Saturday Night Live

If Lorne Michaels had gotten his way, Jennifer Aniston would have spent the nineties on a very different long-running NBC comedy. Aniston and her Just Go With It co-star Adam Sandler appeared on Oprah yesterday, and Sandler revealed that he had pushed a pre-fame Aniston to join the cast of Saturday Night Live, and even got her a meeting with Michaels. "I had this show Friends coming up," Aniston said, explaining her decision to reject the SNL offer. "They thought I was making a huge mistake." Hopefully Michaels didn't hold a grudge, though Aniston was the fifth Friends cast member eventually asked to host the show. (Yup, they even went to David Schwimmer first.)

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The expression on his face as he says "What did you say?"

Did Sudeikis ever have a character other than overconfident dude? Kinda annoying me these days.

Lovitz!

woulda rather seen lovitz host than carvey tbh

Hader's Alan Alda!

woulda rather seen lovitz host than carvey tbh

Yeah, pretty much agree with this.

Moment of stark terror when I thought the second Linkin Park song was gonna be a cover of "The Word" by the Junkyard Band.

was this funny? I dv-red it. although carvey was far from my favorite snl cast member, I personally really like and respect him so I hope it went well.

When I heard that Carvey was hosting, I groaned -- I liked him on SNL when I was a kid, but whenever I've seen him on talk shows since, he comes across as unattractively desperate to please. But I actually thought it was a pretty good episode.

The Dana Carvey Show was amazing.

otmfm

I feel pathetic for genuinely liking the new wave song at the sports bar.

"LIPSTICK?!"

Best SNL episode in ages, IMO. Loved the synth pop act the sports bar.

I feel pathetic for genuinely liking the new wave song at the sports bar.

U R not alone.

was very bittersweet to hear the canned Phil Hartman intro to the Wayne's World sketch

I feel pathetic for genuinely liking the new wave song at the sports bar.

It was a pretty solid early Depeche homage, too bad the sketch around it was pretty flat.

between this and Portlandia i think Armisen is starting to show he's got a higher batting average than Samberg w/ comedic songs

I don't know who their music director is or how they came up with it, but a few years ago remember the episode where somebody's at an italian restaurant and taking acid and they look at their pasta and the meatballs are new wave dancing to some synth pop? It was Heaven 17's cover of Are Everything by the Buzzcocks. Who's idea was that and how can I get their job?

It was probably Armisen's idea.

the opening where armison is in a record store bothers me cuz he's looking through records and the jam divider card is next to the sex pistols divider card

if that store is filing "the" bands under "T" fuck them

It's Bleeker Bobs. They have everything mixed up by a loosely defined genre system. Like there's an industrial section and behind that is a Wax Trax section and behind that is a section called "Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV/Coil/Chris & Cosey" etc. He was probably in the UK punk section.

ah ok. i was thinking some SNL staffer moved the cards around so there would be two "cool" bands together

Btw, really disappointed that SNL is letting Chris Brown be the musical guest this weekend.

they never even made a single joke at his expense on update or anything, have they?

Not that I've seen, but I've missed a few episodes here and there since it happened.

Spelling note: It's Bleecker Bob's.

really disappointed that SNL is letting Chris Brown be the musical guest this weekend.

You do know they had Guiliani host, right? He's abused millions of people.

Oh come on. Fwiw, I wasn't happy to see him host either, but yer schtick is wearing a bit thin tbh.

I'm liking this so far. The British mobster movie spoof was pretty good.

loooooooooooooolllllllllllll @ whatshisface's Eminem impression

STEFON!

He was totally cracking up.

Bearing in mind Katy Perry is apparently best buds with Rihanna, did anyone pick up on Brand's weird gesture thing in the intro for the 2nd song? And at the very end he pulled a kind of groan face after thanking Chris Brown, followed by a mention of a cut finger and, looking right at Brown, said something about a little bit of blood..?

I noticed that hardly any cast members were mingling with Chris Brown and his band during the final credits -- they were all far off to the side.

Horrible episode.

yeah really bad...lets just get russell brand to yell in every sketch he is in. and wtf was that sketch about tea?

I liked the time machine/George Washington sketch, which was probably the one time Brand's yelling was used to great effect.

I thought Weekend Update was especially solid this week, and the "British Movie" digital short was also pretty funny.

British Movie would have been funnier if they hadn't overplayed it. Those movies are ripe for mockery without making the "I can't understand what they are saying" over and over again.

british movie was good, that was about it.

This was better than it could've been. I feel like the audience was kind of stingy with laughs.

only watched half of it so far but not bad! Miley's not doing too much. Fred's puerto rican(dominican?) stand-up routine killed me.

yeah Richie Inez was great.

lol

watched like half of this — taboo & apl.de.ap sketch got some good laffs outta me

miley cyrus as justin bieber was inspired casting

i thought miley looked kind of hot during the french sketch.