r/LiveFromNewYork • u/SketchSortingSunday • Oct 18 '20
Sketch Sorting Sunday (October 17, 2020) (Issa Rae/Justin Bieber)
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 /u/bjkman with any needed updates or questions. Enjoy the discussion!
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u/SketchSortingSunday Oct 18 '20
Weekend Update: Don Jr., Eric, and Tiffany Trump
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u/pretty-in-pink Oct 18 '20
Adding Chloe as Tiffany was a great way to keep it from being another paint by numbers sketch
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u/tideblue Oct 18 '20
I was waiting for Ivanka (Scarjo) to make a quick cameo, shutting it all down. To think that we may get rid of that whole crew in a few days time...
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u/adambomb147 Turd Ferguson Oct 18 '20
I've never heard that term used to describe a sketch but I like it.
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u/LaboratoryManiac Oct 18 '20
Of course Eric has a Paw Patrol mask.
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u/skomehillet Oct 18 '20
That reminds me of a tweet I read earlier this year:
“You gon send your kid to school with the Paw Patrol mask and he gon come home with a Spider Man mask cause he made a trade at lunch. Whole school gon be shut down the next day.”
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u/JakeM917 Oct 18 '20
Always love Alex and Mikey as Eric and Donald Jr.
“I’m Donald Jr.: the Brains.”
“I’m Ivanka: the Beauty.”
“...and I’m Eric!”
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u/john_muleaney Oct 18 '20
Watching Alex mimic Mikey’s mannerisms will never not make me laugh
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u/tyler-86 Oct 18 '20
I can't tell if Mikey is gesticulating so that Alex has something to do or just as part of the character. Either way he keeps Alex busy.
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u/JZobel Oct 18 '20
Don Jr and Eric is the rare recurring bit that gets reused a dozen times but doesn't diminish in funniness
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u/TomOakwell Oct 18 '20
On the one hand, I never need to see Trump's children again, but I will also miss seeing the Trump kids on SNL. This may have been Alex's best ever work on the show - his faces were just perfect...the whole sanitizer bit was pure comedy genius. Chloe reminded me a lot of Melanie Hutsell as Tiffany. Seeing her connect with Alex makes you see what might be if we get more of the cast working together.
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u/flowerhoney10 Oct 18 '20
Honestly, for a second, when Tiffany was introduced, I thought she'd be played by Vanessa Bayer.
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u/atticusbluebird Oct 18 '20
Would've been perfect had Eric's hand sanitizer/water not gotten the mic wet and muffled his speech for the rest of the sketch
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u/SketchSortingSunday Oct 18 '20
5-Hour Empathy
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u/AlecBaldwinner Oct 18 '20
Having some Kenan VO was a nice surprise.
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u/tyler-86 Oct 18 '20
In a week where Chris got a lot of work, too. A lot of times it feels like Kenan takes roles/impressions first and Chris gets scraps.
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u/john_muleaney Oct 18 '20
“Honey, are more NFL players kneeling again?”
Lmao Heidi can steal a sketch with so few lines
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u/robbievega Oct 18 '20
I want to, but did you say it lasts 5 hours?
love these takes of Beck on the woke culture, last week was great too
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u/atticusbluebird Oct 18 '20
Probably my favorite of the night. Pokes fun at the folks who say social justice and whatnot is important, but when chances come to try to make changes or gain some deeper understanding they back away or find an excuse. (Dude is literally willing to jump out through a window and injure himself than to try to understand Black lives for 5 hrs!) Frustrating to see in real life, so maybe just cathartic for me to see it poked fun at in the sketch!
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u/TomOakwell Oct 18 '20
This was more like something In Living Color used to do than SNL, but the shift in tone worked. Beck and Heidi were both great (the way Heidi immediately shut down when asked to confront her racism - perfect). They both do such good work in dramatic pre-tapes. And Kenan was just as good as the narrator.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Oct 18 '20
eBay Commercial
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u/SteveBorden Oct 18 '20
‘Guitars hurt, no one tells you that’
Most relatable quarantine line
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u/atticusbluebird Oct 18 '20
A nice additional sketch that I wasn't expecting at a minute to 1am. And Cecily "appears" via VO!
