Episode 52 - Adam Driver (Season 49)

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[00:00:26] I love Adam Driver sitting next to a girl that you might like because she might comment. Those are some nice big hands. Yeah. And then I'm like, oh, well, my hands are pretty big, but they're not that bad. No, you know, I know. I know. I know. I know. Other things because I've seen it, but so the seventh episode of the 49th season, Adam Driver previously hosted three other episodes. He is in the four-timers club,

[00:01:44] which is into thing. Yeah, I was looking at the four timers because he is now a four timer. And let's take him out of this question. So you can't include him because I know there's a recent sea bias here. So let's go through the list of four timers and who do you want to become the next five timer?

[00:03:01] Martin Short.

[00:03:02] All right.

[00:03:03] Let me read you the list.

[00:03:03] Trust weekly.

[00:03:04] Let me read you the list though, okay?

[00:03:06] Ashton Kutcher.

[00:03:07] No thanks.

[00:03:08] Dana Carvey. be a rollicking episode. Yeah, yeah. And then Charles Barkley. Yes. Absolutely. One of our showers. But Kristen wig. Of course. Martin Short. I already said that. Yeah. So Martin Short for you is the one that you want more than anybody else. For you. Is that everybody? That's everyone. So I love it. That's not everybody. That four-timers. Four-timers. No, I saw a list. There's another list I saw on Twitter and I literally Paul Simon was on it.

[00:04:21] Yeah, but I didn't pull Paul Simon because he's 90 years old.

[00:04:24] So what? Okay.

[00:04:25] 90 year old people can't do stuff.

[00:04:27] And like Eric Eidel was on it. and 18 was last. And it wasn't terrible. So I just I the reason I wanted to be Martin Short is because I feel like we haven't gotten a really in depth five timers club and I feel like if Martin Short does it, then they'll get Steve Martin and they'll do that they'll go back to it'll be a fun time. Yeah. Yeah. The reason I want to see Charles Bob could do it is he's not he's not an elderly man yet, but he's getting up there. And

[00:05:42] you know, I want to see him still kind of like able to do it.

[00:05:45] You left off Eric Idol as well. Because Eric Idol's last time this is a real event, obviously, that just happened. No. One of the college presidents that was played by Chloe Feynman maybe resigned, I think, because of the things that she said. This was the worst cold open I've seen in ages. Thank you. Yeah, it just wasn't the worst. It was so long.

[00:07:00] It was so...

[00:07:01] They kept going back to Chloe Trost.

[00:07:05] They kept going back to Chloe Trost.

[00:07:07] I liked her luck.

[00:07:08] I like her luck. This is a perfect example of what they're doing is where all they're doing is just echoing the real event and putting a couple things in there that make it seem like it's supposed to be funny, but it really is. But there was none of that. Yeah. There was no spin on this. There was no escalation. It was so sad because it was painful to watch. It was bad. It was it last week. I think we had a decent one. There was the Georgetown test one.

[00:08:20] Yeah.

[00:08:21] That was...

[00:08:22] And you know what else, too?

[00:08:23] And this was distracting to me, too.

[00:08:24] I don't know if it was distracting anybody else, but they had the wrong name tags in front

[00:08:27] of Heidi Gardner and Chloe Feynman. He didn't see any explanation. So whatever. But Sessly would kill. I think it was, she would kill that. I think it was SNL in review on Twitter maybe. One of the SNL accounts that I follow on Twitter said that they that they had heard that Chloe, Chloe Trost was not in the dress horse and it was it was sessly strong, but then didn't have it for the live show. Well, OK, that makes me feel a couple of things. A sad because I would love to see at least Stefanic played by

[00:09:44] Sessly strong.

[00:09:44] Sessly strong.

[00:09:45] Sorry.

[00:09:46] But I also feel bad for Chloe Trost for having to very quickly they wanted to save her and maybe bring her back for Kate McKinnon's episode instead. Mine are both. I don't know. Or she was like, hey, that sketch was fucking terrible. I won't perform it live. Sisley Strong is someone that can, kind of like Keenan, she can save us of an unfunny sketch. But this one was, I genuinely think,

[00:11:02] and maybe it could have been like a word of caution too

[00:11:04] of like, hey, you're already away from SNL.

