I'm Jesse Skolnick. And I'm all the way May Ray. Cause I don't do anything halfway. And we keep all friends. That was quite the intro. Yeah, that was Eddie Murphy's. That was the best line of SNL 50. Literally, I heard it. Megan and I just died laughing, and I've just been thinking about it all week. I knew it was going to be the opener, and I wanted to do the whole thing.
I actually look forward to talk about SNL a little later. Yeah, I think we could even, like, I'm ready to go through, like, every single thing that happened in that episode, and I thought it was absolutely great. But, yeah, like, how was your weekend, Jesse? Well, yeah. And happy President Donald Trump Day to you. Oh, God. Yeah, I'm...
I'm descending further and further into madness when I came to that. I had a good appointment with my therapist today. It's lots of fun. She's making lots of money off me because of the Trump presidency. But as you know, Friday was Valentine's Day. It was awesome. Oh, happy anniversary, Jesse. Thank you. And, you know, as you know, I'm the kind of person who likes to tell my tale, you know, I'll tell the story to anybody who listens.
That doesn't seem like what two podcasters would do. So sure enough, I'm talking to the waiter and I'm like, you know what? Five years ago today, this table right next to where we're sitting was our first date. And now we are here with a 15 month old baby. And that's great. Cool. So, you know, we order a couple of drinks. We have dinner. He comes by at the end, goes, I want you to know that's the best story I've heard here. I took the drinks off the menu. It's like 20 bucks. I'm like.
Nice. 20 bucks a drink or 20 ducks total? Total. We each had one drink. Oh my God. Connecticut prices are wild. Sorry. I don't like, you know, go to a bar and pay like $50 for a Bud Light. I mean, a Bud Light might be $10, but any other drink is going to be at least $15 a year. But I looked at Marie and said, this is why I tell the story.
because yeah i feel like at some point i feel like at some point you should just like talk to the manager and be like hey like just like have free valentine's day meals every year please save the date you i mean it's not close to you guys right that's the problem It's like 40 minutes away, so it's not that bad, but it's something of a haul. Has your car ever broken down on the way back?
Let me tell you a story. Let me tell you. I got a story for you, Jesse. Well, and that was the highlight of the weekend because Thursday at 10 o'clock, I got a call to pick up my kid sick. Can't go in the next day, so I have a kid. And we're working. We have stuff to do. So Thursday, Friday, home. Based on the amount of TV you watch, I don't know if you actually are working. It's always confused me.
You'll never know. I interviewed today for a promotion, so we'll see if that goes. No, that's the best, is that lazy-ass people like us can keep getting promoted and moving forward in our career. It's just magical. And then, you know, it's been pretty cold outside. And then a snowstorm came in on Saturday. So couldn't leave the house. Our guy, we pay to do our driveway. It's a pretty long driveway. I texted, hey, can you stop by? He's like, sure. Didn't show up. So.
You know, less than 24 hours later. Oh, Mr. Plough. Now that's his name. That name again is Mr. Plough. Yeah, I went with Plough King. That's the problem. Yeah, that was your mistake. But he's like, oh, sorry. I was in the hospital with pneumonia and COVID.
that's great great story so he did show off but everything was iced over so you couldn't really get that much off so he's we just basically and you know monday was an in service day at school because it was president's day so he had a kid for five days and that's
It's enough to make you crazy when you can't leave the house or do anything. Well, haven't you had a kid for 15 months? Yeah, but not at least five days straight. It's a lot of work, man. It's tiring. I watch so much Bluey. I watch so much Trash Truck. It's a new show. So much is Rachel trash truck about a little kid who goes off and has adventures with a dump truck, a raccoon and a bear voice by Kevin from the office. Okay. Yeah.
So that was my weekend. And of course, now I'm sick as well. I've got the cold that my daughter had. So I'm constantly shooting up the Afrin, which is going to be a mess later on. But I'll worry about that when I'm not sick and just have rebound congestion. That's another issue. Oh, is that what happens when you take Afrin?
if you take it more than three or four days in a row it basically does something to the blood vessels in your nose that makes you have a congestion again it's it's a and then i once took uh afrin for like four months and the doctor's like yeah you shouldn't do that like oops
dangerous to take aspirin like you can get addicted to aspirin i'm pretty sure and it's like really bad for you so basically one day i like was falling asleep like i can breathe fall asleep and then it's like once you go a day it's a cold turkey you're good to go so yeah That was fun. How was your weekend? Did you do anything for Valentine's Day?
I did not do anything fun for Valentine's Day. I went down to Florida for my dad's 75th birthday celebration. We got a Verbo and we had a big ass house. Marco Island, Florida, on the West Coast, right next to the Gulf of Beep. Is Rudy Giuliani in your flight this time? No. That was the West Palm. He was on my flight. He was going to Mar-a-Lago. Yeah. I forgot that he was on my flight. I've actually flown with Giuliani and Hillary Clinton. What a what a combo.
And so, yeah, it was, I was with my whole family. I would say it was fun. It is also, it's a lot. I know that my dad is probably going to be listening to this as soon as it comes out. I had a good time, but you know what? It's a lot to be with my entire family for that long. we like there's a reason that I'm the way I am it's because
It's like, you know, no one wants to be with five versions of themselves. That's just annoying. Like, it's only okay if I'm doing it. It's not okay if other people are doing it. But it does actually make me feel kind of like a sane person because I think I have...
I may have it the most under control of my family. But in general, I went on a catamaran. I went jet skiing. I did a lot of outdoor stuff. And I watched SNL 50 with my family. I sat in a bright... room in the living room um as me my mom my mom my dad my sister and megan we sat we watched snl 50 together uh it was a lot of fun uh i i didn't know
who I wasn't sure if Mayor Dinkins was black or not, but my dad did confuse Mayor Dinkins for Al Sharpton for Mayor Dinkins, which was very funny. Dinkins is black, yes. I know, no, we established that. But it was very funny that he confused that. Otherwise, good times. It was tough to get in all the TV. I wasn't able to get through Cobra Kai, so we won't be talking about that today.
