The writing/directing is terrible. They always take every scenario to the idiotic extreme. Other than the cold opens with Trump and the Weekend Update, the show is unwatchable.

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Even Jane Wick is beginning to grow on me.

I like her on Weekend Update but she was so awful in the stripper skit. Refused to deliver funny lines in a funny way. She stuck with her own way of performing which has a time and place, but it was distracting here and a slap in the face to other people in the skit.

She was terrible in the stripper skit. I think they could have found a random audience member who could've done a better job. She's a one trick pony and she doesn't even do that very well.

She ruined that skit for me. Her under-acting seemed intentional and it just took me out of the scene every time she spoke.

She does that in every skit she’s in for me. The southern women playing truth or dare last week, she was just awful. The tween boy podcast skit earlier in the season, she is just terrible. Like she can’t even try to evoke emotion in her voice to make it funny.

But the question is WHY is she in those skits. She is rarely the main character, usually just part of a chorus of people supporting the main joke. Like her job will be to nod along or deliver one or two lines. There are other cast members. Why does she get these parts? And why insist on giving her a line (other cast members don't always get lines) and zooming in on her when she delivers it (other cast members will deliver lines in a wide shot but the camera will often zoom in on Wickline when she doe she line).

I fee like I'm being trolled, honestly.

Anonymous wrote:The show & the cast have jumped the shark. Put it out of its misery.

People have been saying this for 30 years.

It's weird it keeps trucking along and even manages to be halfway relevant, yet it does. They have been recruiting cast members from TikTok and YouTube for a while in order to attract younger audiences, and it kind of works (young people do NOT watch SNL when it airs but they will watch and share clips online later, and older people both watch it live or watch clips online, so it actually stays moderately relevant).

Television in general is a dying medium, so of course SNL is in decline, but the clip sharing keeps it from being a total dodo bird.

I don't really like it but am glad it's still holding on, along with late night talk shows, because right now these are places where people continue to mock the president, and it's important that we live in a country where you are allowed to mock the president. Of any political affiliation, they mocked Biden too and that's healthy. Trump's efforts to silence these critics because he's thin skinned are dangerous and so this would be the worst possible time for this stuff to go off the air. We need it to stick around and help us get through the current threats to Free Speech and other political freedoms while we have these people in charge with totalitarian inclinations.

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Even Jane Wick is beginning to grow on me.

I like her on Weekend Update but she was so awful in the stripper skit. Refused to deliver funny lines in a funny way. She stuck with her own way of performing which has a time and place, but it was distracting here and a slap in the face to other people in the skit.

She was terrible in the stripper skit. I think they could have found a random audience member who could've done a better job. She's a one trick pony and she doesn't even do that very well.

She ruined that skit for me. Her under-acting seemed intentional and it just took me out of the scene every time she spoke.

She does that in every skit she’s in for me. The southern women playing truth or dare last week, she was just awful. The tween boy podcast skit earlier in the season, she is just terrible. Like she can’t even try to evoke emotion in her voice to make it funny.

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Even Jane Wick is beginning to grow on me.

I like her on Weekend Update but she was so awful in the stripper skit. Refused to deliver funny lines in a funny way. She stuck with her own way of performing which has a time and place, but it was distracting here and a slap in the face to other people in the skit.

She was terrible in the stripper skit. I think they could have found a random audience member who could've done a better job. She's a one trick pony and she doesn't even do that very well.

She ruined that skit for me. Her under-acting seemed intentional and it just took me out of the scene every time she spoke.

+1

The show & the cast have jumped the shark. Put it out of its misery.

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Even Jane Wick is beginning to grow on me.

I like her on Weekend Update but she was so awful in the stripper skit. Refused to deliver funny lines in a funny way. She stuck with her own way of performing which has a time and place, but it was distracting here and a slap in the face to other people in the skit.

She was terrible in the stripper skit. I think they could have found a random audience member who could've done a better job. She's a one trick pony and she doesn't even do that very well.

She ruined that skit for me. Her under-acting seemed intentional and it just took me out of the scene every time she spoke.

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Even Jane Wick is beginning to grow on me.

I like her on Weekend Update but she was so awful in the stripper skit. Refused to deliver funny lines in a funny way. She stuck with her own way of performing which has a time and place, but it was distracting here and a slap in the face to other people in the skit.

