Kristen Stewart on ‘SNL’: 3 Sketches You Have to See – Yahoo Entertainment

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Saturday Night Live now complete, we have enough of a sample size to declare that the show is having an excellent year. With five episodes in the books, there hasn’t been a remote dud in the bunch, and all pre-season missteps are far in the rear-view mirror at this point.” data-reactid=”28″ type=”text”>With roughly a quarter of this season of Saturday Night Live now complete, we have enough of a sample size to declare that the show is having an excellent year. With five episodes in the books, there hasn’t been a remote dud in the bunch, and all pre-season missteps are far in the rear-view mirror at this point.

Kristen Stewart isn’t any more comfortable at being alone on stage on live television, but she’s still excellent at being part of the SNL ensemble. Whether working in a World War II weapons factory, using a language app to converse to children, or creating adult entertainment out of constellations, Stewart was up for anything this week and always seemed like a cast member rather than a host. (That’s a compliment.)” data-reactid=”29″ type=”text”>In her second time hosting, Kristen Stewart isn’t any more comfortable at being alone on stage on live television, but she’s still excellent at being part of the SNL ensemble. Whether working in a World War II weapons factory, using a language app to converse to children, or creating adult entertainment out of constellations, Stewart was up for anything this week and always seemed like a cast member rather than a host. (That’s a compliment.)

With a short break before Harry Styles pulls double duty on November 16th, let’s see what sketches people will be talking about over the next two weeks.

SNL writers can concoct a fully fleshed-out world within one of its segments, and this largely three-person sketch paints a vivid, complicated picture that needs no more than it depicts to sell its reality.” data-reactid=”37″ type=”text”>If this sketch were a streaming show, it would have 10 episodes, each with a length of over 56 minutes per ep, and STILL not have covered as many emotional twists and turns of this four-minute sketch. There’s something thrilling every time the SNL writers can concoct a fully fleshed-out world within one of its segments, and this largely three-person sketch paints a vivid, complicated picture that needs no more than it depicts to sell its reality.

Also, Aidy Bryant over-pronounces a lot of words that end in “-or,” which is never not hilarious.

Going through the sketch beat-by-beat would devolve into a series of quotes, with its rapid-fire, screwball-comedy pace yielding wave after wave of revelation and escalating insanity. Instead, I’d say that this sketch is a perfect encapsulation of trying to maintain control in an otherwise insane universe. Having the perfect paint color (sorry, “colour”) in your living room seems like a smart way to create an oasis. Yet here it turns into a prison. It’s not just a financial prison (it seems like Aidy Bryant’s character spent her inheritance on it) but a physical one as well (simply touching the wall necessitates a full re-do of the room).

Elizabeth Warren Town Hall Cold Open” data-reactid=”41″ type=”text”>Elizabeth Warren Town Hall Cold Open

Each question from this town hall asks a fundamentally incorrect question, which Warren calmly but surgically dismantles. People ask about her plan to pay for Medicare For All, but she notes that similar questions were never asked to Bernie Sanders. Attendees are afraid to lose their insurance, but no one seems particularly happy with what they currently have. McKinnon’s tempered anger always seems like a powder keg ready to explode, and that’s what gives her performance an edge that her Clinton impersonation never did.

At the same time, the sketch has no optimism about the implementation of Warren’s ideas. In-sketch Warren admits that funding sources are political landmines, and basically make her plans DOA. Even when she “shows the math” to counter audience skeptimism, attendees still seem more enamored of “cool” candidates rather than the one with concrete plans.

This pessimism is earned, but it shows how differently the show is treating this Presidential election than the last. Voters may not learn a similar lesson, but the show certainly has.