SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

Issa Rae is hosting and Bieber is popping in again.



Season 46 (2020-2021)

• SNL 10/03/20 (S46E01) -- H: Chris Rock, MG: Megan Thee Stallion
• SNL 10/10/20 (S46E02) -- H: Bill Burr, MG: Jack White
• SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
• SNL 10/24/20 (S46E04) -- H: Adele, MG: H.E.R.
• SNL 10/31/20 (S46E05) -- H: TBA, MG: TBA

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

It’s usually the musical guest that I’ve never heard of. Now it’s the host.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

Yeah... 99% of the time I've heard of the host, and probably only 70% of the time for musical guest.
Never heard of this host and I'd like to forget the musical guest.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

She has a series on HBO called Insecure, which no one watches here, that’s been on 4 seasons and is fairly popular. And she was on The Lovebirds on Netflix. And she was on a lot of the NBA playoff advertising.

I’m not saying she’s so popular and you’re out of the loop. :lol: but she has slowly emerged in the last 4 years and is getting bigger roles and more notoriety.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

^ Yeah, I looked her up on IMDB when I first opened this thread. Literally the only thing I’ve seen her in is the 2 minute trailer for Lovebirds. :lol:

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

That wasn't great.

I guess I kind of liked the 80s cocaine wife bit maybe?

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

Hey! A Melissa Villasenor sighting!

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

One line of dialogue! :lol:

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

Maybe she knew if she skipped this season she could have been fired or replaced,

Guess no new episode next week?

It seems the show before a break or the 3rd consecutive show are usually the weakest when it comes to laughs.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

Same here.

Terrible episode.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

I mean she’s on a well-received prestige HBO Comedy series and was nominated for both Best Comedy Series and Best Actress in a Comedy Series Emmys last month. And she starred in a pretty good theatrical Rom-Com that ended up on Netflix due to the pandemic. She’s hardly an unknown.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

Meh episode.

I thought the host did well. She had a decent monologue and I don't know if she wrote it, but her delivery of the jokes was good. Good in some skits as well.

Cecily Strong nowhere to be found.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

Michael Che is probably going to get fired for that "NBC: We have a type" joke. :lol:


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Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

That was pretty funny. :lol: Unfortunately most of the show was kind of bleh IMO.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

I don't think anyone was saying she's an unknown - just that they didn't know who she was. These days, popular entertainment is so fragmented across various subscription services that it's not uncommon for something that is popular by the numbers to be completely missed by a whole segment of people who don't happen to subscribe to the right service. Gone are the days of all the "known" entertainers being from a handful of broadcast networks that everyone gets.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

BTW, Mikey Day's Trump Jr. look needs an update.... he's had a beard for the last 2 years.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

I wonder how many times on these forums you've questioned whether a male host wrote their own monologue.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

Adele Adkins is hosting with musical guest H.E.R.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

:lol: Adding her last name is confusing. Just Adele.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

Not sure... you'd have to do a search. I know I wondered to myself many times if the non-comedian host wrote their own monologue.... especially if it's somewhat funny... because, ya know, they're not comedians. I think you're barking up the wrong tree here and I don't appreciate your insinuation.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

Well said.

I assume she is known to some degree - otherwise she wouldn't be hosting SNL.

I was simply saying I had no idea who she is, which is irrefutable. I don't watch every single show on HBO (I don't even have HBO) nor do I follow the Emmys.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

To be fair though, Issa Rae is a comedic actress and writer who basically made her way into the entertainment industry with her own original content on Youtube. I have no idea if she wrote her monologue and I'm not joining in any particular insinuation, but given who she is, my default assumption would be that she wrote it herself or at least did so collaboratively.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

I guess they will take a break the following week since it is Halloween.

I will have extra time to catch up on my shows with the extra hour from switching back to standard time :)

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

You continuously seem to miss the OP which lists that there will be episodes the next two weeks.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

Yup, several sources slate an ep for 10/31.

How much worse will 2020 be if there isn’t a sketch with David S. Pumpkins in it?!?!!

The Halloween show is always a highlight for me.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

Not to mention, do you really think they aren’t going to be on the week leading up to the election?

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

But then they're gonna skip the weeknd after the election? It seems they need to do at least 6 episodes in a row.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

This I did not know. I thought she was just an actress... even one who does comedic roles. Wasn't aware she wrote comedic material.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

It hasn’t been announced if they will or won’t. But it has been announced that they will be doing 5 in a row, which was the point.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

It is a SNL first with 5 consecutive weeks of new episodes which they have never done before and maybe 6.

Too bad they don't have those special Thurs Weekend Update shows and maybe they could have done some of those instead of having 5 or 6 shows in a row.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

Abysmal episode. I didn't laugh once. Didn't even smile. Even "Weekend Update" sucked. Save for that "NBC: We have a type" joke. There are way too many players on the show now. And please please get rid of Bowen Yang. He is painfully unfunny and gets on my fucking nerves.

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

As a french Canadian from Montreal i felt personally attacked from the first skit hahah

But nah it was fine. Tho Bowen Yang's pronunciations were pretty on point on our slang and cuss words.

It even created a little controversy around here lol

https://montrealgazette.com/news/loc...ntreal-tv-news

Don't see the big deal, i found it kinda funny and it was nice to be included!

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

There will be an episode on November 7:
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/sat...stVasU--a8EN6U

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

I figured Bieber would be on Bonjour-Hi as he's Canadian. Maybe its too obvious? I know he's not French-Canadian, but neither is Drake

Re: SNL 10/17/20 (S46E03) -- H: Issa Rae, MG: Justin Bieber
 

We will see a thin Adele in this weekend's episode.

I wonder if they are going to take a longer winter break and start the 2021 shows in Feb and not mid to late January or they are predicting another big Covid shutdown and do as many shows as you can before the cases spike in the Winter and everything is shut down again.