Search: 1. Absolutely everything involving Tracy Morgan.....his delivery can salvage even the worst written skit.....remember Dominican Lou? "i working all de tie!"....he was the only good thing about tonight's, easily....I hate india arie with a passionfruit. 2. The Ah, How Do You Say? Ah, yes, Show....with Antonio ah Ban-de-rassssss. 3. Maya Rudolph's high school TV show skit...her croaky delivery is priceless.....she's hot....I loved finding out Maya was in the Rentals and is Minnie Ripperton's daughter. 4. The earlier Morning Latte's......remember the one where the teleprompter dies and everyone goes medieval and Will Ferrell rips off the weatherman's head and drinks the blood.......I MISS CHERI OTERI, THAT DOLL.
Destroy: Tina Fey in skits. All weekend updates post-Norm.....Colin Quinn was horrible....now Fallon's slacker doofus act does not cut it. Come to think of it, almost everything sucks now...
S & D musical performances too if you want. Recently, The Strokes were pretty good, as were Outkast, Britney was shit.
Look, the best ever TV comedy-show performance in the past 15 years was Busta and Q-Tip doing Vivrant Thing on Letterman....best crowd response I've ever seen.
― Ramosi, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
Destroy: The writing staff.
― Joe, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― bnw, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Queen G, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Todd Burns, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Nicole, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
Now *that's* funny.
― Prude, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Curt, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Joe, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 22:56 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
I hate Jimmy Fallon.
― Aaron A,, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 23:29 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Jody Beth Rosen, Thursday, 10 October 2002 01:25 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― ron (ron), Thursday, 10 October 2002 01:56 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
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― boxcubed (boxcubed), Thursday, 10 October 2002 05:16 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 11:01 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
D: Jaret's Room, Mango, Adam Sa...I mean, Jimmy Fallon's guitar parodies
I think Jimmy Fallon is rather funny, but not nearly as funny (nor original) as he seems to think he is.
Actually, I think the plight of SNL is that they have some extremely talented cast members, but don't have the solid writing to back it up like in some days of yore. There are sporadic bits of amazingly funny stuff ("I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!"), but it's just not SOLID.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:20 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:22 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:27 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
Weekend Update is awful, sorry. There's no bite to the jokes. they seem happily surprised if a joke does well, and if it doesn't they lean reaaaal hard on the "it's not funny; isn't that funny!?" thing that is the death-knell of television comedy (cf Johnny Carson, Conan's monologue)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:41 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:42 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
Everyone keeps banging on about SNL and I've never seen it - indeed, living in the UK with no Sky means I probably never will. Is there like a SNL Best Of DVD around? Or should I not bother - is it over-hyped rubbish?
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 12:12 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 13:48 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 14:46 (fifteen years ago) Permalink
I liked the bit about Larry David. The part with him and Dick Ebersol standing by the elevator sounded just like something out of "Curb Your Enthusiasm".
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 11 April 2005 19:52 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
make talk about the old snl. converse about the dim bulb sketch.
― foolhardy, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 01:01 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
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― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 02:29 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Community Cornerstone (deangulberry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 03:18 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― teen challenge (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 03:54 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
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― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:05 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:55 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
The M'OD bio "Mr Mike" is worth a read. He bitched when the original cast started to do recurring characters, cuz he thought that was too much like Carol Burnett etc.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:01 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:06 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Allyzay is not appropriate for freedom (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:11 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:15 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
the writers' terror of offending anyone makes most of the sketches heavily dependent on unfunny gimmicks and repetition, much like conan o'brien's show these days.
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:03 (fourteen years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:15 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
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― _, Monday, 17 October 2005 16:04 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
(i ACTUALLY roffled the first time i saw this sketch)
-- joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 04:22 (2 years ago) Link
― and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:04 (eleven years ago) Permalink
was actually bumping thread to say i have a crush of shame on kristin wiig
why shame?
― remy bean, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:29 (eleven years ago) Permalink
maybe shame bc she's totally annoying?
― tehresa, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:33 (eleven years ago) Permalink
yeah, that
― and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:37 (eleven years ago) Permalink
shes kinda horsey too
i dunno i used to get real madtv vibes & think she was really untalented but now i kinda think shes the funniest person on the show
she never tina fey
― tehresa, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:37 (eleven years ago) Permalink
the hot air balloon thing sealed it for me
she def. cracks me up with the penelope skits.
― remy bean, Sunday, 24 February 2008 07:11 (eleven years ago) Permalink
the hot air balloon was totally a rip-off of Tim and Eric style bad TV. Tonight wasn't so funny. Cold open was pretty weak and the game show too. Steve Martin and Tina were good in the intro. I also liked Tina's Hillary rant. What's the story on the new girl?
― dan selzer, Sunday, 24 February 2008 07:33 (eleven years ago) Permalink
i watched snl tonight for the first time in a while!! it was not that good but when is it ever. tina fey was only really good in the monologue.
the there will be blood thing cracked me up tho.
and ya what IS up with that new chick?> is she secretly fergie
― s1ocki, Sunday, 24 February 2008 07:36 (eleven years ago) Permalink
bret michaels sketch was awesome. the girls on snl roxxor.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 07:54 (eleven years ago) Permalink
so's maya rudolph gone?
― circles, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:12 (eleven years ago) Permalink
I couldn't remember seeing new girl in the earlier episodes this season and then noticed half way through the show that maya hadn't shown up at all.
― circles, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:18 (eleven years ago) Permalink
new girl is not funny
― remy bean, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:19 (eleven years ago) Permalink
two of these are new to me, i know dratch and wiig basically.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:30 (eleven years ago) Permalink
goddamnit darrell hammond is going to outlive us all
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:32 (eleven years ago) Permalink
I love Fred Armisen, and I understand that they're kind of in a pinch, but his Obama is horrible.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:32 (eleven years ago) Permalink
darrell fucking hammond.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:36 (eleven years ago) Permalink
he is responsible for like 25% of the suckage in any given year
fuck, i was just thinking that. he's been on for 13 years, hasn't he...
xp
― kingfish, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:37 (eleven years ago) Permalink
glad i misssed the obama thing. his gene simmons was way off at first but it got funny.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:37 (eleven years ago) Permalink
His fake Gene Simmons hair is sadly better than Gene Simmons's real Gene Simmons hair.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:39 (eleven years ago) Permalink
-- tehresa, Saturday, February 23, 2008 10:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
kristen wig is beautiful and funny.
this week has been the week of gnar ilxor girls telling dudes which girls they should like.
― chaki, Sunday, 24 February 2008 12:17 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Mike Huckabee -- great timing!
― Dimension 5ive, Sunday, 24 February 2008 13:00 (eleven years ago) Permalink
xp: huckabee was pretty good. a shame about his beliefs and politics.
the fake ad was funny. the new girl did a hateful rachel ray, so she's ok with me. but overall should've been better with a couple months' vacation. i hear they're only doing eight more episodes for the season.
the hot air balloon was totally a rip-off of Tim and Eric style bad TV.
but kinda funny instead of not funny at all.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Sunday, 24 February 2008 13:03 (eleven years ago) Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AUHHOVtNqo
― and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 15:35 (eleven years ago) Permalink
http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c3921788d9d5011789462b940066
just because...
― dan selzer, Sunday, 24 February 2008 15:43 (eleven years ago) Permalink
hilarious to suggest that women need to vote for hrc because bitches need to stick together, and pretty funny too to imply that the mainstream media gives obama a free ride at her expense; if '30 rock' goes this way it will get boring very quickly, but i doubt it
― Dimension 5ive, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:27 (eleven years ago) Permalink
-- and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:37 (9 hours ago) Link
truth. snl has always been the original american idol. there's often these moments when a new performer "breaks". wiig's moment was doing nancy pelosi, up until then she had been a waste of space, but the second she started doing pelosi's intensity eye stares she had the crowd eating out of the palm of her hand.
― sanskrit, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:33 (eleven years ago) Permalink
saturdaynight dead
― burt_stanton, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:35 (eleven years ago) Permalink
for me it was knocked up... mega lolz at her in that
― and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:51 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Tina Fey as Daisy on Rock of Love 2 was scary accurate! Actually all of them were scary accurate.
That pill commercial had me screaming with laughter! "Buy yourself a hat and hold the f*** out of it." haha
― HI DERE, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:59 (eleven years ago) Permalink
i laughed at the first bleep but nothing else in that
― and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:03 (eleven years ago) Permalink
reminded me of arrested development
Tina rolling into work with an axe was basically exactly what I wanted to see.
― HI DERE, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:06 (eleven years ago) Permalink
-- Johnny Fever, Sunday, February 24, 2008 8:32 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Link
totally.
and why are they in that pinch, i wonder.
― s1ocki, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:09 (eleven years ago) Permalink
OMG the birth control pill commercial! Tina Fey with an axe! HOTT.
― kate78, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:11 (eleven years ago) Permalink
i thought i heard kenan was gonna be obama
― and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:12 (eleven years ago) Permalink
I totally get the pro-HRC slant displayed last night. The have a killer Bill impersonator and a killer Hillary impersonator but no Barack impersonator. They should just acknowledge that and let Kenan do some ridiculous completely un-Obamalike character, maybe as a split with Armisen so they end up with a Jeckyll/Hyde routine.
― HI DERE, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:15 (eleven years ago) Permalink
So glad it's back. I don't think the audience got the milkshake sketch but Hader's impression and phrasing was awesome.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:23 (eleven years ago) Permalink
the "I'M FINISHED!" followed by the little musical doop-dee-doo had me rofling.
― s1ocki, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:38 (eleven years ago) Permalink
For some reason last night I remembered Toonces after forgetting about it for a long time. One of their best bits ever, imho.
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:43 (eleven years ago) Permalink
remembering toonces, a memoir by hurting 2
― s1ocki, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:46 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Toonces y Yo, por Duelendo Dos
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:51 (eleven years ago) Permalink
xpost Tina Fex with a PINK axe. So perfect.
― Sara R-C, Sunday, 24 February 2008 18:12 (eleven years ago) Permalink
only skit i saw was the milkshake one and i thought it was a disaster. i think the idea of plainview hosting a real food network show has potential, or it'd at least be better than bill hader literally reciting lines from the straight from the movie while kenan does the aw-shucks thing. armisen's chigurh was awful.
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 24 February 2008 18:16 (eleven years ago) Permalink
carrie underwood was cool though
kudos to whoever shook this shake, Magnum
― mizzell, Sunday, 24 February 2008 18:40 (eleven years ago) Permalink
"new girl" is casey wilson from ucb la
― jeff, Sunday, 24 February 2008 19:47 (eleven years ago) Permalink
carrie underwood's first song was great
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 21:22 (eleven years ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Rose_Wilson
"Casey Rose Wilson is an actress most widely known as a featured member of the cast of Saturday Night Live (SNL)."
she is so widely known for that.
― s1ocki, Sunday, 24 February 2008 21:27 (eleven years ago) Permalink
i didnt know there was a new girl on snl so every time i saw this young hot chick in the sketches i assumed it was carrie underwood and i was like damn shes better than amy poehler
― and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 21:36 (eleven years ago) Permalink
hilarious to suggest that women need to vote for hrc because bitches need to stick together, and pretty funny too to imply that the mainstream media gives obama a free ride at her expense
it was funny.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 24 February 2008 22:22 (eleven years ago) Permalink
yeah it's not like it was convincing but it helps to keep perspective re: the election.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 23:06 (eleven years ago) Permalink
this new girl is pretty ridic
― and what, Sunday, 9 March 2008 05:55 (eleven years ago) Permalink
SNL is running weirdly hot and cold this year (or at least since the strike). Last week was largely awful, but this week most of the sketches are genuinely funny. Amy Adams is probably helping a little, but I've finally decided Amy Pohler is a genius.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 9 March 2008 06:00 (eleven years ago) Permalink
i kinda go back n forth on poehler being a genius or the most unpleasant person ive ever seen in my life. i only caught the last 20 minutes tonight & nothing was funny but that new girl is bangin
― and what, Sunday, 9 March 2008 06:01 (eleven years ago) Permalink
yeah so far I like the new girl, she really made that stupid dancing sketch work.
really liking Bill Hader lately.
― Alex in Baltimore, Sunday, 9 March 2008 06:15 (eleven years ago) Permalink
and what:
we shall meet. pistols at dawn for the hand of casey rose wilson.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 9 March 2008 06:22 (eleven years ago) Permalink
last two mostly sucked except for digital short and the School of Excellence, but tonight was much better. I do get sick of recurring characters, like Penelope, and that was a mostly weak Tim Calhoun...the best Tim Calhoun skits may be my favorite things ever.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 9 March 2008 06:25 (eleven years ago) Permalink
still annoys me that 'digital short' is now a thing that people talk about like it's a big deal buzzword. it's a pre-taped sketch, BFD.
yeah we definitely don't need anymore Penelope sketches, though. shit is getting as repetitive as the Will Ferrell cheerleader shit at this point.
― Alex in Baltimore, Sunday, 9 March 2008 06:30 (eleven years ago) Permalink
still annoys me that 'digital short' is now a thing that people talk about like it's a big deal buzzword.
People don't do this anymore. Dick In A Box was like 1.5 years ago.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 9 March 2008 06:32 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Can anyone who is older than me and from New York enlighten me on what Tookie Styles was influenced by?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 9 March 2008 06:33 (eleven years ago) Permalink
jean k jean haha
― tremendoid, Sunday, 9 March 2008 08:20 (eleven years ago) Permalink
It's really too bad Amy Adams isn't a regular cast member, because I could see myself laughing through at least 10 more of those "Mirror Image" sketches.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 9 March 2008 08:22 (eleven years ago) Permalink
she's pretty funny.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 9 March 2008 08:28 (eleven years ago) Permalink
vampire weekend is da troof
― tremendoid, Sunday, 9 March 2008 08:52 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Kind of bummed they didn't do "Oxford Comma" : (
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 9 March 2008 09:08 (eleven years ago) Permalink
they were the worst band ive ever seen on snl i thnk. whiney: petey green?
― chaki, Sunday, 9 March 2008 09:08 (eleven years ago) Permalink
chaki old bean i expect we'll disagree like gentlemen on this matter.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 9 March 2008 09:23 (eleven years ago) Permalink
yah but you have to admit keyboard player's scarf was total ball licker style, they had no energy, and the singer was contrived and has a terrible voice as well as the worst guitar tone ive ever heard.
― chaki, Sunday, 9 March 2008 09:29 (eleven years ago) Permalink
the guitar tone was laid on kind of thick i'll give you that.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 9 March 2008 09:37 (eleven years ago) Permalink
LOL, xp
― gabbneb, Sunday, 9 March 2008 19:43 (eleven years ago) Permalink
kristen wiig is scraping the bottom of the barrel with those frumpy middle american women. the target skit was terrible
― tremendoid, Sunday, 16 March 2008 07:30 (eleven years ago) Permalink
her suze orman needed some work too
― tremendoid, Sunday, 16 March 2008 07:31 (eleven years ago) Permalink
tracy morgan is my boy
feeling the tpain/mariah song. i missed the first one
― tremendoid, Sunday, 16 March 2008 07:53 (eleven years ago) Permalink
the song is so 4 years ago, in a good way
― tremendoid, Sunday, 16 March 2008 07:54 (eleven years ago) Permalink
so sick of broadway monologues
― chaki, Sunday, 16 March 2008 08:24 (eleven years ago) Permalink
maybe you're just sick of broadway
― s1ocki, Sunday, 16 March 2008 13:29 (eleven years ago) Permalink
yeah, I was like, "another broadway monologue?". And then the first skit was a game show, which I almost always hate, though Jonah made this one actually pretty funny.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 16 March 2008 14:10 (eleven years ago) Permalink
bitch may be the new black, but black is the new president, bitch. lolololol
― jhøshea, Sunday, 16 March 2008 15:00 (eleven years ago) Permalink
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/16/snls-antispitzer-bias-_n_91736.html
― jhøshea, Sunday, 16 March 2008 15:01 (eleven years ago) Permalink
<3
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 16 March 2008 15:10 (eleven years ago) Permalink
SNL did what SNL has long done -- feature whoever's hot that week. That's the show's function. Satire has nothing to do with it. Everybody feeds on the fix. That's where money and power reside. Dem partisan Alec Baldwin willingly traded japes with Palin, bringing her into the fold. Little wonder she felt free to groove to Amy Poehler's rap about her stated positions. SNL added to Palin's luster. Who wouldn't dance along to that?
http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2008/10/laugh-you-assholes.html
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 20 October 2008 14:29 (ten years ago) Permalink
wahlberg was a funny idea, though
― Gukbe, Monday, 20 October 2008 14:41 (ten years ago) Permalink
wait a minute - television show features zeitgeisty, talked-about celebrity??????? stop the pressezzzzzzzzz
― and what, Monday, 20 October 2008 14:48 (ten years ago) Permalink
yeah, just like SNL Bob Hope specials in 1975
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 20 October 2008 14:49 (ten years ago) Permalink
'Cast (in alphabetical order)':
America Aretha FranklinBob HopeJohn WayneFlip Wilson
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 October 2008 14:52 (ten years ago) Permalink
At least somebody finally has the balls to stick it to those jerks at SNL.
― Little Hussein (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 20 October 2008 14:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
</sarcasm>
the iMdB in no way lists all the Hope specials; there were at least 4 a year.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 20 October 2008 14:56 (ten years ago) Permalink
the palin rap was pretty funny since it mocked almost everything she's associated with bar downs syndrome; she looked clueless sitting there through the whole thing. amy poehler, meanwhile, was pretty impressive (through the whole episode, actually, since she's clearly like, at term)
― akm, Monday, 20 October 2008 14:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
i'm surprised people like the rap, i thought it was pretty embarrassing. and i'm usually kind of a captain save-an-snl. i love poehler and she did her best with it but reviving the rodney dangerfield joke rap song in 2008 is pretty lame
― metametadata (n/a), Monday, 20 October 2008 15:01 (ten years ago) Permalink
that excerpt seems to presuppose that a) SNL should seek to materially detract from Palin, presumably because she's Palin and snl/perrin don't agree with her and b) proper satire should always negatively affect the "luster" of the person being satirized, neither of which seem to be the self-evident points the tone of the article suggests.
― rent, Monday, 20 October 2008 15:10 (ten years ago) Permalink
So how many new people did Palin win over with the SNL thing? Guesstimates?
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 20 October 2008 15:32 (ten years ago) Permalink
not Colin Powell!
― Like sicking a little bit of water into my mouth (HI DERE), Monday, 20 October 2008 15:38 (ten years ago) Permalink
OK, new question..
Number of people won over by Powell's O endorsementminusNumber of people won over by Palin in SNL----------------------------------------------------= ????
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 20 October 2008 15:40 (ten years ago) Permalink
= PROFIT
― Like sicking a little bit of water into my mouth (HI DERE), Monday, 20 October 2008 15:41 (ten years ago) Permalink
surely nobody was seriously "won over" by the fact that maccain's vp can woodenly recite four sentences off a cue card. right?
― rent, Monday, 20 October 2008 15:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
n/a OTM re: the rap and I never say this about anything ever but in this particular case Dennis Perrin OTM as well
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 20 October 2008 16:26 (ten years ago) Permalink
seriously the "lolz white people rapping" thing is so fucking lame
yeah i don't get any of you guys who think anything to do with snl political stuff is that funny. i always feel like i'm reading in a foreign language when you guys discuss it. especially white ppl rapping badly, which they LOVE. that is so 1998.
also seriously you guys are negative nancies: who on earth would be won over by a short appearance on a shitty sketch show that doesn't already like sarah palin? she's a completely polarizing figure to like 95% of the country.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 20 October 2008 16:30 (ten years ago) Permalink
I saw a part of the Palin SNL and I felt I was watching Mad TV, so I stopped watching.
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 20 October 2008 16:31 (ten years ago) Permalink
I fell asleep before it even started.
― Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Monday, 20 October 2008 16:32 (ten years ago) Permalink
i would watch pregnant amy poehler do anything
v v cute btw
― Buffcoat and Beaver or Beaver and something else (jeff), Monday, 20 October 2008 17:15 (ten years ago) Permalink
I thought she and GOB didn't consummate the marriage?
― jaymc, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:21 (ten years ago) Permalink
Rap was kinda cringe-worthy, but I will always laugh at McGruber and even a weak Jean K. Jean. (Would pay theater prices for a crappy Jean K. Jean movie.)
― nabisco, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:21 (ten years ago) Permalink
the best was the appearance of tim calhoun, my favorite reoccurring character in recent history
― metametadata (n/a), Monday, 20 October 2008 17:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
will forte is awesome
Also the Poehler "I'm No Angel" perfume ad was pretty A+
― nabisco, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:24 (ten years ago) Permalink
that excerpt seems to presuppose that a) SNL should seek to materially detract from Palin, presumably because she's Palin
Yes, presumably Swift would not have had an "it's all fun n games" stance twd the biggest idiot ever to run for national office
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:28 (ten years ago) Permalink
I never knew Swift did booking.
― nabisco, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:29 (ten years ago) Permalink
i just thought the moose was funny
― akm, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:30 (ten years ago) Permalink
the part where Baldwin whispers in Fey's ear and she sez "Bye-ee" and hurries past Palin made me chuckle, but otherwise, pretty lame.
some penetrating commentary here, courtesy of those nitwits on "Fox & Friends" and that load Frank Luntz ("great observer of all things media"). howdare Baldwin et al. not show Palin the courtesy to read from the cards better! WTF?
yeah xpost perfume ad was lols
― flyover statesman (will), Monday, 20 October 2008 17:32 (ten years ago) Permalink
Best thing to ever happen to the show was when they aired the first ever episode to honor George Carlin and not a single thing was funny - nothing, finally disproving the "it used to be good" cliche. I especially like it when people say "it used to be funny when Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, and Chris Farley were on it" because those were the lowest rated seasons ever.
I think it's been really really funny recently.
Also, Would pay theater prices for a crappy Jean K. Jean movie. = OTM.
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:32 (ten years ago) Permalink
especially white ppl rapping badly, which they LOVE.
When this started, I made like I had to go out for a smoke, but really I just couldn't take the bit. I hate it when they make me embarrassed on their behalf.
― crusty but benign (kenan), Monday, 20 October 2008 17:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
you probably just watched it
― conrad, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:34 (ten years ago) Permalink
I believe Swift was Jack Paar's personal ass't back in the '50s.
S Chow = Rex Reed Award-winning reverse barometer of comedy
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
Ha, I didn't know that Jean K. Jean and Tim Calhoun were recurring characters. Both of them were hilarious.
― jaymc, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:36 (ten years ago) Permalink
What does it matter when I watched it? Sunday morning, if you're keeping score.
― crusty but benign (kenan), Monday, 20 October 2008 17:37 (ten years ago) Permalink
yeah the first season of this show isn't funny at all now. the second and third only marginally better. I do think the eddie murphy years are still pretty great, and the season Lorne Michaels left, with chris guest, martin short, and billy crystal is still probably the funniest this show ever got. I think this current cast seems to have the best, non-ego centric chops of any cast since then (by which I mean they seem like good ensemble players and not people aiming for a career doing terrible movies).
― akm, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:45 (ten years ago) Permalink
the show really is not funny now
― and what, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:45 (ten years ago) Permalink
did you see any of the last five years of this show? compared to that it is a woody allen film
― akm, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:47 (ten years ago) Permalink
Tim Calhoun is my alltime fave snl character and I was excited to see him again, but it was maybe the weakest entry in Tim Calhoun history.
― dan selzer, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:52 (ten years ago) Permalink
That was the least funny of all the Jean K. Jeans thus far, too. (Possibly because they're running out of Euro references and can never live up to the Nutella joke.)
Challenging opinion: there is not nearly as much variation in the quality of SNL seasons as the arguing public would like to pretend.
― nabisco, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:53 (ten years ago) Permalink
this season has been pretty good so far. the only thing that has especially bugged me is that going "lol crystal meth" has become their new default punchline -- the Phelps episode featured I believe 2 references to meth in the first 15 minutes, and then another one in the Weekend Update.
― some dude, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:53 (ten years ago) Permalink
SNL is like the Tonight Show, or Today - it's a franchise in a non-prime time slot. Whether it is funny or not is beside the point to the network execs who keep it on the schedule. It will probably survive another 25 years because it is super cheap to produce - and what else are they going to put on at that time slot that could draw more viewers?
― Aimless, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:53 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/images/Palin-Fey-SNL.jpg
― Buffcoat and Beaver or Beaver and something else (jeff), Monday, 20 October 2008 17:54 (ten years ago) Permalink
calhoun is a recurring character from a while back (i think i remember forte doing him as one of his first parts when he was added to the show) but they use him sparingly
― metametadata (n/a), Monday, 20 October 2008 17:54 (ten years ago) Permalink
The Guest/Crystal/Short/Shearer season was easily the funniest, but it was also very traditional and unzeitgeisty.
― M.V., Monday, 20 October 2008 17:59 (ten years ago) Permalink
yeah but that makes it still funny, 25 years later
― akm, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
― nabisco, Monday, October 20, 2008 1:53 PM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i dunno, can you show me anything from the last 10 years or so that's as funny as norm macdonald weekend updates or frank gannon p.i. p.i. or the sly stone car accident bit or grayson moorhead securities or
Jay Mohr: Hey, look at this polar bear cage. Hey, you think I can swim the little moat both ways before the bear eats me?
Adam Sandler: Five bucks says you can't.
Jay Mohr: All right. Read 'em and weep, my friend!
[Mohr jumps the railing into the polar bear pit. He disappears from view and we hear a loud splash as he hits the water below.]
Norm MacDonald: "Read 'em and weep"? You say "Read 'em and weep" before you lay down your cards in poker, not before you jump into a polar bear cage.
Tim Meadows: Yeah, okay, Mr. Dictionary.
Norm MacDonald: "Mr. Dictionary"? How does knowing about poker make me "Mr. Dictionary"?
Tim Meadows: Ah, no, I wasn't talking to you.
― and what, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
the norm macdonald weekend updates were some funny shit
― akm, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:01 (ten years ago) Permalink
unfrozen caveman lawyer, who's more grizzled, sinatra group...
― and what, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:02 (ten years ago) Permalink
I've loled more at this season than I have in a long time. Space Olympics, Wahlberg, etc. Plus I have a mega-crush on Casey Wilson.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
george f will's sports machine XD
― and what, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
mike myers/heather locklear racist infomercial
― and what, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
[ "Grayson Moorhead Securities. A Tradition of Excellence." ]
Narrator: On Wall Street, trendy investment fads have come and gone over the years, but not at Grayson Moorhead, where we've always stuck to the basic principles set forth by Arthur Grayson nearly 80 years ago.
Arthur Grayson: Our clients must be our first priority.
[ "The Tradition Endures" ]
We will take our client's money and invest it. Part of the profit we will keep for ourselves; the rest we will give to the client.
[ "A Tradition of Security" ]
We will make a list of our clients, and how much money each of them has given us to invest. We will keep this list in a safe place. If we have time, we will make a copy of the list, in case something happens to the first list.
[ "A Tradition of Listening" ]
Listen to your client. It's the only way to know what he's saying.
[ "A Tradition of Trust" ]
If a client is talking, and you're not listening, and he notices, and he accuses you of not listening, just say, "Sure, I've been listening, I've heard every word you've said." If he then says, "Alright, tell me what I've been talking about." Just say, "You've been talking about your investments. Which stocks to buy and so on." That way the client will think you've been listening, even though you haven't.
[ "A Tradition of Integrity" ]
We will invest only in white-owned businesses.
Narrator: Not all of Arthur Grayson's principles are followed today, but at Grayson Moorhead we still believe in the basics.
Arthur Grayson: Don't leave the client's money lying around. Keep it in a safe place. For example: where we keep the list.
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/94/94bparadox.phtml
― and what, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:06 (ten years ago) Permalink
ONE BIG DOOR
― some dude, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:07 (ten years ago) Permalink
ONE BIG DOOR.
― some dude, Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:17 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I have no tolerance, gang, for anyone who commits arson.
― and what, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:08 (ten years ago) Permalink
I was just looking at the transcript page for a 97 episode that featured a Goat Boy sketch, a cheerleader sketch, AND a Roxbury guys sketch. there really was a time when Norm was totally holding shit down by himself.
