Segments are rated on a scale of 1-5 stars
RETWEETS
Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) retweets nobodies during security briefing
— Interesting seeing a cold opening start as just a regular, non-political scene inside a school, which is so rare for cold openings in recent eras like this. Predictably, though, this still ends up turning into a political cold opening.
— Aidy is rather stumbly here.
— Yet another poorly-aged SNL portrayal of Kellyanne Conway as the sympathizing voice of reason of the Trump camp.
— I love Melissa’s delivery of “That’s psycho! You’re only gonna attract psychos!”
— The mere look of Bobby’s character is hilarious.
— The Trump portions of this cold opening are getting a little old for me. I guess this counts as the first Alec-Baldwin-as-Trump cold opening that I’m not too crazy about.
— Alex, to Alec’s Trump: “Your inauguration is just seven weeks away.” Kenan: “(shouting) AAAAH! (speaking) Sorry. I just hadn’t heard that put in weeks before.”
— The debut of Grim Reaper Steve Bannon, played by a well-disguised Mikey.
STARS: **½
MONOLOGUE
backstage, host’s interactions with cast members bring high school to mind
— The brief sighting of Leslie and Kyle being affectionate with each other backstage is excellent continuity from the first Leslie/Kyle short that aired a few episodes prior.
— An interesting factoid that Emma Stone and Aidy actually went to the same high school together back in the day.
— Vanessa again playing against type as a mean girl really well.
— Bobby is absolutely spot-on as a typical high school jock from movies.
— When this monologue originally aired, I remember that Emma referring to Bobby as her old fling from her last hosting stint in 2011 made me realize that Bobby, Vanessa, and Kenan were the only cast members from Emma’s November 2011 episode who were still on the show at this point in December 2016, which then made me realize how drastically this cast had changed over the course of just five years. Sadly, you can’t say the same for the five (well, four-and-a-half) years that have passed since December 2016, as a majority of this 2016 cast is still on the show today in March 2021.
STARS: ***½
THEATER SHOWCASE
Student Theater Showcase performers miss the point on social issues
— This ends up being the final installment of this recurring sketch.
— There’s Mikey basically filling in the role that Taran Killam used to play in this recurring sketch. Speaking of Mikey, he noticeably has a lot of black eyeliner on in this sketch, left over from his portrayal of Grim Reaper Steve Bannon in the cold opening.
— Vanessa, on one of the bad scenes in this play: “That one kinda made a good point, though.” Kenan: “They can NEVER know you said that.”
— Kenan, on Aidy’s (very funny) overly pro-AIDS speech: “She overshot the runway at the end there.”
— Hilarious how the theater showcase characters awkwardly shoehorned the word “basketball” into the “gay son” scene in this play.
STARS: ****
THE CHRISTMAS CANDLE
(host), (KAM), (AIB) sing the praises of a miraculously regiftable candle
— A well-loved piece among viewers.
— A funny simplistic and relatable concept, and it’s being executed very well in this format.
— I’m enjoying the 1994 look to all of the characters.
— Aidy’s mock-passionate facial expressions while singing are cracking me up.
— Speaking of Aidy, I absolutely LOVE the melody of her big solo right now.
— My strong feelings for this short are the same strong feelings that I wish I could have for Wishin’ Boot (pun not intended). Not sure why this Candle short works so well for me, whereas I merely find Wishin’ Boot to just be fine.
STARS: ****½
POSTERS
Krissy Knox (host) & other poster models teach math to highschooler (PED)
— Mikey is both funny and spot-on as a typical “cool” skiier.
— I really like Kate delivery of “I’m maaaade of math!”
— Interesting character voice from Emma.
— After Kenan first spoke to Pete, what in the WORLD was with Pete’s extremely long, awkward pause when he was supposed to say a line? At first, he smirked out of character like he was going to crack up at Kenan, which, okay, I get, as Pete sometimes has trouble keeping a straight face in sketches by this point of his tenure (it gets worse a little later in his tenure, IIRC), but then, even after his smirk dissolves, he just inexplicably remains silent for a few seconds, leading to very awkward dead air, before he FINALLY says his next line. What happened? Speaking of which, this reminds me that this ends up being the last episode before Pete goes to rehab, causing him to completely miss the next two episodes. I can’t help but wonder if there’s some kind of connection between his aforementioned inexplicable long, bizarre pause in this sketch and his need to go to rehab sometime after this episode aired, but I’m sure I’m looking too much into it.