[00:11:06] Don't get caught up in a sketch that could potentially be

[00:11:07] quote unquote controversial. comedic skills, giant hands, and his piano playing skills. It showed his patience. Yeah. He's effortless when he does... Effortless and everything that he does, but he's effortless, really waiting, and it doesn't matter to him that there may be not be a left. He's not worried.

[00:12:20] That's a veteran stand-up move, basically.

[00:12:23] Veteran improv move.

[00:12:24] Just knowing that I'm doing this and I. You? Yeah. So I love Saturday Night Live holiday specials and this brought it in and brought it

[00:13:41] in so well, I thought. Yeah, this is basically half Christmas episodes.

[00:13:44] Yeah. But the ones they did for't happen as well. I thought the escalation was written in there though, right? They were like it was so how are you gonna do that and it just escalates more more, right?

[00:15:02] But it didn't I agree

[00:15:04] the sketch didn't follow

[00:16:04] I think it was a funnier sketch for me because of the little bits that Adam Driver did and bone yank too I mean they were both really good, but in the hands of a good performer

[00:16:09] Mediocre written sketches can be good sketches. This is good very very solid. Yeah, it was definitely better than Ben indicated

[00:16:15] Oh my gosh, I'll just say compared to the other stuff in this episode, which is phenomenal. This is pretty good

[00:16:21] All right, here we go a pre tape called old friends written by Mikey day shooter side down Allison Gates

[00:17:21] to tell you about what's going on. Like, no, I didn't tell me anything.

[00:17:23] Oh, no, no, he was in jail for like three months.

[00:17:25] You're like, what?

[00:17:27] Like I've had this happen to me before.

[00:17:28] I'm like, or like you're having a normal conversation

[00:17:30] with somebody and like everything's cool.

[00:17:31] And then all of a sudden they say something

[00:17:33] that's blatantly racist and you're like,

[00:17:34] oh, you're this person now.

[00:17:37] And I've already committed to going out with you tonight.

[00:17:39] So awkward.

[00:17:41] Awkward, awkward.

[00:17:42] But of course, Adam Driver, yeah,

[00:17:43] this is another instance where he like his acting But we've seen that over and over again, but this was not a terrible version. Yeah, it wasn't a bad version. Moving on. Beep beep in this sketch. Gertrly leap. Nope. And it's very local. I know, right. By the way, that's a car dealership locally here in Northwest Indiana. That's for you folks out there in the region. In this sketch, two men played by Andrew Smix and Andrew Driver have a heated argument

[00:19:01] about who's your responsibility it is to put the food down after saying beep beep.

[00:19:05] This can also features Mikey Debo and Yang, Heidi Gardner, Molly Carney, somewhere, but they actually have a conversation breaking down. No, no, I said this. So it's okay because I'm making it seem like what I'm doing is cute and not forceful. There's a way to hide our passive aggressiveness. Exactly. No, no, I'm a little car. Yeah. And he said, I'm a much littler car. Oh, I'm so much more of a littler car.

[00:20:21] And this muxin driver just, what a great.

[00:20:24] Of course, driver and Yang, all these guys, like he was just,

[00:20:27] he was it. And so like when he's like actually getting frustrated, he's like, you know, I said beep beep. And he's being very serious. And then you have this mukes who's kind of playing it up a little bit and he's like, oh yeah, I say beep beep, you know?

[00:21:42] And so he's hamming it up a little bit more,

[00:21:44] but they both work together so well.

[00:21:46] And that's just, it's magic.

[00:21:47] It really is magic, what really passive aggressively polite place. And there've been times where some of the sketches are very New York based and they're well written, they're fine. And I admit sometimes that it just didn't hit me because I don't have the necessary

[00:23:00] experience maybe to get the sketch like it really should be gotten.

