The Friday Link for 6/10/16

For this week's Friday Link, I wanted to revisit the last season of Saturday Night Live.

Overall, I thought it was a good season, but not great.  The cast is sensational, but the biggest letdown this year were the guest hosts.  There were a few laughs, but most hosts were lacking.  Also, the news is just not that funny anymore.  Granted, you did run through a decade of the best news hosts they've ever had, from Seth Meyers, to Amy Poehler, to Tina Fey, to Jimmy Fallon, but I can't remember the last time I really laughed hard at the current weekend update segment.

Here's my list of this year's five best moments:

#1 - Meet Your Second Wife!

The aforementioned Fey and Poehler show why they were two of the funniest women ever on the show, in a skit which hit a little too close to the truth about men and their second marriages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJEAGd1bQuc

#2 - Bern Your Enthusiasm

Larry David was by far the best recurring element of this year's season.  His Bernie Sanders impression is top five SNL political impressions of all time.  He took his impression into a version of his HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm, having Bernie end up losing in the end because of a few self induced missteps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn4tP7ogWIA

#3 - Farewell Mr. Bunting

Fred Armisen returned to the show to host and ended up giving us this gem of a "Dead Poets Society" parody.  Wait for it... (probably not for the kiddos)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie6LpKOJVf0

#4 - Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base

What a great concept.  Taking the show where CEO's try to look like they're sympathetic, and care about their employees, but are only stroking their own egos, and applying it to the biggest, whiniest, most short tempered Sith Lord of them all, Kylo Ren.  Adam Driver is a riot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaOSCASqLsE

#5 - Close Encounter

Kate McKinnon is the best of the show's current cast, and I think her role in Ghostbusters will launch her into superstardom.  In this skit, about three abductees talking to NSA agents about their abduction, McKinnon was testing to see how much she could get everyone else on stage to laugh.  Ryan Gosling lost it worst of all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfPdYYsEfAE

Have a great weekend everyone!