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You can buy best of dvds for a number of different castmembers throughout the years. Good ones would be Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Chris Farley, Phil Hartman, Will Ferrell, and Tracy Morgan. Not sure if those last two actually exist.
Personally, though, I only think the show is fun to watch when it is live. Sounds silly, but it seems more exciting. Also Weekend Update is always my favorite part and I don't think they would be on the DVDs.

Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 13:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

i've gotten back into "live from new york" (god i love oral histories) and man is it a great read. i reccomend it to everyone. also, best bathroom book EVER.

s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 14:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

11 months pass...
That book seemed a bit too "authorized". Everyone seemed to be saying the same thing: "Lorne Michaels is a bit obtuse and aloof, but he sho' know what he's doing!"

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 (8 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...
revive.

make talk about the old snl. converse about the dim bulb sketch.

foolhardy, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 01:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

It dipped to pretty serious levels of suckitude this spring -- mostly so-so premises that proceeded to go someplace even worse than nowhere -- but then the season finale was actually reliably funny. Will Forte seems to be the most enjoyable one, now that Maya Rudolph's started to seem less like an exciting newbie and more like she's trying to carry whole awful concepts on the shoulders of her talent.

nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 02:25 (8 years ago) Permalink

i love watching the oldass 70s reruns they'll show laate on saturdays

j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 02:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

"her talents"

Community Cornerstone (deangulberry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 03:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

i can't remember the last new episode i saw.

teen challenge (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 03:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

but if we're doing s/d i'll still rep for that one sketch a few years ago where ana gasteyer (right?) played celine "i am de greatest seenger een allll ze worrrld!" dion.

teen challenge (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 03:58 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'm with the late Michael O'Donoghue: hasn't been edgy since 1976, consistently funny since '78-79, worth watching since Mike Myers left.

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

wow did o'donoghue say that about myers really?

j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:55 (8 years ago) Permalink

oops... I meant NOT worth watching. And that one was mine.

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 (8 years ago) Permalink

slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:06 (8 years ago) Permalink

OK I caught it last week. Most of it was totally unfunny but the "Chaotic" parody was bizarre and basically gave me giggles for days. "Oh HELL no. Hell...no."

Allyzay is not appropriate for freedom (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:11 (8 years ago) Permalink

I just read the Mr. Mike bio last week. He made a good point about the show having more than enough "wacky wacky" when the producers resisted his attempts to give William S. Burroughs a brief segment on one of the early 80s episodes.

herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

sadly, i watch SNL alot. seth whatshisname seems like the obvious replacement for jimmy fallon - he smirks constantly, isn't very funny and is in far too many sketches.

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 (7 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...
Charles Rocket is dead, at his own hand.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

Strange way to kill oneself, btw.

M. V. (M.V.), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

'the rocket report' in central park is still funny

_, Monday, 17 October 2005 16:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

(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 (5 years ago) Permalink

was actually bumping thread to say i have a crush of shame on kristin wiig

and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:04 (5 years ago) Permalink

why shame?

remy bean, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:29 (5 years ago) Permalink

maybe shame bc she's totally annoying?

tehresa, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:33 (5 years ago) Permalink

yeah, that

and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:37 (5 years ago) Permalink

shes kinda horsey too

and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:37 (5 years ago) Permalink

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

and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:37 (5 years ago) Permalink

she never tina fey

tehresa, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:37 (5 years ago) Permalink

the hot air balloon thing sealed it for me

and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:37 (5 years ago) Permalink

she def. cracks me up with the penelope skits.

remy bean, Sunday, 24 February 2008 07:11 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

bret michaels sketch was awesome. the girls on snl roxxor.

tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 07:54 (5 years ago) Permalink

so's maya rudolph gone?

circles, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:12 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

new girl is not funny

remy bean, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:19 (5 years ago) Permalink

two of these are new to me, i know dratch and wiig basically.

tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:30 (5 years ago) Permalink

goddamnit darrell hammond is going to outlive us all

tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:32 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

darrell fucking hammond.

tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:36 (5 years ago) Permalink

he is responsible for like 25% of the suckage in any given year

tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:36 (5 years ago) Permalink

fuck, i was just thinking that. he's been on for 13 years, hasn't he...

xp

kingfish, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:37 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

His fake Gene Simmons hair is sadly better than Gene Simmons's real Gene Simmons hair.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:39 (5 years ago) Permalink

maybe shame bc she's totally annoying?

