Episode 51 - Emma Stone (Season 49)

[00:00:00] Right on the back of a garbage truck fully naked in the middle of New York City.

[00:00:04] I want the album.

[00:00:12] It's the 10 to 1 podcast with your host Brad Oven featuring Ben Conowitz and Nate Loughs

[00:00:22] and who's the podcast.

[00:00:25] I wish our listeners would know what it, 87 to 88. Dude question. Right after those dick embers all years, he came in and really kind of revitalized the show.

[00:01:40] But but we're back and we're back to talk about the the Emma Stone episode.

[00:01:44] Yes, that's four. She's not like this. So there are two four timers. Gotcha. Kristen Wiig is one of them, two female four timers.

[00:03:01] My Rudolph?

[00:03:02] Nope.

[00:03:03] You're never gonna give this one.

[00:03:04] Lindsey Lohan.

[00:03:05] Oh, I like this.

[00:03:06] And she was very good whenever she hosted two. quiz for you. I've got a lot of quizzes. Quiz for quiz rest. The Situation Room has appeared in 10 sketches since 2006, Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room. This is according to SNL archives.net, which is a site I often used to prepare for their show. Which cast members have played Wolf Blitzer in the Situation Room? Jason Zadakus. I have a name, he's my number. The most, he has played it the most from 2009 to 2013.

[00:04:22] Jason Zadakus played it like five times.

[00:04:24] Yeah.

[00:04:25] I feel like Joe Hammond had to do it maybe. And he's very easy to lampoon. It's either a lot to mine there, communically. And so... And here's the, and so let me ask you why. We talk about how nothing is stranger than the truth these days. Yeah. And so George Santos is insane. There's so much weird stuff. So why can we then lampoon him where you can't lampoon somebody as outlandish as Trump necessarily?

[00:05:40] I think what it is is the...

[00:05:41] It's a good question, man.

[00:05:42] The outlandish things that Trump does

[00:05:43] are also diabolical and heinous.

[00:05:46] Whereas Santos is just...

[00:05:48] It's more silly. Infinitely more difficult to do a very well-known tune where you're fitting in words that don't fit in rhythmically and still end up in the part that does sound like the actual rhythm of the song. I did great job. It was a lot of fun. I really like this. I just feel like bony has a future on the show. You said it a couple of times. He's great no no that way was it was fantastic I really really laughed hard which is obviously the goal of the show but also like Brad said I respected that that's really hard to do.

[00:08:04] it had a significant amount of benefits from people who are also hate watching triplets let's see how as an element for me this week

[00:08:08] on george sato

[00:08:10] it that was that was right on that on moving on and the stone five-timers

[00:08:14] monologue

[00:08:15] actress and the stone return to host s and l for the fifth time

[00:08:18] and she talked about meeting her husband as at the show with a cut to

[00:08:21] executive producer laurin micha's i thought that was funny who broke a little

[00:08:24] bit stone was then inducted into the five-timers club by tina fang kenis great one for him. But I like when they have like have fun bringing back Martin Short and Steve Martin and have Dan Ackroyd wearing the bar and that kind of stuff. It's just it's like a nice tradition and I wish that they were able to do it more often. Especially since it doesn't happen. I'm kind of with Brad here. I love it again. 24 25 people. There's not a fun. If it happened more often than sure don't do it. But like

[00:09:40] if you if it's such a rare thing like have fun with it, you

[00:09:43] know, but I'm sure it depends on who's in town and who you can

[00:09:46] get to come come around and do it's so kind of mean, you know, but like, you know, and Michael Longfellow, you know,

[00:11:05] well, you know, steve erwin crockett hunter did own

[00:12:24] a tortoise that was cared for by char the song uh it was hilarious i didn't under like i i still don't understand it i don't understand it necessarily like i don't i don't oftentimes uh you know they're they're trying to

[00:13:43] make fun of or try to make light of or and trying to get dreads. Yeah, I absolutely love this. It was very funny. Another sketch, I will say it probably a dozen more times but another sketch that Emma Stone just sold out and went for and just killed it.

[00:15:00] She's just so funny.