― some dude, Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:00 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― and what, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:09 (ten years ago) Permalink
i will still ride for lazy sunday but yes white people rap lol is played whoooo
― BIG HOOS was a communisteen orgadriver (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 20 October 2008 18:12 (ten years ago) Permalink
Natalie Portman's rap is classic too.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:12 (ten years ago) Permalink
Winston-McCauley Funeral Home
Winston-McCauley Spokesperson.....Phil Hartman
Spokesperson: Care, compassion, dedication. These are the things we can promise you at Winston-McCauley Funeral Home. And there's one other thing we can promise: that we will not have sex with any dead body. How can we guarantee this level of service? First, we rigorously test our applicants for aptitude and intelligence.. and also to make sure they don't have the urge to have sex with dead bodies. And, if any of our employees fails to live up to our standards, he can be suspended, without pay, for up to six months. And, if that's not enough, you have my personal assurance that if you can prove that your loved one was the victim of post-mortem sex, I will discount your bill with us for a full $1,000. That's the Winston-McCauley Guarantee.
Announcer: Care. Compassion. Dedication. And absolutely No Sex. Winston-McCauley Funeral Home.
― velko, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:13 (ten years ago) Permalink
God, you kids were weaned on shit.
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76imrmike.phtml
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:19 (ten years ago) Permalink
Predictable.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NCYPQ42NL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
― jaymc, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:24 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/91/91tgannon.phtml
― and what, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:25 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=132501307
o_0
― MacElby's Puddin'© (stevie), Monday, 20 October 2008 18:30 (ten years ago) Permalink
Jim Belushi was doing lol white people rap on SNL 23 years ago. Yikes.
― Little Hussein (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 20 October 2008 18:30 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/06/06ihiphop.phtml
I love this skit a little too much.
― Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Monday, 20 October 2008 18:32 (ten years ago) Permalink
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, October 20, 2008 2:12 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
take it to stuff white ppl like; that was like the most unfunny viral bullshit of the past several years as far as i'm concerned.
i will say the mark wahlberg talks to animals sketch was a) hilarious b) gave me a little more respect for andy samberg.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 20 October 2008 18:32 (ten years ago) Permalink
Hmm, that's not very funny either.
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
Tim Calhoun always reminds me of this guy slowed down a notch:
(Also LOL at Bud Cummins listed as being from ARizona.)
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 20 October 2008 18:36 (ten years ago) Permalink
The show has always had a couple good sketches and a ton of bad ones. It's hit and miss but there's usually at least one good moment - even Tim Kazurinsky had Dr. Jack Badofsky.
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:37 (ten years ago) Permalink
xxpost I have been making everyone I know watch the Walhberg skit. Sometimes the reaction is like, "AWESOME" and sometimes it's like "Oooooo-kay" but I think it's just great.
I've been talking to my animals like this lately. "So you're a cat, huh? What's up with that?"
― crusty but benign (kenan), Monday, 20 October 2008 18:38 (ten years ago) Permalink
Also, a person's reaction to whether Kristen Wiig is funny is a litmus test for something I haven't figured out yet.
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:40 (ten years ago) Permalink
I married a monkey was kazurinski's other good bit. although the monkey was probably funnier than him.
― akm, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:42 (ten years ago) Permalink
There are totally fluctuations in quality, but I find it weird the way conversations about it are constantly about how the show has been LOL Saturday Night DEAD for X period and is suddenly back on its feet, despite the fact that someone else is always claiming it was totally on for X period and actually sucks now. I can't really account for this except to guess that (a) there are just periods of head-writership where the tone appeals to some people and not others, and (b) no matter what year you're talking about, there are always a few funny-ass things and a lot of crap that doesn't work, and your decision about which of those things to focus on probably has less to do with quality and more to do with whether you want to like the show at that moment or not. (Cf the fact that people who go on about how crappy it's been for X years are saying this to explain why they don't watch it anyway, so ...)
I might also suggest here that the periods of the show's goodness or non-goodness actually have less to do with the quality of the writing or the greatness of the performers and more to do with some weird sense of confidence radiating from the show itself. E.g., the period where Fey + Fallon were doing Weekend Update was fun to watch, but I don't remember it being because the writing was head and shoulders above anything else -- it just seemed more like the show was kinda loose and confident and unclenched and enjoying itself, which makes the whole exercise more pleasant (and lets one enjoy, e.g., some crappy sketch where Horatio Sanz starts giggling and the whole thing falls apart anyway).
― nabisco, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:43 (ten years ago) Permalink
SNL quality is inversely proportional to the length of the sketches. The shorter they are, the better the show.
SNL is better this season than it has in the past couple of years, but I think that's more due to the cast making dodgy writing better rather than the other way around.
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 20 October 2008 18:44 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/90/90hgame.phtml
also awesome
xpost: omg it's just like conversations about *insert long-running television show here*!
― Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Monday, 20 October 2008 18:45 (ten years ago) Permalink
Me too. When Wahlberg started talking to the donkey I think it was a perfect moment.
I'm not going to argue about when the show was at it's peak because that just seems as interesting as new discussions of rockism.
― Nicole, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:45 (ten years ago) Permalink
kristin wiig can be really funny, but most of her characters (target lady, lady who can't keep a sectret, lady who has to out-do everyone) are reall unfunny, mad tv type shit, that for some reason recur way too much.
― mizzell, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:48 (ten years ago) Permalink
you probably just stroke it
― conrad, Monday, 20 October 2008 18:49 (ten years ago) Permalink
kristin wiig can be really funnyDid she do any television between Joe Schmoe and SNL?
The period where Fey + Fallon were doing Weekend Update was fun to watch, but I don't remember it being because the writing was head and shoulders above anything else -- it just seemed more like the show was kinda loose and confident and unclenched and enjoying itself, which makes the whole exercise more pleasant (and lets one enjoy, e.g., some crappy sketch where Horatio Sanz starts giggling and the whole thing falls apart anyway).Ha, like the Jerry McGuire sequel sketch?
― Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 October 2008 18:52 (ten years ago) Permalink
Horatio Sanz is a crime against humanity.
― Nicole, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
I liked the thing where he pretended to be Billy Joel giving somebody a ride home.
― Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 October 2008 19:05 (ten years ago) Permalink
hey chicken, some people wanna eat you, but i just wanna talk to you <--- high level of comedy forever
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 20 October 2008 19:05 (ten years ago) Permalink
I liked the time I watched a season premiere episode and didn't see his name in the opening credits.
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 20 October 2008 19:06 (ten years ago) Permalink
Sanz is one of the only people I would get really Shakey Mo about if he died. The others would be people like Rush Limbaugh or Dick Cheney.
― Nicole, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:06 (ten years ago) Permalink
that was my favorite line, ally!
― horseshoe, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:08 (ten years ago) Permalink
Eh, better Horatio Sanz than Carlos Mencia.
― Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Monday, 20 October 2008 19:08 (ten years ago) Permalink
i partied with horatio sanz & hes a bro + suprisingly introverted/reflective
― and what, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:09 (ten years ago) Permalink
Dan, that's like saying better Stalin than Hitler.
― Nicole, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:11 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/80/80a.phtml
This is the all-time worst show they ever had.
― Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Monday, 20 October 2008 19:11 (ten years ago) Permalink
i was too busy hating fallon to get around to hating sanz
― collardio gelatinous, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:12 (ten years ago) Permalink
pretty much this. I guess the years he was on snl i just wasn't watching (was pretty much done with it post-Norm), because the only thing I remember with Sanz is SNL Best-of parody that's all "he's not dead yet - but he will be!" and maybe some lame skit where he's in a Mariachi band. Defintiely not good, but mostly benign. But everybody hates this guy so much! I guess I'm lucky I never caught much of him...
― flyover statesman (will), Monday, 20 October 2008 19:13 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/80/80acarters.phtml
This sketch in particular actually made my parents turn off for the entire rest of the season.
― Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Monday, 20 October 2008 19:14 (ten years ago) Permalink
horatio improv >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> horatio snl
― Buffcoat and Beaver or Beaver and something else (jeff), Monday, 20 October 2008 19:18 (ten years ago) Permalink
― Spencer Chow, Monday, October 20, 2008
See, it works!
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:20 (ten years ago) Permalink
WHY DID AMY POHELER MAKE GUN NOISES WITH HER FINGERS INSTEAD OF A FAKE GUN
― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Monday, 20 October 2008 19:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
Secret Service?
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 20 October 2008 19:31 (ten years ago) Permalink
made visual connection with Fay-lin's gun-finger pew-pew-pew?
― nabisco, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:39 (ten years ago) Permalink
Fey-lin
Still neither.
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
Speaking of Fallon hate, soon he will be gracing our televisions every night at 12:40
― burt_stanton, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:37 (ten years ago) Permalink
I hope he lasts as long as the Chevy Chase late night show, but otoh nbc seems to have a real tolerance for these kinds of useless time wasters. Carson Daly's show has been on for years and years.
― Nicole, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:40 (ten years ago) Permalink
Amy Carter: [ chipper ] Like the slaves!
― ಥ﹏ಥ (cankles), Monday, 20 October 2008 20:40 (ten years ago) Permalink
still can't wrap my mind around that. he's the W of comedy. hey, he sucked at everything else, let's make him pres.
I guess this analogy would work better if he were landing the Tonight Show gig. But hey, he's got nothing but time and Conan in his way now.
xxpost
― flyover statesman (will), Monday, 20 October 2008 20:40 (ten years ago) Permalink
i thought the wahlberg animal sketch was hilarious. i just hope they don't do something stupid and try to make it recurring or something.
― the valves of houston (gbx), Monday, 20 October 2008 20:43 (ten years ago) Permalink
Was Fallon -ever- funny? Why the hell did they pick him?
― burt_stanton, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:44 (ten years ago) Permalink
....fallon gets a tv show??
― the valves of houston (gbx), Monday, 20 October 2008 20:44 (ten years ago) Permalink
He's taking over Late Nite once Conan goes to the Tonight Show next year.
― burt_stanton, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:45 (ten years ago) Permalink
wow!
― the valves of houston (gbx), Monday, 20 October 2008 20:48 (ten years ago) Permalink
has that 1980 season of SNL been repeated at all? I kind of want to see those.
― akm, Monday, 20 October 2008 20:51 (ten years ago) Permalink
The Wahlberg sketch is already reoccurring:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/12/mark-wahlberg-slams-satur_n_133948.html?page=22&show_comment_id=16738196#comment_16738196
― Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Monday, 20 October 2008 20:53 (ten years ago) Permalink
has that 1980 season of SNL been repeated at all? I kind of want to see those.― akm, Monday, October 20, 2008 4:51 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark
― akm, Monday, October 20, 2008 4:51 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/1337_part_5.png
― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Monday, 20 October 2008 21:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
~barf~
― the valves of houston (gbx), Monday, 20 October 2008 21:08 (ten years ago) Permalink
it's a morbid curiosity
― akm, Monday, 20 October 2008 21:18 (ten years ago) Permalink
I posted xkcd because he psotred something baf too
― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Monday, 20 October 2008 21:30 (ten years ago) Permalink
this past episode = lots of my favorite characters (suze orman, jean k. jean) doing comparatively weak sketches. i loved "narc school."
― santa fe springs eternal (get bent), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:18 (ten years ago) Permalink
always good to see "macgruber" too
― santa fe springs eternal (get bent), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 00:23 (ten years ago) Permalink
"This is the all-time worst show they ever had."
no show that features a short film by jonathan demme is the worst show ever. worst show ever was dice clay nightmare.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 01:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
I remember the 1980 ep with Malcolm McDowell being quite terrible (w/ MM sending up John Lennon a few weeks before his murder)
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 13:30 (ten years ago) Permalink
wow Laurie Metcalf was on SNL during the 1980 season????
― Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 13:37 (ten years ago) Permalink
I just learned that Gilbert Gottfried was in the cast that year, too.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 13:52 (ten years ago) Permalink
yes, weirdly trying to fit in.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 13:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
yeah there's kind of a whole bunch of famous people who were on SNL in the 80s but didn't have memorable tenures or get a real career boost from it (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Robert Downey Jr., Damon Wayans, Ben Stiller, etc.)
― some dude, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 14:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
Julia Louis-Dreyfus was my favorite cast member from her season!
― Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 14:08 (ten years ago) Permalink
nobody ever says gary kroeger.
i still have his "my name is needleman! i'm an oral surgeon!" song going through my head.
― REIGN IN FUDGE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 14:16 (ten years ago) Permalink
Wayans wasn't given't enough to do, and when he tried to improvise, was fired. He and the way underrated Danitra Vance were in probably the best sketch of that whole season, "That Black Girl."
― Sara Sara Sara, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 14:16 (ten years ago) Permalink
joan cusack and anthony michael hall were cast members?
― mizzell, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 14:32 (ten years ago) Permalink
Yup. I think AMH was the youngest cast member ever.
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 14:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
Hall joined the cast of Saturday Night Live (SNL) during its 1985–86 season at the age of 17. He was, and remains, the youngest cast member in the show's history.[6] His recurring characters on the show were 'Craig Sundberg, Idiot Savant', an intelligent, talented teenager with a vacant expression and stilted speech, and 'Fed Jones', one half of the habitually high, hustling pitchmen known as The Jones Brothers (the other Jones Brother was played by short-lived featured player Damon Wayans). Art Garfunkel, Edd Byrnes, Bobby Kennedy and Daryl Hall were among Hall's celebrity impersonations.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 14:39 (ten years ago) Permalink
Here's an interesting trivia question:
Who appeared on SNL first as a musical guest, then as a host, and then as a cast member?
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 14:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
mckean?
― flyover statesman (will), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 14:56 (ten years ago) Permalink
^^ Going with that.
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:01 (ten years ago) Permalink
Yep.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
I seriously think he was the first cast member I ever saw (based on my dim memory that the first episode I ever saw was the Bruce Dern/Leon Redbone episode). That whole 83 to 85 or so era was the only time I watched the show semi-consistently.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
I watched every Phil Ebersol SNL, visiting my dad on the weekends. We'd watch the show at his girlfriend's house and then at midnight when the show ended, go back to his apartment.
That guy lighting a cigarette with a blowtorch in the opening credits is the first thing I visualize whenever old SNLs get brought up.
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:07 (ten years ago) Permalink
cmon worst ep ever has to be nancy kerrigan
― goole, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:11 (ten years ago) Permalink
I miss Rich Hall. I remember the David Byrne clothing commercial skit!
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:19 (ten years ago) Permalink
well, it's dire just about every time an athlete hosts, but they keep booking them since they're apparently great for ratings (last week's Palin episode was the highest rated since the Kerrigan episode).
xpost
― some dude, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
The Joe Montana episode had another one of my favorite sketches:
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/86/86istu.phtml
― Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:24 (ten years ago) Permalink
^^ ok yeah, that sketch was classic
― some dude, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
I think that Montana sketch was the first time I heard the word "masturbating."
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:36 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/91/pics/91asmalley.jpg
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:37 (ten years ago) Permalink
The Garth Brooks episode was shockingly amazing
― Woman Who Force Madonna At House Party To Make Bold Statement (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:42 (ten years ago) Permalink
OLDFRENCHWHORE
I remember reading somewhere that OFW was Tina Fey's favorite self-penned sketch.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:45 (ten years ago) Permalink
The Garth episode was great. "Just regular cowboy stuff", "thank you for coming to Loews" etc.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:54 (ten years ago) Permalink
how many people got their mental image of new york from SNL credits montages?
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:56 (ten years ago) Permalink
I got my earliest NYC images from the old "Late Night With David Letterman" openings.
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
I was talking about the original open, but this one is a bit crepey in hindsight (starts about 1:00 into clip.)
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:01 (ten years ago) Permalink
it was the Tomorrow show for me, but the late 80s era with Hartman, Dunn, Carvey, Hooks, Miller, etc. had the best "ooh like you caught me doing in NYC" montage.
I always remember the raver dude humping the convenience store ride for a split second.
― Joe Petagno's Imagination Station! (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
For some reason old SCTVs seem to hold up better than the really old SNLs, the rare times they play either on TV
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:08 (ten years ago) Permalink
SCTV was always funnier. And you can get all the 1981-1983 SCTVs on DVD - and those episodes often include segments from the 1976-1980 period.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:15 (ten years ago) Permalink
So how accurate are my images of Toronto, where televisions are constantly being defenestrated?
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:27 (ten years ago) Permalink
you mean melonville.
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:29 (ten years ago) Permalink
I thought SCTV was originally filmed in Edmonton(?) -- at least in the David Thomas years.
― Joe Petagno's Imagination Station! (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:30 (ten years ago) Permalink
SCTV became markedly less funny when they shifted producers and moved to Toronto.
So "Second City" is in relation to Calgary?
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:32 (ten years ago) Permalink
Second City was always based around Chicago and anyone else who they were friends with.
― Joe Petagno's Imagination Station! (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
SCTV started in Toronto, but temporarily moved to Edmonton when they reignited the series to the full 90 minute form in 1981 or so.
― Joe Petagno's Imagination Station! (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:37 (ten years ago) Permalink
xp: not really true, I think ... The Toronto branch of Second City developed its own identity, tho some actors moved back and forth btwn it and Chi (Aykroyd & Radner, I think).
One SCTV producer left it for Letterman cuz he was sick of cast infighting.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:39 (ten years ago) Permalink
most awful host of recent memory was de niro a couple years back
he recited from the cue cards like a 4th grader reading a history textbook aloud
at least pretend to try
― Edward III, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:44 (ten years ago) Permalink
that's one of the few recent ones I've seen. it was indeed an awulf performance.
― Granny Dainger, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 16:49 (ten years ago) Permalink
awful, too
I remember that one. He was in some kind-of Peter Pan play sketch
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 17:08 (ten years ago) Permalink
peter and awulf
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 17:24 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/23/will-ferrell-back-as-bush_n_137399.html
tina fey's Palin is morphing into laraine newman's sherrie the air stewardess
― MacElby's Puddin'© (stevie), Friday, 24 October 2008 14:21 (ten years ago) Permalink
i thought the ras trent thing samberg did saturday was funny. i know it's basically just the white guy rapping joke. but it was specific and kinda funny.
― news is dicks. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 27 October 2008 08:52 (ten years ago) Permalink
Merciful Zeus, please end this election, if only so Tina Fey can shelve her annoying Sarah Palin impression. Every age gets the satire it deserves, and from the looks of things, we are in a cheap, plasticine era....
"Fridays" went into more political depth than SNL even pretends to plumb today. Some of the material on recent shows has been incredibly inane and pointless, like John McCain challenging Obama to a pie eating contest. Have SNL's writers stopped doing drugs? Or is this merely Vicodin comedy?
It'll be interesting to see how present-day parodists deal with the Obama administration. So far, they've given us really nothing. Fred Armisen's impression on SNL is not only bad, the writers have found no satirical hook. You'd think that a fiftysomething Repub like Jim Downey might have some angle on Obama, out of partisan hatred if nothing else. Liberals are too swoony at the moment to write any decent attacks on the next imperial manager, a condition I'm sure will continue well past Obama's coronation.
http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2008/10/when-bippy-meant-something.html
(there's an ace Richard Pryor-as-prez clip from his variety show at the end)
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 27 October 2008 13:12 (ten years ago) Permalink
huh? its the trailer for a billy jack movie, surely?
― MacElby's Puddin'© (stevie), Monday, 27 October 2008 13:15 (ten years ago) Permalink
It'll be interesting to see how present-day parodists deal with the Obama administration. So far, they've given us really nothing.
he isn't president yet.
― MacElby's Puddin'© (stevie), Monday, 27 October 2008 13:16 (ten years ago) Permalink
thanks for that
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 27 October 2008 13:24 (ten years ago) Permalink
(there's a hyperlink of Pryor above Billy Jack)
i missed that.
you know what? i love Richard Pryor but his TV series was pretty dud, IMHO. though i enjoyed the roast that was included on the DVD extras. also, Perrin's Michael O'Donoghue book was fantastic.
― MacElby's Puddin'© (stevie), Monday, 27 October 2008 13:29 (ten years ago) Permalink
only watched the last episode through weekend update but don draper's guide to picking up women was classic
― akm, Monday, 27 October 2008 13:38 (ten years ago) Permalink
be glad you missed the MAd Men skit, akm. It had Roger and Peggy and SNL still ruined it (with slight redemption at end). Sigh.
― skeletal lexing (Finefinemusic), Monday, 27 October 2008 13:49 (ten years ago) Permalink
yeah it wasn't funny, I saw that one. guy doing Sal was the only really funny thing in it.
― akm, Monday, 27 October 2008 13:56 (ten years ago) Permalink
otm. the guide to picking up women had me cracking up. first time i've actually watched snl in maybe 5 years!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 27 October 2008 14:26 (ten years ago) Permalink
"blow people away everytime you say anything / take six hour lunches / disappear for weeks at a time"
― akm, Monday, 27 October 2008 14:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
Actually yeah, Sal was pretty great in that skit. Everyone was great except the "inventors" and it was just so over the top and terrible in true SNL form. I cheered when I saw Peggy and Roger.
― skeletal lexing (Finefinemusic), Monday, 27 October 2008 14:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
It was the first time I even bothered to watch the show in ages and one of the few times when I've seen anything from it where I genuinely laughed.
― Michael White, Monday, 27 October 2008 14:36 (ten years ago) Permalink
That was my favorite part. Although Forte as the sex offender was also kind of lulzy, he's good at playing creepy guys.
― "John Kerry dissed me, I'm trippin!" (Nicole), Monday, 27 October 2008 14:37 (ten years ago) Permalink
Horrible, horrible episode. They obviously blew their load with the W sketch on Thursday night. I did chuckle at the Vincent Price skit though.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 27 October 2008 14:49 (ten years ago) Permalink
that picking up women sketch was weak sauce. i've seen enough of Mad Men to 'get' the joke, but there really wasn't much of a joke there, wtf is the big deal about it. i kinda love those Vincent Price sketches, as dumb as they are.
― some dude, Monday, 27 October 2008 15:02 (ten years ago) Permalink
It would be easier to hearken unto Perrin's complaints about other writers, if he could write a decent phrase or two himself. Merciful Zeus? Fiftysomething Repub??
― Aimless, Monday, 27 October 2008 18:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
the last two episodes have been two of the worst in the past three or four years. the michael phelps episode was in that class, too. i think the thursday weekend updates are taking their toll.
― YGS, Monday, 27 October 2008 18:47 (ten years ago) Permalink
It's not like SNL was that fantastic before the thursday weekend updates, though.
― "John Kerry dissed me, I'm trippin!" (Nicole), Monday, 27 October 2008 18:51 (ten years ago) Permalink
took their toll, past tense, last week's was the final Thursday WU. anyway I don't see it, those episodes were as hit'n'miss as any other.
― some dude, Monday, 27 October 2008 18:51 (ten years ago) Permalink
I'm sure it's been discussed but why is Kenan on this show?
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 27 October 2008 18:57 (ten years ago) Permalink
Because he's a good character actor and funny and has lots of experience doing sketch comedy.
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 October 2008 18:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
i thought the point of the Palin rap was that it was a bad idea for a sketch and Palin was sitting it out. It was making fun of jokey white-rap sketches because it was extra retarded.
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 October 2008 19:01 (ten years ago) Permalink
the vincent price skit was pretty funny.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 27 October 2008 19:02 (ten years ago) Permalink
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, October 27, 2008 3:01 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you can't actually be serious, right
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 27 October 2008 19:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
Palin was all "I'm not gonna do this" and Amy Poehler played it WAY WAY WAY up. And then eskimos came out. You were supposed to imagine Palin doing this idiotic sketch in rehearsal.
I'm not saying it was funny, but I'm saying it was at least smarter then the Honeymooner's Rap or whatever you guys think it is
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 October 2008 19:07 (ten years ago) Permalink
i really, really don't think you are right about that, at all. amy poehler was selling it hardcore because it's not like the palin camp was going to agree to do anything worthwhile so do the best with what you've got. like, seriously, i don't understand how you'd even get this idea about this amazing meta-joke.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 27 October 2008 19:13 (ten years ago) Permalink
i'm not saying it's amazing.
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 October 2008 19:14 (ten years ago) Permalink
This is going to be "Sleep, that's where I'm a viking" pt. 2
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 October 2008 19:15 (ten years ago) Permalink
he just described the premise, and then you agreed that that's what the premise was but acted as if you were disagreeing.
― some dude, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:21 (ten years ago) Permalink
haha
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 27 October 2008 19:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
Any time I see him I hit fast-forward on my DVR.
― polyphonic, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:25 (ten years ago) Permalink
so you're not familiar with his work enough to speak about it, is what you're saying.
― some dude, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:25 (ten years ago) Permalink
There was a time when I didn't have a DVR, and that was when I decided that if I ever got one, I would adopt this crucial policy.
― polyphonic, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:26 (ten years ago) Permalink
Aimless, "Merciful Zeus" is a decent W.C. Fieldsism to my eyes. And it's a fucking blog, how good does it have to be?
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:28 (ten years ago) Permalink
he just described the premise, and then you agreed that that's what the premise was but acted as if you were disagreeing.― some dude, Monday, October 27, 2008 3:21 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― some dude, Monday, October 27, 2008 3:21 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I was taking issue with him putting the word "amazing" in my mouth.
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 October 2008 19:28 (ten years ago) Permalink
I just saw Lorne Michaels summarizing the joke as something like "let's think up the absolute last thing Palin would agree to do on this show," so yeah, I think Whiney's description is accurate, along with his assessment that it wasn't particularly funny.
I know I kinda said this before, but it never ceases to amaze me how totally divergent people's estimations of this show's funniness are, even from weak to weak -- I thought this weekend's was as funny as it's been thus far this season. Draper's hula-hoop pitch totally got me (and NB maybe its creators are funnier if you've seen them as recurring characters); the guide to picking up women got me; and I feel bad for anyone who turned off after the news and missed out on "Jon Hamm's John Ham."
I'm also appalled that anyone would see Kenan as anything other than terrific in this cast...
― nabisco, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:30 (ten years ago) Permalink
Hahaha I meant "week to week"
― nabisco, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:31 (ten years ago) Permalink
i was referring to schef pretend-disagreeing with you, whiney, not vice versa, i realize you never used "amazing" or any other superlative.
― some dude, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
and I feel bad for anyone who turned off after the news and missed out on "Jon Hamm's John Ham."
I dunno, that felt to me like they just threw up their hands and said "well, the host is only famous for one thing and we've already written 2 sketches about it, so let's just spitball some kind of extended pun on his name and hope for the best."
― some dude, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
I think Whiney's description is accurate
http://cdn.stereogum.com/img/jean-k-jean.jpgZut alors!
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 October 2008 19:36 (ten years ago) Permalink
I couldn't find the gif of him celebrating, so imagine he's me celebrating my OTMness.
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 October 2008 19:37 (ten years ago) Permalink
Surprised how funny most recent one was. Ras-Trent and Don Draper's guide to picking up women probably the high points for me. I wish they had Kenan in more things, he is the funniest person besides Amy Poehler in the current cast.
Did they let Coldplay play THREE whole songs because the first two were like wtf and Lorne Michaels was all "yeah, can you play a song on regular instruments guys?" or is it because they are having to fill the gap left by chunks of their writing material going to Thursday nights?
― BODY PROP (nickalicious), Monday, 27 October 2008 19:44 (ten years ago) Permalink
Or do they just really like Coldplay?
― BODY PROP (nickalicious), Monday, 27 October 2008 19:45 (ten years ago) Permalink
they are a really famous band. it's not unheard of.
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 October 2008 19:47 (ten years ago) Permalink
Might be Amy Poehler having her baby so they had to cut her sketches.
― Gukbe, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:48 (ten years ago) Permalink
coldplay = musical version of snl. kindred spirits they are.
xposts
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:48 (ten years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I'm assuming a lot of the weird organization in this one had to do with Poehler's baby.
P.S. I don't much care about the creative origins of Jon Hamm's John Ham, I care about dude eating a slice of ham off a toilet-paper roll
― nabisco, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:53 (ten years ago) Permalink
xpBecause he's a good character actor and funny and has lots of experience doing sketch comedy.
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), den 27 oktober 2008 18:58 (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I could possibly agree on the experience part.
nabisco, you mean he fits in with an overall mediocre cast?
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:54 (ten years ago) Permalink
― BODY PROP (nickalicious), Monday, 27 October 2008 19:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
It was funny, but not as good as Peter Sarsgaard's SARS guards. Also, put a Finger in Butts.
