'Wasn't That Special' Season 38 Bonus Materials
As the Wasn’t That Special co-hosts watch each season of Saturday Night Live, they compare notes on each episode, chatting back and forth about popular and long-forgotten sketches. Some of the topics they discuss make it to the final podcast; others are left on the cutting room floor.
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Episode One: Seth McFarlane
Christian: The even distribution of roles feels like the show has been rejuvenated. Good use of the new cast members. Barely any Sudeikis.
Armisen hands Barack Obama off to Jay Pharoah - Obama says his secret weapon is Mitt Romney's out-of-touchness (Sudeikis as Romney, Killam as Paul Ryan)
Christian: I believe Ryan had misstated his marathon time, which is what the joke about his workouts was about.
Scot: Decent Obama, I suppose. Let's see how that goes.
Lids employees bring out Psy (Moynihan) to sing Gangnam Style - actual Psy makes cameo.
Christian: This is…barely a sketch? Sudeikis has lost a lot of weight.
Scot: At no point did it approach humor. Awful attempt to capitalize on Psy.
Puppet class - Hader has back flashbacks to his time as a soldier
Christian: One of my all-time favorites. Perfect from front to back. One of Hader's best.
Scot: Oh, that's amazing. Hadn't seen before. Lotta boxes checked throughout this.
Pedrad and McFarlane on blind date and speak exclusively in fake voices
Christian: Aidy Bryant debut!
Scot: This feels like that sketch with the family that did all the voices -- with Paltrow.
Amish sell wooden spoons on the internet (Robinson and McFarlane)
Christian: Quick and fun.
Scot: “The river took my son” is good.
Episode Two: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Christian: Ends up being a good episode by being incredibly average. We have a full on Bayer vs. McKinnon battle for Female Cast Member 1.
Scot: It's true. Wiig being gone is allowing all sorts of people to get screen time. And they're taking advantage.
Live with Kelly (Pedrad) and Michael (Pharoah) - Robert Pattinson (Hader) is guest
Christian: I've said it before, but there's more than a little Oteri in Pedrad's style.
Scot: Not really doing anything for me.
Levitt is a hypnotist - Killan is in on the act, hams it up for the crowd.
Scot: Killam is excellent, even though you hate him. Snappy twist at the end. Really good one.
Christian: It's Killam's best moment on the show so far!
McKinnon and Armisen sing a song to Robinson, presenting their daughter (Levitt)
Christian: Maybe the type of weird stuff from Robinson they should have appreciated more at the time in retrospect.
Powers Realty - Robinson and Pedrad - ask people to stop drawing wieners on their ads
Christian: Gets cut off, but for good reason because it went on a beat too long. But Robinson is good!
Scot: Robinson is getting all sorts of opportunities early on.
Episode Three: Daniel Craig
Christian: Below average but not terrible. Hard to think of an issue that has so animated the writers more than Obama's bad debate against Mitt Romney. Feels like we have really shifted into a modern era of the show.
2012 Presidential Debates - Parnell returns - Romney (Sudeikis) versus Obama (Pharoah) - Obama forgot to get Michelle an anniversary gift.
Christian: Pharoah really stumbles through this. Good thing most of it is prerecorded. Jim Downey, you are missed - this is really lame.
Scot: Romney really cleaned Obama's clock in this first debate. People don't remember it much. - They still can't figure out how to write Obama.
Construction workers - Craig doesn't know how to catcall
Christian: Again, feels like a Robinson. Later, SNL would be accused of plagiarizing this piece.
Scot: Reminds me of the Romano/SportsCenter thing.
Maddow (Strong) on Obama's bad debate performance - Chris Matthews (Sudeikis), Sharpton (Kenan) and SE Cupp (McKinnon) join
Christian: Sudeikis is doing Hammond doing Matthews. Kenan lifts this.
Scot: Totally fine.
Long Island Medium - McKinnon is Teresa Caputo
Christian: McKinnon is from Long Island so this was made for her.
Kirby in Space - Moynihan's astronaut misses his little kitty cat
Christian: Catchphrase bait.
Scot: Kinda enjoyed Moynihan's character here.
A Sorry Lot We Are on the BBC - Craig, Hader, and Moynihan commiserate at a bar
Christian: Aidy Bryant with her first real chance to shine.
Scot: Love Hader's voice. Armisen feels so out-of-place with this cast.
