This is a double debut for the host and musical guest.

Teyana Taylor was just nominated for an Oscar for her role in One Battle After Another.

I am not familiar with Geese, but some here are and let them introduce us to them.





Season 50 (2025-2026)
SNL 10/04/25 (S51E01) H: Bad Bunny - MG: Doja Cat (Season Premiere)
SNL 10/11/25 (S51E02) H: Amy Poehler - MG: Role Model
SNL 10/18/25 (S51E03) H/MG: Sabrina Carpenter
SNL 11/01/25 (S51E04) H: Miles Teller - MG: Brandi Carlile
SNL 11/08/25 (S51E05) H: Nikki Glaser - MG: sombr
SNL 11/15/25 (S51E06) H: Glen Powell - MG: Olivia Dean
SNL 12/06/25 (S51E07) H: Melissa McCarthy - MG: Dijon
SNL 12/13/25 (S51E08) H: Josh O'Connor - MG: Lily Allen
SNL 12/20/25 (S51E09) H: Ariana Grande - MG: Cher
SNL 01/17/26 (S51E10) H: Finn Wolfhard - MG: A$AP Rocky
SNL 01/24/26 (S51E11) H: Teyana Taylor - MG: Geese
SNL 01/31/26 (S51E12) H: Alexander Skarsgård - MG: Cardi B
... then there is a break until February 28, 2026, due to the Winter Olympics

Dont mind if I do.
I'm a big fan of Geese and especially their recent 4th album. The best song on the album and first single is 'Taxes'

Their lead singer is Cameron Winter and he released a solo album at the end of 2024 that is also excellent. The recently released single from that is Love Tames Miles, which Pitchfork selected as the top song of 2025.

My daughter spotted featured player Ben Marshall at Cameron Winter's solo show at Carnegie Hall last month, so I assume he's a big fan.

Thanks for the heads up. I'm going to schedule a Before Bed Big Dump during the first music guest break and come back cleaned out for WU

A boring indie band like Phoenix who Decker loves?

Yeah, I'll give 'em a shot, but that singer's voice is grating to me.

I'm not attracted to Kristi Noem, but I am attracted to Ashley Padilla playing Kristi Noem, go figure.

Man the On Blast bit on WE was maybe the most deathly unfunny thing I've seen on the show since Kyle Mooney left.

The Mattel One Battle Action Figures ad that really amazing though. I'd totally buy a set.

Kyle Mooney was not that bad.

The first Geese song was horrible and the second better only because of the guys playing the instruments and it was heavier.

Not a lot of Sarah Sherman in this episode.

Maybe she is getting pushed out a little with the rise of Padilla?

Martin Herlihy should get more screen time.

That Che joke about China and his sneaker collection so wrong.

Mr. On Blast is the worst new WU character in quite awhile.

The PBS sketch felt like it was they had left over from when Ego was a cast member .

The pre-recorded stuff, the action figure sketch and the Blowing It book, were the highlights.

That's usually the time I go make myself a snack. I ended up coming back halfway through the band's first song and realized I could have taken longer to make something to eat and wouldn't have missed anything. They are just not my musical taste at all, I guess.

The rest of the show was ok, but yeah, Mr. On Blast sucked hard.

NY Times article on the two Geese performances, and the mixed reception to them :

Geese Gives ‘Saturday Night Live’ Viewers Something to Talk About

The buzzy Brooklyn band brought its off-kilter aesthetic to network TV this weekend, with performances that were both confounding and audacious.


Who is Geese? To a certain type of music fan, that question would be absurd.

The young, droll and precociously successful Brooklyn quartet has been perhaps the most exhaustively discussed and vehemently debated rock band of the 2020s so far. But any musical guest making its debut on “Saturday Night Live” — as Geese did this weekend, on an episode hosted by the “One Battle After Another” actress Teyana Taylor — knows a sizable portion of the audience will be coming to its performances puzzled and wondering, “Who is that?” Under its brightest spotlight yet, Geese offered two completely different answers.