― mizzell, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:56 (ten years ago) Permalink
Dudes, it's bad enough to even discuss SNL on the internet; I am not going to argue with you about Kenan being hilarious. This is totally your loss.
― nabisco, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:56 (ten years ago) Permalink
guys the ras trent thing was so bad what are you talking about?
― horseshoe, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:57 (ten years ago) Permalink
and i am basically in love with andy samberg.
yeah Poehler was supposedly rehearsing the day of the show before she went into labor. and she has a history of being in such a ridiculous number of sketches per episode that i'm really curious how they're going to fill the gap in the future. i mean Will Ferrell was a huge sketch hog, too, but there were a lot more people in the cast when he left at least.
xpost I liked the rasta thing, but is Samberg even appearing in any live sketches any more or is he just cordoned off to his little "digital shorts" (i.e. fancy name for the pre-taped sketches the show's been doing since 1975) world?
― some dude, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:57 (ten years ago) Permalink
Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals was a live skit.
― BODY PROP (nickalicious), Monday, 27 October 2008 19:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
digital shorts isn't that fancy of a name. and he is in other sketches.
― mizzell, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:59 (ten years ago) Permalink
ah, i must've misremembered it as a pre-taped deal.
― some dude, Monday, 27 October 2008 19:59 (ten years ago) Permalink
― some dude, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
yeah, his comedy-songs-by-genre approach is really falling thin; there was maybe one laugh in the entire Ras Trent bit, much as I enjoy hearing people talk about Haile Selassie on TV
― nabisco, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
xxxxp haha agreed
white people mocking reggae is never funny
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:02 (ten years ago) Permalink
white dudes with dreadlocks are never not funny
― some dude, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:02 (ten years ago) Permalink
someone over there has failed to understand that the successes of "lazy sunday" and "dick in a box" were not based on people finding comedy-music funny, they were based on the jokes actually being decent
― nabisco, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
Samberg also played Rahm Emanuel in the Obama Variety Half-Hour sketch, lol.
― jaymc, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
he's mocking white people.
― mizzell, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
also the mahmoud ahmedinejad song! <3
― horseshoe, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
i can't tell which sides everyone is taking on kenan thompson but "fix it" makes me lol.
― horseshoe, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
It turns out I have gear-envy for Coldplay. Why doesn't musiciansfriend.com offer rusty bronze bells?
― BODY PROP (nickalicious), Monday, 27 October 2008 20:05 (ten years ago) Permalink
I personally think Kenan is fucking hilarious, even when he's only in a skit to make that goofy bug-eyed face he makes in every skit.
― BODY PROP (nickalicious), Monday, 27 October 2008 20:06 (ten years ago) Permalink
this was the first actal non-thursday entire episode of Saturday Night Live i've seen in years and it was pretty awful, i thought. it's a good thing jon hamm is so pretty.
― horseshoe, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:06 (ten years ago) Permalink
he's mocking white people.― mizzell, Monday, October 27, 2008 4:03 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― mizzell, Monday, October 27, 2008 4:03 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I don't think ilXors get jokes, mizzell.
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 October 2008 20:07 (ten years ago) Permalink
You know, I realized last week that this entire show is way more likable if you have a DVR and don't have to sit through ads or unloved musical guests to be disappointed by thin sketches -- the zapping-through experience is way, way more pleasant.
― nabisco, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:09 (ten years ago) Permalink
Some of you spend way too much time analyzing the impetus for a particular skit to remember to laff.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:09 (ten years ago) Permalink
I.e., I think I enjoy the show itself far more than I would if I were actually spending 1.5 hours watching it
― nabisco, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:10 (ten years ago) Permalink
HAMMOND AS REP. MURTHA - "I couldn't say it any better myself. But enough from me, I'm gonna hand this over to a guy you all know, the next Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden!"SUDEIKIS AS SEN. BIDEN - "Thanks, Jack. Congressman Jack Murtha, everybody! Let me tell you something, Johnstown! Two weeks from now, with the help of the people of Western Pennsylvania, we're going to elect a new President. President Barack Obama! (NOTICING SOMEONE IN CROWD) And I see we've got Pete Harrigan here today! Stand up, Pete! Good to see ya!And let me tell you something else. And listen to me well. As sure as I'm standing here today, during his first few weeks in office, this brilliant young President, is going to be tested. Tested by an international crisis, the likes of which this nation has never before seen. A deliberately manufactured crisis, designed to test his mettle. Now, in this crisis, he will have to make decisions. Decisions that may at first, to the casual observer, seem ill considered. Our military may invade Pakistan. Or surrender to the Chinese. We may sell Hawaii to Saudi Arabia. Or just destroy it, so it can't fall into North Korean hands. But just reserve your judgment. We know what we're doin'. (NOTICING SOMEONE ELSE IN THE CROWD) Hey! Mickey Doyle! County Treasurer How ya doin?HAMMOND AS REP. MURTHA - "If I could say something here. Earlier, what I said about Western Pennsylvania being ignorant. I was misquoted. I meant more, 'backward.' Your people out here just don't understand the modern world. 'Cause they're uneducated, and they don't have radios or that kind of thing. Also, they're racists."SUDEIKIS AS SEN. BIDEN - "Mark my words. If you take away nothing else from what I say here today, or indeed, in this entire campaign, remember this. If Barack Obama is elected, we will have a crisis. And when this crisis hits, and it will, in the second week of February, we may do some weird things. We may cede Florida back to Spain, or Alaska to the Russians. We may blow up every nuclear power plant in the country. We may set fire to Washington D.C.. We may round up all French-Canadians. But don't lose faith. It's all part of a plan. (SEES SOMEONE ELSE IN THE CROWD) Hey! There's Pat Reardon, a great assistant D.A. here in Greene County! Good to see ya, Pat!"HAMMOND AS REP. MURTHA - "If I could, I want to say one more thing about the people of Western Pennsylvania. Has anyone here ever seen a movie called 'Deliverance?' No? Never mind, then."SUDEIKIS AS SEN. BIDEN -- "I'm going to say something else now, and I want you to mark well the words that I say. And remember that I said them here today. In the second year of the Presidency of Barack Obama, a young child shall come from out of the North, from a city of steel. And this child shall rule for a time. But the child shall rule falsely. In deceit. By the trident of Neptune, what I have spoken is the truth."HAMMOND AS REP. MURTHA - "Joe, do you think this 'child' could be one of them Palin kids?"SUDEIKIS AS SEN. BIDEN - "Be silent. Mark well, as I stand here today, the Time of Trouble shall last one year, one month, one day, one hour and one minute. (SPOTS SOMEONE IN CROWD) Hey Phil! How ya doin'? Phil Malloy, head of the Steel Workers Local. But at the appointed hour, the Time of Trouble shall end. And peace shall come to this land for one hundred years. The mouse shall bell the cat, the lamb shall lead the lion, the poor and ignorant shall know wisdom and plenty."HAMMOND AS REP. MURTHA - "You hear that, Western Pennsylvania? That'll be your time!" What happens after the one hundred years?SUDEIKIS AS SEN. BIDEN -- Beware the man with one sandal. He who is not of woman born. That is all I can reveal. The rest is classified.HAMMOND AS REP. MURTHA - "Fair enough. You got that, people? Keep an eye out for a guy with one sandal, who's maybe a robot, or a test-tube baby or some kind of deal like that. But if you spot him, don't, you know, try to handle it yourself. Call the proper authorities!"SUDEIKIS AS SEN. BIDEN - "Gird your loins! By the beard of Jupiter, gird your loins!"HAMMOND AS REP. MURTHA - "I think my loins are okay. I was just at the doctor."SUDEIKIS AS SEN. BIDEN - "Good, good. As it has been spoken, so shall it come to pass. (SEES SOMEONE IN CROWD) Hey! Andy Brennan's here! One of our great county board members out in Fayette. Good to see ya, Andy."CSPAN VOICEOVER - "We will now leave this event, and go to an Obama/Biden rally in Kansas City, Missouri, where former President Clinton is about to spend two hours recounting the achievements of his Administration, before he forgets to mention the Democratic candidate."SUDEIKIS AS BIDEN - "And one more thing, Live From New York, it's Saturday Night!"
― Beatrix Kiddo, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:10 (ten years ago) Permalink
Dude, it aired on Saturday night, I think everyone's had plenty of time to develop thoughts on it since then
it took me about 3/4 of the way through before i laughed with that one. and that was because it reminded me of someone i know (i'm sure that's true for almost everybody)
wow xposts
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:12 (ten years ago) Permalink
― nabisco, Monday, October 27, 2008 4:09 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
It's really true!See also: watching the higlights on hulu
― mizzell, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:14 (ten years ago) Permalink
I.e., I think I enjoy the show itself far more than I would if I were actually spending 1.5 hours watching it― nabisco, Monday, October 27, 2008 4:10 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― nabisco, Monday, October 27, 2008 4:10 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I don't think that SNL has gotten more relevant or zeitgeisty or good, it's just that everyone has the ability to watch and forward the good parts on YouTube on Monday
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 October 2008 20:16 (ten years ago) Permalink
I have a friend who i've never known to watch SNL now going "YOU SMELL DAT PEHPAH?!" to me every five minutes like it's "Yeah, that's the ticket" in 1987
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 October 2008 20:17 (ten years ago) Permalink
Are you guys all talking about how amazing Kenan is to try and trick me into agreeing with you so that I can "fit in," and then you'll all laugh at me for falling for it? Because I can't imagine any other motivation for promoting a man who hasn't done anything funny since his first season on All That, when the Good Burger sketch was still fresh to a ten year old?
― Mordy, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:19 (ten years ago) Permalink
Ha, that pepper one was genuinely funny, though, I think -- and I say that as someone who was initially uncomfortable with the idea that it was some kind of burlesque of a black woman, something I wouldn't normally trust SNL to do
― nabisco, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:21 (ten years ago) Permalink
xpost yes, Mordy, it is all a big conspiracy to make you enjoy something enjoyable about life
― nabisco, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
There's nothing enjoyable about Kenan. I'd even prefer Kel on the show instead.
― Mordy, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:23 (ten years ago) Permalink
Zut alors!
― mizzell, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:29 (ten years ago) Permalink
You know i was trying to figure out the racial subtext of the pepper sketch myself. Like what type of person that is, where he's (she's?) from, what's his upbringing...
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 October 2008 20:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
What type of american is it supposed to be parodying?
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 October 2008 20:34 (ten years ago) Permalink
xpost - Yeah, it seemed like it was a kind of "black woman" character the guy had, one that was way better and less problematic if the guy did it as just ... a character. It probably helps that I actually can think of a few people who look like him and talk like that; the mannerisms aren't that tied to race or sex, though I'm sure a lot of people watched that as if they were, and as if he were making fun.
― nabisco, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:39 (ten years ago) Permalink
Yeah, it was clearly a character he came to the show with. I guess they were smart for making it ambiguous. Makes it funnier too.
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 October 2008 20:47 (ten years ago) Permalink
Casey Wilson is the first person younger than me to be on SNL. It kind of makes me feel like a squandered my life a little.
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 October 2008 20:49 (ten years ago) Permalink
Haha I also recall trying to think of where someone might encounter a chubby white guy who talked like that, and thinking of waiters at Chicagoland Giordano's locations as not a terrible guess
(The main thing that made it look like it had originated as a black woman character was that he kept doing this hair-smoothing motion that is, umm, well, not normally done by men who are straight or white, anyway)
― nabisco, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:49 (ten years ago) Permalink
kenan is awful, [nabisco]. you are so wrong. dude has one gear and it's incredulous-and-aware-of-it. he's a horatio sanz knockoff at best.
and casey wilson is even worse. she has absolutely zero charisma, works too hard in every skit she's in and possesses zero charm.
the new dude i think will be good. i like that he has the gimmick of rewriting classic works, like his of mice and men skit (it was so-so but i liked the conceit) and the mary poppins one, which was pretty great.
i'm sad to say i could write a thesis on the past couple of seasons -- my gf is a huge fan, and thus i have been converted the past few years -- but really, will forte, bill hader and jason sudeikas (to a lesser degree) are all really great. and samberg, too. i'm really not so into fred armisen's shit, i have to say.
also, snl's decision that they needed to have right-wing skits is really fucking weird. i am *sure* there's just one dude lorne hired who writes these things, but they really, really, really don't work, because every one of them is basically "democrats are pussies," and how many jokes can you get out of that?
i am also concerned about the rest of the season only having two female cast members. they've done that in the past, and it's never been good. especially when casey is one.
and FINALLY, the digital short with samberg, kristen wiig and forte where they were competing in a normal-things olympics was easily my favorite skit of the year. every element of it is perfect.
― YGS, Monday, 27 October 2008 20:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
the right wing skits have all been written by jim downey who has written for the show on and off since it started
― akm, Monday, 27 October 2008 21:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
the fact that most of them aren't very funny says more about how unfunny jim downey is now than anything else, I think
― akm, Monday, 27 October 2008 21:01 (ten years ago) Permalink
it's true casey wilson doesn't have a lot of funny chops, but I am not going to say anything bad about a decision to put her on tv.
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 October 2008 21:02 (ten years ago) Permalink
Armisen's topical-comedian amazes me every time, and makes me long for a return of the "guy tells long, tangential story as settings change around him" thing he once did
The right-wing skits have poorly assembled targets, is kinda the problem -- the one about Times reporters going to Alaska seemed to fail based on few people really having that stereotype of journalists themselves
― nabisco, Monday, 27 October 2008 21:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
the alaska one in particular really bothered me. it was just really really meanspirited, above all else.
― YGS, Monday, 27 October 2008 21:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
I think Casey Wilson has tons of charisma and charm. She's new enough that I'm going to give her the time to develop her own style and personality. Plus she is uber-cute.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 27 October 2008 21:09 (ten years ago) Permalink
omg yes
I was trying to explain this to someone and could not do it justice at all.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 27 October 2008 21:10 (ten years ago) Permalink
Agreed. Loved the Normal-Things Olympics sketch.
― Mordy, Monday, 27 October 2008 21:14 (ten years ago) Permalink
That one was okay, but I think the Space Olympics was even better.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 27 October 2008 21:15 (ten years ago) Permalink
i thought the times reporters goes to alaska skit was too long, but had some pretty great moments...primarily the look Samberg and Kenan give each other after learning there's no Thai takeout there, then walk out.
― dan selzer, Monday, 27 October 2008 21:18 (ten years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I have been watching it Sunday mornings while I'm reading the paper, so maybe that's why I don't have a big problem with it.
― "John Kerry dissed me, I'm trippin!" (Nicole), Monday, 27 October 2008 21:24 (ten years ago) Permalink
yes this is amusing every single time even though it never changes
kenan is awful, sorry
― metametadata (n/a), Monday, 27 October 2008 21:29 (ten years ago) Permalink
I am constantly defending Nicholas Fein to my wife, she thinks that is easily Armisen's worst character, but even I thought this weekend was his worst ever. Felt like he was on autopilot or something.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 27 October 2008 21:31 (ten years ago) Permalink
Nicholas Fein is seriously the best new character of the last few years. Followed by Kristin Wiig's "lady who likes surprises"
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 October 2008 21:34 (ten years ago) Permalink
Ugh. That is easily Wiig's worst character. By miles. I'd even prefer the constantly one-upping people character.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 27 October 2008 21:36 (ten years ago) Permalink
no!!!!!!!!!!!
― mizzell, Monday, 27 October 2008 21:42 (ten years ago) Permalink
the quest for SNL funniness-unanimity once again ends on a razor-sharp reef in a pit full of spikes
― nabisco, Monday, 27 October 2008 21:50 (ten years ago) Permalink
lock thread
― metametadata (n/a), Monday, 27 October 2008 21:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
I wish they'd bring Tracy back just once a month or every two months just to do one Brian Fellow's Safari Planet sketch.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 27 October 2008 23:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
and astronaut jones
― YGS, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 00:28 (ten years ago) Permalink
because he fucking rules
― Eurasian Traveler Wig and Moustache Set (get bent), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 03:41 (ten years ago) Permalink
love him as mayor top hat in the lasercats sketch
― Eurasian Traveler Wig and Moustache Set (get bent), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 03:47 (ten years ago) Permalink
ILX is like the only stronghold of Kenan support in the whole world
― A B C, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 03:54 (ten years ago) Permalink
I love when he does Pierre Escargot as Def Comedy Jam standup though
― A B C, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 03:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
I wish he would just do straight-up Pierre Escargot. Bathtub and all.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 03:59 (ten years ago) Permalink
Nicholas Fein is seriously the best new character of the last few years.
"...agriculture in the '30s...."
― Eurasian Traveler Wig and Moustache Set (get bent), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 04:17 (ten years ago) Permalink
Kenan is great. That weird Ziggy-style or whatever skit where he was dancing around on public access TV with all these controversial guests getting shot at was really great for some reason.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 04:32 (ten years ago) Permalink
kenan drives me nuts.
― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 05:09 (ten years ago) Permalink
Fix it!
― "John Kerry dissed me, I'm trippin!" (Nicole), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 05:12 (ten years ago) Permalink
To think that if this cast had been on ten years ago I could be picking up a $10 two-pack of the Nicholas Fehn and Tim Calhoun feature films at Target today
― A B C, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 05:34 (ten years ago) Permalink
Actually I guess 85 minutes of Deep House Dish might be more likely
― A B C, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 05:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/fri_blog1.jpg
― Buffcoat and Beaver or Beaver and something else (jeff), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 06:05 (ten years ago) Permalink
Deep House Dish is the one Kenan thing I don't like...which is shocking considering how I feel about deep house in general. It should be funnier then it is.
I just remembered the skit he did with Fred Armisen where Fred played a racist deaf comedian. That was awesome.
I'd say I'm actually a really big fan of the current cast, though I don't think the writing is that great right now, not as good as it was just a few years ago, but similar.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
The last Deep House Dish wasn't as good as previous ones.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:46 (ten years ago) Permalink
DHD was better in general w/ Dratch as the co-host instead of Samberg.
― some dude, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
Nobody else can play a stage manager or show bandleader quite like Kenan Thompson.
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 14:40 (ten years ago) Permalink
the baby pug in the lasercats skit FTW
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 15:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
I'd forgotten about that completely!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:21 (ten years ago) Permalink
wait, why did so many ppl hate 'ras trent'? i thought it was hysterical
rudeboy living in the shanty dorm
― joe 40oz (deej), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:42 (ten years ago) Permalink
“I remember when I first met him—I kind of didn’t like him,” says Greg Rivera, Pentz’s college roommate and, today, co-owner of the Mishka streetwear company, which has made shirts for Mad Decent. “He also was a white kid with dreads. And most white kids with dreads, obviously there’s something up with them."
― some dude, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:43 (ten years ago) Permalink
EXCUSE I!!!!!
― joe 40oz (deej), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 18:47 (ten years ago) Permalink
I am imagining this show with a cast made up of all of the women ever to appear on the show who are still living and I think it would be balls-out awesome.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:08 (ten years ago) Permalink
BRING BACK JAN HOOKS!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:11 (ten years ago) Permalink
It seems like even besides Tina Fey they've been bringing back more and more former cast members like Maya Rudolph and Chris Parnell for one-off appearances lately, which I like, but also get a little bummed out by because I wish they were still on the show every week.
― some dude, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:16 (ten years ago) Permalink
Denny Dillon thanks you, HI DERE
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:17 (ten years ago) Permalink
Chris Parnell should be on every show on television.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:17 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://media.canada.com/idl/vitc/20080327/114925-37284.jpg
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:18 (ten years ago) Permalink
xpost OTM. Merv The Perv was some of the funniest shit.
― Sara Sara Sara, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:19 (ten years ago) Permalink
I can't believe Lorne Michaels fired him twice!
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:24 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://www.areavoices.com/attic/images/thumbnail/snl2.jpg
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:25 (ten years ago) Permalink
poor Danitra
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:26 (ten years ago) Permalink
Downey & AM Hall were rumored to be lovers.
Danitra Vance thoroughly outclassed the material, RIP
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:27 (ten years ago) Permalink
Nora Dunn as Pat Stevens brought so much joy to my life.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:28 (ten years ago) Permalink
I'd forgotten that Lovitz and Dunn were there a year before the late '80s super-overhaul with Hartman/Carvey/Nealon, etc.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:28 (ten years ago) Permalink
I thought RDJ would have better taste.
― "John Kerry dissed me, I'm trippin!" (Nicole), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:28 (ten years ago) Permalink
man young joan cusack can get it
― some dude, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:30 (ten years ago) Permalink
xp hahaha I am now imagining him screaming "I! WILL EAT! YOUR! SOUL!" at AMH
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:30 (ten years ago) Permalink
Lovitz has such a wide smile.
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:31 (ten years ago) Permalink
Everyone picks on the 85 cast but the only ones that really struck me as unfunny were Sweeney and AMH. I think most of the problem was terrible writing.
― "John Kerry dissed me, I'm trippin!" (Nicole), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
any season could have used a boost of vitamin quaid.
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:37 (ten years ago) Permalink
comedy central only played the 85 seasons for like a month.
94-95 beats that season for the most blatantly misused cast of talented people in the history of SNL.
― some dude, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:40 (ten years ago) Permalink
Michaels angered most of his cast by ending the season with a sketch in which the cast (playing themselves) get caught in a fire, and Michaels chooses to rescue only Lovitz (who had connected with audiences due in part to his popular characters the Master Thespian and the Pathological Liar with the catchphrase "that's the ticket!").
― mizzell, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:46 (ten years ago) Permalink
i've read about that before but wish i had seen it. brass balls, that LM.
― some dude, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:50 (ten years ago) Permalink
wow, nora dunn was hot
― the sir weeze, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:53 (ten years ago) Permalink
some dude OTM about 94-95
Janeane GarafaloMichael McKeanMark McKinneyLaura Kightlingerand Al Frankin
Could you imagine what this shit would be like if dudes were on their game?
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:53 (ten years ago) Permalink
not to mention Sarah Silverman the year before
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:54 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/85/85rgoodnights.phtml
― jaymc, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:54 (ten years ago) Permalink
I remember Jon Lovitz' liar character only being funny because the rest of the show was so insanely gawdawful. Like finding a cheeto in a turd.
― Sara Sara Sara, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:56 (ten years ago) Permalink
I saw an interview with Sarah Silverman recently and she explained that she got fired for accidentally stabbing one of the writers in the head with a pencil as a joke gone wrong.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
a cheeto in a turd
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:59 (ten years ago) Permalink
re 94-95: Franken's Stuart Smalley was maybe the funniest thing he ever did (in front of the camera, w/out Tom Davis). Garofalo is better at film acting then she ever was at sketches, standup, or being a big huge Air America bore.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
Iirc Garofalo mostly played the girlfriend or straight man in most snl sketches, I don't think they knew what to do w/her.
― "John Kerry dissed me, I'm trippin!" (Nicole), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
I'm sure I watched that whole season, but I remember almost nothing about it.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:05 (ten years ago) Permalink
Al Franken was doing Stuart Smalley at least since that 1991 episode with Michael Jordan.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:05 (ten years ago) Permalink
Hands up, who's seen Stuart Saves His Family?
o/
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:08 (ten years ago) Permalink
The Norm Coleman campaign staff, maybe?
― "John Kerry dissed me, I'm trippin!" (Nicole), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:10 (ten years ago) Permalink
you watched it for the Ween cameo, didn't you Whiney
― some dude, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:11 (ten years ago) Permalink
Garofalo was a hundred times funnier on the Ben Stiller show
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:16 (ten years ago) Permalink
maya was so wonderful this saturday. it was great to see her.
― Eurasian Traveler Wig and Moustache Set (get bent), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:26 (ten years ago) Permalink
Ween cameo was in It's Pat, duh!
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:30 (ten years ago) Permalink
Which I also watched.
lol egg on my face, i must have seen at least parts of both of those movies
― some dude, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:43 (ten years ago) Permalink
re: female ex-cast members - you know victoria jackson is a crazy right-wing fundie type now, right? like, "mccain and palin are ordained by god to rule this country" type stuff?
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:47 (ten years ago) Permalink
i was kinda stoked to see nora dunn as seth rogen's gf's mom in pineapple express
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:48 (ten years ago) Permalink
victoria jackson just called obama the anti-christ on her blog. no joke.
― YGS, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:50 (ten years ago) Permalink
remember that song she did about her husband being a cop?
― Whiney G. Soundgarden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:51 (ten years ago) Permalink
the blonde Christian conservative sketch comedy actress character on Studio 60 would've been so much more believable if they'd just had Victoria Jackson play it.
― some dude, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:52 (ten years ago) Permalink
or the sketch where she plays a pregnant woman and smokes/sticks stomach in the microwave/falls down the stairs?
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:53 (ten years ago) Permalink
I don't think it would ever have occurred to me to take seriously the political views of the woman famous for doing headstands during Weekend Update and giggling while reciting awful poetry.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:53 (ten years ago) Permalink
for a second i was like "wait didn't she also have a weekend sketch thing where she demonstrated sex toys?" but then remembered that was cheri oteri
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:54 (ten years ago) Permalink
weekend UPDATE thing
This saddens me, I didn't realize she was that kind of wackjob.
― "John Kerry dissed me, I'm trippin!" (Nicole), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 21:27 (ten years ago) Permalink
I wonder if she and Weird Al still speak.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 21:27 (ten years ago) Permalink
OMG WHY IS THE CHURCH CHAT SKETCH WITH JIM AND TAMMY FAYE BAKKER NOT ONLINE ANYWHERE?
DEMONIC RAISINS I REBUKE YOU!
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 2 November 2008 09:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
last night was pretty fucking great
Ben Affleck as Keith Olbermann = A++, would lol again
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Sunday, 2 November 2008 17:59 (ten years ago) Permalink
that sketch was NUTS
he was amazing in the target lady sketch also
― donna rouge, Sunday, 2 November 2008 18:34 (ten years ago) Permalink
Basically I think he's missed his true calling; had he gone out there as a sketch comedy actor rather than a SERIOUS MOVIES ARE SERIOUS actor, I would probably be a fan!
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Sunday, 2 November 2008 18:36 (ten years ago) Permalink
Did anything good happen after Weekend Update?
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 2 November 2008 18:41 (ten years ago) Permalink
Affleck was great, he should probably be doing a sitcom like Alec Baldwin instead of whatever he's doing now. xp w/Dan!
― "John Kerry dissed me, I'm trippin!" (Nicole), Sunday, 2 November 2008 18:41 (ten years ago) Permalink
hader's queeny goth pitching the film w/ affleck could've been funnier
― donna rouge, Sunday, 2 November 2008 18:43 (ten years ago) Permalink
kenan's thing was great tho. STING YA!
― donna rouge, Sunday, 2 November 2008 18:44 (ten years ago) Permalink
omg YES
All of Kenan's appearances this episode were basically a big "YOU ARE FUCKING WRONG" to everyone upthread talking about how unfunny they find him.
Also I thought the queeny goth thing was pretty hysterical, esp the end.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Sunday, 2 November 2008 18:57 (ten years ago) Permalink
hahahaha PEEKABOO! Kenan is awesome
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Sunday, 2 November 2008 18:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
I love Kenan. Totally underutilized.
― kate78, Sunday, 2 November 2008 18:59 (ten years ago) Permalink
the view sketch needed some direction but they had the characters down
― deej, Sunday, 2 November 2008 19:31 (ten years ago) Permalink
affleck's alec baldwin voice was v good
That Jennifer Aniston impersonation was mean but v v v v funny
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Sunday, 2 November 2008 19:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
haha she looked so grotesque
― donna rouge, Sunday, 2 November 2008 19:34 (ten years ago) Permalink
Kenan's Whoopi was a little bit off...more like a Jewish grandma from Boston.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 2 November 2008 19:34 (ten years ago) Permalink
it's funny but i was thinking of my own ilx post a few days ago in that erratum while watching that incredible sketch of his last night.
― collardio gelatinous, Sunday, 2 November 2008 19:52 (ten years ago) Permalink
in that erratum light, i meant to write.
That very last sketch didn't work at all, which is why it was last I guess, but I do kinda want that coat.
― Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Sunday, 2 November 2008 19:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
No. The sketch was well-written, but the impression was Lousy. Olbermann has a slight British accent now?
― Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Sunday, 2 November 2008 20:13 (ten years ago) Permalink
Unless it was all meta, and he was making fun of how badly Olbermann does impressions.
― Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Sunday, 2 November 2008 20:14 (ten years ago) Permalink
watching body fuzion right now and lolling in a major way
― max, Sunday, 2 November 2008 20:51 (ten years ago) Permalink
i think this is the strongest cast of chicks theyve had ever
I think the sketch was making fun of how pompous and insufferable Olbermann is.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Sunday, 2 November 2008 20:52 (ten years ago) Permalink
also back to the View sketch: "LET ME FINISH!" hahahahaha
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Sunday, 2 November 2008 20:53 (ten years ago) Permalink
i have heard him affect a british accent to emphasize haught and pomp xp
― HOOS HOOS HOOS on the autosteen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 2 November 2008 20:53 (ten years ago) Permalink
When he freaked out at the end and basically was just shaking his head and making faces at the camera I was almost incontinent.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Sunday, 2 November 2008 20:54 (ten years ago) Permalink
there are only two chix left and casey wilson isn't really funny!
― A B C, Sunday, 2 November 2008 21:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://www.popcrunch.com/the-view-snl-skit-with-ben-affleck-as-alec-baldwin/
lolz, Whoopi's grandmother's saying
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Sunday, 2 November 2008 21:05 (ten years ago) Permalink
i liked casey wilson last night in the night school musical sketch - "and then i'm gonna smoke meth cuz i'm addicted to meth"
― donna rouge, Sunday, 2 November 2008 21:08 (ten years ago) Permalink
grady wilson whipping butter was big lols
― mizzell, Sunday, 2 November 2008 21:15 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/vincent-prices-halloween-special/794301/
also LOL
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Sunday, 2 November 2008 21:16 (ten years ago) Permalink
you are far more amused by snl than I am. No judgement, just sayin.
― Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Sunday, 2 November 2008 21:29 (ten years ago) Permalink
Affleck was good, but every time the target lad was speaking, julia kept muting the TV. because that character makes me want to go on a shooting spree.
― Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Sunday, 2 November 2008 21:32 (ten years ago) Permalink
target ladY
bill hader is real good
― deej, Sunday, 2 November 2008 21:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
I don't think it's SNL's fault that you're crazy, Kenan.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Sunday, 2 November 2008 21:38 (ten years ago) Permalink
ad honinem! ad hominem!
― Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Sunday, 2 November 2008 21:39 (ten years ago) Permalink
Who is the Target lady? Do we really KNOW her?
― Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Sunday, 2 November 2008 21:41 (ten years ago) Permalink
Hey, I'm not the one talking about shooting random people because of someone's goofy SNL character. Just sayin'...
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Sunday, 2 November 2008 21:41 (ten years ago) Permalink
the olbermann parody was absolute genius. yeah olbermann doesn't have a british accent -- and david letterman doesn't ask people for gum.
― J.D., Sunday, 2 November 2008 21:42 (ten years ago) Permalink
That's it. You have pushed me over the edge. I was kidding before, but now thanks to Dan, I'm actually going to shoot people.
― Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Sunday, 2 November 2008 21:44 (ten years ago) Permalink
Should i go to a) a school, b) a cafeteria restaurant, c) a bell tower
ILX poll?
― Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Sunday, 2 November 2008 21:46 (ten years ago) Permalink
the Ras Trent thing was great! dislikers are crazy
― Dan I., Sunday, 2 November 2008 22:15 (ten years ago) Permalink
They've all been done, kenan. Think about it.
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 2 November 2008 22:18 (ten years ago) Permalink
Damnit! And here I'm supposed to be a creative professional.
― Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Sunday, 2 November 2008 22:19 (ten years ago) Permalink
dear SNL: MORE COUGAR DEN PLZ IS ONE OF FUNNIEST GIFTS YOU'VE GIVE IN YEARS KTHXBYE
― Beatrix Kiddo, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:53 (ten years ago) Permalink
GIRAFFES!
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 10 November 2008 22:26 (ten years ago) Permalink
hahaha
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 10 November 2008 22:27 (ten years ago) Permalink
spencer otm
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 10 November 2008 22:28 (ten years ago) Permalink
this (tim mcgraw/t-pain and luda) was good tonight! armisen's barney frank had me in tears
― most important concept of all -- THE CONCEPT OF LOVE (donna rouge), Sunday, 23 November 2008 06:17 (ten years ago) Permalink
this is the audition tape of the new chick who isnt chris elliotts seed
― Ron Polarik, PhD (and what), Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:02 (ten years ago) Permalink
hi i read every website who commented on this like three weeks ago
― Destroyed by the heat jeeeez (jeff), Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:13 (ten years ago) Permalink
i didn't lol but i didn't think it was unfunny
the accent was spot-on
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:16 (ten years ago) Permalink
I think I've started to fancy Tina Fey. Is that wrong? ― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, February 26, 2003 6:01 AM (5 years ago)
oh how the times have changed
― k3vin k., Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:23 (ten years ago) Permalink
― Destroyed by the heat jeeeez (jeff), Friday, 5 December 2008 00:09 (ten years ago) Permalink
Wasn't this a UCB character?
― Nomi Malone and Her Bloodstains (Stevie D), Friday, 5 December 2008 00:36 (ten years ago) Permalink
fred's boy george thing on weekend update was really funny.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Sunday, 7 December 2008 22:27 (ten years ago) Permalink
The euro-rap digital short was one of the best looking (and sounding) ones yet.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 7 December 2008 23:13 (ten years ago) Permalink
I think Fred's Obama impersonation is getting slightly better too. xp
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 7 December 2008 23:18 (ten years ago) Permalink
And according to the Youtube version of it, it's the first single from The Lonely Island's debut album.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 7 December 2008 23:19 (ten years ago) Permalink
SNL: just the funny parts
boy george
― k3vin k., Monday, 8 December 2008 00:36 (ten years ago) Permalink
trying to remember the rest, but that was abt it
http://www.hulu.com/watch/47604/saturday-night-live-snl-digital-short-j-in-my-pants#x-4,cSNL%20Shorts,1
― redmond, Monday, 8 December 2008 01:48 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/blizzard-man/848723/
― uәʇɹɐƃu!әʍ ˙ƃ ʎәu!Ⴁʍ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 12 December 2008 04:01 (ten years ago) Permalink
the problem i've been having with snl recently more than anything is the lack of good endings to their sketches. i find myself saying "ok, this isn't sucking...ok, this is actually funny" to certain sletches and then the ending is just super boring/unimaginative/cliche that it leaves me cold.
― k3vin k., Friday, 12 December 2008 04:21 (ten years ago) Permalink
well, they've gotten into the habit of not writing endings (or writing really arbitrary ones just to get out of it somehow), but it's still better than 5-10 years ago when even the good sketches seemed to just drag and drag for twice as long than they had a right to.
― Anne Dwutt (some dude), Friday, 12 December 2008 04:52 (ten years ago) Permalink
oh my god wtf kanye
― k3vin k., Sunday, 14 December 2008 05:11 (ten years ago) Permalink
this is really really really bad
― k3vin k., Sunday, 14 December 2008 05:12 (ten years ago) Permalink
omg omg omg fred armisen is the best
― k3vin k., Sunday, 14 December 2008 05:21 (ten years ago) Permalink
fred armisen <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 luv u 4ever
― shamwowllionaire (get bent), Sunday, 14 December 2008 05:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
piano intro to lamps sketch reminds me of "inca rag" by FF
― k3vin k., Sunday, 14 December 2008 05:34 (ten years ago) Permalink
I thought that cat sketch with Wiig and Laurie was funny.
― Mordy, Sunday, 14 December 2008 05:44 (ten years ago) Permalink
yeah i thought so too. this has actually been a good episode filled with really smart sketches! i still think the biggest problem is bad endings
― k3vin k., Sunday, 14 December 2008 05:47 (ten years ago) Permalink
I'm lolling at this gay guy eating cookies sketch too.
― Mordy, Sunday, 14 December 2008 05:49 (ten years ago) Permalink
that was great! kenan thompson killed it as always though.hugh laurie has a great american accent too! i never even knew he was british
― k3vin k., Sunday, 14 December 2008 05:51 (ten years ago) Permalink
whoops"killed it" = sucked
so, should i just wait until this is torrented, and then skip about? I keep waiting for them to involve Stephen Fry whenever Hugh is on
― Vault Boy Bobblehead - Drinking (kingfish), Sunday, 14 December 2008 06:13 (ten years ago) Permalink
it was a good episode but kanye's perfs seemed endless (and bad)
― shamwowllionaire (get bent), Sunday, 14 December 2008 09:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
I just wish he did "Love Lockdown" live with like 15 drummers instead of singing over the track in front of a big video screen
― vermonter, Sunday, 14 December 2008 23:09 (ten years ago) Permalink
ya that was weird - he brought the drummers for like ellen and conan but not snl wtf?
― merriweather passantino pavilion (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 14 December 2008 23:10 (ten years ago) Permalink
yeah, good point. i thought the episode was one of the better ones this season, though. fred armisen is really on fire recently
― k3vin k., Sunday, 14 December 2008 23:17 (ten years ago) Permalink
yeah I think his weak Obama and the sameyness of a lot of his characters had me pretty sick of Armisen lately but he was good last night.
never been a huge Poehler fan but I'm gonna miss her on Weekend Update, especially "Really!?! with Seth & Amy." I wonder if they're gonna have Seth hold it down solo or put one of the newer girls at the desk.
― It is the farewell kiss, you dog! (some dude), Sunday, 14 December 2008 23:19 (ten years ago) Permalink
armisen was MVP of this episode definitely, paterson insulting jersey was major lolz
― lol cool j (donna rouge), Sunday, 14 December 2008 23:20 (ten years ago) Permalink
he should probably go solo for the time being. i know a lot of people hate on weekend update, but for me it's easily the most consistent part of the show.
― k3vin k., Sunday, 14 December 2008 23:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
lol i mean besides obv that it is the only thing ON every week
yeah being a NYer i loooved his paterson. i thought the boy george last week was one of the highlights of the season too.and i dunno some dude i like his obama. he's really got the arhythmic patterns down (almost reminds me of chris walken) and how he tends to end sentences at a faster pace and a louder volume than the rest of the sentence. maybe it's a bit too OTT though
― k3vin k., Sunday, 14 December 2008 23:25 (ten years ago) Permalink
his Obama is improving based on last week's "cool" sketch, but it's still not good enough.
― It is the farewell kiss, you dog! (some dude), Sunday, 14 December 2008 23:30 (ten years ago) Permalink
i see it as a continuation of SNL's tradition (with a couple of exceptions) of just not being able to pull off good presidential impersonations
― lol cool j (donna rouge), Sunday, 14 December 2008 23:42 (ten years ago) Permalink
i dunno, maybe you don't like Carvey's Bush, Hartman's Clinton or Ferrell's W as a matter of personal preference, but there's pretty much no way you can spin Armisen's Obama as not being a step down from those (assuming Michaels doesn't eventually give in and hire a black guy other than Kenan in the next 4 or 8 years).
― J0rban Sarggest (some dude), Sunday, 14 December 2008 23:47 (ten years ago) Permalink
armisen's last big mountain to climb is mastering the smile. the fact that he never even tries makes me think it must be a conscious choice. but you aren't obama if you can't grin.
― da croupier, Monday, 15 December 2008 00:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
when i first started watching again I thought armisen and ESPECIALLY forte were horrible, but I like them 90% of the time now.
will forte's part on the "road trip confessions" a few weeks ago KILLED ME
― k3vin k., Monday, 15 December 2008 00:41 (ten years ago) Permalink
the one w. paul rudd
god i love that recurring singalong/anecdote bit
― J0rban Sarggest (some dude), Monday, 15 December 2008 00:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
i quite liked the new guy and will forte in the wedding toast sketch.
― I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE - I THUMB THROUGH YOUR MAGAZINES (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 15 December 2008 02:24 (ten years ago) Permalink
yeah...pretty dope episode considering that Hugh Laurie was surprisingly dull and didn't make me laugh once
― J0rban Sarggest (some dude), Monday, 15 December 2008 02:27 (ten years ago) Permalink
i know a lot of people hate on weekend update
Huh? Most people watch it halfway through just to see WU and then tune out.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 December 2008 02:31 (ten years ago) Permalink
weekend update sucks.
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 15 December 2008 02:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
i miss this guy
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/5c/f0/d932224128a0ef52b2178010._AA240_.L.jpg
― shamwowllionaire (get bent), Monday, 15 December 2008 03:45 (ten years ago) Permalink
He seems like he would be a more believable senator than Mr. Franken.
― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 15 December 2008 03:56 (ten years ago) Permalink
Did he ever become *the* Whitney Brown?
― nickn, Monday, 15 December 2008 04:21 (ten years ago) Permalink
He had a show on Air America for a bit and now writes for Daily Kos.http://awhitneybrown.dailykos.com/
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 December 2008 04:27 (ten years ago) Permalink
there's no need to beat a dead horse...
except for the sheer joy of it.
― chattanooga xiu xiu (get bent), Monday, 15 December 2008 04:27 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12152008/news/politics/paterson_in_a_blind_rage_over_snl_skit_144292.htm
― vermonter, Monday, 15 December 2008 18:07 (ten years ago) Permalink
i thought it was a little over the line, but why didn't Paterson object when Armisen did the exact same bit on a Comedy Central special like 8 months ago?
― Mankini Bay (some dude), Monday, 15 December 2008 18:10 (ten years ago) Permalink
Because no one saw it?
― Ca-hoot na na na oh oh (HI DERE), Monday, 15 December 2008 18:14 (ten years ago) Permalink
I was totally in stitches during the Paterson bit. Not because "lol u blind" but just because Armisen nailed the guy's look so well.
― total mormon cockblock extravaganza (jaymc), Monday, 15 December 2008 18:18 (ten years ago) Permalink
I'm not surprised. Apart from the New Jersey jokes, the whole thing struck me as being in pretty poor taste; if you can't come up with much beyond blind jokes, you absolutely deserve the hate of, you know, impaired people of all sorts.
This week's was really funny, though, noticeably better than usual! Moynihan in the wedding-toasts sketch was just ... too good for animated gifs, even. (Plus also "I wish we had accents," A+ if-we-pitch-in-for-babysitters-will-those-two-keep-doing-that work.)
Looking forward to Kanye's hilarious presidential candidacy in 2020 and subsequent isolation of whatever gene makes him think he's so amazing he doesn't even have to be good at stuff.
― nabisco, Monday, 15 December 2008 18:18 (ten years ago) Permalink
nabisco OTM
― Mankini Bay (some dude), Monday, 15 December 2008 18:21 (ten years ago) Permalink
Oh also the problems with Armisen's Obama are that (a) he gets all the mannerisms but has no underlying spirit that makes it feel like it's Obama as opposed to someone reading lines as Obama, which means (b) there's nothing funny about it, no central funny Obama quality that's coming out. The reason the "cool" one worked better was that it was latching onto an actual, recognizable Obama personality trait -- if he went on to play the guy as preternaturally cool to the extent Ferrell played Bush as a cheerful idiot or Hammed played Clinton as a lovable hornball, then maybe it'd work, but they'd need to figure out how to write that, and not just expect the dude to carry it.
― nabisco, Monday, 15 December 2008 18:21 (ten years ago) Permalink
(Actually that makes me realize that all their successful political impersonations are based on turning politicians into funny characters you like, as if they're all just leveling with you about their flaws -- true of that Bush and that Clinton but also lately of Poehler doing Hillary or Fey doing Palin. That funny animated Obama from the primaries did the same thing, the one where he was basically Bugs Bunny tricking Sharpton and Jackson to stay away from him.)
(I apologize for getting all analytical about this.)
― nabisco, Monday, 15 December 2008 18:25 (ten years ago) Permalink
alright, but can we agree that NY post article is HILARIOUS? "Paterson in a Blind Rage Over SNL Skit""Gov. Paterson didn't see the humor in a "Saturday Night Live" bit that mocked his blindness.
― k3vin k., Monday, 15 December 2008 18:44 (ten years ago) Permalink
I will never admit that anything intended by the Post is actually funny, even when it is, because it's always the kind of dick-funny we should all pretend not to notice.
― nabisco, Monday, 15 December 2008 18:45 (ten years ago) Permalink
oh no argument there, and it's obviously in horrible taste. but it's what's expected from those guys
― k3vin k., Monday, 15 December 2008 18:46 (ten years ago) Permalink
paterson is a funny dude who makes fun of himself a lot, so when he gets mad about something i think its fair to say it was in pretty poor taste
― beyonc'e (max), Monday, 15 December 2008 18:50 (ten years ago) Permalink
"When you have a perception problem like we have, you take these things a little more seriously," said Chris Danielsen, spokesman for the National Federation of the Blind.
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 15 December 2008 18:52 (ten years ago) Permalink
ok THAT is funny
― Mankini Bay (some dude), Monday, 15 December 2008 18:57 (ten years ago) Permalink
hey: when ben affleck was on earlier in the season, what was he there to pimp?
― Beatrix Kiddo, Monday, 15 December 2008 19:17 (ten years ago) Permalink
i think that was one of those "i ain't got shit goin' on, but i was good when i hosted before and i feel like doing it again" type gigs.
― Mankini Bay (some dude), Monday, 15 December 2008 19:19 (ten years ago) Permalink
either that or he really wanted Gone Baby Gone to do well on DVD
― Mankini Bay (some dude), Monday, 15 December 2008 19:20 (ten years ago) Permalink
He hosted right before election day 2004, too.
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 15 December 2008 19:21 (ten years ago) Permalink
that was mainly to help put Surviving Christmas over $4mil on opening weekend, though.
― Mankini Bay (some dude), Monday, 15 December 2008 19:26 (ten years ago) Permalink
Perrin on the fourth season (Radner & Murray ascendant); I fondly remember the Scotch-tape store sketches:
http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2008/12/snls-classic-coke-year.html
I don't know if another American comedy show ever referenced coke use the way SNL did that year. You certainly wouldn't see that now, which dates these episodes in a weird nostalgic way. When researching Michael O'Donoghue's biography, many of the writers I interviewed told the same stories about blow in the SNL offices; how it fueled them on Tuesday nights as they shaped scripts for the Wednesday read-through; how the show's hotness guaranteed a steady supply of coke, and so on. You definitely see the results in this seven DVD set. Some of the humor is cheap. Much of it is inspired, though a certain meanness comes through. When you watch these shows in bulk, comic aggression is immediate....
For me, the most inspired, original writing in the fourth season came from Don Novello and Brian McConnachie. Novello was best known as Father Guido Sarducci, the Vatican gossip columnist, whose absurdist takes on the Catholic Church still resonate. But Novello also authored two running, slice-of-life sketches: Olympia Cafe and Scotch Boutique. The former was more popular, its "cheeseburger, cheeseburger, no Coke, Pepsi" becoming a national catchphrase. Yet despite that covering, the Olympia Cafe pieces were subtly acted, Novello's attention to detail well defined. Scotch Boutique displayed even more precision. A store that sells only scotch tape opens in a dying mall. At first seen as a ridiculous idea, the Boutique soon prospers, selling tape to the other store owners so they can put up their Going Out of Business signs. These pieces ran through the entire season, forming an extended narrative as opposed to recurring one-liners and character turns. Scotch Boutique was an intelligent look at people confronting failure and loss. There were no jokes, only situations, each more dire than the last. Those pieces are perhaps the most poignant work to ever air on SNL.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 16:10 (ten years ago) Permalink
Actually that makes me realize that all their successful political impersonations are based on turning politicians into funny characters you like, as if they're all just leveling with you about their flaws
i think the major exception to that is phil hartman's reagan — the vindictiveness and meanness that flashes over his face when he yells "I'M the president, only *i* need to understand!" is creepy in a very believably reaganesque way.
― J.D., Tuesday, 23 December 2008 19:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
yikes
― jammed hymen (k3vin k.), Sunday, 8 February 2009 04:56 (ten years ago) Permalink
i don't get lonely island/samberg - is it possible for snl to have one hit wonders?
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 February 2009 04:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
this is really really bad!
― jammed hymen (k3vin k.), Sunday, 8 February 2009 04:59 (ten years ago) Permalink
this lonely island/t-pain thing got preempted by the thing funny or die did w/ t-pain
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 February 2009 05:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
haha ok i can ride for road trip part 2!!! first was one of the most underrated of the season imo
― jammed hymen (k3vin k.), Sunday, 8 February 2009 05:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
this is really really bad
that wasnt terrible, nowhere near the road trip one with paul rudd obv which is a classic
― jammed hymen (k3vin k.), Sunday, 8 February 2009 05:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
i am a relatively new SNL watcher, was there one of those before the paul rudd one?
OMG that Bjork impression!
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 8 February 2009 05:26 (ten years ago) Permalink
They've done the drinking buddies/jukebox sketch probably about 5 times in the past couple years now. I can't say I'm tired of it yet...
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 8 February 2009 05:28 (ten years ago) Permalink
Bjork bit had me rolling.
Is TV on the Radio usually this bad live?
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 February 2009 05:53 (ten years ago) Permalink
oh ok the first time i saw was the paul rudd and i really loved that one
― jammed hymen (k3vin k.), Sunday, 8 February 2009 05:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
Dear SNL, please find more ways to get Bobby Moynihan to impersonate Nathan Lane.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 February 2009 05:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
yeah i love the song thing...apparently it's called "song memories": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_Memories
tonight's and the road trip were definitely the weakest, though, best one was done to "The Weight"
― some dude, Sunday, 8 February 2009 06:09 (ten years ago) Permalink
i didn't think it was a bad episode personally...especially considering Bradley Cooper has to be the most obscure guest host they've had in years and years, wtf was up with that.
― some dude, Sunday, 8 February 2009 06:11 (ten years ago) Permalink
who is he
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 8 February 2009 06:12 (ten years ago) Permalink
he asked the message board instead of going to google
he had 5th billing in Wedding Crashers and like 10th billing in He's Just Not Into You, apparently is on Nip/Tuck now? scarcely had any idea who he was before seeing his name on the TV listing today.
xpost HOOS it's ok some people are so not famous he'd make a Tuomas out of anyone
― some dude, Sunday, 8 February 2009 06:14 (ten years ago) Permalink
― some dude, Sunday, February 8, 2009 1:09 AM (11 minutes ago)
yo def need to trac down the other song memories b/c road trip killlled me
― jammed hymen (k3vin k.), Sunday, 8 February 2009 06:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
they are soo00o in their winter slump
― GOTT GOTT ELEKTRON (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 8 February 2009 09:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
It's actually not terribly unfunny tonight.
I can't believe it took them 17 years to come up with a Sir Mix-a-Lot sketch like that, though.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 February 2009 05:08 (ten years ago) Permalink
ugh it's really dragging for methe only thing that was OK was the first sketch after the greet with cameron diaz (!)kenan thompson has never been and never will be funny
― Jewish Lager (k3vin k.), Sunday, 15 February 2009 05:13 (ten years ago) Permalink
Cougar ageism as funny as minstrel racism.
Turned it off.
― awesome was amazing (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 15 February 2009 05:20 (ten years ago) Permalink
Cameron Diaz always shows up for the cougars sketch. But what else is she doing these days?
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 February 2009 05:26 (ten years ago) Permalink
Kristen Wiig's Carol Channing impression is a revelation.
I love the Vincent Price sketches.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 February 2009 05:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
the wii skit was so smart it should go to college, but a bit blatant. w/e, i'll take it
― Jewish Lager (k3vin k.), Sunday, 15 February 2009 05:50 (ten years ago) Permalink
last few episodes have been pretty week, but I keep watching because I love the cast, especially Wiig who just brings it every time. You know tonight was bereft of ideas when they recycled two bits, the pampers ad and the balloon ride.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 15 February 2009 07:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
It's common for them to repeat "commercials" throughout a season (or even two).
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 February 2009 07:59 (ten years ago) Permalink
First Coughs and the one w/ the 3 guys scheduling a meeting were both A+ Baldwin showcases.
― the deetwocent (some dude), Sunday, 15 February 2009 15:37 (ten years ago) Permalink
I know they repeat sometimes, but if they repeast more then one, I get thinking that they don't have enough material or something.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 15 February 2009 16:11 (ten years ago) Permalink
i'm shocked some 15 year old with a web cam didn't do that wii sketch two years ago
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 16 February 2009 00:18 (ten years ago) Permalink
actually pretty funny (for SNL) which isn't saying a whole lot, amirite? in other news, i'm beginning to find kenan oddly awesome. what the fuck is happening to me? is it just that SNL is that consistantly mediocre? i dunno.
second cougars sketch - saved by kenan. should've been way, way funnier with alec baldwin involved but somehow it wasn't/
― Beatrix Kiddo, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:17 (ten years ago) Permalink
kristen wii
― and what, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:20 (ten years ago) Permalink
It's kinda safe to repeat old bits when it's Valentine's Day and your audience is dictated not by who watches the show but by how people's love lives are going, you know?
Also I should do my normal thing of looking down my nose at people who don't find Kenan funny, so ... Kenan is funny, what's wrong with y'all, etc. etc., zut alors
― nabisco, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
FIX IT!
― Beatrix Kiddo, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:25 (ten years ago) Permalink
Kenan's musical Boat Ride sketch with Anna Faris needs more props. I think I've watched that about a half dozen times.
I am liking all 4 of the featured players, but I'm wondering if there is a limit to the amount of sketches they are "allowed" to be in each episode. That would partly explain why Kristen is used so heavily, since she is the only female full cast member at the moment.
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
Kenan is funny because he is fat. Is there such a thing as an unfunny fat person? That would be kind of an accomplishment, to negate one's physically comedic attributes through sheer force of personality. (There's one fat comedian I'm thinking of who has managed to do this, but I don't know his name.)
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:20 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://mikeresponts.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/john-wayne-gacy.jpg
― harry s tfuman (and what), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
Horatio Sanz has kids buried under his abode.
― Nicolars (Nicole), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:24 (ten years ago) Permalink
I know he's skinny now, but he was fat on snl.
You don't laugh at your own jokes like that unless there's total darkness in your soul.
― Nicolars (Nicole), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:26 (ten years ago) Permalink
― nabisco, Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:22 PM (3 hours ago)
dude, i think you're really smart, but wtf on this one? the dude essentially plays the same character every sketch he's (near-invariably briefly) in, which is the lol "serious" "shaking his head at other people" or "vaguely sarcastic" guy (see: cougar sketches, etc). of course, he's also got his other recurring thing, which is "black guy". i find he brings zero, even negative, charisma week after week (which tbf could be a result of the fact that he's so sparingly used), and as a kenan & kel stan 4 life i'm often completely embarassed for him more than anything else
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:27 (ten years ago) Permalink
Franken's former partner Tom Davis has written a memoir:
http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2009/02/snl-survivor.html
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 20 February 2009 16:42 (ten years ago) Permalink
I know he's skinny now
Wow, I had no idea.http://hollywooddame.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/horatio-sanz-100-weight-loss.jpg
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, 20 February 2009 16:44 (ten years ago) Permalink
the dude essentially plays the same character every sketch he's (near-invariably briefly) in, which is the lol "serious" "shaking his head at other people" or "vaguely sarcastic" guy (see: cougar sketches, etc). of course, he's also got his other recurring thing, which is "black guy".
THIS. THIS IS THE PROBLEM. saw a re-run of a will ferrell hosted episode and kenan actually does some character work (cosby most memorably).
― DONKEY CANCER in action (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 20 February 2009 16:57 (ten years ago) Permalink
need separate SNL: The Funny Years thread
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 20 February 2009 17:20 (ten years ago) Permalink
no he dint!
xp he kills on weekend update i know that. i used to think he was terrible and kevin's characterization def. rings a bell but over the last couple years he's made me laugh alot. (he's even brought weird beats to the otherwise unchanged 'vaguely sarcastic guy' that make me laugh, i dunno, it's like he's not steamrolling through the sketches anymore)
― same as giving a shit (tremendoid), Friday, 20 February 2009 17:26 (ten years ago) Permalink
He has definitely improved, I'll give him that much.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Friday, 20 February 2009 17:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
what a valuable and original post, dr. morbius
― harry s tfuman (and what), Friday, 20 February 2009 17:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
Dwayne Johnson just came out on SNL, amirite
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 March 2009 04:43 (ten years ago) Permalink
It's a skit, Magruver.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 8 March 2009 05:50 (ten years ago) Permalink
At only about 30 mins in, enjoyed the opening monologue bit, the Macgruber sketches, and 'The Rock Obama'.