But yeah, it was good times. But what I did do this weekend, I also saw Captain America Brave New World. Yeah, I didn't get to see that either. Based on your and Michael Butler O'Rear Jr.'s review. It seems like it wasn't good, Jesse. So Rear was much more down. I was not up on it, but I was like...
Like it was a movie and I watched it and like, I'll never watch it again, but like, I wasn't mad. I watched it even though I kind of didn't care. I will. Part of the biggest problem is I don't care enough about Sam Wilson to be. the protagonist. He's a good sidekick. I gotta think of that way in the comic books too. And that is...
you see this in TV shows sometimes, but you definitely see some comic books that you can tell me Sam Wilson is Captain America as much as you want, but Steve Rogers is Captain America. Like Tony Stark is Iron Man. Like it's just the way it is. And it's the unfortunate thing, I guess, that they're all white because they were.
you know, made in the 60s when that's the case. So I understand the need for diversity, but Sam Wilson is a good psychic. I've never cared for him in the comic book enough to read his comic book on a daily basis. But here's one thing. It's interesting. Okay, go ahead. No, no, I wanted to I wanted to speak on that that that point. I think that's an interesting take. And I get it because it is a little bit of like you want to see the original thing.
I wonder, and I believe that this will be the case, but for a lesser character like a Hawkeye, I feel like I will be satisfied by Haley Seinfeld. And same thing with Black Widow. They're not important enough or iconic enough characters either in comics or in the movies that it matters. But like I will be fine with that. Like Thor, Iron Man, Captain America are considered the big three.
of the avengers and as a result it's hard i mean my favorite character in dc green lantern i thought spider-man was the in the big three of the avengers No, he's, he's just a, the original Avengers were, were actually not Captain America. It was the Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, Ant and Wasp, Ant Man and the Wasp. And then like an issue, an episode like, or issue two or three, the Hulk leaves. And then.
Episode issue. I keep seeing episode. In issue, I think four or five, they find Captain America. But Captain America has been given founder status within the Avengers. Okay, so he's not a – he's like – You know what he's like? And again, this is not me segwaying, but he's like Bill Murray, where you're like, oh, he's an original cast member of SNL. And you're like, oh, wait, no, he's not. He came in the second season when Chevy left. But you're like, yeah, he's an OG. He is.
It's been a while since I've actually read the issue, but I believe Captain America popped up in a... You know, he's frozen and a bunch of like, some like Inuit tribe or something was praying to him and it pissed off the Submariner and he took it and threw it in the ocean. And then the Avengers found him and thought about it. And that's how they got him. It's funny, funny stories.
Well, that was a great side. I totally sidetracked you on your discussion of – please keep going on. I don't want to spoil anything, although you can tell it's definitely a disjointed movie with reshoots. You're aware of – You mean they cut the Judaism out of the movie? Iron Man? They cut Zion Man out of the movie? Sabra. The character's still in it, but she's American. With the power of red chili pepper from the hummus of Sabra. Boom. Garlic. Boom.
So you're aware there's a Hulk in this movie, correct? Yeah, and I know what color he is, too. Yes. So, you know, there's a point towards the end where, you know, the Red Hulk kind of goes nuts, as Hulks tend to do.
and this happens at the white house and captain america sam wilson is like i have a plan i'm gonna lure him away and he flies away and he flies right by like you're like feet away from the washington monument which of course then has the hulk like smash part of the washington monument as it goes by and i'm like hey sam could you fly like
200 feet to the right, so maybe the Hulk doesn't smash the Washington Monument. I did not understand that scene. I mean, was there a disclaimer for triggering plane crashes in the D.C. area? It's not that I saw. This is a Captain America movie. It's a Falcon movie. It's a Incredible Hulk, Edward Norton follow-up movie. It's an Eternals.
follow-up movie oh i i heard about that i heard about that as well um that like the the thing that came out of the earth is finally like talking yes and that's the eternal right isn't that yes a celestial from the celestial oh i'm sorry
and um that oh man that movie was bad you liked that movie didn't you oh you do i think i'll rear liked it also yeah that movie was terrible that plot sets up a future plot in marvel which i won't talk about because i won't spoil it though i don't know if you would even clock it you know
uh what is it i mean isn't it like secret war isn't that like no it's like we were able to mine out of this thing adamantium which is like wolverine's metal on his claws oh i already i already knew that like that that's something like i i think like they talked about on the watch or something Like, I feel like all of the twists of this movie have just been kind of like slightly leaked. There are no twists. Yeah. Just like casually.
But yeah, I don't know. Part of me wants to go see this in theaters because it sounds really bad. It sounds bad. I want it to be really bad. Is it really bad or just bad? I would say just bad. I don't think it was really bad. I mean, again, like I wasn't angry that I watched it. I was just like apathetic. Gotcha. Yeah. Which is it's kind of the worst.
That's like, that was what the Kraven the Hunter was. It was just, I was indifferent. I think Kraven was bad, bad, personally. Oh, no, no, Madame Wed was bad, bad. And Mobius was bad, bad. Morbius. Morbius, Mobius. Ted, Ted Mobius. Yeah. You have a kick of the week, Jesse. I do, but I want you to go first because mine will move into the main discussion. Wow. Setting up the transition. Yeah. My kick of the week.