Amisen is Regine, Craig's date to a dinner party, makes faces when he kisses her
Christian: When Armisen says he has a new recurring character, they should pull the fire alarm at 30 Rock.
Scot: What I said above. Armisen is 21 years older than Bryant.
Episode Four: Christina Applegate
Christian: With Bayer, McKinnon, and Pedrad, the women are once again becoming a strength of the show. Bryant and Strong still waiting for regular work.
Vice presidential debate - Biden (Sudeikis) vs. Paul Ryan (Killam) - Usain Bolt cameos
Christian: I was interviewing Ryan a lot around this time and I'm sure I have a recording of me asking him about what he thought about this. As I recall, he liked it, although he said he was legitimately thirsty. This doesn't rise to Downey level, but there's enough in here to make it okay.
Scot: Do we see Sudeikis put in his fake teeth? - Killem's Ryan is pretty good! - I thought this was much better than the usual fare. Three strong performances.
Pharoah's principal Fry makes announcements at Halloween party
Christian: Pharoah is very impressed by his own work here. Applegate's librarian character worries Google will kill libraries. Sort of prescient?
Scot: Do not like this Pharoah character, never have.
Applegate teaches a dance class
Christian: Clearly Applegate has watched a lot of Kristen Wiig. She is doing an impersonation of Wiig doing a character.
Scot: There's some Wiig in her Californians character, too.
Episode Five: Bruno Mars
Scot: Lotta Mars everywhere. Light on Armisen (was he even there?)
Second presidential debate - Aidy Bryant as Candy Crowley - Romney and Obama threaten to fistfight each other. Tom Hanks cameo asking question in audience.
Christian: Ten minutes long and feels like it could be written by a high school improv group. Crowley was actually wrong on the "terrorist" question.
Scot: Aidy's first big role - They found one hook and drove it into the ground repeatedly - Crowley admitted she messed up right after the debate. Didn't matter.
You'll never guess what Bruno Mars does for his monologue!
Christian: We are five-for-five in songs in monologues so far this season.
Scot: Pretty terrible.
Haters with Sunny Taylor Tompkins (Strong) - Woman (Moynihan) had a hoochie daughter (Mars)
Christian: Awful.
Scot: No point, no reason to exist.
Pandora Internet Radio office - Green Day channel goes down, Bruno Mars has to sing their songs
Christian: Not much here, but it is prescient in predicting the end of physical media. Mars' talent carries this though. It won me over.
Scot: Paper-thin premise. Mars is working his ass off, though.
Maryvale animatronic singers (Hader, Mars, Killam) attack Pharoah, Bayer on a date. Tom Hanks cameos.
Christian: Almost a precursor for Hanks' David S. Pumpkins.
Scot: I like this whole series.
Donkey Punch the Ballot - DJ Supersoak and Lil Blaster
Christian: McKinnon's first Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Episode Six: Louis C.K.
Christian: Aidy Bryant is like the Jackie Robinson of SNL - after 38 years, they finally have a female cast member that isn't rail thin. Speaking of Robinsons, no Tim this week.
Scot: Lots of stuff here that should have worked a little better than it did.
Michael Bloomberg (Armisen) post-Hurricane Sandy press conference, Strong is his expressive sign language interpreter, Chris Christie (Moynihan) and his interpreter (Pedrad)
Christian: Good work by Strong here.
Scot: They're figuring out a way for the cold opens to work again.
Fox and Friends - Sudeikis does Donald Trump talking about Hurricane Sandy - C.K. is FEMA worker
Scot: Sudeikis as Trump. Not great!! - The rest is pretty paint-by-numbers at this point.
Abe Lincoln (C.K.) tries to make black friends, does stand-up like the Louis TV show.
Christian: All premise.
Scot: It was fine but, yeah, went nowhere fast despite some possible paths.
fun. "Some Nights"
Christian: We are sure this guy isn't John Mulaney? The guitar player is Jack Antonoff, who's pretty much the most powerful producer in music today. (And married to Lena Dunham.)
C.K. is hotel concierge reviewing Moynihan's room charges with him
Scot: Enjoyed this one. Nothing special, won't remember it, but good rhythm.
Episode Seven: Anne Hathaway
Christian: More Bayer! I demand it! Pretty big episode for Killam, especially in the first half.
Mitt Romney (Sudeikis) on his balcony on election night
Christian: "Have you been drinking? You smell like a dairy." A Trump racism joke. I guess we are in it now. They've been pretty kind to Romney, all things considered. And Obama, of course is invisible because Pharoah can't handle it.
