Is it me? Does the audience seem too young to get most of SNL's jokes. Maybe the don't get the references. Silver Spoons went way over their heads.

Every time I see Jay Pharaoh and his impressions, I find them more charming and fascinating than funny. The problem is their perfection. He doesn't impersonate Will Smith above, he BECOMES Will Smith. That's an incredible talent -- but it isn't comical. Funny impressions take some element or dimension or quirk of the person and exaggerate it, make it mechanical, as if the person was at the mercy of their own ticks and style of voice. Dana Carvey's impressions are like this. Take Carvey's George Bush, Sr, for instance. Really, very little like the actual person, except that he takes a few phrases and mannerisms and blows them up so that we laugh at this person as if they were nothing but these stock movements and behaviors. Carvey's impressions are not as perfect or accurate as Pharaoh's, but they are much, much funnier for that reason. Pharaoh is an incredible actor, but I think he needs to reduce the accuracy of his performances if he wants to be funny. When I first saw him I was overwhelmed at how great his impressions were, they are incredibly compelling studies of these individuals. Just not, at this moment, funny.

Jay Pharoah is amazing! Yet another spot on impression.All these new featured players are so dang great (except Nasim.....she either needs to step it up or get the fudge out).