Saturday Night Live

JT & Gaga could totally slot into regular cast

Weird pregnant suit: check
Giving birth to glitter goop: check

She did don a weird pregnant suit, and then they put her in stirrups, but then they completely punted on having her give birth despite a conveniently-placed pull tab on the front of her outfit. I felt robbed.

oh wait was she supposed to be birthing GLITTER

what am I saying, of course she was

lol forever

Yeah, I was really expecting them to pull that ring on the front of belly.
I also felt a little robbed.

I was convinced there was a puppy in there

Thought this would've been a decent midseason episode; as the season finale, it felt a little short on fireworks.

Would have been awesome had they pulled the tab and JT popped out.

If they'd have pulled the What Up With That? and the live-action Ambigously Gay Duo from last week's episode and slotted them in the best of this weekend's, you'd have had the perfect season finale.

Yeah, but then no one would've tuned in because last weeks was so bad.

True, but, y'know, sacrifice.

Bill Hader is the official "cast member who breaks" now, right? (I get why, esp. in the Stefon sketch, but still)

For some reason it's funny when Hader does it but was always lazy when Fallon did it. (Hader obvs funnier, but still.)

God, remember the "Leathuhh" sketch w/ Fallon/Sanz? Did they ever NOT break? Like, even once?

Watching the rerun; I had no idea Jessie J sang like that! Too bad her songs are horrible because wau

You mean the second song, right? I was pretty impressed iirc

this was def my favorite sketch of the season http://www.hulu.com/watch/206141/saturday-night-live-worst-of-soul-train

yeah that was pretty great

what's the time frame on when cast changes happen? interested to see what happens this year, i feel like it was a really successful year for them in terms of buzz but i wouldn't be surprised to see sudeikis or wiig or even hader leave. also not sure the supporting cast was that strong this year but i think it's stupid when they dump ppl after a year

last couple seasons the big news about who's leaving/getting fired hasn't come out until late august/early september, seems like they wait til rehearsals are starting for the season premiere to finalize or announce those kinds of decisions.

i would be pretty bummed if sudeikis or hader or wiig left -- so sick of armisen but i guess they're going to keep his shitty obama on for at least 2 more seasons, and god willing hire a black man who can do a decent obama if the guy gets a 2nd term

fun fact: fred armisen is now the voice of speedy gonzalez. there really is no ethnicity that guy isn't that he won't play!

seems like armisen is on the darrell hammond track of hanging around for five years too long just so he can do two characters an episode

You've gotta admit, Armisen's David Patterson had layers. Layers like, "Did you know that blind people can't see?" and...yeah, that's pretty much it.

i don't really think armisen is terrible as obama, i just think the writing for those sketches has been really poor

the same episode w/ the soul train sketch had a cold open w/ armisen as bloomberg addressing nyc after the epic snowstorms & it was really, really hilarious

lol tarfumes

his david patterson IS hilarious

i just don't think this writing staff has ever found a way to write funnily for obama -- sudeikis' biden has always been hilarious, but it's not even a 'good' impression really, he's just an easier person to write jokes about

no, he's totally a lame obama. like, if you watch will ferrell's early bush impressions from fall 2000, he didn't quite have it down yet and was just kind of riffing on a vague idea of the guy that got more focused later on -- armisen is still like that after playing obama for 4 years

there HAVE been funnily written obama sketches where the weaknesses of the impression aren't an issue -- particularly the 'obama plays it cool' sketch -- but mostly it's the acting even if political/current event cold openings have been otherwise weak in recent years too

He still plays it so straight, which draws attention to the fact that it's a bad impression. If he'd put a little character on the president, he could get away with being a white guy who simply ends his sentences on an accented syllable every time.

The sketch where he was chainsmoking on stage, saying "Instead of Obamacare, you all need to start calling it 'Guy-who-killed-Bin-Laden Care'..." was about the closest I've laughed at Armisen's Obama, but I still think The Rock owns the record for Best Impression of 44.

yeah i mean i wouldn't mind seeing some new blood there, but i think it's an overall problem xp

a year or two ago i was as adamant about a new update anchor as a new obama, but seth meyers has weirdly kind of grown on me i think?

he's a p consistent good-joke teller imo, saw some tina fey/fallon reruns and it could be kinda dire

plus he's a good foil for stefon

i think seth is great on update

yeah his interactions w/ update guests are great

there HAVE been funnily written obama sketches where the weaknesses of the impression aren't an issue -- particularly the 'obama plays it cool' sketch -- but mostly it's the acting even if political/current event cold openings have been otherwise weak in recent years too

I think the problem is that the Obama character, as Armisen plays him, is essentially a straight man -- making him the focus of the sketch fundamentally won't ever cut it. My favorite Obama sketches have been when Maya Rudolph comes back as Michelle.

yeah -- or like nasim pedrad's chinese translater screaming "DOING SEX TO ME" was a good example of obama as straight man

so consensus has been reached that solo armisen obama = not funny, obama with silly shit around him (biden, chinese lady, the rock) = ok

not the whole truth but a facet of it, yeah

*gavel*

obama and stefon could maybe be a good comedy team

am i crazy for thinking that a stefon movie would be good

feel like the character is at a good point b/w being developed & underdeveloped that might lend itself well to being expanded into movie format

a hundred times more than the macgruber movie at least

DC's hottest new club is K Street's FNKK. It's got everything: Chandra Levy dancers, a dwarf dressed as a flat tax proposal, gary hart selling pubic wigs in the men's room...

xxp

sry 2 custos

haha

feel like stefon bits have to be the most fun to write for

stefon works behind the desk in front of an audience doing that particular schtick over and over -- can't see it retaining that in any context

i didn't love the macgruber movie but there was a certain kind of sense about them totally bucking the sketch formula w/ that movie

loved macgruber with the force of 1000 gales