Saturday Night Live

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

what would you recommend

Believe it or not, Carson Daly's show kind of gets it right. They send crews out to venues where bands are already having shows and film those shows. Granted, Carson's reach extends to about 5 different places in Los Angeles, and they plug and play songs from certain tapings into their own show up to a year after the fact, but if this concept were better executed by one of the New York shows it could be good.

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.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, September 10, 2014 12:30 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They did this for a few shows in the 1998-99 season. I remember Elliott Smith only did one song, and I don't think it was because the show was running long.

Whereas I've seen way more instances of a third musical performance in recent years than I ever remember previously. I don't know if I remember that ever happening in the '80s or '90s.

Back to the upcoming hosts, I hope the writers leave room in sketches for Chris Pratt to improv a little bit. He's super gifted in that department.

I don't know if I remember that ever happening in the '80s or '90s.

rem did three songs from monster during the godawful pre-will ferrell year

I wonder how much they're getting off the Budweiser sponsorships for the musical performances now. NBC probably doesn't want to chop that in half, no matter how little it might be.

XP They did the same thing with Eric Clapton. It was kind of funny because it felt like after every other sketch it was like, "...and once again, Eric Clapton!" It felt like he did ten songs.

like like like like like

so they're taking cecily off the update desk and replacing her with michael che; colin jost remains???????

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/business/media/new-comic-to-anchor-update-on-snl.html

What the fuuuuuuuu

I mean replace Jost with Che; or get rid of Jost and leave Che on the Daily Show because he's great there.

Michael Che is so great. I think a Cecily Strong and Michael Che team could've been great, but Colin Jost is going to continue driving the shit into the ground no matter who he's paired with.

Apparently Cecily asked to leave WU so she could concentrate more on sketches, so that's our loss. But...ugh, FUCK Colin Jost and whatever Lorne Michaels sees in him.

Bummed about cecily :(

QUIT TRYING TO MAKE COLIN JOST HAPPEN

we survived multiple years of Colin Quinn, ppl; calm down

Colin Quinn was indeed terrible at the WU desk, but somehow I feel more invested in the show's inner politics now than I ever did in the 90s.

Nobody could ever be worse than colin quinn its true. At least jost can read.

Che and Strong would've been perfect, and Strong really started to get comfortable (and hilarious) last season.

I don't care that Jost can read. I would vastly prefer a WU anchor who constantly squints at the cue cards and phonetically sounds out every word to Jost.

don't think jost is much worse than seth myers tbh

o_O

there's norm mcdonald, fey & poehler, and then a bunch of riff raff as far as I can tell

As despicable as Dennis Miller is now, he was quite good at the Update desk. WU was never stable in the early years, but Chevy, Aykroyd and Curtin were all memorable. Kevin Nealon...could be okay sometimes. Jimmy Fallon was never a good partner for Tina Fey, but Fey was never held back by him as evidenced during the time she flew solo. The addition of Poehler just took that pairing into the stratosphere. Poehler ever upped Seth's game and left him better prepared to go it alone.

I honestly don't remember who all went through the Update ranks during the Ebersol years, but none of them were great. That's where the riff raff is (along with Colin Quinn).

i feel like nealon's a little underrated, but he was the anchor during the years i first watched snl so it's probably just bias on my part.