— Also, when Pete finally says his line after that long, bizarre pause he made, he says Kenan’s character’s name, but I for the life of me cannot understand WHAT the name was that he said. “Walm P”? Is that it? That CAN’T be the name, as it makes no sense, but that’s the best I could make out from Pete’s delivery of it. I’m apparently not the only one who couldn’t understand the name Pete said there, as SNL Archives’ page for this sketch doesn’t even state Kenan’s character’s name, and instead just lists him as “comedian”.
— At one brief point of this sketch, Emma’s voice here strangely sounds just like Vanessa’s Laura Parsons character.
— Not only am I finding Emma’s character funny, but there’s an odd likability I’m also finding to her, annoying voice and all. I’ve never seen Emma’s season 44 episode, which has a second installment of this sketch, but I’ve heard some really negative things about Emma’s performance in that second installment. I guess I’ll see what all of the fuss is about when I reach that episode in this project, but I will say that it does seem very unnecessary for SNL to even do a second installment of this sketch.
STARS: ***½
THE HUNT FOR HIL
Hillary Clinton (KAM) is elusive in the Chappaqua woods
— A very funny concept, and the treatment of a woods-wandering Hillary Clinton as a Bigfoot-like creature is providing some good laughs.
— I like Beck doing a Hillary-like laugh as a “call” to summon her.
— The extremely bright blue eye contacts Kenan’s wearing are a nice touch to his spiritual character.
STARS: ****
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
musical guest performs “Mercy”
WEEKEND UPDATE
treating Donald Trump’s tweets as weather forecast desensationalizes them
LEJ coaches men to be sexually confident & not worry about penis size
Jennifer Aniston [real] & Friends segues disrupt VAB’s Rachel Green spoof
— As soon as Colin said, during his introduction of the next guest commentary, “Women in long-term relationships are more likely to experience a decrease in sexual satisfaction”, I knew that meant Leslie was about to show up.
— A very funny comment from Leslie calling herself a Hung-Like-A-Horse Whisperer.
— Leslie, when trying to make innuendos: “Do not promise me a rack of ribs…and then show up with a little penis.”
— Another overall fantastic Update commentary from Leslie.
— I like how the “…starring Kevin James!” punchline about a wacky animal-involved news story has become a recurring punchline for Michael. At least I *think* Michael previously used that punchline in an earlier episode.
— Oh, right, this second Rachel From Friends commentary of Vanessa’s has an appearance from Jennifer Aniston later on.
— So far, this Rachel commentary is going in the exact same direction as her previous one, complete with Colin having the exact same puzzled reactions to the sudden scene segues. Thankfully, my goodwill towards Vanessa’s spot-on Rachel impression is keeping me entertained, despite the rehashed material.
— And there’s Jennifer Aniston, doing one of those “sneaker-upper” cameos that I typically run hot-and-cold on. This ends up being one of the better instances of it, again mostly because of my goodwill towards Vanessa’s Rachel impression.
— Heh, Vanessa’s Rachel impression is so damn good that she even outshines Aniston herself when they’re both doing the Rachel voice together.
STARS: ****
CLEANING CREW
office cleaning women (LEJ), (host), (CES) perform naughty Santa songs
— Surprisingly, this is Cecily’s first and only appearance in this entire episode.
— Another interesting character voice from Emma, who’s deep-voiced foreign accent here is pretty funny.
— Meh, I’m not caring for the comedic conceit of the Santa songs the ladies are performing. This is boring to me.
— We at least get a funny cutaway reveal of kids being in the room after the raunchy Santa song the cleaning ladies performed.
— Now we get an even funnier cutaway reveal of a deadpan Melissa being with the kids.
— That ending felt very empty.
STARS: **
PALEY CENTER EVENT
on an actress panel, Debette Goldry describes old-school extreme sexism
— Nice seeing Leslie playing herself in this sketch.
— Oh, wait, turns out all of the interviewees (except Kate) are playing themselves in this sketch.
— Like the previous installment of this sketch, Kate’s Debette Goldry has a lot of funny disclosures about the treatment of actresses back in the day, especially the story about a monkey with a tray of opium, and the story about women literally being treated as props on movie sets.
— Heh, I think Kate accidentally spit on Jennifer Aniston just now, judging from Jennifer’s reaction.
— Sasheer has some really good reactions to Kate’s Debette. I especially like Sasheer responding to Debette’s FDR story by calmly saying “That…that felt like the end of that” and changing the subject.
