Senin, 09 Desember 2019
Golden Globes: Watch the Main Nominees Announced - Variety
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Golden Globes 2020: The Complete Nominations List - Variety
Netflix ruled nominations for the 77th Golden Globes, scoring nods for “Marriage Story” and “The Irishman” on the film front and “The Crown” and “Unbelievable” for television.
Tim Allen, Dakota Fanning and Susan Kelechi were on hand Monday morning to announce nominees for the Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s annual celebration to recognize the year’s best in both TV and film.
Noah Baumbauch’s “Marriage Story” landed a leading six nominations for film, followed by Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” with five each.
HBO’s “Chernobyl,” Netflix’s “The Crown” and “Unbelievable” swept TV nominations with four a piece. HBO’s “Barry,” “Succession” and “Big Little Lies,” Amazon’s “Fleabag,” FX’s “Fosse/ Verdon,” Netflix’s “The Kominsky Method” and Apple TV’s “The Morning Show” each secured three.
Ricky Gervais will host the 2020 Golden Globe Awards ceremony on Jan. 5, live from the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
Check out the full nominations list below:
Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Christopher Abbott (“Catch-22”)
Sacha Baron Cohen (“The Spy”)
Russell Crowe (“The Loudest Voice”)
Jared Harris (“Chernobyl”)
Sam Rockwell (“Fosse/Verdon”)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Kaitlyn Dever (“Unbelievable”)
Joey King (“The Act”)
Helen Mirren (“Catherine the Great”)
Merritt Wever (“Unbelievable”)
Michelle Williams (“Fosse/Verdon”)
Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
“Catch-22″ (Hulu)
“Chernobyl” (HBO)
“Fosse/Verdon” (FX)
The Loudest Voice (Showtime)
“Unbelievable” (Netflix)
Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language
“The Farewell” (A24)
“Pain and Glory” (Sony)
“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Pyramide Films)
“Parasite” (CJ Entertainment)
“Les Misérables” (BAC Films, Amazon)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Alan Arkin
Kieran Culkin (“Succession”)
Andrew Scott (“Fleabag”)
Stellan Skarsgård (“Chernobyl”)
Henry Winkler (“Barry”)
Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy
“Barry” (HBO)
“Fleabag” (Amazon)
“The Kominsky Method” (Netflix)
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon)
“The Politician” (Netflix)
Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Daniel Pemberton (“Motherless Brooklyn”)
Alexandre Desplat (“Little Women”)
Hildur Guðnadóttir (“Joker”)
Thomas Newman (“1917”)
Randy Newman (“Marriage Story”)
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Noah Baumbach (“Marriage Story”)
Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won (“Parasite”)
Anthony McCarten (“The Two Popes”)
Quentin Tarantino (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”)
Steven Zaillian (“The Irishman”)
Best Original Song – Motion Picture
“Beautiful Ghosts” (“Cats”)
“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” (“Rocketman”)
“Into the Unknown” (“Frozen II”)
“Spirit” (“The Lion King”)
“Stand Up” (“Harriet”)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Patricia Arquette (“The Act”)
Helena Bonham Carter (“The Crown”)
Toni Collette
Meryl Streep (“Big Little Lies”)
Emily Watson (“Chernobyl”)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Michael Douglas (“The Kominsky Method”)
Bill Hader (“Barry”)
Ben Platt (“The Politician”)
Paul Rudd (“Living with Yourself”)
Ramy Youssef (“Ramy”)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Christina Applegate (“Dead to Me”)
Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)
Kirsten Dunst (“On Becoming a God in Central Florida”)
Natasha Lyonne (“Russian Doll”)
Phoebe Waller-Bridge (“Fleabag”)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Brian Cox (“Succession”)
Kit Harington (“Game of Thrones”)
Rami Malek (“Mr. Robot”)
Tobias Menzies (“The Crown”)
Billy Porter (“Pose”)
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Noah Baumbach (“Marriage Story”)
Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won (“Parasite”)
Anthony McCarten (“The Two Popes”)
Quentin Tarantino (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”)
Steven Zaillian (“The Irishman”)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama
Jennifer Aniston (“The Morning Show”)
Olivia Colman (“The Crown”)
Jodie Comer (“Killing Eve”)
Nicole Kidman (“Big Little Lies”)
Reese Witherspoon (“Big Little Lies”)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Tom Hanks (“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”)
Anthony Hopkins (“The Two Popes”)
Al Pacino (“The Irishman”)
Joe Pesci (“The Irishman”)
Brad Pitt (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”)
Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Kathy Bates (“Richard Jewell”)
Annette Bening (“The Report”)
Laura Dern (“Marriage Story”)
Jennifer Lopez (“Hustlers”)
Margot Robbie (“Bombshell”)
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Daniel Craig (“Knives Out”)
Roman Griffin Davis (“Jojo Rabbit”)
Leonardo DiCaprio (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”)
Taron Egerton (“Rocketman”)
Eddie Murphy (“Dolemite Is My Name”)
Best Motion Picture – Animated
“Frozen II” (Disney)
“How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” (Universal)
“Missing Link” (United Artists Releasing)
“Toy Story 4” (Disney)
“The Lion King” (Disney)
Best Director – Motion Picture
Bong Joon-ho (“Parasite”)
Sam Mendes (“1917”)
Todd Phillips (“Joker”)
Martin Scorsese (“The Irishman”)
Quentin Tarantino (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”)
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Christian Bale (“Ford v Ferrari”)
Antonio Banderas (“Pain and Glory”)
Adam Driver (“Marriage Story”)
Joaquin Phoenix (“Joker”)
Jonathan Pryce (“The Two Popes”)
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Awkwafina (“The Farewell”)
Ana de Armas (“Knives Out”)
Cate Blanchett (“Where’d You Go, Bernadette”)
Beanie Feldstein (“Booksmart”)
Emma Thompson (“Late Night”)
Best Television Series – Drama
“Big Little Lies” (HBO)
“The Crown” (Netflix)
“Killing Eve” (BBC America)
“The Morning Show” (Apple TV Plus)
“Succession” (HBO)
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Cynthia Erivo (“Harriet”)
Scarlett Johansson (“Marriage Story”)
Saoirse Ronan (“Little Women”)
Charlize Theron (“Bombshell”)
Renée Zellweger (“Judy”)
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” (Sony)
“Jojo Rabbit” (Fox Searchlight)
“Knives Out” (Lionsgate)
“Rocketman” (Paramount)
“Dolemite Is My Name” (Netflix)
Best Motion Picture – Drama
“The Irishman” (Netflix)
“Marriage Story” (Netflix)
“1917” (Universal)
“Joker” (Warner Bros.)
“The Two Popes” (Netflix)
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2019-12-09 13:00:00Z
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Miss Universe 2019: 'May every little girl see their faces reflected in mine' - BBC News
"I grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me, with my kind of skin and my kind of hair, was never considered to be beautiful.
"I think that it is time that that stops today."
That's the message from newly-crowned Miss Universe Zozibini Tunzi, who is from South Africa.
More than 90 women from across the world took part in the pageant which was held in Atlanta in the US on Sunday.
Zozibini beat Puerto Rico's Madison Anderson and Mexico's Sofia Aragon in the final three to take the tiara.
Finalists in the competition were asked a range of questions on topics such as climate change, protest and social media.
In her final question, 26-year-old Zozibini was asked what we should be teaching young girls today.
Her answer was leadership.
"It's something that has been lacking in young girls and women for a very long time - not because we don't want to, but because of what society has labelled women to be," she said.
"I think we are the most powerful beings on the world, and that we should be given every opportunity.
"And that is what we should be teaching these young girls - to take up space."
Zozibini is the first black woman to win the competition since Leila Lopes in 2011.
The Angolan former winner congratulated her in a post on Instagram, writing: "Congrats girl you did us very proud."
Relfecting on her win, Zozibini wrote: "Tonight a door was opened and I could not be more grateful to have been the one to have walked through it.
"May every little girl who witnessed this moment forever believe in the power of her dreams and may they see their faces reflected in mine.
"I proudly state my name Zozibini Tunzi, Miss Universe 2019!"