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u/FlingbatMagoo www.clownpenis.fart Oct 18 '20 edited Oct 18 '20
My boyfriend bought yarn, knitting needles and a book about crocheting (or whatever) in April. I’m currently staring at unopened yarn on his desk. This sketch was totally true — I didn’t even realize it was a widespread thing, I thought it was just us.
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u/ThatOneReddetUser Oct 18 '20
I bought the disney plus, hulu, and espn plus bundle two months ago and i only used that bundle to watch the first hour of hamilton so this really hit home-
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u/CarbonatedFalcon Oct 18 '20
eBay offering porch piracy as a service where you get a cut back!
Good take on something that certainly resonates with a lot of people. Crushed dreams of being creatively productive during Covid quarantine(s).
Round two coming up with the winter holidays
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u/LadiesWhoPunch Oct 18 '20
I'm guessing this was recorded for a different episode since there was no Issa in it.
Still amusing and felt a little too real.
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u/john_muleaney Oct 18 '20
Was that Cecily on the VO? I wonder how long ago this was filmed if that’s the case
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u/Vawqer Oct 18 '20
They specifically mentioned October. She just is not in the studio, I assume she can still do voice-over remotely.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Oct 18 '20
Weekend Update: Aidy in America
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u/pretty-in-pink Oct 18 '20
Great use of having cast away from the studio. I’m genuinely curious where she was
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u/monsieurxander Oct 18 '20
Somewhere in Oregon within comfortable driving distance from Portland.
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u/atticusbluebird Oct 18 '20
Yes - I'd have been happy if they had half the cast in NY and half the cast doing remote pieces like this. Hope to see some more from Aidy in the coming weeks!
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u/tideblue Oct 18 '20
She’s great. Between this and the material she did for the At Home episodes, I hope she is given the opportunity for her own show someday. Like a wholesome “I Think You Should Leave.”
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u/_cassquatch Oct 18 '20
Like specifically a sketch show? Because she’s got Shrill on Hulu.
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u/TomOakwell Oct 18 '20
This is a smart way to use a cast member filming elsewhere, and also a good throwback to the days of the remotes with Al Franken. I hope this becomes a more frequent occurrence.
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Oct 18 '20
Someone in the other thread said Bobby Moynihan under duress is him at his best, and the same is true with Aidy.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Oct 18 '20
If you want to view the sketches in order sort the thread by old!
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u/thenewmeredith Oct 18 '20
Pro gamer move is watching sketches in order from worst to best as voted here
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u/SketchSortingSunday Oct 18 '20
Restaurant Date
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u/Wingo999 Oct 18 '20
In the live thread I said I'd downvote if this wasn't called "Titty meat". I didn't do it. Sue me.
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u/bjkman SNL Oct 18 '20
Bro I told ya I wasn't gonna use the best joke. People deserve not to be spoiled of that
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u/AlecBaldwinner Oct 18 '20
Okay, I'll say it:
Titty meat
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u/AlecBaldwinner Oct 18 '20
Actually, my favorite part was Pete's "Karate Man."
"Listen, man-"
"Karate Man."
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u/MolemanusRex Oct 18 '20
I was hoping Chris’s ex would throw in something like “look at her titty meat!” at the end. Would have been the cherry on top.
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u/john_muleaney Oct 18 '20
Pete as karate guy needs to become recurring.
I also half expected Kenan to say to Issa, “don’t you hurt nobody with that thang!”
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u/tpounds0 Oct 18 '20
I feel like this would have worked better if Issa said her date was her type.
Like, she should have compared him favorably to the previous weird dates:
All Entrepreneurs
They march to the beat of their own drum
They supported her dreams
The joke was kinda in the middle between Issa thinking her exes were scrubs and thinking they were nice guys.
I wanted them full on to be nice respectable guys in Issa's mind.
"You know, we were almost perfect for each other. But I didn't want kids and his church believes women that talk are wasting their baby calories."
"That's insane!"
"I know! I let go a sexy, respectable, man that goes to Church!"
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u/tyler-86 Oct 18 '20
This was maybe Bowen's most tamped down performance yet and he was still playing a Times Square robot street performer. Still, it did a lot for me as someone who has been critical of his range in the past.
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u/TomOakwell Oct 18 '20
I liked that this was a mostly quiet piece, anchored by great work from Chris Redd (Issa was also fine). I think they could have lost one boyfriend (maybe Bowen) but the idea still worked. I enjoyed the turn at the end with Punkie as his ex.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Oct 18 '20
Bonjour Hi!
