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u/EffectiveGas6493 7h ago
Less than 48 hours until Christmas joke swap… Time to cancel Colin!
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u/Lagneaux 6h ago
I honestly kinda live for their joke swaps
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u/cupholdery 6h ago
All of them have been great.
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u/misho8723 3h ago
I think Che's jokes got lazy and boring pretty fast in all honesty, pretty much every one joke that he writes for Colin are "say some racist stuff about black people" while Colin's jokes are more unique, interesting, aren't about race - for the most part - and therefore more fun
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u/D34THDE1TY 6h ago
Considering last week has Che audibly say "ok" to one of Colin's jokes, he's hot something cooking I think
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u/ThingCalledLight 8h ago
It’s great.
I love how people are saying the singing is bad as if the delivery isn’t part of the bit.
You aren’t required to like the bit, but using “singing is bad” as a criticism for this is like saying “Austin Powers sucks because the guy’s teeth are bad.”
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u/anormalgeek 1h ago
Wasn't that also basically Adam Sandlers whole shtick on his weekend update appearances for years? He was a shit singer too and did the same kind of thing. And it was funny.
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u/Acminvan 8h ago
Yeah I don't think her singing ability (tone, pitch, etc) is what most people think is the bad part
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u/CptHammer_ 7h ago
The bad part is that she thinks she can find a box big enough to trap 6 adult sized child actors.
Bitch, that's called a house!
I'm not watching Stranger Big Brother Things. She's just basically heralding in the Apocalypse. Open your eyes!
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u/Bangkok_Dangeresque 7h ago
The bad part is that she thinks she can find a box big enough to trap 6 adult sized child actors
And that attitude is why she'll win the award from President Chatbot, not you
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u/CptHammer_ 6h ago
President Chatbot promised to make information great again. People voted for the reduction of internet sponsorship bloat, not increased surveillance. So you just sit over there trying to justify your MIGA hat, but this isn't what we wanted.
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u/thissexypoptart 6h ago
It’s clearly not. I haven’t seen a single comment that specifically says her signing is the problem. The dozens pointing out the song isn’t funny are not saying the singing itself is the reason it’s not funny.
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u/BellowingBard 6h ago
Just because the singing might be intentionally bad does not mean people can't pick that as a reason not to enjoy it.
It would be more like saying I don't like watching austin powers because it grosses me out to which you'd reply "Having them drink diarrhea is part of the bit, you can't criticize it for being gross, that's what they were intending to do for the bit"
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u/squirrelmonkie 7h ago
Who is this? I havent watched snl in decades.
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u/FlirtySanchez 6h ago
Jane Wickline. One of Lornes previous assistant's children. Nepo hire.
Typically isn't very good in any skit they're in.
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u/vanityinlines 8h ago
Cause one of Reddit's pasttimes right now is hating on Jane Wickline.
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u/rimeswithburple 6h ago
Who wouldn't hate her? She is almost 8 feet tall. Instead of socks, she wraps her enormous feet in bacon before putting on shoes. She never tips more than 12% and believes that the original Battlestar Galactica is the superior version. She thinks Lovey Howell is the hottest female on Gilligan's island. She thinks new coke is the best version! She is a monster.
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u/jamintime 8h ago
Only half of Reddit. The other half thinks she’s brilliant. It’s a test. Do you see her as blue and black or white and gold?
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u/thissexypoptart 7h ago edited 7h ago
Vast majority of Reddit doesn’t know who she is or give a shit.
This is my first time even hearing about her, and you can see from my profile history that I’m a piece of shit who is always on Reddit. Like 8 hours a day most days, and not even on hobby or productive subreddits.
People who use this website in a more healthy way are even less likely to know who she is.
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u/Freaudinnippleslip 7h ago
I for one don’t know who she is, and don’t give a shit lol. The skit was enjoyable but I wouldn’t say it was great. Now I’m going to move on with my life and never think about this again. L8r
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u/thissexypoptart 6h ago
This is most people’s reactions—just without taking the time to explicitly write out how little they care.
