SNL - 2/13 - Regina King/Nathaniel Rateliff

The Gorilla Glue Law Firm commercial was hilarious-her hair!

And at the end when Chris Redd had his hands down his pants and she told him to take them out and he said, "I can't! Gorilla Glue!" BA HA HA!

I've long been a fan-not just because we share a name, but because she's incredible-when she won the Oscar for "If Beale Street Could Talk" I was over the moon! She did a great job and I was so excited for her!

 

During her opening monologue when she was saying where white people would know her from, I thought for sure she would say Big Bang Theory.

 

I really like the Pelotaunt, funniest thing I've seen them do in a while. The Gorilla Glue bit was a close second.

 

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I was a big Regina King fan from when she played a detective on Southland (still cursing Jay Leno and his five night a week prime-time shows that basically pushed Southland off of NBC over to TNT) and also from the Netflix series Seven Seconds. I agree it was a little weird to see her on SNL since I think of her as a more sophisticated dramatic actress, but I thought she was great!

 

Shouldn’t you curse NBC? They are the ones that gave him the time slot because they were afraid he would go to another channel and beat them in the ratings.

 

LOL, ok, them too.

 

Ah, find a way to include “BIH, Fox!”

 

I had to chuckle when I read this. It's like saying "John Travolta I know from 'Welcome Back Kotter'".

As kewpie says, she was great in Southland, an under-rated show. And in the last couple years, she's been prolific. Watchmen comes to mind. She also directed and Exec-Produced "One Night in Miami", an amazing movie (Netflix?).

 

There were some funny skits but I mostly watch SNL for Weekend Update. Unfortunately, the skits that they run during that segment are never funny to me.

 

Meh episode. I thought Regina was fine and the opening monologue was good. WU wasn't just OK. I likes the second song the musical guest did, not the first.

 

You must be white.

 

My example is Peter Berg.

I realize everyone *now* knows him as a big time writer/director. But *I* will always know him as "'the young doctor' on 'Chicago Hope'". (Basically the young guy getting all the women, in contrast with Adam Arkin & Mandy Patinkin's older characters..)

Just like there's probably some 90+ year old that thinks of Clint Eastwood as "that nice young man from 'Rawhide'".

 

How is it that Regina King never seems to age?

 

I think that depends on when you first noticed her.

 

Hopping a bit to the new episode upcoming. I must be getting old or out of touch, but I have never heard of either the Host or the Musical Guest