― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
Weekend Update is awful, sorry. There's no bite to the jokes. they seem happily surprised if a joke does well, and if it doesn't they lean reaaaal hard on the "it's not funny; isn't that funny!?" thing that is the death-knell of television comedy (cf Johnny Carson, Conan's monologue)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
Everyone keeps banging on about SNL and I've never seen it - indeed, living in the UK with no Sky means I probably never will. Is there like a SNL Best Of DVD around? Or should I not bother - is it over-hyped rubbish?
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link
I liked the bit about Larry David. The part with him and Dick Ebersol standing by the elevator sounded just like something out of "Curb Your Enthusiasm".
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 11 April 2005 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link
make talk about the old snl. converse about the dim bulb sketch.
― foolhardy, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 01:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 02:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 02:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Community Cornerstone (deangulberry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― teen challenge (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 03:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― teen challenge (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 03:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
The M'OD bio "Mr Mike" is worth a read. He bitched when the original cast started to do recurring characters, cuz he thought that was too much like Carol Burnett etc.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay is not appropriate for freedom (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:15 (eighteen years ago) link
the writers' terror of offending anyone makes most of the sketches heavily dependent on unfunny gimmicks and repetition, much like conan o'brien's show these days.
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Monday, 17 October 2005 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link
(i ACTUALLY roffled the first time i saw this sketch)
-- joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 04:22 (2 years ago) Link
― and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:04 (sixteen years ago) link
was actually bumping thread to say i have a crush of shame on kristin wiig
why shame?
― remy bean, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:29 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe shame bc she's totally annoying?
― tehresa, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:33 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, that
― and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:37 (sixteen years ago) link
shes kinda horsey too
i dunno i used to get real madtv vibes & think she was really untalented but now i kinda think shes the funniest person on the show
she never tina fey
― tehresa, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:37 (sixteen years ago) link
the hot air balloon thing sealed it for me
she def. cracks me up with the penelope skits.
― remy bean, Sunday, 24 February 2008 07:11 (sixteen years ago) link
the hot air balloon was totally a rip-off of Tim and Eric style bad TV. Tonight wasn't so funny. Cold open was pretty weak and the game show too. Steve Martin and Tina were good in the intro. I also liked Tina's Hillary rant. What's the story on the new girl?
― dan selzer, Sunday, 24 February 2008 07:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i watched snl tonight for the first time in a while!! it was not that good but when is it ever. tina fey was only really good in the monologue.
the there will be blood thing cracked me up tho.
and ya what IS up with that new chick?> is she secretly fergie
― s1ocki, Sunday, 24 February 2008 07:36 (sixteen years ago) link
bret michaels sketch was awesome. the girls on snl roxxor.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 07:54 (sixteen years ago) link
so's maya rudolph gone?
― circles, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I couldn't remember seeing new girl in the earlier episodes this season and then noticed half way through the show that maya hadn't shown up at all.
― circles, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:18 (sixteen years ago) link
new girl is not funny
― remy bean, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:19 (sixteen years ago) link
two of these are new to me, i know dratch and wiig basically.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:30 (sixteen years ago) link
goddamnit darrell hammond is going to outlive us all
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I love Fred Armisen, and I understand that they're kind of in a pinch, but his Obama is horrible.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:32 (sixteen years ago) link
darrell fucking hammond.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:36 (sixteen years ago) link
he is responsible for like 25% of the suckage in any given year
fuck, i was just thinking that. he's been on for 13 years, hasn't he...
xp
― kingfish, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:37 (sixteen years ago) link
glad i misssed the obama thing. his gene simmons was way off at first but it got funny.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:37 (sixteen years ago) link
His fake Gene Simmons hair is sadly better than Gene Simmons's real Gene Simmons hair.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:39 (sixteen years ago) link
-- tehresa, Saturday, February 23, 2008 10:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
kristen wig is beautiful and funny.
this week has been the week of gnar ilxor girls telling dudes which girls they should like.
― chaki, Sunday, 24 February 2008 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Mike Huckabee -- great timing!
― Dimension 5ive, Sunday, 24 February 2008 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link
ILX has never sounded as old as it does in this thread right now.
I watched the first season of SNL as it happened, I am old.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 4 March 2024 20:59 (three weeks ago) link
Oldman is a joy to work with on sets from what I’ve heard. I just saw Peter Medak two nights ago and he raved about working with him on Romeo is Bleeding
― beamish13, Monday, 4 March 2024 21:00 (three weeks ago) link
What do you call the outfit Aubrey Plaza was wearing? A breastolier?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 4 March 2024 21:06 (three weeks ago) link
xpost I'm referring more to his off-screen behavior. he's a "fuck political correctness" asshole and that Playboy interview controversy only went away because he cried on tv in his apology, which is the elixir which makes everything ok.
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 March 2024 21:10 (three weeks ago) link
OL i like that definition let's go with that yes
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 4 March 2024 21:11 (three weeks ago) link
anyway Sydney Sweeney is famous, though it's understandable that not everyone knows who she is because right now the entertainment world is oversaturated with so much damn content at the push of a button that it's harder to keep up with everybody.
the misogynistic responses surrounding her hosting that I seemed to run into all weekend against my will was to be expected because this country is a cesspool but was no less infuriating with that knowledge.
