It’s just a dumb comedy show and doesn’t really matter that much, but in terms of how to be a cis white male comedian hosting @nbcsnl, trying to find a voice in this very strange, specific, difficult moment in time, @mulaney remains a master class.
It’s worth noting that @mulaney made one of the most perfect and defining moments of comedy in the Trump era with his “horse in the hospital” bit. A masterpiece, and he doesn’t even mention Trump’s name.
SNL is really leaning hard into NYC love tonight, and it makes me miss the city (at least as I knew it, back in the heyday of The Strokes, conveniently). Many Americans don’t understand the self-fetishization of NYC, but if you’ve lived there, you get it. There’s nowhere like it.
I love NYC because every single corny song and tagline and t-shirt slogan about it is actually legit. Every dumb NYC romcom that romanticizes the city as if the city itself is a character in the story is right. It’s a rare city that is also its own iconic pop culture character.
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