And I meant to text you about this because I hope you watched it. But did you see the Accountant 2 trailer? I did not see it yet. No. It came out last week. It is everything you want from the movie. It's pretty awesome. You got Jeremy Barenthal. You got Ben Affleck. Not Jeremy Barenthal. Jeremy Barmy. Okay, sure. How do I say that? John Barrenfall. I really...
I know I did say John Jeremy. I always mess up his name. It's I think I said it wrong two weeks ago when I talked about the accountant one. So I saw the accountant two looks pretty dope. It looks like the two of them are going to be paired up. We've got that disembodied voice that we had. from the computer girl.
The question is, will they find a way to cram in Anna Kendrick? And based on the trailer so far, there's no Anna Kendrick in the trailer. And that makes me optimistic because that's my biggest worry is that they're going to like try to cram in like whatever. But the trailer was awesome, and The Count is awesome, and I can't wait for it to come out, and I'll be seeing it opening weekend, of course. What if they had the trailer, but it was just set to a slow, melancholy version of Cups?
I don't know lyrics at all, but that's, that's pretty great. Yeah. They're saving that for the next episode of paradise. Yeah. So my. My kick of the week is a goddamn grand slam to me. Oh, let's hear it. I loved it. Did you watch, we're going to talk about SNL in a second. Did you watch the SNL homecoming concert from Radio City Music Hall? I watched a couple of clips. I have not watched that. That we did not watch. For me?
Cher fucking kicked ass. Excuse my language. Cher, who is going to be 79 in May, is out there in leather, in the stockings, singing, if I could turn back time. And the entire audience, like Kevin Costner. Jon Hamm. Sarah Sherman was like, you see the Beatles are crying almost. Everybody in the audience was like, I cannot believe what I am witnessing, but in a positive way.
It was so good. And I don't know what jackass said that Jack White should be closing. I mean, Jack, whatever. But like Cher brought down the house and that would have been the best way to end the concert. It was absolutely fantastic. As of yesterday, it almost had a million views on YouTube. Go watch it. It is great. Share is awesome. I'm not ashamed to say it. Yep. That's awesome. Cut a couple of clips. Like I said, I watched the Lonely Island medley.
I tried to watch as much of the Anna Gasteyer and Will Ferrell thing. Eddie Vedder did a really good job, too. I almost didn't recognize him, to be honest with you. I'm not a huge film jam fan. I mean, famously, I'm not the biggest musical.
snl fan but like this is like the greatest hits like i even during the show this week i was like that was i could have done with some out without some of the music i understand why it had to be there though um jesse you want to jump into this wonderful wonderful wonderful snl 50 episode yeah uh you know 50 i mean it seems like
The 25th anniversary, I remember it being the other day, but evidently it was 25 years ago, obviously. I remember when the logo was on the SNL thing. I remember the 25th anniversary too. I thought this was – so much fun. It's great because anytime they pay into the audience, you have to see all the famous people in the audience. Famously, no one got a plus one. It was like people... Lord of the Fly style killing each other. You both have to be famous to be like Ryan Reynolds.
and Blake Lively. Yeah, or Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson type situation. Exactly, but both people had to be famous. Yeah, instead you have like Jenna Ortega sitting next to Kevin Costner. Yeah, wild pairings at some points. Yeah. Like especially like during the crowd works.
And you're like, it's just all, it's just, they're all jumping around. It's just pretty great. And we open with Paul Simon singing with Sabrina Carpenter. Yes. Thank you. I was like the espresso chick. I couldn't think of it. And you know, the joke was. When he first sang this with George Harrison on the show, she wasn't alive, nor were her parents. Yeah, that joke was awesome.
like like i we're just gonna go through this i feel like let's just go through each one of these things and just like be like what's awesome about this because a lot of it's awesome yeah that was really funny homeward bound's a great song and i i really enjoyed it um how about I knew that Martin was going to do the monologue. He was so good doing it. He's going to be 79.
What are they putting in their food, man? They look fantastic. I saw them a couple years ago, and Martin Short. And Martin Short's jumping from the ground on top of a piano. I'm like, God, these guys are old. Let's try. Steve Martin.
is just like, he is just good at what he does. I think on a macro level, actually, before we keep going through this, what I liked about this is I really remember... like i i d in detail i remember snl 40 because it was a big deal and it felt like kind of like a last hurrah in my mind and What I what would that was like? It was like more of like clip shows and it was a lot of clip shows. It was a lot of like and here are the weekend update hosts from from days past kind of thing. And.
I loved SNL 40. And even the sketches were like very – every sketch was like fully self-referential. Where what I liked about this show, it was – and it was – that was more like – all 40 years, focusing a lot on the early years, like the 80s and 70s. This felt so much about the last 20 years and even the cast members they brought back, the sketches that they brought back. I thought something that was very noticeable to me was that they didn't repeat.
a sketch from snl 40 in snl 50 like there was no wayne's world because they did wean's world there was no chopping broccoli there was no there was and like that was noticeable because too many people are Alex Mack is dead yeah well I mean there was no they didn't do Celebrity Jeopardy they didn't do even the Californians which was like the big sketch of like the modern time that was done during that show they could have done the Californians with the people that have had
but they didn't do it because they already did it, which I didn't really like. I used to hate that sketch, but then I started to like it. Sorry, I just wanted to talk about it. Any thoughts on the macro of it all? No, I mean, I, I liked, I was interested, I found it interesting, excuse me, how certain people got multiple shots, like,
Of course, I'm not going to be able to think of her. Who's the mother from the other two? The mother from the other two? I'm going to show the other two. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Molly Shannon. She had like several spots on the show tonight. I think what happened, and this was my understanding, is they like announced like a cast. And I think those people were just like effectively the cast for the show. So like Martin Short was in that.