[00:23:05] And maybe that's why this one got me as well because it was just, I felt it. and Heidi Gardner attempt to prevent their guests played by Adam Driver from eating a candy in the shape of a penis. In addition, guess colors, Andrew Smug, spunky Johnson again in times and make appearances. Well, James Austin Johnson is featured at the beginning. Ben, you like phallic symbols? What did you?

[00:24:23] This was excellent, of course. This reminiscent of.

[00:24:28] They've done this quite a few times. It's this is just great. when they put their fingers in front of his face. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, he's like, they're like, ah! Do you guys remember the last time they did a Shop TV sketch? They did, I do remember that they did, but it wasn't all that long ago, was it? Was it Wilson? No, it was Gerard Carmichael. And it was a doll that had rainbow hair and also rainbow pubes.

[00:25:40] And they did the same, and I'm glad they brought it back.

[00:25:42] The Scream gag, because the Scream gag is hilarious.

[00:25:45] Can we just get you out?

[00:25:46] Oh, oh, Del, but if you fuck it up, then I'm sorry, it's just not gonna be funny. Yeah, and there's nothing I could do. It's not the sketches fall. And maybe, listen, writers, you need to know your host right to them, but like. Also, something at a table where you can go over really well

[00:27:01] when so-and-so is very comfortable

[00:27:03] and then in front of a live audience, they just screwed up.

[00:27:05] Is that what happened to the cold open?

[00:27:06] Did it just kill that table? a spiritual, mental, relational, sexual tension that they have. Oh, Rosema, intention. During the two hosts have during the weekend update bit. Now, it's not been great this season, I would say. Brad, would you agree? Yeah, I mean, weekend update in general hasn't been the best this season. This is 85. This is 85 for you. Yep. Ooh, that was what I was gonna pick. I'll go 84.

[00:28:24] Brev, interesting, interesting.

[00:28:27] Cause there was a lot, it was fun.

[00:28:28] I had fun. I thought we had a 95. There was one when like, it was probably one of the episodes where they had- Well, then they were giving you another hand job. Yeah, oh, that was the best one. No, there was one- Little chocolate Santa's. There was one where they were like trading back and forth. But actually the best one was probably when Che Prank Jost and- Oh, yeah. Oh, that would have been a 95. Yeah.

[00:29:40] Maybe a hundred.

[00:29:41] Maybe.

[00:29:42] That's incredible.

[00:29:43] So, let me read this for our listeners.

[00:29:44] The host of the week and update Colin think that this weekend update was better than the previous version I did the best ones for the season I don't think it's the best one of the season I think early on there was one that I really laughed at hard But I think no but I did write in my review on slash from calm if you read it that this did feel like we can update is

[00:31:03] Kind of like a little bit on like an uptick that role can kind of get us back on track about what it's supposed to be about, but also as a joke and it really did work.

[00:32:21] Yeah.

[00:32:22] Yeah.

[00:32:23] Yeah.

[00:32:24] And honestly, I think that the material that he's doing is not the strongest, but the Okay, there was a way we could look this up. Yeah, should we do that so we don't look like what racist white guys? Probably should

[00:33:45] So friends we just checked that on Wikipedia and it found out that I am right. He is a few Has Julia Styles ever hosted Sanite Live? Yes, yes. And I believe it was back during the time of Save and Land's Dance. Correct, it was on March 17th, 2001. Yeah. So the last, but I don't know Julia Styles real well. The biggest time is see the head. Oh, you don't know Julia Styles? Don't know real well.

[00:35:00] But to me, she looks exactly the same as she did 20 years ago.

[00:35:03] She doesn't age.

[00:35:04] She does age very well.

[00:35:06] I think she looks a little more mature now,

[00:35:08] but she still looks very young. There were two instances in the Saturday Night Live where we heard Chloe Feynman speaking, and she wasn't doing an impression or even overly exaggerating like you would do when you're playing certain characters, even if you're kind of using your own voice. And it was both the old friend sketch and this one where it almost felt odd to hear her speak. And a regular man or I was like, oh, that's very odd to hear that.