[00:15:01] Riding on the back of a garbage truck, fully naked

[00:15:04] in the middle of New York City.

[00:15:06] I want the show. It was the Natasha Leon episode.

[00:16:21] It's crazy to me that like nine years ago,

[00:16:24] you know, that was the first one in 2014.

[00:16:28] That's crazy. catch, it just wasn't as good as the rest of the episode. And for an episode that is mostly really good, it stands out a little bit because it's not so good. And I don't remember these, like I remember they're doing this in an Natasha Leon episode. I don't ever remember an iteration of this where I'm like, oh, let's keep doing this. Yeah, that's the other thing is like, I remember them, but I don't remember being like, please bring that back.

[00:17:41] Strangely, I do remember what Martin Freeman

[00:17:43] looked like in his because I'm pretty sure

[00:17:45] he looked like a Kenny G. Sakkow.

[00:17:46] He did, correct, correct.

[00:17:48] Correct. don't destroy yeah yeah this was one of the better ones they've had in a few episodes not that they've ever been terrible necessarily they're never the worst gets to yeah feel it feels like they've just been a little bit of slump lately haven't been as great as they usually are but this one felt like it was on on par again but mainly because of ponke johnson yeah pocket was amazing well that and just the very unsettling I'm asked that they use it a stone space lord ponke crushed it it was so funny to me that was great

[00:19:04] that was very funny the visual effects do do a lot of sure comedy especially when Yeah, they just impressed by them. They just have a great team. Yeah. They really do. How quickly they can turn these things around. Yeah, no, I was this a very, very good sketch. All right, moving on. What's in the kiln written by Chloe Feynman and Brian Tucker? The sketch features a woman played by him at Stone discussing her pottery with two hosts, Heidi Gardner and Chloe Feynman. Ben, what did you think about this one?

[00:20:20] This definitely feels like they're trying to do

[00:20:23] the 80 Bryant Kate McKinnon thing or even delicious dish but I can see the groundwork here for some good. Yeah, I can easily see this turning into a fun recurring sketch because there is some good stuff for the characters, especially our fun. It's subtle comedic work when it comes to the voices. And I really appreciated that because it felt like it came from an authentic place of like how they created those characters. Yeah. And you just kind of love how easy it is for Emma Stone to fit in with this cast.

[00:21:41] She can do anything and everything like whether it's voice work, physical comedy.

[00:21:46] She's just a good joke. Let's compare the two. What I think you guys both said they're kind of middle in sketches, not bad, but not great. Which one do you like better? Tree lighting gig or what's in the kiln? Oh, what's in the kiln? The kiln is better for sure. Yeah. Okay. All right, moving on.

[00:23:00] We can update.

[00:23:01] Hey, Ben, can you explain real quickly for our listeners that might just be checking in

[00:23:03] now what the predominant is.

[00:23:04] If you're checking in with us for the very first time, thanks for being here.

[00:23:07] Hey, welcome.

[00:23:08] Smash that subscribe button. right here. So I'm gonna go, I'm, I'm, I feel like it's a little lower, but I'm gonna go higher because I'm gonna go against my, my gut. Okay. I'm gonna go 85. Oof. Oof. Guys. You're both very close, but. Ben wins. It's 80. No, no. Yeah. When I was right. Right. Right. Real. But it's not.

[00:24:21] You try to change everything. It doesn't matter.

[00:24:21] By the way, because you're so close.

[00:24:23] Yeah.

[00:24:23] You still only want to wait.

[00:24:24] I know.

[00:24:25] But also every time it's over for nadys.

[00:24:26] Oh, but I'm closer.

[00:24:28] You know, that's you ain't got it. I love that. I liked the Melania Trump funeral jokes. Partners can live that long. That was decent. Unfortunately, I think that Che fumbled the punchline for what would have been his chauvinist joke of the night. And that would have been hilarious if he pulled it off,

[00:25:41] but he fumbled it too much to make it work.

[00:25:42] He screwed up the punchline, right?