Like they had mentioned bad bunny. That's why he shows up in a sketch. I don't give them bad. I'm just like, I'm just like going through like, that's why Pedro Pascal was in multiple sketches. Is that like. they had a couple of people like that hosts and former cast members that were just like, whatever. We're like, maybe you got Chris Kattan in some like random little thing, but.
You got what's his name? Andy Sandberg, like two or three times because he's in the cast, quote unquote. So the Republicans are very upset with the black jeopardy. Oh, sorry, sorry. I wanted one thing about the Steve Martin monologue. Sorry, sorry. I know, you're good.
I want to shout out the John Mulaney joke, which I feel like stirred a lot, set up a lot of conversation in my household and just converse, like just fun conversation is like over the course of 50 years, 894 people have hosted SNL. And it amazes me that only two of them have committed murder. And the two that popped to my mind immediately were Robert Blake and OJ Simpson. Although I said, those are the ones that the joke is probably about, but like.
Also, you could say Matthew Broderick. I saw your buddy from Pop Culture. Yeah. My big one that was not mentioned, John McCain probably murdered someone, if I had to guess. I mean, I'm not saying he murdered someone, but like if you mean killing someone, then John McCain definitely has killed people. If you want to talk SNL, let's go to Wayne's World where Ed O'Neill goes.
How come if you kill a man in the heat of war, it's called heroic, but if you kill him in the heat of passion, it's called murder? Yeah. Sorry. I, I'm like just gushing about all this. Okay. So we're, do you want to talk about anything about the Lawrence Welk show? with Doozy and Robert Goulet. How many current people, young people know who Robert Goulet was?
They don't know who Robert Goulet is, but they know who Will Ferrell's character Goulet is. I don't really know who Robert Goulet is, to be perfectly honest. At the very least, people should know him from that. He gets shot into space at the end of the movie. But I very much enjoyed it. I was like, oh, why is Kim Kardashian here? But I think all three of them.
I guess four if you count. Kristen Wigal did a pretty good job. It's funny. They had, towards the end, the In Memoriam for skits that are no longer PC, but that skit was still considered PC. I think that it's so... I think it's so... outlandish that it like no one is actually has small hands like this isn't a real thing so and like i think that's why
Yeah, exactly. Black Jeopardy, you were talking about it in terms of politics. What would you like to say about Black Jeopardy? They're very upset about the Tom Hanks of it all. I'm like, I'm going to stop watching Tom Hanks movies. He's not going to get any money for me. who've watched these in the past, it's basically about how MAGA people and black people have a lot in common in how they look at the world. Yeah, I think I like get why, like, if you just watch this sketch.
first off like the joke the joke is really funny like when he does it the first time and it's like the whole the whole show is with him it's hilarious because it's building and building and building um the fact that like
they do one joke and then he's afraid of black people. Like I get why people would freak out, but like, it's obviously like, if you think about it for a second, you like watch the original sketch. It's like not a problem, but what do you, but also like you, you think these people aren't out on like Twitter, like.
things like aha these snowflake democrats oh poor baby but more importantly eddie murphy doing tracy morgan next to tracy morgan was fucking hilarious yeah i i never need um leslie jones in a skit ever yeah i think that should have been just a sheer samata i think leslie jones is one of the most unfunny people to ever be on on snl that's just me yeah her sense of humor was never my game either But, yeah, it was good having Tracy Morgan there, not playing Tracy Morgan. And then.
I was like, where's the white guy when I first started? Where's the joke? And then the joke is that Eddie Murphy's playing Tracy Morgan. It was a lot of fun. So I'm going to skip the kind of physical comedy package. That was very funny. But Domingo was the next sketch. What did you think of Domingo?
I like it as an ongoing sketch nowadays. Maybe just. Yeah, I love it. I thought this was great. I thought it was great escalation. I thought what's his name? I saw it. Rinaldo was a really funny twist. I loved I loved this sketch. I thought it was hilarious. And again, working in.
Pedro Pascal. I don't need Bad Bunny. I have nothing against Bad Bunny. I just don't kind of get the... I don't really get Bad Bunny, but I thought it was a decent button and end of the joke, so I was fine with it. But it really shows the enduring... uh nature of espresso because you can just like sing anything to it and it's like it works yeah it's very funny yeah
So interestingly enough, this is where I started the show because I like just my family was watching and I was like showering and doing other things. And then I came in and Tina named me on my screen doing Q&A. There was obviously the. amazing amazing ryan reynolds joke uh that referenced the blake lively justin baldoni justin uh justin baldoni situation um which is really funny the like you said random pairings like i think like
Cher was sitting next to Kevin Costner for some reason. Like just the Adam Driver and the service dog and Julie Lee Dreyfus was just amazing. Just like. Just banger. Just a banger of, like, just fun. Just seeing celebrities, just chilling. Yeah, it's fun finding celebrities who can be in on the joke. People know what Adam Driver is. It's kind of supposed to be a little intense.
Fun person, so he can laugh at himself there. And, you know, Amy and Tina have been doing this together for how long? So they have good chemistry. I'm actually not the... The hugest Tina Fey fan. I'm not a huge Dirty Rock fan, but I think she's very good at doing this kind of thing. And I don't dislike her. So it was a good way to incorporate them into the show rather than...
I think, was it at 40 or was it at 25 where they had the older group? You know, they kind of do what they did with Seth Meyers this year and they had him take over. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was, it was Tina and Amy and then had Gene Curtin come on as like, yeah.
So yeah, I liked him in this role better. So it was a lot of fun. Yeah. So the next, the next was the digital short. Honestly, this was a bit of a low light for me. I thought it was like one joke. I'm sure if I rewatch this, I'd like it more, but like in the moment, this was not my favorite sketch.
