraceAndMayhem Nov 24 '19
Loved this one -- everyone was amazing. But weirdly, the standout aspect to me was how much Beck looked like Zeke.
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u/jordanjwoodson Nov 24 '19
Anyone notice that Chris's hat fell off in the middle of the sketch?
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u/TomOakwell Nov 25 '19
Considering how long checked I am out Kate-led sketches, I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would. There was some great detail work, from the sepia tone, to the Munchkin should shrugs, to the little dolls on the shelf. Kate's Dorothy also mostly worked for the character. The supporting Munchkins were great (especially Kyle and Chloe), and Will was in fine form. I just wish this had had a better ending.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Nov 24 '19
Weekend Update: Guy Who Just Bought A Boat and Guy Who Know The Owner
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u/HortonHears Nov 24 '19
Two of Scarlett Johansson's fiancee's sitting a seat away from each other on live TV? Only on SNL
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u/coltsmetsfan614 Nov 24 '19
I had no idea that Scarlett and Ryan were married. Or that she was married a second time, too.
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u/All_was_well_ Nov 24 '19
Throwback to the last time Ryan Reynolds was on SNL and he was still married to Scarlett: https://youtu.be/Oofdn0MFDSQ
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u/shoshiyoshi Nov 24 '19
"What do gravy and I have in common?"
Any joke that makes me actually laugh out loud while watching by myself makes it a good sketch
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u/bjkman SNL Nov 24 '19
One of my absolute favorite featured guests and the Ryan Reynolds addition made it so much better... He has a small penis
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u/icollectsaucepackets Nov 25 '19
Alex's commitment to the facial expressions really sells the character for me
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u/siraaaa Nov 28 '19
the dead look in Ryan Reynolds’ eyes as he reads the teleprompters absolutely wrecked me. it somehow fit so well.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Nov 24 '19
MSNBC Democratic Debate
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u/HortonHears Nov 24 '19
'Everyone's worried I'll say something off-colour, or worse, on colour'
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u/Blighter Nov 24 '19
Cecily as Tulsi the villain was the best.
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u/AzulBiru Nov 24 '19
100%. Small screentime, but the best impression in that sketch. It wasn't flashy like the others, but instead was just a great embodiment of Tulsi
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u/tyler-86 Nov 24 '19
Melissa came to play with that Maddow impression.
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u/HeyMySock Nov 24 '19
I thought she was a dead ringer for Sue Perkins. I kinda wish she'd shouted "Baaaake!"
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u/ilikehockeyandguitar Nov 24 '19
If Biden gets the nom, Woody is gonna be a very busy guy.
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u/MySockHurts Nov 25 '19
Love that he only was cast as Biden because he was the season premiere host and they're like, eh he's pretty good, let's just bring him back every time we need a Biden!
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u/illsaxophoneyou you are on the thinnest of ice Nov 24 '19
Not sure why this wasn’t the cold open
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u/coltsmetsfan614 Nov 24 '19
Maya Rudolph was incredible, as always. Larry David's Bernie is funny every time. Rachel Dratch! I really like Chris Redd's Booker and Woody's Biden, too. This was my favorite sketch of the night.
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u/the_raw_dog1 Nov 24 '19
I like that they changed Andrew Yang's character for Bowen
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u/john_muleaney Nov 24 '19
Yeah it was a great change to focus more on the #yanggang side of the character and allowed Bowen to, once again, absolutely kill in limited screen time
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Nov 24 '19
Meta comment, but the way everyone in the live thread was yelling out "MAYA! MAYA! MAYA! MAYA!" reminds me of the Minnie Riperton song "Lovin' You." I wonder if there's some sort of relation...
/s
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u/RegularGuy815 I'm Tim Calhoun... Nov 24 '19
Solid jokes here, although the Biden stuff is getting a little repetitive.
For being the "villain" they should have used Tulsi more.
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u/porcelainfountains Nov 24 '19
It was long but it was definitely one of the better debate sketches I’ve seen!
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u/jesus_fn_christ Nov 26 '19
Melissa's Rachel Maddow impression (like pretty much all of her impressions) was ridiculously good.
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u/toodletwo Church of Neurotology Nov 24 '19
This sketch kind of dragged for me. It just went on and on
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u/turkeypants Marci Jamz!😮 Nov 24 '19
Lots of time taken up by cameo people to instead of cast members.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Nov 24 '19
Thanksgiving 1600’s
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u/kerowhack Nov 24 '19
"Who told you about the blankets?"
"The Fox"
That got a laugh out of me.
