Davidson had so much screen time I thought it must have been 10 times the usual. I liked that he breaks character a lot... Almost like Fallon.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018, 6:54 PM Steve Timko, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