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 March 2024 21:12 (three weeks ago) link
Oh, I figured. I know Oldman is a Tory asshole. There were rumours about him being abusive while married to Uma Thurman as well
― beamish13, Monday, 4 March 2024 21:15 (three weeks ago) link
Wait just a gol-durned minute there young fella! Not all us ilxors who are out of touch with recent trends in popular culture are old people. Now take me for example. I'm out of touch AND I'm old, BUT I'm not all ilxors. Therefore not all ilxors are old and out of touch. QED
Let that be a lesson to you.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 4 March 2024 22:00 (three weeks ago) link
_ILX has never sounded as old as it does in this thread right now._idk, feel like those threads where people complain about how young people talk are worse for thisWe all live in the age of atomisation etc etc
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 4 March 2024 22:13 (three weeks ago) link
Anyone who can legally buy beer talking about Saturday Night Live sounds old as fuck, because Saturday Night Live's target audience is high school students who want to watch something they think is intended for people older than themselves.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 4 March 2024 22:16 (three weeks ago) link
Actually I would probably argue it's junior high school students, but otherwise generally correct.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 4 March 2024 22:17 (three weeks ago) link
My wife has said that - it felt daring to be allowed to stay up late.
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 4 March 2024 22:18 (three weeks ago) link
I remember watching a VHS tape of the Michael Jordan hosted ep with Public Enemy from previous night and mom yelling because she had seen it and it was really dirty and I needed to turn it off.
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 March 2024 22:20 (three weeks ago) link
saying that...tends to have the opposite affect on young boys
She watched Channel Zero
― President Keyes, Monday, 4 March 2024 22:31 (three weeks ago) link
If more of us had, it might still be with us 😔
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Monday, 4 March 2024 22:59 (three weeks ago) link
I imagine this thread, like a bombing snl monologue, plays to the solemn faces of observing musicians.
― batman monster truck (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 4 March 2024 23:22 (three weeks ago) link
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― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 01:08 (three weeks ago) link
the Michael Jordan hosted ep with Public Enemy
I still laugh about "the first Black Globetrotter."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 20:32 (three weeks ago) link
boobs are anti-woke now?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 21:01 (three weeks ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFI08_6nsDM
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 21:20 (three weeks ago) link
A good essay about Shane Gillis, Bowen Yang, SNL, and 'comedy fans' whose brains are broken.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 9 March 2024 00:11 (two weeks ago) link
Lotta thinkpieces about Sydney Sweeney this week.
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 9 March 2024 00:14 (two weeks ago) link
A couple weeks late with this, but happy belated 30th Anniversary to me getting in trouble at school for repeating parts of Martin Lawrence's monologue in the class the following Monday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo8V8uyab34
Apparently when his (one & only) ep was rerun, they overdubbed a comedic disclaimer directly over his bit on feminine hygiene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbi_4qCL4ms
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 9 March 2024 04:35 (two weeks ago) link
oh, Kath Barbadaro was the person I saw going off on bluesky about people being weird about coming to Yang's defence, glad to see she wrote more about that.
"I don’t get too worked up about what someone who isn’t those things says onstage, as long as they’re stopping short of advocating fascism or war crimes"
per that, I saw at least two people on instagram claiming Gillis was a facist. That word is losing all meaning among some people.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 9 March 2024 16:25 (two weeks ago) link
Yeah, otoh the weird glee the Gillis fans had over him using the r-word in his monologue seemed to miss the point that he was advocating for people using it to be beaten down.
― President Keyes, Saturday, 9 March 2024 16:33 (two weeks ago) link
ScarJo really nailed Katie Britt
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 10 March 2024 16:03 (two weeks ago) link
rowr
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Sunday, 10 March 2024 16:21 (two weeks ago) link
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 9 March 2024 00:11 (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
More importantly, he is by all accounts a good guy to work with, encouraging of younger performers, someone well regarded in the scene he came up in, and to my knowledge, no one has has ever accused him of being a sex criminal. There are enough actual rapists, abusers, exploiters, and just generally toxic people in comedy that I don’t get too worked up about what someone who isn’t those things says onstage, as long as they’re stopping short of advocating fascism or war crimes or something.
I get the impression that there are a lot people like Gillis for similar reasons that people liked pre-cancellation Louis CK, that he manages to thread the needle of not being a 'woke comedian' while not being an 'anti-woke' comedian either? But then Louis couldn't fill that niche any more after the sexual misconduct scandal because he lost the seems-like-a-basically-decent-guy-I-guess thing that Barbadaro refers to above
― soref, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:38 (two weeks ago) link
You know, I’d forgotten that Michaela Watkins only got to be on SNL for a season and am now upset all over again
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 19:52 (two weeks ago) link
I saw a little blip on talk show where they played a clip of Ted Cruz interviewing Katie Britt on his pod about the SNL parody (she was delighted BTW), and he bitched about Aidy Bryant playing him back in the day, and I realized that part of hiring Shane Gillis in '19 was probably in part to have him take over Cruz as Bryant winded down her tenure.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 March 2024 19:36 (one week ago) link
That essay on Gillis was indeed good. I find it hard to hate on him much after seeing his standup. I wanted to see some just to get a sense of what kind of comedian he is and wound up watching the whole thing because he was actually pretty funny. It sucks that he got fired from SNL - I don't think they should've offered it to him in the first place, but offering it and then rescinding it only ensured he'd wind up with a built-in fanbase of trangressive shitheads.
― frogbs, Friday, 15 March 2024 19:48 (one week ago) link