-- 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 (5 years ago) Permalink

Mike Huckabee -- great timing!

Dimension 5ive, Sunday, 24 February 2008 13:00 (5 years ago) Permalink

xp: huckabee was pretty good. a shame about his beliefs and politics.

the fake ad was funny. the new girl did a hateful rachel ray, so she's ok with me. but overall should've been better with a couple months' vacation. i hear they're only doing eight more episodes for the season.

the hot air balloon was totally a rip-off of Tim and Eric style bad TV.

but kinda funny instead of not funny at all.

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Sunday, 24 February 2008 13:03 (5 years ago) Permalink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AUHHOVtNqo

and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 15:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c3921788d9d5011789462b940066

just because...

dan selzer, Sunday, 24 February 2008 15:43 (5 years ago) Permalink

hilarious to suggest that women need to vote for hrc because bitches need to stick together, and pretty funny too to imply that the mainstream media gives obama a free ride at her expense; if '30 rock' goes this way it will get boring very quickly, but i doubt it

Dimension 5ive, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

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

-- and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:37 (9 hours ago) Link

truth. snl has always been the original american idol. there's often these moments when a new performer "breaks". wiig's moment was doing nancy pelosi, up until then she had been a waste of space, but the second she started doing pelosi's intensity eye stares she had the crowd eating out of the palm of her hand.

sanskrit, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:33 (5 years ago) Permalink

Stefon thing where they actually show you some of the crazy stuff he's been describing all these years was so lame and missing the point of the whole bit. kinda bummer that that character became Hader's SNL legacy, he was so much more than that.

yeeznuts (some dude), Sunday, 19 May 2013 12:30 (6 days ago) Permalink

He'll always be Herb Welch to me, and 100 other characters. I always find the Stefon bits funny, but I have no idea why people get obsessed with them.

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 19 May 2013 16:16 (6 days ago) Permalink

When it started it seemed like such a New York joke. LIke for people who remember reading Details before it was a "men's" magazine. I thought it was hilarious but didn't think anybody would get the joke.

dan selzer, Sunday, 19 May 2013 16:21 (6 days ago) Permalink

So is Sudekis out or what?

Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 19 May 2013 18:11 (6 days ago) Permalink

Overall this episode was solid, surprisingly so.

Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 19 May 2013 20:01 (6 days ago) Permalink

Last 10 minutes: crazy emotional, more than expected

Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 19 May 2013 20:07 (6 days ago) Permalink

Vh1 was marathoning Ben Affleck's other hosting turns, and I'd totally forgotten that Seth Meyers was SNL's John Kerry. And he wasn't too bad at it, either. Also, he was the host the weekend before the 2008 election when Tina Fey came back to do Palin with John McCain for the QVC sketch.

All of the ones I watched this afternoon were better than the one from last night.

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 19 May 2013 20:56 (6 days ago) Permalink

been pretty blase about the last few of this season. I'll miss Hader but honestly kind of psyched for a season where Thompson is top dog so I kinda hope sudeikis splits too

da croupier, Sunday, 19 May 2013 20:59 (6 days ago) Permalink

if thompson stays and sudeikis splits, then they've got one guy who's been there a decade and the second longest running is Bobby Moynihan!

da croupier, Sunday, 19 May 2013 21:00 (6 days ago) Permalink

Moynihan has been such a low key power player

yeeznuts (some dude), Sunday, 19 May 2013 21:03 (6 days ago) Permalink

im super sick of sudeikis, hope hes gone for good + hope his movie career goes full piscopo too

turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 19 May 2013 21:04 (6 days ago) Permalink

Moynihan was a total sleeper. He's a genius.