The hashtag #MissUniverse was trending on Twitter and she even got a shout-out from Oprah Winfrey.
Several people highlighted the importance of a black woman with natural hair winning a beauty pageant.
Zozibini, who won Miss South Africa in August, is described by Miss Universe as "a proud advocate for natural beauty".
It adds that she's "a passionate activist and engaged in the fight against gender based violence".
"She has devoted her social media campaign to changing the narrative around gender stereotypes."
Although her exact prizes aren't revealed by Miss Universe, Zozibini's expected to have won a year's stay rent-free in an apartment in New York - and a salary worth around $100,000 (£76,000).
She'll also fly around the world for media and modelling opportunities.
Miss Universe and other beauty pageants regularly come under criticism - with some people calling them "outdated".
The events have tried to move with the times and several now focus on the contestants' achievements and giving women a voice.
But Miss Universe still has a swimwear competition where contestants pose in bikinis - although that part isn't shown on TV.
Last year, Great Britain's contestant Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers told Radio 1 Newsbeat that pageantry still has a place.
"One of the biggest problems that women have in the 21st century is having people listen to them," she said.
"We have had to be very creative in making a space for ourselves."
She admitted that questions about pageantry and beauty standards are "understandable".
"As someone who's gone through the system, I would advocate for it for young women."
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Another of the world's biggest beauty pageants, Miss World, has come under criticism recently because of its rules banning mums from competing.
Model Veronika Didusenko, 24, was crowned Miss Ukraine 2018 - but she had her title taken away when organisers found out she had a son.
She's decided to take legal action against the contest over its policy.
"I want to make them more fit for nowadays and reflect women's reality today - who can perfectly balance between their careers and their personal life," she told Newsbeat.
Follow Newsbeat on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Listen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.
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Selena fans trash Ally Brooke's performance during the Miss Universe pageant - Yahoo Celebrity
Ally Brooke, of Fifth Harmony fame, kicked off the Miss Universe pageant Sunday night with a stellar performance of her song “No Good,” but unfortunately for Brooke, it’s a later performance that garnered the most attention. While the top ten finalists were introduced, Brooke sang the 1995 hit “Dreaming of You” by the late legend Selena Quintanilla, and the performance was not well received.
Although some viewers only had negative things to say, there were still those who were moved by the performance.
Brooke is a big fan of Selena, and even gave a passionate performance to “Dreaming of You” on Dancing With The Stars earlier this year. And despite what many viewers thought about it, Selena’s sister Suzette was appreciative of the tribute Sunday night.
For more on the Miss Universe pageant go to missuniverse.com.
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Minggu, 08 Desember 2019
'SNL': Jennifer Lopez Strips Into Iconic Versace Dress During Live Monologue and Fans React - Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Jennifer Lopez served as host for Saturday Night Live this week. The Hustlers star opened the show with the classic monologue where she talked about all her accomplishments this year.
“I got what every girl from the Bronx dreams of: proposed to by a Yankee,” she said referring to her fiancé Alex Rodriguez. “And I slayed the Met Gala and that’s not a brag. A doctor diagnosed it on the spot as a fourth-degree slay.”
J. Lo came out on stage with a tux looking fabulous. During her opening speech she also mentioned her performance at the Super Bowl halftime show next year.
“The best is yet to come,” she assures me. “They tried to count me out so much. But I’m still here.”
Lopez brought the Christmas spirit by singing “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.” A holiday special set in New York City could not be complete without the traditional Radio City Rockettes. The dancers came on stage and the Puerto Rican star joined them in their high-kicks right along with them.
The surprise came at the end when Lopez disappeared behind the line-dancers and did a quick change to reveal her iconic Versace dress. She couldn’t complete her monologue without showing off how amazing she looks in the piece.
Fans react to the shocking moment
Lopez fans did not miss their diva 18-year challenge moment. It was in 2001 that she wore the Versace dress for the first time and made history. Now, 18 years later she’s still wearing it and looking better than ever. The SNL Twitter account posted both moments side-by-side and fans were shocked.
“Nice fashion moment for JLo during SNL monologue when she does a quick change from a three-piece tux to the tribute Versace dress,” a fan wrote.