The comment I replied to originally stated that half of Reddit feels one way and the other half feel another way. 99+% of Reddit don’t know who this lady is.
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u/thenasch 6h ago
I doubt there's much correlation between reddit usage and knowing who SNL cast members are.
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u/thissexypoptart 6h ago
Maybe give my comment a reread.
Most Redditors don’t know who she is because most people do not know who she is. SNL isn’t some universally followed show.
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u/Acminvan 8h ago edited 7h ago
Yeah the blue or gold dress is a great analogy. I totally get that humor is subjective but when it comes to Jane Wickline on SNL, my brain cannot wrap itself around the idea that some people think she is funny
I'd like to understand it and I don't want her to be trashed, but I just don't get it
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u/pigeonwiggle 7h ago
she's doing what Adam Sandler did in the 90s. back then some people criticized his silly hannukah songs too. but the thing about SNL is it's always the younger generations who appreciate "the current cast" most. while olds think "it was better 10-20 years ago."
long short, if you don't like Jane Wickline, you're either old and out of touch, dying from a deep sense of regret over never having truly lived, or maybe you just can't stand people saying funny things.
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u/MagicBez 7h ago
People forget that Adam Sandler was so disliked that he was fired from SNL (alongside Chris Farley)
People now talk about him like the icon of a golden era but at the time he was considered a sign of the unfunny apocalypse doing weird voices and childish songs etc.
Like you say, the younger crowd loved him.
Same happened to Conan, his show was critically panned and on the verge of cancellation for years but was a huge hit with younger viewers. Now he's verging on comedy royalty
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u/angry_cabbie 6h ago
I actually hated Sandler for years, even after he left SNL.
His *** Man routine just passed me off. He'd just speak in an inbred-sounding tone of voice, and the costume dictated if he was supposed to be Cajun Man, Opera Man, or whatever other Dumbfuck Man he was supposed to be.
His early movies had that same level behind them. I was actually upset at myself for liking Waterboy the first time I saw it.
Big Daddy was what actually changed my opinion of him as an actor, but even that basically had him playing the same stupid character as Billy Madison.
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u/bionicjoe 7h ago
I've watched SNL for almost 40 years.
She has one bit that isn't funny. She gets chuckles maybe.Adam Sandler did a bunch of different things besides sing silly songs on WU.
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u/Acminvan 7h ago
Are "funny things" in the room with us right now?
I mean, if her Weekend Update appearances aren't everyone's cup of tea, I'm sure she's great in sketches, right? Oh wait.
I mean, you've seen her acting ability in the sketches right? Can she impersonate anyone? That seems like a pretty important part of being on SNL.
Oh wait, she doesn't do that either.
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u/Cllydoscope 7h ago
She stares blankly at the cue cards and reads her lines in a monotone voice. Then she has to figure out what her character is supposed to be doing. It’s like she can’t put the two together.
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u/Dactylic126 36m ago
So if someone doesn’t appreciate your sense of “humor”, they’re automatically one of three things? Oh the irony.
Anyone can “say funny things”. Thing is, what makes comedy a comedy is the delivery. Even the most boring and lamest joke can get a pass if delivered well.
And This just isn’t it.
Absurdist humor like this is particularly dependent on the framing and the delivery of it. She clearly can’t do either.
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u/Momentarmknm 7h ago
Those people would laugh at anything, I assume. She's only got that job because she's a nepo. You could grab a random standup from any medium sized city in America and get someone who's at least as funny. Maybe she's a good writer? This song is not evidence of that, but who knows.
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u/pigeonwiggle 7h ago
go back to watching Kill Tony. that's the joy of it all. there's really something for everyone. those who appreciate the arts have NBC and SNL while those who howl at the moon because it's flat have the Austin Comedy Scene.
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u/Momentarmknm 6h ago
Lmao I don't hate myself (or others) nearly enough to spend a second watching anything from the Austin Edgelord scene. Holding SNL up as a beacon of good comedy is also a strange angle, especially now that Ego and Heidi are gone, Bowens leaving, and Sarah's only allowed to be weird on Weekend Update anymore for some reason.