Yeah. I honestly don't know what to say about it. Okay. Okay. Back to one of your favorites. I think this is one of your favorites. Musical numbers. Oh, no, no. Sorry. We're up to weekend update. What did you think of weekend update? I thought it was a banger. Yeah, I mean, I love Cecily Strong. Yeah, I love that character so much.
I literally was like, oh man, great character. And then when Drunk Uncle came, I'm like, oh man, great character. Like I was so hyped. I definitely could tell that she was pregnant in an earlier skit or maybe it was at the music thing. I was like, oh, okay, cool. And then I looked it up.
but it was like old news from like November. I'm like, oh, okay. So I had no idea that she was actually pregnant, but it's still funny that that's the case. Yeah, then of course it was Bobby Moynihan, his drunk, drunk uncle. And then of course, Bill Murray coming on and ranking the top 10 musical guests. or a host of all time. Amazing. Absolutely amazing. No, no, no. First he ranked all the black. Yes. Now on to the real hosts. That was really funny.
Close Encounters. The one thing I have to say about Close Encounters, and it's the same thing I have to say about Debbie Downer, two sketches I enjoy regularly, but I think... I was like reading into it a little too much. So I didn't fully love these sketches, but because they were filming everything in the same spot, there wasn't enough space camera wise to have like the wide shot.
And what's the best part about these sketches is getting Debbie Downer and Close Encounters is seeing the other actors try not to break and seeing them just kind of like. struggle and because of the cameras we weren't able to see that and i think it kind of hurt these but both of these sketches um but ultimately like obviously i enjoy these concepts so i'm not mad but like it wasn't perfect i would i would watch Kate McKinnon alien sketch every week. I love it.
and it's like i'm not always a fan of breaking like you know like when fallon does it and stuff because i think he yeah well fallon except in debbie downer it's really funny but that's what we didn't even get that that was yes yeah this was i'm a big debbie downer fan yeah this one at the end at the end of the show it wasn't as great they went back to the classics at the feline AIDS and I can't have kids. I think I told you that before, Jimmy, but yeah, it's.
I love this one. I thought it was great having Meryl Streep come out and do it. You know, she flipped a few lines, but that's going to happen when you have someone who's not doing this week to week. And, you know, she's really shown that she's such a good sport between this, only murders in the building and some of the other stuff she's done.
in recent years. And it's, it's great to see like, you know, arguably one of the best actresses of all time just coming out here and doing this kind of stuff. It's a lot of fun. Yeah. A hundred percent. A hundred percent. So. Adam Sandler's song. What did you think of Adam Sandler's song? So when he first started, I'm like, all right, is this going to be stupid? I didn't know what direction this was going to go in. Yeah.
I thought it was a home run. I, you know, I, I cared up by the end of it and thinking of Norm and Phil and Chris Farley and like, you know, not really a Janet Hooks fan, but like just thinking all the people who aren't here anymore and how great would it have been to have Norm here or Farley?
Phil Hartman would have been an integral part of the show, I think, if he was still alive. And most tragically, he was killed. It wasn't like he overdosed the disease. Yeah, that's a whole crazy story. I would say for me it's interesting. I think I like wanted so much out of this that, again, I think it like just didn't hit as hard as it should have. I feel I will go back to this and I will watch it again and I will like it. I did like it, but I just didn't like it wasn't like everyone.
It was like consensusly consensus was like, this is probably the best sketch or everyone's favorite. But I think. Probably the next sketch was my favorite, which is New York City musical, a sketch that we've discussed before. I think we've discussed the ebbs and flows of.
Us liking it, us not liking it, being over it and not being great. And I have to say that this sketch is like fucking crushed. I thought that this sketch was wonderful. This sketch included my favorite. I thought the funniest moment of the show was for me. Okay.
And I don't think you'll be able to figure out what it is. Was it Bill de Blasio? It was Bill de Blasio. Was it really? It wasn't. No, it's not. It was Bloomberg when Sarah Sherman was doing Bloomberg. It's not that. It's that she does it and the lady goes. Great impression. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, that was really funny. I enjoyed that too. It was just, and you can see her cracking up too, but just the delivery by Melanie in that, I died. That was very enjoyable. I very much agree.
Yeah, no, no, I thought that the sketch was great. It was fun. Like, I was like, why is Lin-Manuel Miranda backstage wearing a Hamilton thing? And I was like, oh, maybe it was just like a bit. But then when this sketch, I was like, oh, we're going to get him in this. I don't have much to say about Bronx Beat. Do you have anything to say? I thought it was funny, but it was fine. It was when we got Coffee Talk back, and Miles Keller did Top Gun 2.
Yeah, I kind of didn't care about it. Yeah, it was weird. We talked about Debbie Downer. Scared straight. This was one of my favorite sketches of the night. I absolutely it had the funniest line that I that was my opener. I thought it was the funniest joke. Will Ferrell like honestly getting Kenan Thompson to break was just like.
impressive. I was just like, wow, that's like fucking awesome. Where have I heard that accent before he did? I couldn't place where I had heard the voice he was doing. Kenan? No, Will Ferrell. I have no idea, to be perfectly honest. He was doing something, I'm like, I've heard this before. But yeah, it was, he played Red, and then it was Eddie Murphy and Keenan, and then Jason Sinekos was the straight man. And I liked how they had the newer guys.
You know, I guess Mikey Day is so much of a newer guy, but they had the newer guys playing the quote unquote kids. Yeah. Yeah. Like, oh, yeah, it was it was that was fun. It was just a fun sketch for me. Yeah, I don't know if they were to work. I mean, they worked in Sudeikis that way. They worked them into the New York one is like in like a, to be perfectly honest, but you can always use more Sudeikis.
