Largely off topic, but it's worth tossing out there: The cold opening was six seconds short of 13 minutes. I wonder if that's a record. I liked the skit. The only part that needed to be cut was Kate McKinnon doing yet another old white guy. McKinnon chewed up the set when she played Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Weekend Update but her bit in the cold open just fell flat. It's not the all-time best cold open, but it was good. By the way, Lorne Michaels takes credit for inventing the term cold open. I haven't watched the entire show yet, but Pete Davidson's engagement to Ariana Grande was a source of humor. There was a reference in Adam Driver's monologue, when Davidson turned and winked at the camera. There was a whole skit of Kyle Mooney being jealous of Pete Davidson's popularity and dying his hair and getting a celebrity girlfriend. And Davidson talked about it on Weekend Update, poking fun at himself. I thought the latter was the best. I don't remember Davidson in many sketches in prior years, but he had a main role in one sketch and also was in a Fortnite skit. Looks like we'll be seeing more of him. Grande was supposed to perform but dropped out for emotional reasons, presumably because her ex-boyfriend killed himself. Which leads us to Kanye West. Ye, as he now calls himself, wore a MAGA hat and went on a pro-Trump rant at the end of the show and was booed. Chris Rock recorded it and posted it. Here's a link to a story. <https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/tv/a23554490/kanye-west-trump-rant-snl-embarrassed-kim-kardashian/> West, er, Ye followed this by Tweeting it's time to repeal the amendment that abolished slavery. He didn't elaborate, but presumably it's because the amendment allowed slavery for certain crimes and Ye apparently believes that is being used to secretly enslave blacks. He said Democrats want to get blacks on welfare to control them. So it was an eventful episode.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 2:36 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 12:03 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I found this relevant to the pilot of Murphy Brown also. It's about the >> difficulty of doing timely political humor in this environment. Writer Mark >> Harris says that it needs to come from a personal viewpoint like John >> Oliver, Seth Meyers, or Samantha Bee and not from a writers' room. >> >> >> http://www.vulture.com/2018/09/snl-brett-kavanaugh-matt-damon-political-comedy.html >> > > And yet across the pond, radio shows like The Now Show and TV shows like > Drop The Dead Donkey have taken writing ensembles to create genius timely > political humor (or humour). SNL suffers from a lot of problems (Lorne > Michaels being the main one), but scripts generated from a writers room is > not one of them. > > Also worth noting Oliver, Meyers, and Bee all have collaborative writers > rooms... that they write for one specific voice probably is easier for > many, though I personally would struggle with that. > > >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