The stefon send-off skit was funny because it's been so long since seeing Seth Meyers "act".

dan selzer, Sunday, 19 May 2013 21:13 (6 days ago) Permalink

meyers on bs report said moynihan was his prediction for breakout season before this season started (i'll leave it to you guys if that happened or not). i'm guessing (hoping tbh) next season will be the killiam and mckinnon show. i'm guessing lorne will bring in a bunch of new ppl also, all the strong impressionists at second city, uccb, etc have to be drooling right now w/ hader gone. trying to remember the last bit snl beat into the ground as much as stefon that i was nevertheless not remotely tired of, i think i'd have to go back to wayne's world or something (there were alot of will farrell bits i never got tired of, bill brassky etc, but they only did those three or four times which does not come close to counting as beating into the ground on snl). curious who's gonna get that update chair, i'd predict cecily strong except her breakout character is an update character.

balls, Sunday, 19 May 2013 23:29 (6 days ago) Permalink

curious who's gonna get that update chair

if lorne likes mulaney enough to have produced his pilot i wonder if he'll have him on the update desk

J0rdan S., Sunday, 19 May 2013 23:35 (6 days ago) Permalink

Tough crowd

Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 19 May 2013 23:36 (6 days ago) Permalink

i think mulaney is really funny - his standup from last year (?) was excellent

Mordy , Sunday, 19 May 2013 23:46 (6 days ago) Permalink

i keep forgetting that after all the hype the mulaney pilot actually didn't get picked up (which w/ nbc's current state of mind re: sitcoms probably means it really was as good as it was reputed to be). yeah i'd figure that's his seat if he wants it.

balls, Sunday, 19 May 2013 23:52 (6 days ago) Permalink

i keep forgetting that after all the hype the mulaney pilot actually didn't get picked up

i said this earlier in this thread but a sensible conspiracy theory is that lorne had the pilot dropped so he could keep mulaney for seth's job

J0rdan S., Sunday, 19 May 2013 23:55 (6 days ago) Permalink

he was funny/charming on jeselnik's panel this season too

Mordy , Sunday, 19 May 2013 23:55 (6 days ago) Permalink

bobby moynihan is fantastic. i hope he sticks around at least a few more seasons.

leno dunham (get bent), Monday, 20 May 2013 01:00 (5 days ago) Permalink

totally ok with more moynihan, drunk uncle is a great oft-repeated sketch, the fox and freinds sketch is stupid but hes great on it, lest we forget RIP ASS DAN

one if by lamp, two if by deeznuts (m bison), Monday, 20 May 2013 03:16 (5 days ago) Permalink

also kenan must have the all-time record for most years doing televised sketch comedy, right?

one if by lamp, two if by deeznuts (m bison), Monday, 20 May 2013 03:17 (5 days ago) Permalink

must have the record for most years of being bad at it too

turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 20 May 2013 03:25 (5 days ago) Permalink

I think last night actually subtracted from Kenan's overall time. Was he in the opening, I missed that?

Was kind of hoping Moynihan's mic-drop dude would pop up in that funeral sketch.

benedict crumbsnatcher (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 20 May 2013 03:28 (5 days ago) Permalink

jan hooks looks like she might be in the running w/ tush, not necessarily the news, snl, and apparently the dana carvey show (though i'm guessing this is one or two appearances tops as probably hillary) and primetime glick which i've blocked all memories of but seems to have been a sketch show of sorts also (you do commercial parodies = you're a sketch show right?).

balls, Monday, 20 May 2013 03:29 (5 days ago) Permalink

i could see portlandia running long enough (esp if he's focusing on it or whatever now) for armisen to get it as well.

balls, Monday, 20 May 2013 03:31 (5 days ago) Permalink

gotta say that "kitty cat" space sketch has staying power

stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Monday, 20 May 2013 03:51 (5 days ago) Permalink


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