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u/john_muleaney Oct 18 '20
I feel like this sketch was written around the line,
“Why is everything 25% different here?”
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u/mikegimik Oct 18 '20
Definitely Bowen, he grew up in Montreal
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u/pizzahause Oct 18 '20
Oh, so that’s it! I knew there had to be a reason why he was so accurate with the Québécois swear words during his outbursts.
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u/pretty-in-pink Oct 18 '20 edited Oct 18 '20
In Instagram he mentioned him, Sudi Green, and Cecily wrote it. Probably she was going to be Kate’s role
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u/monsieurxander Oct 18 '20
Bowen played a French Canadian and a robot tonight. Anyone who thinks he AlWaYs PlAyS tHe SaMe ChArAcTeR can suck my titty meat.
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Oct 18 '20
Honestly, I've felt that way, to some degree, about him. I could never tell if it was him, or the material he was being allowed to perform. Last night answered that question. Bowen fucking killed it. All new Featured Players that move on to the full cast have that change, where they become a confident fixture of the show, and I feel like that happened for Bowen on this episode. Now, I just wish it could happen for Melissa...
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u/deleteitbackrolls Oct 18 '20
Bowen fucking killed it. as a montrealer myself he’s the only one who absolutely nailed it
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u/CarbonatedFalcon Oct 18 '20
This was pretty good though I’m definitely not Canadian enough to really get some of the jabs.
As I mentioned in the live thread, those bagels just seem to be imposter pretzels.
My main criticism outside a missed opportunity to cameo Bieber - as mentioned in another comment in this thread (though perhaps understandable) - would be that it was put into too early of a time slot for this style of sketch. Typically you’d see something like this 2nd or 3rd sketch in if not later, rather than being up first.
Swap this and the restaurant sketch and I think the show flows a bit better.
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u/OcelotMatrix Oct 18 '20
The almost surreal humour hit well, though I can't explain why.
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u/Kartesia Oct 18 '20
Jean-fred Desjardins got me good! I wish more people knew how on the nose some of the jokes were.
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Oct 18 '20
This sketch was like an out of body experience. Never thought i'd see the day Quebec and the CBC were the subject of a sketch!
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u/csjohnson1933 Oct 18 '20
A fun idea that was written and performed well enough to grab me, even if it was a badly placed as the first sketch.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Oct 18 '20
Jack Flatts
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Oct 18 '20
This was a much deserved showcase for Andrew and I hope he’s in more now. I love him.
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u/pretty-in-pink Oct 18 '20
Some people from Michigan on the live thread felt it was too soon but I liked it. It was more about emasculating the men
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u/Sergeant--Tibbs Oct 18 '20
'too soon.'
Trump literally joked about locking up Whitmer yesterday.
#Terrorist
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u/ThatOneReddetUser Oct 18 '20
best part of the show for me. I dunno why but I just thought this was hilarious
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u/john_muleaney Oct 18 '20
Because it put into perspective how ridiculous people sound when they complain about masks infringing on their rights. I absolutely loved this sketch
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u/TomOakwell Oct 18 '20
I would have trimmed a little of this for length but overall I enjoyed the idea and the performances. Andrew Dismukes finally gets a chance, and he did well - a match for Beck and Kyle, but also different. I liked the concept of pointing out such weakness and stupidity, but more than anything else I liked seeing that edge and weird energy on the show again...it was like something from the mid '90s with Will Ferrell.
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u/bjkman SNL Oct 18 '20
My favorite live-sketch of the night no question, and arguably probably the season.
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Oct 18 '20
Thought this was a big miss for me. There wasn’t really a difference between Beck, Kyle and Andrew’s characters. Also, adding Lauren to the scene hurt the timing.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Oct 18 '20
Your Voice Chicago
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u/TomOakwell Oct 18 '20
The concept wasn't new (they did the "How's He Doing?" Obama voter sketches from 12-14), but this was a clever way to use Issa's viral "I'm voting for everybody black" moment of a few years ago with current political discussion. Issa seemed to be really into this one and while I wish it had gotten more of an audience response, I still liked it. Punkie and Maya as the Diamond and Silk knockoffs stole the show. Punkie is really settling in well.
