This weekend’s episode of “Saturday Night Live” (hosted by Emma Stone) featured two timely and well-executed skits: Kenan Thompson as Jimmy “The Rent Is Too Damn High” McMillan and a fake commercial for Brett Favre’s Open-Fly Jeans (videos below).
It pains me to admit it, but Thompson was great as McMillan (watch the original here). Since McMillan is such an easy target, I figured the character’s segment on Weekend Update would be lazily executed. But no: it’s well-written, not too long, and Kenan Thompson actually made me laugh. I’m pretty sure that’s one of the signs of the Apocalypse. Four horsemen, raining blood, Kenan Thompson being funny… oh well. It’s a nice change of pace at least.
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when they fire Seth and get an unpredictable fake anchor, THEN it’s an apocalypse.
/cats & corgis living together
The internet really needs to photoshop these two:
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New meme? Maybs.
Ok was it me or was this the single worst episode of SNL in the last 15 years? The Wrangler add was great, but other than that I found the whole thing excruciatingly awful. I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed… no actually I’m both.
Holy shit.. Only SNL can take Comedy Gold and make it suck horse turds….
Fuck you, Kenan. That’s pretty pisspoor when the guy you’re attempting to ridicule is actually funnier than you are.
Praising Kenan Thompson? Looks like someone is angling to get an autographed copy of Good Burger.
Where can i get those pants! I think they’d be a hit on the subway
SNL has really found its sweet spot over the years: parodies of jeans commercials. Not sure this one matches the height of Bad Idea or Three-Legged jeans, but at least there’s a completed trilogy now. SNL is dead, long live SNL.
That Kenan Thompson skit wasn’t funny. Check out Dan Lebatard’s podcast from last Wednesday. He interviewed the real Jimmy McMillan, and it was unbelievable. He talked about stuff like nunchucks and attempted kidnappings. SNL could never parody this guy.
Counterpoint: It wasn’t that bad, people. Kenan was fine, John Mulaney’s bit on “Mad Men” was funny, Stefan was funny, the Sex Workshop bit made me laugh, the Digital Short was cool, and (as far as fake commercials go) Baby Spanx was pretty good.
As trendy and neato as it is to scream, “ARRGGHH SNL IS POOPY SO MUCH,” this one wasn’t an abomination.
Kenan as Jimmy McMillan…..Burnsy called it.
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It doesn’t matter. Jon Hamm is next week. This week was just filler til then.
@DG:
I assure you that isn’t what I’m doing- I’ve been defending the show for years (except keenan) and would argue that at least one or two episodes from each of the last four seasons would stack up against anything from what different generations consider the “good years.”
I just honestly think last night was almost a complete whiff.
The Brett Favre ad was great, I just wish they wouldn’t of went the obvious route and explained the joke halfway through. As for Kenan…he was made for that role, good or bad. But it’s hard to parody a parody.
I thought SNL was this week was the best one of the season so far. Baby Spanks was funny, Farve jeans ad was good, i wish they ripped on Lohan a little more on the View skit. It was way better than the first few turds of the season.
@chazz_goodtimes- It’s hard to tell if this was the worst episode of the past 15 years, because 80% of their shows for the past 5 years have been the worst episode of the past 15 years.
Also, they should bring back Norm McDonald- he needs the cash, and he would tear NBC a new ass hole like he did back in the day when he hosted WU.
Sooo, are we suppossed to be surprised that SNl is awful?? I’m confused as to what the point of this post was.