or whatever that sketch was (Def Surgery Jam?)
― ksh ksh ksh ksh it ksh it (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 22 October 2010 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
No no wait here it is: http://www.hulu.com/watch/2320/saturday-night-live-russell-simmons-def-magic-show
Wow that was, like, 10x funner when I was 13.
― ksh ksh ksh ksh it ksh it (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 22 October 2010 04:15 (thirteen years ago) link
P.S. I stubmled across this and it happened to be one of the sketches da croupier v unfortunately had to tolerate to get to his beloved REM performances:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COIEj2v-nik
What the fuck is that shit?
― ksh ksh ksh ksh it ksh it (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 22 October 2010 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I really hope they found a bunch of old munchkin outfits in a prop closet, and didn't actually have the crew sit around making an elaborate set with costumes so they could tell Janeane Garofalo to get lost for 3 minutes.
― da croupier, Friday, 22 October 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
And based on the oral history, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the sole intent of the sketch
― da croupier, Friday, 22 October 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Ellen Cleghorne was so great, wasn't she?
The fact that Jay Mohr hated her now only makes her more awesome in my eyes.
― romoing my damn eyes (Nicole), Friday, 22 October 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
thought this was the best ep since taylor swift last season tho i was kinda stoned so ymmv
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 24 October 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I think Nasim Pedrad is starting to become one of my favorite of the new(er) players. It's a shame Fred Armisen isn't dating her, or else she'd have been promoted to full cast status ahead of Abby Elliott.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 24 October 2010 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
being chris elliott's daughter might've helped too, just sayin'
― jeff, Sunday, 24 October 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
was on (mute) in a bar last night, i see they did a Rent Is Too Damn High guy for what seemed like 20 minutes
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 24 October 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
one of the best bits!
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Sunday, 24 October 2010 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
the whole 2nd-gen nepotism angle would make more sense if Chris Elliott had been on the show for more than a year. I dunno if the hypothetical children of Tim Kazurinsky have a foot in the door, ya know? I'm sure it didn't hurt, but being attractive and up for impressions probably helped more.
― da croupier, Sunday, 24 October 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
if you think elliott and kazurinsky are comparable then there is nothing more that i can say to you
― jeff, Sunday, 24 October 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
uh if anything Kazurinsky did more during his SNL stint than Elliott did in his!
also, as far as the abby vs. nasim thing goes, abby's been on longer, don't think people leapfrog their way into the cast (and I think Nasim, who's also attractive and both does impressions and solid character work, is a lock to join soon enough).
― da croupier, Sunday, 24 October 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
super attractive plus longer time on the show
― balls, Sunday, 24 October 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
what's the longest someone spent in featured perf purgatory and wasn't just someone who had a spot on update like a. whitney brown or don novello? and kazurinsky did more than elliot the elder during his snl stint.
― balls, Sunday, 24 October 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
it is possible that chris elliott, as the son of bob elliott and former writer for david letterman, has quite a few connections and a much better reputation in the comedy world than kazurinsky does. not saying that's the only reason that abby is on the show, but to downplay it is kinda ridic.
― jeff, Sunday, 24 October 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
ben stiller never made it past featured performer and his parents have way more connections than chris elliot.
― balls, Sunday, 24 October 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
If Lorne Michaels was worried about displeasing Chris Elliott I think his season on SNL would have been very different
― da croupier, Sunday, 24 October 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Dennis Miller makes some joke on the Ben Stiller Show about how Stiller split SNL "after he learned there was no 'I' in team"
― da croupier, Sunday, 24 October 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
you're right. fred armisen's dick is the key player here.
― jeff, Sunday, 24 October 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I just learned Armisen used to be married to Sally Timms today!
― da croupier, Sunday, 24 October 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
stiller split snl (and took odenkirk w/ him) after learning lorne michaels wouldn't let him do a sketch making fun of bono. TRUTH. the story of stiller coming back to host around 9/11 are so bad you wonder how they haven't done damage to his career.
― balls, Sunday, 24 October 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I dunno how you go from five years with a Mekon to a month with a scientologist but hey!
xpost lol wow never heard the bono story!
― da croupier, Sunday, 24 October 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
ha i knew you'd bite! i wish it was 'we dare not offend bono' but it was actually lorne michaels thinking bono was way too obscure (this is post joshua tree and rattle and hum).