Scot: Not much happening here, but nice to see McKinnon's Ann Romney one more time.
Girlfriends talk show - Bryant realizes Anne Hathaway is now Strong's new best friend
Christian: Bryant is really good in this. You can feel her pain.
Scot: From somewhat afar, I've always liked Bryant. So far, so good.
Ellen Show (McKinnon) - Hathaway as Katie Holmes
Christian: "Ellen doesn't yell." That didn't age well. Hathaway played Holmes on the Miley Cyrus show in S36.
Origin story of the American Gothic painting
Scot: Why the Asian camera joke at the beginning? Still pretty good though.
Episode Eight: Jeremy Renner
Christian: Only bit parts for McKinnon, Bayer and Pedrad tonight, just after I praise them.
Scot: Had this one graded well behind you. In the middle of a high-end slump as far as I'm concerned.
Paula Broadwell book reading for "All In" about David Petraeus, it's an erotic novel
Christian: Decent premise, but a person just reading from a book makes for a dull sketch.
Scot: Liked it. If you get a chance, watch again and notice how much McKinnon gets out of a wordless crowd member performance.
The Californians
Christian: Glad everyone is enjoying themselves.
Scot: It's the worst kind of sketch, performed only for the performers, over and over and over, attempting various moves to make each other break.
Avengers - Hawkeye is out of arrows so he's useless
Christian: Dud. Timing was way off.
Renner is at the coroner's to identify his brother, keeps guessing celebrities
Christian: Out of nowhere, this was pretty fun.
Episode Nine: Jamie Foxx
Christian: Terrible start but then roared to life at the end. Barely any McKinnon.
Obama and Boehner press conference on ending the fiscal cliff - Boehner (Hader) is bullied by Republicans
Christian: Pharoah still in over his head.
Scot: Yeah, Pharoah is rough and stumbly in places.
Bitch, What's the Answer? Game show
Christian: Man, this sucks. It's just saying the word "bitch."
J-Pop America Fun Time Now - Foxx is guest
Christian: Not getting any better. Last one of these.
Scot: Last one because they couldn't think of another stereotype to exploit?
Alex Cross 2: Madea Special Ops
Christian: What is happening
Scot: Think about all the work and makeup and all the extras needed to produce this
Dylan McDermott or Dermot Mulroney?
Christian: They wring a lot of laughs out of this.
Scot: This is 100% because of Hader.
Marcus Banks, Tree Pimp (Kenan)
Christian: Whoa, another prescient Matt Lauer joke!
Scot: Almost like people knew stuff about Lauer.
Maine Justice - Displaced New Orleans Judge (Sudeikis) finds Moynihan guilty
Christian: Sudeikis brings back his Potato Chip Astronaut character. Might be his best performance yet.
Scot: Absolute insanity.
Swarovski Crystals - Porn Star Spokeswomen (Bayer and Strong)
Christian: Love these characters, but they will be back over and over.
Episode Ten: Martin Short
Christian: A superb show. Really felt like an event.
Scot: We finally get a truly great episode hosted by an SCTV guy! This was an "energy" show -- so much that it sold material more than it maybe even deserved. Pretty rare, I think.
A Tony Bennett Christmas (Baldwin) - Jerry Bennett (Short) joins, Kanye West (Pharoah), lots of suppository talk
Christian: The suppository bit is shades of Twinkle and Stink.
Scot: I'll say it: Duplication Theory (a celebrity comes on and plays a relative of a recurring character) - These Bennett sponsor jokes pre-date Twinkle, don't they?
Short instructs Hader on how to be an OBGYN to the Royal Family
Christian: It's easy to like these when you know they're having so much fun.
Christmas Pageant auditions - singing duo of Caleb and Monty (McCartney and Short), McCartney only plays the triangle
Scot: This could have been higher/better if it were written through instead of transitioning to the song.
Episode Eleven: Jennifer Lawrence
Monologue: Lawrence trash-talks other Oscar nominees while Tommy Lee Jones (Hader) skulks
Scot: This was good. Well-constructed. Liked J-Law saying something nice after the digs at her competitors.
Verismo home coffee maker, acts like a Starbucks employee
Scot: Not happening today: Cecily doing the voice of a stereotypical black female character.