“Jennifer just shot down 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Her monologue was fantastic tonight on SNL. She recapped her year and closed with her iconic Versace dress,” another fan tweeted.
“Iconic. JLo just gets better and better,” a Twitter user said.
“Still killing it,” another viewer commented. “That dress can never be worn by anyone else. Iconic JLo merchandise.”
“Proud of you baby girl and yes, 50 looks great on you,” another fan added.
“Go JLo! That Versace dress is iconic. I love it,” said another viewer.
“Love her. The show was so good,” another user commented.
Jennifer Lopez at the Super Bowl
Lopez is not only getting Oscar buzz for her role on Hustlers, but her next big musical performance will be at the Super Bowl. The “Lets Get Loud” hitmaker will be sharing the stage with Shakira in one epic half-time show.
The Bronx superstar is excited that they chose two Latinas two headline the musical performance.
“I have been doing a lot of meetings about the Super Bowl, been prepping and hiring the people and putting concepts and ideas for the show together,“ she told Extra. “Shakira and I have spoken a few times already. She’s putting her thing together, [I’m] putting my thing together, thinking about who we want to join us on stage, if we want that.”
“We are super excited,” Lopez added. “Want to make a beautiful, impactful, enjoyable, fun show for everybody. We want to bring everybody together. That’s the point. We as artists have that rare gift to be able to do that, and that’s what I think our main goal is.”
Super Bowl LIV is scheduled for Sunday, February 2 from Miami Gardens in Florida.
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Saturday Night Live flatters Jennifer Lopez, who sort of deserves it - The A.V. Club
“I like it when it’s mean but not about me.”
“I’m not an actor, I’m an [everything] star [and also very attractive]!”
Jennifer Lopez is 50. That’d be a rude thing to start of a review with, if Jennifer Lopez hadn’t come out for her monologue resplendent in a form-fitting tux (later quick-changed into that dress), told everyone she’s 50, and then run down exactly how successful and busy she’s been in this, her 50th year on this earth. (New upcoming album, new movie, Super Bowl halftime gig, fulfilling every Bronx girl’s dream of getting engaged to a Yankee, and so on.) Indeed, the whole episode followed up on the giant humblebrag that was the monologue (including Beck Bennett’s audience member literally losing his head over the whole “She’s 50?!” thing), piling on sketch after sketch predicated on the idea that Jennifer Lopez is a very, very attractive and accomplished woman. Not bragging if it’s true.
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Lopez has hosted SNL before (although not since 2010), and she’s certainly a capable actress. (Her performance in Hustlers might not eclipse her still-stellar turn in 1998's Out Of Sight, but she’s getting the Oscar buzz.) And if there’s a knock on her here it’s that she’s game, but not entirely comfortable onstage. The monologue was on rails right from the start, which kept the host at a certain remove, and the abrupt segue to the Rockettes Christmas musical number has a certain 1970s movie guest star sheen to it. Indeed, since I’m as old as Lopez., it put me in mind of Raquel Welch’s lone outing as host, in that the entire show from start to merciful finish was one long exercise in paying homage the guest star’s physicality and wattage. (Favorite anecdote: Bandleader Paul Schaffer being assigned as Welch’s fawning babysitter while the cast and writers tried in vain to come up with ways to make the wooden Welch look funny, and answering Welch’s queries about which of her indifferently sung torch songs should be her big number. I can hear showbiz lifer Shaffer’s voice telling her soothingly, “I don’t know Raquel, they’re all fabulous.”)
Luckily for everyone, Lopez is not Raquel, in the sense that her diva star power comes yoked to actual talents, even if, again, live TV doesn’t really seem to be her thing. The succession of sketches whose joke was all about how freaking gorgeous and, yes, fabulous Lopez is could have been off-putting, if she weren’t so in on the joke. (Look for the “J Lo. is fabulous” counter in the review to come.)
