― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 22:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
I hate Jimmy Fallon.
― Aaron A,, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 23:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen, Thursday, 10 October 2002 01:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Thursday, 10 October 2002 01:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― simon trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 10 October 2002 04:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― boxcubed (boxcubed), Thursday, 10 October 2002 05:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 11:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
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 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
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 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 14:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
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 (twenty years ago) link
― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 13:48 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
make talk about the old snl. converse about the dim bulb sketch.
― foolhardy, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 01:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Community Cornerstone (deangulberry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 03:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― teen challenge (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 03:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― teen challenge (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 03:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allyzay is not appropriate for freedom (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Monday, 17 October 2005 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link
(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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe shame bc she's totally annoying?
― tehresa, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:33 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, that
― and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
bret michaels sketch was awesome. the girls on snl roxxor.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 07:54 (sixteen years ago) link
so's maya rudolph gone?
― circles, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:12 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
new girl is not funny
― remy bean, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:19 (sixteen years ago) link
two of these are new to me, i know dratch and wiig basically.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:30 (sixteen years ago) link
goddamnit darrell hammond is going to outlive us all
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I just watched this sketch on YouTube and its really striking how Wiig and Hader are just playing in a different league than these four absolutely interchangeable new people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cdBcfLhJVY
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 18:18 (one month ago) link
that’s will forte lol
― Clay, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 18:36 (one month ago) link
No, it's Hader impersonating Forte
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 18:38 (one month ago) link
Two of those new people joined in 2019, another in 2018, and another still in 2017.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 18:39 (one month ago) link
Anyone who joined after Bobby Moynihan is a newbie to me
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 18:40 (one month ago) link
*Forte
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 18:41 (one month ago) link
I thought Andrew Dismukes was really good in this sketch (I think he co-wrote it as well?) - all of the new cast members in the above sketch have had at least couple of moments this season when they've really shone imo. And even in the Wiig/Hader/Forte era there were always journeymen cast members alongside the superstars
― soref, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 18:42 (one month ago) link
Everything in the Mikey Day era is just a blur + Sarah Sherman
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 18:44 (one month ago) link
Tbf though, Forte and Wiig both have seasoned acting chops and really are on another level than most SNL players.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 18:44 (one month ago) link
When I was went to college there was a sketch comedy group that did shows every Friday with about 200 people in the audience. A few semi-successful comics (like Graham Elwood) came out of there. Kristen Wiig was a student at the same time as me, but I'm pretty sure she was never part of the group. I've always wondered if she ever auditioned though.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 18:51 (one month ago) link
I really don't know what the right ratio is between "All TV writing/humor is simply bad now because of social media and/or nepo babies" vs. "Kate McKinnon Hillary Leonard Cohen bit was actual neolib jump the shark moment" vs. "I'm just getting old" vs. "SNL has always sucked" is the correct one, but this show seems kind of especially bad
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 18:51 (one month ago) link
Relatively great episode and def helped by the star power. Esp Will Forte. Army episode was decent as well.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 22:54 (one month ago) link
I don’t generally enjoy SNL when I see it, but what I saw of this weekend’s episode was very funny. Has it been like this recently? Should I go back and watch some recent eps? (The last one I saw was Josh Brolin, and didn’t think that was so hot…).
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Monday, 15 April 2024 06:15 (one month ago) link
Yes. The Ramy and Kristin Wiig episodes were bother better than average and probably better than the Ryan gosling one, which was also decent. Maybe they’re in a good streak. Relatively speaking.
― dan selzer, Monday, 15 April 2024 11:10 (one month ago) link
Agree. The Ayo Edibiri episode was good earlier this season too. By SNL standards I think they’ve got a pretty good average this year
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 15 April 2024 14:16 (one month ago) link
Cool, I’ll circle back!
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Monday, 15 April 2024 14:37 (one month ago) link
Sometimes I think the host has a lot to do with the vibe and quality, and sometimes it probably doesn't. Gosling is game but he breaks too much for sure and was causing everybody to break. Sometimes that's fun, sometimes it's annoying. Even Heidi Gardner breaking during the beavis and butthead skit was a surprise, she's usually a pro. Feel like maybe she hadn't seen the full make-up yet and turning around and seeing Mikey Day like that did it.
Brolin is also game but almost too much, too eager and too reliant on the cue cards. That episode wasn't so good. Ramy and Wiig were great, and as mentioned, with all the guest spots and the joy of having her back, I imagine everybody brought their a-game for her episode.