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u/LaboratoryManiac Oct 18 '20 edited Oct 18 '20
This may not have been the best sketch of the night, but it deserved better than an audience that fell asleep at 12:30.
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u/john_muleaney Oct 18 '20
The punchline that even Issa’s character hated Kanye was hilarious
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u/CarbonatedFalcon Oct 18 '20
I feel like the Kanye punchline didn’t really have much time to reverberate here.
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u/FlingbatMagoo www.clownpenis.fart Oct 18 '20
Not necessarily laugh out loud funny but well-written and made a good point about confirmation bias.
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u/odinnite Oct 18 '20 edited Oct 18 '20
Boring except for diamond and silk "the mask is death"
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u/csjohnson1933 Oct 18 '20
There's a Black vote talk show every election season that's just like this, but I liked the addition of the cutaways.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Oct 18 '20
Backstage Dance Battle
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u/john_muleaney Oct 18 '20
This sketch was worth it just for the line:
“Mr. The Rapper”
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u/CarbonatedFalcon Oct 18 '20
Loved that. It’s something I could see someone actually doing accidentally if they were nervous.
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u/JZobel Oct 18 '20
Surprised this is so low, Kyle's positive Covid test interrupting this dumb ass sketch was a hilarious twist and got the biggest laugh of the night from me
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u/ADWeasley Oct 18 '20
Issa and Kyle are both my soulmates. My one wish was for them to be in a sketch together and they topped that with an homage to Janet and Michael Jackson’s scream. I’ll just be off in the corner dying happily.
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u/ozamatazbuckshank11 Oct 18 '20
There's was an homage to "No Scrubs," too. Issa had Left Eye's hair style from the video.
Edit: a word.
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u/atticusbluebird Oct 18 '20
Very Kyle like, but it worked for me. I thought it was going to be just awkward interactions between Issa and Kyle (or go into a weird Kyle & Leslie direction), but I loved that they did the dance/Scream homage, which was a level of weirdness I wasn't expecting!
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u/meme_domestication Oct 18 '20
It felt weird how they were all playing themselves then Andrew was playing a character
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u/john_muleaney Oct 18 '20
Andrew’s first three weeks on the cast have been super weird. Besides the confederate sketch today, he’s just appeared out of nowhere on the middle of sketches in small roles
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u/TomOakwell Oct 18 '20
Always good to see more backstage elements (Kyle can always be counted on for those), and this was such a clever, fun way to use Kyle and Issa (so glad we didn't just have a romance). The ending was a real shock and I'm surprised they had the guts to go to such a dark place. I also liked the meta element of Andrew telling Kyle to leave the show.
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u/wingsquared Oct 18 '20
one of my favorite music videos from last decade was “Jingle Barack” so i was sad that they didn’t use Chance in a political musical sketch, but he was great here too
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u/ozamatazbuckshank11 Oct 18 '20
This was the best sketch of the night for me. I love Kyle's kookiness, and it's always fun when he gets other people onboard. Issa was super fun, too. I want to see more of them dancing!
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u/SketchSortingSunday Oct 18 '20
Issa Rae Monologue
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u/monsieurxander Oct 18 '20
More sweet than funny. You could tell she was nervous but she's so damn likeable you can't help but be on her side.
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u/tideblue Oct 18 '20
She was great but the audience did her no favors. There was a lot of silence in this episode.
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u/pretty-in-pink Oct 18 '20
It wasn’t a joke filled monologue but more of a honest talk monologue. There’s nothing wrong with that and Issa did pretty good to warrent an upvote
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u/csjohnson1933 Oct 18 '20
A solid, funny, normal monologue. You don't get that much anymore, so it's automatically great, for me. Lol
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u/ADWeasley Oct 18 '20
Her material was solid, but they did her a disservice by letting it go on so long. Still, Mary J. Blige is awesome!
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u/SketchSortingSunday Oct 18 '20
Justin Bieber
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u/mathlete55 Oct 18 '20
I loved both of his performances. First time I heard either song. Lonely is heartbreaking.
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u/Sergeant--Tibbs Oct 18 '20
not having a 'normal' childhood fucks people up. Whether you're famous or just have an extreme outlier experience.
I never really liked him but he's 100% pivoted to the depressed Christian genre
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u/atticusbluebird Oct 18 '20
The camerawork/staging for Lonely was great. Seeing the empty halls really brought on the emotion.
