Saturday Night Live tonight:

[applegrove]

Comedian Jerrod Carmichael makes his SNL debut and will serve as tonight’s host. He’s joined by musical guest Gunna.

Applegrove:

I've never heard of these people...... oh and get off my lawn!!!!

[USALiberal]

1. LOL, I'm right with you.....

I remember watching the first Saturday night live and I was in high school. And I have enjoyed it over the years. But most the bands or musical groups I hear in the seasons I have no idea who they are.

[applegrove]

3. I'm glad I'm not alone.

[leftieNanner]

11. Same here.

And I watch it now and again still. The writing is often crappy. Unfunny. But every once in a while I still laugh.

The musical acts are often beyond weird. Tuneless singers with lousy whispy voices. I don't get it.

Lizzo was AWESOME though!

[certainot]

31. are they giving air time to local NYC club bands?

[Brainfodder]

2. No longer hip either, glad.

What a time waster, I do have better things to do, like read D.U.!

[USALiberal]

4. I like the news segment, but that's about it.

[Brainfodder]

13. Opening, News, and that's about all I look forward to, they have so much for this week to lampoon!

[Rebl2]

27. Same here

Occasionally I like musical guest, but rarely. My I feel old🫤

[Brainfodder]

34. Knowing nursing homes will soon be blasting Def Leppard and such: PRICELESS!

I just hate the heavy use of auto-tune, very rarely good to my ears.

[applegrove]

6. Yes I don't follow fashion either. Loved following trends at one point. Now I'm more interested

in the longer term.

[petronius]

5. Yeah, and why does it have to come on so late? 8:30 pm!? Only hoodlums are

awake at that hour...

[applegrove]

7. You must be on the west coast. At 11:30 on the east coast, I am just

beginning to be awake all night.

[2naSalit]

22. Here's a chuckle for you...

In my area the NPR stations cover a lot of area in several states so each program goes a long way. Apparently there are enough old dead heads to warrant a Friday night "Dead" show so it was put on at 10pm. A large number of listeners complained that it was on after they went to bed! So they moved it up to 8 or 9pm!

Gotta love it.

[multigraincracker]

26. I try like hell to be in before the street lights

come on. Learned a long time ago, nothing good happens after midnight.
You’ve been warned.

[orleans]

39. a new wordle happens at midnight & i play it every night (if i remember)

lol "nothing good happens after midnight"

but for us night owls--it's the magic time

[multigraincracker]

58. I'd just stay off the streets.

I wake up in the wee hours. Might leave an hour before sunrise to go fishing. Even then I hit a deer a few hours before the street lights came on. In my 70s to and that's another thing to consider when trying t stay safe.

I did work nights for 30 years. Got fired 3 times.

[questionseverything]

8. lol 😂

Growing old is rough

But

It sure beats the alternative!

🇺🇦

[applegrove]

15. That is such a great meme.

[questionseverything]

59. I thought the comedian we didn't know was pretty funny

I lol through most of the skits last night

Did you enjoy the show?

[applegrove]

60. I didn't see it after weekend update. I find it very pleasant. Then there

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are a few outstanding moments like Trump and Marsha Blackburn impressions that are so brilliant. I much prefer it now that they pre record some skits. It means they can do much more. Didn't like the rainbow doll thing. Their "inappropriate behaviour" skits make me cringe.

[Ocelot II]

9. Who?

[applegrove]

18. Where is my second most commonly used word these days. What

am I doing is the most common thing I ask myself. What was I going to do.

[GoCubsGo]

10. I'v never heard of them, either.

Which has frequently been the case with SNL over the past few years.

[applegrove]

20. Yes. Can't think of a longer running show that attracts the young and the old.

[GoCubsGo]

21. Yeah, outside of TV award shows, I can't either.

Whenever I watch the Oscars, Grammys, Emmys, etc., I find my self asking "Who the hell are all these people?" more and more frequently.

[applegrove]

23. Ha!

[Rhiannon12866]

12. He's a comedian? Well, that's good news.

And it's the same for me, I don't remember the last time I'd heard of the host - last week's was a repeat and I still didn't recognize the name...

[applegrove]

14. I stopped remembering names if I didn't have to years ago. Now it is involuntary.

[Rhiannon12866]

16. I used to work with the television networks

I wrote up the show descriptions for the newspaper TV listings. So I had so many names in my head from back then that I think I'm full up...

[applegrove]

19. LOL!

[multigraincracker]

28. Yeah, that's the ticket.

My brain must be full up too.

[Rhiannon12866]

35. There were two names that I could never remember how to spell - on the news shows

I always had to look up George Stephanopoulos and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and that hasn't changed!

[Rhiannon12866]

17. Duplicate post. n/t

[moonscape]

24. Waaay back in the day, maybe 55-60 yrs back,

my parents would learn something from their subscription to Newsweek that had to do with young people and want to talk to me about it. I’d roll my eyes and tell them that was so yesterday.

