Yeah, Michaels' no-improvising rule makes a certain amount of sense for technical reasons, but it makes no sense when the cast is almost entirely coming from improvising backgrounds. "Wow, you won ImprovOlympic? Cool, welcome aboard! And remember: never improvise!"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 9 November 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
I thought Lorne loved it now when actors flubbed their lines! Looks like Leslie Jones could be the next host of the Tonight Show!
― pplains, Sunday, 9 November 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
i cant even believe michaels is not embarrassed to continue WU at this time. It's easily my least favorite part of the show.
che's got potential. the whole show is so far removed from its best days that it's hard to single out weekend update, tho that segment's especially antiquated given all the better competition (e.g., daily show, colbert report, real fox news).
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 9 November 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
there are skits every week worse than "Patio Party" (referenced in the pajiba link above).
― carot tard (rip van wanko), Sunday, 9 November 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
i gotta wonder if a big problem with this is that the writing isn't done until the last minute... i feel like if the writers of some of these jokes, particularly che's reading at WU, heard him read them weird once, they'd correct him and they'd hit right. doesn't work if you're writing it while he's in makeup or whatever tho. i like michael che, i think he could be great on WU, i think jost reallllly needs to do something different if he's gonna be good... but it's the writing pipeline that i'm really concerned about. this show is 2 weeks on, 1 week off at this point, right? could maybe the writers who got their dream gig on SNL uhhh write through the one week off so there's something prepped by the time the actors start getting back?
― Neckbread (Will M.), Sunday, 9 November 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
I'm guessing that people who are calling that sketch one of the worst of all time probably started watching in the late 2000s and/or have seen, like, 15 episodes total.
― I'm In The Mood To Munch! (Old Lunch), Sunday, 9 November 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
Show them a) De Niro hosting; b) 1980.
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Sunday, 9 November 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
This is a show that's been on longer than any cast member has been alive! I've been watching reruns since childhood and I'd still have no place saying what the worst one ever was. Or even comparing the consistency of averages episodes as most reruns are trimmed.
― da croupier, Sunday, 9 November 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
only bobby and kenan were alive for the first lorne period. aidy, jay and sasheer were born during the second lorne period. that pete davidson could have been conceived during an opera man sketch.
― da croupier, Sunday, 9 November 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
You were on thin ice from that first sentence, but it was the image of Pete Davidson's parents fucking in front of a CRT television showing Adam Sandler that made me almost FP you.
― pplains, Sunday, 9 November 2014 23:30 (nine years ago) link
btw, who is Pete Davidson.
a guy on snl, stay with us gramps
― da croupier, Sunday, 9 November 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
well shut my mouth...leslie jones (whose age is not on wikipedia) might be considerably older than everyone the cast if the credits on her imdb page are legit. would have played a police sergeant in 1998
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0428656/
― da croupier, Sunday, 9 November 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
her website bio claims she was on an episode of coach AFTER college so....take heart, olds
― da croupier, Sunday, 9 November 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
http://web.archive.org/web/20140109052827/http://www.sandiego.com/articles/2011-11-03/leslie-jones-craft-comedy
Do you remember the first time you did stand-up?Leslie Jones: Yes, it was in Colorado. I was playing basketball. I was on a scholarship actually. One of my friends signed me up for a contest and didn’t tell me until a couple of days before the contest. She was like, ‘I think you’re really funny and I signed you up for this contest.’ And I was like, ‘Are you crazy!?’ She’s like. ‘No, I think you can do it. I think you’re really funny, just go up there and talk like you talk to us.’ And I did, and won the contest and have been a comedian ever since.
What year was this?LJ: 1987.
― da croupier, Sunday, 9 November 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
Jones started to do stand-up comedy in college in 1987, when a friend signed her up for a "Funniest Person on Campus" contest
That would put her damn near 50 years old!
― pplains, Sunday, 9 November 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
Black don't crack, y'all. (I could tell she was older than the average SNL cast member, but I wasn't sure by how much.)
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 9 November 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
Definitely old enough to be fucking while watching Opera Man.