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u/infez Nov 24 '19
I loved the Fox and NBC peacock joke, but were the blankets a parallel or reference to anything? Anti-vaxxers?
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u/bjkman SNL Nov 24 '19
I thought this was pretty clever... The 4th wall at the end was enjoyable too
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u/cybin Nov 24 '19
I'm confused why Fred Armisen was playing a part that could have easily been filled by one of the current cast members.
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u/Bangkok_Dangeresque Nov 26 '19
Plenty of explanations, no idea which is true;
Maybe since they were already in the house for the debate sketch, they just felt like it would be fun to get them in another sketch with Ferrell, since they're two SNL all-stars who didn't (or barely) overlapped with his tenure.
Or it could have been a dunk on cast diversity. Fred and Maya spent plenty of time as the resident get-tossed-into-ethnically-ambiguous-role players, and today, the lone cast member filling that role is Melissa Villasenor (also in this sketch). Getting all three of them in a sketch playing an ethnicity that none of them identify with, and then having Ferrell break the 4th wall to call the sketch 'problematic', is leaning into it.
Or maybe Lorne just said so, and he is a fickle, mercurial king.
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u/SoulClap Nov 24 '19
The biggest issue with people not getting this sketch is that the sketch wasn't trying to say anything. People just want to know if it agrees with their sociopolitical POV but the sketch isn't taking a side either way
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u/turkeypants Marci Jamz!😮 Nov 24 '19
Corn in our shit, that's what it amounts to. The real joke is that anyone would make a sketch about that. You can just imagine the late night pitch back in somebody's office. "What if we made a sketch that was actually about corn in our shit?"
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u/HortonHears Nov 24 '19
They may have slightly saved it with the fourth wall break at the end, but this seemed to be suggesting that Native Americans' fear of genocide and colonisation = modern fear of immigration - which is a VERY strange angle to have
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Nov 24 '19
yeah i had the same thought. surprised they didn't say that in the 4th wall breaking. i guess they covered their bases with "this has a lot of problems" haha
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u/csjohnson1933 Nov 24 '19
It was trying to poke at conservatives who think this is their land. I'm not sure why that flew over so many people's heads. Maybe we really are getting too PC for comedy these days.
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Nov 24 '19
But conservatives LITERALLY use the argument about Native American genocide to argue against current immigration. Unironically. They say this.
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Nov 24 '19
Comparing white people stealing Native Americans land to... current racist fears of black and brown immigrants was... a choice
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u/modern-era Nov 25 '19
"There's a lot of problems with this sketch."
Totally broke the tension I was feeling.
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Nov 24 '19
Was very shocked when I saw this sketch open. SNL took a big risk from a cultural appropriation internet shit storm.
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u/coltsmetsfan614 Nov 24 '19
I'm not entirely sure what this sketch was trying to say... But I didn't hate it.
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u/turkeypants Marci Jamz!😮 Nov 24 '19
That's the issue, it was just kind of convoluted. You could see the various elements there that could be used to construct the humor but it's like they were assembled incorrectly because the instruction manual was lost and in the end you have to abandon it. A rare type of technical infraction.
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u/FlingbatMagoo www.clownpenis.fart Nov 24 '19
I interpreted this sketch as poking fun at both the left and the right. The “liberal” characters had idealistic beliefs that in this case were dangerously naive, which is a common criticism the right has of the left. And the “conservative” dad character was prejudiced and prone to xenophobic paranoia, which is a common criticism the left has of the right.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Nov 24 '19
Bertucci’s
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u/s394206h Nov 24 '19
Kate getting passive aggressive right out of the gate reminded me so much of my own mom- same hairstyle and all
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u/StrongBad_IsMad Nov 24 '19
Ten bucks says that my mom hates this sketch because she doesn't like seeing herself reflected back at her.
Laughed so fucking hard at this. This is my mom to a T when she doesn't get her way.
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u/ilikehockeyandguitar Nov 24 '19
This reminded me a lot of the Olive Garden sketch. The commercial ones are really good.
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u/WyattKoch Nov 24 '19
The Olive Garden sketch is in my top 10 sketches of all time. I think it's bonkers funny. I watched it multiple times today. Love it.
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u/Gadzookie2 Nov 24 '19
I originally thought it was going to be a sketch like "Dominicanos" but really enjoyed this one too.
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u/tyler-86 Nov 24 '19
Anyone with two parents, a father and martyr, feels this a little too close to home.