— Debette, when asked what part of her body is she referring to when she mentioned her toot: “I’ll give you two guesses, and they’re both right.”
STARS: ****
WELLS FOR BOYS
Fisher-Price’s wells are for sensitive boys not made of snips & snails
— A beloved Julio Torres classic.
— Emma’s interplay and bonding with her sensitive son is fantastic.
— The tone of and approach to this subject matter is simply perfect.
— Great touch with the accessories this toy comes with: a balcony and a shattered mirror.
— A distracting gaffe, where the SNL Band can be heard prematurely playing the show to commercial in the middle of this fake ad, before the band abruptly stops when realizing their mistake.
— Excellent delivery from Emma when angrily telling off her other son.
— Great tagline from Cecily (in yet another instance of her doing excellent voice-over work in a commercial) about not just getting your sensitive son Barbie dolls.
— Overall, just as much of a masterpiece as I had remembered.
STARS: *****
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
musical guest performs “Treat You Better”
THE NATIVITY
insensitive Joseph (KYM) besets postpartum Mary (host) with visitors
— I have mixed feelings so far on this concept of a modernized, relatable portrayal of Mary in a nativity sketch. Part of me finds it funny, but the other part of me finds it a bit corny.
— Okay, after about two minutes, the concept has grown on me.
— The audience seems distracted by the llama.
— After I’ve come around on this sketch, that ending brought back the bad corny feel I got from this sketch earlier.
STARS: ***
GOODNIGHTS
IMMEDIATE POST-SHOW THOUGHTS
— A pretty solid episode, and, as usual for this era, there were also some very memorable, well-liked, standout pre-taped segments. Emma Stone feels more and more like an SNL natural with each passing hosting stint of hers, and came off in this particular episode like someone who I can actually picture being a regular cast member.
MY PERSONAL CHOICE OF “BEST OF” MOMENTS FOR THIS EPISODE, REPRESENTED WITH SCREENCAPS
RATED SEGMENTS RANKED FROM BEST TO WORST
Wells For Boys
The Christmas Candle
Theater Showcase
Weekend Update
Paley Center Event
The Hunt For Hil
Posters
Monologue
The Nativity
Retweets
Cleaning Crew
HOW THIS EPISODE STACKS UP AGAINST THE PRECEDING ONE (Kristen Wiig)
a slight step up
My full set of screencaps for this episode is here
TOMORROW
John Cena
Next time we’ll meet Stone in the Ladies Room. She’ll be back real soon (like a month and a half?)
Interesting taste of Stone as a mom, even if just a role, now that she’s actually pregnant with her first child.
Even more interesting considering this was the week she met her husband.
Saturday Night Taped (Episodes from S39 on where the top 2 or more highest ranked sketches are pre-taped): 16
Scratch that, this is number 17. I didn’t notice yesterday’s episode counts as well.
I wish they had leaned into Vanessa as a mean girl more often. She always was great playing against type. She usually was great, period.
Great observation, Stooge, on the lack of turnover in the cast since then, compared to the early 2010s.
I don’t care for McKinnon’s schtick, so I admit I’m the wrong person to comment on it, but Goldry just seems like a variant on alien abduction woman. A lot of the same tired beats. Is it the same people writing it with Kate, I wonder?
Once again, I have nothing to say about this episode, but I will add that some of your descriptions of a few of these sketches are pretty funny. I’ll have to watch them sometime later.
As for tomorrow’s episode, I have no idea who the host is. Yes, you said who it is, but as far as I’m concerned, there is no host. , and the cast members are just talking to thin air.
And if you don’t get that joke, then you don’t understand memes.
The cast couldn’t see him.
Wells For Boys is just so good. Some more great Jack Handey vibes from Julio. I know this is silly to say about an Oscar winning actress, but it may be my favorite performance of Stone’s (she also crushes in the short Julio writes for her in S44).
I do remember Stone speaking in a much more exaggerated voice in the poster sequel, though maybe I was just annoyed like Stooge that they’d even do a sequel.
“Pete sometimes has trouble keeping a straight face in sketches by this point of his tenure (it gets worse a little later in his tenure, IIRC)”
Luckily, Pete’s newest season is actually his strongest yet as a cast member. He really seems more committed now than before.
“Excellent delivery from Emma when angrily telling off her other son”
Interesting, I always saw that as just some bully, not a brother (don’t believe they clarify either way).