As far as I'm concerned, this ep is a success.
Still, I wish they focused more on the writing. Any of these guys can pull off decent comic material, but as everybody from Damon Wayans on has said for the past 10+ years that the writing is key to the show.
― kingfish, Sunday, 8 March 2009 07:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
yeah, tonight felt like the slump was ending. lots of simple but funny bits that didn't drag on forever.
― WEREWOLF CONGRESS (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 8 March 2009 15:05 (ten years ago) Permalink
Has it died?
SNL will not die until NBC becomes an all-infomercial channel. At which time it will show infomercials selling SNL-nostalgia compilation DVDs, featuring Eddie Murphy in the last throes of his decline, as host.
― Aimless, Sunday, 8 March 2009 18:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
I think Dwayne Johnson acting effeminate has been a running gag through his acting career. Pretty good show last night though, especially that silly lighthouse sketch. It looked like the cast did not expect to have that much water dumped on them.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 8 March 2009 21:37 (ten years ago) Permalink
"The Rock Obama" was the best thing about last night, because it's a FACT Rahm actually dreams these things.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 March 2009 21:39 (ten years ago) Permalink
when did dwayne johnson start being billed as just dwayne johnson?
― ⓔⓥⓞⓞ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 8 March 2009 22:24 (ten years ago) Permalink
Southland Tales are serious movie
― ⓔⓥⓞⓞ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 8 March 2009 22:26 (ten years ago) Permalink
man Bill Hader is the shit these days. it was great to see him go all the way with that Malkovich impression after he just teased it very briefly in a sketch when Malkovich was actually hosting, and the Dateline guy is becoming a good recurring sketch.
― Goons have finally discovered this thread! Hello goons! (some dude), Sunday, 15 March 2009 05:11 (ten years ago) Permalink
Yeah, his Keith Morrison impersonation is golden.
I'm so glad we got both a Brian Fellow's Safari Planet AND an Astronaut Jones sketch tonight. On top of that, Tracy's monologue was crazy funny.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 March 2009 05:40 (ten years ago) Permalink
UPPITY CALF!
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 March 2009 05:41 (ten years ago) Permalink
HOUSTON, WE HAVE A DOG
― NYSE:JAH (get bent), Sunday, 15 March 2009 08:17 (ten years ago) Permalink
"this movie is for anyone who has ever been told... he won't find a jetpack."
― NYSE:JAH (get bent), Sunday, 15 March 2009 08:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
i saw about 60 secs, how the fuck does anyone find Tracy Morgan funny?
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 15 March 2009 16:19 (ten years ago) Permalink
they watch more than 60 seconds?
― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, 15 March 2009 16:41 (ten years ago) Permalink
durn tootin
― NYSE:JAH (get bent), Sunday, 15 March 2009 17:07 (ten years ago) Permalink
zac efron has zinged himself pretty hard so far! i might actually have liked him for it, if it wasnt for that fucking jacket he's wearing
― banned like this (k3vin k.), Sunday, 12 April 2009 03:39 (ten years ago) Permalink
I seriously hope they're not trying to turn that "Gilley" (sp?) sketch into a recurring thing for Kristen Wiig. AWFUL
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 April 2009 04:19 (ten years ago) Permalink
this jon bovi thing is going on foreverrrrrrr
― banned like this (k3vin k.), Sunday, 12 April 2009 04:23 (ten years ago) Permalink
this show is horrible
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 12 April 2009 04:25 (ten years ago) Permalink
This ep is shaping up to be really terrible. The bar that doesn't card sketch began well, but the writers obviously didn't know how to flesh it out and turned it into an Eliott Spitzer commercial WTF.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 April 2009 04:26 (ten years ago) Permalink
i have that exact chair zac efron is sitting on
― banned like this (k3vin k.), Sunday, 12 April 2009 04:54 (ten years ago) Permalink
I wish they would give Casey more weird/oddball characters, I really liked that silly running soldier sketch.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 12 April 2009 05:23 (ten years ago) Permalink
the post-monologue sketches were two wiig returning characters. i think her impression of kathy lee is funny but centering the whole sketch around BO was awful and the gilly sketch is fucking horrifying on all levels. stopped watching after weekend update but then there was a high school musical gag? unngh
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 12 April 2009 05:38 (ten years ago) Permalink
tell me what yall think of this— i think first episode next season they should hand it over to the apatow/jody hill conglomerate. no host, but every skit is rudd, rogen, cera, hill, MCBRIDE, carrell, ferrell, segel etc etc. it would be funnier than every episode of the last 3 years combined
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 12 April 2009 05:39 (ten years ago) Permalink
bill hader can stay on for that episode
i think they need to fire this cast and writers and have a guest cast for every show - the office cast one week, 30 rock cast the next week, bring back the arrested development cast around the time the movie comes on, curb your enthusiasm ppl when the show starts up again
real talk no challops the college humor show on mtv is a funnier sketch comedy show than snl atm
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 12 April 2009 05:42 (ten years ago) Permalink
a combined human giant/lonely island episode would be fire imo
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 12 April 2009 05:43 (ten years ago) Permalink
give an episode to 77 - ethan is a veteran sketch comedy writer, all you gotta do is replace puppets w/ humans
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 12 April 2009 05:46 (ten years ago) Permalink
THIS IS THE WORST SNL FANFIC I'VE EVER READ IN MY LIFE NO STAMP OF APPROVAL
― A B C, Sunday, 12 April 2009 05:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
i like the whole cast except for casey wilson but the writers must be like i don't even know. so bad. then again a lonely island/human giant ep sounds like a waking nightmare to me
― A B C, Sunday, 12 April 2009 06:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
kristen wiig's kathie lee makes me lmbo way too much and i basically dont even remember what kathie lee gifford acts like
I actually like a majority of the current cast (except Bobby Moynihan and Seth Meyers), and really don't blame them for the lion's share of what's wrong with the show in its current state. It's Lorne Michaels' inability to hire worthwhile writers, because he has no idea anymore about what's actually funny. I have to imagine he's almost completely hands-off with regard to 30 Rock, because the level of funny on that show just seems way over his head.
I caught myself thinking during one of the commercial breaks tonight "I wonder when the final episode will be. Five years from now? Ten years from now? Will Lorne ever leave (again) and turn it over to someone else (again)?"
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 April 2009 06:14 (ten years ago) Permalink
Gillie (sp? eh..) sketch was really bleak
― bear, bear, bear, Sunday, 12 April 2009 06:39 (ten years ago) Permalink
I've warmed to some of Wiig's characters that I initially hated, but I can't ever see that happening with Gillie/Gilly/whatever.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 April 2009 06:40 (ten years ago) Permalink
That Jon Bovi sketch is like something an eighth grader comes up with on the back on the school bus.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:25 (ten years ago) Permalink
don't know why, but i like gillie.
― mizzell, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:29 (ten years ago) Permalink
I picture a late-night writers' meeting where in one room you've got Sudekis cracking himself up with lines like "I'm an Indian on a silk-pony I don't ride" while in the next room, a circle of interns piss their pants as Kristen Wiig wears an afro wig and goes "What? What?"
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:29 (ten years ago) Permalink
Didn't see this week's Gilly sketch, but the one with Beyonce was fucking hysterical.
― maybe u should tell that to your laughing vagina (HI DERE), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:30 (ten years ago) Permalink
― J0rdan S., Sunday, April 12, 2009 12:42 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
wow this is retarded
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
Jon Bovi is seriously the hackiest premise. It's like something you do to amuse yourself when no one else is around. Watching those two guys totally go for broke on that sketch makes me a little sad.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
xpost, yeah that is about the stupidest fucking thing I've ever read.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:34 (ten years ago) Permalink
this is otm. zac effron even just attempting the same facial tic/reaction jokes was awful b/c of how amazing wiig is at it
― johnny crunch, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:34 (ten years ago) Permalink
xpost An even better idea would be giving all those casts their OWN TV shows where they can develop audiences and hone skills!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
Not to mention that 2 our of 4 of the shows Jordan mentions are actually making episodes, and only 1 out of those 2 is funny.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:36 (ten years ago) Permalink
all of those shows are funny u crazee
― Mr. Que, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:37 (ten years ago) Permalink
I support J0rdan's idea but only if it uses the casts of ER and Law & Order.
― maybe u should tell that to your laughing vagina (HI DERE), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:38 (ten years ago) Permalink
Normally I fuck with J0rdan, but wtf is he talking about here? Dumbest idea ever.
― display names have been changed to protect the innocent (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:41 (ten years ago) Permalink
i enjoyed the gilly and jon bovi sketches but mainly because i love will forte and want him to be in every single sketch
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:48 (ten years ago) Permalink
not to mention the fact that it wasn't like Rogen or Rudd or Carell were hot shit on the show when they hosted in the past anyway xpost
― brewer and what (some dude), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:51 (ten years ago) Permalink
― maybe u should tell that to your laughing vagina (HI DERE), Monday, April 13, 2009 12:30 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
same here. don't like the idea of it becoming a running thing, though.
― brewer and what (some dude), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
Agreed.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:59 (ten years ago) Permalink
can't wait for the gilly movie
― brocktune (jeff), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:01 (ten years ago) Permalink
i love the current cast but i hope they don't bring abby elliott back next season. michaela watkins fits right in though.
― i am david suzuki (get bent), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:21 (ten years ago) Permalink
also: PLS MORE NONWHITES IN THE CAST
― i am david suzuki (get bent), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
wow, abby elliott is
a) chris elliott's daughter, andb) 22 yrs old!
still, co-sign w/get bent
― zurück zum Traphaus (donna rouge), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:27 (ten years ago) Permalink
michaela watkins is on some jan hooks ish. just good, solid impressions when you need em.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 April 2009 17:45 (ten years ago) Permalink
Is Darrell Hammond in like one sketch an episode?
this show is unwatchable, and duh i know my idea wouldn't work outside of giving it up for one night to the apatow/jody hill etc brigade
― the sultan of ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:49 (ten years ago) Permalink
wow, abby elliott isa) chris elliott's daughter,
a) chris elliott's daughter,
yeah i know, and it makes me even more bummed that she's not funny
― i am david suzuki (get bent), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:49 (ten years ago) Permalink
the cast isn't really all that funny either. it used to be that the funniest people in america were on snl-- this was true even up into the ferrell/fey era-- and now we have... kristen wiig and will forte?
― the sultan of ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:54 (ten years ago) Permalink
I love Abby Elliott, but more for the ws factor that her funny skills.
― display names have been changed to protect the innocent (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
jordan u hatin on Hader?
― brewer and what (some dude), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
kristen wiig is pretty funny, guys
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 April 2009 17:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
I mean, I'd start a "least funny SNL personality" poll if it wasn't obvious that Abby Elliott would take it in a sweep.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 April 2009 17:56 (ten years ago) Permalink
She (Elliott) does the walk out Angelina Jolie performances on Weekend Update, right? It's hard to tell who that actually is. If so, she can hang around just for those.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 April 2009 17:56 (ten years ago) Permalink
it used to be that the funniest people in america were on snl
― the sultan of ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, April 13, 2009 12:54 PM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you are way too young for the revisionist nostalgia to be kicking in already
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:57 (ten years ago) Permalink
though to be fair snl is probably funniest when you're like 14 and loopy from staying up until midnight
Whiney you could do a poll of the current cast w/o the featured players (Elliott, Moynihan, Watkins and Wilson)
― brewer and what (some dude), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
Wiig is so hit and miss, which makes her more frustrating. Gilly is horrible tho.
― display names have been changed to protect the innocent (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
That's why I cherish the Lovitz/Hartman/Carvey/Hooks era. xxp
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 April 2009 17:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
hader, forte and armisen are good. wiig is a one-trick pony but can be funny at her best
― europeen handball (k3vin k.), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
And I like Moynihan, whats up with the hate on him? His waiter guy is classic.
I DVR the show and have for years out of sheer habit. Usually just to watch the musical guest (and the YYYs SUCKED with the drum machine. Wow, has a guitar player ever been so publicly marginalized??) and the opening couple of skits.
The ubiquitous political opener hasn't been funny in years. Even with a retarded target like Bush.
The underage skit was pretty funny. I liked the Gilly skit but it's very easy to see that Lorne will beat that one into the ground, long after it's funny.
The Jon Bovi thing is kind of an absurd premise that could be really good, but the execution was miserable. The gay dudes from New Jersey was pretty spot on--they didn't linger and it was just brief enough.
Wiig is funny but I don't think she's as versatile as Lorne wishes. I don't think she's charming enough to carry the show like Ferrell or even Oteri.
― The Contemptible (Dandy Don Weiner), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:59 (ten years ago) Permalink
all of the main cast members have had their moments imo -- Armisen is probably the one I'm most sick of lately but even he can be pretty good
i don't hate Moynihan but his worst is pretty hacky, and i don't love the waiter guy as much as a lot of people do...he has potential though
― brewer and what (some dude), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
yeah hader is the one dude who i feel is failed by the writing, like dude was basically a riot in fucking "adventureland" and snl totally fails him. wiig is funny but her characters are so one note, and i wouldn't even definitively say that she's funnier than amy pohler who was a mid-tier cast member years ago
― the sultan of ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
F = sambergM = armisenK = none of them really, wd prob K some of sudekis' characters but i still think he's damn funny
― i am david suzuki (get bent), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:01 (ten years ago) Permalink
I get the feeling Gilly is based on something. Is Gilly Pippi Longstocking?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 13 April 2009 18:01 (ten years ago) Permalink
i think watkins has some potential tbh - just going off of this weekend i thought her portrayal of hoda was pretty good (as always) and her blogger thing on weekend update was pretty funny except for it being ruined by seth meyers going "AREN'T YOU JUST A SNARKY BLOGGER?" lol hello 2005
― the sultan of ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:01 (ten years ago) Permalink
doesn't michaela do barbara walters when they parody the view? i like her
― the sultan of ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:02 (ten years ago) Permalink
The problem with Wiig is that even when she's hitting the right notes, her characters just seem so mannered.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
yeah i like sudeikis generally. samberg is sort of useless but occasionally he'll give you a great digital short ("ras trent"). hammond hardly contributes, and lol kenan thompson peaked creatively with kenan & kel, no joke
― europeen handball (k3vin k.), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
that was an multi-xpost
― europeen handball (k3vin k.), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
except for it being ruined by seth meyers going "AREN'T YOU JUST A SNARKY BLOGGER?" lol hello 2005
how did seth myers ruin it by pointing out the premise?
― mizzell, Monday, 13 April 2009 18:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
I will say I've been impressed by Bill Hader recently -- he has good range.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
i took gilly to be some kind of nancy grotesquerie
http://www.gilchriststudios.com/images/d2s/09/Nancy.gif
― zurück zum Traphaus (donna rouge), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
I like Watkins as a versatile utilitarian player rather than a star player, though tbf I haven't seen her do an out-of-character character yet.
Will Forte will always have a place in my heart for being the voice of Abe Lincoln on Clone High.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 April 2009 18:05 (ten years ago) Permalink
bill hader doing the dateline guy is the only thing on snl i've seen in 5 years or so, and it was just a clip online, but i thought it was hilarious
― Mr. Que, Monday, 13 April 2009 18:05 (ten years ago) Permalink
I like that, too, even though I have no idea who he's parodying.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:05 (ten years ago) Permalink
― mizzell, Monday, April 13, 2009 1:04 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
cuz the actual jokes were pretty funny in a childish way
― the sultan of ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:06 (ten years ago) Permalink
watkins-as-blogger is fuckin awesome, if only for the "bitch please" payoff. kills me every time
― europeen handball (k3vin k.), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:06 (ten years ago) Permalink
gilly = raggedy ann gone mental
― i am david suzuki (get bent), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:06 (ten years ago) Permalink
gilly =
http://www.nexternal.com/dreamland/images/blecky.jpg
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 April 2009 18:06 (ten years ago) Permalink
Hader's Keith Morrison impersonation is definitely caricature, but after a bit you can start imagining the real guy as totally being that creepy.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 April 2009 18:07 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://thumbnails.hulu.com/13/908/62056_145x80_generated__uLeb-882bUaS9IofVSGg-w.jpg
your nancy theory looks promising...
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 13 April 2009 18:09 (ten years ago) Permalink
the blogger character is really funny, but hitting on the angle that it's about bloggers too hard does hurt it a little imo
Samberg isn't really a factor in sketches, i am very pro- the guy lately cause the Lonely Island album but i like those dudes far more for the writing than for his performances
― brewer and what (some dude), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:09 (ten years ago) Permalink
he blogger character is really funny, but hitting on the angle that it's about bloggers too hard does hurt it a little imo
I read this as "does hurt a little"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 April 2009 18:10 (ten years ago) Permalink
― The Contemptible (Dandy Don Weiner), Monday, April 13, 2009 1:59 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I think Ferrell's run is benefitting from the rose colored glasses provided by a good movie career and cherry-picked best-of specials as much as any cast member from the 70s or 80s -- guy was an insufferable sketch hog in his day, at the height of their sketch lengths going on way too long, it seemed like every week's broadcast included at least 15 minutes of him yelling in a thong or something. there were a couple years where i straight up hated him.
xpost haha whiney
― brewer and what (some dude), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:13 (ten years ago) Permalink
One sketch too many.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:14 (ten years ago) Permalink
^^^ REAL TALK xp
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 April 2009 18:14 (ten years ago) Permalink
yeah al i mean i dont hate the writing on this show at all. each week they consistently throw 3-5 A+ ideas out there that either they underwrite or the cast underperforms.
― europeen handball (k3vin k.), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:15 (ten years ago) Permalink
I don't know if it's part of the del close 'chicago school' of comedy but it seems like an unwritten rule that in any bit with an eccentric character there must always be a proxy for the audience who is normal and 'clever' enough to say 'what you are doing here is both weird and stupid'so seth meyers might be contractually obligated to point out the blogger thing, just like kenan has to point out that his being a suspect in Gilly's crimes is ludicrous.
this is really condescending to the audience -- smells like Lorne's doing.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 13 April 2009 18:16 (ten years ago) Permalink
i dont hate the writing on this show at all. each week they consistently throw 3-5 A+ ideas out there that either they underwrite
this means that you should probably hate the writing
― the sultan of ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:16 (ten years ago) Permalink
Wiig has definitely been hurt by the lack of creativity of the writing staff. Oh, people like a character she does? Now she has to do it all the time. Now people like Wiig in general? Now she is in every sketch. Etc. I liked her better when she had more room to breathe.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:16 (ten years ago) Permalink
Also, when Seth Meyers is your head writer, there is a problem, and I *like* Seth. He's just not a lead guy. They miss Tina Fey a lot, I think.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:17 (ten years ago) Permalink
xp jordan yeah i guess, but my problem is how they end sketches most of the time. if i can get a few minutes of good lollin and at least one "wish i thought of that first" moment, i'm usually ok
― europeen handball (k3vin k.), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:18 (ten years ago) Permalink
philip OTM, that stuff bugs me a lot
― zurück zum Traphaus (donna rouge), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:18 (ten years ago) Permalink
what ideas were like that this past week?
― the sultan of ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:19 (ten years ago) Permalink
the foot massage sketch, the underage bar sktech, and another one i forget
― europeen handball (k3vin k.), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:24 (ten years ago) Permalink
ringing endorsement
― the sultan of ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:26 (ten years ago) Permalink
i thought the today show parody was funny and the blogger things were funny, that's about it
― the sultan of ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:27 (ten years ago) Permalink
wring my nuts xpost
― europeen handball (k3vin k.), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:27 (ten years ago) Permalink
yeah today show is a pretty consistent bit
― brewer and what (some dude), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:27 (ten years ago) Permalink
yup
― the sultan of ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:29 (ten years ago) Permalink
One problem with the Today Show bit is that the actual Hoda/Kathie Lee hour on the Today Show is fucking insane and way funnier than a sketch about it could ever be.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:30 (ten years ago) Permalink
I miss seeing Chris Parnell on the regular. :(
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 April 2009 18:31 (ten years ago) Permalink
Oh, people like a character she does? Now she has to do it all the time.
when has this ever not been the case on snl?
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
Kristen Wiig is really running the risk of turning into Maya Rudolph.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 April 2009 18:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
i don't really know what that means
― brewer and what (some dude), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
In so far as she's a funny character actor who Lorne will beat to death with overexposure and she'll end up sleepwalking through the show all the time.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 April 2009 18:36 (ten years ago) Permalink
i dunno...i never got to a point where i felt like MR was on the show too much...she never even really had that many ubiquitous running characters.
― brewer and what (some dude), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:37 (ten years ago) Permalink
Oh, there was a while there when she was in 70% of the show, doing characters that all revolved around the one of the three or four weird voices she could do.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 April 2009 18:39 (ten years ago) Permalink
True, but it is happening again and I hate it.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:42 (ten years ago) Permalink
don't really remember that time...iirc she basically stopped doing donatella versace after awhile, yeah?
― zurück zum Traphaus (donna rouge), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:43 (ten years ago) Permalink
Unfortunately I can't cite specifics, because I started wiping her from my memory (sad, because I liked her in the beginning). It would probably be around 2004/05.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 April 2009 18:51 (ten years ago) Permalink
I don't know if it's part of the del close 'chicago school' of comedy but it seems like an unwritten rule that in any bit with an eccentric character there must always be a proxy for the audience who is normal and 'clever' enough to say 'what you are doing here is both weird and stupid'
I don't think that's a Del Close thing, although I have seen stuff at the iO Theater where that sort of audience proxy is welcome and even funny in a scene that otherwise threatens to devolve into something ungrounded, unfocused, and self-indulgent. The difference, of course, is that with improv, you probably need that kind of reassurance ("look, we know this guy's being a weirdo on stage") way more than with a mainstream televised sketch show, where you implicitly trust that everything's done on purpose and for a reason.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
he became a sketch hog because he was the last guy to leave, right? the thing about Ferrell is that he had many, many moments of hilarity which is something the current cast seems unable to claim. He was as much a sketch hog as anyone there ever was--Dana Carvey comes to mind. And let's face it, the institution that is SNL has ridden its renegade 70s legend through rose colored glasses and sketches that were more groundbreaking than funny. I think this is especially driven by the number of players who successfully to the big screen and made the show larger than life.
And seriously, if they get 3 or 4 good to great sketches in any given episode, that's as good as it's ever been. I think DVRs make the show either worse or heighten its worseness.
― The Contemptible (Dandy Don Weiner), Monday, 13 April 2009 19:13 (ten years ago) Permalink
if they get 3 or 4 good to great sketches in any given episode
^^yep. imo this is basically the batting avg during even the best years
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Monday, 13 April 2009 19:19 (ten years ago) Permalink
A lot of the Ferrell stuff is funnier in hindsight than it was live, I think. And that could be said for most of SNL's past, for any player. If there's one thing about SNL that works, it's that most sketches aren't as funny in real time as they are after the fact.
Tracy Morgan, for example, was on some other level most of the time, but it wasn't so obvious when it was happening.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 April 2009 19:19 (ten years ago) Permalink
I used to think early SNL might not have been so great, but then I saw a rerun of one of the early shows (Candace Bergen was host?) Nearly every sketch was a winner. Even had some weird muppet shit.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 13 April 2009 19:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
They cut out all the shitty sketches for rebroadcast to whittle it down to an hour, but at least they HAD a good hour.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 13 April 2009 19:28 (ten years ago) Permalink
The version I used to see in australia was on a basic cable channel and they cut it down to 1 hour to start with but eventually cut it down to about 35 minutes. i used to think i was missing a whole lot but now we record the actual live show and watch it, after all the fast forwarding, we end up with about 35 minutes.
― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Monday, 13 April 2009 19:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
It does take 35-40 minutes watching it on Tivo. I can't believe now that I ever watched this show live.
― Event Horizon (Nicole), Monday, 13 April 2009 19:40 (ten years ago) Permalink
http://www.hulu.com/watch/53458/saturday-night-live-aladdin
― maybe u should tell that to your laughing vagina (HI DERE), Monday, 13 April 2009 20:48 (ten years ago) Permalink
TIMBERLAKE! CIARA! TIMBERLAKE!
― Banvil! The Story of Banvil (Tape Store), Sunday, 10 May 2009 03:25 (ten years ago) Permalink
timberlake is so annoying in this environment
― triple-hater protection (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 10 May 2009 03:38 (ten years ago) Permalink
CAN YOU GUYS TELL THAT I AM NOT ONE DIMENSIONAL? LOOK AT ME I AM MORE THAN A SINGING POP STAR! I AM FUNNY AND I CAN ACT!
― triple-hater protection (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 10 May 2009 03:40 (ten years ago) Permalink
i might kill myself after the digital short tonight
My friend's impression of Justin Timberlake is funnier than anything J.T's ever done in front of a camera. He says the impression is done by making your voice as high and as boyishly effeminate as you can possibly make a man's voice sound without it becoming a "gay caricature". Then, once you have that voice down, you have that voice try to act like Will Smith. Voila!
― Cunga, Sunday, 10 May 2009 03:45 (ten years ago) Permalink
mom translator was awesome
― triple-hater protection (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 10 May 2009 03:47 (ten years ago) Permalink
they could just replace this episode with video of timberlake masturbating and it would the show would remain unchanged
― triple-hater protection (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 10 May 2009 03:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
might be a bit funnier actually
― triple-hater protection (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 10 May 2009 03:56 (ten years ago) Permalink
this episode is so hot
― Banvil! The Story of Banvil (Tape Store), Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:02 (ten years ago) Permalink
singing in every skit = zzzzzzzzzz
― triple-hater protection (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
^truth^
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:08 (ten years ago) Permalink
eh, that performance seemed to be missing a track, or ciara's mic sucked
― some dude, don't make it dad (k3vin k.), Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:18 (ten years ago) Permalink
SNL in shitty sound shocker tho
that song blows maybe
― triple-hater protection (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:19 (ten years ago) Permalink
also they re arranged it to include horns and likely have never performed it live so yeah
― triple-hater protection (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:20 (ten years ago) Permalink
u fuckin mad
― some dude, don't make it dad (k3vin k.), Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:21 (ten years ago) Permalink
lol i wasn't the one expecting a good live performance of "love sex magic"
― triple-hater protection (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
the best part is how they barely even looked at each other
― Banvil! The Story of Banvil (Tape Store), Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:23 (ten years ago) Permalink
this has been a really bad episode
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:40 (ten years ago) Permalink
srsly timberlake makes the episodes awful cuz they are all based around singing
― triple-hater protection (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:40 (ten years ago) Permalink
blind paterson was once again lol
― triple-hater protection (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:41 (ten years ago) Permalink
why is timberlake's pirate gay?
― triple-hater protection (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:45 (ten years ago) Permalink
he's Comfortable With His Sexuality
― triple-hater protection (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:46 (ten years ago) Permalink
did ciara used to be attractive?
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:54 (ten years ago) Permalink
ciara was pretty disappointing tonight :("never ever" was better tho
― some dude, don't make it dad (k3vin k.), Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:57 (ten years ago) Permalink
― triple-hater protection (J0rdan S.), Sunday, May 10, 2009 12:46 AM (10 minutes ago)
otm
the paterson skits are always A++++++++++++++++++++++
― MRSA Marchant (get bent), Sunday, 10 May 2009 17:55 (ten years ago) Permalink
"having sex with a prostitute without using a condom is like driving a convertible through NEW JERSEY!!"
― MRSA Marchant (get bent), Sunday, 10 May 2009 17:56 (ten years ago) Permalink
The beauty contest line had me rolling.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 10 May 2009 18:31 (ten years ago) Permalink
Surprised no one has mentioned how funny the "Mothers Day" digital shot was.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 11 May 2009 15:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
That's probably because it wasn't very funny.
― lindseykai, Monday, 11 May 2009 15:32 (ten years ago) Permalink
Okay then I am surprised no one mentioned how unfunny they thought it was.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 11 May 2009 15:33 (ten years ago) Permalink
The immigrant skit brought the roffles.
― lou, Monday, 11 May 2009 15:37 (ten years ago) Permalink
the mothers day shit was super dumb - also itd be much funnier of they dressed not like color me badd but like current day justin timberlake - that porkpie vesty members only look is just as ridiculous
― ice cr?m, Monday, 11 May 2009 15:40 (ten years ago) Permalink
you are asking why a comedy show might present a musical-theater professional as somewhat stereotypically gay!
