Quite a journey this thread took from the 'Kristen Wiig--Hot or Not' debate before the jump to the discussion today.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 August 2017 03:11 (six years ago) link
anything beats actually discussing SNL imo
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 19 August 2017 03:14 (six years ago) link
Feygate has taken off on my FB. Not bothered by it as much as it has all been from white people and I haven't seen one person ask a POC for their thoughts and listen yet. :/
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 19 August 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
I don't think anyone has an opinion on Feygate worth listening to
― President Keyes, Saturday, 19 August 2017 19:36 (six years ago) link
I disagree - I liked Dan's very much
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 19 August 2017 19:36 (six years ago) link
^^
― sleeve, Saturday, 19 August 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
I meant outside of this board of course. We are all geniuses after all.
― President Keyes, Saturday, 19 August 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
ahem speak for yourself
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 19 August 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
just caught a rerun of last season's finale ... best episode in years? farting actress skit, erectile dysfunction skit, rap song, Robo-Chomo, WWE promo ... all GREAT. Scorpio, Jurassic Park ride above average. Dwayne is a very good host.
― alpine static, Sunday, 3 September 2017 08:22 (six years ago) link
Kate MacKinnon *thanked Clinton* for "her grace"
roflmao
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/ted-koppel-cold-opening/n10770?snl=1
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 02:09 (six years ago) link
Okay Heidi Gardner's "Girlfriend from Every Boxing Movie" bit on Update was pretty great.
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 5 November 2017 07:28 (six years ago) link
Larry David bombing super hard during the monologue passed through the unfunny event horizon and ended up making me laugh really hard.
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Sunday, 5 November 2017 12:45 (six years ago) link
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Agreed. The early 80s PSAs skit was pretty funny too.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Sunday, 5 November 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
The camp joke could have been a classic bit, but the delivery was too low-key even by David's usual standards. The "is it me or the the place" line was good though. He's done the Quadimodo routine before and much better (on Conan I think).
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 5 November 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
Always. pic.twitter.com/1GneOGvdIP— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) November 15, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 November 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
I always liked Tom Davis better. #AlFranken pic.twitter.com/ksupAvMqAM— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) November 16, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 November 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
About once a year somebody posts a YT vid on social media of an SNL sketch and is like "I was crying laughing this is incredible" and I click on it and it's always the same try-hard nonsense
this time it was "diner lobster"
i guess i get how someone could have this idea and think "that would be wacky and crazy let's do it" but nobody bothered to make it funny! it's just... "what if we did X but Y?"
maybe i should put this in the unreasonably angry thread because i'm unreasonably angry
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 14:10 (six years ago) link
I know what you mean
I don't really watch it anymore but I remember thinking "The Barry Gibb Show" was such a hilarious idea. and that Fallon & Timberlake actually pulled it off. Only problem being there were really no jokes in it. Like nearly every single SNL sketch it just culminated in one of the characters yelling at another for no reason.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link
The other sketch I saw people sharing this week, "Sitcom Reboot," was actually pretty funny, if (wonder of wonders) a little belabored. In its particulars it reminded me of the much better "Exodus International" sketch from Mr. Show.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 14:45 (six years ago) link
The cool thing about the Lobster Sketch is that Mulaney has admitted it was an idea that got shot down in 2010, and he just really wanted to do it the one time he had as a host. 'Try-hard nonsense' is right, but it was kinda charming. Sitcom Reboot also an old idea.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
i liked the drag brunch one kinda. mulaney is kinda off-putting to me
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link
i guess i like it better as an irritable gesture: "they didn't let me make america sit through this so now i'm gonna make america sit through this goddammit"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 19 April 2018 12:43 (six years ago) link
That Irish Dating Show sketch from a month back was pretty insulting
― well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Thursday, 19 April 2018 13:10 (six years ago) link
pretty much all "gone viral" sketches i see from this show are pretty weak. but this was my favorite show during the Hartman era, and i still enjoy watching sketches featuring the original 7.
― omar little, Thursday, 19 April 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
this sketch still kills me
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/standup-and-win/2868123?snl=1
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 April 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
this was my favorite show during the Hartman era, and i still enjoy watching sketches featuring the original 7.
mine too. also when i was aged 14 or whatever, the age at which SNL is the best thing ever.
i remember my parents thinking maybe we should change the channel when Phil Hartman was doing Charleton Heston reading Madonna's "Sex". he kept being asked to say the line "I like my vagina" over and over lol
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 19 April 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
"14... best thing" is a BS meme
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 April 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
good work slightly changing that To Catch A Predator sketch from 10 years ago, guys
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 20 May 2018 07:34 (five years ago) link
I keep thinking DeNiro is Sam Waterston
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 20 May 2018 08:10 (five years ago) link
Deniro is so painfully incapable, why do they keep hauling him back on stage? Then again everything about this show: why
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 20 May 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
I had it on last night while I was doing some mundane paper-worky stuff on my laptop and, aside from the bit at the end of Update where Michael and Colin did the jokes deemed too tasteless for air during the rest of the season, I don't think I looked up once.
― incel elgort (cryptosicko), Sunday, 20 May 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
DeNiro squinting/staring at the cue cards is expected; DeNiro squinting/staring at the cue cards for a wordless coffee-drinking movement is next level.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 20 May 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
Deniro is so painfully incapable, why do they keep hauling him back on stage? Baldwin stopped doing any kind of Trump impression once he'd been called out on badly copying Atamaniuk, but they keep etc etc
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Sunday, 20 May 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
Deniro on SNL makes me appreciate Scorsese more and more.
― nickn, Sunday, 20 May 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
he's old, guys
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Sunday, 20 May 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
but yeah he shouldn't be doing snl things because he seems to barely care. not fun for anyone.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Sunday, 20 May 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
Then again everything about this show: why
Money. As I've pointed out many time on this thread, including this one in 2009:
SNL will not die until NBC becomes an all-infomercial channel. At which time it will show infomercials selling SNL-nostalgia compilation DVDs, featuring as host Eddie Murphy in the last throes of his decline.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 20 May 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
i was under the impression this was the last year for a few of the women on the show (cecily, aidy, maybe kate?), if that's true their last sketch was that shitty singing trump cronies sketch which is just a cruel way to end their tenures
― challops trap house (Will M.), Monday, 21 May 2018 20:41 (five years ago) link
They got careers out of it. 40 years from now they'll be badmouthing it like Jane Curtin (with less, and more, reason).
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 May 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
I really enjoyed their Oran "Juice" Jones sketch, 30+ years late. I just don't get why.
― incel clown posse (naus), Sunday, 3 June 2018 07:08 (five years ago) link
Nor sure if I'm watching a new episode or a rerun from earlier in the season. I honestly cannot tell anymore. They made fun of Giuliani which means it's current to at least this past month.
― incel clown posse (naus), Sunday, 3 June 2018 07:31 (five years ago) link
season is over so it’s a rerun
― Clay, Sunday, 3 June 2018 07:38 (five years ago) link
I really enjoyed their Oran "Juice" Jones sketch, 30+ years late.
Same.
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 3 June 2018 08:31 (five years ago) link
I recognize Kate McKinnon's considerable talent... I just don't like her!
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 8 July 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
And female comedians have to be good and likeable, got it.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 9 July 2018 06:43 (five years ago) link
sometimes I feel this way about guys too, I'm so confused!?
― rip van wanko, Monday, 9 July 2018 10:34 (five years ago) link
I think Kyle Mooney has no talent and I don't like him. So kind of samesies.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 July 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
Crazy. Kyle is a genius.
― dan selzer, Monday, 9 July 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
I don't know you.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 July 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link