@Anthony Peter Coleman
“Interesting, I always saw that as just some bully, not a brother (don’t believe they clarify either way).”
You could be right. Emma yelling to him about how he has everything while her sensitive son just has his Wells For Boys made me assume she was the non-sensitive boy’s mother and was acknowledging that she has given him everything he wants while neglecting the more sensitive needs of her other son prior to buying him the Wells For Boys, but now that I think of it, I guess 1) the non-sensitive boy could’ve just been the neighbor’s son or something like that, and 2) Emma’s “you have everything” speech was probably actually about masculine boys in general having far more toys that apply to them than sensitive boys do.
“*cough* Yep, you guessed it: I have AIDS.” All-timer line.
In regards to Pete’s off performance in the Posters sketch, I just assumed that it was either some cue card timing gaffe or he was trying really hard to not break at Kenan and somehow taking a long pause was how he composed himself.
And to piggyback off of Coleman: I think the complaints against Pete during season 44 and 45 are overblown, but yeah, he noticeably improves his performances in season 46. He’s showing more range so far than most of the male cast, honestly.
Between the ‘woke’ content and the audience frequently commenting on the action, I am always surprised that Schneider/Kelly apparently wrote those high school theater sketches, rather than Mikey and Streeter. This installment has some of the best material of any of them (I still laugh at the “Can I get a selfie?” segment any time I see it), so it was a good time to bow out.
“He’s showing more range so far than most of the male cast, honestly.”
I mean, good for Pete, but man, the erasure of the modern male cast is reaching absurd levels. Pete is having a relatively decent season (his Cuomo is solid), but I think it’s an INCREDIBLE stretch to suggest his range outpaces the likes of Beck, Kyle, Alex, Kenan, Chris or even Mikey and Bowen. Pete is what he is, which is good enough. But his improvements as a utility performer still don’t quite put him at the level of his male cohort. He was a one trick pony who has begun to develop a second trick. Good for him, but it’s like comparing Victoria Jackson to Jan and Nora. I don’t care how good she got, she was still a weak link.
@Carson
To your point though, Victoria was solid in all her seasons except her last. And, for a solid majority of his tenure, I’ve liked Pete fine. I agree the rest of the main male cast have shown more range than him (except for maybe Mikey). And yea, I agree that, even in within his limited range, Bowen has found far more fun places to take his persona than Pete in only 2 and a half seasons.
My take on Victoria is that she was the best weak link the show ever had. She wasn’t a sloppy performer, she just had a limited range.
“I think it’s an INCREDIBLE stretch to suggest his range outpaces the likes of Beck, Kyle, Alex, Kenan, Chris or even Mikey and Bowen … He was a one trick pony who has begun to develop a second trick. Good for him.”
@Carson This is my own hot take but I don’t think the modern male cast has shown much range at all. I mean, they all seem to have the capability, but the writing never lets them show it. Everyone’s usually stuck in their one lane. Mikey is the incredulous audience surrogate, Bowen is Bowen, Kyle is the awkward guy, Andrew Dismukes is there, etc. While I don’t think range is that important as long as there’s a cast with diverse niches, there’s a noticeable lack of character versatility anywhere on the show now so the fact that Pete suddenly went from basically existing on Weekend Update in season 45 to playing Cuomo, Peter O’Toole, the sex coordinator guy, Grinch, etc is more conspicuous than it would be in a stronger/better utilized cast. I don’t think it’s a stretch at all to say that Pete has shown more versatility *in this season* than Chris Redd, Bowen, or Mikey.
But I also don’t really like the current cast and outside of Ego Nwodim would be fine with them completely restaffing the show, so obviously some bias there.
TIRED: the women are the only good part of SNL.
WIRED: Pete Davidson IS Phil Hartman.
@Carson I can see how my take can be interpreted that way, but it’s within the context of not finding the recent era very strong as a whole. Obviously Pete isn’t some SNL all-timer, but my point was he’s been sticking out more because of how the writing and the size of the cast have minimized the need for versatility. He’s not even close to a Hartman/Aykroyd level but he’s just doing more than most of his castmates, imo. There’s so little going on in terms of performance nowadays that “doing different voices” is enough to be considered a more dynamic cast member. It may seem hyperbolic, but that’s just how it looks to me from my off-and-on viewings of season 46.
And to be claro, I don’t think the women are the only good part of the show. I can’t tell if you’re joking or think I’m blowing off the whole cast for the sake of propping up Pete (and I mean, I kinda *am* blowing off the whole cast sans Nwodim, but not for Pete’s sake at all.)
