Colin is kinda bombing is he not. Some jokes get no laughs. I do really like him though

[Trueblue1968]

I just love him on weekend update but come ... Don be stiff

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Colin is indeed bombing

[Ocelot II]

3. Not really. He's warming up.

[mitch96]

29. A solid "meh"...nt

[Trueblue1968]

2. Lolololololol .....trump is farting himself awake at a porn star trial

I almost peed myself

[DaBronx]

4. Bombing fo sho

His type of humor is best handled in short timeframes like weekend update, like cute short segments. He doesn’t have the cadence or persona for a big audience.

[LeftInTX]

5. "Obama got bin Laden, you got OJ" Not funny

[Ocelot II]

6. Joe was funnier, I think.

Though Jost had some good ones.

[LauraInLA]

7. I actually thought he was really funny. We also liked JoeB.

[Xavier Breath]

8. Yeah, he's hit or miss tonight. n/t

[UTUSN]

9. At least he's not breaking up the way he and Che do constantly.

Being too blunt to be edgy.

[Cha]

10. Who's Colin? No tv and I'm

On the bus 🚎.. TY You

[spanone]

16. On Saturday Night Live....Does the Weekend Update

Married to Scarlet Johannson

[Cha]

23. Oh TY spanone!

[spanone]

30. 👍🏼♥️

[Cha]

31. 🕯️🕊️💙🌊🍀

💜🐶🌈

[claudette]

18. He does the 'Weekend Update" on SNL

and is the longest running star in that spot.

[Cha]

24. TY

[claudette]

25. YW

[Deuxcents]

32. Yes, and I think he's accustomed to SNL cadence as he's not a stand up comic.

I thought he was pretty good tho being out of his element.

[FarPoint]

34. Colin Jost....

from SNL.... married to Scarlett Johansson...

[Cha]

35. TY Far Point.. I've never seen him.. I hope

he' did better.

[DET]

11. Jost is Just Awful

Kind of like SNL anymore. But his closing is pretty touching.

[LauraInLA]

12. Ok, I take it back. Colin's closing is extremely powerful. And I don't think I've

ever heard such a touching personal comic address at the Correspondents’ Dinner!

[DaBronx]

15. Agreed

Surprise ending!

[3catwoman3]

13. I haven't watched SNL in years, so I don't know if he is funnier...

...there. The audience doesn't seem to be finding him very amusing.

He just wrapped up. I have a feeling he is probably glad it's over.

[Xavier Breath]

22. Update is funnier, but he he saved a somewhat mediocre comedic routine

with his heartfelt tribute to his grandfather. Hard to miss with that.

[claudette]

26. I think his

jokes on SNL and now at the WHCD are more cerebral and not offensive bawdy and x-rated like some of the other comedians were. He's great - in my view.

[claudette]

14. I think he's great

He has a lot of class.

[Trueblue1968]

17. His last bit about his grandpa and joe was wonferful. Brought me to tears

Colin commenting on Joe's decency !!!!!!! Thank you colin.

[Tree Lady]

19. I really liked it

and I think what he said especially at the end was why everyone should vote for Joe.

[joshcryer]

20. He was incredible.

[dweller]

21. I think he was decent

As was his parting accolade to Joe …



✌🏻

[Traildogbob]

27. Like watching the

State of the Union. The Right is just angry and pissed at it all.
I had to turn it off, seeing the smug hate filled mugs of the assholes hell bent on ending democracy, Fox et al, was blinding my blood.
Rather watch the weather tracking tomatoes. Much more calming than watching a room half full of pro trumpers.
The silence after the J6 repeat comment, did it for me.

[Turbineguy]

28. I thought

the comment about the man who set himself on fire outside the trump trial was in bad taste.

But I liked everything else.

[RockRaven]

33. The portion I was unable to avoid seeing (someone in my household

insisted on continuing watching when we sat down for dinner, so from some midpoint to the end) was bad. Really bad. No laughs. A couple of wry smiles. And some "oh, that was a missed opportunity, if only it had just been tweaked a little" moments. And some cringe -- maybe more than some.

I don't know what bombing should mean in this context. It seems to me to be an impossible situation to be funny. The shit that this country is in at the moment does not lend itself to humor, and being frivolous and avoiding all that shit is also not funny because the stakes don't tolerate avoidance.

Of course, that is why I was disinclined to watch in the first place. This self-important BS from the WH press, when they congratulate themselves for doing what they fail to do daily while ignoring all the ways they fail to live up to their own hype daily, is part of what I hate about MSM/cable news. We are in a world of shit partially of their making and they are blowing smoke up their own asses about how awesome they are, while telling the unfunniest jokes available.

[PatSeg]

36. I felt badly for him

It is a really tough gig and the jokes often fall flat especially with that audience. I like him a lot on Weekend Update, but this is a different venue. Of course, I've seen quite a few really funny comedians bomb at the White House Correspondence Dinner, so he is in good company.

That said, I got teary eyed toward the end when he compared Biden to his grandfather. It was very touching.

[RandySF]

37. He was merciless toward Rrump and the press.

[Earth-shine]

38. Jokes about Bernie Sanders chasing an early bird special were funny in 2016. It's just trite now.

A lot of his jokes didn't land. I heard tremors in his voice. He knew it was not going well.

The routine would have been better if it were shorter.

The end was great, of course.

I like this guy on SNL. I think weekend update is the only part of SNL that's consistently good.

[a kennedy]

39. Good, guess I can just trash my DVR'd copy of his routine. Never liked him anyway......

[Xavier Breath]

40. You'll want to watch the end where he discusses his grandfather.

Saved his whole appearance, to my way of thinking at least.

It's a weird audience at these things. They don't react much or well it seems to jokes made about anyone other than politicians. Make a joke about someone else in the room and they seem to sit their grim and mostly silent. The tut-tutting and pearl-clutching over Michelle Wolf's relatively harmless takedown of Huckabee-Sanders is a testament to that. Humorless stiffs, the lot of them.

[HAB911]

41. He was funny as hell

[Elessar Zappa]

42. I thought he was pretty funny.

I think some of the jokes hit too close to home for some of the media.