SNL's 'at-home' episode demonstrated that there are limits to doing sketch comedy when the sketches cannot be done in person. chaneyj writes
A Zoom meeting, SNL-sketch style. Photo: Saturday Night Live/YouTube Over the weekend, Saturday Night Live delivered a new episode that was not live, not recorded in Studio 8H, and, owing to social distancing, featured sketches in which none of the cast members occupied the same physical space.
I’m pretty sure Chloe Fineman constructed her entire “Masterclass” parody, in which she impersonated Timothée Chalamet, Jojo Siwa, and Carole Baskin, around the wigs she was able to yank most quickly out of her bedroom closet. But so what? Her portrayals were spot-on, and it gave her an opportunity to fully shine on her own, something a typical episode of SNL doesn’t always afford her.
The best part of “Weekend Update” was the one-sided joke swap at the end, when Che, who lost his grandmother last week to COVID-19, asked Jost to read a joke he had not seen in advance because that was his grandmother’s favorite recurring bit on “Weekend Update.” Jost complied, reading a joke emailed to him by Pete Davidson that, in keeping with tradition, made him look racist.
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