I wasn’t interpreting what you said. I was just making a silly joke.
Are you putting Jan and Nora on the same level here?
(Nothing against Nora. She had her skill set. But let’s be rational.)
Emma feels much more at home to me in her season 42 and 44 episodes than she did in her first two hosting stints. There are obvious reasons for that, but still, it adds a more positive feeling to both nights. This episode has a number of live sketches which are shaky but salvaged by that nice atmosphere.
This is the first of two (three if you count Lindsay Shookus and Ben Affleck, but…let’s just skip that one) romantic relationships between SNL personnel and celebrities during this season. Emma began dating Dave McCary (who directed Wells for Boys) after they met here. To think if Emma had decided not to host again after a 5 year gap (and a few cameos) or if Lorne and Seth had not brought in Good Neighbor, their lives would be so different now. Crazy.
Wells for Boys also helped lead the boy who played the son in it to be cast as Adam Driver and Scarjo’s son in Marriage Story. Certainly a very momentous pre-tape.
Wells for Boys is pretty much faultless, and it also leads to Julio Torres writing an even better film for Emma in her season 44 episode. I don’t love it as much as many people do, but I do appreciate it a great deal, SNL had never had (and probably never will again) have such a distinct or textured look at how a lot of kids feel. My favorite part is, “Don’t just give him a Barbie. I mean, it is LIKE that, but that’s just part of it.” Fantastic line, fantastic delivery from Cecily. Voiceover queen.
(Julio goes to this well (no pun intended) again in Natalie Portman’s episode, although that wonderful piece is, sadly, cut. )
The candle song is just utterly superb – the song, the performances, and most of all, the styling. A number of fans in the comments section for the video have even said how accurate the song and the style is to the period it is set in (early/mid ’90s). I tend to hit my limits with too much of Aidy’s vamping, but it has never been put to better use than here. Speaking of vamping, I also love Emma’s utterly ridiculous delivery of “foggy London town.”
Emma’s performance in the Posters sketch tends to irritate me a little even here, but it is much more exaggerated the second time around. Emma’s 44 gig is the first ‘live’ episode I watched in many years so the posters sketch was not a great entrance back…fortunately the episode improved from that point on). I wish they had had the ending as Pete deciding to keep her poster, rather than ending it on him getting an F – it just adds an unpleasant feel which leaves this on the minus side for me.
The cleaning ladies sketch is poorly written (the sudden inclusion of the kids and wife really screams a lack of proper editing), but it adds a different flair to see Emma and Leslie in this along with Cecily (who of course has been in these pieces many times). It’s unfortunate that Leslie has a pretty rough showcase coming up (that Tameka talk show) because she has been slowly but surely improving in the live sketches through this season. The wardrobe people also did a great job with her look here – she looks gorgeous.
Debette’s return is another sketch not up to much in the writing department, but the very loose feel (due partly to Jennifer Aniston being dumped in there, presumably at the last minute) adds to the charm compared to the first installment. Kate also has some great lines – my favorite is her reply to Jennifer’s “I’ve been dying to meet you” (“And I have been slowly dying.”)
Promo:
I think it’s kinda interesting how the placement of Debette Goldry sketches were always after Update and before the second musical performance in this season. I can’t think of another recurring character that was regularly placed in that slot. But after this season it gets inconsistent. The last two installments from seasons 43 and 44 are pre-Update and the 10-to-1, respectively.
(High School) Theatre Showcase has one of the best track records for any SNL recurring sketch. Here is my personal ranking of each installment.
5. Cameron Diaz- Only the weakest by comparison. If it was a bad sketch there wouldn’t be any follow-ups. Looking back though, the scenes in this one aren’t as good as they would later be and most of the audience comments are about moving the boxes with little variation. The rare recurring sketch where every sequel is an improvement to the concept.
4. Fred Armisen- The one that’s not easily available online thereby making it the least memorable. Because of this, the only things that stand out are the scene with Larry David, Aidy’s “Malare, Malare” line, and the fact that it was in what ended up being Taran Killam’s last show.
3. Emma Stone- Now entering the big 3, as evident by their YouTube compilation. The nuances of pretentious theater like the misguided woke messages are captured here to a tee. Placed in the middle of the list for still having strong material, but showing signs of repetition in some of the bits.
2. Elizabeth Banks- This superb installment delivers everything right. Between the faux-social justice and the prepubescent drama, it all comes together to make a hilarious sketch.
