The popular stand-up brings together an above average week at 30 Rock with a surprise return for The Lonely Island
Photograph: NBC/Rosalind O'Connor/Getty ImagesPhotograph: NBC/Rosalind O'Connor/Getty Imageshe second episode of the landmark comedy show’s 50th season felt like a comeback of sorts on multiple levels. The popular stand-up Nate Bargatze has been handed over hosting duties once again after his well-received hosting debut almost exactly a year ago. Meanwhile, musical guest Coldplay returned for their eighth appearance.
Bargatze is one of stand-up comedy’s modern powerhouses, last year he broke the attendance record at Bridgestone Arena in his native Nashville, Tennessee. So if you’re unsure who he is, perhaps that says more about the splintered culture of the craft than his personal impact on mainstream culture. Regardless, Bargatze delivered a monologue focused on securing a Door Dash, which at times felt like hearing your friend’s simple rehash of an otherwise normal Door Dash order.
The game, or premise, of this unique sketch is based around whether to carry down a dead body from the top of a waterslide or just push him down, which was inspired by a longtime stand-up routine from cast member Longfellow. Going back and forth with Bargatze playing another version of his laidback self, its inherent strangeness made you wonder why it didn’t air later in the show. It’s nothing a little Coldplay can’t fix, with the band performing their schmaltzy All My Love.
Here, a family has a serious conversation about the patriarch’s dementia while Heidi Gardner tries to chow down on a massive burger to win a trip to Disney World. The laughs here stemmed from Gardner’s sloppy eating . Still, it felt like another sketch flavored by the past; this one maybe borrowing some inspiration from 2004’s; perhaps they were even nodding to it considering that sketch takes place in Disney World.
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