Saturday Night Live

she just had an art house hit!

I hadn't actually forgotten Jenny Slate. I just forgot she was on SNL one season.

yeah did not care for slate on snl, but she's great on kroll show and i wanna see that movie

i've heard hit and miss about the movie. she's great on parks & rec. i like abby elliot. lorne firing casey wilson and esp michaela watkins was super fucked up but i don't hold that against elliot even if 'she's young and cute' is how she made the cut. nasim almost left last summer when mulaney almost got picked up before the new nbc head said he wasn't interested in any sitcoms that ostensibly looked like nbc sitcoms (ergo brooklyn 99 ending up on fox). i hope she gets to be funny on the sitcom; she's gorgeous but she reminds me of kristen wiig where she almost has to overcome or cover up her attractiveness to do what she's funniest at.

Nasim is such a weird case (but maybe not if I'd spent more than a couple minutes thinking about it). She came out of the gate really strong, especially for a featured player. She had recurring characters almost immediately, some of them even successful in the context of the show. Then she retreated the past couple years and it got to the point where it was clear she didn't want to be there or didn't care about screentime, and her last batch of characters have been mostly terrible.

even if 'she's young and cute' is how she made the cut

I think she made the cut because she was Armisen's girlfriend at the time.

well chris elliot's daughter didn't hurt either. i thought she was fine in the show and she's been fine since though obv she doesn't have a happy endings to her credit (still not over it) and she hasn't had the inspired supporting turns michaela watkins has had in wanderlust and esp trophy wife.

yeah nasim last season reminded me of david spade's last season, where he didn't remotely feel really a part of the new cast and was just biding his time until a sitcom gig opened up. last season had a problem w/ generally a cast member having a strong week and then seemingly disappearing for weeks after that. paring down the cast should help that.

https://screen.yahoo.com/annuale-000000661.html

totally apropos of nothing aside from Casey Wilson being adorable in it

<3 that the "Adobe" commercial autoplayed after that one.

"These days, everyone's talking about the Hyundai, and the Yugo. Both nice cars, if you've got $3,000 or $4,000 to throw around. But, for those of us whose name doesn't happen to be Rockefeller, finally there's some good news."

Always thought a clay cupholder was a good idea.

Noël Wells and John Milhiser are out

so basically every whose funniest sketch was "new cast member or Arcade Fire?" is out

Shame about Noel Wells. Milhiser might as well be the last cashier I had at CVS, because that's as much time as I got to spend with him.

Felt like Wells could've done something not-uninteresting given decent material to work with.

i wonder if whelan, wells and milhiser had a "drunk uncle" or "man with baby's body" bit they just never got to do. even paul brittain had that little lord fauntleroy thing they foisted on us twice, jenny slate the doorbell seller.

Wells had Nancy Grace, but that didn't hold up on repeated viewings (and was sometimes met with dead silence).

I would've liked to have seen Wheelan's character from the Critter Control sketch with Ed Norton brought back in something else, but it never happened.

wells had her shots, i thought she might be safe cuz she could do impressions but she also failed badly w/ some impressions (her nancy grace was awful in that overbearing non-eddie sketch from 1982 way) and when she did it suggested that when she was funny w/ an impression it was cuz she nailed the impression, not cuz she's actually funny. would be awesome if they got milana vayntrub. i know she's friends w/ bennett/mooney, she's funny, and it would be another person w/ a regular phone commercial gig. related: i have a weird crush on milana vayntrub.

lol xp

Oh, Lily the AT&T girl. I'll co-sign that.

aww (lol) - https://twitter.com/MrJonCryer/status/489159522003333120

deadline saying there's a chance o'brien is back in the writer's room, there's a smaller chance jost is and o'brien does update (they just say 'some are calling' for that so don't hold yr breath).

I would take O'Brien at the WU desk, though I'm still a firm believer that Cecily Strong can probably do a good job there solo. Jost is the fucking WORST, though.

My Colin Jost hatred doesn't have anything to do with him dating Rashida Jones, but about that...WTF

ALRIGHT I'M ON BOARD W/ THE JOST HATE NOW

http://assets-s3.usmagazine.com/uploads/assets/articles/66404-rashida-jones-dating-fellow-harvard-alum-colin-jost/1379467741_ffn_jones_rashida_metand_09_rashida-jones-colin-jost-467.jpg

her pants make this a little easier to take

O'Brien and Strong are dating; they could be the first couple to host WU!

Don't stand in the way of love, Lorne Michaels!

my 'trick' for when i inevitably date rashida to get her dad to like me is to just bring this up -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W9RDMnuU_E

- and he'll be like "you know about 'state of independence'?" and i'll be like 'dude!' and then sing the entire thing and at the end he'll put his arm around me and go 'welcome to the family...son'.

deadline saying there's a chance o'brien is back in the writer's room, there's a smaller chance jost is and o'brien does update

lol i never knew that guy's name so I read this and was like "wait, Conan's gonna come back to SNL to do update???"

lol balls. My trick was to tell Q how much I dug his arrangements for Clifford Brown, but yeah, yours is better.

Any dude that can come up with the Sanford and Son theme is a genius in my eyes. There's so much good shit going on in that short little song it's ridiculous.

milana vayntrub

oh THAT's who that is

She's cool.

http://i.imgur.com/MquwvEU.jpg

is that some alterna-spelling of weintraub

Wikipedia says she's originally from Uzbekistan, so it translated from the Cyrillic I'd guess.

(we're miles off topic at this point)

lol jost accepted a lifetime achievement award for lorne at the tcas so it would appear that dude's job is safe

Isn't it weird how little we know about s40 apart from firing of wheelan/milhiser/wells?

Cast finalizations always seem to be last minute with SNL. When's the season premiere anyway?

Iggy Azalea and Ariana Grande have been confirmed as the premiere musical guests, and there were reports earlier today that Bill Murray would be hosting, but they've all been pulled down now. It was either bullshit or the story got out too early.

Definitely odd that no new cast members have been announced...unless there are no new cast members. But when was the last time that happened?

When's the season premiere anyway?

Answering my own q, it's 9/27.

SNL cast announcement do come late, but at just over two weeks until the premiere, this is probably the latest ever.

they recently held auditions so i think the word could come any time

Sarah Silverman!

Good host choices, dull music choices.

Still suspect Bill Murray will host. The stories that were accidentally posted yesterday probably just had the hosts out of order.

luckily the musical perfs are always cut from On Demand so I never have to watch them

they seem especially pointless in the internet age, and they're never really any good...? back in the day there was at least the novelty of seeing a band you might otherwise not have many opportunities to see actually performing (the Pogues, Sun Ra, etc.), much less on television; and then there was the novelty of maybe occasionally someone doing something unpredictable (Elvis, Sinead) but nowadays seriously who cares

That's a good point. They should at least chop it down to one song instead of two so they can cram in another sketch.

that sounds like a bad idea, relatively speaking

I think you can still do music on TV, just every late night show is doing it wrong