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Best/Worst sketch of the night
Another way Lopez defused some of the potential eye-rolling tonight was allowing herself to be upstaged by other performers. Sure, that repeatedly happened in sketches where the joke was “Jennifer Lopez is far too pretty for [premise],” but it kept working just fine. (JLo. is fabulous #2.) The surprise home makeover bit pivoted around Kenan Thompson’s host Becker Cheeks, as he was consistently unable to process the seemingly inexplicable marriage match of Lopez and Mikey Day’s Smurf-loving dweeb. The SNL template of goggling and pointing at how weird [sketch premise] is has no better salesman than Kenan, whose underplayed bafflement emerges in increasingly bemused asides. (“He’s into Smurfs?!,” he blurts upon seeing Day’s Brainy Smurf tramp stamp.) Still, the gag was built on pandering to just how amazing Jennifer Lopez is (she’s a human rights lawyer, had to ask Day three times to marry her, is willing to accept an open marriage, but just for him), while pounding away on Day’s incomprehensibly cocky mediocrity (Bennett’s carpenter plans for accessibility, assuming Lopez must be blind, while Bowen Yang’s equally baffled interior designer has to do a quick size check on Day’s penis, finding no answers there, either). Not a killer, by any means, but Kenan made it work, finally working himself into a confusion-stroke.
Along the same lines was the 1950s movie parody What Do You Figure Is Goin’ On In That House? Helped out with a lot more weirdness, the bit saw Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant chomping into some Joan Crawford-esque scheming as a pair of evil stepsisters, and Lopez getting to goof around a little more as the stunningly gorgeous sister who they’ve convinced is a grotesque attic-dweller. (JLo. is fabulous #3.) With a soldier-suitor on the way to call, the two mean sisters take turns either attempting to kill the other or convincing Lopez’s breathy bombshell that she’s a horrible goblin (which is why they’ve covered all the mirrors). It’s really Aidy and Kate’s sketch, as they ham it up in arch melodramatic style, all the while unspooling increasingly absurd machinations designed to keep Lopez under wraps when “the corporal” gets there, only to realize they’re just making her more ludicrously sexy. Trying to trigger her shellfish allergy only nets Lopez fuller lips, but the joke that they try to convince her the lobster she smooches is actually what a man really looks like is the funny part. And if there’s no turn to the joke (Lopez is still hot), the abrupt “Her!” from Bennett’s suitor immediately upon entering and seeing Lopez is a solid laugh to end on.
Then there’s the return of Pete Davidson’s Chad, where the joke is always that Chad’s diffidently grimy slacker charms are catnip to women and men who are way above him. (JLo. is fabulous #4.) As herself, rehearsing on an empty stage, Lopez is fatally smitten by roadie Chad, who, as ever, displays literally no redeeming qualities as a potential romantic fantasy object while responding to every tortured come-on with blank-faced, noncommittal agreeableness. Never as good as the first time, Chad yet always amuses, with Davidson’s role as inexplicable lust object seeming to hinge on some real-world self-parody, which lends the gag some juice. As templates go, it’s not a bad line to hang some silly gags on. While Lopez looks away in anguished temptation, her talk of making love to Chad on the stage cuts to Chade completely nude and ready, only to return a moment later with him quickly redressed upon her deciding not to. Chad doesn’t seem bothered either way. Throw in an A-Rod cameo, realizing that he just can’t compete with Chad, and that’s two guest-flattering gags for the price of one.
To be fair, there were a number of non-fabulous JLo. sketches, out of which the Potty PM commercial was the best. I’m all for the advertising industry skewering of SNL’s scatological product ads, as a rule, but this one, for a pee hose contraption that lets you whiz in your sleep, seemed destined to die a death. At least until it was revealed to be a Kyle Mooney special once Lopez turns up to ask how the product is supposed to work for women, and Mooney’s pitchman freezes up before revealing his complete and woeful unfamiliarity with how a human woman’s body works. It’s the sort of unexpected twist the bit needed, and the escalating panic of Mooney’s blithely ignorant inventor keeps tossing out increasingly outlandish details concerning the depths of his male bafflement. “A flap?,” he guesses feebly when Lopez asks how the alarmingly huge penis-cone is supposed to attach to female parts.
