Goldberg74

This guy’s got a good resume, so we’ll see how Austin Butler does.

I’m sure Lizzo will twerk her way into a sketch or two.



Season 48 (2022-2023)
SNL 10/01/22 (S48E01) — H: Miles Teller - MG: Kendrick Lamar (Season Premiere)
SNL 10/08/22 (S48E02) — H: Brendan Gleeson - MG: Willow
SNL 10/15/22 (S48E03) — H: Megan Thee Stallion - MG: Megan Thee Stallion
SNL 10/29/22 (S48E04) — H: Jack Harlow - MG: Jack Harlow
SNL 11/05/22 (S48E05) — H: Amy Schumer - MG: Steve Lacy
SNL 11/12/22 (S48E06) — H: Dave Chappelle - MG: Black Star
SNL 12/03/22 (S48E07) — H: Keke Palmer - MG: Sza
SNL 12/10/22 (S48E08) — H: Steve Martin & Martin Short - MG: Brandi Carlile
SNL 12/17/22 (S48E09) — H: Austin Bulter - MG: Lizzo

MrX

Tonight is Cecily Strong’s last episode

https://deadline.com/2022/12/cecily-...bc-1235201855/

Coral

Not surprising. I said that a couple months ago that I thought this would be her last season - I just thought she'd stick it out until the end though.
So she'll only have been in like 3 or 4 episodes this season?

Is this the biggest exodus of talent SNL's ever had?
In less than a year: McKinnon, Bryant, Davidson, Moffat, Redd, Villaseñor, Mooney and now Strong. Add Beck Bennet if you extend it another year.
That's crazy to me.

JackoOnHisBacko

Will they make any attempt to parody the trump trading cards thing?
I would just have J.A.J. do the exact thing, word for word.
Just recreate the exact video.
Same tone, same pictures, everything.

Count Dooku

I guess she saw how Milana Vayntrub was able to live large off her ATT ads, and Cecily figured she could do the same off Verizon.

RichC2

Though her Verizon ads are directly tied to her role on Schmigadoon for Apple.

Count Dooku

I've never seen that show, but given what I know about it, I have no idea what the connection could be.

TomOpus

Her send off was sweetly done.

jeffkjoe

Austin Butler did a really good job as host -

This is an example of an SNL episode where I came in with zero expectations and the show was better than I thought it would be.

Daytripper

Really good episode. Butler was very charming and fantastic. And what a great/emotional send off to Cecily. I was not expecting that.

JackoOnHisBacko

Ok, so they didn't go that route.
What they did was ok, but really, was it any funnier than the actual trump announcement?
Can anything be funnier than that?

JeffTheAlpaca

Did Cecily just announce this weekend she was leaving?

She was in almost every sketch the last couple of weeks and probably now know why,

Jost did not seem like his usual jovial happy self during WU and probably because of the Cecily news

She was probably the last member of that early 2010's cast besides Keenan who was still on the show.

I remember when she did WU with Seth Meyers.

JeffTheAlpaca

Not really impressed with the sketches this week and it seemed like the 3rd show in a row and everybody wanted to get out and mailed it in so they can get ready for the Holidays.

Throwing Copper

Decent show. Austin Butler was great and charming. Good to see Lizzo promoting good health (holy shit with that first outfit).

Jost almost seemed uninterested in reading the weekend update stuff, which was weird.

Bowen Yang was absolutely terrible as usual almost ruining WU, but Cecily swooped in for the save:

TheBang

1985 had the departures of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jim Belushi, Billy Crystal, Chris Guest, Harry Shearer, and Martin Short. 1986 had the departures of Joan Cusack, Robert Downey Jr, Anthony Michael Hall, Randy Quaid, and Damon Wayans.

TheBang

Also, every time I see Devon Walker, all I can think of is that he looks like a black Pete Davidson.

Not only do they have similar faces and face shapes, but similar mannerisms also. Apparently, I'm not the only one to think this.

JeffTheAlpaca

1995 was a a big year where nobody except maybe David Spade and Tim Meadows were left

Why did they have Lizzo again on the show when she was on it earlier this year?

She should cover her legs.

It was like looking at a turkey drumstick and all that cellulite

GoldenJCJ

The Blue Christmas song was really well done. I’m not sure why they had to start it with that dopey Radio Shack intro. It would have worked a lot better if Kenan just said how much they’ll miss her and then introduce Austin Butler to sing.

MrX

Some of the members of the band that was supposed to be the musical guest had pneumonia.

RichC2

Last minute fill in for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, their guitarist has had pneumonia for the last month. I love the YYYs so it was a disappointing switch up.

She did a Day Drinking with Seth segment as well.

Daytripper

Yeah, that was so stupid.

JeffTheAlpaca

I guess they don't ice skate at Rockefeller center anymore during the closing credits for the last Dec show?

They did it in the past but maybe with the pandemic they stopped but this year I assume they could have if they wanted to.

jpcamb

Not a bad episode, a few good skits and a nice send-off for Cicely. Liked the blue Xmas song but the Radio shack aspect was a weak tie-in for the skit. Seems like something that they had left over they wanted to put in.

Is it the last episode of the season Che and Jost trade jokes? For some reason, I thought it was the Xmas episode and was looking forward to watching them torture each other again.

Count Dooku

Everybody remembers that when Kristen Wiig left, Mick Jagger sang "She's A Rainbow" to her at the end, but people don't remember that it was within the context of "a sketch" where Jagger was a high school principal and Wiig was graduating. So, they were just doing the same thing.

And when Phil Hartman left, he took just a few seconds at the end to appear as himself and say goodbye.

Josh-da-man

For Phil Hartman, they did that thing with him and Chris Farley, which, in retrospect, is really, really sad.