― balls, Sunday, 24 October 2010 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I actually remember seeing Stiller parody Bono on that MTV show he had right before the Fox one
― da croupier, Sunday, 24 October 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIUPgqnc0Zc
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 24 October 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2X8zPYhNag&feature=related
Just because proto-Stiller LOLs >>>> the mostly MOR shit he does these days.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 24 October 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
the MTV sketch involved him and his co-host running around a city block dressed like Bono and the Edge doing some kind of "Streets Have No Name" parody, but I can't find evidence of it on youtube
― da croupier, Sunday, 24 October 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I remember that! I remember them playing to, like, five spectators, and when the cops come Stiller/Bono is all "they're trying to shut us down! but the police just want them to turn down a little or something.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 24 October 2010 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm amazed Lorne had enough on the ball to sign up the Kids in the Hall.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 October 2010 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Love the weird french sketch, first time I've really noticed Taran Killam.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 25 October 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
It kind of seems like they are flailing, but the experiments worked really well last night - i.e. the French skit and "Sex" Ed the sex educator. The cold open political sketch was awful awful and Wiig just needs to quit now. Sick of every "new" character being a minor variation of all her other ones, like that Home Makeover lady last night.
<3 <3 <3 Emma Stone tho
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 25 October 2010 03:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry I am becoming Mr. Excuse Me But I Have Met Paul Brittain on a Handful of Occasions Since We Have a Mutual Friend, but "Sex" Ed Vincent is actually a character Paul Brittain created at iO in Chicago; it even became a weekly show for a while, with questions from the audience, etc. (never actually saw it myself).
― jaymc, Monday, 25 October 2010 04:42 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man, kenan killed it as 'the rent is too damn high' dude
― J0rdan S., Monday, 25 October 2010 06:43 (thirteen years ago) link
hardest i've laughed at this show all season by far
― J0rdan S., Monday, 25 October 2010 06:44 (thirteen years ago) link
He was born to play that guy.
― macaroni rascal (polyphonic), Monday, 25 October 2010 06:45 (thirteen years ago) link
john mulaney looks really tired :(
― J0rdan S., Monday, 25 October 2010 06:51 (thirteen years ago) link
oh hey, stefon!
― J0rdan S., Monday, 25 October 2010 06:54 (thirteen years ago) link
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, October 24, 2010 8:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
uh you realize that Lorne basically gave KITH their TV show and made it possible, right? and that Bruce and Mark were hired as writers for SNL for a while even before that? obv their show was totally different from the SNL factory system but LM probably deserves some credit for allowing that to happen (even if when Mark did join the cast he was wasted and had to recycle his most predictable running KITH character, Chicken Lady).
― some dude, Monday, 25 October 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i said this last time but John Mulaney just should not be on camera -- he's obviously a good comedy writer but he just doesn't have much presence and it's almost like they let him just randomly quip about Mad Men during Weekend Update because he misses being on Best Week Ever or something
― some dude, Monday, 25 October 2010 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
"Sex" Ed was incredible imo.
― some dude, Monday, 25 October 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'm not sure if my post was clear, but I loved "Sex" Ed. Its weird, my wife's favorite part of the entire episode was John Mulaney and she wants to see more of him.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 25 October 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
thread is making me nostalgic for Ben Stiller show. Anyone watched the DVDs recently? Do they hold up?
Pretty phenomenal that 4 out of the 4 cast members went on to be pretty enormous comedy players.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 25 October 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i was agreeing with you. missed the first 20 minutes or so and i'm glad to hear i missed another bad political cold open. Wiig really has done all she can do at this point -- I think the only thing keeping her there is that being the alpha dog at SNL is probably going to be the peak of her career, I can't see her being more than a supporting player in any halfway decent movie or series.
xpost -- I bought the Ben Stiller Show DVD when it came out a few years ago, and some of it has definitely aged really awkwardly, but some of it is still pretty funny.
― some dude, Monday, 25 October 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
some dude OTM re Stiller DVDs, more of it held up than I expected.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 25 October 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought the Wiig sketch worked really well, mostly because of Emma Stone's implacable deadpan and the muttered asides Wiig made in reaction to it.
― O'Donnell and the Brain (HI DERE), Monday, 25 October 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, Emma Stone's "I was watching Two and a Half Men inside, still thinking about it" line was classic, but Wiig's over-excited little arm-raise thing is so annoying at this point.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 25 October 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
it's almost like they let him just randomly quip about Mad Men during Weekend Update because he misses being on Best Week Ever or something
So that's where I know him from -- I knew I had seen him on something else before but couldn't remember where.
― romoing my damn eyes (Nicole), Monday, 25 October 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
When Wiig started bouncing the red balloon in front of Stone's face, that's when it went from "eh, OK" to "losing-my-shit funny." Also the montage of previous winners.
― Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Monday, 25 October 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link