The ad for the mall-set Hoops earring kiosk gave Lopez (alongside Melissa Villaseñor) a crack at one of the show’s reliably funny local TV ads sketches, and both actresses made it work just fine. The jokes about the ubiquitous huge earrings being painfully irresistible to grabby-handed babies, the perfect accessory for taking off when about to throw down, and just the thing to make any woman look “like a rapper’s accountant” were anchored by Lopez and Melissa’s low-key character work. And the more out-there details helped push the sketch over the finish line, especially the choice of random words to hang inside the hoops (“diabetes” was my favorite), and Lopez’s promise that the hoops’ indeterminate metal composition would make the wearer’s ears “the color of money.”
Lopez, Davidson, Redd, and Kenan all took a shot at musical sketch glory and missed with the rap carolers bit, in which their intrusive singers demand cash from wealthy white homeowners in recompense for their inexplicably Home Alone-centric “late 1990s-early 2000s” rap. The mix on everyone’s vocals made the lyrics tough to parse in time for the jokes to land, and here’s to a City High shoutout, but there’s a queasy tinge to the asshole white family’s conviction that the carolers are only there to rob them turning out to be true (thanks to a DaBaby cameo). Still, Lopez, Kenan, and Redd were into their performances (Pete was present).
The store sketch was the host at her most uncomfortable, since she was expected to just be one of the gals staffing the counter at rural Wisconsin’s most heavily accented hardware emporium. Still, as she, McKinnon, and Cecily Strong took turns mangling the regional mannerisms, they managed to toss in a few funny touches, especially at the expense of the visiting “citiots” who don’t secure their trash in bear country. Even that clowning around wasn’t buoying things appreciably, so why not throw in a guy in a bear suit, actually mangling Chloe Fineman’s spooky “Rapunzel-slash-Nell,” who came with the store, and who scurries around fulfilling orders like a hellful ghost from The Ring. If your sketch isn’t taking off, at least get weird with it. Props.
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Weekend Update update
Usual caveats that SNL should either sharpen up its political comedy in the face of ludicrously mock-able national crisis or just bail on it entirely aside, it’s always energizing when Jost or Che seems appreciative how how ell the other is doing. It was Jost’s turn tonight, as Che tipped his cap to his partner getting bigger laughs for marginally tougher material.
That SNL’s own template for The Daily Show only spent about three one-liners on the looming impeachment scandal would be baffling if it didn’t smack of editorial decision, but Jost got some traditionally Che-esque gasp-laughs tonight with a couple of them. The joke from Catholic Jost about Trump just “being moved to another parish” by the church for all his ongoing sins had some zip on it, and if his joke about Rudy Giuliani, GOP lapdog Devin Nunes (R-CA), and over-the-top Russian goon Lev Parnas turned on essentially calling them retarded via a Forrest Gump joke, it at least laid out the newest(?) blatantly corrupt and incompetent wrinkle in the Trump-GOP-Russia saga in some detail on national TV. Same goes for his cutaway joke about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s seemingly-forgotten blackface scandal—as with the cold open, turning a Trump joke into a Trudeau slam is some questionable targeting. But fair is fair—don’t do blackface, dipshits.
Kate McKinnon brought out her Nancy Pelosi for some Christmas prayers on behalf of Donald Trump, as her recent dust-up with bad-faith baiter James Rosen of Sinclair Broadcasting (or “Breitbart Ryan Seacrest”) allowed McKinnon to ply some mannerism-mockery of Pelosi’s staring eyes and sonorous scolding while simultaneously smacking Trump around nearly as ably as does the real House Speaker. Accused by Jost of prayerful passive-aggression, McKinnon’s Pelosi explained patiently that some of them were just plain old aggressive, which tracks with the overwhelmingly positive response to a Democrat finally slapping around a right-wing “journalist” trying to spin impeachment into a partisan issue. And if McKinnon occasionally looked and sounded more like a Christine Baranski character than Pelosi, her prayers had some snap to them. Telling off those criticizing her for holding Trump accountable for all the treason and such, McKinnon compared it to a lifeguard getting blamed for alerting bathers that a “rich kid took a dook in the deep end,” and beseeched God to teach Trump that the Golden Rule “isn’t a sex thing.” Continuing on to pray for the Trump Organization, since it’s still run by Eric (“Yikes.”), and wishing a gay, black baby on noted GOP lickspittle-bigot Lindsey Graham (R-SC) just capped off a pretty satisfying bit that mixed character work and on-target satire for a change.
