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Saturday Night Live opens at Friday’s New Hampshire Democraticdebate
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Following the Iowa caucuses results disaster and Donald Trump’s Senate acquittal, the Democrats have a lot riding on this event. Unfortunately for them, their presumed frontrunner, Joe Biden (Jason Sudeikis), just suffered a huge electoral “kick in the nuts”, although he promises to do what he does best and “creep up from behind”. Meanwhile, the current actual frontrunners, “White Obama” former mayor Pete Buttigieg (Colin Jost) and “most popular guy on 4Chan” Bernie Sanders (Larry David) are still duking it out over the Iowa results. Struggling to keep from being totally overshadowed by all the raging male ego, Amy Klobuchar (Rachel Dratch) compares herself and fellow New York Times endorsee Elizabeth Warren (Kate McKinnon) to recentSuper
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It’s still only the second most cringeworthy moment in the cold open, the first being the sneering chastisement of Sanders’s “army of internet trolls” for their annoying behavior. It’s not that the show is wrong about them, it’s just that 1) any show that welcomed Trump on as host has no business moralizing from a centrist standpoint and 2) it’s just gonna cause the Bernie bros to become even more annoying. Anyway, the sheer disgracefulness of this week’s political theater gives this otherwise boilerplate, shrug-worthy cold open an extra-foul aftertaste. Reality TV star and drag icon RuPaulhosts for the first
time. Some viewers may be confused as to why he’s not in drag for his monologue, but he assures us “I am wearing my grandmother’spanties”.
He then reminisces about his early days in New York and runs down the three rules that have seen him through his various ups and downs: “No 1: get the money up front. No 2: if they ain’t paying your bills pay them no mind. And finally: don’t take life too seriously.” It’s all very life-affirming and inspirational, but it’s also distinctly lacking in laughs. In Charades, two families – one white, one black – take opposing sides in the popular parlor game. The black family flagrantly disregards the rules, such as no talking and no pointing, and eventually steamrolls their competition. It’s never clear whether the joke is that black people don’t know how to play charades or that they’re really good at getting movie clues (this feels like the third or fourth time SNL has referenced Bad Boys for Life this season), though frankly, it’s never interesting or funny enough tomatter.
RuPaul declares Chad, Pete Davidson’s monosyllabic slacker, to be “the future of drag”. He’s given RuPaul’s patented makeover of The Tuck, The Look, and The Face, though it doesn’t take in the end. Weighed down by two large “chicken cutlets” and a skintight dress, Chad just flops all over the place. This pre-filmed similarly sketch falls flat, although RuPaul is much more natural here than he is in alive one.
Then, in Check-Splitting, Cecily Strong and RuPaul play two sassy office temps decked out in 80s perms and blouses (it’s unclear if this is supposed to be a Designing Women reference, although it feels like it) who attempt to defend the honor of one of their coworkers during a pay dispute at a restaurant. All they end up doing is revealing how much of a pathetic closer she is, loudly exclaiming: “Every night this woman goes home to nothing – and NOTHING!”. The audience is initially onboard, but the sketch keeps spinning its wheels, running out of steam long before it wraps up. The same is true of Library, in which RuPaul visits children’s reading and teaches them how “read … the filth”. According to RuPaul: “Reading is throwing shade: a brutal insult wrapped inside a glorious wordplay.” Unfortunately, any such glorious wordplay here is lost to bad timing and interminable bouts of awkward silence. Justin Bieber is the night’s musical guest. Sporting a terrible mustache and accompanied by a string trio, he performs the song Yummy. Weekend Update kicks off with Colin Jost poking fun at the recentphotograph of
Trump
making the rounds, in which the president’s grotesque tan lines are extra-visible. Per Jost: “It’s like the day at the nursing home where they let the patients put their own makeup on.” He and Michael Che trade shots at Trump’s rambling acquittal speech; his confusing Kansas City, Kansas, for Kansas City, Missouri; and his penchant for slurring words – all to the loud, self-satisfied applause of the audience. This material has already been driven into the ground on social media and across late night, and in light of Trump’s recent victories and the Democrats’ recent debacles, it couldn’t feel more pointless. Series newcomer Chloe Fineman gets her first showcase by joining the hosts to discuss her “favorite holiday”, the Oscars.
It’s really just an excuse for her to do impressions – some better than others – of the actors Ana de Armas, Renée Zellweger, Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Scarlett Johansson and LauraDern.
In a new episode of Thirsty Cops, RuPaul and Ego Nwodim’s horny officers take turns harassing a reckless driver. The last time the show used this setup, the Baltimore police department threw a hissy fit, but this one seems too milquetoast (and frankly, forgettable) to cause much of a stir. The Old New York Show is a local-access program hosted by longtime drinking companions and shut-ins Madge and Dickie (Aidy Bryant and McKinnon). They’re joined by their mutual ex-husband, Terry T (“by day an unemployed shoe critic, by night … an usher on Broadway where I yell at ladies to pee faster!”). They all reminisce about the golden days of “old New York” (or, 1994), sing some quick show tunes and make prank calls/terrorist threats. It’s all very scattershot, but also endearingly grungy and consistently funny. The show obviously ran long, so rather than a closing sketch, things wrap up with Bieber (and guest rapper Quavo) performing Intentions. Talented an overall performer as he is, RuPaul just didn’t seem particularly well-suited to live sketch comedy. But the bigger issue with this episode, and with the show overall now that the primaries are well and truly upon us, is the political material. This past week saw several major political car wrecks play out before our eyes, and yet Saturday Night Live couldn’t craft one memorable sketch – nor even a single memorable joke – out of any of it. At this point, if the best it can do is show us an embarrassing picture of Trump that people have already been laughing at for two days, it’s fair to ask: what purpose is the showeven serving?
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