Especially Will Forte who is an all-time genius underrated during his run and since.
― dan selzer, Monday, 15 April 2024 15:27 (one month ago) link
I feel like contemporary SNL peaked with the potato chip sketch.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 April 2024 15:39 (one month ago) link
the beavis and butthead sketch was so goddamned funny, made more so by Garner breaking. It takes some kind of balls to make a sketch about B&B 30 years after their heyday.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 15 April 2024 15:48 (one month ago) link
Yeah, I was just gonna say (xpost) that the laughter during the Beavis & Butt-head sketch was great - honestly it was half the fun of it. (The extras sitting in "studio audience" were extreme pros for keeping straight faces throughout...)
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Monday, 15 April 2024 15:49 (one month ago) link
Also, part of what I loved about it was (as you say) the "randomness" of the concept – why B&B? I like that they weren't going for some "larger point" or whatever... also, they knew when to end the sketch. (The cold open was also great, for similar reasons – though a lot of that was also just Kate McKinnon doing her thing, and Gosling not keeping it together.)
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Monday, 15 April 2024 15:52 (one month ago) link
But the cast breaking ... that's always funny, but it's not necessarily because the *skits* are funny.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 April 2024 16:02 (one month ago) link
My wife loves the current Weekend Update guys; I think she watches just that segment on YouTube every week.
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Monday, 15 April 2024 16:06 (one month ago) link
the caitlin clark appearance this week was good.
probably said above but my favorite WU stuff with Che and Jost is when they write jokes for each other, don't see it before the show, and Jost is forced to say incredibly offensive stuff
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 15 April 2024 17:13 (one month ago) link
I've rewatched it, and seeing everyone break is funny, but I think my favourite part is still the little squint Kenan's character does near the start when he first notices Ryan Gosling
― soref, Monday, 15 April 2024 22:13 (one month ago) link
Watching the Kristen Wiig ep. now… dang, these opening monologues are star-studded.
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 04:50 (one month ago) link
Beavis and Butthead sketch was hilarious, I haven't laughed that hard at SNL since BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BASKETBALL
― frogbs, Friday, 19 April 2024 18:23 (one month ago) link
"oh come on, you sat em next to each other?"
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 April 2024 18:32 (one month ago) link
"I'm just interested in A.I."
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Friday, 19 April 2024 18:34 (one month ago) link
also I'm impressed they just let the concept of the sketch sit instead of playing everything to death, it's not like them to do that, dare I say the current crop of SNL writers are good at comedy
― frogbs, Friday, 19 April 2024 18:38 (one month ago) link
Exactly - it has almost an "alt comedy" vibe that I don't associate w/SNL... take a silly/random idea, and do it justice without overplaying it. A few of the sketches in the Kristen Wiig episode were like this as well (though I didn't think they were as funny).
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Friday, 19 April 2024 18:52 (one month ago) link
(The "Jumanji" sketch from that ep. resonated for us, because we have that Ticket to Ride game sitting on our shelf; we played it once...)
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Friday, 19 April 2024 18:54 (one month ago) link
The first Lisa from Temecula sketch was another one where I was like, wow, they're going to actually let the funny just be funny here and not step on their own toes
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 19 April 2024 19:05 (one month ago) link
A. Whitney Brown on the new WTF
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 May 2024 17:37 (two weeks ago) link
...and it's really good. Brown's a terrific storyteller, and Maron generally stays out of his way.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 May 2024 21:22 (two weeks ago) link
Joke Swap!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPH0HgotIE4
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 May 2024 19:07 (one week ago) link
Che looked genuinely nervous about that Kendrick joke
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Monday, 20 May 2024 19:17 (one week ago) link
Audience doesn't even know what the space laser shit is
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 May 2024 19:37 (one week ago) link
most of that jewish stuff did not land at all.
generally pretty bad episode esp compared to the last few.
kendrick bit was funny though.
― dan selzer, Monday, 20 May 2024 19:47 (one week ago) link
Bringing in a rabbi to do anti-semitic jokes in her presence is... not that funny?
I find Che and Jost to be so unpleasant 90% of the time. I would really like to see them both gone next season.
This episode was not that funny overall, but I appreciate that Jake Gyllenhall committed to every bit.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 20 May 2024 20:50 (one week ago) link