There were a few that stood out, but overall, this was another mediocre outing forSNL.
Musical guest Gary Clark Jr. also did fine work in his two performances.
The guy plays a mean guitar.
Credit: Will Heath/NBC
It was pretty dull stuff, limply lampooning the president’s Rose Garden speech announcing the state of emergency.
When the sketch ended, I found myself wondering, “Was that it?”
That would turn out to be a recurring theme over the course of the night.
Monologue
Cheadle started off strong with a quick but fun monologue.
He got in some good quips (“I entered theAvengershost raffle, and I won!")
and a riff about people recognizing him on the street and asking for photos.
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(Couldn’t you just…lock your dog out of the bedroom?)
And I genuinely didn’t know what to make of the “Extreme Baking” sketch.
(And also vomit?
It was an utter mishmash, and it was terrible.
(“Which teacher drives an Uber on the weekend?
It will blow your mind!
It will also make you sad.")
an excuse for the cast to trot out their best celebrity impressions.
Other than that, there was nothing special here.
Even the slightly more absurd sketches just weren’t that interesting.
It wasn’t terrible, just flat.
On the whole, there wasn’t anything here that people will be watching much in the future.
Weekend Update
Colin Jost and Michael Che were a bit off their rhythm tonight.
They spent most ofUpdatetackling the national emergency, but the jokes were kind of toothless.
(“That was it,” quipped Jost.)
It’s all comedic ground that’s been covered before, something even Che seemed to be aware of.
“I’m so tired of telling Donald Trump jokes,” he sighed.
(That was the best joke in the whole segment, for my money.)
The correspondents also flopped hard for me.
To quote Jost, that was it.
The last correspondent was Mikey Day as over-age-110 Mort Fellner, reporting on his fellow supercentenarians in the U.S.
Spoiler alert: they’re all dead.
