― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Community Cornerstone (deangulberry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 03:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― teen challenge (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 03:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― teen challenge (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 03:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link
The M'OD bio "Mr Mike" is worth a read. He bitched when the original cast started to do recurring characters, cuz he thought that was too much like Carol Burnett etc.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allyzay is not appropriate for freedom (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link
the writers' terror of offending anyone makes most of the sketches heavily dependent on unfunny gimmicks and repetition, much like conan o'brien's show these days.
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 26 May 2005 03:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― _, Monday, 17 October 2005 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link
(i ACTUALLY roffled the first time i saw this sketch)
-- joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 04:22 (2 years ago) Link
― and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:04 (sixteen years ago) link
was actually bumping thread to say i have a crush of shame on kristin wiig
why shame?
― remy bean, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:29 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe shame bc she's totally annoying?
― tehresa, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:33 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, that
― and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:37 (sixteen years ago) link
shes kinda horsey too
i dunno i used to get real madtv vibes & think she was really untalented but now i kinda think shes the funniest person on the show
she never tina fey
― tehresa, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:37 (sixteen years ago) link
the hot air balloon thing sealed it for me
she def. cracks me up with the penelope skits.
― remy bean, Sunday, 24 February 2008 07:11 (sixteen years ago) link
the hot air balloon was totally a rip-off of Tim and Eric style bad TV. Tonight wasn't so funny. Cold open was pretty weak and the game show too. Steve Martin and Tina were good in the intro. I also liked Tina's Hillary rant. What's the story on the new girl?
― dan selzer, Sunday, 24 February 2008 07:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i watched snl tonight for the first time in a while!! it was not that good but when is it ever. tina fey was only really good in the monologue.
the there will be blood thing cracked me up tho.
and ya what IS up with that new chick?> is she secretly fergie
― s1ocki, Sunday, 24 February 2008 07:36 (sixteen years ago) link
bret michaels sketch was awesome. the girls on snl roxxor.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 07:54 (sixteen years ago) link
so's maya rudolph gone?
― circles, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I couldn't remember seeing new girl in the earlier episodes this season and then noticed half way through the show that maya hadn't shown up at all.
― circles, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:18 (sixteen years ago) link
new girl is not funny
― remy bean, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:19 (sixteen years ago) link
two of these are new to me, i know dratch and wiig basically.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:30 (sixteen years ago) link
goddamnit darrell hammond is going to outlive us all
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I love Fred Armisen, and I understand that they're kind of in a pinch, but his Obama is horrible.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:32 (sixteen years ago) link
darrell fucking hammond.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:36 (sixteen years ago) link
he is responsible for like 25% of the suckage in any given year
fuck, i was just thinking that. he's been on for 13 years, hasn't he...
xp
― kingfish, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:37 (sixteen years ago) link
glad i misssed the obama thing. his gene simmons was way off at first but it got funny.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:37 (sixteen years ago) link
His fake Gene Simmons hair is sadly better than Gene Simmons's real Gene Simmons hair.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 24 February 2008 08:39 (sixteen years ago) link
-- tehresa, Saturday, February 23, 2008 10:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
kristen wig is beautiful and funny.
this week has been the week of gnar ilxor girls telling dudes which girls they should like.
― chaki, Sunday, 24 February 2008 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Mike Huckabee -- great timing!
― Dimension 5ive, Sunday, 24 February 2008 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link
xp: huckabee was pretty good. a shame about his beliefs and politics.
the fake ad was funny. the new girl did a hateful rachel ray, so she's ok with me. but overall should've been better with a couple months' vacation. i hear they're only doing eight more episodes for the season.
the hot air balloon was totally a rip-off of Tim and Eric style bad TV.
but kinda funny instead of not funny at all.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Sunday, 24 February 2008 13:03 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AUHHOVtNqo
― and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c3921788d9d5011789462b940066
just because...
― dan selzer, Sunday, 24 February 2008 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
hilarious to suggest that women need to vote for hrc because bitches need to stick together, and pretty funny too to imply that the mainstream media gives obama a free ride at her expense; if '30 rock' goes this way it will get boring very quickly, but i doubt it
― Dimension 5ive, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
-- and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 06:37 (9 hours ago) Link
truth. snl has always been the original american idol. there's often these moments when a new performer "breaks". wiig's moment was doing nancy pelosi, up until then she had been a waste of space, but the second she started doing pelosi's intensity eye stares she had the crowd eating out of the palm of her hand.
