TV: SNL Season 48

[Voight]

Uggh, now Chris Redd is leaving. This sucks. Too many good people are leaving.

IMO the show will not last past 50 seasons.

 

[Langdon Alger]

Hosts and musical guests announced for the first three shows

October 1 - Miles Teller/Kendrick Lamar
October 8 - Brendan Gleason/Willow
October 15 - Megan Thee Stallion host and musical guest

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

Chris Redd was fine, but he clearly didn't write / have much range in terms of characters. The cast last season was definitely crazy large, it needed to be trimmed regardless.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Chris Redd was fine, but he clearly didn't write / have much range in terms of characters. The cast last season was definitely crazy large, it needed to be trimmed regardless.

Pretty much this also the cast is still pretty lEge

 

[John Price]

Who exactly are the bigger names again?

Just Che

don't recognize anyone else

 

[Jumptheshark]

I like the Manning start

funny inside joke(they obviously knew) Miles Teller replaced Arnie Hammer in 3 different projects after his disgrace--I think only The Offer has come out so far

The bear sketch took long to pay off

 

[Transplanted Caper]

This is weird. Both Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant were filming other things to kick off the last season, but both were in the opening credits. Unless Strong LITERALLY wasn't around when they filmed the credit sequence, but that'd be odd.

SNL: Cecily Strong MIA From Opening Credits While Doing Play in L.A.

No, you should not worry that Cecily Strong has given Saturday Night Live an Irish good-bye amid so many other Season 48 cast changes.

tvline.com

 

[Langdon Alger]

This is weird. Both Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant were filming other things to kick off the last season, but both were in the opening credits. Unless Strong LITERALLY wasn't around when they filmed the credit sequence, but that'd be odd.

SNL: Cecily Strong MIA From Opening Credits While Doing Play in L.A.

No, you should not worry that Cecily Strong has given Saturday Night Live an Irish good-bye amid so many other Season 48 cast changes.

tvline.com

She’s currently doing a play in L.A. so depending on when they shot it, she may not have been around.

 

[Jumptheshark]

This is weird. Both Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant were filming other things to kick off the last season, but both were in the opening credits. Unless Strong LITERALLY wasn't around when they filmed the credit sequence, but that'd be odd.

SNL: Cecily Strong MIA From Opening Credits While Doing Play in L.A.

No, you should not worry that Cecily Strong has given Saturday Night Live an Irish good-bye amid so many other Season 48 cast changes.

tvline.com

NBC said they filmed the opening 2 weeks ago. Strong has been in LA for 2 or 3 months

 

[zombie kopitar]

I only watched the cold open, but that was actually really good. still reckon it's gonna be a general shit show for a while though

 

[Langdon Alger]

I only watched the cold open, but that was actually really good. still reckon it's gonna be a general shit show for a while though

The rest of the show after the cold open wasn’t anything special, so you didn’t miss much.

 

[Jumptheshark]

The rest of the show after the cold open wasn’t anything special, so you didn’t miss much.

only got worse this week

 

[Langdon Alger]

only got worse this week

I didn’t watch it. Saw a bit of the cold open, that’s it.

 

[Jumptheshark]

I didn’t watch it. Saw a bit of the cold open, that’s it.

to keep people watching they pushed weekend update to nearly the end of the show

 

[Langdon Alger]

to keep people watching they pushed weekend update to nearly the end of the show

What do you think of the new cast members so far?

 

[Jumptheshark]

What do you think of the new cast members so far?

I think it is more a writing problem than anything--So far none of them have jumped out to me as anything special

Also--I think they are trying to turn Bowen Yang into the new Keenen Thompson or something

 

[Langdon Alger]

I think it is more a writing problem than anything--So far none of them have jumped out to me as anything special

Also--I think they are trying to turn Bowen Yang into the new Keenen Thompson or something

The only new cast member I’ve noticed so far is Michael Longfellow, who did something on weekend update in the season premiere. I thought he was pretty good.

 

[Stylizer1]

The only new cast member I’ve noticed so far is Michael Longfellow, who did something on weekend update in the season premiere. I thought he was pretty good.

Molly Kearney seems to be one who's actually funny.

 

[Langdon Alger]

Molly Kearney seems to be one who's actually funny.

Ok

 

[Stylizer1]

Ok

Of the new cast members. The one skit I saw of her on Saturday showed she might become one of their best of the cast.

 

[Langdon Alger]

Watched tonight’s show because I knew that Cecily Strong was coming back. Wasn’t bad, wasn’t great, but it’s nice to see Cecily back. She does a lot of the heavy lifting on that show.

 

[Langdon Alger]

Also, that joker sketch from last night is one of the worst sketches I’ve seen them do in a long time.

 

[Raging Bull]

It's brutal. Was the sketch about Biden running in 2024 supposed to be a comedy?

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

Also, that joker sketch from last night is one of the worst sketches I’ve seen them do in a long time.

There are so many people like that, which is why I enjoyed it. Simple premise, doesn't deviate, built on repetition, properly heightened.


Of the new cast members, Molly Kearney definitely had the funniest bit with the video. The other 3 have basically just done their tight-5 standup during Update, with Marcello Hernandez' bit being the only notable one. Devon Walker seems like he might be decent in sketch though. Michael Longfellow has that extremely vanilla nothingness to him that suggests he will get a lot of work in the show for reasons unknown.

All-in-all this start to the season has been better than expected so far.

 

[John Price]