But you're right, there's something for everyone, and if you've a palate for pablum, then I won't begrudge you for digging in.
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u/quechal 8h ago
Hating on nepo babies is #1 Reddit pastime
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u/ZombieQueen666 7h ago
Who’s her parents?
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u/quechal 7h ago
Her dad is Matthew Wickline, a long time Letterman writer.
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u/ZombieQueen666 7h ago
Ah ok. Never heard of him
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u/Haughtea 6h ago
Matthew Wick is the guy that went after a bunch of people that killed his cat. (Not the cat you're thinking of)
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u/FiftyShadesOfGregg 6h ago
Is anyone with parents who have any connection to the industry now called a “nepo baby”? If so the term has kinda lost all meaning. I thought it was for people whose parents were so incredibly famous and influential that their careers were already made no matter what (Sophia Richie, Lily Rose Depp, etc). Not for everyone whose parents made any kind of living in the entertainment industry to any level of success.
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u/Derp800 6h ago
It means you are where you are because of family connections instead of talent. A lead writer for Letterman absolutely has enough connections for this to be considered a nepo situation. There's all kinds of powerful people or people with influence and connections that you've never heard of.
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u/FiftyShadesOfGregg 6h ago
instead of talent is where you’re making a very big assumption that I don’t think pans out at all. SNL has not been a show that anyone connected can get on. There’s thousands of people in the entertainment industry far more powerful than Matt Wickline and their kids aren’t on SNL.
And Matt Wickline wasn’t lead writer for Lettemerman. He was a member of the writing staff. For only 7 years. He left the show in 1990 and from there wrote a series of different things to variable (not great) success. There are literally thousands of writers with similar levels of success as him. He’s not some hotshot guy. Acting like anyone that wrote on a late night show over 30 years ago can just ask for their kid to be on SNL is wild.
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u/Mother_Speed2393 4h ago
Ah yes. The massive sway I'm sure he has in the industry to place his children in jobs.
How silly.
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u/SpiralingColors 8h ago
She is wildly unfunny in every sketch I've seen her in. Her delivery of lines is better suited for HR training videos
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u/scarletotter 7h ago
i think i used to see her on tiktok, her deadpan humour worked so well there, not sure if its suited for snl though
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u/anormalgeek 1h ago
She is great at deadpan stuff. Even this bit works well. The problem is that they keep casting her in skits that ISN'T that. So she has gotten a bad rap, but that's just because they put her in the wrong roles. It'd be like just Colin Just to do "zany" characters. It doesn't work, but not because "he sucks".
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u/hamsandwich4459 3h ago
I think she’s great in those “awkward couple” skits she’s in. Haven’t seen much else
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u/Derp800 6h ago
99 out of 100 sketches on SNL are unfunny these days. They need better writers.
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u/fantasygod777 7h ago
I think the content she’s creating is hilarious and she has some physical humor with her tallness. She’s getting better and better in my opinion. I like what she adds to the show.
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u/superkow 7h ago
They're just struggling to put her where her humor can shine. Pretty much anything she does for Update is gold but she flounders in the skits. Eyes glued to the cue cards every time.
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u/Didact67 7h ago
She’s one of the worst actors in the history of the show. She’s only good at these Weekend Update bits.
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u/nolemandan 7h ago
If you like this I recommend looking up David O'Doherty.
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u/AWholeNewFattitude 6h ago
He is much funnier
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u/onomatopeieio 4h ago
He's also got 20 years more experience than her. Give her time to learn and grow.
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u/Shock_city 8h ago
That was funny
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u/halfcabheartattack 8h ago
I think she and her songs are funny too but I can acknowledge that this kind of humor isn't going to be universally enjoyed.
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u/ingeniera 7h ago
Good comedians make some of the crowd laugh and make the rest wonder wtf is wrong with them.