And then there was Beck Bennett’s return as Jules. Oh, Beck, buddy, I like you. I really do. And getting a recurring character is a feather in the old SNL cap, I get that. But there’s a fragile, easily missed line between parody-insufferable and just plain insufferable, and Jules always stumbles right over it. The joke that the rich ne’er-do-well Jules’ (who lives in his dad’s pool house after a last-straw cocaine incident) performative wokeness is just hot air from a dilettante layabout smacks less of trenchant satire than serviceable character work in service of a lame concept, and, again, I feel my will to tolerate Jules equally nil on either level.
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“What do you call that act?” “‘The Californians!’”—Recurring sketch report
Jules. Pelosi. Chad. Trump. I don’t know why Reese De’What didn’t introduce What Do You Figure Is Goin’ On In That House?, but I’m not here to complain about SNL choosing not to return to any particular well. Putting almost any repeater in the ten-to-one spot seems like a cop-out, though. See below. Then there’s . . .
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“It was my understanding there would be no math”—Political comedy report
Kenan’s Darius Trump remains a one-joke premise that’s outgrown its aging Empire inspiration, but also remains one pretty potent, quick-hit joke. That the star of Them Trumps finds his similarly slimy dealings tolerated only until the public realizes a black president can’t get away with that sort of shit in America never changes, but it doesn’t really need to, since Kenan’s on the case. Making philandering, double-dealing, self-serving treasonous influence peddling, and the like the provenance of only white would-be billionaire creeps stays fresh, the sameness of the gag always refreshed by the bluntness of the punchline.
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After that, if you’re going to toss Alec Baldwin’s gassy Trump back out there for the cold open, might as well call in some favors, I suppose. While the opening crawl went on too long in Phantom Menace-style over-exposition mode in setting up a sketch about world leaders being caught on-camera mocking the hell out of an American president for being a bloviating dimwit, the sketch itself did bring out Paul Rudd (as Emmanuel Macron), Jimmy Fallon (as Trudeau), and James Corden (as Boris Johnson), which at least brought some recognition applause to the enterprise. The joke of the NATO cafeteria being home to high school-style cool table vs. dorks drama might be a crafty satire of the debasement of international political discourse under the influence of noted abusive toilet-tweeter Donald Trump. Or it might just be an easy joke that questionably casts Trump as the picked-upon underdog, bedeviled by the bullying world leader jocks whose captured laughter at Trump’s incoherent, dangerous nonsense is portrayed as just them being big ol’ meanies.
Either way, there were at least a few laughs, especially from the effortlessly watchable Rudd. Corden was actually fairly restrained (for him), as Johnson, his grudging acceptance at the cool table only coming about because he’s not quite as ridiculous as his American counterpart in racist buffonery. Throw in Kate McKinnon’s dorky (but invited to sit out of spite) Angela Merkel, still pining over Obama and debating whether or not to bring her flugelhorn, and at least it left Baldwin’s Trump the sketch’s fifth banana. (Even Alex Moffat’s sensible but excluded Latvian leader got more laughs than Baldwin.) The capper that the whole melodrama was part of First Lady Melania’s tone-deaf “Be Best” anti-bullying campaign at least tried to make some sense of the satirical muddle, but, if SNL’s plan for this both-sides regretted Baldwin experiment is to load up on the guests, then at least that’ll be worth a chuckle or two.
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DaBaby is just fun as hell. Here’s to bringing the showmanship, what with the mime-ninjas, and the back-flipping dance crew, and someone I can’t but call, with deepest admiration,Handstand Twerk Lady. The Charlotte rapper’s two numbers were choreographed to the nines, and DaBaby triumphed over some mid-song mic troubles to remain a gleefully energetic ringmaster to all the movement around him. Can you have too much Handstand Twerk Lady? It seems not.