― nabisco, Monday, 11 May 2009 16:00 (ten years ago) Permalink
can we retroactively add Justin to the SNL worst cast member poll?
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Monday, 11 May 2009 16:05 (ten years ago) Permalink
I dunno, I always found him surprisingly entertaining in his guest spots. Maybe I just can't take him seriously enough to dislike him.
― Nhex, Monday, 11 May 2009 16:12 (ten years ago) Permalink
i watched kill bill vol 2 instead
― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Monday, 11 May 2009 16:43 (ten years ago) Permalink
jordan u are such a hater! jt was fine this week the mother lover thing was about as funny as you can expect the sequel to a joke song can be, susan sarandon is hot, etc
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 11 May 2009 16:45 (ten years ago) Permalink
also itd be much funnier of they dressed not like color me badd but like current day justin timberlake
oh, I do have to admit I found this odd -- like in the first one they both dressed and sounded pretty 1992, but then in this one they're still dressed all '92 but the sound is all modern, etc.
(this does not really affect my perception of whether it's funny, or anything)
― nabisco, Monday, 11 May 2009 16:49 (ten years ago) Permalink
^^ yeah, it’s like they saw The Greatest Love In History for the first time when someone emailed them a Youtube link after Dick In A Box came out, and went “oops”
― the sound of mu (sic), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 02:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
i liked 'motherlover' so i'll take the face-egg re that
but really
The immigrant skit brought the roffles― lou, Monday, May 11, 2009 10:37 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark
― lou, Monday, May 11, 2009 10:37 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark
this was so lazy and most repelling skits ive seen in a while - as i said, just replace with video of timberlake masturbating onto his grammys
― man, i love collages (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 03:02 (ten years ago) Permalink
maybe it got better at the end cuz i changed the channel once it became apparent that the whole thing was a "WINK WINK NOD NOD FAMOUS PERSON" gag
― man, i love collages (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 03:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
as i said, just replace with video of timberlake masturbating onto his grammys
yes plz
― Banvil! The Story of Banvil (Tape Store), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 03:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
Will Ferrell episode is A+++ so far.
Jeopardy sketch reminded me that Tom Hanks once used to be a comedian, which is easy to forget (honestly, I haven't thought of him that way in a long, long time). Also, bonus Norm-as-Burt appearance!
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 May 2009 04:02 (ten years ago) Permalink
whoa that was my cousin was in that weird subway ad there
― bnw, Sunday, 17 May 2009 04:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
Tom Hanks once used to be a comedian
i remember thinking he was really funny when i was a kid (i can vaguely remember bosom buddies). i dug his steez in that penny marshall women's baseball movie, and to a lesser extent in that thing you do.
― ^defense is impregnable (will), Sunday, 17 May 2009 04:11 (ten years ago) Permalink
AMY POEHLER LOVE YOU GIRL
(yeah, Tom Hanks has a long history of being funny, and funny on SNL... can't remember the last time he played comedy in a movie, though)
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 May 2009 04:17 (ten years ago) Permalink
The "best of Tom Hanks" SNL episode they aired many years back surprised me in how awesome/funny it was.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 17 May 2009 04:17 (ten years ago) Permalink
best of t. hanks compilation has the mr. belvedere fan club sketch which is like best ever!!
― A B C, Sunday, 17 May 2009 04:25 (ten years ago) Permalink
I don't think many people know this Billy Joel song they are singing, but it's pretty nice/communal as a season ending sketch.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 17 May 2009 04:53 (ten years ago) Permalink
Cameos from:
Norm MacDonaldTom HanksAmy PoehlerAnne HathawayPaul RuddMaya RudolphArtie Lange
did I miss anyone? I feel like I am.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 May 2009 04:57 (ten years ago) Permalink
Guessing it's Darrell Hammond's last episode?
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 May 2009 04:59 (ten years ago) Permalink
Looks like it. I think Anne Hathaway was thanked at the end too, but I don't remember seeing her.
Pretty awesome season finale. Would have loved to see Norm at the update desk though since he was around.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 17 May 2009 05:03 (ten years ago) Permalink
Elizabeth Moss from Mad Men.
I was thinking it's either Hammond's last...or his birthday.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 17 May 2009 05:05 (ten years ago) Permalink
Anne Hathaway was thanked at the end too, but I don't remember seeing her.
She was one of the many in the Billy Joel song sketch immediately before the close.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 May 2009 05:08 (ten years ago) Permalink
Would explain why he was in more than 2 sketches.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Sunday, 17 May 2009 06:16 (ten years ago) Permalink
i liked it when he used sketches to work on nailing the voice and otherwise had no idea what he was saying/.]
― ~'-.,,.-'~'-. .-'~'-.,,.-'~ (tremendoid), Sunday, 17 May 2009 10:58 (ten years ago) Permalink
That "Goodnight Saigon" thing capped off maybe the best SNL I've seen in years. That Charles Barkley TNT thing with the "Mark" promo about had me in tears.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 17 May 2009 15:12 (ten years ago) Permalink
just found out the other week that she's engaged to fred armisen.
― Roz, Sunday, 17 May 2009 15:44 (ten years ago) Permalink
Huh.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Sunday, 17 May 2009 16:22 (ten years ago) Permalink
Casey Wilson reads internet comments
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 17 May 2009 17:26 (ten years ago) Permalink
lol
I kind of love her, but whatever.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 May 2009 18:04 (ten years ago) Permalink
Even chuckled at Tom Hanks' meta saying "sibilance" into the Jeopardy pen.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 17 May 2009 18:30 (ten years ago) Permalink
That was great...I was wondering if anyone else caught that.
― kate78, Sunday, 17 May 2009 18:35 (ten years ago) Permalink
Also, according to Wikipedia, a Scientologist. WTF
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 May 2009 14:21 (ten years ago) Permalink
"That "Goodnight Saigon" thing capped off maybe the best SNL I've seen in years. That Charles Barkley TNT thing with the "Mark" promo about had me in tears."
^^this
that ending sketch almost made me cry, really. if the show itself were to end, that'd be the way for it to go.
hammond's leaving? i'll miss him, but it's beyond time for dude to do something else.
i saw him live years and years ago, doing stand-up. hilarious, leaned-heavily on various impressions, was drunk outta his mind.
― Beatrix Kiddo, Thursday, 28 May 2009 15:56 (nine years ago) Permalink
they kinda need to run the TNT/corner promo thing into the ground, that trend is obnoxious and deserves to be ridiculed as much as possible.
― Beatrix Kiddo, Thursday, 28 May 2009 15:57 (nine years ago) Permalink
Agree completely.
Fox and TNT/TBS are the worst offenders.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 28 May 2009 15:59 (nine years ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_(season_35)
So far, Seth Meyers is the only confirmed returning cast member. Yeah, it's still plenty early, but it will be interesting to see who makes it back in the fall.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:01 (nine years ago) Permalink
that sounds ominous.
i know this has probably been said a gazillion times, but part of me wishes lorne could just fire most of the writing staff.
― Beatrix Kiddo, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:04 (nine years ago) Permalink
"bitch pleeeeeeeeeze" has me in stitches everytime they bring it back
which reminds me, i need to start a new SNL related thread that i think will be interesting - stand by
― Beatrix Kiddo, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:06 (nine years ago) Permalink
From your lips to God's ears.
The majority of this cast is fine by me, but the writing is terrible almost all the time (Will Ferrell's ep and selected sketches throughout the season notwithstanding).
Also, HIRE A NEW SOUND GUY!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:07 (nine years ago) Permalink
yeah, exactly - people always bitch about the cast members, but they're not the problem and never have been (in most cases, anyway).
― Beatrix Kiddo, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:10 (nine years ago) Permalink
it's like blaming the waitstaff for the horrible cuisine coming out of the kitchen, or something
Just caught the Goodnight Saigon thing, which was weird and great. Jeopardy was great, Tom Hanks was awesome in it!
― Nhex, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:37 (nine years ago) Permalink
Pretty sure it's Lorne who demands all the sketches be long, obvious and repetitive, not the writers
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:37 (nine years ago) Permalink
I mean he's the constant between copier guy, mary gallagher, and gilly, not anyone on the writing staff.
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:41 (nine years ago) Permalink
Good point. But he does do the hiring.
I'm just glad every other sketch isn't in a talk show format anymore.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:42 (nine years ago) Permalink
i like this explanation about SNL
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200905/?read=interview_smigel_odenkirk
BOB ODENKIRK: You’re defending SNL there, and how hard it is, and it is very hard to do, just on the face of it. People ask, and comedy writers especially ask, “How come the show isn’t better?” I look at SNL as a sporting match, and the question is: “How come the game isn’t better?” The contest is: You take this cast, they’re the team, and they compete each week against not being funny. And every time they’re funny they score a point. So every week you’re watching to see if they score a few points. And if they score, like, three goddamn points, they fucking won, you know? But it’s a shame that it’s set up as nothing but this contest, because I think the preparation could be overseen better, and the show could do more than just score a point or two each week. That’s my grand theory of SNL … But I would add that after years of watching, never directly, just out of the corner of my eye, I’ve concluded that I might be wrong and Lorne Michaels might have it exactly right.
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:43 (nine years ago) Permalink
Part of the reason the Lonely Island digital stuff has broken out is because it's unconstrained by the nature of the show, which rewards sketches that require minimal set prep, swallow a lot of time, and introduce recurring characters Lorne can dream of putting into a shitty movie and on t-shirts.
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:49 (nine years ago) Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, May 28, 2009 12:42 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^ this. i think for a while post-Wayne's World, they just decided that anytime someone had a vague character/accent/location in mind, they'd just make it a duo and give them a public access/local affiliate morning show.
― NEO-GEO v THE DREAMCAST (some dude), Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:51 (nine years ago) Permalink
they're better about just imitating actual ones these days
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 May 2009 17:03 (nine years ago) Permalink
yeah, the 4th hour the Today Show is probably my favorite recurring sketch lately
all-time favorite: the one-off "Hulk Hogan Talk Show" sketch w/ Ferrell as a quiet thoughtful fill-in host for the Hulk
― NEO-GEO v THE DREAMCAST (some dude), Thursday, 28 May 2009 17:48 (nine years ago) Permalink
^ which is funny cuz I think it was the day immediately after that SNL that there was an identical Family Guy joke about Fox corner promos (the funniest being a show titled "Slowly Rotating Black Person")
― nabisco, Thursday, 28 May 2009 17:54 (nine years ago) Permalink
(the best thing about the "slowly rotating" varietal is the part where the person passes dead center and has to re-cross his/her arms in the other direction in order to face the camera over the other shoulder)
― nabisco, Thursday, 28 May 2009 17:56 (nine years ago) Permalink
Thanks for the believer link. I kind of admire the business soundness of this, but this quote from there kind of makes me hate SNL now:
"But SNL, and Lorne has said this, is designed to appeal just enough to everyone, so that the widest possible audience tunes in, each for the three or four bits they’ll like best. So the way they see it, you think they only score three points because of your taste in comedy. It’s kind of like if you liked everything, they’re not doing their job, because it means someone else—your polar opposite—must have hated everything, and won’t come back."
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:12 (nine years ago) Permalink
you hate your fellow man, don't you
― nabisco, Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:18 (nine years ago) Permalink
It sure seems like Lorne does!
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:19 (nine years ago) Permalink
Casey Wilson and Michaela Watkins let go: http://thecomicscomic.typepad.com/thecomicscomic/2009/09/addition-through-subtraction-snl-fires-michaela-watkins-and-casey-wilson.html
Jenny Slate and Nasim Pedrad have apparently been hired to fill the vacancies. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/new-saturday-night-live-hires-courtesy-of-upright-citizens-brigade/
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 September 2009 17:56 (nine years ago) Permalink
biiiiitch pleeeeeeez
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9JIK7lI8Zj0/SeQlPGPt7HI/AAAAAAAAA7w/8yFMDSrYb7E/s400/tempura.png
― some dude, Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:03 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― definitely mayne (some dude), Friday, 4 September 2009 18:06 (nine years ago) Permalink
My reasons for liking Casey were purely self-serving. I thought she was cute and liked seeing her every week. My reasons for liking Michaela, though, had more to do with the fact she's one of the most versatile players the show's had in many, many seasons (male OR female). Lorne has lost his damn mind (especially because Abby Elliott, who remains on the cast, has yet to make me laugh once).
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 September 2009 18:09 (nine years ago) Permalink
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/02/saturday-night-lives-olbe_n_140102.html
he should just hire Ben Affleck
― cherokee flux (HI DERE), Friday, 4 September 2009 18:12 (nine years ago) Permalink
Michaela Watkins was great! Bad decision, as much as I love Jenny Slate.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Friday, 4 September 2009 18:13 (nine years ago) Permalink
Watkins always reminded me of a lot of other Nora Dunn/Ana Gasteyer/Jan Hooks-type vaguely WASP-y female cast members who were good at playing uptight and/or older women, which I thought boded well for her future on SNL but I guess not.
― definitely mayne (some dude), Friday, 4 September 2009 18:21 (nine years ago) Permalink
She was great! I don't know why they fired her along with Casey Wilson, who deserved to be fired just for having a hand in writing Bride Wars.
― The ever dapper nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 4 September 2009 18:54 (nine years ago) Permalink
that sucks. michaela watkins was awesome.
― mizzell, Friday, 4 September 2009 18:57 (nine years ago) Permalink
Also, no offense to Jenny Slate or Nasim Pedrad, but are we supposed to believe that there are absolutely no funny black women in the country right now? Keenan probably has a love/hate relationship with his job. He can't be fired, because he's the only black castmember. But he's probably tired of doing all the black guy sketches.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 September 2009 19:12 (nine years ago) Permalink
Even when they've had 2 black guys on the show, there's only been one person doing all the black guy sketches.
― cherokee flux (HI DERE), Friday, 4 September 2009 19:15 (nine years ago) Permalink
Actually, Jenny Slate caught the attention of Lorne Michaels with her one-woman-show Black People Are Never Funny.
― definitely mayne (some dude), Friday, 4 September 2009 19:16 (nine years ago) Permalink
Casey Wilson and Michaela Watkins let go:
so, so wrong. i thought for sure abby elliot would get the ax.
― smitty (get bent), Friday, 4 September 2009 19:26 (nine years ago) Permalink
call me naive but with the election of obama i think the climate might be right for black people to finally break into comedy
― i'm beasting off the riesling (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 4 September 2009 19:30 (nine years ago) Permalink
black people are socialists who want to kill your grandma
― smitty (get bent), Friday, 4 September 2009 19:32 (nine years ago) Permalink
well duh
― cherokee flux (HI DERE), Friday, 4 September 2009 19:34 (nine years ago) Permalink
where my family comes from this has often been true!
― nabisco, Friday, 4 September 2009 19:36 (nine years ago) Permalink
it's a shame how all-or-nothing SNL casting seems to be these days, most cast members seem to either get fired in under 2 years, or get locked in for 6+ years
― definitely mayne (some dude), Friday, 4 September 2009 19:36 (nine years ago) Permalink
Darrell Hammond also may return in some capacity this season, even though it looked like the May finale was also going to be his. He told a local TV station in Rochester, N.Y., recently that he was in negotiations.
i can't even...think right now
― Apply to become an Indie Artist (tremendoid), Friday, 4 September 2009 19:49 (nine years ago) Permalink
would someone please put this guy out to pasture already?
― smitty (get bent), Friday, 4 September 2009 19:51 (nine years ago) Permalink
i'm just not gonna comment, i guess he's my white whale and that's thatsomehow i completely missed anything Michaela Watkins did last year
― Apply to become an Indie Artist (tremendoid), Friday, 4 September 2009 20:06 (nine years ago) Permalink
really! she looks sort of like angelina jolie when they put lots of makeup and hair on her and that's about all she has going right now. she's total dead weight.
― HURL CROCKERY AT THE MOSQUE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 5 September 2009 03:56 (nine years ago) Permalink
I am sick of this comedy world where Kenan Thompson is on national tv and Kel Mitchell continues to collect unemployment. I wonder if Lorne got the names confused, and is just too embarrassed to admit the mistake.
― Cunga, Saturday, 5 September 2009 06:47 (nine years ago) Permalink
― iatee, Saturday, 5 September 2009 06:48 (nine years ago) Permalink
Not too happy with Casey & Michaela going, although my guess is that Michaela maybe skewed older instead of younger and Casey never fit in. I feel a bit more upset about Casey because they rarely utilized her being the zany one, she was always playing the straight/bit part in the sketch. She needed to be let loose more, you could totally see how her overacting and overdoing all these pedestrian roles just so she could get noticed (her "backup singer" role in Ras Trent comes to mind).
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 5 September 2009 16:33 (nine years ago) Permalink
lol "Ras Trent" just came up on shuffle in my iTunes...never noticed her in the sketch, though.
― some other dude (some dude), Saturday, 5 September 2009 17:20 (nine years ago) Permalink
ras trent = mad underrated
― k3vin k., Saturday, 5 September 2009 17:22 (nine years ago) Permalink
ras trent that cracks me up is when he shuts up when passing the 'real' rastas.
― dice in my pockets (csa), Saturday, 5 September 2009 18:05 (nine years ago) Permalink
yeah that is def the best part...tho iirc he's passing black ppl, not rastas?
― the fleet bon fox jumped iver the blank dog (k3vin k.), Saturday, 5 September 2009 18:07 (nine years ago) Permalink
it's inferred, shit still cracks me up.
― dice in my pockets (csa), Saturday, 5 September 2009 18:13 (nine years ago) Permalink
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/the_awful_truth/b143074_hey_saturday_night_live_sexist_much.html
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 21:14 (nine years ago) Permalink
I found Casey Wilson to be grating and unpleasant in every sketch she was in, but the producers are bunch of douchenozzles if this story is true.
― The ever dapper nicolars (Nicole), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 21:47 (nine years ago) Permalink
i didn't realize someone named 'Nasim Pedrad' was a white chick
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 23:02 (nine years ago) Permalink
prodouchernozzles
― Blanket McCulkin (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 23:18 (nine years ago) Permalink
always got the feeling Casey Wilson was not really being given a fair shot, for some reason...
― Nhex, Thursday, 10 September 2009 01:27 (nine years ago) Permalink
There are plenty of examples of people who were funny before or after SNL but not funny on SNL. Casey could just be another one. I liked her thing on Funny or Die (or whatever) about reading comments about herself on the web.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Thursday, 10 September 2009 01:29 (nine years ago) Permalink
Apparently Aubrey Plaza auditioned for SNL and did an imitation of Sarah Silverman? Clearly I think differently than Lorne Michaels because I'm pretty sure I would have hired her if she brought this to an audition, but whatever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Sa9hXA4mo
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:07 (nine years ago) Permalink
hahaha @ the halloween skull line
― iatee, Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:12 (nine years ago) Permalink
lol man that's killer
― some dude, Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:25 (nine years ago) Permalink
i can understand if mean otm impressions of contemporary comics probably aren't what SNL is looking for, but then i think sudeikis's ricky gervais is one of the funniest things from the past couple seasons.
― some dude, Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:27 (nine years ago) Permalink
casey was the cutest cast member by far wtf
― hey hey hey, smoke persians every day (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:29 (nine years ago) Permalink
Get in line, dude.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:36 (nine years ago) Permalink
Also, Aubrey Plaza is my new favorite person. (gawd I hate Sarah Silverman SO MUCH!)
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:38 (nine years ago) Permalink
lmao @ jewgina
― k3vin k., Thursday, 10 September 2009 02:39 (nine years ago) Permalink
isn't that that Jim Breuer guy doing those killworthy JACKPOT pizza commercials? May all cast members meet the same fate.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 September 2009 03:00 (nine years ago) Permalink
hey, Darrell Hammond just left the show and is already doing some pretty embarrassing Oreos commercials with Trump
― some dude, Thursday, 10 September 2009 03:03 (nine years ago) Permalink
I thought Aubrey Plaza's bit there just sounded like a Sarah Silverman routine.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Thursday, 10 September 2009 03:55 (nine years ago) Permalink
Keenan is WIN.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 4 October 2009 04:06 (nine years ago) Permalink
Madonna is so sad right now.
― The ever dapper nicolars (Nicole), Sunday, 4 October 2009 04:12 (nine years ago) Permalink
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xB64fs6XVRc/RqkHvBRJhWI/AAAAAAAAALc/sRuoM02amiE/s320/StrangeloveBat.jpg
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Sunday, 4 October 2009 04:12 (nine years ago) Permalink
I still love Madonna. I don't care.
Also, Gaga just said "shit."
So that's "fuck" in week 1. "Shit" in week 2. What are they going for in week 3?
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 4 October 2009 04:13 (nine years ago) Permalink
Cocksweat
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Sunday, 4 October 2009 04:13 (nine years ago) Permalink
did morbius write the opening obama sketch?
― xuxa pitts (donna rouge), Sunday, 4 October 2009 05:34 (nine years ago) Permalink
Can't get over how straight outta Belle and Sebastian awesome your display name is, Kenan.
x-post
― Cunga, Sunday, 4 October 2009 05:40 (nine years ago) Permalink
That's one of the reasons it's brilliant.
― Cunga, Sunday, 4 October 2009 05:57 (nine years ago) Permalink
Liked the bit at the end about the crime show where the actors are all Norwegian.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Sunday, 4 October 2009 08:38 (nine years ago) Permalink
my favorite moment of the show was lady gaga struggling to sit down at the piano bench w/ her stupid nasa costume on.
― iatee, Sunday, 4 October 2009 08:46 (nine years ago) Permalink
Much better than last week. I might grow to like these new girls yet, although I'm still bummed about Casey.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 5 October 2009 02:57 (nine years ago) Permalink
What was this like? SNL's usual angle is that of a Giuliani Democrat.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:07 (nine years ago) Permalink
Th joke was that the right wing is going crazy over how Obama's changing the country, when in fact he hasn't even done a single thing he said he was going to do. There was a checklist. I laughed.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:12 (nine years ago) Permalink
Ah... here.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/obama-address/1163263/
(That Obama impersonation wasn't even trying, though.)
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:18 (nine years ago) Permalink
Found it... reasonably OTM sketch. And I didn't laugh once.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:19 (nine years ago) Permalink
(I mean, if even SNL writers know that the joke is Obama's snake oil, you may wish to postpone that Republican Party autopsy)
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:22 (nine years ago) Permalink
And I didn't laugh once.
Your new screen name.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:25 (nine years ago) Permalink
man the digital shorts really hit rock bottom this week
― why does deezy claim nuts (some dude), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:29 (nine years ago) Permalink
think the hardest i laughed all episode was at hader's phil spector
― xuxa pitts (donna rouge), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:31 (nine years ago) Permalink
Yeah Sandberg's thing was wtf and just bad. Sandberg in general was just bad.
Gotta admit, though, I liked the dog food commercial.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:32 (nine years ago) Permalink
fake commercials are so in their wheelhouse that it's almost hard to congratulate them
― autogoon delight (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:32 (nine years ago) Permalink
yeah that was the kind of thing that they could've done in '92 and would've been just as funny, no more no less
― some dude, Monday, 5 October 2009 03:37 (nine years ago) Permalink
xp Yeah, and it wasn't even a great one. But I've been torn recently between buying the cat food that I usually get and some cheap awfulness, and I was like, fuck it, it's a cat. She'll either eat it or starve to death, and I know which she's gonna pick.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:38 (nine years ago) Permalink
So you see, I RELATE.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:42 (nine years ago) Permalink
I liked Ahmadinejad's wife, actually. He farts under the sheets and blames it on Israel. It's such an old joke, but lol.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:46 (nine years ago) Permalink
This.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 5 October 2009 07:25 (nine years ago) Permalink
Dollars to donuts it was written by Jim Downey, SNL's long-time political writer and devout right-winger (and Robert Downey, Jr.'s uncle). I don't think his writing a completely in-character sketch exactly sounds the Dems' death knell.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 5 October 2009 12:51 (nine years ago) Permalink
yeah, that sketch is so clearly written from a "right wing" perspective. Keep drinkin' that Kool Aid!
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 October 2009 13:06 (nine years ago) Permalink
lol @ Lady Gaga and her keytar
― a misunderstanding of Hip-Hop and contracts (HI DERE), Monday, 5 October 2009 14:05 (nine years ago) Permalink
I didn't have my glasses on so I couldn't tell - was that really Madonna? Someone upthread called her sad, I thought it was Wiig in costume? If not, without my glasses, Madonna is looking good..
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 5 October 2009 14:26 (nine years ago) Permalink
i had assumed it was either of the two new women on the show but at the end, ryan reynolds thanked madonna
― xuxa pitts (donna rouge), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:08 (nine years ago) Permalink
Hader doesn't even have to say anything, the faces he makes as Spector or that weird alien sports guy are priceless.
That really was Madonna! The arms are a dead giveaway. She does look good, but there's something kind of pathetic about the Gaga fight -- at some point you should stop trying to be down with the kids.
― The ever dapper nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:10 (nine years ago) Permalink
That was most certainly Madonna. But I'll agree she looked way younger than she usually does. And that whoe Madge/Gaga thing was pretty lame.
Morbs, Downey has the ability, despite his political leanings, to tackle different sides of an issue. He's written a lot of GOP-skewering sketches, as well. If you could just re-read that post of mine real quick, you'll see that I didn't say that the sketch was written from a right-wing persepective. Rather, I'm guessing it was written by right-winger Downey because my understanding is that most political sketches that are critical of the Democrats are written by Downey.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:11 (nine years ago) Permalink
I had no idea that Jim Downey was related to RDJ. Is that how RDJ ended up on Saturday Night Live in the first place?
― The ever dapper nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:13 (nine years ago) Permalink
ok
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:15 (nine years ago) Permalink
...bu then, by current standards, that really doesn't make him sound like a right-winger.
I was at this radio interview, and they mostly talked about Fey's Sarah Palin:
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/32393
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:19 (nine years ago) Permalink
Very possibly, Nicole. I mean, most of the cast that season consisted of semi-famous actors (RDJ, Anthony Michael Hall, Joan Cusack), but that would've been right after Downey returned to SNL, so it was probably a factor.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:22 (nine years ago) Permalink
oh wow, that is kind of sad that it was really Madonna. My boyfriend & I were mesmerized by the "incredible makeup work" they'd done on what we presumed was an SNL actress but I agree, she's a bit too old to do something that ridiculous.. Good for her for looking so good though! I fell asleep on the couch before the ending credits, as I always do..this time I missed weekend update too though :(
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:24 (nine years ago) Permalink
noooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
― kushighway (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 03:42 (nine years ago) Permalink
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
gilly!
― we beat so many gimp (k3vin k.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 03:42 (nine years ago) Permalink
imo
― we beat so many gimp (k3vin k.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 03:43 (nine years ago) Permalink
drew barrymore looked like she wuz 55 yrs old in the monologue
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 11 October 2009 03:43 (nine years ago) Permalink
*takes off safety*
― kushighway (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 03:43 (nine years ago) Permalink
*aims at head*
srsly worst skit
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 11 October 2009 03:44 (nine years ago) Permalink
What happened to MAD TV?
It's cast was much funnier than the SNL casts it competed against, imo.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 11 October 2009 03:45 (nine years ago) Permalink
i dunno i fuckin love gilly i guess u_u
― we beat so many gimp (k3vin k.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 03:45 (nine years ago) Permalink
morelike Kristen Wiig Makes Faces Live imo
― kushighway (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 03:46 (nine years ago) Permalink
the liam character kills me tbh
― we beat so many gimp (k3vin k.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 03:48 (nine years ago) Permalink
who is musical guest?
― we beat so many gimp (k3vin k.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 03:52 (nine years ago) Permalink
regina spektor lmao
― kushighway (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 03:54 (nine years ago) Permalink
regina spektorofl
alright what was that
― we beat so many gimp (k3vin k.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 03:55 (nine years ago) Permalink
i thought it was okay tbh. sharon osbourne one made me lol
― kushighway (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 03:55 (nine years ago) Permalink
oh shit! snl is on NOW. fucking Central Time. not used to this.