1. Reese Witherspoon- Just slightly better than the Banks version IMO, And the only one where Kenan and Vanessa aren’t playing the parents (but that’s just a coincidence). This one does everything said above while adding more to the premise like scenes that go nowhere, staged audience participation, and Cecily as the drama teacher which might be the thing that puts this one over. Every host in the top 3 installments fits right in as a pretentious high school theatre kid, but Reese stands out by feeling like a part of the group. For all those reasons, this is the one I’ll always go back to rewatch when I think about the sketch.
Although it’s a shame there haven’t been any more installments, at least they were able to go out while still on top before getting stale.
Either I watched this live while living at someone’s house while my flood-affected one was still not undergoing renovations, or I saw this when it was rerun later in the season but I remember quite a bit of this one like that posters one, and the high school theater pieces, and especially Jennifer Aniston’s appearance on Weekend Update alongside’s Vanessa’s Rachel Green impression. I also remember enjoying the hell out of it!
Stooge, If you can, Could you tell me where are you getting the full episodes with the bumpers that show them setting up for the next sketch? Like what torrent website/link are you using?
When’s the next review coming? It’s 1:39 a.m. and you’re killing me.
Also, surprised that no one replied to the joke I made in a comment, which is weird because I thought it was funny.
Life happens, dude. This is a free blog, you can’t expect it to run like clockwork.
I did see your joke, just didn’t know enough about the background to reply. I’m sure others enjoyed it though.
@Jesse Nathan
“When’s the next review coming? It’s 1:39 a.m. and you’re killing me.”
Jesse, you’ve left a few impatient comments like this lately about when a review of mine is going to be posted. I’ll quote something I said in the home page of this blog: “While my goal is to do one review a day, I understand that life is unpredictable, and thus, for one reason or another, I may end up having to go through some days, maybe even whole WEEKS, where it would be impossible for me to do a review.”
Please understand that the grueling nature of this project of mine makes it impossible for me to keep up the daily schedule ALL of the time. In the two-and-a-half years I’ve been doing this project, I’ve rarely gone through more than a handful of days without having to skip a day of reviewing, due to real life getting in the way. I also disclosed about a month-and-a-half back that I’ve started to reach a point of (mild) burnout in regards to my reviewing process, and several commenters responded by telling me that they understand, and they also told me that I can take my time and take as many breaks as I want for the remainder of this project. Since then, I’ve decided that I will occasionally skip a day of reviewing just to take a breather, so I don’t COMPLETELY burn myself out and end up quitting this project prematurely. Yesterday was one of those days I decided to take a breather, which is why my next review hasn’t been posted yet. I’ve been doing the review today, and it will be posted later tonight.
So please understand all of that, Jesse. And I don’t want to see you asking any more “When’s the next review coming?” questions.
I understand. I’m sorry.
I was so obsessed with Christmas Candle that my friend gave all of us peach candles that year.
‘The debut of Grim Reaper Steve Bannon, played by a well-disguised Mikey.’
Great bit, disappointed they tarnished it with a weak turn from the usually reliable Bill Murray.
“Yet another poorly-aged SNL portrayal of Kellyanne Conway as the sympathizing voice of reason of the Trump camp.”
The sympathizing voice of reason was how the media portrayed her as contrast to the other Trump campaign manager: Steve Bannon, and the show used that as their easy angle to later good use in ‘Where in the World Is Kellyanne Conway?’ and the controversy from her kneeling on the Oval Office couch. IIRC, prior to her job as Trump’s campaign manager (a job she started after the conventions) she was on the payroll of the Ted Cruz campaign and was critical of Trump during the primaries, and the media naturally saw that as a voice of reason for the campaign like they did when Bill Barr was announced as the new AG. I look forward to you reviewing the Trump era and the amount of poorly aged portrayals over his insufferable-one term in office.
The show would do better later on at parodying Kelly Anne. Although I still wouldn’t call them particularly incisive, the It and Chicago spoofs with her are two of this era’s better political pieces by default, simply by virtue of not totally sucking.
The “Marriage Story” pre-tape is also worthwhile, as it just dives right into those two being odious attention whores and parasites.
Emma and Dave have a baby girl, their first offspring! Congrats!
Just here to say that Emma’s S44 episode will be this week’s vintage show. It was announced before Anne’s death, so I don’t know if there’ll be a scheduling change before tomorrow night.