It’s actually from her album “Red” which she originally recorded when she was 22. She just re-recorded it to get the rights back from her first record company.
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I didn’t think the cold open was very funny but not becasue of Aidy Bryant, it was just silly and lazy, and to make it current with the times, a kind of a fill in the blanks of the sketch comedy routine template number 37B. It was a good roasting of a right of center politician so I understand why some people will think it’s great comedy in spite of its creative lameness. I don’t think the show has been very good for about 10 years. SNL has always had creative ebbs and flows. I’ve probably seen every episode they’ve ever made and I’ll keep watching it, waiting for it to turn back to being real funny from only occasionally funny. I don’t think it is a problem the performers as much as the writers. I think the cast does great with what they have to work with. That being said I realize 65 year old white males are not the audience they are attempting to appeal to. Aidy Bryant’s Ted Cruz is damn funny.
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I think in today’s media atmosphere, and even from a comedy perspective, SNL is largely obsolete. That is as much an indictment of its format as it is its writers.
It’s probably a lot better in states where marijuana is legal.
Haha. Double-whammy.
Yellowstone is a pretty good fucking TV show.
It’s Thanksgiving Eve, so the start of Advent, church calendar be damned. We watched the Ted Lasso Christmas episode that in September was out of space, out of time. It was fucking brilliant. Merry Christmas.
The Beatles Get Back documentary by Peter Jackson on Disney+ is awesome.
I watched Part 1 yesterday and found it very interesting. And although I had always heard this, it’s one thing to hear it and another to see it: there is no written music anywhere, and Paul or John will just say, “no, go to E” or something of that sort, and everybody just changes. There are people writing down lyrics and revising them, but the music itself? They just internalize it. Remarkable.
The first night depressed me. Things got so much better after they moved into Apple.
“The meeting did not go well.”
What a great teaser for the next part.
Paul McCartney commented on their early days writing songs without tape recorders. He said “if it was any good you’ll remember it”.
I’m a massive (MASSIVE) Beatles fan but I couldn’t get into part 1 so I haven’t watched it all yet. Maybe I’m just not in a Beatles mood at the moment or maybe it’s from having listed to a lot of the tapes from these sessions and my brain is just Let It Be fatigued. I need to find a day when I’m not doing anything and Mrs Dithers is otherwise occupied and watch the whole thing.
As I said, Part 1 depressed me and I waited before I could start part 2. It was a completely different show. By the time we got to the rooftop concert, I was elated.
I saw Let It Be years ago, maybe college, and apparently it hasn’t been available for a long time. I remember it reasonably well though. This is a completely different last concert, and great fun. I’d encourage you not to drop it because of your first night reaction.
They pretty much nail the audition.
I loved the first episode because it gave insight to so much about how the guys interacted with each other and it also showed their song writing process at the time. I found it fascinatingly uncomfortable but completely enlightening.
Quick Ted Lasso related content that made me laugh:
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you think it’s any accident that Coach Beard is on the UT campus?
You’re gonna have to be more specific.
He works there now.
The other one.