― Oy!J da Jewman (Alex in Montreal), Sunday, 11 October 2009 04:00 (nine years ago) Permalink
no one likes regina spektor, right
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 11 October 2009 04:07 (nine years ago) Permalink
n opinion on her, she's kinda hot tho
― we beat so many gimp (k3vin k.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 04:08 (nine years ago) Permalink
no*
― we beat so many gimp (k3vin k.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 04:09 (nine years ago) Permalink
i liked her song where in the video they threw colored powder on each other
― kushighway (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 04:09 (nine years ago) Permalink
haha dude EVERYONE is making that same joke about marge simpson & playboy
― kushighway (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 04:17 (nine years ago) Permalink
i'm pretty much dying right now atm - as much as an snl sketch could
― kushighway (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 04:22 (nine years ago) Permalink
the pool stuff is almost funny
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 11 October 2009 04:29 (nine years ago) Permalink
yeah it's pretty ripe for a parody... but.... idk
― kushighway (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 04:31 (nine years ago) Permalink
i got talked into joining a 9-ball league irl and, yeah, pool subculture is weird
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 11 October 2009 04:32 (nine years ago) Permalink
first bobby moynahan character to please meh
― kushighway (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 04:35 (nine years ago) Permalink
what the hall was that
― we beat so many gimp (k3vin k.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 04:37 (nine years ago) Permalink
hell* obv
i came back into the room to birds dippin bread into sauce and lol'd
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 11 October 2009 04:38 (nine years ago) Permalink
"rock out with your hock out" is something that guy fieri would think to say but then self-censor because of food network
― kushighway (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 04:39 (nine years ago) Permalink
road trip sketch plz
― we beat so many gimp (k3vin k.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 04:53 (nine years ago) Permalink
lol'd @ last sketch
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 11 October 2009 04:58 (nine years ago) Permalink
Bill Hader as James Carville has become my new favorite thing of all time.
Also, I've grown to appreciate Gilly.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 11 October 2009 05:09 (nine years ago) Permalink
I have a lot more patience for SNL during its crap years than a lot of people, but god, this season has been horrific. I guess amy poehler had been holding this on her shoulders for a long time.
wiig has some comedic sense to her and I could like her in the right situation...but all of her characters make me want to turn off the tv.
― iatee, Sunday, 11 October 2009 07:14 (nine years ago) Permalink
her *i am making faces and acting socially unaware* schtick works really well in 'adventureland' imo, and pretty infrequently on snl
― kushighway (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 07:19 (nine years ago) Permalink
that was the first funny carville sketch though xps
― alex b. skeaton (tremendoid), Sunday, 11 October 2009 07:35 (nine years ago) Permalink
Not a fan of Wiig on SNL. At times she seems so redundant of improv comedy formulas for how to be funny or create a character. xpost
― Cunga, Sunday, 11 October 2009 07:37 (nine years ago) Permalink
Loved this.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Sunday, 11 October 2009 07:43 (nine years ago) Permalink
The sauce dip and last week's "Happy birthday, ground!" = show redeemed for me somewhat
― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 11 October 2009 23:48 (nine years ago) Permalink
oh my god, fred's getting LAZY with his obama act.
― YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:43 (nine years ago) Permalink
That Food Network sketch was some serious belly laughs for me.
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:45 (nine years ago) Permalink
fred started lazy. motherfucker needs to stop, whether or not they ever find someone else to play obama.
― Gucci_LaFleur (some dude), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:47 (nine years ago) Permalink
the pool sketch was also belly laughs to me, but that's just because I giggle at the word "Tampax"
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:48 (nine years ago) Permalink
"man the digital shorts really hit rock bottom this week"
al, this week's digi almost redeemed last week's. ok, no, it DID redeem it.
"i'm an ADULT"
― YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:50 (nine years ago) Permalink
i'm not a PART of your SYSTEM
― chemical ali v. chemical frazier (m bison), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:51 (nine years ago) Permalink
my DAD'S not a PHONE
the pool sketch was maybe one of the best three things about that episode. honestly, i'm always praying for an SNL where EVERY skit knocks it outta the park instead of just a couple. though, you know, vinny vedecci (or whatever) can do no wrong by me. (best vinny v: the seth "bearman" rogan one)
― YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:52 (nine years ago) Permalink
"my DAD'S not a PHONE"
i was howling with laughter at that one!
"i'm an ADULT" was the rock bottom i was referring to -- the one this past week was OK but kind of forgettable
― Gucci_LaFleur (some dude), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:54 (nine years ago) Permalink
My main problem with the impression, maybe I've said it here before, is that he's clearly taken pains to get the cadence of Obama's speech down without even bothering to modulate the timbre of his voice.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:57 (nine years ago) Permalink
yeah absolutely -- he has a tiny kernel of accuracy in there but he's still playing it w/ essentially the same voice as like 10 other characters he does
― Gucci_LaFleur (some dude), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:58 (nine years ago) Permalink
His Obama is way better than 90% of Hammond's impressions.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 21:00 (nine years ago) Permalink
okay crazypants
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 21:01 (nine years ago) Permalink
I didn't say it was a good impression.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 21:04 (nine years ago) Permalink
how many good obama impressions are there out there?? it doesn't help that SNL's only actual black dude is a fat guy who is terrible at impressions / acting
― iatee, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 22:25 (nine years ago) Permalink
/ being funny
― iatee, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 22:26 (nine years ago) Permalink
beauty and the beast thing wuz funny imo
― iatee, Sunday, 18 October 2009 06:59 (nine years ago) Permalink
The BET interview show sketch made me see why some people hate Kenan. It was baaaaaaad. (I still love him, tho.)
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 18 October 2009 07:01 (nine years ago) Permalink
I don't hate him, he seems nice...he just shouldn't be on a comedy show...
― iatee, Sunday, 18 October 2009 07:10 (nine years ago) Permalink
can someone explain why the 300 guy was on complete with a 300 sketch a zillion years after the movie came out...
monologue where he had to explain who he was to people made me squirm.
― scott seward, Sunday, 18 October 2009 14:32 (nine years ago) Permalink
i felt bad for him cuz he was really horrible. that show was mostly really really bad.
― scott seward, Sunday, 18 October 2009 14:34 (nine years ago) Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, October 18, 2009 3:01 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmarkare you talking about what up with that? best sketch of the year for sudeikis's dancing alone.
― mizzell, Sunday, 18 October 2009 14:43 (nine years ago) Permalink
i so wish i could dance like that
― bnw, Sunday, 18 October 2009 15:00 (nine years ago) Permalink
yeah that was also an excellent surreal idea for a sketch and featured the best james franco performance in a decade
― mojitos (a cocktail) (Cave17Matt), Sunday, 18 October 2009 15:01 (nine years ago) Permalink
seriously, i'm pretty bleh on kenan, but that sketch was good. i knew where it was going after about five seconds but it was fun anyway.
― scourge of prometheus, toaster of marshmallows (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 18 October 2009 15:14 (nine years ago) Permalink
yeah i lold at that sketch
― Bobby Wo (max), Sunday, 18 October 2009 15:17 (nine years ago) Permalink
I don't know why everyone hates Kenan, I think he's funny and has some of my favorite lines of the last few years. ("SILENCE, AMY POEHLER!!") You can only do so much with what you're given on the show.
― mojitos (a cocktail) (Cave17Matt), Sunday, 18 October 2009 15:36 (nine years ago) Permalink
What Up With That? was a prime example of why I love Kenan. I'm getting kind of burnt out on Wiig, so Kenan is easily my favorite cast member now.
― lindseykai, Sunday, 18 October 2009 15:57 (nine years ago) Permalink
― scott seward, Sunday, October 18, 2009 10:32 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
he has a new movie opening that should be at least #2 for this weekend. lots of times when people come on SNL to promote new movies they also do sketches parodying their old movies.
but yeah anytime they have someone not super famous on and they have to kind eagerly namedrop what they've been in to remind people it's uncomfortable
― awe (some dude), Sunday, 18 October 2009 16:48 (nine years ago) Permalink
He didn't even mention Law Abiding Citizen during the monologue, did he?
― lindseykai, Sunday, 18 October 2009 16:50 (nine years ago) Permalink
nah don't think he did
― awe (some dude), Sunday, 18 October 2009 16:52 (nine years ago) Permalink
damn taylor
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:37 (nine years ago) Permalink
Poor Shepard Smith got a raw deal in the cold open, but the rest of it was funny.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:38 (nine years ago) Permalink
view spoofs kill me tbh
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:46 (nine years ago) Permalink
the chick they fired was a way better barbara walters tho
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:47 (nine years ago) Permalink
lol armisen is killing it
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:48 (nine years ago) Permalink
^yes
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:49 (nine years ago) Permalink
Michaela Watkins was way better at almost everything.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:49 (nine years ago) Permalink
kenan's best 'character' too
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:49 (nine years ago) Permalink
Yeah, Armisen as Behar is always lulz.
I hate Nicholas Cage so much that even impressions of him fill me with rage.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:50 (nine years ago) Permalink
lol @ this short!
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:52 (nine years ago) Permalink
i kno zero abt twilight but that was funny
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:52 (nine years ago) Permalink
the dude pouring milk over his face
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:53 (nine years ago) Permalink
man samberg is really in a rut innhe
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:55 (nine years ago) Permalink
lol this concept is great
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:56 (nine years ago) Permalink
january jones is like a less slutty megan fox
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:57 (nine years ago) Permalink
wiig & hader = a+
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:58 (nine years ago) Permalink
^useful post, i was just about to ask "who the hell is january jones?"
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:58 (nine years ago) Permalink
betty draper, if u dont know mad men no reason u should know
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:00 (nine years ago) Permalink
holy shit even with that mouthpiece taylor is unbelievably hot
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:01 (nine years ago) Permalink
okay time to take a step back
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:02 (nine years ago) Permalink
dude this skit is mad funny imo! i haven't laughed this much during snl in like... 2 years or something
lol this is another good sketch tho
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:03 (nine years ago) Permalink
weak sketch tho
xp whaaat
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:03 (nine years ago) Permalink
taylor's voice has been better
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:08 (nine years ago) Permalink
I just don't get "Taylor the singer." I get her pop culture appeal and her occasional forays into real acting (she was great on CSI last season), but she's tremendously NOT talented as a singer.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:08 (nine years ago) Permalink
she kicks ass as songwriter & her voice on record sounds good enough
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:09 (nine years ago) Permalink
i dont know a single swift fan (myself included, love her) for whom the strength of her voice is a major appeal
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:10 (nine years ago) Permalink
yeah what j said
She's a competent musician, who cares. I like her as an actress, though. And as a special imaginary friend.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:11 (nine years ago) Permalink
yessss love this character
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:15 (nine years ago) Permalink
pelosi joke = dr. pepper + keyboard
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:16 (nine years ago) Permalink
I finally gave in and started liking this bit the 47th time they wrote it in.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:16 (nine years ago) Permalink
xxp its hard 2 believe anyone loves this character, kinda 1 note? but w/e
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:17 (nine years ago) Permalink
dying @ maclachlan
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:20 (nine years ago) Permalink
hahaha yes
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:20 (nine years ago) Permalink
I hate those commercials, but I think I hated that bit even more.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:20 (nine years ago) Permalink
oh cool amy's here
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:21 (nine years ago) Permalink
GOD I LOVE AMY POEHLER SO MUCH I CAN'T STAND HER NOT KNOWING WHO I AM
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:22 (nine years ago) Permalink
totally have the third creepiest post itt now
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:23 (nine years ago) Permalink
kenan wins by default of course
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:24 (nine years ago) Permalink
ha i <3 this character
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:26 (nine years ago) Permalink
scared st8 sketch yess
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:35 (nine years ago) Permalink
guns don't go in the top
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:36 (nine years ago) Permalink
shit i flipped to chappelle show during commercial & now i can't turn it off
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:36 (nine years ago) Permalink
taylors killin me here
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:36 (nine years ago) Permalink
reparations skit tbh
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:37 (nine years ago) Permalink
lol what the hell is taylor even doing
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:37 (nine years ago) Permalink
ill stay on the reservation just dont tax my cigarettes
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:38 (nine years ago) Permalink
hahaha @ 88 dudes per hour
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:39 (nine years ago) Permalink
jizzowatts!
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:39 (nine years ago) Permalink
i thought that's what they said but i couldnt believe it!
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:40 (nine years ago) Permalink
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA @ them cracking up!!
kinda hate those jokes but rofl @ jizzowatts
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:40 (nine years ago) Permalink
taylor bobbin and weavin the whole sketch = a+++
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:40 (nine years ago) Permalink
do yall think it's a coincidence that samberg has been in every taylor skit tonight??
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:44 (nine years ago) Permalink
& like three times the amount of skits as usual!!
i down w/ this sketch too lol
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:46 (nine years ago) Permalink
oh dear taylor
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:50 (nine years ago) Permalink
she's really off
― k3vin k., Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:51 (nine years ago) Permalink
This can't be blamed on SNL's inept soundguy.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:51 (nine years ago) Permalink
lol @ Kristen Wiig's Natalie Merchant impression.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:57 (nine years ago) Permalink
lol @ shakira - not shrill enough tho
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:57 (nine years ago) Permalink
wear a pantsuit and send a fax
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:57 (nine years ago) Permalink
lol @ jennifer hudson
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 05:58 (nine years ago) Permalink
That was the funniest episode ever, right? I still sort of stunned...
― lindseykai, Sunday, 8 November 2009 06:09 (nine years ago) Permalink
it was really hilarious
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 November 2009 06:10 (nine years ago) Permalink
ehh
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 November 2009 06:12 (nine years ago) Permalink
I think every sketch made me laugh at least once, which is unheard of.
― lindseykai, Sunday, 8 November 2009 06:18 (nine years ago) Permalink
It was a common occurrence in the days of Lovitz and Hartman. So funniest ever? Nah.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 November 2009 06:19 (nine years ago) Permalink
Back then you'd have to sit through a Pat Stevens sketch or some other cringe-worthy bomb at some point in the evening. I stand by my assertion.
― lindseykai, Sunday, 8 November 2009 06:26 (nine years ago) Permalink
What? Nora Dunn was always awesome.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 November 2009 06:30 (nine years ago) Permalink
LOL Hader as Eddie Vedder. I wish he'd done it for a little longer.
― one boob is free with one (daavid), Sunday, 8 November 2009 06:41 (nine years ago) Permalink
i hope you guys realize that for anyone who doesn't have a computer and TV in the same room and tries to read this thread after watching the episode, half your posts about "this sketch" and "this character" make absolutely no sense w/o any further comment or context, unless i like try really hard to match up the time of the posts to a sketch or something
― lindsay goham (some dude), Sunday, 8 November 2009 13:56 (nine years ago) Permalink
it was a good episode, though not as amazing as y'all seem to think, swift was a good host. it was weird that samberg was in so many sketches.
Okay, I don't think we're going to reach an understanding in this debate. Saying Nora Dunn was always awesome is almost as crazy as saying Molly Shannon was always awesome.
― lindseykai, Sunday, 8 November 2009 14:45 (nine years ago) Permalink
If anything, Taylor Swift would be a great repeat host.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 9 November 2009 07:17 (nine years ago) Permalink
1) I concur that Taylor Swift was a surprisingly good host, and that I really wouldn't mind seeing her host again.
2) I will seriously question Lorne Michaels' judement if Bobby Moynihan isn't a full-fledged cast member by the beginning of next season at the latest.
3) I know it was part of the point, but the Bunny Business sketch really felt like someone found a script from the mid-90s behind a file cabinet somewhere and dusted it off.
4) Just an observation: it occurs to me that this is (seemingly) the most genial cast in as long as I can remember. Aside from, like, maybe Seth Meyers (who may be a great guy but seems to have more asshole potiential than most of the others), they all seem like affable folks who are probably really friendly offstage. I notice the contrast when watching older episodes with earlier casts where some/a lot of them seem like they're probably somewhat dickish offstage (as has been confirmed in some cases). I don't know if that has something to do with the dearth of stand-ups (often not the happiest or most pleasant people in the world) in the current cast, but I'm curious as to what effect that has on the quality of show. It's probably a healthier environment, psychologically, than it has been at times in the past, but I wonder what effect an environment without much conflict has on the quality of the material produced. Yes, I do think about these things, sometimes quite a lot.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 9 November 2009 21:56 (nine years ago) Permalink
In addition to questioning Lorne Michaels' judement, I will also be questioning his judgment just for good measure.
Bunny Business was A+ for me
Taylor certainly had better stage presence then when she was on last year. I remember her being so incredibly nervous/awkward/stiff.
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:05 (nine years ago) Permalink
shit episode except for fred armisen's randy newman impression
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:17 (nine years ago) Permalink
Deric, why do you think Seth has "asshole potential"?
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:17 (nine years ago) Permalink
I didn't see Taylor Swift last year, but nervous/awkward/stiff kind of sums up her presence on the show the other night. Hard to watch at times. Bunny Business and Firelight were the best bits.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:38 (nine years ago) Permalink
What? Her opening song was SO funny and natural. (''I bet you expect me to say/Something bad about Kanye . . .'')
Is she a really twangy country singer? I totally want to hear her music now.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:43 (nine years ago) Permalink
She's, what, 20? And she was in like every skit, I'm willing to cut her a break.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:43 (nine years ago) Permalink
Yeah, the monologue was decent. I'm just thinking of her in the "Scared Straight" sketch, for instance.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:48 (nine years ago) Permalink
monologue was terrible, i don't know why people were laughing, there were no jokes
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:49 (nine years ago) Permalink
even bunny business was their fallback "get everyone out to do a celebrity impression for no reason" sketch. some of the impressions are funny but without a real context it just feels empty and embarassing
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:51 (nine years ago) Permalink
"get everyone out to do a celebrity impression for no reason" sketch
Admittedly, I'm a big fan of this, and in fact, I think the lack of context is WHY I often like it -- it just becomes kind of absurd. I was even thinking, while watching Bunny Business, that I'd have been perfectly content just watching them roll out celebrity impressions for like 20 minutes. I'll take that over a sketch with a single joke that's pummeled into the ground.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:57 (nine years ago) Permalink
n/a, do you like taylor swift?
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 10 November 2009 01:00 (nine years ago) Permalink
Tbh, she had no business even being in that sketch. Definitely her worst one of the night. Its like they just told her to follow Kenan around and do what he does.
Oh come on, it wasn't hilarious, but there were some "jokes".
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 01:01 (nine years ago) Permalink
i don't really have an opinion on taylor swift, i think i've only heard a couple of her songs. i do have opinions about comedy shows and whether they should be funny or not (hint: they should). i know swift isn't an experienced actress and snl often has to deal with hosts who aren't really actors or even "funny" and i have definitely seen worse hosts than her. i'm not blaming the shitty show on her, they were relying way more than usual on stock characters, and even the ones i like (nicholas fehn, penelope) were weaker than usual. i laughed at firelight, the newman impression, and kenan's performance in scared straight.
i honestly can't think of any jokes in the monologue song, it was all just cutesy self-references
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 01:11 (nine years ago) Permalink
just so you can judge my taste, my favorite sketch of the season so far is "what up with that?"
Probably because he's a little too good at playing a believable snarky asshole. I don't really think he's an asshole. He just seems a little more aloof than the rest of the cast, maybe? Plus it probably takes a certain type-A personality to be head writer. Anyway. This is almost entirely intuitive and probably mostly in my own mind. I ain't judgin'. The whole lot of them are probably more friendly and gregarious than I am. Ain't none of 'em Chevy Chase, at any rate.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 01:16 (nine years ago) Permalink
even the ones i like (nicholas fehn, penelope) were weaker than usual.
These characters need to be put to bed. I liked them, too, at first, but there's not enough to either of them to fuel recurring sketches. The show seems to be completely wrongheaded at the moment as to which characters are and are not deserving of recurring sketches.
For instance: 'What Up With That?' I would watch every week without complaint.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 01:19 (nine years ago) Permalink
I seem to be liking Kenan a lot more this season. But dear god, no more Grady Wilson. Please? Twice was two times too many.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 01:20 (nine years ago) Permalink
kenan is really growing on me, i think i voted for him in the "worst snl cast member" poll but he's making me laugh a lot this season so far.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 01:25 (nine years ago) Permalink
I think it might be that he's shedding some of his "I wanna be adored!"-ness, which is often my least favorite quality in a comedic performer (see: Jim Carrey (sometimes), Jimmy Fallon).
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 01:28 (nine years ago) Permalink
Yeah, but the self-referential lines were funny, sweet and well-delivered. And I know nothing about Taylor Swift's personal life (except the Kanye West debacle). Oh, and I'm totally uninterested in the Twilight franchise.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 10 November 2009 01:29 (nine years ago) Permalink
^^^^^^ this
But I also think What Up With That? is the best sketch of the season. So my taste is probably wrong.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 02:06 (nine years ago) Permalink
kenan is president of snl this season imo
― sexual alien v. sexual predator (m bison), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 15:19 (nine years ago) Permalink
Okay, seriously? A farting Grace Kelly sketch?
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 November 2009 04:51 (nine years ago) Permalink
smh at the black eyed peas
― peed on tree (k3vin k.), Sunday, 15 November 2009 05:11 (nine years ago) Permalink
i thought i didnt mind that song until i watched that
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 15 November 2009 05:14 (nine years ago) Permalink
god, could they have any less personality? what do those other 2 even less attractive guys even do?
― peed on tree (k3vin k.), Sunday, 15 November 2009 05:15 (nine years ago) Permalink
The pyro was cool at least.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 November 2009 05:16 (nine years ago) Permalink
I think they try to whip the crowd up into a frenzy
― nearly one-third of a man (Z S), Sunday, 15 November 2009 05:16 (nine years ago) Permalink
which is also what the inaudible DJ in the band does
― nearly one-third of a man (Z S), Sunday, 15 November 2009 05:17 (nine years ago) Permalink
ok lol @ 'glades of blory'
― peed on tree (k3vin k.), Sunday, 15 November 2009 05:27 (nine years ago) Permalink
i think i'm the only one in america who found that all hilarious
― peed on tree (k3vin k.), Sunday, 15 November 2009 05:29 (nine years ago) Permalink
It's possible.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 November 2009 05:32 (nine years ago) Permalink
what the fuck was that
― peed on tree (k3vin k.), Sunday, 15 November 2009 05:36 (nine years ago) Permalink
spent a lot of time trying to figure out what the DJ was doing. Finally decided he was using pionner DVD video decks and was "mixing" the video that appeared on the flat screen in front of him.
Def. one of the worst episodes in recent history. Only the two prerecorded parts were decent, the digital short and the throwing a party film.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 15 November 2009 06:25 (nine years ago) Permalink
The Kristen-Wiig-as-awkward-lesbian-reporter sketches often grow funnier as they go along, but that's the first one they've done in a long long time. Outside of that and the party film, I was bored all night.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 November 2009 06:34 (nine years ago) Permalink
I'm annoyed that this is the one thread I can't search for my name in, to find out where I last posted/left off.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Sunday, 15 November 2009 08:19 (nine years ago) Permalink
search for (kenan)
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 15 November 2009 08:20 (nine years ago) Permalink
ooh... you're a smart one.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Sunday, 15 November 2009 08:20 (nine years ago) Permalink
Of course if I do that, I miss posts like:
― fear of a wack banning (J0rdan S.)
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Sunday, 15 November 2009 08:22 (nine years ago) Permalink
Which totally isn't fair, btw. Not the post, just the situation. Everyone should have an equal chance to make everyone else uncomfortable.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Sunday, 15 November 2009 08:23 (nine years ago) Permalink
Unless of course you we're talking about me. Which is highly possible.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Sunday, 15 November 2009 09:35 (nine years ago) Permalink
cracked me up that the first thing I saw when I turned on SNL last night was basically the image at the top of this thread: least funny current SNL castmember
― some dude, Sunday, 15 November 2009 17:42 (nine years ago) Permalink
What a bad episode. Especially in comparison to last week's.
The Kristen Wiig problem, in a nutshell, is that she's in too many sketches (some might say I could stop right there...) where she isn't part of an ensemble. Her two big sketches last night were essentially monologues, where all of the other actors were essentially props. I wouldn't even say that they were straight men. They almost literally had nothing to do.
Also! Given how little some cast members had to do in this week's episode (Will Forte, the completely absent Keenan Thompson), it's gotta get the dander up that fucking Darrell Hammond can't stay fucking gone. Jesus Christ, dude.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 15 November 2009 20:01 (nine years ago) Permalink
Okay, seriously? A farting Grace Kelly sketch?― Johnny Fever, Saturday, November 14, 2009 11:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, November 14, 2009 11:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
This shit had me in tears. Also, I'm 5.
― freek-a-leekanomics (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 03:22 (nine years ago) Permalink
i can't fucking believe they keep bringing back jon bovi, that shit is the fucking worst. I've probably said that like 100 times in this thread tho
― freek-a-leekanomics (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 03:47 (nine years ago) Permalink
ok lol @ 'glades of blory'― peed on tree (k3vin k.), Sunday, November 15, 2009 12:27 AM (22 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― peed on tree (k3vin k.), Sunday, November 15, 2009 12:27 AM (22 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
SB
― freek-a-leekanomics (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 03:49 (nine years ago) Permalink
January Jones was a pretty WTF host choice, I mean Jon Hamm was kinda pushing it in terms of the usual minimum of fame for a host but he was pretty funny and at least he's the star of that show
― some dude, Monday, 16 November 2009 04:07 (nine years ago) Permalink
she was rly bad too
― freek-a-leekanomics (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 04:07 (nine years ago) Permalink
i wonder if jenny slate will ever get through a sketch without stuttering
january jones is like demi lovato for white people who live in nyc/LA
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Monday, 16 November 2009 04:10 (nine years ago) Permalink
i could go on all day with analogies for how undeserving & barely famous january jones
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Monday, 16 November 2009 04:11 (nine years ago) Permalink
fuck the haters, i'm watching the rear window sketch again
― freek-a-leekanomics (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 04:11 (nine years ago) Permalink
when i saw her on the cover of GQ i was like "is this a perfume ad or who is this person?"
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Monday, 16 November 2009 04:12 (nine years ago) Permalink
shoulda been christina hendricks obv
― freek-a-leekanomics (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 04:14 (nine years ago) Permalink
^^^ this
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 16 November 2009 04:21 (nine years ago) Permalink
glad I missed!
http://gawker.com/5405161/was-last-nights-snl-really-the-worst-episode-ever?skyline=true&s=x
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 November 2009 16:26 (nine years ago) Permalink
they made it pretty clear they were bringing back jon bovi just to spite people who had bitched about it
― freek-a-leekanomics (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, November 15, 2009 10:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^ suggest banned you for this
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 16 November 2009 16:34 (nine years ago) Permalink
Farting Grace Kelly was pretty funny, but only because Sudekis pulled out a pretty decent outraged Jimmy Stewart.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 16 November 2009 16:34 (nine years ago) Permalink
Btw let's keep SBing people for not agreeing with their taste. ILX should be down to Ned by himself within a week.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 16 November 2009 16:38 (nine years ago) Permalink
Okay ppl, farting Grace Kelly was not the WORST SKETCH EVER to appear on SNL. That honor would go to this sketch, which caused my family to turn off the television and not see SNL again for 2 years:
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 16 November 2009 16:43 (nine years ago) Permalink
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, November 16, 2009 11:34 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
sudekis is the mvp on snl right now, imo.
― mizzell, Monday, 16 November 2009 16:45 (nine years ago) Permalink
this was horrible, but yeah as dan's link suggests, it didn't reach 1980 levels of torpidity.
― da croupier, Monday, 16 November 2009 16:48 (nine years ago) Permalink
january jones may be the worst host i've seen since Bill Pullman, though.
I still prefer Hader but Sudeikis is definitely kind of the utility player that holds the ensemble together, to whatever extent it is holding together (xpost)
― some dude, Monday, 16 November 2009 16:49 (nine years ago) Permalink
I do have to commend them for managing to put the two musical guests I would least like to ever see on back-to-back episodes.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 16 November 2009 16:51 (nine years ago) Permalink
Dan and Anthony OTM,
Calling this the "worst episode ever" is some myopic blogger shit. There's a reason that a lot of those early 80s episodes are buried in the desert with all those ET Atari games.
Season 5 is about to come out on DVD this xmas. I wonder if they're even gonna bother putting out Season 6 or just jump to the Dana Carvey era.
― freek-a-leekanomics (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 16:55 (nine years ago) Permalink
In fairness most of today's bloggers weren't alive in the early 80s.
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 16 November 2009 16:56 (nine years ago) Permalink
bitch pleeeeeeeease
― freek-a-leekanomics (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 16:58 (nine years ago) Permalink
asserting your knowledge of the snl backcatalog is pretty sad imo, like worse then ILM sad.
