Ariana DeBose/Bleachers

The style of humor on SNL has evolved with the times, but I have trouble finding much to laugh at with new episodes.

They finally cast a great and funny Joe Biden with James Johnson, who really nails his mannerisms. Unlike the over-the-top physical comedy with Jim Carrey, Johnson does an amazing Biden. Unfortunately, the cold open in this episode revolves around a Spiderman joke that is beat like a dead horse. Over and over. After the first couple of minutes, the punchline is gone and I cringed watching anymore. I actually had to turn it off and fast forward. It was that bad. It's a shame when you have an actor with SO MUCH talent and it's wasted with 7 minutes of the same joke over and over again.

Weekend Update had a few good jokes. Jost and Che have awesome chemistry together.

Beyond that, nothing was very memorable with this episode. I keep tuning into SNL, hoping for something new and fresh, but the new humor style is very off-putting. They also seem to struggle to get bigger names to guest. It's nice to give an up and comer some air time, but still.

This season has been terrible so let's get someone to host whom most people don't know or don't care about. Maybe it's just time to hang it up or at least get a decent host and musical group.

This season has been hit or miss. This episode was an absolute miss. Ariana DuBose is an amazing Broadway actress, but that did not translate into hosting or acting on the show. The skits were boring and mediocre.

I'm giving this episode 3 stars and that's for Bleachers. They weren't even supposed to perform, but it was great seeing real musicians playing real instruments. Nice job!

To the episode itself, there was just nothing funny about it. I've wondered as of late, "Is it really the acting / cast, or is it just bad writing?"

I think it's just bad writing. The host is a talented actress, they just gave her nothing compelling or funny to say.

The opening monologue portended the whole night: Kate McKinnon wanders onto the stage to ham it up with her weird Ellen contortions and bad Broadway singing, to completely take over the bit from the star. Unnecessary and not funny, like the whole night.

My friend got picked and took me to the dress rehearsal this week, we watched like 2+hrs of sketches, pre-tapes and musical performances, some of them got cut and I could see why (audience not too impressed). Among all the things that got cut I liked Pete Davidson's commentary on WU the best, actually I think it was better than some of the contents that actually got aired.

In that bit, Pete was himself (which he has done several times before and I love them all), making commentaries on why many people are quitting their jobs looking for new ways of making money like doing NFTs etc and he specially mentioned a woman selling "fart box", a small transparent box containing her fart. He also commented on the weird time we are living in rn: every time when you see some hope, things just get worse and provided several examples: 1.we thought pandemic would be over last year but it became worse after the new variant comes 2.we freed Britney but we also freed Bill Cosby 3.we sent a billionaire to the space, but dude returned to the earth afterwards 4.(there might be some other examples, but I cannot remember) then Collin Jost tried to lead this topic to weird celebrity gossips, which we all know is trying to make him talk about his own gossip, and Pete said yeah, for example Bennifer is coming back, but Taliban is also coming back.

Near the end, he mentioned the "fart box" lady again, praising her dedication because she worked so hard that she has to go to the hospital.