[00:25:44] But he said a word that he-

[00:25:46] Yeah, there was something that didn't work out

[00:25:48] as well as it was. honestly almost tearing up. I was laughing so hard. It was so good. I watched it like three or four times. His delivery is absolutely perfect. Like this is this is maybe the most. He excels at the most normal McDonald's he's ever been. Yeah. Yeah. Is in this bit. Yeah. Just yeah, just perfect. I mean, just the way he when he's talking about, he's like, you know, they call cigarettes in London, right? He's like, yeah, yeah, I know. Say it.

[00:27:02] He's not going to say it.

[00:27:04] And like cutting back to the Hitler photo twice. Yeah. It got did. It was hilarious. I really love Michael Longfellow. And when he's on, we can update Michael Longfellow. It's just a great iteration. Michael Longfellow. It's kind of like some of the cash members you know that when they're going to sit in there, they're going to kill it. And I loved it. I crushed it. Love it. I told Ben this after we re-watched the bit while we were

[00:28:23] waiting for it.

[00:28:23] Did you guys get to watch it together?

[00:28:25] No, actually.

[00:28:25] He watched it early because he just

[00:28:28] the way the timing worked out. Julius Sweeney. No, it was in 1992. Any other guests? 1992. It was in 1992 that I'm going to say it was... Chris Farley. That is correct. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow. It was in the... Because the mama causes a bigger area. There was... It was an unforgettable where they were doing unforgettable...

[00:29:42] And he does the mama...

[00:29:45] Like they're doing like other people singing this because what was the guy that sang that? Well then Emma Stone said slow it down and do it like, and she did slow it out. Good job. And also like she doesn't have a ton to do in this sketch because she's just singing, but her facial work, her like I just want to give some credit to new cast members cause she's really coming on. But no, I just agreed. She had a lot to do here. Yeah. I'm just saying like she is the one pacing the entire sketch,

[00:31:02] you know, and then having to break from the song

[00:31:04] to like interact and act and then go right back to the scene.

[00:31:07] That's incredibly difficult. or something that I don't know. So the most famous iteration of it as far as using it kind of a strange juxtaposition is they used it to open the second season of Lost when they introduced Desmond as a character because it's playing while he's working out

[00:32:21] in his underground hatch layer.

[00:32:23] And then all of a sudden,

[00:32:26] it's just a montage of him. I'm assuming you liked it. You know she met her husband there. So there's hope for us. You did enjoy though. I did though. I love it. I just, this episode as Brad has commented earlier, was just great. And I can watch Emma Stone do sketch comedy. All day long. All day long. And she clearly loves it. She has so much fun. We've talked about this so many times, but you can tell when sometimes, and I'm not going to,

[00:33:44] I'm not going to blame hosts.

[00:33:47] Sometimes they're so nervous, these kind of things Or just like a really good rom-com. No, I mean, I love a good rom-com. She was in, this is the best example. Zombie land? Yeah, I was gonna say Zombie land, but yes, that's a great example. I love Zombie land. I love. Aloha's a romantic comedy, but obviously that's not the best example because it wasn't very well received. She's Asian. She's Asian. I actually haven't seen it, but it was weird because she plays like a Hawaiian woman,

[00:35:01] and that was kind of just a weird.

[00:35:02] Not like an Irish woman.

[00:35:03] Yeah, but weird casting choice.

[00:35:06] But I'm trying to think, aside from Zombie land, much it though so yes they just been a plenty of I don't know I would like one more I give me one more she's also very young we love the crew's don't we I like actually love the crew I really like those movies I don't like the creeds really you didn't like the crew's oh crew's crew to you put a crew to in front of me and I'll watch it in a heartbeat if they're they're good I love them I really do that I

[00:36:21] like it very much I think you need to

[00:36:22] go watch it yeah I don't give it give

[00:36:25] it a chance now I mean, yeah. Alex. Alex Moffat, what did I say? No. Back then. No. Leslie Jones. Ah.

[00:37:40] Taren Kilham in the Star Wars audition.

[00:37:43] That makes sense.

[00:37:44] Yep.

[00:37:45] All right.

[00:37:45] Let's talk about this sketch though.

[00:37:47] What did you guys think?