But have you heard rumors that there's going to be a fourth season of Ted Lasso, but it's going to be about starting up a women's team? Yeah, I think that's like news at this point. Yeah, I mean the downside is you lose all the characters from the other show. I think the idea is that like Nate is going to be the coach or something like that. Like I think we're going to get a lot of the coaching staff. Is Sudeikis in it or is he just called it? I don't think Sudeikis is in it.
minute but we shall see kind of thing interesting sorry and tangent my bad no you're fine all good um look back in anger i thought was a a really fun i thought his introduction of like they didn't tell me that i was gonna be just doing this for like like for the next 40 years. But that was a lot of SNL talk, Jesse. But I, like I said, I absolutely adored it. I'm so happy. I look forward to watching clips of this for the next.
20 years, 30 years, 40 years, because I know I will. Growing up, who was your favorite cast member? I guess your favorite current cast member at the time, but who was your historical that was not of your time? Wait, what do you mean? There's the cast that's on TV when you're watching it, when you first start watching. So you'd be like, oh, I'm a big fan of this, but also you're like, you know who I loved? I loved Gilda Radner or something like that. I think for me it was Will Ferrell.
cheerleader and all that stuff was was like some of my favorite um i don't know i i also like at that point like Mike Myers became uber famous. Yeah. So like I loved Mike Myers because of that. So yeah, I was always. I was always a very big Ackroyd fan. I remember like a senior, like around 1999, I went on eBay and bought a VHS of like the greatest, greatest hits of Dan Ackroyd on SNL situation. Yeah. I just, we watched the best of Will Ferrell, like constantly. Like I.
I watched that shit on loop. I remember the first time I like. Yeah, I was old enough to just stay up. Like on Saturday, I can just stay up to whatever. And I had like an old like 13-inch TV in my room, like an old school thing. And I had SNL on. And the host was John Goodman. But I was not aware.
There was like a host. I didn't know the format at that point. I just was aware of SNL. And I'm going to my parents being like, John Goodman's on SNL? That's crazy. He's on Roseanne. Like, what the hell? That's really funny. Yeah. Is that the episode where there's an SNL opening monologue? Sorry, this is a weird tangent, but I think it's John Goodman and it's he's hosting and they go, this is a rerun.
Like someone in the audience shouts that it's a rerun during his monologue and like they try to convince him that it's a rerun from like three years earlier because he's hosted so many times. So that's just like a monologue that I was thinking of. He has hosted, oh my God. He's hosted like 17 times or something. Yeah, I was trying to pinpoint how many times, but he hosted in 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99. So it could have been like anywhere from like 93 to 97.
or something. Yeah, exactly. You were probably, I mean, Jesse, you were in middle school in 1997, no? I was in high school in 1997. Yeah, I was going to say, I was like, I didn't want to age you up too much. Jesse, we have talked about SNL, but...
Can we talk about the real show that just premiered? Everyone's the fifth professional sport that is Summer House. And the sad thing is because we're recording late today, there'll be a second episode out by the time you listen to this podcast. Sorry, guys. You know, the big news going into the season.
I guess there's two big news. The obvious one that we've done for a while is that Lindsay is pregnant is going to be. Yeah, it was funny because like I was kind of confused by that. I was kind of confused by this whole. Like, oh, did I know? Like, did we know she was pregnant before the summer started? Blah, blah, blah. And then to find out that she like broke the news.
like during the show is just like amazing i remember seeing that post on instagram or like on reddit someone had posted that yeah it was a big deal but you know the other storyline going in this year is kind of what we knew about lindsey and and uh And those Carl Carl, thank you. Is that this year?
page and craig have broken up uh and we're gonna watch how that goes and i'm not really a page and we talked and they have a huge flash forward to like december yeah what happened to carl and to lindsey is i think gonna happen to me the cameras get picked back up to go and recorded this stuff it's seen it's so i think what it was is like after it happened they like were like oh let's get the summer house girls together to do like a like a like a drink sesh a bitch sesh because
I don't think he's going to, she's going to like get broken up with on camera. Cause that kind of happened, but like, yeah. The other big storyline for me is, is this whole Sierra West.
story that's happening like it is what is really interesting to me is that like i feel like like i don't know the one so i feel like sierra is like not clearly not over it and like on tv it makes it her look kind of like hypocritical or whatever and like west is okay i do think that there is like from what sierra says like
West is still like playing with her kind of thing. And she was going to get sucked into it. Like when she was on traders, he was like giving interviews or whatever. So like, I, I tend to give her a little bit of, of, of grace, but like. I'm starting it's like starting to be very much like how Lindsay would be with people where she was like, I'm not into you, but like.
I'm you're clearly into them kind of thing, which is just amazing. So I've seen a lot of people saying beyond podcasts like she's Sierra is so beautiful. She has to stop going up to these mediocre men. But this is going to sound kind of mean.
But if you have people like Wes and Austin who clearly like get like... have a thing with her and then kind of just don't want anything to do with her anymore could it be like that sierra just kind of sucks like that seems really mean because they west did her dirty like that's there's no denying that but like i don't even think west did her that dirty he didn't do her he didn't like
do her well but like he just like was an idiot like he was just like oh like i'm gonna famous and and he's just like oh i got famous and like he's he's like He's like any celebrity who has a girlfriend at home and then becomes famous. And they're like, oh, I should probably dance. It's like it's John Mulaney with Olivia Munn. It's like not the best, but it's like it's not the worst. I'm a traitor.