Moynihan and Bayer eat at a restaurant with insult waitresses
Christian: My kids loved Ed Debevic's. (Ed. note: A classic Chicago eatery where the wait staff insults the customers.)
Moynihan probably helped write this with his Chicago ties? - Thought there was a lot of potential here but nothing quite moved to the next level.
Top Dog Chef
Scot: Supremely stupid stuff but it works. I laughed a couple times.
"Danielle" Cinemax soft core porn
Christian: Enjoy the dead-on style, but could have been better. My tweet the night the show aired: “While not laugh-out-loud funny, I appreciate creative SNL skits like "Danielle."
Scot: I dunno. It's not actually funny in any real way.
Episode Twelve: Adam Levine
Scot: Seems pretty pointless to have Levine host the show even if there were NBC synergy to consider.
Obama visited by MLK, asks about Beyonce
Christian: Kenan carries this. "We're still waiting for our first black magician."
Scot: "I gotta visit Cornel West and tell him to take it down about 30 notches."
Monologue: Samberg shows up and offers to coach Levine in comedy, like on The Voice. Cameron Diaz and Jerry Seinfeld join.
Christian: Prescient joke about Levine sleeping with "between 2 and 500 women." He'd get in trouble for this later.
Scot: Samberg: "I was in 100 digital shorts and three live sketches."
The Sopranos Diaries
Christian: Prescient - they made a Tony Soprano origin movie!
Firefighter Levine talks to gay Hader's ex-girlfriend
Christian: Hader is good, but this is just "He's gay!"
Scot: Brutal - Apparently it's layered polo night on the show.
Janet (Moynihan) brings Levine home to hook up
Christian: Oh no, this again? At least there are some jokes in here.
Episode Thirteen: Justin Bieber
Christian: Bieber was 19. Hader famously said he was a nightmare this week. Some better ideas here than I expected but it collapses at the end. Squeezed as much as they could out of a host with limited talent.
Super Bowl power outage coverage on CBS - everyone kills time, Hader dancing commercial
Christian: Imagine I would have liked this given its timeliness.
Scot: Thought this got stronger as it went on, particularly post-commercial. The secrets revealed were really funny.
Sudeikis plays Bieber's security, whole cast shows up as body doubles
Christian: The joke about Bieber pretending to be black is pretty good. Actually liked this - writers seem to be having fun making fun of him.
Scot: Signature-style Sudeikis role.
Grease-style song where the men and women tell their sides of the story in a song and Bieber is an idiot
Christian: Common theme of all the sketches - Bieber is stupid.
Pharoah's Principal Fry hosts Valentine's Day dance
Christian: Stop it with these.
Episode Fourteen: Christoph Waltz
Christian: Solid episode dragged down by Armisen’s Regine, who should never curse a television screen anywhere again.
Scot: Hader does a Pardo impression for the very end of the opening credits.
Pedrad is Tippy, who misses conversations and annoyingly asks people to summarize what they just talked about
Christian: A Wiig knockoff that isn't very successful.
Scot: It's a reverse Penelope, essentially. Pedrad was good, but given nothing to really do.
Regine (Armisen) returns, Waltz's girlfriend
Christian: No no no no no no no no no no
Scot: Crowd is basically dead, too, outside of perfunctory reaction to the physical stuff
Strong in office receives creepy Valentine's Day card, she's the only one who can't tell it's Waltz, the security guard
Scot: Enjoyed the final little twist.
Episode Fifteen: Kevin Hart
Christian: About as average as they get. Nothing popped at all.
Scot: Below average, for sure. Hart brings a weird energy to the whole thing that's tough to fold into the existing vibe. Since the Short show nothing has been toward the high-end.
Hart talks about seeing a homeless guy touch a sandwich at Panera, auditioning for SNL with no impressions
Christian: Hart's standup is a sweat act. If you saw any of this written down, you wouldn't recognize any of it as a joke.
Scot: Intense storytelling is what it is.
Barnes and Noble employees (Moynihan and Strong) insult coworkers. Hart breaks.
Christian: Losing the element of surprise really hurts this the second time around. It's a good performance, but is it all that funny?
Scot: And why is Carl back?
Shark Tank - People pitch terrible products - Hart sells sunglasses for lampshades
Christian: Liked McKinnon's Barbara Corcoran impression
Scot: Incredible that this is the Shark Tank sketch they want to go with. So much left on the table.
Hart and Bayer compete for commercial recording job for Dove Chocolate
Christian: In the long line of "two people of wildly different skills auditioning" sketches.
