Sandra Oh and many funny women raise SNL, SNL's political material brings him back again

Best / worst sketch of the night

Look for the political comedy report below for most of this "unhappily homogeneous" material.

On the plus side, there was a strong and varied selection of strange character pieces that worked throughout the show. As for Oh, his most spectacular work was done in a sketch where the future of high school student Mikey Day shows up in the mirror of his room to assure them that it will be a brilliant, successful day. connected to a pyromaniac named Fetish. As Tishy said, "Oh, carrying a plaster on her arm and a whimsical bravado at mediocre size, she went there, she turned around him, gesturing in a dismal abandonment while Day 10 and 20 years later have themselves touted the virtues of a 47-year term. a four-year-old woman, sensitive to Loko, whose enthusiastic rudeness evoked Amy Poehler in Poheler's zeal for playing shameless and shameless nutjobs. For once, I'm going to criticize SNL for bothering to write the end of a sketch, as the final revelation that Tishy, ​​the billionaire owner of Samsung, steals the comical and mysterious call of Tishy. It's better to ask about Tishy, ​​whose slogan that she has "the good goo-goo" leaves young Day's eyes wide, marveling at Tishy's more detailed description: "It's not what you think! " The same goes for the fact that Tishy 10 years later, a 57-year-old woman still seems to have the same cast on her broken arm. It's better to imagine.

Kate McKinnon, who does not sleep herself in the inexplicable weirdo group, has listed one of my new favorite Kate characters this season, while her office worker, Louise from Payroll, aged 85 years, derailed a staff meeting using his birthday wish politely granted. require everyone to kiss each other. Of course, Kate continued to portray all the other members of the Trump administration when her Rudy Giuliani, related to Nosferatu, appeared (literally, like a coffin) at the cold opening. But I will take every day original characters more detailed and more detailed, like Louise de Payroll. SNL can not shake a joke construction that goes something like: strange person acts strange; everyone grimaces and notes how strangely strange a person is acting. But here it works. McKinnon's small voice draws everyone, his colleagues and the audience, closer and closer as his desire to see his peers go to each other in the city emerges in this single request: "Kiss". Like Tishy, ​​Louise has depth The best payroll, the most gratifying, remains unexplored, while it locks with laser on its only wish, only reinforcing it by transparent manipulations of the type "All the world I know is dead, so give me a kiss. " And here is the person who is originally thinking of Louise pulling her notebook to work out further, culminating with her ultimate dream of assisting her colleagues at "a six-man Spider-Man" ways. " I do not know, and I do not want to know. Except that, in McKinnon's performance, I do it really, really.

Jump the gun a bit into political comedy and Update Jeanine Pirro, the Fox News rookie, is another outstanding example of success. SNL woman coming home and raking all the laughter. Pirro herself, a particularly broad example of Fox News's propaganda megaphone, is – well, the term "beyond parody" is very much used with regard to the scribes, facilitators and painters of the Trump administration. And yet, like McKinnon, Strong is a comic actor so vital and so committed that she is locked in something just exaggerated into an absurd and ridiculous ridicule to capture with a hilarious verisimilitude Pirro's recently suspended racist character. Here, make a symbolic racial insult (out of respect for the Islamophobic attack on representative Ilhan Omar that has earned him an unplanned vacation), and rant about his devoted audience of "nasty and horny elongated men on home hospital beds "and white gangs in Strong, Pirro jails, describing his return to the airwaves, summed up the product of someone from Fox News essentially playing Bloody Mary and reviving her in our lives. But it's the physical aspect of Strong that stole the show, because, imitating the Fox News bad news replica to the totally false conclusion that Donald Trump is not guilty of anything, she threw herself out of her Update chair with surrender, not once, but twice. Legs coming up in the frame like the end of Bazooka Joe's particularly uncomplicated cartoon, Strong forced overheating to warm up prematurely at night, if it was not the season, the biggest pair of belly laughs, all without renouncing the comic integrity of the characterization.

And since we jump rails to rent Update Features featuring the exceptional character work of funny women ass, here at Aidy Bryant. Appearing as a frustrated astronaut, Anne McClain, to make fun of NASA's recent fucking fuck, where the first all-female spacewalk was blocked due to lack of female space suits, Aidy practiced her craft very well. closely controlled mania, while McClain concealed unsuccessfully his disappointment and anger at NASA, which kills his professional and personal dream throughout his life, because "the shirt and pants of the space were of the bad size". Acute, there is a wave of repressed female rage that Aidy is particularly good at channeling, never more hilariously than when she portrays good sportsmanship. (Aidy does stellar eyework.) McClain's hairdresser tells all the little girls that they can do anything "just not at the same time," orbiting Aidy's characterization.