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Nobody was conspicuously absent tonight, which is refreshing. Heidi Gardner should be in more stuff, and it remains puzzling why impression-happy SNL keeping its two most proficient celebrity impersonators on the bench in Melissa Villaseñor and Chloe Fineman, but at least all three got some welcome screen time. Chris Redd and Ego Nwodim, too, should be on more. (I’m blaming guest star-itis.)
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Kate had Merkel, Pelosi, and her over-the-top 50's movie star, along with that Wisconsin accent, so she tallies up enough points to take the top spot again.
Sure, SNL could be more adventurous overall, conceptually, but at least give us our traditional last sketch to marvel at the one sketch a week where someone’s weird ideas can get some just-under-the-wire airtime. Putting a middling recurring sketch at the end of a show is a guaranteed disappointment. Even something as reliably funny and occasionally inspired as “Whiskers R We” doesn’t truly belong on this hallowed, much-maligned ground. Oh well. The spin class sketch—apart from allowing Ego Nwodim t0 show what a relaxed and confident performer she can be when given a chance—was amusing enough once more, the parade of gung-ho would-be trainers letting slip one or two decently oddball details about themselves in their sweaty exhortations. Bowen Yang’s instructor takes inspiration from all the wrong celebrity murderers, Cecily Strong’s reveal that her vasectomy-having boyfriend only uses condoms “to be funny” raises questions, and Bennett’s Beef asks, “Have you ever been cheated on? It sucks—just ask my girlfriend.” I like that there’s, once more, a little frame around the bit in the form of Mikey Day’s completely unwanted pursuit of Nwodim’s fellow student (and future step-sister), but this just isn’t weird enough for weirdsville.
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Stray observations
- Both the opening sketch and Che mentioned how Donald Trump’s recent attacks on climate change science involved complaining about how hard it is to flush away your crap in water-saving toilets. You know, because we are living in a world created when the worst comedy writer in history made a wish.
- Che joking that Spotify most-popular artist Post Malone eclipsed last year’s champ Pre Malone is a rehash of an old Norm MacDonald Update line, but I laughed anyway.
- McKinnon and Aidy’s jealous sisters reject Lopez’s suggestion that they make her ugly by stuffing a sausage into her mouth. “That seems like something.”
- Darius Trump’s “Make America Swag Again” acronym is a sly little joke on its own.
- Jost, on that Peloton ad, suggests a motto: “You’d better keep it tighter than the babysitter.”
- Che suggests that the XFL is skipping the inevitable middle man and sending its new jerseys right to Haiti.
- McKinnon’s Pelosi prays for God to put Trump under that Liar Liar curse, explaining, “C’mon, Lord, even you know that’d be funny.”
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President Donald Trump treated as the nerd among the NATO cool kids in 'Saturday Night Live' cold open - CNN
Trump, played by Alec Baldwin, was the nerd in SNL's NATO high school cafeteria, playing on the actual drama taking place at the NATO summit this year.
Jimmy Fallon, Paul Rudd and James Corden all made cameos as the "cool kids" Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Baldwin's Trump desperately wants a seat at the table where there's an obvious open seat, but the cool kids don't want him at the table.
"I'm Boris' friend, right Boris?" Baldwin's Trump says.
"Don't make this harder than it is," Corden's Boris responds trying to play it cool in front of Fallon's Trudeau and Rudd's Macron.
They compliment Trump as he stands in front of him, but talk behind his back as he walks away.
"He's like dumber than Boris," Fallon's Trudeau says.
Baldwin's Trump then realizes he's sitting at the losers table.
"Oh my God I'm at the loser table. I can't believe they made me sit with the foreign kid," Trump says.
He returns to the table asking, yet again, about the open seat, but the cool kids say it's taken by German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Kate McKinnon).
"Am I actually about to sit at the cool kids table?" McKinnon's Merkel says in disbelief.
Corden's Boris then puts a sign on the back of Baldwin's Trump that reads: "Impeach Me!!!"
The frame then freezes as First Lady Melania Trump (Cecily Strong) steps in to give a PSA about bullying.
"Bullying is a serious problem, especially against President Trump," she says. "It's not nice, he would never do it to you. So please, European leaders Be Best."
Saturday's show was hosted by Jennifer Lopez.
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