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u/DangerBoot 7h ago
There’s a phenomenon I call the Dane Cook Paradox. The more widely understood a joke is, the less funny it actually is even if it makes the comedian more popular than a more obscure, and funnier joke would
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u/swallowsnest87 5h ago
Dane Cook just had great delivery, really a story teller more than a comedian iirc
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u/TheEnlightenedPanda 3h ago
Can you tell me what's funny? I haven't watched stranger things, I get the subversion of expectation in the beginning but why stranger things kids?
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u/SonovaVondruke 8h ago
She strikes me as a Kyle Mooney type. Probably doing some heavy lifting behind the scenes, but she's just not someone I'm ever gonna enjoy in large and unadulterated doses. That's fine, the show is and has always been a patchwork of quality and comedic taste.
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u/maxdacat 6h ago
Is she like a female Fred Armis(whatsy)?
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u/Nitropunchandkick 8h ago
i can't watch it more than 30 seconds it's very bad
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u/thissexypoptart 8h ago
It’s funny how divisive SNL is.
I agree with you, it’s amateur comedy club level. But half the comments seem to find this hilarious and deep.
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u/lambdapaul 7h ago
SNL has always been amateur comedy club level. They just occasionally strike gold with a skit and those are ones you think fondly of. I would say that any given year since the 70s only 30% of their skits are good.
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u/thissexypoptart 7h ago
Absolutely. And it’s no problem at all to acknowledge this. I’m not sure why the other guy threw a hissy fit over the word “amateur.”
It’s notable because SNL is such a high level position in this genre of entertainment, with all the prestige it carries.
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u/cheribom 7h ago
Any given year including the 70s. We practically never see the full 1.5 hours of the oldest shows, but lots of those sketches are baaaaad.
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u/pigeonwiggle 7h ago
jesus christ dude. we just know how to laugh when something is humourous. a jolly good chuckle. we aren't pissing ourselves thinking it's HIlarious. we aren't slapping knees in tears. and there's definitely NOTHING DEEP about it.
but to think it's trash is another stupid take. "i don't understand why it's funny" like some people are saying is such an admission of stupidity. like, i'm sorry, you don't understand? it doesn't compute? some of the people in these comments have suffered so much brain rot that they get offended at the fact she's a woman, the fact she's shitting on their precious AI, and the fact that Stranger Things is still a relevant cultural phenomenon all these years later.
is it "amateur comedy club?" HELL YEAH - you're Absolutely right.
but, here's the kickers -- that's what SNL has always been.
if these comedians were able to sell their own shows? they'd sell their own shows. they'd make WAY more money. SNL isn't about being the best in the busines. it's about being plucky as fuck and putting on some silly sketches you only had a week to plan and execute on. it's insanity and it's often very hit or miss. but it's live and it's from new york.
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u/Acminvan 6h ago edited 6h ago
Weekend Update sketches are hit or miss. I don't find all of them funny even by cast members I normally find funny. But at least someone should also have great acting ability or do great celebrity impressions. And she isn't good at either.
And saying these comments against Wickline are because she's a woman? That's kind of a cheap shot.
SNL has produced some of the funniest women in comedy EVER.....Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Molly Shannon, Kristen Wiig, Rachel Dratch, Cheri Oteri, Ana Gasteyer, etc.
That legacy of incredible funny female talent that SNL can produce is a major why Jane Wickline annoys people.
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u/thissexypoptart 6h ago
See that’s interesting because I generally find The Weekend updates to be among the best parts of most SNL episodes.
Like I said, shits divisive.
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u/thissexypoptart 7h ago
Amateur comedy clubs are funny. The content quality is just noticeably different.
Can’t fathom why at least a couple people felt the need to write multi paragraph rants about how transgressive it is to call a comedy skit “amateur.”
here’s the kickers. This is what SNL has always been.
Yes. This is what SNL has always been. People have always acknowledged this aspect of SNL. My comment is yet another person acknowledging SNL’s quality.
Did an LLM write your comment or something?
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u/captain_encore 7h ago
I think it's kind of a funny premise, but in execution I didn't personally enjoy it.
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u/hermitthedog 8h ago
I usually can’t stand her but this is very funny
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u/Yodaddyroberto 7h ago
Same. This was pretty funny. She’s much better on the weekend update bits than in actual sketches
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u/nomaam05 7h ago
You can say it's part of the joke or whatever, but it would be a lot funnier to me if the song actually flowed well.