[00:36:24] Like she speaks to me.

[00:36:26] That's your fucking voice.

[00:37:21] Adam Driver.

[00:37:23] It's perfect. He's silly.

[00:37:24] No, no, it's so hard.

[00:37:26] I would watch a movie.

[00:37:28] Yeah, I'm not with Adam Driver as maybe.

[00:37:30] If they did a remake of Luke who's talking

[00:37:32] and it was Adam Driver with his grown ass head

[00:37:35] and he was talking so that adults could actually hear him

[00:37:37] as opposed to being in a Ramonologue,

[00:37:39] I'd be all over that shit.

[00:37:40] I cannot tell you how much I was in the moment

[00:37:43] going cut back to the baby.

[00:37:45] Like, I mean, King of the House is fine.

[00:37:47] You get back to that baby. And your butt's just gonna be sticking out the back there, but nobody will see that and it's gonna be a lot of fun. Yeah, I just, again, no notes, just make more of him. If he hosts the five-star-star-star club, bring the baby back out of everything that you did, bring the baby back. Yeah, it was hilarious. I loved it. It was a little, Jonah Hill does those.

[00:39:00] I'm six!

[00:39:00] Yeah, yeah, it kinda reminded me of that a little bit.

[00:39:02] Like it was just nailing that part really well.

[00:39:06] Yeah, just, his voice is perfect. I love it so much. Yeah. I didn't think this was great. It wasn't. It was fine. I thought it was fine. Yeah. The premise wasn't funny enough to me. In a sketch where you're mining so much gold, when someone hands you a big old cart of silver, you're like, eh, yeah, you know, I agree.

[00:40:22] And that was my gold mining metaphor for the day.

[00:40:25] What the hell was that?

[00:40:27] All right, moving on. with Adam Sandler and my commercial. Actually what I said was, this felt like Chris Katan should have been in this sketch some way. So it's a throwback to the Will Ferrell, Chris Katan, department store thing, wherever the tiny cell phone. Right. Right, a little bit like that. But I will say that this sketch reminded me of the, sorry, the bouncer line at the club

[00:41:42] and the towel boy sketch with Michael B. Jordan

[00:41:44] where they wanted basically the get to discover on YouTube. And this time we got two. And we got two. And I think they got, I think they did this because. They were long. Yeah, they were long. These genuinely did feel cut for time. Because literally.

[00:43:00] Well, I would have cut the opening.

[00:43:02] But also, I think Adam Driver uniquely serves these sketches premise of this one is that uh... and it is the is like made it as a hollywood actor he's enough he's in an independent film and i don't know if you've made it he's just a he's a he's an actor film and uh... and so they're interviewing him uh... ask him what is process and he's just mentions you know i grew up in a really i had this dumpy little apartment in l.a. and the landlord from that

[00:44:22] apartment played by and were whoa excuse me

[00:44:24] are you talking about ninety three kitty and have driver does so good that I was on this. Hey Ben, yeah. Share this story. I was on this Meet the Maker series in our small town of La Port, Indiana, and they asked Nate to come up. We did the questionnaire from inside the actor studio. The questions by Bernard Pivo. And I honestly was having a good time in so is Nate, and then he hit me with... You cried. I did, I teared up a little bit.

[00:45:40] And then he hit me with like,

[00:45:41] what's your least favorite word?

[00:45:42] And I just stalled because I couldn't think of anything.

[00:45:45] Because I was gonna say moist,

[00:45:47] but I didn't wanna say that for my parents. great example of sketches still being worked out. It is, if you know anything about the dress rehearsal, dress rehearsals aren't just kind of, you know, in the theater world, by dress rehearsal, you're usually ready to go. In SNL world, dress rehearsals, they're still cutting stuff, it's cutting sketches, cutting lines, cutting, they're still really working on it

[00:47:00] because there's not a lot of time, right?

