Saturday Night Live

two weeks in a row that the funniest thing in the show has been a food network impersonation

no clue who he is imitating so not really funny at all

worst sounding sushi roll at guy fieri's southern bbq & california style sushi restaurant tex wasabi's

I love Sudekis.

Doughnuts + KY Jelly + cigarettes + horse tranquilizer = the "Amy Winehouse"

aris spears probably just threw his coffee table through his tv

lol

tbf, he could've gone there on Mad TV.

Enjoying this episode more than any of the other ones I've seen recently, but that might just be Anne Hathaway.

I just learned that Fred Armisen could be cast in the Rick Moranis roll for Ghostbusters III in a pinch.

Mega-Mart commercial goes viral in 3...2...

hillbilly and cholo fuel

I've never seen Florence perform live before, so I don't know if she's fallen prey to SNL's notoriously bad soundsystem (monitors anyone?) or if she just has no control over her voice at all...but this is DIRE.

I can't stand her music so I'm not a good judge. It always sounds shit to me.

fake kids movie soundtrack as a lame excuse for people to throw out brief musician impressions again.

People who SHOULD host Saturday Night Live that probably never will:

J.K. Simmons
Reggie Watts
Donald Glover & Danny Pudi
Martha Plimpton
Andrew W.K.
The cast of iCarly

i'd rather see joel mchale host before anyone else from community

would watch Joel McHale / Reggie Watts episode

I'd guess both Glover and McHale as possible future hosts, especially Glover

I've never seen Florence perform live before, so I don't know if she's fallen prey to SNL's notoriously bad soundsystem (monitors anyone?) or if she just has no control over her voice at all...but this is DIRE.
--Johnny Fever

Production sounded as bad as ever for SNL, but her voice is just not up to par with the album. Seen her perform four or five times and it is always a disappointment. Love that record though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-PkQRh3QXA&feature=player_embedded

horsey tell me how you do that trick, the one where you play baseball

Yeah, Robert Smith made me lol, also Armisen's Randy Newman and Wiig's Dolores:
"Don't eat the field... Hor...say...Hor...say....ay....ay..."

omg

why did I fall asleep before that

Rachel Maddow is Abby Elliott's first recurring character?

>>on the last two shows, there were NO real "everyone stare at crazy kristin wiig" sketch

Yeah, in the past two episodes I felt the loud/crazy/quirky characters were split more evenly between Wiig and Bayer instead of Wiig all the time.

I would actually like to defend the last Penelope sketch, the fact that they added some props this time ("Universe's Greatest-est Chef So..." and the giant vat/ladle) for once at least felt like they were willing to add SOMETHING to the formula so that it's not the exact same sketch every time.

Yeah, the apron was lol.

Hate to say it, but Paul B. on stage tonight seemed a little awkward. I guess b/c the team probably hasn't rehearsed in a while. But it's never a good sign at an improv show when you can see the wheels spinning.

Liked Anne Hathaway's frustrated mockery of Penelope. Plus, every P. sketch has at least one stupid one-up line that makes me laugh. This week it was, "If I clap twice, all the dogs in the world get an extra weiner..."

Can we take a moment to discuss some of the times in history where SNL did weird meta/self-referential/otherwise highly uncharacteristic stuff? Like not just "oh lol here I am walking through the corridors, here's the office!" but like Charles Grodin bumbling his way through sketches.

I mean Louise Lasser's opening monologue was pretty WTF but only if you don't know who Mary Hartman is I guess.

Was also reading something about an episode from the Anthony Michael Hall season with Francis Ford Coppola fucking everything up (but I have no idea how I would find it to watch)

This is also maybe not so meta but seems pretty awesomely WTF for SNL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqVgjvTbh3k

Was also reading something about an episode from the Anthony Michael Hall season with Francis Ford Coppola fucking everything up (but I have no idea how I would find it to watch)

It was the last show of the season. In one skit, they were doing an Apocalypse Now spoof except Coppola was using real bullets.

is tonight's new? it's pretty good so far...

yes

oh wait, no it's definitely not

too bad

definitely something better about watching stuff live

i sent a bottle of sparkling apple juice to your house...

Snl marathon on vh1 today

Home invasion/app sketch was great. What the hell was that gum class one?

Oh Kanye, never change.

*gym

HOLY SHIT there is like every episode of every season on Netflix streaming, including that weird run from the early 80's that no one seems to care about.

rly? I'd been toying with getting Netflix again, but that might be the clincher.

btw -- it looks like they have every episode up streaming, but they actually don't

it's just like the first four or five seasons and the last few

aw, meh. I've seen those 70s seasons so much I don't even think they're really funny anymore. And I don't care about the last few.

Can we take a moment to discuss some of the times in history where SNL did weird meta/self-referential/otherwise highly uncharacteristic stuff?

The episode Garry Shandling hosted from like 87 has him "breaking character" in 2 sketches - he turns to the camera and starts talking about the sketch he's currently in. You can see one of those at the end of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw8f_vxfPBc

btw -- it looks like they have every episode up streaming, but they actually don't

― J0rdan S., Sunday, November 28, 2010 1:11 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

Problem is, they didn't get music clearances. So not only are there no musical guests, but the Stevie Wonder-hosted episode, for instance, is a scant 24 minutes. The no-clearances thing also means stuff like the sequence where Buckwheat has been shot isn't available, presumably because they didn't get the rights to the "Nightline" theme (which crops up about 50 times in that sketch).

interesting, i didn't realize Stevie Wonder actually hosted an episode -- always assumed the couple famous sketches he was in that they use in clip shows were from when he was a musical guest.

OK, this wikileaks/TMZ thing is the best cold open in ages