Scot: I still think they're going to choose Patrick Swayze in the end.
Episode Sixteen: Justin Timberlake
Christian: Another one that feels like an event. After a strong start, Robinson has faded to obscurity. It's a shame because we know what he can do.
Scot: It's a crowded, crowded cast right now, in the show's defense.
Timberlake plays Elton John playing at Hugo Chavez's funeral
Christian: This is a pretty good impression and it's funny that the lyrics basically just read as a Wikipedia entry.
Scot: Timberlake and John were friends from working on the video for "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore" in 2001.
It's a Date game show hosted by Hader - Bayer has to choose between Moynihan, the Timberlake/Samberg duo, and the Festrunk Brothers
Christian: Fine, I give in to the nostalgia.
Scot: It's not just Member Berries, which is nice.
The Tales of Sober Caligula
Christian: Uh.
Scot: It didn't really know what it wanted to be - Michael Che wrote.
Maine Justice - McKinnon v. Samberg
Christian: The alligator bit made me howl.
Romantic comedy trailer - Pedrad has a penis
Christian: Not happening today - surprised it happened in 2013.
Scot: It's a pitch-perfect recreation of one of these trailers. Too bad about the film concept.
Episode Seventeen: Melissa McCarthy
Christian: There's a very specific type of humor creeping into the writers' room this year in which people use words and phrases either out of order or in inappropriate contexts. Shows up big in the 10-to-1s.
Scot: I would not have predicted our biggest comedy schism could be Melissa McCarthy.
Kim Jong Un address to nation - lifts ban on gay sex, brags about his own prowess
Christian: Seems like just an excuse to get Rodman on air?
Barb Kellner (McCarthy) goes to bank to get loan to set up pizza eating business
Christian: This HAS to be a Groundlings trunk piece. Feels like McCarthy has done this 2,000 times.
Scot: This is my favorite character she's rolled out as host (either episode.)
Episode Eighteen: Vince Vaughn
Christian: Was Bayer in this at all?
Scot: Pretty heavy Sudeikis workload recently. Vaughn is a much odder fit for the show than you might imagine. Remember his last hosting gig was pretty rough. This had a bit of everything.
Monologue: Vaughn enters the crowd to solicit support of audience members.
Christian: This is platinum-level patter.
Scot: Vaughn: "It's OK to put down the phones and be a part of the memory. That lasts a lifetime as well." THANK YOU.
The Al Pacino Accused Murderer Biopic Series - Pacino (Hader)
Christian: OH NO. Once again, being offensive (Hader in blackface) but having someone pointing it out to grant permission. Also, it's prescient, given the Menendez Brothers movie that came out this year.
Scot: Hader in blackface, but not really? I mean, the entire point is that it's ridiculous.
Stormy Skies - Weather Channel soap opera with Vaughn, Strong, McKinnon, Killam
Scot: It's a bit of a mess, really. No flow.
Christian: Oh, no way - I thought this was inspired.
History of Punk - Punk rocker Ian Rubbish (Armisen) loved Margaret Thatcher; Steve Jones cameo
Scot: Thatcher died April 8. Did they put this together in four days? Wild - No notes, perfect at every step. - Maybe Armisen's finest moment? - An all-timer.
Christian: Yep, this is it for all the things you said. Also, a bit prescient, as Johnny Rotten became a big Trump fan.
Short-Term Memory Loss Theater - (Hader) has to feed lines to actors (Bryant, Vaughn, Armisen)
Scot: Super-dumb but I ended up liking it, despite the unearned giggling.
Christian: Took a bit, but yeah, won me over.
Last Call - Vaughn & Sheila Sovage (McKinnon) are at the bar
Christian: "That gave me a "de-rection." I love these - the writers get to go crazy.
Scot: Sovage has some Oteri genes, the way she describes her past.
Episode Nineteen: Zach Galifianakis
Christian: When Galifianakis fades, he'll be remembered as a pretty funny guy who was in some good movies. But he may be the most original SNL host out of hundreds of possibilities. Truly one of one.
Scot: Galifianakis opens comedic doors on the show that no one else dares to approach.
Fox & Friends - Michael Bloomberg (Armisen) talks gun & soda control
Christian: Interestingly, Brian Kilmeade had a 10-year career as a stand-up comic.
Scot: These are generally decent and pretty consistent in delivering some chuckles. So much better than I anticipated when they started.