― bnw, Monday, 16 November 2009 17:04 (nine years ago) Permalink
lol did you really just resort to the "knowing stuff is sad" argument
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 16 November 2009 17:18 (nine years ago) Permalink
all it means is you watched a lot of comedy central
― da croupier, Monday, 16 November 2009 17:19 (nine years ago) Permalink
yes, there's nothing sad about watching a lot of comedy central
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 16 November 2009 17:21 (nine years ago) Permalink
it's certainly not sadder than ilm
and while we're outing ourselves as total saddoes for having watched more than our share of sketch comedy, 1980 had some pretty amazing musical guests
― da croupier, Monday, 16 November 2009 17:22 (nine years ago) Permalink
qft
Kid Creole & the CoconutsCaptain Beefheart & His Magic BandAretha FranklinKeith SykesJames BrownEllen ShipleyLinda RonstadtThe Cast of The Pirates of PenzanceJack Bruce & FriendsCheap TrickStanley Clarke TrioJoe "King" Carrasco & the Crowns14 Karat SoulJimmy CliffFunky Four Plus OneTodd RundgrenPrinceDelbert McClintonJr. Walker & the All-Stars
― freek-a-leekanomics (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 17:57 (nine years ago) Permalink
would be a dope mixtape, imo
I'm just gonna post youtubes of musical guests from season 6
Kid Creole & The Coconutshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuCxNlWWe3g
― freek-a-leekanomics (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 17:58 (nine years ago) Permalink
Captain Beefhearthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xepBfz3mVXs
― freek-a-leekanomics (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 17:59 (nine years ago) Permalink
I'm a big SNL apologist, but I'd rank the last one among the worst episodes in the past 10 years.
the host was visibly inept, the musical guest was not only an abomination but performed 3x, and the sketches were uniformly unfunny. your best effort is farting grace kelly? really? really?
deric's otm re: wiig. she's great but they let her run off with the show too often. seems like every skit she is in has exactly one joke, and that's whatever character tic she's riffing on.
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 16 November 2009 19:28 (nine years ago) Permalink
i wonder if she ever gets tired of playing captain crazypants multiple times each episode and nothing else
― da croupier, Monday, 16 November 2009 19:30 (nine years ago) Permalink
i bet roxy would have my back on farting grace kelly being awesome.
― freek-a-leekanomics (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 19:31 (nine years ago) Permalink
someone should tell bobby moyinhan that alfred hitchcock was british
― da croupier, Monday, 16 November 2009 19:32 (nine years ago) Permalink
think he had him mixed up with that old actor that goes "yeeeeEEEEESSSS???"
― da croupier, Monday, 16 November 2009 19:34 (nine years ago) Permalink
leave it to bobby moynihan to be the low point in a grace kelly farting sketch.
― mizzell, Monday, 16 November 2009 19:53 (nine years ago) Permalink
looooool
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 16 November 2009 19:54 (nine years ago) Permalink
i knew we were in trouble when "grace kelly farting" appeared in the first half hour instead of the last.
― da croupier, Monday, 16 November 2009 20:23 (nine years ago) Permalink
So I guess I can safely delete this week's episode from my DVR?
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:24 (nine years ago) Permalink
what % of the SNL audience has heard of Grace Kelly?
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:26 (nine years ago) Permalink
http://www.gracekellymusic.com/
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:27 (nine years ago) Permalink
preexisting knowledge of grace kelly is not necessary for getting a fart joke
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:29 (nine years ago) Permalink
"getting"
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:36 (nine years ago) Permalink
exactly
let me add that this skit was 5 minutes long
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:37 (nine years ago) Permalink
Three notes, in order of least important to most important:
- Jones was really amazingly bad (and I'm not sure how I feel about her whole current effort to make herself known outside of Mad Men anyway)
- okay so once again: what is it about having Jenny Slate in a sketch that creates this weird sense of total awkwardness? I don't think I have anything against her -- I thought she was kind of terrific on Bored to Death -- but this is the second time she's been prominently featured in a sketch and it's just seemed totally awkward and wrong in some nebulous cringing way. (the first time being that kinda biker-chicks sketch, which really wasn't just a writing problem, it was some kind of vibe/energy she has that just translates freaky-awkward on TV, maybe)
- thank you SNL for TOTALLY RUINING my previous weekly habit of annoyingly singing "MAD MEN, MAD MEN" along with the theme song
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:38 (nine years ago) Permalink
From what I understand, they're jumping past the Carvey era, and the next season they're gonna release after 5 will be Will Ferrell era. Which makes sense from a marketing standpoint, but (even though I really had no realistic hope that they were going to release season 6 anytime soon) I'm a little disappointed nonetheless.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:47 (nine years ago) Permalink
grace kelly farting would be an amusing sidebar in one of hader's vincent price sketches, but as the raison d'etre for an entire sketch? feels like they're not even trying.
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:51 (nine years ago) Permalink
Ditto.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:52 (nine years ago) Permalink
yeah. i maybe don't want to own season 6, but am crazy curious to watch those episodes at least once. they should offer them pay-per-view via the net or something, i would pony up at least to see the Charles-Rocket-sez-Fuck episode....
― When she is finished, Reader, the vagina has won, hands down. (stevie), Monday, 16 November 2009 21:03 (nine years ago) Permalink
(not even sure if i want to own season 5 either, tbh)
― When she is finished, Reader, the vagina has won, hands down. (stevie), Monday, 16 November 2009 21:04 (nine years ago) Permalink
From what I understand, they're jumping past the Carvey era, and the next season they're gonna release after 5 will be Will Ferrell era.
wow, that's like 15 seasons, missing the entire jack handey era, not to mention one of my favorite skits
http://snlarc.jt.org/detail.php?i=198603155
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 16 November 2009 21:11 (nine years ago) Permalink
but yeah, it would be a bit of a slog wouldn't it
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 16 November 2009 21:12 (nine years ago) Permalink
it's not like they can't go back later
― da croupier, Monday, 16 November 2009 21:13 (nine years ago) Permalink
Also, I don't know if they're planning on starting from Ferrell's first season, but I don't remember that season (featuring a mostly new cast still finding its feet) being terribly good.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 16 November 2009 21:17 (nine years ago) Permalink
I for one am ready to trust Deric W. Haircare's unsubstantiated rumor about this
― freek-a-leekanomics (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 21:21 (nine years ago) Permalink
You can poke around the forums at saturday-night-live.com if you want and see for yourself, Whiney. They aren't my unsubstantiated rumors.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 16 November 2009 21:27 (nine years ago) Permalink
I love Jenny Slate but she seems out of her element on SNL.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Monday, 16 November 2009 21:29 (nine years ago) Permalink
let me know if you find Ellen Shipley, this is the first I'd ever even heard of her!
― some dude, Monday, 16 November 2009 21:34 (nine years ago) Permalink
Maybe you need to have a talk w/your mom.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Monday, 16 November 2009 21:49 (nine years ago) Permalink
I only just learned last week that Abby Elliot is Chris Elliot's daughter.
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Monday, 16 November 2009 21:52 (nine years ago) Permalink
Tell me, was this the kind of unfunny SNL ep that puts you to sleep and you realize only later was atrocious, or was this of the unintentional comedy, "hmm...maybe anybody could do this for a living?" unfunny? The latter can be entertaining.
― Cunga, Monday, 16 November 2009 21:53 (nine years ago) Permalink
A currently open wikipedia window just taught me that January Jones is an actress, and not a porn star. I think I win/lose.
― Cunga, Monday, 16 November 2009 21:59 (nine years ago) Permalink
jaymc you're making a joke about my last name and you refer to my mom, who in all likelihood (and in reality) was born with a different maiden name? poor form.
― some dude, Monday, 16 November 2009 22:00 (nine years ago) Permalink
Aren't you like 30? Wouldn't your mom be married in 1980?
― um, dude? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:01 (nine years ago) Permalink
Or, I guess, COULDN'T your mom be married would be more accurate. No need to make Al-ssumptions
― um, dude? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:02 (nine years ago) Permalink
xxxxpost to Cunga
Well, look. If you do improv or write sketch stuff at all, you learn pretty quickly (even at a beginner level) that fart jokes and gay jokes are really easy and rarely good and are to be avoided as much as possible. This week's episode suggests that the SNL writers haven't quite reached that point in their comedy education.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:02 (nine years ago) Permalink
uh, fart jokes are always good
― um, dude? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:03 (nine years ago) Permalink
um, fart?
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:04 (nine years ago) Permalink
heh heh
― um, dude? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:04 (nine years ago) Permalink
xxxpost
OR it suggests that the host sometimes has a little too much control over the material. OR it suggests that the producer should exercise a little less control over the material. OR it suggests that the head writer should exercise any level of quality control over the material.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:04 (nine years ago) Permalink
Actually, you know what sketch I did like? The one near the end of the episode with Jason Sudeikis and January Jones on a blanket looking at clouds.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:05 (nine years ago) Permalink
I personally like fart and poop jokes as much as the next guy, Whiney, but you've gotta bring something interesting to the table (see: 'toilet scissors' on the Asssscat! DVD).
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:09 (nine years ago) Permalink
one thing that might have buoyed the fart sketch a bit would be if Jones could have made halfway-funny farting faces instead of just standing around blankly. (I mean if the whole joke is some gulf between guest actress/guest's persona/Grace Kelly on one hand and "farting" on the other, selling it and making it funny is all on her, and I can imagine plenty of actresses who could have made it way less lame.)
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:11 (nine years ago) Permalink
Basically, either she should have been way more of a ditzy airhead (the lines pointed in that direction, particularly with all that "was that me?" stuff) or the sketch should have been rewritten to have her act like a stereotypical trucker, with belching, cursing, inappropriate scratching and outrageously lewd commentary mixed in with the farting and the sketch should have been about Jimmy Stewart getting thrown off by the dichotomy between the "real" Grace Kelly and the "acting" Grace Kelly. (They could have played this up by having, say, Will Forte play the gross, obnoxious Grace Kelly and JJ play the on-camera "acting" Grace Kelly but that might have been hammering the point a little too much.)
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:17 (nine years ago) Permalink
you guys don't know funny at all.
what sold the sketch to me was the juxtaposition of her dead-eyed stare with the sloppy, wet fart sounds
― um, dude? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:18 (nine years ago) Permalink
The sketch was amusing but she completely ruined it by cracking up at it, particularly since no one else was laughing.
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:20 (nine years ago) Permalink
(lol so basically I'm trying to rewrite it so she was in less of it)
well, yes, she shouldn't have been laughing, obv, but that's a problem with the performer, not the sketch
― um, dude? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:21 (nine years ago) Permalink
they should have had grace kelly strenuously argue that it's a part of her "method"
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:21 (nine years ago) Permalink
haha not to get all comedy-dissecting but yeah, I agree with you, Whiney, that was the one level on which I laughed at it, but even THAT wasn't the way it was played -- if the idea was to have her stand demurely while horrible fart-noises boomed around, that wasn't well done either! (cause like she did attempt a couple unfunny fart-faces, as I recall.) I mean, I dunno, like Dan's going into, there are several different directions you could play the joke in and the sketch didn't do any of them very well, and I basically wound up sitting there mad at myself for laughing so hard at just the fart sounds (which I would laugh at even coming from a blank screen with no associated characters)
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:24 (nine years ago) Permalink
no one laughs when I fart except me
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:25 (nine years ago) Permalink
I fart all the time its kind of weird
I, for one, completely endorse an episode of SNL hosted by fart sounds
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:25 (nine years ago) Permalink
also: http://www.fart-sounds.net/fart_sound_board.htm
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:29 (nine years ago) Permalink
I, for one, completely endorse an episode of SNL hosted by fart sounds Larry King
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:29 (nine years ago) Permalink
Only if Larry King is played by Norm MacDonald:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK6qcvrF-4I
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:41 (nine years ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK6qcvrF-4I
The more I think about it, the more I appreciate the equator.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 16 November 2009 23:37 (nine years ago) Permalink
double-u double-u double-u fart dash sounds dot net.
wow.
― goole, Monday, 16 November 2009 23:40 (nine years ago) Permalink
As everyone else is saying: the skit would've been better if it was not just flatulence that ruined Grace Kelly's pristine image.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 01:02 (nine years ago) Permalink
Imagine how funny it'd be if they had Grace, when the camera wasn't rolling, talking about how her own experiences with voyeurism help her get into character each day. She could start going into these lurid college stories and Hitchcock would have to stop her (as well as yank Jimmy Stewarts' hand from his pants).
And why stop at debasing Grace Kelly? The second the movie camera stops they should've had Jimmy Stewart telling off-color jokes and joking about wheel chair sex with Grace Kelly. Just hearing a Jimmy Stewart impersonator be vulgar would be worth a few chuckles.
Then you'd have the pompous Alfred Hitchcock being the voice of moral authority etc. As it is it's Grace Kelly farting while Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart watch - which is a letdown.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 01:09 (nine years ago) Permalink
Just hearing a Jimmy Stewart impersonator be vulgar would be worth a few chuckles.
dana carvey did this like 20 years ago, and your ideas are terrible
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 01:12 (nine years ago) Permalink
how about if grace kelly dropped a deuce into hitch's jowly mouth while stewart rubbed one out
would that be funny
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 01:13 (nine years ago) Permalink
I'd subscribe to their videos.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 01:15 (nine years ago) Permalink
why not save time and post straight into the o_O thread
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 01:21 (nine years ago) Permalink
Dana Carvey did everyone about twenty years ago, so that doesn't surprise me. My quickly thought-of suggestions probably are lame, but it's hard to convey the humor of farce in cold print.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 01:23 (nine years ago) Permalink
I love all the SNL fanfic in this thread. Would the masturbating Jimmy Stewart sketch be intended as a part of the official SNL universe or is this a multiverse spin-off?
― um, dude? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 01:35 (nine years ago) Permalink
it's in one of the seasons never released on dvd
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 01:46 (nine years ago) Permalink
ok guys you got me, my mom was married and named Shipley in 1980
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:35 (nine years ago) Permalink
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, November 16, 2009 5:02 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ugh remember the Paul Rudd episode last year that felt like 80% gay jokes?
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:44 (nine years ago) Permalink
that is not shocking considering the general genre of paul rudd's humor
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:46 (nine years ago) Permalink
So the next three hosts are Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Derek Jeter, and Jon Bon Jovi.
I guess the last ten years just didn't happen or something...?
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:19 (nine years ago) Permalink
god that is an awful string there
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:21 (nine years ago) Permalink
How hard up are they for hosts?
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:22 (nine years ago) Permalink
man how do they waste the jon bovi sketch last week, they should do it when he's hosting imo
― peed on tree (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:22 (nine years ago) Permalink
Oh, and Jake Gyllenhaal in there somewhere, too. My general point still stands.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:23 (nine years ago) Permalink
I don't know why exactly, but that host list makes me really sad. Like seriously sad.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:24 (nine years ago) Permalink
January Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jake Gyllenhaal, Derek Jeter, Jon Bon Jovi = point is that your first or last name has to start with a J in order to host
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:25 (nine years ago) Permalink
u r next
― peed on tree (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:25 (nine years ago) Permalink
*exchanges knowing glances with Jon Williams*
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:31 (nine years ago) Permalink
Hello this is SNL, they won't be afraid to continue beating that "joke" into the ground. Guarantee it will be on that episode.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:54 (nine years ago) Permalink
January Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jake Gyllenhaal, Derek Jeter, Jon Bon Jovi = point is that your first or last name has to start with a J in order to host― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Monday, November 16, 2009 10:25 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Monday, November 16, 2009 10:25 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
forks?
― um, dude? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:57 (nine years ago) Permalink
Jake Gyllenhaal
His first time was classic for the "Law & Order Acting School" sketch alone.
I think JG-L should be pretty decent too. Granted, he was only a kid on 3rd Rock, but he could probably be a funny adult too.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:58 (nine years ago) Permalink
Yeah. There's just no part of me that understands Bon Jovi or Jeter, though.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 04:00 (nine years ago) Permalink
They are incredibly popular people who are charming and outgoing
― um, dude? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 04:01 (nine years ago) Permalink
If memory serves, this will be an encore performance for Jeter. I don't remember his first time being funny, though. In fact, I barely remember it at all.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 04:03 (nine years ago) Permalink
http://www.theodoresworld.net/pics/0508/PalinImage1.jpg
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 04:04 (nine years ago) Permalink
Yeah, this is Jeter's second go-round.
First SNL host of the new year!:
http://therichlife.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/vsbefore.jpg
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 04:06 (nine years ago) Permalink
I don't know about the other guys here but I send all my SNL Skit Remixes to Lorne Michaels when the season is over. Like any good remix they are supposed to make him think "what if?"
― Cunga, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 04:45 (nine years ago) Permalink
This show sucks
― Spectrum, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 04:46 (nine years ago) Permalink
― peed on tree (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 05:00 (nine years ago) Permalink
Joseph Gordon-Leavitt is awesome and I bet he'll be a great host.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 06:16 (nine years ago) Permalink
My inner-frat child wants to see a skit about "Angels in the Outfield."
― Cunga, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 06:42 (nine years ago) Permalink
My name begins with J if you spell it wrong.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 08:26 (nine years ago) Permalink
2nd snl host of next year:
http://www.definitivejux.net/files/u3/jared.jpg
― When she is finished, Reader, the vagina has won, hands down. (stevie), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 09:04 (nine years ago) Permalink
Jeter was decent for an athlete. But really, doing better than the likes of Michael Phelps or Tom Brady is saying much. I kind of wish they were going with A-Rod instead because it would be such a fantastic trainwreck.
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 13:33 (nine years ago) Permalink
D'oh, should be "isn't saying much".
― ô_o (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 13:34 (nine years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I surprised anyone is up in arms over January Jones considering that they'll even let athletes host this show.
― Darin, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:40 (nine years ago) Permalink
the rock was a radical host as i recall
― max, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:42 (nine years ago) Permalink
yeah, dude. He did it twice! Once as the Rock and once as Dwayne Whatever The Fuck His Real Name Is
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:45 (nine years ago) Permalink
sometimes the non-actors can be good if they just go for it and don't mind looking silly. i don't see jeter going this way though.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:46 (nine years ago) Permalink
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/celebrity_photos/derek_jeter_big_screen_cameo_HAUnrIHKNBtbI829udviXL
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:47 (nine years ago) Permalink
peyton manning was pretty funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L42C7wphzVY
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:48 (nine years ago) Permalink
peyton manning is funny in commercials too
― max, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:48 (nine years ago) Permalink
iirc most of the athletes that host tend to bring in huge ratings no matter how bad they are -- wasn't Nancy Kerrigan one of their highest rated episodes ever? i can at least see the rationale for that more than getting the 3rd or 4th most famous person from an award winning but not massively popular cable drama.
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:48 (nine years ago) Permalink
― Johnny Fever, Monday, November 16, 2009 11:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
derek jeter's taco hole was great
― mizzell, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:49 (nine years ago) Permalink
<3 peyton manning's comedy.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:50 (nine years ago) Permalink
Part of the allure of athletes on the show is watching highly successful people fail, imo.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:51 (nine years ago) Permalink
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:51 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
nah, people have low expectations for athletes on snl so then as long as they aren't awful they come across pretty well
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 19:56 (nine years ago) Permalink
I don't remember who it was, but there was an athlete on, a baseball player I think, and Chris Kattan is a kid about to go to sleep, and the athlete shows up like a ghost to offer all these aspirational thoughts and it's really touching, then one by one more show up till it's just annoying and creepy and finally Will Ferrel enters. That was a great skit.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:00 (nine years ago) Permalink
Here it is. Helen Hunt was the guest but real athletes show up.
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/97/97ibaseball.phtml
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:02 (nine years ago) Permalink
hahaha, remember when Wayne Gretzky hosted in 1989 and he did that sketch where he just said everything he thought outloud.
"Bye guys, if you need me, I'll upstairs masturbating"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:06 (nine years ago) Permalink
actual lols just from reading the transcript of that baseball sketch
― max, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:06 (nine years ago) Permalink
That was Joe Montana, not Gretzky.
― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:06 (nine years ago) Permalink
― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:07 (nine years ago) Permalink
Ugh, SNL Transcripts...
"This is my master, Hannibal" instead of "mastiff"
come on fuck a guy
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:09 (nine years ago) Permalink
thanks, dan... shit that was 86!
I remember being incredulous that my parents were not stopping me from watching the show at that point
― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:11 (nine years ago) Permalink
ha i totally remember that one!
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:11 (nine years ago) Permalink
it was such a weird thing for Joe Montana to say
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:12 (nine years ago) Permalink
think that was maybe why it was funny
― mizzell, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:13 (nine years ago) Permalink
thanks
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:14 (nine years ago) Permalink
I still bust out the line "I've got the rolling papers if you got the weed" from the baseball sketch fairly regularly. I'm rarely taken up on the offer though.
― methanietanner, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:15 (nine years ago) Permalink
you're welcome, jazzgasms! (/joe montana voice)
― mizzell, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 20:17 (nine years ago) Permalink
loool @ 2012 sketch
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 22 November 2009 04:45 (nine years ago) Permalink
Dave Matthews as Ozzy was big lulz
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 22 November 2009 05:02 (nine years ago) Permalink
what is up with that
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 22 November 2009 05:10 (nine years ago) Permalink
Wow, this kid likes cassettes.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 22 November 2009 05:59 (nine years ago) Permalink
not very funny episode, but from JGL monologue alone...will you deny his talent?
― dan selzer, Sunday, 22 November 2009 06:34 (nine years ago) Permalink
SNL goes to great lengths -- too great -- to keep the host from looking stupid.
― kenan, Sunday, 22 November 2009 07:12 (nine years ago) Permalink
OK SNL can just fuck off for real with that China-Obama skit.
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:07 (nine years ago) Permalink
"How many jobs have you created?" "None" AARCCCHHHGDSS!O#IF$@H!!!
"Wah! Wah! SNL is only supposed to make fun of the OTHER guys, not my guy! Wah!"
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:15 (nine years ago) Permalink
I thought the China-Obama thing was funny!
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:22 (nine years ago) Permalink
Good episode all around, actually. JGL seemed a little frantic but he did a good job.
He was entertaining, Kenan MVP of this ep though. Between Reba and What Up With That.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:23 (nine years ago) Permalink
Jason Sudeikis's bboy dancing is still the mvp of "what up with that" imo.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:26 (nine years ago) Permalink
I don't know, seeing Moyinahan in those wrestling tights twirling the snake kinda did it for me.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:27 (nine years ago) Permalink
True
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:30 (nine years ago) Permalink
Of course a lot of my love for this episode comes from the fact that it wasn't last week's episode.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:31 (nine years ago) Permalink
yah this one tailed off a little near the end with the thanksgiving sketch and some other crap but it was a pretty funny episode overall, the return of "what up with that?" almost killed me. the china/obama thing was one of the better recent cold opens (which are usually pretty awful, they should maybe try something other than lame political humor here for a change?) but it went on way too long.
― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:44 (nine years ago) Permalink
I loved the Wilson Phillips/En Vogue part of the thanksgiving sketch.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:48 (nine years ago) Permalink
I'd be fine with them making fun of Obama. But sorry, dumbass misrepresentations of policy debates you don't understand isn't funny. Neither is Fred Armisen.
― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:51 (nine years ago) Permalink
Neither is Fred Armisen.
Agreed; that guy is especially horrible.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:53 (nine years ago) Permalink
i mostly just liked the "making sex with me" punchlines.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:54 (nine years ago) Permalink
Armisen was funnier when he was under the radar. Ferricito 4EVA
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:56 (nine years ago) Permalink
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Sunday, November 22, 2009 6:48 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
y'know I was thinking during the sketch that they've done probably a dozen different variations on that kind of 'tense family dinner' sketch with a dozen different casts over the years but they're pretty much always really funny to me, then they broke out a wacky singing routine which feels like a much more recent vintage SNL cliche and it kinda ruined it for me.
― turkey turkey turkey let's all get basted (some dude), Monday, 23 November 2009 00:11 (nine years ago) Permalink
also ugh @ the announcement that Blake Lively is hosting soon, which should be at least Megan Fox bad, if not January Jones bad. lots of funny women exist in show business, why can't any of them host SNL? or even be cast members, Wiig aside? I'm really quickly starting to hate Jenny Slate.
― turkey turkey turkey let's all get basted (some dude), Monday, 23 November 2009 00:15 (nine years ago) Permalink
Jenny and Nasim are both duds (on SNL anyway). Still not really into Abby Elliott either.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 23 November 2009 00:37 (nine years ago) Permalink
Abby did a fantastic Sarah McLachlan a few weeks ago though, plus she is super cuet.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 23 November 2009 00:54 (nine years ago) Permalink
Who was the translator in the opening sketch? She was awesome.
― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Monday, 23 November 2009 00:59 (nine years ago) Permalink
That was Nasim.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Monday, 23 November 2009 01:03 (nine years ago) Permalink
I do miss Casey Wilson, thought she had more potential than Elliott tbh.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 23 November 2009 01:07 (nine years ago) Permalink
(is it just me or is there something very samey about their overall "looks")
― lift this towel, its just a nipple (HI DERE), Monday, 23 November 2009 01:07 (nine years ago) Permalink
it must be tough for Michaela who had a bit of traction and who had a recurring role as Hoda Kotb to see one of the other new girls take that role so effortlessly. Not that it was a bravura performance or anything, playing the straight man for Kristen' s Kathie Lee...
― dan selzer, Monday, 23 November 2009 01:30 (nine years ago) Permalink
it was flat and awkward
― and then makes him speak only by rapping (he hates rap) (jeff), Monday, 23 November 2009 02:26 (nine years ago) Permalink
al gore was good in what up with that
― max, Monday, 23 November 2009 02:31 (nine years ago) Permalink
I have a difficult time telling them apart.
― ô_o (Nicole), Monday, 23 November 2009 03:07 (nine years ago) Permalink
yeah for half the Obama sketch I was trying to figure out if the translator was Jenny or Nasim (and when she was funny I figured out it was the latter)
Al Gore's Update bit was pretty next level imo
― turkey turkey turkey let's all get basted (some dude), Monday, 23 November 2009 03:18 (nine years ago) Permalink
i love "what up with that?"
― will.i.ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 23 November 2009 19:03 (nine years ago) Permalink
it's pretty much a mess but it's a mess that i love
― will.i.ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 23 November 2009 19:04 (nine years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I was losing my shit at "What Up With That?"
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Monday, 23 November 2009 19:06 (nine years ago) Permalink
i was realizing the other day that what up with that and jean k jean are my two most looked-forward to repeated sketches
― max, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:09 (nine years ago) Permalink
take that, kenan-haters
― max, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:10 (nine years ago) Permalink
jean k jean is the best
― will.i.ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 23 November 2009 19:12 (nine years ago) Permalink
joseph gordon-leavitt is almost as much of an annoying ham as justin timberlake
kinda tired of "bill hader as host of a show" sketches but wiig kinda killed this "secret word" sketch
― will.i.ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 23 November 2009 19:20 (nine years ago) Permalink
haha shit this is the best digital short in forever
― will.i.ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 23 November 2009 19:24 (nine years ago) Permalink
to be honest i'm pretty tired of "wacky game show" as an SNL trope in general, it's right up there with "uncomfortable dinner party with one normal couple and one CRAZY couple" and "fake talk show" as played-out sketch boilerplates
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 23 November 2009 19:25 (nine years ago) Permalink
this show is at the point where if someone was like "andy samberg is gonna write a show about fucking a black, male reba mcentire" i would be like "alright sure why not" & the sketch ended up being amazing - one of the first time samberg ever exceeded my expectations
― will.i.ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 23 November 2009 19:26 (nine years ago) Permalink
yo this episode is good! jack johnson sketch is kind of low hanging fruit but i'm diggin it
― will.i.ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 23 November 2009 19:27 (nine years ago) Permalink
andy samberg is gonna write a song* obv
― will.i.ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 23 November 2009 19:28 (nine years ago) Permalink
is this jeremy piven as ozzy??
― will.i.ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 23 November 2009 19:29 (nine years ago) Permalink
if you're not joking, that's DM of DMB fame
― e honda v. (m bison), Monday, 23 November 2009 19:30 (nine years ago) Permalink
loll ok - i honestly couldn't recognize it who was, even tho the face looked vaguely familiar - good sketch
― will.i.ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 23 November 2009 19:31 (nine years ago) Permalink