― 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
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 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AUHHOVtNqo
― and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c3921788d9d5011789462b940066
just because...
― dan selzer, Sunday, 24 February 2008 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
-- 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 (sixteen years ago) link
saturdaynight dead
― burt_stanton, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
for me it was knocked up... mega lolz at her in that
― and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Tina Fey as Daisy on Rock of Love 2 was scary accurate! Actually all of them were scary accurate.
That pill commercial had me screaming with laughter! "Buy yourself a hat and hold the f*** out of it." haha
― HI DERE, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i laughed at the first bleep but nothing else in that
― and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
reminded me of arrested development
Tina rolling into work with an axe was basically exactly what I wanted to see.
― HI DERE, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Johnny Fever, Sunday, February 24, 2008 8:32 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Link
totally.
and why are they in that pinch, i wonder.
― s1ocki, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG the birth control pill commercial! Tina Fey with an axe! HOTT.
― kate78, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i thought i heard kenan was gonna be obama
― and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I totally get the pro-HRC slant displayed last night. The have a killer Bill impersonator and a killer Hillary impersonator but no Barack impersonator. They should just acknowledge that and let Kenan do some ridiculous completely un-Obamalike character, maybe as a split with Armisen so they end up with a Jeckyll/Hyde routine.
― HI DERE, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
So glad it's back. I don't think the audience got the milkshake sketch but Hader's impression and phrasing was awesome.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
the "I'M FINISHED!" followed by the little musical doop-dee-doo had me rofling.
― s1ocki, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
For some reason last night I remembered Toonces after forgetting about it for a long time. One of their best bits ever, imho.
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:43 (sixteen years 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link