Does Sierra seem like someone who has a great personality? Seems kind of like flat to me. I thought Sierra was good in her in the last episode of Traitors, but like that was it. She was good in like one episode. It was like they couldn't get Lindsay and that was the problem because they should have had Lindsay there.
she'll be on there one time hopefully next i hope she's on season four um but i don't mean to like bash sierra but like the nature of the show like you got to get over because from what i've read is like west doesn't do anything this season because he's like just afraid of being yelled at and being like told he's an asshole and that kind of ruins him as a character on the show yeah it's it's a bummer i i
I hope that it that's I haven't heard that, but I hope that's not true. So going to the episode, we get the introduction of two characters, one who like from all my research. uh i think what is her name maya who basically like quits the show a couple weeks in because she's like giving away secrets and also like was not enjoying it slash not getting a storyline
But we get this Jesse Solomon and relationship where Jesse Solomon is just so ridiculous. And like Bailey, by the way, sorry. What? Bailey. What's the name of Jesse Solomon's love interest? Lexi. Lexi. Lexi is very unattractive. I don't know what's going on with her. I find her extremely unattractive. I don't really get what it's about. But Jesse Solomon's hilarious. The thing like, oh man, it's a shame we're only going to be single for one day together.
Jesse Zollman's like then now, like he just like he's like, I love you. I think Jesse Zollman is a hilarious character. I'm so glad that Paige didn't like destroy him after he hit on Paige last season. honestly rightfully so um but just kind of interesting for me in that way and then so yeah that that i i'm i'm looking forward to that storyline but like i don't know if i love this character but like it looks like we're getting the soft reboot
Like next year, I wouldn't be surprised if it's like no more Kyle and Amanda, no more anyone. But it's like Jesse Solomon and this girl are the core people. You need somehow Kyle, Amanda, Carl, Lindsay, and who knows? They have to have their version of the Valley. Yeah, we've talked about this a million times. It would be called the city is what it would be called. And it would be so simple to do. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if Lindsay becomes like a real housewife.
She might become like a real housewife in New York. I've never really been able to get into real housewives. Neither have I, but like I think that that's plausible. So the other amazing scene was when Lindsay is like breaking down.
she's like gonna announce that she's pregnant and we get the whole like eight years ago story yeah that was my boyfriend you know slept with a in another bed and then then five years ago my boyfriend wouldn't make me a sandwich yeah it was it was just amazing because we kept getting all the clips too i thought we weren't gonna get i was like stravy i want to see stravy um i thought that
it was really funny it was it like the fact that she just like no self-awareness ever just just amazing stuff from her just like always amazing great like great work lindsey you're the best kind of thing and i did look so I think this is all able to be done because Carl wasn't there. He came in the next day. I think that he was told not to. They probably agreed.
how fucking savage of Lindsay to do that to Carl, like actually amazing, but like super savage. And he, he saw the announcement on, on Instagram. Yeah. And he's like, shit, I have to go see her tomorrow. Yes. And then the blown up picture of the sonogram. is like on the mantle when you walk in and everybody's outside she knows good tv she's incredibly petty and she's like she's petty but she's also able to forgive and forget or at least forgive more than almost anybody in the show every season
at the reunion Paige is like I fucking hate you even though we were cool all summer and she comes to the next season like ready to like be friends again whether yeah because I think she's just that's who she is like she just sucks and she knows that she sucks so she just has to like I think she rules
Oh, I hate Lindsay so much. I love Lindsay. I hate her in an – I'm entertained by her way. So anyway, I like that Carl – We've talked about this. She's gotten too good at producing herself on the show. That's my problem with it. Carl comes in and people were outside and he basically like, I'm going to go pee first. And he's basically like hyperventilating in the bathroom. Yeah, he's breaking down. Yeah, which, you know what? Good luck with your bar that doesn't serve any alcohol.
Carl. I don't know. He works at Loverboy now, so he's good. What's a more boring summer? Summer there where you don't drink or where you're pregnant?
pregnant yeah we'll see you can't do like if you're it's also you're really she's not really pregnant but if she were like really pregnant it'd be like oh you can't you don't even want to like move so she had more of a bug that i get hot it's like sucks yeah the worst part is getting stuck on that on the highway going there every weekend man good job i heard just like straight up hiding it from everyone before the show like no one must have known about this like like only gabby and like
whatever but it was that was wild and in tonight's episode we're being introduced to another new character like some kind of like fuck boy oh the big dude the new douchebag guy yeah like he's like oh you know i only had sex with like two people today type of thing like what yeah You know who I miss? I miss buff Asian guy. He was such a sweetheart. Alex. He was too pure for this show.
But I loved him. No, I miss Jordan, who just made up stories about having threesomes, but you can obviously tell none of it was ever real. Who was the one who was the girl who hooked up with with Luke's friend? Not Luke's friend. Like the Southern Charm friend. They hooked up on like Winter House, remember? Oh, was that the one?
Was that the one who made out with Luke and was like, I like you, and then called him a creep or something because he wouldn't leave her alone? No. Because Paige and Sierra hooked up with Austin and Craig. in the winter house no but you know there's like there's like austin and craig's like frat bro or it's like oh is that a shep or oh no no i know i know you're talking about was that danielle
No, it's not Danielle, but whatever. I can't keep track. There's so many people you forget. Jules was a person on the show for a season. Yeah, there was a lot of people on the show. Luke should be back on the show. I miss Luke. I don't like you. Yeah. I don't like you. He was good on the show. Okay. Anything else about Summer House? I'm so glad it's back. Yeah, I'm so glad to watch it tonight.
The best part and the wonderful thing about summer house and Megan pointed this out was she's like, the best part about summer house is that you like started in the winter and you're miserable. And then like. It just takes you to May. And by the time of the end of the season, it's May. And you're like, oh, it's a warm out. This is amazing. Okay, all right. You want to talk about another warm-blooded show? The White Lotus in Thailand. Yeah, season three, we got quite a cast. We got...
