The season premiere of Saturday Night Live proceeded essentially as expected: the requisite high points and low points, Megan Fox being completely fine, U2 being ridiculous, an outrageous swear word that none of us have ever heard before and were appalled by, and mercifully, no more 14-minute political cold opens where the point of the sketch changes every three lines.
The biggest highlight of the episode, for me, was this commercial for Live Lounge, which summed up everything about the world of social chatline commercials in under two minutes. From the opening humorously-accurate line (which strangely doesn’t get a laugh) through Bobby Moynihan’s facial expression, this sketch on its own was enough for me to thumbs-up the first episode:
SNL season premiere thoughts? Favorite / least favorite moments? Lost theories? Leave ‘em in the comments.
