I didn't know Gardner has been there 8 years, so that makes some sense. She is in Shrinking, commercials, and a few others shows/movies so I think she will be fine. Longfellow surprises me, I really liked him. He did a good job on weekend update spots, and as game show hosts. Surprised he was not asked back.
Re: SNL culling
Posted: 29 Aug 2025 16:22 pm
by edwin drood
If they would get rid of Jost and Che, Weekend Update might be funny again. Too bad Norm McDonald is deceased.
Re: SNL culling
Posted: 29 Aug 2025 16:34 pm
by Dicktar2023
edwin drood wrote: ↑29 Aug 2025 16:22 pm
If they would get rid of Jost and Che, Weekend Update might be funny again. Too bad Norm McDonald is deceased.
Jost is ok, but Che has always been terrible. Like, the whole joke is how awful he is...and that joke wore thin years ago.
Re: SNL culling
Posted: 31 Aug 2025 14:02 pm
by couldashoulda
Dicktar2023 wrote: ↑28 Aug 2025 19:02 pm
Sad to see Heidi Gardner go. Michael Longfellow is hilarious, it's too bad he never caught on.
In SNL you have to hustle and you get in by either getting into skits or write skits that feature you. Its obvious he did neither, honestly he is simply just standard white guy number 5. He didn't have the signed contract from Satan that Pete Davidson did to get into skits others write,
Veronika Slowikowska from "What We Do in the Shadows"...ok by me.
Re: SNL culling
Posted: 03 Sep 2025 10:46 am
by VegasVinny
Hate seeing Heidi Gardner leave, but I figured she would've outgrown SNL by now. She's got a very bright future.
Re: SNL culling
Posted: 03 Sep 2025 16:25 pm
by FrankTheTank
I think Ben Marshall will be a good fit. He seems like a very likable guy and should be a good addition. I liked some of the Do Not Destroy stuff, but it was probably played out. I wonder if they will add something new, since those type of videos (Lonely Island, etc.) have been a staple at SNL for years.
Re: SNL culling
Posted: 04 Sep 2025 18:19 pm
by Dicktar2023
Everybody assumed that Gardner was walking away, but apparently she was fired...
Ego Nwodim exits ‘SNL’ after 7 years before Season 51: I ‘decided to leave’
With Nwodim gone, is there a single recurring character left? I can't think of one.
Re: SNL culling
Posted: 20 Oct 2025 10:08 am
by DJ Davis
These first 3 episodes have been brutal. I haven’t seen everything, but most of it from YouTube has not been funny in the least.
The one exception was the work surprise party farting skit, low-brow sure, but their interactions and breaking laughter were great.
I also saw a critique of a social experiment skit that the creator claims is a rip of of Nathan. It did seem that way.
Re: SNL culling
Posted: 20 Oct 2025 12:50 pm
by George Zipp
DJ Davis wrote: ↑20 Oct 2025 10:08 am
These first 3 episodes have been brutal. I haven’t seen everything, but most of it from YouTube has not been funny in the least.
The one exception was the work surprise party farting skit, low-brow sure, but their interactions and breaking laughter were great.
I also saw a critique of a social experiment skit that the creator claims is a rip of of Nathan. It did seem that way.
I thought Saturday's episode was one of the better ones in quite a while. They actually went away from politics in the cold open and did the Domingo skit. Sometimes I get irked when they run skits over and over but geez, that was such a staple of the prior 50 yrs that it's hard to fault them. And the skit is kind of funny. Of course they did bring politics in later but I liked the context of that skit, where they had a bunch of 12 yr old boys doing a podcast and then the president showed.
The best skit was the neck pillow for the plane that was sold on QVC type network. When they pieced the pillow together it looked like a vagina. Sure, it's childish and immature, but so am I and it was funny.
Also enjoyed how they leaned into the whole "Sabrina Carpenter is a slut" thing. And as always Update is and remains the funniest part of the show.
Re: SNL culling
Posted: 09 Nov 2025 02:33 am
by Targaryen
A St. Louisan hosted the show tonight...
Disclaimer: The video above is hosted on Youtube, and has not be reviewed by the staff of the Post-Dispatch.
Re: SNL culling
Posted: 09 Nov 2025 09:56 am
by Dicktar2023
Good to see Glaser host. The show behind her was so-so.
I'm happy to see Ashley Padilla get more work this season (taking up a lot of Heidi Gardner's brittle white woman bits). She's very funny and has a little of that Kate McKinnon "is this an actual crazy person?" vibe.
There was a digital short last week about men whose wives had "disappeared" that will probably be the funniest thing this season.
If you're as old as me, you remember when Weekend Update was the most reliably funny part of the show. Boy...those days are over. Half of the jokes now are just Che mumbling a setup and then giggling about how the joke didn't work. The other half are "Colin Jost is a racist, har har har." That shtick worked back when it was unexpected. That was about 5 years ago.
