Jeff’s Wacky SNL Review: Nate Bargatze/Coldplay

October 6, 2024

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Brrrrrr (CREDIT: NBC/Screenshot)

Jeff “jmunney” Malone watches every new episode of Saturday Night Live and then reviews all the sketches and segments according to a “wacky” theme.

Here we go again. The second episode of the 50th season of Saturday Night Live was indeed the 2nd episode of the fiftieth season. The guest lineup consisted of a couple of returning favorites. Coldplay, those lovable lads from London, provided the tunes for the 8th time, while Nate Bargatze was the host for the 2nd time. In fact, the 2nd time in 2 seasons!

Since this is the second episode, and it’s also Nate’s second time hosting, I’ll review each sketch by starting off with the phrase “Two cheers for.”

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Jeff’s Wacky SNL Review: Pedro Pascal/Coldplay

February 5, 2023

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Brr! This episode was very Chile. (CREDIT: NBC/Screenshot)

I’ve seen Pedro Pascal on my TV more than once. And now I’m seeing him again! That exclamation point is because as of February 4, 2023, he’s an SNL host. And nobody can ever take that away from him!

Coldplay’s the musical guest, but that’s nothing new.

This is the first episode of February, so to celebrate, I’m going to review each sketch according to the format “I ❤️ (something).”

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Jeff’s Wacky SNL Review: Kristen Stewart/Coldplay

November 3, 2019

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Hello world, it’s time for me to post my review of the fifth episode of the forty-fifth season of Saturday Night Live. Kristen Stewart is hosting for the second time ever. I thought she was promoting Seberg, which is looking like it’ll be a pretty small release, even as far as small releases go. But then I remembered that she’s also going to be in the latest edition of Charlie’s Angels, which comes out soon. And Coldplay (the coldest of bands? certainly not the most playful) is the musical guest for, wow, the sixth time. That’ll have you thinking about the passage of time.

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SNL Recap May 3, 2014: Andrew Garfield/Coldplay

May 4, 2014

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If someone was like, “Hey, come live in this house, there’s only nine of us,” I would say, “You got it dude!”

Donald Sterling Press Conference
A typical run-through-the-people-in-a-current-event cold opening, but with a little more relevance and finesse than usual.  Still, this was mostly filled with obvious gags.  Confusing Roots the miniseries with the Roots that have Questlove did get me to laugh, though. B-

Andrew Garfield’s Monologue
At least this wasn’t a tired monologue format, but on the other hand, I had no idea what it was.  Apparently the joke was, the audience is overly antagonistic to Andrew Garfield.  What up with that?  Aidy got a lot of applause.  She deserves it; she’s been having a great season. B-

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SNL Recap November 12, 2011: Emma Stone/Coldplay

November 13, 2011

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Cold Opening – GOP Debate
If there was any one moment SNL could get plenty of mileage out of in a GOP debate sketch, it was Rick Perry’s brain fart.  It initially felt odd, though, that this gag was dragged out as long as it was, but, paradoxically, it also felt like it could have gone on indefinitely, so this sketch simultaneously felt too long and too short. B-

Emma Stone’s Monologue
Emma Stone was the love interest to Jesse Eisenberg in Zombieland,  Emma will be the love interest to Andrew Garfield in The Amazing Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield and Jesse Eisenberg played friends in The Social Network in which Jesse Eisenberg played Mark Zuckerberg, who has been portrayed by Andy Samberg on SNL.
Andy’s conflating Andrew Garfield with Garfield was amusing, and expected. B

Secret Word
I can’t say I shared Lyle Round’s attraction: Emma played just about the scariest Miss America I have ever seen.  And that served the “ventriloquism” moment quite well. B

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