― sanskrit, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
saturdaynight dead
― burt_stanton, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
for me it was knocked up... mega lolz at her in that
― and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Tina Fey as Daisy on Rock of Love 2 was scary accurate! Actually all of them were scary accurate.
That pill commercial had me screaming with laughter! "Buy yourself a hat and hold the f*** out of it." haha
― HI DERE, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i laughed at the first bleep but nothing else in that
― and what, Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I feel like contemporary SNL peaked with the potato chip sketch.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 April 2024 15:39 (two months ago) link
the beavis and butthead sketch was so goddamned funny, made more so by Garner breaking. It takes some kind of balls to make a sketch about B&B 30 years after their heyday.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 15 April 2024 15:48 (two months ago) link
Yeah, I was just gonna say (xpost) that the laughter during the Beavis & Butt-head sketch was great - honestly it was half the fun of it. (The extras sitting in "studio audience" were extreme pros for keeping straight faces throughout...)
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Monday, 15 April 2024 15:49 (two months ago) link
Also, part of what I loved about it was (as you say) the "randomness" of the concept – why B&B? I like that they weren't going for some "larger point" or whatever... also, they knew when to end the sketch. (The cold open was also great, for similar reasons – though a lot of that was also just Kate McKinnon doing her thing, and Gosling not keeping it together.)
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Monday, 15 April 2024 15:52 (two months ago) link
But the cast breaking ... that's always funny, but it's not necessarily because the *skits* are funny.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 April 2024 16:02 (two months ago) link
My wife loves the current Weekend Update guys; I think she watches just that segment on YouTube every week.
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Monday, 15 April 2024 16:06 (two months ago) link
the caitlin clark appearance this week was good.
probably said above but my favorite WU stuff with Che and Jost is when they write jokes for each other, don't see it before the show, and Jost is forced to say incredibly offensive stuff
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 15 April 2024 17:13 (two months ago) link
I've rewatched it, and seeing everyone break is funny, but I think my favourite part is still the little squint Kenan's character does near the start when he first notices Ryan Gosling
― soref, Monday, 15 April 2024 22:13 (two months ago) link
Watching the Kristen Wiig ep. now… dang, these opening monologues are star-studded.
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 04:50 (two months ago) link
Beavis and Butthead sketch was hilarious, I haven't laughed that hard at SNL since BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BASKETBALL
― frogbs, Friday, 19 April 2024 18:23 (two months ago) link
"oh come on, you sat em next to each other?"
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 April 2024 18:32 (two months ago) link
"I'm just interested in A.I."
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Friday, 19 April 2024 18:34 (two months ago) link
also I'm impressed they just let the concept of the sketch sit instead of playing everything to death, it's not like them to do that, dare I say the current crop of SNL writers are good at comedy
― frogbs, Friday, 19 April 2024 18:38 (two months ago) link
Exactly - it has almost an "alt comedy" vibe that I don't associate w/SNL... take a silly/random idea, and do it justice without overplaying it. A few of the sketches in the Kristen Wiig episode were like this as well (though I didn't think they were as funny).
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Friday, 19 April 2024 18:52 (two months ago) link
(The "Jumanji" sketch from that ep. resonated for us, because we have that Ticket to Ride game sitting on our shelf; we played it once...)
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Friday, 19 April 2024 18:54 (two months ago) link
The first Lisa from Temecula sketch was another one where I was like, wow, they're going to actually let the funny just be funny here and not step on their own toes
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 19 April 2024 19:05 (two months ago) link
A. Whitney Brown on the new WTF
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 May 2024 17:37 (one month ago) link
...and it's really good. Brown's a terrific storyteller, and Maron generally stays out of his way.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 May 2024 21:22 (one month ago) link
Joke Swap!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPH0HgotIE4
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 May 2024 19:07 (one month ago) link
Che looked genuinely nervous about that Kendrick joke
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Monday, 20 May 2024 19:17 (one month ago) link
Audience doesn't even know what the space laser shit is
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 May 2024 19:37 (one month ago) link
most of that jewish stuff did not land at all.
generally pretty bad episode esp compared to the last few.
kendrick bit was funny though.
― dan selzer, Monday, 20 May 2024 19:47 (one month ago) link
Bringing in a rabbi to do anti-semitic jokes in her presence is... not that funny?
I find Che and Jost to be so unpleasant 90% of the time. I would really like to see them both gone next season.
This episode was not that funny overall, but I appreciate that Jake Gyllenhall committed to every bit.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 20 May 2024 20:50 (one month ago) link