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Speaker 4: Interesting to see what happened at Saturday Night Live after
Speaker 4: a bit of a hangover after the big SNL fifty
Speaker 4: and everyone who is somebody in the entertainment world was there,
Speaker 4: and then they kind of have a week off and
Speaker 4: everyone's hungover. We got to get back to work and
Speaker 4: do the show right, because that's the thing. It's like
Speaker 4: everyone's been talking about SNL fifty for five years and
Speaker 4: it's like, oh, yeah, the show's back.
Speaker 3: We have seven more episodes this year.
Speaker 1: I actually when I was looking at the guide, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes I'm not like a religious watcher of SNL, but
Speaker 1: I record it all on DVR and then I'll go
Speaker 1: and look, go do I need to watch this one?
Speaker 1: And when it said Shane Gillis, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I think this is a repeat, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: And then when I came home late after mAbs and
Speaker 1: it was in the middle of a weekday update and
Speaker 1: it was current news, I was like, Oh, crap, I
Speaker 1: probably need to watch this from the beginning.
Speaker 4: Because he hosted last year in season forty nine, and
Speaker 4: it's very rare to come back that fast. I think
Speaker 4: with season fifty. Lorne Michaels or Lippowitz his real name.
Speaker 4: Has just wanted to work with people that he likes.
Speaker 4: Because Nate Bargatzi came back after one year. You've gotten
Speaker 4: Chappelle and Bilber and all these like comedians, and like
Speaker 4: he loves Ariana Grande whatever she got to host an episode.
Speaker 4: He loves Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga was your host and
Speaker 4: musical guest next week. Like things like that, all the
Speaker 4: people he wants to work with a lot of times.
Speaker 4: Shane is a good one to have after S and
Speaker 4: L fifty because you can go Shane Gillis is gonna
Speaker 4: have stuff and we might be a little dry, okay,
Speaker 4: So it's a perfect perfect host. Shane Gillis your musical guest,
Speaker 4: Tate McCrae. Do you know anything about Tate McCrae.
Speaker 2: I had never heard of her before, but I'm an
Speaker 2: old man.
Speaker 1: I had just had a conversation about Tate McCrae a
Speaker 1: week ago with my wife, and I didn't know who.
Speaker 2: That person was.
Speaker 1: But because their name was Tate McCrae, I thought it
Speaker 1: was a male country artist.
Speaker 3: It does sound like a male country artist.
Speaker 4: So I only knew her because she was a season
Speaker 4: forty nine musical guest.
Speaker 1: Okay, we were driving and we were you know, Spotify
Speaker 1: will do Friday releases, new Friday songs, so we're skipping
Speaker 1: through and when she pulled up, Tate mccress like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to listen to new Country.
Speaker 2: She goes, no, this is Tate mccraye.
Speaker 1: She's an art she's a pop star, and started playing
Speaker 1: it and I didn't know what she looked like, and
Speaker 1: so watching SNL was my first time to see what
Speaker 1: she looked like. And man, I gotta say, and again,
Speaker 1: that's not my lane. That stuff is so boring, and
Speaker 1: I know what she's doing.
Speaker 2: My wife.
Speaker 1: People say, she goes, well, she's trying to be Britney
Speaker 1: Spears for this generation. And I'm sitting there watching it
Speaker 1: and she's spreading her legs a lot and wearing tiny
Speaker 1: shorts and all this, and I'm thinking to myself, you
Speaker 1: know where we're at in society, She's gonna need to
Speaker 1: perform a sexual act on stage to get anyone's attention
Speaker 1: because this music is boring and it just seems that
Speaker 1: she's copying what other people have done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Brittany had catchy bops at least.
Speaker 2: Who was her audience. Well, let me be like young girls.
Speaker 2: I listen to this. I go, Dez.
Speaker 1: Came home from being out on Saturday night, my seventeen
Speaker 1: year old, and I.
Speaker 2: Go, Dez, what do you think of Tate McCrae.
Speaker 1: And he goes, She's bad And I was like, bad
Speaker 1: like her music sucks or bad like that's a bad bee.
Speaker 2: He goes like, that's a bad bee. And I was like,
Speaker 2: all right, I get it. They like her because she's
Speaker 2: sexy and her butt's hanging out, but took hot.
Speaker 1: She's known for being a good dancer or a dancer
Speaker 1: her her songs are not good.
Speaker 2: I super good either. And she came out on a
Speaker 2: stack of metal chairs. I thought she was going to
Speaker 2: die on TV, Like, I can't believe that everybody knows
Speaker 2: those chairs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think a mass halftime acting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was very very much like that.
Speaker 2: But I thought she was going to fall.