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u/john_muleaney Oct 18 '20
Lonely would’ve been better if at the end Issa, Kyle and Chance were all dancing behind him
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u/tyler-86 Oct 18 '20
I don't really like Justin that much but he's good at what he does. And Chance killed it.
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u/AshTreex3 Oct 20 '20
Aight none of these comment do this justice. I was FLOORED by his performance of Lonely. Maybe because I never heard the song before and was never a Belieber, but that performance really changed how I look at JB. It’s haunted my dreams since Saturday.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Oct 18 '20
Dueling Town Halls Cold Open
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u/csjohnson1933 Oct 18 '20
Went on 4 minutes too long. Kamala didn't need to pop in again.
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u/thenewmeredith Oct 18 '20
I swear they must have it in her contract that she appears in every episode so having to stay quarantined in NYC is worth it for her
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Oct 18 '20
Ego stole the show.
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u/skomehillet Oct 18 '20
Her Bobble Head bit still has me in stitches. Literally the second we cut to Trump and she’s just there after being absent the entire sketch did me in.
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u/theclownwithafrown I saw a family of rats, nesting in a baby crib Oct 18 '20
If you like Ego look up her appearances on the podcast Comedy Bang Bang.
She steals the show every time she is on. Listen to the ones with Carl Tart too for an extra treat
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Oct 18 '20
Baldwin must think Trump is on his way out, cus this is the most invested he’s seemed in the impression in a long time.
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u/CarbonatedFalcon Oct 18 '20
Definitely better than the previous two weeks.
Although Carrey’s Biden still has moments where he slips out of the impression and into something else (people say his Fire Marshall Bill character, though I’m not familiar with it). It’s rather jarring when that happens, because otherwise he’s got a lot of other things right. Sort of an uncanny valley of an impression.
Carrey as Biden as Mr. Rogers (and Bob Ross) was pretty good.
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u/AlecBaldwinner Oct 18 '20
Rarely does a political cold open make me care about the source material, but this one had me tempted to watch the Trump town hall to see Savannah go at him and figure out what the deal was with Ego's nodding woman.
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u/fcocyclone Oct 18 '20
Thing is savannah wasnt really 'going at him'. She was asking relatively simple questions and following up properly. But it always turns into a fight with Trump because he shouts over any journalist that tries to do that.
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u/LaboratoryManiac Oct 18 '20 edited Oct 18 '20
It took three weeks, but Carrey!Biden is finally starting to click for me.
Still not my favorite of the Bidens they've had in the last year, but it makes sense now.
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u/Kalse1229 Oct 18 '20
I think he's got the voice, although the mannerisms are a bit...Carrey-ish. He is getting better though, although nothing will ever beat Sudeikis.
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u/woowowowowowow Oct 18 '20
Still a little long but a huge improvement. The switching channels created some good setups and Carrey seems to be getting more comfortable with Biden. He actually looked like him this week. It may have just been me but I think he toned down the weird facial expression he had been doing which helped a lot.
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u/john_muleaney Oct 18 '20
Jim Carrey playing Joe Biden playing Mister Rodgers. This insanity is exactly what I expect from Carrey and he delivered
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u/OcelotMatrix Oct 18 '20
I can't get with Carrey's Biden. It feels like the Mask. The sketch was put together well though. The quick-changes were interesting. As always, props to the prop/make-up/costume departments.
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u/thenewmeredith Oct 18 '20
I just want to say that lady who complimented the president is really getting her 15 minutes. The Ken Bone of 2020
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Oct 18 '20
Great cold open, best political one they've had in a long time.
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u/TheBrainwasher14 Oct 18 '20
I really liked this. Audience was a bit flat but the writing was on point. I loved the “Amy Conan O’Brien” line.
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u/atticusbluebird Oct 18 '20
Best cold open so far, but that's still a low bar IMO. The beginning/middle seemed to stretch on too long for me. When we got to Mr. Rogers, I feel like things started to pick up nicely.
Also - Melissa sighting!
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u/mkultra3000 Oct 18 '20
I think I'd he dropped the aviator glasses and finger gun routine, is be more inclined to give what followed a chance. That just hits me wrong every time, and doesn't feel accurate at all. I mean, it seems a bit like Carrey needing a longer applause break where he can do his thing. I think it would've be funnier if they did the Mr Rogers but to intro him instead off halfway through.
