Goldberg74

I am not excited for this one... I'm not a Sarah Silverman fan... never have been.

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But I like Maroon 5.

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SNL (s40e01) -- 09/27/14 -- H: Chris Pratt -- MG: Ariana Grande
SNL (s40e02) -- 10/04/14 -- H: Sarah Silverman -- MG: Maroon 5
SNL (s40e03) -- 10/11/14 -- H: Bill Hader -- MG: Hozier
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Timber

Can wait.

Troy Stiffler

With a talent like Silverman, this better be fucking funny. God damn SNL.

TGM

I'm sure they will find a way to neuter her.

Obey The D

This is a great monologue.

mike7162

Im feeling Michael Che on Update - first show jitters last week, perhaps?

philo

Cripes almighty. After the agonizing singing duo on WU we have yet another singing skit. Can they do one show without the endless singing?

Daytripper

Watching now on my DVR. As mentioned above, great monologue. But Sarah messed up on her lines several times during the Joan Rivers skit.
The "Rolling on the River" skit was fucking awful. The car ride engagement skit was equally terrible, if not worse. When will Lorne Michaels
(if not NBC) realize that the problem with this show is the awful writing. It's not cast. Stop hiring and firing your actors every single year
and get new writers. Why is this so hard to understand?

EctoCooler

Typical terrible show. Best thing was the monologue. That blender sketch.... wtf.

mike7162

This was the first episode in a long time where I didn't come away completely disgusted - still some horrible wtf writing, but some of the skits were OK. Silverman really muffed a potentially great bit by fumbling over her lines in the Joan Rivers sketch. I liked the engagement skit, and the commercial/movie parodies were good. That riverboat sketch was clearly a ripoff of the 4 dudes in a bar singing classic rock tunes while telling terrible stories about themselves skit.

Jack Straw

I'm not even DVR'ing the show anymore opting rather to catch clips online that look like they might be interesting. Watched the monologue, the Joan Rivers and Ebola clips. Anything else worth my time?

Drexl

Maybe he's actually doing that, but we just don't hear about it?

I was curious, so I compared the writers' credits on IMDB for this year's opener to last. Of the 24 writers listed (one of which is Lorne), 10 are new. Of the head writers, 2 of the 3 are the same, with Seth Meyers' replacement being a new writer, not a promotion. Weekend Update's writer is different.

Josh-da-man

I have always gotten the sense that there's a lot of behind the scenes politics going on with SNL; where certain writers, stars, and characters are favored at the expense of better material.

Which is why the show was flooded with so many shitty recurring Wiig characters a few years ago, why horrible, unfunny stuff like "Coffee Talk" was on every goddamned week, and why, when we are shown rejected sketches, superior material seems to land on the cutting room floor.

Rob V

Not a single skit with the new tall, skinny guy.

Neil M.

The Joan rivers skit would have been great had Silverman not flubbed her lines. I actually enjoyed WU minus the stupid singing. Michael Che seemed to have better timing this week and was actually funny.

LiquidSky

This episode was a big greasy turd.

Rex Fenestrarum

Well, I thought the first "Coffee Talk" was hilarious. But that's the problem with SNL: they take something funny and run it into the damn ground. I hate to sound like an old fart, but I don't think they did this nearly as much in the 80s.I stopped watching in the 90s, 'cos it was the same five skits over and over.

Mr. Cinema

WU was much better this time. The Al Sharpton visit was good and Jost and Che had better chemistry this time. I loved the "Legendary #2" joke.

devilshalo

"If you liked the sketch SNL did about a Tina Turner tribute band musing and singing... then you'll LOVE this sketch Vanessa Bruiser Ragland and I wrote and performed for six weeks this summer at Groundlings about a Tina Turner tribute band musing and singing."

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Double_Oh_7

What, the painfully unfunny Sarah Silverman didn't help? I'm shocked I tell you... SHOCKED.

Bill Needle

In small doses and in the right situation I find her to be funny, but I agree she can't carry a show. For instance, I think she usually does all right on a roast, but her stand up specials are terrible.

I won't bother beating the SNL dead horse further this week other than to say that after four months off they could have at least found some better sketches to steal.

windom

Former cast member Jan Hooks has died at age 57.

LiquidSky

Fucking awful!

JTH182

The terrible new season has killed Jan Hooks! Look what you've done!!

JeffTheAlpaca

Whites was hilarious

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