SNL continued with Sarah Silverman and Maroon 5 (with Adam Levine making a few sketch cameos)
The features were better than the actual skits this week. It started off with a rather poor opening with a mediocre 60 minutes opening interview with Jay Pharoah's 1st appearance as President Obama on the season. It tried to make connections with ISIS and "hip" social media that just turned into a yawn-fest.
Things really picked up though with Sarah Silverman's monologue, as she ad-libbed with a member of the audience.....and then fielded questions from a younger version of herself.
The monologue was followed up by a great trailer parody, Fault In Our Stars: The Ebola In Our Everything. This was just laugh out loud in every sense.
The first skit was a tribute to Joan Rivers with Silverman portraying the late comedian at a roast in Heaven. It wasn't necessarily bad, it was just blah, and felt forced. Adam Levine portrayed Freddie Mercury....so yeah.
If you blinked, you missed it, but there was a sort of PSA ad on "whites". Right off the bat, it could sound offensive, but it was actually well done, with the message of "Enjoy it now while we're on top....still calling the shots until 2050, 2060 tops". It certainly caught me off guard.
There was a "forgotten tv gems" skit with a soap opera called "supportive women". It was somewhat clever and drew a few smirks, but that was about it.
Weekend Update was fairly strong this week. Michael Che seemed to have already settled in, and there was some actual chemistry between Che and Colin Jost, particularly during this piece of banter.
Weekend Update: What You Can Say
Another amusing Update bit was when Silverman and Kate McKinnon appeared as a feminist music duo "Garage & Her". It was just one of those things that was so random yet hilarious.
Weekend Update: Garage & Her
Another weak skit followed Update, about a singing trio called the "River Sisters" on a river cruise. It was incredibly forgettable.
There was a fairly good 2nd half skit, featuring Bobby Moynihan and Taran Killam, with Silverman coming back from Amsterdam admitting she cheated on her boyfriend who was about to propose. It featured Adam Levine.......as Adam Levine. It ended oddly enough with....Pizza Hut.
This week also saw a better Kyle Mooney/Beck Bennett short. I think it'll just take time for them to grow, but easy to say they haven't reached "Lonely Island" status quite yet.
The show ended with a Vitamix commercial skit between Silverman and Vanessa Bayer that broke out into Silverman's finances and whether she could afford a vitamix blender. Think of last year's "Blue River Dog Food" skit with Cecily Strong and Seth Rogen....but not quite as good.
Avg. Score: 7.15 (each segment was scored out of 10, and averaged, including the musical act).
Chris Pratt - 7.5
Sarah Silverman - 7.15
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