You know you’re old when you get excited you recognize a person on the cover of People when in the check-out line.

[applegrove]

25. I read people a few years ago as a palate cleanser to politics.

I did not know the young generations at all. Stopped reading it when I realized all I was interested in was the fashion and I no longer bought fashions. Now I use the home decor shows to relax in a creative way.

[multigraincracker]

29. I check out old Life magazines in

the antique mall. Everyone one on the covers look familiar. By the time I get home, I can remember their names.

[IronLionZion]

30. I'm hardly the only one who watches it on Sunday online

The clips are free on Youtube or whole episodes on Hulu

[kairos12]

32. I stopped paying attention after Gilda died.

[BootinUp]

33. Im Gunna have to check that out. :)

[dflprincess]

36. You are not alone

Last time I was at the salon, I picked up a copy of People Magazine & didn't know most the people the magazine was talking about.

[AdamGG]

37. IMO the last great cast was with Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz

There have been some occasional funny sketches since then (especially Tina Fey's Sarah Palin), but not whole episodes that I thought were consistently as funny.

[Traildogbob]

38. Come on old timers

Our parents hated that Zeppelin, Stones and Cream we listened to. And probably hated Carlin, so our time is over. Time to move on gracefully. This is the younguns SNL. Lawrence Welk has a show playin somewhere on Sinclair owned locals on the 300 plus channels our dishes and cables have. If they get on my Lawn it will be hard for them to not step in dog shit. I leave out there for those young punks that attempt to get on my lawn.

[applegrove]

40. Self Kick.

[raising2moredems]

41. OMG...

Do you not remember The Carmichael Show? Likely cancelled as handled current events to-a-T. David Alan Grier played his Dad, Lil Rel his brother, Tiffany Haddish his SIL, Amber Stevens West his GF? I'd venture to guess I am older than the OP!!

[PlanetBev]

42. I have seasons 1975 to 1980 on DVD

From the debut episode with George Carlin on, I
never missed it. The best writers, skits and musicians, ever. After the original cast left, they just lost me.

[GoCubsGo]

43. The guy they have playing Trump now is near perfect!

Sounds just like him!

[applegrove]

45. Oh that guy gets me going. I laugh out loud but am scared.

Really weird feeling... ROTF - scarred

[Totally Tunsie]

57. I was floored! He was amazing!

His cadence and blubbering were perfect.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

44. What? What? Somebody is using your bong?

You and me both.
SNL use to be entertaining but now I have zero idea about most of the people and entertainment they bring on.

[Tarc]

46. If you do not recognize the host or guest, perhaps...

...that is a sign to start paying attention to current pop culture. You don't want to be your parents, shaking a fist at clouds, starting every comment with "X hasn't been good since Y and Z." it's decrepit, old, and kinda lame, tbh (that's one of those fancy acronyms, "to be honest&quot .

No one's expecting you to be a fan of Gunna, or get a Billie Eilish tattoo. But stay relevant and connected to the current world.

[Orrex]

47. Carmichhael's opening monolog was actually pretty funny

The Fox Friends opener was too horrifyingly accurate to be funny, alas.

[applegrove]

48. I agree it was scarry.

[Orrex]

49. Like, I could only stare in horror

Not because it was poorly written or performed, but because it was more or less indistinguishable from the real thing.

I did chuckle at Trump's Labyrinth reference though.

[applegrove]

50. I don't understand that reference and did not hear that part well. I thought the taking the "p"

off of coup because he didn't like it was brilliant.

[Orrex]

51. Yes, that was good!

But when he was rambling, he muttered something that ended with "you remind me of the babe," which is a line from the semi-spoken intro to "Magic Dance."

[applegrove]

52. I don't get either reference and didn't hear that. I didn't hear it all though. I was distracted

by the aspect of my TV that had the Trump character half on my TV screen on the right. I was trying to figure out if I could fix it. And I have a one track mind. Don't know what the aspect of my TV changed a few weeks ago. I can no longer see the score during Raptors basketball games either. For the first month I had this 2nd hand TV the aspect was perfect. Now when I try to fix the aspect it won't render back to a good fit.

[Orrex]

54. Well, Labyrinth was a perfect storm for me, back when it came out.

Muppets? Check!
Bowie? Definite check!
Age-appropriate crush on Jennifer Connelly? Check!

[applegrove]

55. Never saw it.

[applegrove]

56. Here is a link to the Cold open. I don't get either reference you made but how Trump

talks is full of lateral concepts so no doubt I miss something. Plus I have no knowledge of either of your references.

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/saturday-night-live-open-april-2-jerrod-carmichael-1235221994/

[orleans]

53. i was laughing my ass off with the home shopping skit and the doll nt