There ought to be a word for the phenomenon of tuning in to Saturday Night Live each week, hoping for something worthwhile, and giving up. Last night’s cold opening: meh. Bowen Yang was a poor J.D. Vance (makeup doesn’t take the place of a good impression); Mike Myers’s Elon Musk was overly manic, underly evil, and sounded far too British. James Austin Johnson as the FFCKUS was terrific as usual, but a proper treatment of the horror show in the Oval Office would have required a far more brutal kind of comedy.
And then the opening monologue: who was this guy? I looked him up and found out (ugh), and was cheered to see Bluesky users (some no doubt much younger than me) asking, Who is this guy? Given the opening skit, the show couldn’t have been a repeat, but here was a host making “jokes” (unfunny) about Ken Burns’s Civil War series, which first aired in 1990, and its resident historian (of ill-repute) Shelby Foote.
Oh, wait, Frasier.
Sunday, March 2, 2025
SNL, hopeful and hopeless
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I liked Mike Myers' impression better than you did. But yeah, who is that host? ugh... and the sketches got a lot worse later in the show.
And to think that this was the first new episode after the fiftieth extravaganza.
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