[00:47:02] And so up until the show goes,

[00:47:07] you're working on stuff. You're not sure. I didn't laugh. Yeah, I was waiting You're kind of actually buying it exactly and he did such a great job And that's what makes when Keenan says how does like the court members to know that is not what this trial is about So in the sketch if you haven't seen it Adam driver does it one to two minutes on you know When I was a boy and I played football with my father in the backyard and we did it for the love of the game

[00:48:23] It was just the ball and I shouldn't have used the you know copyrighted

[00:49:23] in even if, because like, let's say you take the sketches long, so having it cut for time literally would make sense.

[00:49:25] It's like a six minute sketch.

[00:49:26] If you put it in, you'd have to probably take out

[00:49:28] two other sketches, you know?

[00:49:30] So like you have to figure out if it's worth the sacrifice.

[00:49:32] I am glad they put it online though,

[00:49:33] because this is a hilarious sketch.

[00:49:35] So again, these two sketches, if you really get sketches,

[00:49:38] even if you listen to our podcast

[00:49:40] and you barely watch this, go watch these.

[00:49:42] They're really funny.

[00:49:43] You will enjoy them.

[00:49:44] And you'll find them, like I said,

[00:49:46] go to the San Antonio Live YouTube page,

[00:49:47] just go under the video segment, You thought was above him. Yeah, Kenan always does great. Sorry Not necessarily above and beyond but just I mean just everything that he offered up when he was in sketches in this one Like was exactly, you know what you want. He was just very good very funny The only reason I would give it to this mukes over Keenan is because I feel like Keenan's contributions were smaller But but pivotal whereas this mukes was much more prominent And I think I just I just like this nukes in this episode. I did too. I think it's a great choice

[00:51:04] Keenan's always a good choice and Keenan can be picked, but it's Adam driver. It is Adam driver

[00:52:04] in that classroom. I have never laughed harder. That was honestly so funny. This was such a great episode though. Also, they didn't bring back science

[00:52:10] room. They didn't bring back, you know, HR, and stuff or whatever to go to the

[00:52:13] classroom. They didn't do Kylo Ren again. They could have done a lot of repeat

[00:52:17] stuff because he's had enough sketches now. I'm loving that they chose all

[00:52:21] original stuff for him. But you want to bring back the baby one? Now, now that I've

[00:52:26] said that, you bring that baby one back or that I honestly like. Yeah, but I'll always spend that. It was so good.

[00:53:40] I laughed so hard.

[00:53:41] It was just Adam Driver.

[00:53:42] No, you know, they didn't do questions for the audience or sing a song.

[00:53:45] It's just him doing his, his, where he's just sitting in with Sussley Strong. Gossley has to be back next spring, 100% when one fall guy comes out. Please, please, please. But yeah, so Kate McKinnon, we think, we think 80 Brian's coming back. That I'm just so excited and I hope they do, I hope just make it a- I hope it's a spectacle.

[00:55:00] It's the last one of the years,

[00:55:01] Christmas for us.

[00:55:01] Come on, give us a present.

[00:55:02] That's the biggest Christmas one.

[00:55:03] Everyone's gonna give us an episode, yeah.

[00:55:04] Just give it a little help.

[00:55:05] And the year Kate McKinnon is,

[00:55:06] this is the first time she's done on SNLArchives.net, that kind of characters that she does. Barbara DeDrew, that is the one with the pets that she does. Oh, if the kittens are we? Yep. Whiskers are we? Whiskers are we. Was Colleen Rafferty, that's the alien one.

[00:56:22] I love that they have character names

[00:56:23] and I'm like, I don't know who that is.

[00:56:24] Dibet Goldry, I don't know who that is.

[00:56:26] I know that name, but I don't remember. If you listen to this podcast and you're like, what are we gonna do when we're off for a break? We do have another podcast called Go Fix Yourself and we do update that as well weekly, where we talk about movies and sometimes even some TV shows. We assign each other movies. We give a couple of giggles. And honestly for the SNL podcast, we'll probably dig back into the SNL movies

[00:57:41] since we're only about halfway through,

[00:57:42] I think the library sounds like movies.

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