Mike Pence meets with Rudy Giuliani, William Barr, and Mike Pompeo (Matthew Broderick) to strategize their options for the impeachment investigation.
• For the second episode in a row, we get McKinnon and Bryant in drag. Bryant in particular doesn’t even attempt to sound like a man. Please stop doing this.
• More lame “Giuliani is creepy” jokes. Remember when this show used to respect him?
• HUGE groan from the “joke” about Pence going to see a Judy Garland film with his wife.
• Then, Matthew Broderick shows up as Mike Pompeo, because WHY THE FUCK NOT?!!? There’s nobody in the cast who needs more screen time! I didn’t even realize it was him when I first saw the episode until they mentioned it in the goodnights.
• It seems that the only reason they cast Broderick in the role was so they could do a lame “Bueller? Bueller?” reference. Not even the Pompeo dummy was enough to make me laugh.
• No comment on the ending where Pence starts talking to a snake. What the hell is that all about?
0/5
Side Note: Pete Davidson is still absent from this episode while he’s away filming The Suicide Squad.
Monologue
Waller-Bridge reveals the secrets behind her hit shows Fleabag and Killing Eve.
• I’m not familiar with either Fleabag or Killing Eve. I mostly know the host for playing that awful SJW droid in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
• She makes a lot of anti-men jokes in this. Now I know why they cast her as that SJW droid!
• And she closes with some jokes about her genitals. Ummm, yay?
1/5
Sketch: What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Contestants have to figure out what’s out of place in each picture.
• This sketch from the Season 44 finale becomes recurring.
• The previous installment was perfectly fine, but I knew it would get old if they brought it back. Sure enough, the answers in this installment weren’t as funny.
• The only things I laughed at were Aidy’s character introducing herself simply by saying her name, and the Ellen DeGeneres joke.
• I should also point out that there seems to be a problem with the buzzer sound effects; the “incorrect” buzzer keeps stuttering. This was surprisingly not fixed for the rerun version.
2.5/5
Fake Commercial: Love Island
Meet the stars of the newest British reality show sensation, Love Island.
• The only joke in this one is, “lol British people talk funny”.
0/5
Sketch: 7 WANU Mid-Day
News anchors report on the latest stories while trying not to react to the race of each subject.
• Another one-joke sketch. This time, the only joke is that the black reporters get excited when the stories are about white people getting in trouble. I was not surprised at all to discover that Michael Che was one of the writers of this sketch.
0/5
Sketch: The War in Words
Letters between a housewife (Waller-Bridge) and her husband serving overseas (Mikey Day) take an unexpected turn.
• This sketch from last season’s Claire Foy episode becomes recurring.
• The joke with Phoebe’s letters being extremely short compared to her husband’s got old very fast, just like in the last installment.
• I did get a laugh out of the brief scene of her inserted into a vintage Hitler newsreel.
2/5
Musical Performance: “Lover”
Weekend Update (featuring Elizabeth Warren, Chen Biao, and Mort Fellner)
• Let’s see...Trump jokes, emoji jokes, comparing Giuliani to a vampire jokes. That’s right, it’s all of the things I really hate wrapped into one!
• They compare Trump to Lenny from Of Mice and Men, who, in case you didn’t know, is a character with a developmental disability. Ah, yes, jokes suggesting that Trump has a disability never get old!
• An actually funny joke from Colin about Bernie Sanders’ heart attack.
• McKinnon’s Liz Warren impression is the first commentary for this episode. Except for the creepy doll of herself that she briefly showed, nothing she did made me laugh.
• Another good joke from Colin about Pete Davidson’s absence.
• Bowen Yang gets his first showcase as a cast member, playing that Chen Biao character that I brought up in one of my earlier reviews. This perfectly sets the tone for the rest of his season: playing characters that are gay and Asian.
• This was my first exposure to Mikey Day’s “supercentenarian” character, Mort Fellner. He reads about centenarians in the news, with the twist being that they all died. Too bad this joke is funny for about 15 seconds before it gets old (heh, see what I did there?).
1.5/5
Sketch: Royal Romance
Looking back at the lesser-known interracial romance between the Duchess of Clerkenwell (Waller-Bridge), and Jimmy Jay Robinson (Kenan Thompson).
• This sketch was extremely long and boring, like most of the short films from this season. The sad thing is, it had an extremely clever concept that probably would have worked if it had been someone other than Kenan in the sketch. They should have saved this one for Eddie Murphy’s episode. Can you imagine what he would have done with this sketch?
• Absolutely dreadful Prince Charles impression from Beck Bennett. He looks nothing like him!
• As much as I hate to say it, Kenan’s fast-talking black guy routine is getting extremely stale by now. He should really start thinking about leaving.
0/5
Musical Performance: “False God”
Sketch: State Line Bar
Four biker girls at a bar get rowdy while talking about their mutual ex-boyfriend.
• Nothing to say about this one, except that it was extremely boring and didn’t make me laugh once. This really could have benefitted from Jenny Slate swearing.
1/5
Final Thoughts: Another lackluster episode. While Phoebe Waller-Bridge was an okay host, they gave her nothing to show for it.
Best sketches: Colin’s Bernie Sanders and Pete Davidson jokes (you know it’s bad when Colin Jost provides my only big laughs of an episode)
Worst sketches: They were all pretty bad, but Impeachment Strategy, Love Island, 7 WANU Mid-Day, and Royal Romance were especially bad.
Next episode: David Harbour/Camila Cabello
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