In a music industry increasingly oriented toward A-listers, streaming juggernauts and viral stars, opportunities for monocultural breakout moments outside of social media have all but gone extinct. The cancellation of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and the uncertain future of late-night shows means that up-and-coming bands will soon have few places to play for network television audiences.

Geese’s appearance on “S.N.L.” was the culmination of a gradual climb that played out for much of last year. After releasing albums in 2021 and 2023, the band enjoyed an unexpected creative and commercial breakthrough — thanks to both the cult popularity of the frontman Cameron Winter’s oddball but stirringly poetic solo album “Heavy Metal,” and Geese’s ambitious third album “Getting Killed,” a side-winding collection of songs that unfolds like a slow descent into an exalted state of madness. Depending on who you ask, Geese is either its generation’s great saviors of rock ’n’ roll, or its most derivative impostors. “Getting Killed” was by far my favorite album of last year, but even I compared Winter’s warble to cilantro (you either love it or you hate it).

Winter’s unique vocal stylings took center stage on Geese’s first song, the glacially paced ballad “Au Pays du Cocaine.” (The title is a an esoteric pun on “The Land of Cockaigne,” a medieval story and later a 16th century Dutch painting depicting catatonic overindulgence.) On “Getting Killed,” the song provides a lovely respite from the album’s higher intensity chaos; amid the luminous twinkle of Emily Green’s guitar, Winter croons lyrics that oscillate between willfully obtuse (“like a sailor in a big green boat”) and nakedly yearning (“you can be free, just come home, please”).

As an introduction to “S.N.L.” viewers unfamiliar with Geese, the song was an inauspicious choice. Onstage, Winter is known for enlivening songs with slight rhythmic and lyrical variations from the recorded versions, and he did this during “Cocaine,” often pausing an extra beat or two before delivering his lines. Those small tweaks may delighted fans, but the performance never quite found its footing rhythmically or melodically. Viewers more familiar with Geese’s reputation than its music were likely left scratching their heads: These kids are supposed to be the great Gen-Z hope for rock ’n’ roll?

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But the band’s studio-shaking second performance provided a more impactful introduction. The song choice itself was audacious: Geese went with “Trinidad,” the eerie “Getting Killed” opener that careens between hushed, haunted verses and an explosive chorus on which the band summons its most cacophonous fury and Winter shouts, like a man possessed, “There’s a bomb in my car!” As Green’s spiky guitar phrasings provided an off-kilter atmosphere and the drummer Max Bassin thrashed at his kit with energetic glee, the band sounded much more locked in. The energy was electric and contagious. In the middle of the first chorus, Winter’s usually stoic face broke into a getting-away-with-it grin.

Geese is sometimes compared to a previous generation’s band of New York upstarts, the Strokes, who broke through to the mainstream after a memorable “Saturday Night Live” performance in January 2002. In advance of Geese’s debut in Studio 8H, some critics wondered if a similar watershed moment will be in store. But 2002 was a very different time, and Geese is a very different band — even after its big moment, it will probably remain an acquired taste. After that exhilarating performance of “Trinidad,” though, it should at least be clear why this is a band that people can’t stop talking — and arguing — about.

Even though I hated this one, I want SNL to use its platform to present new artists.

Everyone hated the ‘Saturday Night Live’ ‘NFL on ESPN’ spoof

https://awfulannouncing.com/nbc/snl-...medium=twitter

Yeah, that was tone deaf.

Maybe it's me but this is the worst season of SNL since the show started. It's the writing.

I hate that singer.

More a condemnation of the rest of the season but that skit didn't stand out as particularly bad to me. Mr. On Blast on the other hand? Oh boy.

The 2000 MNF sketch is still the gold standard when it comes to spoofing NFL broadcasts on SNL

I like this one

They have three more sketches from dress rehearsal that did not make the show on the YouTube channel.