Speaker 1: But the whole thing is she's going to turn to
Speaker 1: the audience. And actually, I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: have seen the cover of her album, but she and
Speaker 1: they showed it on SNL. She's facing the other way
Speaker 1: with their legs wide open. It's her colon. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: so it's like that whole thing, and I'm sitting there
Speaker 1: thinking about it and I'm like, you know, but part
Speaker 1: of it is I'm fifty and so I've seen all
Speaker 1: this before. And then after hearing my son's response, I realized, Oh,
Speaker 1: every generation's gonna have one. They're all gonna have their Brittany,
Speaker 1: we had Madonna. They're going to keep recycling this thing
Speaker 1: because it's.
Speaker 2: New to them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's an old hat to us, but it's
Speaker 1: new to them. And that's appealing to teenage boys.
Speaker 4: Even with the artists Thudy that you don't know anything about,
Speaker 4: you can usually hear something and you might go, okay,
Speaker 4: that's okay, you know, every even I remember last season
Speaker 4: she host when she was the music question of someone going.
Speaker 3: Jesus is bad. I thought it's the same thing this
Speaker 3: week too.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I thought it was boring and lacked a good hook.
Speaker 3: Yeah. All right, Well there was Tate McCrae. But Shane
Speaker 3: is the story here.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: Shane was hired by SNL in twenty nineteen, and then
Speaker 4: everyone went out and found clips of him online in
Speaker 4: his podcast that he does, and you know, tweets and
Speaker 4: things like that, and within one day NBC fired Shane
Speaker 4: Gillis from SNL.
Speaker 1: So he was going to be like just a regular cast.
Speaker 1: He was hired at the same time as Bow and Yang. Oh,
Speaker 1: and it was was it racist Asian?
Speaker 3: It was?
Speaker 4: It was Asian slurs, and Bow and Yang has been
Speaker 4: accused of doing that and he has defended that a ton.
Speaker 2: He's been accused of being the one.
Speaker 4: He's just because he did the Asian slurs doesn't mean
Speaker 4: the gay Asian guy went and wind to NBC. He's
Speaker 4: like the like the people did this, I did nothing. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and Lorne Michaels has said he did not do this.
Speaker 4: NBC made this decision. So Shane, you know, after five years,
Speaker 4: gets brought back to host last year.
Speaker 3: It's all good. We address it.
Speaker 4: I mean Norm McDonald, we've talked about this for nor
Speaker 4: mc donald hosted like within months after he was fired from.
Speaker 3: NBC, and it was good.
Speaker 4: They had to wait five years until they were like, okay,
Speaker 4: we can put shade in there now. And then gets
Speaker 4: a bit of a joke and now we don't have
Speaker 4: to do but for the second time, we're not really
Speaker 4: gonna live off that joke. If I got fired last time.
Speaker 4: The monologue the first time was fine. This time it
Speaker 4: was rough. I'm gonna play you. This is about the
Speaker 4: second or third joke here of the of the of
Speaker 4: the day. He started out with one Trump Woden Biden, Okay,
Speaker 4: play both sides, and then here we kind of get going.
Speaker 5: There's the thing I've noticed that white guys do, and
Speaker 5: most white guys I know do it, and nobody seems
Speaker 5: to be talking about it, all right, and it is racist.
Speaker 5: There's a thing white guys do that whenever they're dating
Speaker 5: a woman for the first time, they always ask him eventually,
Speaker 5: have you ever?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: I didn't even finish every one of you. It's a
Speaker 5: weird thing to ask.
Speaker 3: You shouldn't do it, do you know, Christina?
Speaker 2: I do, but I will say I've never had a
Speaker 2: guy ask me.
Speaker 3: About it before. For those out there that don't know,
Speaker 3: it will get there.
Speaker 5: So yeah, all right, you gotta find the right time
Speaker 5: to ask, though you don't want to go too early
Speaker 5: with that.
Speaker 3: You look like a psycho.
Speaker 5: You don't want to be like on Tinder, like have
Speaker 5: you ever had sex with a black guy before? It's
Speaker 5: a shameful thing to ask. All right, I've done it.
Speaker 5: I'm not proud I've done it. One time, I was
Speaker 5: in the car with the girl I was dating at
Speaker 5: the time. We were driving home from my friend Jamal's house,
Speaker 5: all right, and out of nowhere, the girl I was
Speaker 5: dating at the time, she just goes, hmmm, Jamal's handsome.
Speaker 2: I was like, all right.
Speaker 5: With me, I'm not insecure or racist or whatever would
Speaker 5: make me care about that. She brought it up, so
Speaker 5: now I can ask without looking like a psycho.
Speaker 3: So I was like, have you ever, would you ever ever?
Speaker 3: Do you ever? Have you ever had sex with the
Speaker 3: black eyes?
Speaker 2: She goes with you?
Speaker 5: Who know?
Speaker 3: I was like, Jesus, Chris, what are you racist?
Speaker 5: All right, I'll tell you this now that I've got your.
Speaker 4: He had done this a couple of times before that
Speaker 4: is make a little okay, lost you on that one.