Walton Goggins, Carrie Coon, Leslie Bibb, Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger in kind of a creepy world, Michelle Monaghan, Jason Isaacs. I mean, I always get really good people to be in the show. It was like, hey, do you want to star in this acclaimed TV show that where you get to go live in Thailand for a couple of months in a hotel? Like, would you like to do that? And they're like, yeah, that'd be sick. So they do it.
because you're basically on vacation while you're shooting this show it's exactly it beats vancouver atlanta you know exactly So the difference with this season is rather than starting the season knowing someone's dead, we kind of start in progress. It's like something happening. We get a shootout going on. It seems like a mass shooting kind of thing. Yeah. Either a mass shooter, a spree shooter, or what?
This is ridiculous, but I think it was a Prestige TV podcast. Could it be a monkey got a hold of a gun and started shooting it? I saw that on the internet. I didn't even lose that. Everyone's been to everything. That's like... I was watching it. I watched it after I saw someone joke like it was the monkey because like they show so many monkeys. Also, there was a scene.
early in the show where the three siblings are doing the monkey faces, the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil thing. Yeah. So I think there was just a lot of monkey talk going on. What do you think about the return of Greg? That was a twist. It was funny because Megan, she was like, I don't know who's coming back in the show. I'm really excited to find out. And I was like, oh, I knew it was the like.
It was the like a spa lady from the first season, but I did not see the return of Greg coming. I think that that's fun. I think we're going to get somehow we're going to get it paid off either like the relationship, the one degree of separation to.
the girl from uh to the other returning season one character um we're gonna get some payoff and that's gonna be great and i think that that's like it's a lot of fun i think it's the just the right level of like like connective tissue um between the seasons which is like fun i i don't miss uh jennifer coolidge you know she can go hang out with kiwi kwan saying oh wow wow wow well at least at least hers is like not her real voice
Like that is like a character she plays. Yeah. And if you go watch, she was the girlfriend who was the masseuse in Seinfeld. That's much more of a real voice back in the 90s. What do you make of the three siblings? Jason Isaac. That storyline is fucking weird. I mean, I kind of like it, but it's fucking weird. Like there's weird sexual tension between the three of them. And like.
the oldest brother is like a weirdo um like it's just it's oddly incestuous honestly but is a younger brother like he's taking peeks at his brother naked yeah exactly it's like it's like it's like first you think he's gonna hook up with his sister
there like no no no he wants to hook up with his brother uh and you're like what is happening here but it may just be like his brother you know his brother's probably one of those guys who like always strikes out but talks a big game so like he's probably a virgin he's probably a virgin that's gonna be the twist he's a virgin
That's the Ryan Russillo podcast I listened to. They have a life advice and they decided the worst thing you could call someone if they just insult the sharp version. Like if a high school kid is like giving you shit, she'd be like, sharp version. them up yeah and even if they like i had they're like well i've had sex like five times Yeah, someone's going on with Walton Goggins. He's looking for the husband of the owner. Certainly his dad, right?
Like could be his dad because he's an American, very famous in Thailand. So maybe he's a bounty hunter or something like who the hell knows. He just like seems perpetually pissed off and doesn't want to be where they are because the guy isn't there. But the show often. You start you in one place and then leaves you in another place. So I'm sure that whoever's shooting, it's not who you think it is.
Well, who do you think it is? I mean, obviously, like if we're going to play this game, the best part about the show is that like you like talk about it the first episode and you kind of like just forget that there's even a death until like there's like one or two episodes left. You're like, oh, shit, someone's got to die soon. I'm going to go with Carrie Coon. She's the shooter. Yes.
Like she's, she's tired of her famous friend and her well-off friend talking about stuff and, you know, kind of having a dick measuring contest where she obviously is not doing as well. She's crying a lot. She's drinking a lot. And I think she kind of hits the breaking point. Okay. How about you? You know what? I just want to go like what's the most random person. I'm going to go with the Buddhist daughter as the shooter.
What if it's the Buddhist monk we haven't met yet? He's like, screw this vow of peace. The big one that when Meg and I were watching it, we were like, oh, it's the security guard.
either good or bad it's he's involved in this and it's so sad he's such a like a little lack of better word he's a little cuck and it's just it's just sad you you hope he gets the girl but you hope he gets he gets mook but it doesn't look like he's gonna get mook I will say Jesse I know we've been talking about like the fun of this season
This episode, like, I think was the least fun of the premieres. I agree. It didn't seem as comedic as some of the other seasons. Yeah, it just seemed like a lot of people in very weird or upset places. Yeah, I'm not like – I'm not excited to learn more about Walter Goggins' character. I'm not excited. It's never Walter. It's always Walton. I mean not when I say it. It's Walter when I say it. God damn it. But like I just like – I'm not excited to learn about his character.
character i'm not really like i guess i'm excited about the family of five i feel like that character but like those accents are really annoying and i kind of wish they didn't have like terrible accents uh i'm trying to think what else like it just nothing is exciting me nothing's like comedically exciting me yet um but i i will keep watching the show because it's fun and yeah i like fun things and what else is it a watch on sunday
Yeah, exactly. Well, this was a lot of fun. I'm glad we were to talk about SNL. Did we talk about SNL? I don't remember talking about SNL. Well, you know, we talked a little bit about the music special, but not much else. Go watch the shared performance. It is awesome. I will reiterate that. Will do. There is, I think coming out before our next episode, I think it's coming Sunday, Suits LA. You're going to watch that.
Oh, I probably will. I probably will. You have failed this law firm, Stephen Amell. And I'm kind of excited. Probably not something that we would talk about, but the Americas. It's like a planet Earth type show. It's narrated by Tom Inks. That's on NBC as well. I bet that'll be a lot of fun, but we'll always find more to talk about. Yeah, of course, Jesse. Looking forward to it. Talk to you later. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.