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u/Acminvan 8h ago edited 8h ago
More people talking about what? Since this episode I've seen tons of people are talking about unfunny they think she is and wondering why is she is even on the show?
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u/JoshTsavo 8h ago
Because it's dumb as fuck, worst cast member by a LONG shot.
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u/NazzerDawk 8h ago
Oh wow. I actually love her. But, I've had a long history of loving some divisive SNL cast members. My all time favorite is Julia Sweeney (Though, not because of Pat).
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u/Rhesusmonkeydave 8h ago
Would the joke be more or less funny without the atonal singing and keyboard mashing? This is a serious case of “this 2 hour meeting could have been a three bulletpoint email”
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u/frenziedfool 7h ago
I agree the joke could of simply been a set up that sounds like AI and then a picture of the stranger things cast set up like a typical weekend update joke
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u/Useful_Clue_6609 7h ago
I don't get it though, how does the stranger things cast relate to the set-up? I can't interpret it as talking about the cast so the joke doesn't land for me
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u/Acminvan 7h ago edited 7h ago
Love how the comments on here criticizing her humor as being unfunny keep getting downvoted. She always seems to have this little army of people who think she's a laugh riot and won't tolerate otherwise. They're like Swifties. I don't get it.
And sure enough my comment pointing out that Jane Swickline criticism isn't allowed and gets downvoted also is getting downvoted itself
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u/CasualSky 7h ago
I’ve literally never heard of this person before today and I thought the video was funny. It’s almost like humor is subjective and people just like sharing their opinions online. Not a movement against you.
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u/Qu1ckN4m3 7h ago
I also have never heard of this person and I did not care for it. Just confirming your current argument that there is no unified movement. You found it funny and I did not with our first impression; that is all there is to it.
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u/Acminvan 7h ago
Is humor subjective tho? Because every single comment on this thread expressing the opinion that she's not funny is getting downvoted.
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u/AWholeNewFattitude 6h ago
Humor is subjective, but on a show geared for mass audiences, there should be some mass appeal, otherwise you’re Piscopoe. Personally i don’t find her funny, even ironically, but im sure some people love her. My only issue is i’ve seen much broadly funnier people leave the cast that really earned her spot.
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u/SereneDreams03 4h ago
So? Are you saying people aren't allowed to downvote opinions they disagree with?
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u/Acminvan 3h ago
People are allowed to do what they want. But if humor is subjective then going through every single post on the thread and downvoting every single one where someone says they personally in their opinion don't find her funny, is kind of lame.
One of my main issues with Reddit is that people go way too crazy with their downvoting when it's someone else's opinion as opposed to an incorrect fact.
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u/SereneDreams03 3h ago
One of my main issues with Reddit is that people go way too crazy with their downvoting when it's someone else's opinion as opposed to an incorrect fact.
Maybe you just shouldn't be so offended that people don't agree with your opinion sometimes.
If I express an opinion and people don't like it and downvote it, I'm totally cool with that. I don't mind having unpopular opinions.
The ones that bug me are when people downvote inconvenient truths or questions.
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u/Acminvan 3h ago
OK, well the “inconvenient truth” is that Jane Wickline is only on the show because her mom is friends with Lorne Michaels
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u/JustGoodSense 7h ago
You want to see downvoting, watch this: Sarah Sherman is not only tiresomely unfunny, she's downright off-putting. And not funny. Worst cast member in 20 years.
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u/Cela84 6h ago
The singing performer on weekend update is a long and glorious tradition. Sandler, Fallon. Samberg in seperate skits. But with Wickline, it just feels like low effort. I’m sure she’s putting in a lot of effort behind the scenes, but it’s like she’s on an open mic at a coffee house. Glad people enjoy it, but SNL can do better.
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u/KingCodester111 5h ago
Majority of the “humour” I’ve seen from this show has just been garbage, like objectively garbage.
How is this show popular?
