SNL - 2/6 - Dan Levy/Phoebe Bridgers

The bathroom sketch you mentioned to me is one of the funniest sketches ever done on SNL. I remember laughing quite a bit when I first saw it all those years ago and laughed again watching it again on Saturday.

As far as this week, I thought it was one of the better episodes this season, at least up until WU (which I liked). I thought it ran out of steam during the second half. I always liked the openings where they go "backstage" so that was really funny. And I liked the Super Bowl pre-game but a lot.

I knew you were not going to like the musical guest, and I had never heard anything she's done, but I actually enjoyed her. And I didn't expect what she did at the end with the hard rock guitar and the Pete Townsend guitar smash. I'm always a fan of women who can do more than just sing and dance, but have some actual musical talent beyond that, so Phoebe was in my wheelhouse. Now I have to find some of her music in other sources to sample.

Oh and I agree about Cicely. I've had a bit of a crush on her for years

 

I thought the guitar smash made her look really stupid. It seemed like she was trying to do it like Pete Townsend, but she didn't have the strength, so it just looked comical to see her repeatedly bashing the guitar on the amp with nothing happening.

Keep away! She's my crush!

 

I enjoyed having Dan in many sketches. I also loved that his dad came along.

I would say about 99% of the time I FF through the music segments.

But I did find quite a few of the sketches very funny this week.

Yes, definitely nice having Cecily in sketches. I just really like her a lot and I also love it when she gets to sing.

 

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Not sure what I thought about the guitar smash, but I didn't expect it. But I liked her music

And I'll fight you for Cicely

 

I wonder if Kate McKinnon was busy with some other things? She's usually in most sketches but I only remember her in 2 and both toward the end of the show (though she might have been in more and I'm not remembering). I'm fine with that as I think she's just been a little too over-exposed.

 

I liked Aidy Bryant playing both Andy Reid and Bruce Arians in the cold open. Making her change back to Andy Reid after going from Reid to Arians was brilliant.

"I wanna hear what Coach Reid has to say about what Coach Arians just said."

[GULP] "You do?"

 

I really like the Covid Bubble skit

 

Can you repeat that, but really slowly

 

I really liked the Zillow parody commercial, although they were pretty much making fun of me personally. I also liked the Black History "Cheez-it, Historically Delicious" commercial.

 

I would have enjoyed it more if it didn't ring so true.

 

Yeah, watched the SuperBowl with our covid bubble. But they see just as few people as we do, almost no one, including a lot of family

 

A running gag in those “backstage” monologues is there is always a hallway with two dancers, Lincoln and a llama in the background. This episode stood out as the llama was a stuffed fake llama instead of the usual live one. Also I don’t recall seeing Lincoln.

 

This commercial didn't make it into the show:

 

I thought exactly the same thing. Desperately trying to be a "rebel". Sorry lady, you don't have what it takes to be monumentally destructive. Maybe next time go the Jimi Hendrix method and just gently set the guitar on fire?

 

Phoebe Bridgers reminded me of an emo 16 year old's garage band. She sounded like a singer with little singing talent and the guitar smash at the end was silly. Never heard of her before and probably won't again unless she's one of the musical guests that I've usually never have heard of on a Colbert episode

 

I thought it was a pretty good episode, and Levy did a better job of hosting than most.

 

Eww. I was thinking how bad the prime time episode was.

 

I had never heard of Dan Levy before this, and he mentioned his show Schitt's Creek. So I checked it out. Wow. So not for me. lol. I've got a sense of humor, I laugh at Tony Danza. But this I didn't get.

Weekend Update has turned into the best part of the show for me.