She sounds good on recordings, just not good live.
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She sounds good on recordings, just not good live.
petethepanda
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They're not always the funniest but the final sketches lately almost always seem to be the most interesting. If this wasn't so damn long it would be pretty strong.
Edit: Wait, a commercial this late? weird
Edit: Wait, a commercial this late? weird
The Elite
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Some of the best skits happen after 12:30. That's when they experiment with new stuff.
Hours Left
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Have you heard any of her music before? When she's just singing and not trying some of the weird variations she did tonight, she's quite good IMO.
She has been hit or miss with live performances though, and it's mostly because of her nerves.
She's actually a pretty good singer. She just has no stage presence and has ridiculous nerves.
She really should have gotten some training for this.
Yes. I've seen videos of her live performances as well.
The second performance was what I saw, and I can't imagine the first one being considerably worse than it.
Trigger Warning
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No way. "The Jay Pharoah Show" was one of the best of the night.
Got exactly from the musical guest what I was expecting though: okay singing without engaging with the audience/tv audience at all.
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VeryGooster
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It took an SNL skit to tell America this guy offers nothing beyond Denzel, Will Smith, and Chris Rock impressions.
lunarworks
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That's exactly what I took away from it. The skit was a personal admission that he has nothing to offer.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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I've got to tune in for this trainwreck then.
Yeah, the next time they do that skit I hope he has a mental breakdown because he can only communicate in impressions. That would be fun.
It really wasn't THAT bad. She was nervous as many have said so the songs were a little all over the place but at least it was a live performance which is more than I can say for some artists who have come on the show.
onlyindreams
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Yeah, that Jay Pharoah sketch really went over yalls heads.
Bingo. That's what I thought as well.
You should see his stuff on Youtube.
He does good impressions of a whole lot of celebs (of various races).
And it's a crime that they aren't using him to play Obama considering he's 100x better than Armisen's impression.
Trigger Warning
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...Maybe he wrote that skit?
He has other impressions. A shitton more. A lot of really great ones.
It's possible he wanted to poke fun at that being his only presence on the show, and did, and now he'll keep writing other sketches. Who knows.
He does way more than just 3 people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN6HQPRcMyI
Like I said previously, he can do Obama well (way better than Armisen) but for some reason they aren't letting him do it.
To be honest, it's almost a repeat of what Chris Rock went through when he was on SNL (at least that's the way it seems to me).
Trigger Warning
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Check out some of her studio recordings. My favorite song of hers is rarely even mentioned, Diet Mountain Dew. She's still just really nervous on any big stage.
Maybe those are the only 3 impressions that they let him do since the ''typical SNL audience" can relate to them the most?
Maybe he can't do Obama because Fred Armisen has higher priority since he's a full cast member and not a "featured player". I don't know.
Not to make a bigger deal about it than it actually is but I wouldn't be surprised if race plays a part in it as well. Outside of those 3 impressions, the only other thing I've seen him do on the show is play a criminal in prison or a bum (sometimes alongside Kenan).
I envision, if Obama wins reelection, they'll have fun with it and do a switch between Armisen and Pharoah on camera.
That's how I took it. A kind of meta-statement on the role he has in the show thus far.
I mean the episode where he played Victor Frankenstein (Nicki Minaj was musical guest) he was absolutely hilarious. The skits where he's not doing an impression are usually much better than his impressions - though his Denzel doing Random Job X tends to be really good.
All we need is for Matt to star in a big Hollywood film, it would be perfect.
I know the BBC has been trying their hardest to make Doctor Who more popular in North America (outside of nerds). I don't know how successful they've been.
Also, is Daniel Radcliffe not a very good actor / performer?
I remember reading that he sucked in How to Succeed in Business, and in every skit last night he completely fell flat. It's like he doesn't have any nuance to his delivery other than loud, straight-forward emoting towards the audience. I don't know...
I remember reading that he sucked in How to Succeed in Business, and in every skit last night he completely fell flat. It's like he doesn't have any nuance to his delivery other than loud, straight-forward emoting towards the audience. I don't know...
Glad I wasn't far off. He knows what he's doing.
RadioHeadAche
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Excluding a few moments, this was another mediocre episode. Also, was there anything good at the end of the Charles Barkley episode? Something ran late which caused SNL to start a half hour late and you can guess the rest. The DVR stopped around the start of that porn awards skit.
RadioHeadAche
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I don't really mind them, but sometimes I hate that there are two performances.
It really depends on the performer. Felt like they gave Lana Del Ray a second one simply out of sympathy after her first one, but other performers have been excellent.
Seraphis Cain
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Nobody watching tonight?
Crumpet Trumpet
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I'm in.
Who's Karmin?
Who's Karmin?
blame space
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this has been pretty painful
blame space
Banned
jesus christ SNL booked karmin?
Yeah I liked when they gave people nicknames
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