Speaker 2: That's he does that a lot. Yeah, like he I
Speaker 2: think he enjoys like that awkwardness. Like almost every time
Speaker 2: I've ever seen him, he loses the audience and pushes
Speaker 2: it that far. And that joke. I think I've heard
Speaker 2: him do that two other times at least once. I
Speaker 2: was like, wait, why is he just going through old jokes?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: This is the thing. And I can't remember who told
Speaker 4: me this, but it was. This is in the last
Speaker 4: two months. If someone telling me they were going to
Speaker 4: see Shane when he was at the American Airline Center,
Speaker 4: they're like, yeah, I don't know what to expect though,
Speaker 4: because like, I've never that. I think they'd seen him
Speaker 4: twice and they're like, it was the same thing I
Speaker 4: see if he was is this sustainable or not?
Speaker 2: Man, and a lot of comedians are like that.
Speaker 1: There are I bet I've seen Bill Burr live in
Speaker 1: person five or six times. I've never seen him do
Speaker 1: the same material twice. Yeah, And Chappelle is usually pretty
Speaker 1: good about not recycling material too. Some of it does
Speaker 1: get recycled, but those two guys are amazing at keeping
Speaker 1: it fresh.
Speaker 2: But when I saw Shane Gillis at the AC, I
Speaker 2: didn't recognize really anything. Yeah, I thought it was all original.
Speaker 2: There may have been one or two other things he
Speaker 2: probably has, but this I was like, Oh wow, he
Speaker 2: went back even before this latest special like or his
Speaker 2: latest tour. Oh that's old old materials.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh wow, he's funny, Like I've got eight minutes,
Speaker 4: so my best stuff. I don't know, but it was
Speaker 4: odd if it wasn't his best stuff. This was absolutely
Speaker 4: not his best stuff. What you're about to hear this
Speaker 4: was a wild joyce. And I don't think it's terrible
Speaker 4: by the way, I think it's fine.
Speaker 3: I'm getting older.
Speaker 5: I can tell him getting older because the only thing
Speaker 5: I watch is historical documentaries. I also drink a lot,
Speaker 5: so I don't Uh, I haven't retained one piece of
Speaker 5: information turned on and I'm asleep. I've watched the same
Speaker 5: episode of World War Two in HD.
Speaker 2: So this this goes back to like he's he's doing
Speaker 2: little pieces of material that are part of bigger things.
Speaker 2: Like I've heard a bigger set up on that Jamal thing.
Speaker 2: I heard a bigger set up on this he talks about,
Speaker 2: you know, he makes fun of his dad for the
Speaker 2: way he watched the news, and he says, I'm his
Speaker 2: history buff. He goes that's early onset Republican, and so
Speaker 2: like this is old.
Speaker 4: Uh huh yeah, And I think I mean, like, you
Speaker 4: get eight minutes, and Lord gets mad if you go
Speaker 4: past eight minutes, Like comedians get a little longer leash
Speaker 4: eight minutes, though you like it was eleven, we need
Speaker 4: to cut it down to eight like, okay, so it's
Speaker 4: tough if he's kind of got longer form bits.
Speaker 3: But the crowd was not loving this. I'm on episode one.
Speaker 3: I've been on episode one for four years.
Speaker 5: I wake up at four am. It's still on volume
Speaker 5: at fifty. Episode eight. Stalingrad just wake up to artillery
Speaker 5: every night. Just but my favorite historical documentary is it's
Speaker 5: called ken Burns Civil War. Also it's kryptonite to women.
Speaker 5: If you put that on, they will fall asleep. You know. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we have about some ken Burns. That's a little Cosby
Speaker 5: tip for you. Actually, who needs roopies when we have
Speaker 5: ken Burns presents the history of the Buffalo bbs?
Speaker 3: Like that's pretty good. But they just were not going.
Speaker 3: And that's like the size of that studio to show
Speaker 3: you there ain't many people there. There ain't many seats.
Speaker 1: I think too though it sounds better than it watched, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, the tension in the studio, it was just
Speaker 1: it was very dead.
Speaker 2: But it sounds better than it was. I think a
Speaker 2: big part of that is when the band behind him
Speaker 2: does not laugh. Yeah, they were justly yeah, and you
Speaker 2: know when he was doing like the edgy you know,
Speaker 2: racist humor, you could see a black guy not laughing
Speaker 2: directly over his shoulder, but it's just tense. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: I guess that's part of his bit too, is to
Speaker 2: run fast and loose with the race stuff.
Speaker 3: All right, that's.
Speaker 1: Gonna do it for us to day. But don't forget
Speaker 1: there is going to be Dallas Mavericks basketball later in
Speaker 1: the meantime. I'll never forget the time KT looked Jamal
Speaker 1: dead in the eye and he said, well, I.
Speaker 4: Just think in these times, I think it's really important
Speaker 4: that we all consider everything when it comes to the.
Speaker 3: World we're living in.
Speaker 2: God, what a waste of time that was.
Speaker 1: Christina is gonna play some music in the meantime next
Speaker 1: on the Eagle.
Speaker 3: Here you going, well, I'm gonna get my sack backed, dude,
Speaker 3: God bless Jesus.