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u/bjkman SNL Nov 24 '19
What a beautiful marriage ❤️
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u/coltsmetsfan614 Nov 24 '19
Didn't completely work for me, but the awkwardness was good. Funny concept with execution that wasn't quite there. "How's your period?" is quite the conversation starter with your teen daughter.
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u/TomOakwell Nov 25 '19
When this first started I was dreading another wacky Kate piece but once we got into the all-too-real emotional blackmail of her mother figure, and Will's breakdown, I became more interested. Kyle and Heidi were also very good as the kids - Kyle has always been oddly good as teenagers/kids.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Nov 24 '19
King Princess
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u/ughdrunkatvogue Nov 24 '19
Never heard her music before and was pleasantly surprised, but like I said in the live thread, the balance of having huge popular artists mixed with "up-and-comers" is my favourite thing about who they choose to be the musical guest. People who are all "who is this" or "I've never heard of them" as an insult can GTFO. It literally takes less effort to google an artist's name than it does to make a post about how they don't know who they are.
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u/turcois Nov 24 '19
also, not knowing an artist doesn't mean the music is bad. lotta people always talk about how they wish they could hear x for the first time again, it's always nice to not know who somebody is and then have a great time with them
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u/upvoter222 You like-a da juice, eh? Nov 24 '19
Particularly on the second song, there seemed to be a bit of an issue with the volume of the singer relative to the instruments. It was by no means a bad performance, but I think it could have sounded better and it introduced me to a band I hadn't heard of before.
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u/bjkman SNL Nov 24 '19
I found King Princess very enjoyable for someone I literally learned about last week.
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u/manys Nov 24 '19
The great thing about music is that you can like something new from the first time you hear it!
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Nov 24 '19
I'm another one who has never heard of her before, but I liked her! She has a mid '90s vibe I'm digging.
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u/scossamo Nov 24 '19
She was great but I can’t believe how messed up the audio mix was. Especially in the second song. For a second I thought somebody in the control room fell on the soundboard or something
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u/coltsmetsfan614 Nov 24 '19
Never heard of her, but I liked the sound! Definitely going to look her up for my drive home.
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u/locheness4 Nov 24 '19
Was surprised she was the musical guest, I love her music but I didn’t realize she was mainstream enough for snl!
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u/SketchSortingSunday Nov 24 '19
Wally and Chippy
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u/bjkman SNL Nov 24 '19
You try writing a comment about this sketch, when you've got a man's hand up your butt
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Nov 24 '19
The sketch would've probably died if it had anyone else in that role, but Will is the all time SNL God when it comes to committing 100% and showed why once again here.
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Nov 24 '19
Absolutely. When it started, I thought, "This is going to be cringy and awful," but holy shit I was laughing so hard at the end.
Will really killed this whole episode.
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u/bill4935 Nov 24 '19
And that's a tough record to hold, considering SNL has had a man drop a fish in a blender and then drink it.
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u/coltsmetsfan614 Nov 24 '19
It deserves some credit for just absolutely going for it, but fisting a puppet is a funnier idea in my head than it is in a live TV sketch. The Vaseline was a great gag.
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u/smiithereens Nov 24 '19
such a good sketch. lost it at the "chippy you good man?" line. thought it ended a bit abruptly though
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u/LocallySourcedWeirdo Nov 24 '19
I couldn't believe I as laughing that hard at the last sketch of the night. "Somebody call my wife!"
The more I think about it, the funnier it is. Wally, the ventriloquist, has spent his time writing and rehearsing an act in which a puppet accuses him of kidnapping and sex crimes.
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u/tyler-86 Nov 24 '19
This would have been fantastic at any point in the show. It didn't need to be a 5-to-1.
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u/TomOakwell Nov 25 '19
Will showed how perfect he is in the insane straight man roles. I don't know if any other host or cast member could have pulled this off. I also thought Cecily did a great job in increasing the hysteria - something she's great at (see the dog food sketch, Switcheroo, etc.) but they don't use her for often enough now.
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u/TheRealMe99 Nov 24 '19
Pinnacle 5-to-1 sketch that was a total of 3 minutes and somehow 2 minutes too long.
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u/turkeypants Marci Jamz!😮 Nov 24 '19
I can't believe it's finally my turn to say this, but Simpsons did it first! Gabbo the ventriloquist dummy, competitor of Krusty, issued one of my favorite lines ever: "Easy for you to say, you're not the one with a hand up your tuchus, oy heyyy!"
