Goldberg74

Melissa McCarthy is on tonight... and so is Kanye.

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SNL (S41E01) -- 10/03/15 -- H & MG: Miley Cyrus (Season Premiere)
SNL (S41E02) -- 10/10/15 -- H: Amy Schumer -- MG: The Weekend
SNL (S41E03) -- 10/17/15 -- H: Tracy Morgan -- MG: Demi Lovato
SNL (S41E04) -- 11/07/15 -- H: Donald Trump -- MG: SIA
SNL (S41E05) -- 11/14/15 -- H: Elizabeth Banks -- MG: Disclosure (w/ Sam Smith/Lorde)
SNL (S41E06) -- 11/21/15 -- H: Matthew McConaughey -- MG: Adele
SNL (S41E07) -- 12/05/15 -- H: Ryan Gosling -- MG: Leon Bridges
SNL (S41E08) -- 12/12/15 -- H: Chris Hemsworth -- MG: Chance the Rapper
SNL (S41E09) -- 12/19/15 -- H: Tina Fey & Amy Poehler -- MG: Bruce Springsteen
SNL (S41E10) -- 01/16/16 -- H: Adam Driver -- MG: Chris Stapleton
SNL (S41E11) -- 01/23/16 -- H: Ronda Rousey -- MG: Selena Gomez
SNL (S41E12) -- 02/06/16 -- H: Larry David -- MG: The 1975
SNL (S41E13) -- 02/13/16 -- H: Melissa McCarthy -- MG: Kanye West
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Eddie W

This sounds like torture.

JeffTheAlpaca

Has McCarthey joined the 5 timers club?

It seems like she hosts once a season and Kanye appears as a guest every season.

I bet if you ask John Doe on the street to name a Kanye song he would have no clue and supposedly he is a giant and a icon in the music industry.

At least with Jay-Z you can say 99 Problems.

pbrstreetgang

Well I figured with MM as host we would likely be spared a hideous musical monologue.
Aww crap

kefrank

Wow this Kanye performance is insufferable.

SuperJim88

Why do we need musical monologue every freaking episode? Can they really not think of anything else to do?

Maz Kanata

Yeah, just stop talking about rap, mkay? It is obviously not your genre.

VHS?

Autotune is still being used? I thought that stupid shit came and went years ago.
I guess it's still around for those who have zero singing ability?

Surprised they aren't bleeping him. Wasn't aware you could say the N-word.

Jonno2006

It would be racist to censor!!!!1!!

Jackskeleton

I mean, they found a way to make an episode even less desirable. Ugh, that host and musical guest line up just screams "DO NOT WATCH"

JTH182

Not one, not two, but THREE O.J. jokes! Not to mention Kanye's Robert Kardashian shirt.

writer106

I liked Vanessa Bayer's Jennifer Anniston impersonation. "Yeah, yeah".

Bill Needle

Back to reality this week. I did chuckle over the movie screening focus group, but nothing else. And Kanye was the shit. Check that. Kanye was shit.

TGM

putrid.

also, I fucking cannot stand Kyle Mooney. Motherfucker is comedy cancer.

The Questyen

I'm a huge Kanye fan and those were two of the worst Kanye songs I've ever heard. The rest of the episode was strong though.

JeffTheAlpaca

That was good lol. The repeating sketch where Kate works at the pet store and the Terminator sex scene sketch were ok too.

Leslie Jones is getting more screen time every week and she was in almost every sketch last night.

So bored during the Kanye songs I searched my dvr playlist and checked the weather channel app.

DRG

Have to agree. As someone who actually likes a lot of his stuff, he was dreadful here. It all came off as a wacko parody... shit was more ridiculous than a What Up With That sketch.

majorjoe23

They got away with it 40 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2u1bpXVGHE

VHS?

You do realize what year it is and how PC everything is, right?
Archie Bunker also said it back in the '70s but in today's television, it's a no-no.

majorjoe23

I think there would be more of an issue if Chevy Chase or Carol O'Conner said it today. But sometimes it's context, not PC. If it were such a PC issue, I suspect I would find at least one article on the word being used when I googled "Kanye West," "N-Word" and "Saturday Night Live."

Count Dooku

I am confident that Archie Bunker never said "******" on AITF.

The defense of that Pryor/Chase sketch was (1) it was Richard Pryor (2) the sketch was using the word for the expressed purpose of making a point about the power of words and how they stand for racist ideas.

I imagine that NBC was okay with the language within a specific context (1) It was after midnight (2) Kanye is considered an artist (3) there is a socio-political point to the lyrics.

mike7162

I know it's not cool to dislike Kanye West, but what was that shit? I've never seen that guy give a good live performance, and all that excessive puffery onstage would have made MC Hammer shake his damn head.

JeffTheAlpaca

You mean it is not cool to like Kayne West?

Fetty Wap is better than Kanye

Giantrobo

Whatevs, i thought it was a good ep. Not a Kanye fan but I did like the first song.
I loved the "Beyonce is Black" bit and the Movie Screening bit.