― pplains, Sunday, 9 November 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
If she's somewhere in her 40s, she's surely the oldest person to be brought on as a featured player right? That's cool imo.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 10 November 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link
michael mckean was only 46 when he joined in the 90s, and i think he went straight to cast
― da croupier, Monday, 10 November 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
wonder if they'll actually announce the record being broken if she's bumped up
― da croupier, Monday, 10 November 2014 00:02 (nine years ago) link
I just now realized from those biographical details that I already knew of Leslie Jones from her WTF interview a couple of years back.
― I'm In The Mood To Munch! (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 November 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
Show them a) De Niro hosting; b) 1980.― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Sunday, 9 November 2014 23:06 (Yesterday) Permalink
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Sunday, 9 November 2014 23:06 (Yesterday) Permalink
there's that sketch in the peter sarsgaard ep taking place in a hotel room that fails from just about every angle iirc
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 10 November 2014 05:25 (nine years ago) link
But that episode had Peter Saarsgaard's SARS Guards so everything else was forgiven.
I'm old and have been watching since the early/mid 80s and I'm on the side of thinking the Rock episode might be one of the worst of all time.
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Monday, 10 November 2014 10:24 (nine years ago) link
I liked the Rockbama sketch though.
― pplains, Monday, 10 November 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
Jones turned 47 just before the season began, which does make her the oldest person ever to join the cast:http://www.allamericanspeakers.com/celebritytalentbios/Leslie-Joneshttps://www.facebook.com/LeslieJonesComedy/info
― jaymc, Monday, 10 November 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/1041961/stephen-malkmus-talks-to-squir-o.gif
― pplains, Monday, 10 November 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
haha
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 10 November 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
TS: Scott Weiland vs. that squirrel
― carot tard (rip van wanko), Monday, 10 November 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
lol what is that from
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 November 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
joey gladstone era snl
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 10 November 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
btw Harry Shearer says everyone on the show has been reading off cards for 30+ years
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 November 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
The "Stereo" video.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 10 November 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
what the fuck series of events transpired in 2006 that resulted in peter sarsgaard hosting snl
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 10 November 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
am i forgetting a period of time in which peter sarsgaard was popular enough for that
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 10 November 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
dude didn't even have a movie coming out. like edward norton last year i think sometimes they just get a new york based actor who likely attends their after parties.
― da croupier, Monday, 10 November 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
He hosted in 2010, and I think he was coasting off An Education and Orphan and was ramping up for Knight and Day.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 10 November 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
Oh wait, y'all are right. Wikipedia says 2010, but imdb says 2006. So fuck if I know.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 10 November 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
Jarhead I guess? Came out in late 2005 and he hosted in January 2006.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 10 November 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
I remember the sketch where he was an invited guest at a pirate convention. "saaaARRRRRsgARRRRRd"
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 November 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
i remember the Peter Sarsgaard SARS guard. they probably asked him to host just for that and the pirate thing.
― mizzell, Monday, 10 November 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
he'd won a few awards and been in a bunch of 'big' films -- Jarhead, Kinsey, Shattered Glass etc -- plus he can also act and be funny, so yeah, why the fuck wd SNL need that in a host?
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 November 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
Seriously. I heard Guy Fieri's interested.
― i only wanted freidn (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 November 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
That reminds me, it's been too long since Moynihan has played Guy Fieri.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 10 November 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link
even for their "love that guy - he's got a week off, doesn't need a hotel room" slow week choices like malkovich, norton, buscemi etc saars is pretty low profile, though
― da croupier, Monday, 10 November 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link
prob most audience knew him (if they did) as the guy who turns around slowly while squinting at the twist of The Skeleton Key and Flightplan
― da croupier, Monday, 10 November 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
srsly dude is really good at the "actually i'm the bad guy" face
he's no Josh Hutcherson-level superstar, it's true
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 November 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
"he's exactly a Josh Hutcherson-level superstar" seems to be the point everyone is making
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 10 November 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
minus a hunger games-level franchise
― da croupier, Monday, 10 November 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link