[00:37:48] This is obviously something they've done before. it up more as the character because it's gotten, it's been recurring. I like that the kind of the in-joke that he doesn't look like David Beckham, like in the breaking, that was perfect to me. That was, I mean, I love that I'm a stone in this, but that was the point of the sketch I really liked. Because like when Keeney goes back to it, oh man, it really had me going, I really liked it.

[00:39:00] Yeah, no, that Mikey Dave almost breaking

[00:39:02] because of that was very funny too.

[00:39:04] It's like, no, I definitely am David Beckham.

[00:39:07] I don't know if that line was ad-libbed yes you know so how you have to do it uh... she she she's not an ugly person that i just beautiful not not not no is i'd i i will say i think much of her nandas had a perfect delivery of it was like no i'm good but i think looking back now i'm good uh... those guys though again that those four

[00:40:21] new cast members of last year then at cloie trust

[00:40:23] you've got the future of smell their degree no 21 two years ago But we didn't we didn't did we even mentioned Devin Walker? Oh, we didn't Think Devin Walker is kind of in the same position that Punky Johnson was before where he hasn't necessarily had a huge breakout yet He had a couple things that he's done pretty well. Yeah. Yeah, and he's been he's been good in sketches

[00:41:40] He's a reliable straight man, but he hasn't yet popped as like oh, I really liked Devin Walker when he does this

[00:41:44] He's the weakest of those that group, but I it's it's a it's an amusing premise. Yeah, obviously Diet Coke is very popular among the ladies. I drink it every day. So like I said, it's popular among the ladies. Wow Hey, this guy doesn't know things and so we I Yeah, it felt like a very simple premise of like oh, yeah

[00:43:00] It'd be funny if Diet Coke was a lotion and put sticky pop on your face. I don't say, I was gonna say Emma Stone because I think she should win an award for this. I think she should. But here's, we talked about this before. You can't give it to Emma Stone because like, you know she's gonna be good. Like that's to be expected. Like she should approve that she was fantastic. You can't tell me what I can and can't do this in America. But here's the thing. She absolutely proved that she's fantastic. And I said before. She fits right in.

[00:44:20] But if a host goes above and beyond,

[00:44:25] and but this was not, but.

[00:44:27] We watched two, three. Paul, you don't know. Paul, you did great. This episode. Don't you did Michael long fellow though. I mean, actually a lot of cast members did great this episode. Question quest and the cigarette, like just top notch.

[00:45:41] I'm with you guys.

[00:45:42] I think Brad, you said this earlier, probably best episode of the season.

[00:45:46] So yes, 100%.

[00:45:47] Yeah, that's a real season.

[00:46:44] And plus I love when they take something as common as the game show and still something.

[00:46:51] I think maybe I just have some lag for the game show trope because we they've done it so much. It's a reliable show format.

[00:46:52] Not always great.

[00:46:54] Right.

[00:46:54] Of course.

[00:46:55] And so it's often just what do you think my favorite version of the game show was meet your second wife.

[00:47:02] It's the best if you so if you listen or if you don't know what I'm talking about.

[00:48:02] people that listen to this podcast that think that we don't like it. Because like the last couple of ones, we've really kind of shit all over them.

[00:48:05] And so I'd like to just say that we try to hold them accountable for no reason whatsoever.

[00:48:09] As you're thinking, but what's interesting is typically there'll be a little in one

[00:48:14] of the parts of SNL, but it's been a little in a lot of the parts.

[00:48:18] So even police under strike, like Brad said, hasn't been great.

[00:48:22] We can update, it's been slumping a little bit.

[00:48:24] And this goes back to the whole idea of like, I've said this on this podcast before, One of my favorite recent iterations of the game show was when they did, what's that name where they initially start off by having you identify celebrities and then they bring out someone who that was supposed to. What's his name? He's held the door for you every day for less 12 years. It's your best friend Todd's girlfriend of four years. What's that name?

[00:49:40] And also the jeopardy that they did with Tom Hanks on Black Jeopardy.

[00:49:44] Oh, that was I know that that's a.

[00:49:46] I know you don't like Tom Hanks.

[00:49:47] That's I know you're if she's just sitting at home I'm not really sure. I think it's just great to have came you came back for the Christmas. Oh, I'm so excited