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 (sixteen years ago) link
bitch may be the new black, but black is the new president, bitch. lolololol
― jhøshea, Sunday, 16 March 2008 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/16/snls-antispitzer-bias-_n_91736.html
― jhøshea, Sunday, 16 March 2008 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
<3
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 16 March 2008 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
wahlberg was a funny idea, though
― Gukbe, Monday, 20 October 2008 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
wait a minute - television show features zeitgeisty, talked-about celebrity??????? stop the pressezzzzzzzzz
― and what, Monday, 20 October 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, just like SNL Bob Hope specials in 1975
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 20 October 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
'Cast (in alphabetical order)':
America Aretha FranklinBob HopeJohn WayneFlip Wilson
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 October 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
</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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
not Colin Powell!
― Like sicking a little bit of water into my mouth (HI DERE), Monday, 20 October 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
= PROFIT
― Like sicking a little bit of water into my mouth (HI DERE), Monday, 20 October 2008 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
I fell asleep before it even started.
― Pipe Wrench Fight (HI DERE), Monday, 20 October 2008 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought she and GOB didn't consummate the marriage?
― jaymc, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
the best was the appearance of tim calhoun, my favorite reoccurring character in recent history
― metametadata (n/a), Monday, 20 October 2008 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link
will forte is awesome
Also the Poehler "I'm No Angel" perfume ad was pretty A+
― nabisco, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
I never knew Swift did booking.
― nabisco, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
i just thought the moose was funny
― akm, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
you probably just watched it
― conrad, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
the show really is not funny now
― and what, Monday, 20 October 2008 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link