Saturday Night Live

really hoping michael che will get more and more confident as the season goes on, finally forcing lorne to have jost join this list

Bill Murray did a monologue when Michael O'Donoghue died, then they showed 12-yo Jodie Foster sitting on MO'D's lap.

i have no idea who Nick Offerman is.

i knew the fix was in for handsome stand-up dude when they started having kyle mooney play boyfriends in ensemble scenes instead, beck bennett already having taken the "dad" slot

Nick Offerman is Megan Mullaly's husband

He played the construction worker in City Of Angels

did anyone notice that in the hollywood game night sketch the crowd screamed suspiciously loud when they introduced "nick offerman"

― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Monday, October 13, 2014 4:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Uh, he's pretty much TV's most baconed actor right now

― ILOVEMASONNA (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, October 14, 2014 7:23 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In October 2013, Offerman released a book titled Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living, in which he shares his humorous ruminations on life, manliness, meat, and growing the perfect mustache.

Bacon-bound limited edition first printing, IIRC.

not going to give his name in case people still want to play the game, but featured player i uncharitably described as "big-face" was apparently the first featured player to then be made a staff writer since Brian Doyle-Murray. I could see him playing a lot of referees too.

Big Face has done a few on-camera bits on Late Night with Seth, so he may have made the move over there when Seth exited SNL.

he might be hopping all over 30 rock, but he's still in the mix at SNL. Apparently co-wrote that ad for Whites this season with O'Brien.

mike o'brien's seven minutes in heaven web series was gr8 so i was bummed when they cut him from the cast

i didn't actually see him in any sketches tho looool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqJA0xjD1CM

16 year old me didn't get all the jokes in Mike Myers' "Middle Aged Man" character, but 40 year old me was rolling the other night.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, October 13, 2014 4:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Until now I had TOTALLY FORGOTTEN that this character even existed!

Mike O'Brien still a writer? He was in a fake ad recently despite not being in the cast.

Big Face = Tim Robinson?

Yeah, if ruining a good gag is fun for you.

I hear Lorne was thinking of optioning this thread due to that Big Face gag

Yessssssssssss

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mbvd/leslie-jones-joins-saturday-night-live-as-cast-member

Finally!

http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/2014/10/tina-fey-remembers-jan-hooks

“It made me sad when she passed, and it made me mad at the time how available she was,” Fey said. “Jan should have had a bigger career. Jan deserved a big movie career. Certainly as big as Rob Schneider's fucking career. She was a bigger star on S.N.L."

ha, that is very true. does the snl cast beef with schneider?

I mean, does he have a chevy chase like rep?

I think any sensible person has been with Rob Schneider now, whether it be for his movies or for his recent descent into right wing crackpot buffoonery.

been=beef

NO sensible person has been with Rob Schneider.

I think they're just embarrassed by association with such a monstrous hack

haha, good points

I guess I didn't realize they would all be so transparent about it. But I'm glad that they are!

Have there been other instances of cast members publicly calling out other cast members as hacks? I feel like there are/should be, and I'm totally drawing a blank.

SNL's never been a hotbed of anti-establishment left wing thinking, but I'd imagine people like Schneider and Victoria Jackson (and probably Dennis Miller) are on the outs with a lot of the rest of their former castmates.

Have there been other instances of cast members publicly calling out other cast members as hacks? I feel like there are/should be, and I'm totally drawing a blank.

I just got a copy of Live From New York, that oral history of SNL by Tom Shales, in the mail a couple days ago. I'd suspect there might be some instances in there, but it's a giant book and I haven't even really started it yet.

Oh, there sure are. That book is one of my all-time favorites, so congratulations.

http://splitsider.com/2014/01/updated-edition-of-live-from-new-york-book-will-be-available-this-september/

An updated version just came out, apparently? Oh well, I only dropped $2 on a used copy, so maybe I'll replace it sooner or later.

Holy cow that's awesome. I'll definitely shell out for another copy.

Curious how much the new version covers Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson (and Jenny Slate?).

yo, the Sensitive Naked Man was great, every time

t/s who performed better iggy azalea or that chained link fence

Except for Iggy and the cold open, this has been a really good ep.

http://i.imgur.com/9wVn1iu.png

"All jokes aside..."

Elvis, huh?

Helvis

Now bring me a pecan pie.

Yeah, the horns really freshened up the Elvis jokes from thirty years ago.

At first I was like "Elvis, really? Isn't this a little bit of a moldy oldy for the 18-34 demo now?" But as it went on, I got more into it and by the time Moyniham popped up with a slice of pie I was applauding on the inside.

How did you feel about the "hey, millennials, remember THIS guy?!" sketch with ten bad Jim Carrey impressions?

I'll save you some time...I thought the episode was funny on the whole.

OK predictably I loved Secret Billionaire.

Hated this ep, but I've never once found Jim Carrey the slightest bit funny in anything he's ever done (although the Sia sketch was pretty good, despite him).

I guess that explains why you find SNL funny.

Harry Shearer, a regular in two different stints ('79-80, 84-85):

You were on SNL for a little bit, and it wasn’t the best time for you, right?

That’s putting it mildly! And I went back, stupidly. I went back while Lorne [Michaels] was on his 5-year jaunt in the wilderness, and Ebersol was producing. I thought, “It’s gotta be better without Lorne.” Lorne made it miserable for me. I saw a listicle on the Internet saying, “5 People Who Should Guest Host Saturday Night Live This Year,” and I was on there. I resisted the urge to say, “They haven’t made enough wild horses.”

How do you feel about the state of the show today?

I don’t watch it. I didn’t like it before I went there. I wasn’t an admirer of the idea that at this point in television history, “live” was a good idea. It was basically just an excuse to be sloppy.

Right. I’ve been to a taping of Saturday Night Live, and perhaps it was different back in the day, but now it’s a lot of people reading off cue cards.

No, it was that way back then, too. As a matter of fact, there was a moment the second time I was there and Marty Short, who’s a brilliantly funny guy, was improvising a line in a scene during a camera blocking, and Dave Wilson, the director at the time, said, “Marty, that’s funny! You can say it, but we won’t see it!” He directed to the script, and there was nothing loose about that show.

Why are there cue card readings? There was a show in the ‘50s called Your Show of Shows. Tell me if this format sounds familiar: it was a 90-minute variety show on Saturday night from Studio 8H in New York City featuring comedy sketches and musical numbers. Sound familiar? The only difference was the writing staff was Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, and Carl Reiner, and they started writing on Monday. Monday was the day they wrote the show, and then they rehearsed for the whole week and memorized it. SNL forever hasn’t been written until late Tuesday night, read-throughs were Wednesday, and a third more sketches were put into the production cycle before it aired, so nobody ever remembered it because why would you remember sketches that might not be produced? It all comes from the way you organize the show. I don’t blame the performers, but to run a show that way where you make a lot of the decisions last minute, there’s going to be a spiraling lack of commitment all the way down the line.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/21/harry-shearer-on-being-nixon-the-simpsons-movie-sequel-and-why-obama-should-return-his-nobel.html

I guess that explains why you find SNL funny.

Wait...soooo...either Jim Carrey is funny, which is why I like SNL, which is unfunny...

...or you're confirming that Jim Carrey is unfunny, which is why I like SNL, which is funny.

(aside from the fact that none of my posts in this thread have amounted to anything close to "Wow, great episode tonight! Typical consistent brilliance from SNL!")

Help me out here, Midge.

first answer best as usual, Tarfu

Anyway I saw the 3 Carrey / McConnalincoln bits, and since 1.5 were funny they've mastered the art of beating a sketch to death in one show!