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Saturday Night Live: Anya Taylor-Joy/Lil Nas X (2021)
Great Episode
Anya Taylor-Joy NEEDS to get into comedy. She was phenomenal in all her sketches. Her opening monologue was great landed the jokes about "fashion week" and The Queen's Gambit, and the drug thing was funny too.
It was nice to see a reflective and emotional cold open talking about the year, they even got some good jabs at themselves. Even got Chris Rock in there too.
The sketches
- Hollywood Squares: Unexpected, funny, best game show parody seen in a while
- Picture with Dad: Anya's performance was phenomenal. The pleas of the dad not to have sex went on for a few seconds too long but overall not bad.
- Making Man: Funny, goes into all the reasons why the mans body parts are strange (useless nipples, fragile balls) and the critiques from the women are great too. Then Jesus comes out, not bad.
-Pride Month Song: I'm all for pride inclusivity and celebrating pride month, but the prerecorded SNL song sketches are getting tiring and repetitive. Although they got a couple jokes in there, still probably the worst of the night.
- Celtic Woman: Strange concept, but made it work. Aidy and Cecily's Irish accents are awesome. When they start singing Sweet Home Alabama was the funniest part.
- College Panel: Led by Ayna and Aidy, two girls who are interviewing a cast, including Max, the cute guy and 5 other minorities who get asked the most racist/homophobic jokes. Pretty funny.
- AMC Commercial: When I first saw the car driving down the road and a deep voice talking, I burst out laughing at the idea of the Vin Diesel parody and it just got better from there.
Musical Guest: Lil Nas X
- 1st Song: Not a horrible song, but what the hell was the dancing. I'm a young guy, but I though that was even too far. If I wanted to see that I would have watched Magic Mike.
-2nd Song: The dancing was toned down, and we really got to see how good of a singer he was, and the song wasn't bad.
Weekend Update:
- The Joke-Swap was, like always, hilarious and racy. Maybe the funniest part of the night.
-Jeanine Pirro: WINE!!
Great Episode, definently in top 3 this season.
Next Season, hopefully Melissa Villasenor is gone and Bowen is upgraded to repertory.
Saturday Night Live: Dan Levy/Phoebe Bridgers (2021)
Had potential
Dan Levy was phenomenal, his energy was great. The Eugene Levy cameo was a fun surprise.
Cold Open:
It was okay, the commercial parodies and Aidy as both coaches saved it.
The monologue:
It was pretty good, but it seems like they do a studio tour at least once every couple months and it's getting old now but Aidy as the covid police and Eugene Levy's cameo saved it.
The Sketches:
Universal Tram was funny, Levy's jokes and energy were funny and present. Kenan's reactions were, like always, perfect
Super Bowl Pod was not great, it had potential but didn't get quite there. Kate as Fauci and Bowen as Psy really saved it and was one of the best moments of the night
Lifting Our Voices was funny but not memorable at all. Levy's over-the-top activist and Aidy's well-intentioned math teacher were great and made the sketch watchable.
Hot Damn was not funny, long and recycled. This format of 2 people singing a song that nobody has ever heard, but then they remember. They did it in the 2015 Chris Hemsworth episode and possibly more. The format is just not funny
Wedding Friends had the most potential of any sketch but it didn't get there. It had funny moments, like when Dan and Kate's characters are texting each other with the volume up, but besides that it was not funny.
Prerecorded Sketches:
The Zillow sketch was the best of the night, it's so true and I bet hundreds of 20-40 yr olds felt attacked. The It Gets Better sketch was pretty good and Kate's iguana was the best part. Fun Fact: All cast members featured in the sketch are LGBTQ+.
Weekend Update:
It was probably the most funny segment the entire night, from Jost and Che's comments on Marjorie Taylor Greene's Conspiracy Theories, Calling Trump a "Social Media Influencer", Jeff Bezos' Retirement. The guests were all funny, Heidi and Mikey's child cancellers were good and Kenan and Chris' Twinsthenewtrend were hilariously reacting to the Friends Theme Song, Baby Shark, and The Alphabet.
Musical Guest:
Phoebe Bridgers type of music is not really my thing, but it wasn't too bad, but if she's gonna smash a guitar, she's gonna need to work out a bit more.
Overall:
Good episode, very funny moments and lines but overall most sketches were lacking, they had potential but didn't quite get there, whether that's just not great writing, or because covid messed up the time for rewrites, I don't know. But the sketches are just not quite funny enough to be good.
Best/Worst Sketches:
Best is the Zillow Sketch
Worst is Lifting Our Voices
Extra Opinion:
Obviously Lorne and the writers are over politics, but they need to do one big send off for Trump, get Alec back and do a post-presidency sketch and retire him.