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And it’s back with the first of three April episodes!




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
SNL 01/21/23 (S48E10) — H: Aubrey Plaza - MG: Sam Smith
SNL 01/28/23 (S48E11) — H: Michael B. Jordan - MG: Lil Baby
SNL 02/04/23 (S48E12) — H: Pedro Pascal - MG: Coldplay
SNL 02/25/23 (S48E13) — H: Woody Harrelson - MG: Jack White
SNL 03/04/23 (S48E14) — H: Travis Kelce - MG: Kelsea Ballerini
SNL 03/11/23 (S48E15) — H: Jenna Ortega - MG: The 1975
SNL 04/01/23 (S48E16) — H: Quinta Brunson - MG: Lil Yachty
SNL 04/08/23 (S48E17) — H: Molly Shannon - MG: Jonas Brothers
SNL 04/15/23 (S48E18) — H: Ana De Armas - MG: Karol G

JeffTheAlpaca

Ego was on Fallon this week

JeffTheAlpaca

I am surprised Keanu Reeves has not hosted.

He seem like he would be a goofy choice to host like Travis Kelce and game for anything and it would be a big ratings grabber.

MrX

Chloe Fineman’s about to become a .gif for the traffic sketch.

Daytripper

Woof. That first Lil Yachty performance was horrible. I don't know anything about him, but does he use auto tune for all his songs?

William Fuld

Pretty much. Lower tier Lil.

MrX

Other than the sketch with the midwife, I think Bowen Yang was the only person who thought it was funny, I didn’t think it was a bad episode.

I liked the traffic sketch.

I think the penis brothers was supposed to be some play on the disgusting brothers from Succession.

Coral

I was wondering why Jost's jokes weren't hitting at all with the audience. It was a good prank by Che.

Paff

Yeah, the traffic sketch was good even before Chloe Fineman....well....if you saw it you know.

Lil Yachty's band needs to dump....Lil Yachty. Cuz they were all pretty good. I was hoping when the second song featured that other singer for quite a while, that LY was just gonna sit it out.

Throwing Copper

Wtf happens there? It was real late and I missed it.

Also, I thought Quinta Brunson was one of the best hosts in ages. She was more talented than anyone in the SNL cast and you could easily tell.

MrX

Che told them beforehand not to laugh at Colin’s jokes.

MrX

Count Dooku

The difference between the reactions to Che and Jost were dramatic, but watching Jost go first, it did not strike me that anything was off because there was audible laughter from the audience, but then they went nuts for Che.
Watching the clip after knowing what happened, I wonder if there wasn't some canned laughter being added for Jost because he acted like all he was hearing was crickets.

And I do wonder how Che managed to talk to the audience without Jost knowing about it

csant

The only Lil I like is Wayne... I hate everyone with LiL in their name. lol

Daytripper

Yeah, that band was awesome. I'd go see them play somewhere. But he can pound sand.

Giantrobo

That was a good ep. Quinta was pretty good. Weekend Update and Che's joke on Colin was hilarious. The Traffic bit will be a classic. The Penis Brothers was insane.

The 2nd song performance was great, better than the 1st one. And i agree the band was the highlight. I hope they get noticed as a band outside of the rapper.

EDIT: the singer is Diana Gordon and the band is The Righteous Young.

JTH182

I thought about that too, but I'm guessing Jost was in his dressing room or something. I went back and watched again, and yeah there were still people laughing so I didn't catch it at first. It was hilarious when the person yelled out "you suck!" though, lol

JeffTheAlpaca

Unless it is Dana Carvey, Rock Obama, or Dan Akyroyd playing Bob Dole presidential or presidential candidate impressions are not that funny.

I always zone out when James Austin Johnson does Trump.

He has all the mannerisms and ticks down but it is not really that funny.

Josh-da-man

Yeah, that didn't land for me at all. There was quite a bit of laughter, to that point that I didn't pick up anything being off at all until someone yelled and Che and Jost started laughing.

I wonder if they don't pump in canned laughter (a laugh track?) to sort of fill in the audience reactions as a matter of course. The studio audience doesn't look that big, so they might add in the track to make it consistent. So Jost is sitting there at his desk, facing a stony, unreactive audience while the canned laughter comes out over the speakers.

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Pretty sure that Che comes out and does the pre-show audience warmup, so that's when it could have happened.

JeffTheAlpaca

I think they add canned laughter maybe in the last couple of years?

it seemed in the past there were a lot more moments of complete silence and occasional booing when jokes by Norm McDonald and Colin Quinn ticked off the audience.

story

The laughs sounded like the laughs for 1970s and early 1980s Weekend Update: encouraging and hopeful, yet sparse and lacking.

jpcamb

I cant belive the traffic skit made it on air. That was an instant classic. I liked the show overall, the other skit with Chole was great too with Benson etc. I liked the host, need to check out Abbot Elementary have heard good things about it before. Just a network show snob I guess.