And, not to be outdone, Kenan Thompson killed him with a carefree showmanship in the musical sketch where his American singer, Jarvis Fillmore, tells the whole story of a 1960s British pop show with his unrivaled success. end 'Electric Shoes. I have already said, but Kenan will be missed when he finally leaves his record career SNL. As retirees, lamented "What's Up With That?", This piece does not stop rolling, it's a joke, Kenan's powerful musical characterization that carries the past thing where it should be funny, then again.

Back to women, the short film "Checks" lived in the performance, with a call to the dark that testifies to the dramatic flowering of a well-written payment check (to your daughter's black boyfriend, your gigolo, this woman de chambre who saw what happened on the gazebo). Kate, Oh, Aidy and Ego Nwodim clearly enjoyed showing off their portraits of Joan Crawford. Even the choice of advertising in cartoon design options or sports teams is pretty loud with spectacular violins and poison shopping easy to trace.

And, clinging to Ego, the underutilized star player had a nice turn mimicking that of Lupita Nyong'o. We role (s) in a credit card call center advertisement that has above all excelled in its very strong performance. For those who have not seen Jordan Peele's new horror film (and, seriously, what's wrong with you?), The jokes are so specific that the uninitiated will feel more than left behind. Still, Nwodim is really good, as is Kenan, whose ineffective husband is pledged on a doppelganger that, again, is funnier if you've seen the movie.

Oh, the long sumptuous period, "The Duel", his tortured wife torn between two suitors whose jealous rivalry has resulted in what turns out to be an unfortunately inept shooter. I'm not sold at the gore-to-laugh ratio here, like the joke that duelists Pete Davidson and Beck Bennett keep accidentally ricocheting musket balls into the bloody flesh of their beloved. But everyone is doing well in the carnage, and the joe timing of premature and wandering shots is well managed.

Update of the weekend update

Like basically every political comedy show in the last 450 years of the Trump administration, Saturday Night Live The specter of the Muller report has made a lot of hay (and rankings) to determine if, you know, the US president is tied to a hostile foreign power and engages in massive concealment of it. And, like these shows, SNL must now change the comic subject after the unpublished report promises to be less a slam dunk comic (and karmic) than previous jokes. And look, as Tracy Jordan once said, "I do not want to make a speech here. . ., "Leaving aside the facts of every word and public and verifiable act of Donald Trump stating crimes ranging from conspiracy to the alteration of elections to obstructing obstruction, and that the Prosecutor current general (chosen by the person under investigation by means of a job application in the form of a note indicating exactly what this person wanted to hear), I want to clarify that doing comedy from the report Mueller is a lot harder now than he seemed in the past.

It may not be surprising, although familiarly disappointing, that SNLThe first broadcast after the publication of the report, which has not yet been made public, goes straight to the point. In the cold wave, it is alluded to Donald Trump's (actual) threat of reprisal against "TV shows that have been mean to me," suggesting that the rich vein of provocative satirical riches must be exploited by a President in place who is trying to intimidate the public speech of his still very likely crime with so-called strong man tactics. But the show addresses this recurring theme of our national nightmare: it is blurry, tasteless and largely toothless. For Michael Che and Colin Jost (Update lead presenters and two-thirds of the main writers of the series), Update was an exercise in glances and heard-it-before.

Che is better off, which is pretty much what happens, since he enjoys skepticism from the outside. His joke about being sucked by the "toxic optimism" of his white colleagues about America being a functional entity simply resonated, he concluded, "just because he's guilty" about Trump. It's comforting, as her anecdote about her confidence in the checks and balances said, making a black woman's eyes turn so far over her head that he thought he had fallen asleep . In a media wasteland where fierce and popular acquiescence rivals the jubilant bad faith in the news of the state, Fox, the observed cynicism is powerful, and something Saturday Night Live could use more than.

Jost decided to make fun of Trump by saying stupid bullshit (these Great Lakes have record depth, apparently) to his brave servants, and "Richie Rich" Donald Jr. warming his father's crowd by reading[ing] his bad tweets for 20 minutes "before moving on with a satisfied smile to a comfortable apolitical content. It was quite amusing – and the correspondents mentioned above were murderers – but when your show is directly mentioned as a potential political and legal target by a president who seeks to silence your legitimate right to satire, you should be much more focused and licensed up than was in evidence tonight.

"What do you call this act?" "Californians!"– Recurring sketch report

The best work done in the apolitical sketches, the fact that only political figures (Trump, Putin, Giuliani, Pirro, the first AG William Barr) were rebroadcasters, suggests that there is a life without the same old Alec Baldwin Trump the oxygen.