Monologue: Galifianakis plays piano & does stand-up
Christian: It's not one of his classics, but every joke is good.
Scot: Just OK by Galifianakis standards, which are pretty high.
Jennifer Aniston look-alike competition - Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms (cameos) & others best Galifianakis in contest
Christian: Sudeikis was either shooting or had already shot "We're the Millers" with Aniston, which was released a few months later.
Scot: Some decent Aniston impressions.
Darrell's House: The Final Cut - edited finished product features Jon Hamm [cameo]
Scot: One of the most creative and tricky things attempted in quite some time. They had to edit this in, what, 30 min (could have used dress footage, I suppose)? The first part sings, even if you didn't know you'd see a finished product. Why is Jon Hamm on the show? We don't know why. Doesn't matter. Funny, interesting, and they stuck the landing on a tough idea.
Episode Twenty: Kristen Wiig
Christian: I offer my services to be SNL's VP of common sense - how do you bring Wiig back and just trot out all these tired characters? I'll just make a note here that we don't talk enough about Moynihan - he's the classic "role player who can actually really bring it when he wants" like Lovitz or Schneider.
Scot: Pretty much a blueprint for the worst possible Wiig-hosted show. The most-repetitive characters, the least interesting choices.
Benghazi Hearings - Jodi Arias (Pedrad) testifies at Benghazi hearings as a ratings stunt
Christian: Oof. This is worse than simply "bad."
Scot: Nameplates don't match the actual lawmakers - Really weak sauce here, seems slapped together.
Monologue: Wiig goes backstage & sings “I’m So Excited” - Jonah Hill & Maya Rudolph cameos
Christian: OK, I actually like some of the backstage stuff. It's kind of jarring to hear Wiig speak as herself - on the show she is constantly doing a voice or a character.
Scot: She sings. Of course. - And there was no real point to going backstage. Just seems as easy crutch. Ugh.
The Californians - Wiig's character is back from the dead and Rudolph is there and .... whatever.
Christian: It's bad, but I can't promise I didn't chuckle once or twice. And thus a gif was born (Rudolph in horror.)
Scot: This feels like bottom to me. I'm sure it gets worse. - Now they're just doing voices for each other.
Lawrence Welk Show - Dooneese goes after (Sudeikis) on the beach
Christian: Do you get the sense that Sudeikis might not be the most beloved by the other cast members? It's just a vibe I get based on how the other cast members react to him.
Scot: Sudeikis's increased use seems to happen at the expense of Killam, who was rising.
Acupuncturists (Wiig) & (Bryant) make Sudeikis bleed profusely
Christian: Eh, your pretty basic blood sketch. Didn't they just do this a few seasons ago with Samberg?
Scot: Tonight's guest writer: Fred Wolf? - Better than the average human fluid bath sketch.
Double Date - on a double date, (Wiig) & (Strong) flirt with sixth graders (Moynihan) & (Robinson)
Scot: Ended up OK, I guess, though the "hitting on sixth graders" concept might not fly today?
Episode Twenty-One: Ben Affleck
Christian: This is somewhat of a milestone in that this is the last cast that has big stars on it. With the decline of comedy movies, SNL just stopped producing A or even B-listers. McKinnon will be great on the show, but it wouldn't translate to movie stardom. End of an era.
Scot: Going to be really tough to place Hader, Sudeikis, and Armisen on the final cast member ranking list. But we must try.
Affleck joins 5-Times Club and re-does his Oscar acceptance speech; Jennifer Garner [cameo]
Christian: Yeah, this is raw in retrospect, knowing what ended their marriage. Taking marriage advice from Affleck is like putting RFK Jr. in charge of health care.
Scot: Prescient: Apparently being married to Affleck is actually incredibly hard work.
During the Great Depression, (Hader) declines (Affleck)’s offer of honest work
Scot: Really good, if a little short - Hader always nails these roles.
Kanye West - “Black Skinhead"
Christian: This is an incredible performance. Stuff like this is why people stuck with Kanye so long after he clearly lost his mind.
Ian Rubbish & The Bizzaros perform “It’s A Lovely Day” - Carrie Brownstein, Steve Jones, Kim Gordon, Aimee Mann, J. Mascis, Michael Penn cameo
Christian: What percentage of the people at home did you think knew who any of the people on stage were?
Scot: Hader and Armisen had announced departures just days prior. Sudeikis was still undecided.