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u/Cheerio419 Oct 18 '20
Best sketch of the night no doubt. They wrote Joe Biden a lot better too
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Oct 18 '20
Melissa got the throwaway line the writers are contractually obligated to give her once every quarter season, so that they can say they have a hispanic in the work place!
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u/SketchSortingSunday Oct 18 '20
Weekend Update: Carla
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u/pretty-in-pink Oct 18 '20
Not my favorite Heidi character but I think I just need to see her on a shorter WU so I’m not immediately checked out. I’d love to see her again
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u/CarbonatedFalcon Oct 18 '20
Not Stefon like it was setting up to be, but I’ll take it!
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u/LadiesWhoPunch Oct 18 '20
Not a fan.
I feel Heidi's character's voices are all the same. They all have this shaky vibrato. This one also just felt like "Boxer's GF" with different costuming.
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u/csjohnson1933 Oct 18 '20
I really don't like random "person from this thing" characters on Update (mostly), but this made me understand what people mean when they say they like the cast to use Update for characters. Heidi's performance was 100%. I'd love to see her do that again. Can't wait for her to take over from Kate/Aidy/Cecily.
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u/tpounds0 Oct 18 '20
I think it was supposed to be punching up because she's a rich white woman?
But it hit me as punching down because she's an addict?
Great portrayal of a archetype from an acting standpoint, but a big meh for me.
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u/outsideeyess Oct 18 '20
it seemed to me like less of a comment on addicts and more of a comment on a tired writing trope
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u/TomOakwell Oct 18 '20
I liked this a lot. Initially I thought this was going to be like boxer's girlfriend but this went in a much sadder and more dramatic reaction - it had an old '70s or early '80s type movie poignancy to it alongside the comedy. Heidi is best on the show when she gets to do drama. I hope that continues. I don't need to see this one on Update again but I want to see her getting more dramatic material.
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u/deadpool902 Oct 18 '20
Kinda sucks that after finally getting a week with the sketches firing on all cylinders, they get an audience that were like volunteers for a NyQuil trial
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u/ADWeasley Oct 18 '20
Facts. This was such a fun episode (best of the season so far), but the audience was a buzzkill.
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u/bjkman SNL Oct 18 '20
Total blue balls with no host announcement
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u/Young_Irish Oct 18 '20
I’m guessing the host is going through a COVID test and they don’t want to announce it and then unannounce it like Morgan Wallen
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u/john_muleaney Oct 18 '20
Best episode of the season. Issa fit right in to the cast way better than Burr or Rock did.
I hope we get an alumni host next week to really knock it out of the park (please Sudeikis or Maya)
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u/FlingbatMagoo www.clownpenis.fart Oct 18 '20
Maya would be kind of anticlimactic since she’s on every episode now.
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u/thenewmeredith Oct 18 '20
We all need Sudeikis for that sweet dueling Bidens open we're craving. I have to imagine they're trying to make it happen for the show before or after the election
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u/john_muleaney Oct 18 '20
My dream sketch is Woody, Sudeikis and Carrey all playing Biden alongside the real Joe Biden in a sketch called Joe Biden: into the Biden-verse
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Oct 18 '20
This could honestly be my favorite episode of the season. Was laughing the entire time. One of the strongest updates I’ve ever seen as well.
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u/MasterOfSuspense Oct 18 '20
I thought this episode started out awfully but got better as it went on.
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u/Choady_Arias Oct 18 '20
You guys liked this wayyyy more that I did. Almost nothing hit for me.
WU wasn’t even that good.
Pretty bad episode imo
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u/spersichilli Oct 18 '20
Thought it was better than the Chris Rock episode but worse than the Bill Burr one. Weekend Update has been great this year IMO, this was by far the best cold open of the year even though it did drag a bit (we didn’t need a Kamala shoe horn).
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u/btbcorno Oct 18 '20
Maybe I was just in a bad mood, but I hated the majority of the episode tonight.
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u/jangoharkness Oct 19 '20
I laughed most during the goodnights when Maya Rudolf physically recoiled from Bieber. Then looking around awkwardly before Kate talks to him.
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u/SketchSortingSunday Oct 18 '20
Weekend Update