So, unfortunately Amy Schumer came in with high expectations and hosted a pretty bad episode tonight, even if she herself went balls out on the mediocre (at best) sketches. I don't know if she had anything to do with the writing of the skits this week, but the live stuff especially was pretty lame.
COLD OPEN: Fox & Friends is back to have the three idiots harp on about the Speaker of the House chaos and the faked Planned Parenthood videos, but nothing in this is funny, really. It's all just a meh opener.
MONOLOGUE: Amy comes out and like most of the comedians, does a stand-up bit with her usual raunchy sex jokes, but while I chuckled a couple time, this wasn't a total riot. I've heard much better opening bits from the stand-ups.
PLANE: Amy and Vanessa (who we saw a lot of tonight, probably due to her being in Trainwreck with Amy) are flight attendants on a Delta plane who keep getting sucked out of the plane while trying to sing their Spice Girls song to the passengers. I feel like this should be funny somehow, but it just isn't. Not enough of a joke, except falling out of the plane over and over again.
HOT FOR TEACHER: This one I didn't get at all- it's shot with grainy video, so I think it's supposed to resemble like a 70's porn movie or something, with Amy as a slutty teacher trying to have sex with Kyle's teenage student, but they keep getting interrupted by Aidy as a genuine student in the class who needs help. Again, maybe should be funnier, but its execution doesn't succeed in that way. Amy's going for it though (as she should with her vast sketch show experience and all).
GUNS: Now this one I liked. It's an ad for giving and having a gun for every meaningful moment in life, and it's exactly the kind of thing to help kickstart a gun control movement so desperately needed right now. A ridiculous satirical bit that seems all too true.
UPDATE: A bunch of jokes about the House GOP chaos again, and gun control (SNL hit that topic hard today, which is good at least). Jay comes on as new travel correspondent character Solomon, and he may have some potential with it, but as of now it looks like it needs some fine-tuning. Then Kate comes out as the delightfully angry neighbor lady, and she's amusing as always, but boy does it feel like Update goes on FOREVER tonight. I think Colin and Michael are desperate to show they can riff off each other, but dude, it's never gonna work out.
LINCOLN RE-ENACTMENT: This may be the only live sketch of the night that I kind of liked, where Amy is a re-enacter with Taran of Lincoln's assassination for D.C. tourists (that's not a real thing, is it?), and she keeps interrupting the moment with inappropriate Mary Todd Lincoln ad libs. She really gets into it here and she kinda made me laugh, I'll admit, just for her energy.
HANDS FREE SELFIE STICK: Another good pre-taped bit for a selfie stick inserted in your butt- this one's funny, and also short and sweet.
CITIZEN'S FORUM: A city council meeting that has to put up with wacky local complaints, but Amy stands out again as the only funny one- a creepy conservative Honey Boo Boo-esque 6 year old. Nothing else worked here.
BABY SHOWER: Once again, Amy steals the show in a mediocre bit about a baby shower guest, Cecily, who brings her uninvited and boarish bartender best friend (Amy) to the party and she causes a scene by freaking out at everyone. But she's the only mildly funny bit about this.
So that was it guys- a bland show with a couple of good gun control zingers, a gutsy performance from Amy Schumer, but bad writing and subpar material, with which one can only do so much. I give tonight a C-. Fairly disappointing considering the hype, but I do wonder how much Amy participated in the writing of this one. Next week it's Tracy Morgan, making his return to the SNL stage, which should be interesting and emotional, if nothing else. See you all then!
