12/3/16 SNL Cold Open Saturday Night Live

[BeyondGeography]

[MBS]

1. First time I've laughed in days. n/t

[hlthe2b]

2. I love Alec, but am apprehensive re: seeing anything to do with Trump

Is it funny? cathartic?

[Bucky]

11. it is neither funny nor cathartic...

it is a rare art form called "journalism" which we no longer practice in America

[lostnfound]

15. The part where the one briefer shrieked at being startled...

By the "I just hadn't heard that put in weeeks before"..that made me laugh out loud.
Kind of cathartic, for a moment.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. Kellyanne was perfect. Soulless...

[Dustlawyer]

4. Nailed it!

[LisaM]

5. It was funny. But why are they suddenly being called "Cold Open"?

Never heard that term until a few weeks ago. Just curious about it.

[deaniac21]

6. It's been called that since the beginning.

[Bucky]

10. It's a term in TV lingo meaning you start the action before running the opening credits

It's named after the legendary TV director, Myron Cold, who pioneered the attention getting technique in the late 50s

[LisaM]

12. Ah. I had just never seen the term...

and it was suddenly everywhere.

[mdbl]

7. Steve Bannon looks better than usual

[Gothmog]

8. I love Alec Baldwin's Trump

[Bucky]

9. "I haven't heard that put in weeks before"

[heaven05]

13. I laughed but....................

bannon, so true..............kellyanne and her dead soul comment...............damn we are in trouble. RESIST the coming fascism, racism, ugliness.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Makes me wonder if the Bannon character

is setting us up for "A Christmas Carol" treatment in later episodes with the "Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come" (they have done the theme before).

[kebob]

16. Alec's Trump is Incredible

Though I was hoping we'd only be seeing it once after Election Day.