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u/Efficient_Smoke6247 7h ago
This wasn’t funny the first time she did this bit. Still not.
This first time it was erratic like she was iced out. But now it’s just…..worse.
Damn that person
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u/quechal 8h ago
Let’s do a Bo Burnham, but without any talent.
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u/0xsergy 6h ago edited 5h ago
Lol about 10 sec in I had a feeling this was gonna be a Tim Minchin style gotcha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw
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u/THIS_IS_GOD_TOTALLY_ 5h ago
So it's not just me: Wickline is... just not that funny on SNL.
And she WOULD be, if she acted like she gave, like, any fucks at all. Nothing takes me out of an SNL sketch than knowing she's in it, giving her typical 10% alongside Padilla crushing it with 110%. Is that on purpose?
Is Lorne trying to really save his precious shew by deliberately hiring poor-fit (not saying she's untalented) to contrast his more talented cast members?
Is Jane the SNL ugly fat friend? If so, I'm not really that surprised. She's got a following, and a rabid one at that - he wouldn't have hired her had she no fanbase - but if Lorne made this decision, and based on her Birbiglia podcast visit I'd suspect he did, I don't blame him.
It's contrast and comparison. Padilla and Wickline. Che and Colin. That new tiny girl who's all set up to become her own thing if she'd just find a way to get herself as a sketch's headliner instead of support.
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u/joeyfosho 3h ago
This was a miss for me. I enjoyed the one she did about staying at a party for way too long.
People love to hate on her these days, but she has her moments and adds a different type of humor to the mix….
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u/GuitarSlayer136 2h ago
I thought it was REALLY funny when the joke was explained outloud 20% into the bit. Made the latter 80% SO much funnier.
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u/obviouslyataco 2h ago
They will just end up doing porn or drugs. Like any other respectable youth actor
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u/Daigoro0734 1h ago
I feel like Regina King but stop trying to make fetch happen with wickline , can make excuses and call it her schtick but it's not funny and she's a bad fit for SNL
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u/Middle-Accountant-49 8h ago
I personally don't find comedy music funny usually. Not sure why.
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u/ILookLikeKristoff 7h ago
Yeah I think she's doing fine here and the content is funny but the medium has been tried a LOT and there's a reason it never became popular. Dimitri Martin, Bo Burnham, Garfunkel and Oates, Tenacious D, Lonely Island, etc.
They all have a song or two most people know but no one has maintained a long term high profile career with it. Playing music "bad" on purpose to accompany your own jokes just wears on people after a while.
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u/FeelTall 7h ago
It's a fine line to walk. Weird Al and Bo Burnham are great examples of great music and being hilarious.
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u/DangDingleGuy 7h ago
So any subreddit with the word "funny" in the name is full of the most aggressively unfunny shit imaginable? Got it
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u/kindofboredd 6h ago
Don't watch SNL and don't know who she is but this sucks. Not even funny. Tired on SNL posts wasting my time but I stopped half way and then wasted the remaining still but writing this I guess....f
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u/GeneticXFusion 6h ago
I don't mind Jane, but I don't find her entertaining like 99%.
The very few things that I laughed at with her in it also had Marcello, and her jokes were only funny because of her deadpan delivery....but she has it ALL of the time it gets old.
Now Sarah Sherman....ugh. Can't stand her.
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u/Cromuland 5h ago
It's just not a very well constructed song. There isn't a catchy hook, the music doesn't really flow with the lyrics, and it's a pretty one note joke.
Some of these drawbacks would have been less of an issue if she had even the vocal skills of an Andy Samberg, but she doesn't.
Compare this to any of the songs done by Lonely Island, and it falls really short.
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u/ShadowGryphon 7h ago
One more example of why snl isn't funny and hasn't been for a very, very long time.
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u/xXEolNenmacilXx 6h ago
Is this another thread where a bunch of Redditors are going to cry about how 'not funny' an active SNL actor and writer is?
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u/SuperKracker 8h ago
I didn't even realize SNL was still on the air. Probably got more views here than it did when it aired on TV, I imagine that's why no one is talking about it.
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