"It was my understanding there would be no maths"-Report of political comedy

And it's gone again. The cold opening was an asset, this time SNL (and the return of Mueller Robert DeNiro) have tentatively pointed out the gap between what we can only guess, according to the report of the special council, consisting of more than 300 pages, of Trump's Loyalist summary and of the guy who knows how to hide the presidential complicity Barr, and the happy Alec Baldwin gloats Twitter Trump. The concealing game that ensued was unobtrusive: Mueller is cautious, Barr inclined, Trump is simple in mind and reductive. Giuliani, Kate's vampiric, continued her pleasant jokes about the sluggishness of Trump's mouthpiece (as he had done with Jeff Sessions' lack of rigor), and then we went out. It was shorter than usual with these things, which is good, considering.

Putin's sketch was a bit better, especially since Beck Bennett's very threatening Putin is a more interesting characterization than Trump, a foolish joke of Baldwin. And the joke – that Putin is embarrassed since he boasts of having a Russian asset in the White House – allows at least to give a different perspective to the whole, a mess still completely unstable. Bennett's Putin tries to save the face, but stammers like a surprised guy lying about the girlfriend he has totally in Canada, but he ends up contented with precise and frightening dictatorial threats in order to restore his credibility in the street. The show, again, is discouraged at the thought of losing his temper. (Which, once again, is definitely not settled, as far as the world of MAGA would like to claim.) Nevertheless, Bennett is solid and Cecily Strong receives another big laugh while his upset assistant claims that the Putin's boast made him proud. "Like the hole in the ass – the worst part of the ass." And Oh nailed his role, his North Korean interpreter relaying the visit to Kim Jong-un's mockery of Putin's bluff with impassive aplomb.

Spending a moment in the debate between the right and the bad faith, I suppose we have to put here the sketch of Jussie Smollett, like a conservative indignation and a thirst for blood directed against a rich, famous and gay black man, who seems to To draw after. The sleazy behavior continues to contrast strikingly with the resounding joy of the same for Donald Trump's non-factual exoneration. Leaving aside transparent hypocrisy, the sketch's joke fails on at least two points. First of all, here is this "strange person called strange and that's the joke". Complete with someone on the Empire Staff signaling the premises right out of the gate telling Smollett: "I only hope that this is not a crazy excuse." (The only joke of the skit is that, in fact, Chris Redd's Smollett is armed with several zany excuses.) I'm officially exploiting all this Smollett mess for the moment; There are so many twists and turns in the story of a fictitious hate crime saga of a mid-range celebrity used to fuel a gnawed right. I can take the indignation of the wing before moving on and wait for the real facts to be revealed. But like a joke, the sketch is clearly obvious and uninspired. I laughed at Lee Daniels' response from Kenan to Redd's Smollett, claiming he was "gay Lee Daniels", "I'm gay Lee Daniels!"

I'm hip to the music of today

I think I'm in the minority, but Tame Impala's pair of songs combines an ironic swirling disco, swirling light shows and a voice transformed into a porridge that makes the eye moving. (I know now that someone who sounds like Elliott Smith and Kenny Loggins at the same time is not for me, one way or another.) It was late, let's accuse us of doing it later.

The most useful / the least useful player is not ready for the first time

Good teamwork tonight, but it's Cecily, right? I'm tempted to give it to Nwodim, who finally had the chance to show him his stuff We sketch, but he is strong by a pair of hilarious legs.

Conversely, if you have Hedi Gardner, you do not keep her on the bench.

"What is going on is This thing? "- The Ten-To-Oneland Report

Everyone in the class skit was great. Oh's substitute teacher played straight to the point while enduring the nervous car-sharing of her charge in response to a few simple multiple-choice questions from the SAT, before embarking on the act herself with a story of an open wedding that went terribly wrong. The dyslexic bad boy of Kate McKinnon, the so-called selfish self-writer, and the overly dramatic footballer Kyle Mooney all found their own pace, fueled by offbeat lines ("by the football house where you m & # 39; have shown what were the stars ") Hidden well this one in the spot ten-one.

Observations lost

• Apart from the fake bugs, we are all on the same page that DeNiro has no place on live TV, right? Yuck.
• My apologies to the actor who played Kim Jong-un because I can not find his name in the press. Dude was funny, and, hey, so SNL In the Representation Department in Asia, at least one person is missing who understands that having a white cast member to lead the North Korean leader was a bad look.
• I laughed on hearing the North Korean delegation bring a gift of a rookie card Michael Jordan – signed by Dennis Rodman.
• "I am Judge Jeanine Pirro and it's up to you to decide on my contract."
• Pirro launches a show called The barrs, featuring Roseanne and William Barr, a fluid Ambien, "and the dirtiest sofa you've ever seen."
• "What I've learned the most, it's one of the other."
• Next week: Kit Harington, who participates in a kind of drama show, and musical guest Sara Bareilles.