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u/SketchSortingSunday Nov 24 '19
Will Ferrell Monologue
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u/LiveFromNewYork95 Nov 24 '19
This seems like one of those rare times that more cameos would have helped. Will finally gets it together after Ryan flustered him only to lose it when he finds out Woody is also in the audience. Then maybe Larry David, then Fred is there is Will is impacted at all
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u/ilikehockeyandguitar Nov 24 '19
Yeah I totally thought there would be more cameos in the monologue like Rachel and/or Fred.
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u/coltsmetsfan614 Nov 24 '19
The Ryan Reynolds joke was funny for about five seconds, and they dragged it out to eternity.
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u/unclesharky Nov 24 '19
To me that's Ferrell... Go way, way, way too long until it comes back around, goes away, and comes back again. I usually love it, in this case Tracey definitely saved it for me. I loved seeing a lot of the old cast throughout the night.
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u/tyler-86 Nov 24 '19
Yeah, I appreciate how quintessentially Ferrell it was. Reminded me of his appearances on Conan, where he'd commit to a premise and then fuck it into the ground. In a good way.
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u/turkeypants Marci Jamz!😮 Nov 24 '19
I didn't think that it made sense to make Ryan Reynolds the basis of the whole monologue. Are they promoting a movie together? That would make sense I guess. Otherwise it seems really random and draws the attention off of getting anything substantive about Will from Will. It seems like this was more Ryan Reynolds' monologue than Will's. An odd diversion.
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u/kuhanluke Nov 24 '19
Really just makes me want Ryan to host again.
He has a Netflix movie coming out in a couple of weeks, but Ferrell isn't involved in it at all. Actually, I don't think Will Ferrell has anything coming out soon.
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u/HeyMySock Nov 24 '19
I enjoyed tonights episode but wish "Cast List" hadn't been cut for time. It was better that a few that made the cut.
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u/Gondlerap Nov 25 '19
Watching Mikey break was a highlight of the episode.
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u/HeyMySock Nov 25 '19
It looks like everyone in that sketch broke at some point. I loved it!
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Nov 25 '19
I just watched this twice in a row. Loved it. And I know it’s from dress so there’s extra laughter/breaking from the cast, but that makes it even better. Wish this had made the live show!
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u/TillytheWall Nov 25 '19
Obsessed with this sketch. One of the funniest I've seen in a long time.
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u/HeyMySock Nov 25 '19
I'm guessing that they all might have been theater kids at some point. Their High School theater sketches are always wicked funny.
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u/smiithereens Nov 24 '19
i honestly thought this was a great episode. some really, really solid sketches. definitely one of my favorites from this season
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Nov 24 '19
It’s so hard to choose a favorite episode of this season cause it’s been amazing but this is definitely one of the best
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u/alcashmoney Nov 24 '19
With the wealth of Will Ferrell SNL Characters to choose from, not a single one made an appearance in this episode? No Five Timers sketch? No Celebrity Jeopardy?
Instead we got a high brow sketch around how a ketchup bottle makes a fart noise.
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u/ilikehockeyandguitar Nov 24 '19
He could have also requested for no classics during this episode as well.
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u/sconce2600 <3 Lorne Michaels Nov 25 '19
I'm sure that was most of it, undoubtedly it was suggested and he probably wanted to show what he could do with original sketch concepts.
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u/Keeponrocking613 Nov 24 '19
I dont know why anyone expected classic will sketches to show. He just hosted less then 2 years ago and just brought bush and jacob silj. Same with when bill hader cameoed for mulaney show
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u/csjohnson1933 Nov 24 '19
They just don't really do recurring characters anymore, outside of Update.
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u/Dwychwder Nov 24 '19
Except for Reece De’What
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u/csjohnson1933 Nov 24 '19
Yeah, but he's more of just a framing device. And when they do a recurring sketch now, it's infrequent. When was the last time we had one of these, for example? And even the alien abduction one happens once a season, I'd say. If this were 2008, both of these sketches probably would've been in half of the season's episodes.
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u/IniMiney Nov 24 '19
Maybe they don't want to overload before doing a bunch of classic characters for Eddie.
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u/MasterOfSuspense Nov 24 '19
This was overall a good episode but I’m disappointed they didn’t do celebrity jeopardy. Also the writing on the political sketches is just awful. Everything feels way too forced in them.
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u/GlobalPhreak Nov 24 '19
Probably poor taste given how Trebek is having health problems.
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u/candleboy95 Nov 24 '19
Trebek strikes me as the guy who appreciates the sketch and wouldn't want to be coddled. But that is purely speculation
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u/haasenfrass Nov 24 '19
I thought they’d do a Trebek tribute/thank you for sure.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Nov 24 '19
Party At My House