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 (fourteen years ago) link
what % of the SNL audience has heard of Grace Kelly?
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.gracekellymusic.com/
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
preexisting knowledge of grace kelly is not necessary for getting a fart joke
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
"getting"
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
exactly
let me add that this skit was 5 minutes long
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
Ditto.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
(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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
but yeah, it would be a bit of a slog wouldn't it
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 16 November 2009 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
it's not like they can't go back later
― da croupier, Monday, 16 November 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
I love Jenny Slate but she seems out of her element on SNL.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Monday, 16 November 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm just gonna post youtubes of musical guests from season 6
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 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe you need to have a talk w/your mom.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Monday, 16 November 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I only just learned last week that Abby Elliot is Chris Elliot's daughter.
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Monday, 16 November 2009 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
x-post
― Cunga, Monday, 16 November 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
Aren't you like 30? Wouldn't your mom be married in 1980?
― um, dude? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
uh, fart jokes are always good
― um, dude? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
um, fart?
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link
heh heh
― um, dude? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
^^this
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
(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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
I, for one, completely endorse an episode of SNL hosted by fart sounds Larry King
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Monday, 16 November 2009 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link