I actually am starting to feel bad for her because she was selected for the show due to her viral fame for doing the kind of thing she did on update -- silly songs she writes herself delivered in that weird flat way that is part of the humor. It can be very funny because it's her specific brand of humor and tailored to her strengths.

She's not good at sketch comedy and they put her in SO MANY sketches and it's painful. She doesn't have the comedic timing or instincts. She is likely more of a writer, not a performer, or would do well as a standup doing the musical thing, but she's just not SNL material. But who turns down SNL? Sarah Sherman has given interview lately where she talks about how SNL isn't right for her either but you'd be insane not to take the opportunity if you work in comedy. It's career launching. But at least Sarah has found a good niche on the show that works for them and for her, even if it's not the kind of comedy she wants to do.

But I think Jane Wickline is genuinely doing her best, it's painful, and Lorne keeps throwing her out there. Why not use her more sparingly, try to cultivate her writing talent, let her do her weird bit on update now and again, and see where it goes? Instead of trying to make her Kristin Wiig, which will never actually happen.

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Anonymous wrote:

Even Jane Wick is beginning to grow on me.

I like her on Weekend Update but she was so awful in the stripper skit. Refused to deliver funny lines in a funny way. She stuck with her own way of performing which has a time and place, but it was distracting here and a slap in the face to other people in the skit.

She was terrible in the stripper skit. I think they could have found a random audience member who could've done a better job. She's a one trick pony and she doesn't even do that very well.

r/LiveFromNewYork is coming around to agreeing that she should be a writer or, at best, act in pre-filmed skits. Lorne seems to have blinders on when it comes to Wickline, as he watched her grow up. Wickline's mom was Lorne's longtime assistant.

Padilla is the one who is benefiting the most from Wickline's lack of versatility.

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Even Jane Wick is beginning to grow on me.

I like her on Weekend Update but she was so awful in the stripper skit. Refused to deliver funny lines in a funny way. She stuck with her own way of performing which has a time and place, but it was distracting here and a slap in the face to other people in the skit.

She was terrible in the stripper skit. I think they could have found a random audience member who could've done a better job. She's a one trick pony and she doesn't even do that very well.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised Ashley Padilla is in so many skits. I would have thought they would use Sarah Sherman more since several veteran casts members have left this season.

I think Lorne is going to push Ashley heavily next. She did Seth Myers last week and it's usually very intentional which cast members they grab for the late night shows. Lorne decides it, so choosing Ashley the week that she was featured in like six skits is significant.

Surprised no one is talking about the awkward as hell Lily Allen performance with Dakota Johnson playing "Madeleine" (the woman David Harbour cheated on Lily with and that she wrote an ultra-specific song about for her new album. Then the cast joked about it in the next set, which also features Lily.

Lily Allen performances were pretty awful. Hopefully she's done beating this dead horse.

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Anonymous wrote:I was disappointed that Colin ➕ Michael did not do their customary “joke swap.”

But the skits were very funny regardless.

Marcello is just getting better and better.
Even Jane Wick is beginning to grow on me.

I still miss Kate, Cicely, Aidy and Pete but the new cast has some good, fresh talent.

Joke swap will probably be next week before Xmas.

+1. Next week is Ariana Grande and Cher.

Special Beauty & the Beast theme?

Even Jane Wick is beginning to grow on me.

I like her on Weekend Update but she was so awful in the stripper skit. Refused to deliver funny lines in a funny way. She stuck with her own way of performing which has a time and place, but it was distracting here and a slap in the face to other people in the skit.

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised Ashley Padilla is in so many skits. I would have thought they would use Sarah Sherman more since several veteran casts members have left this season.

I think Lorne is going to push Ashley heavily next. She did Seth Myers last week and it's usually very intentional which cast members they grab for the late night shows. Lorne decides it, so choosing Ashley the week that she was featured in like six skits is significant.

Surprised no one is talking about the awkward as hell Lily Allen performance with Dakota Johnson playing "Madeleine" (the woman David Harbour cheated on Lily with and that she wrote an ultra-specific song about for her new album. Then the cast joked about it in the next set, which also features Lily.

I’m surprised Ashley Padilla is in so many skits. I would have thought they would use Sarah Sherman more since several veteran casts members have left this season.