actually pretty funny (for SNL) which isn't saying a whole lot, amirite? in other news, i'm beginning to find kenan oddly awesome. what the fuck is happening to me? is it just that SNL is that consistantly mediocre? i dunno.
second cougars sketch - saved by kenan. should've been way, way funnier with alec baldwin involved but somehow it wasn't/
― Beatrix Kiddo, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
kristen wii
― and what, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link
It's kinda safe to repeat old bits when it's Valentine's Day and your audience is dictated not by who watches the show but by how people's love lives are going, you know?
Also I should do my normal thing of looking down my nose at people who don't find Kenan funny, so ... Kenan is funny, what's wrong with y'all, etc. etc., zut alors
― nabisco, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
FIX IT!
― Beatrix Kiddo, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Kenan's musical Boat Ride sketch with Anna Faris needs more props. I think I've watched that about a half dozen times.
I am liking all 4 of the featured players, but I'm wondering if there is a limit to the amount of sketches they are "allowed" to be in each episode. That would partly explain why Kristen is used so heavily, since she is the only female full cast member at the moment.
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Kenan is funny because he is fat. Is there such a thing as an unfunny fat person? That would be kind of an accomplishment, to negate one's physically comedic attributes through sheer force of personality. (There's one fat comedian I'm thinking of who has managed to do this, but I don't know his name.)
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
http://mikeresponts.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/john-wayne-gacy.jpg
― harry s tfuman (and what), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Horatio Sanz has kids buried under his abode.
― Nicolars (Nicole), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I know he's skinny now, but he was fat on snl.
You don't laugh at your own jokes like that unless there's total darkness in your soul.
― Nicolars (Nicole), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link
― nabisco, Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:22 PM (3 hours ago)
dude, i think you're really smart, but wtf on this one? the dude essentially plays the same character every sketch he's (near-invariably briefly) in, which is the lol "serious" "shaking his head at other people" or "vaguely sarcastic" guy (see: cougar sketches, etc). of course, he's also got his other recurring thing, which is "black guy". i find he brings zero, even negative, charisma week after week (which tbf could be a result of the fact that he's so sparingly used), and as a kenan & kel stan 4 life i'm often completely embarassed for him more than anything else
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Franken's former partner Tom Davis has written a memoir:
http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2009/02/snl-survivor.html
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 20 February 2009 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
I know he's skinny now
Wow, I had no idea.http://hollywooddame.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/horatio-sanz-100-weight-loss.jpg
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, 20 February 2009 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link
the dude essentially plays the same character every sketch he's (near-invariably briefly) in, which is the lol "serious" "shaking his head at other people" or "vaguely sarcastic" guy (see: cougar sketches, etc). of course, he's also got his other recurring thing, which is "black guy".
THIS. THIS IS THE PROBLEM. saw a re-run of a will ferrell hosted episode and kenan actually does some character work (cosby most memorably).
― DONKEY CANCER in action (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 20 February 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
need separate SNL: The Funny Years thread
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 20 February 2009 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
no he dint!
xp he kills on weekend update i know that. i used to think he was terrible and kevin's characterization def. rings a bell but over the last couple years he's made me laugh alot. (he's even brought weird beats to the otherwise unchanged 'vaguely sarcastic guy' that make me laugh, i dunno, it's like he's not steamrolling through the sketches anymore)
― same as giving a shit (tremendoid), Friday, 20 February 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
He has definitely improved, I'll give him that much.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Friday, 20 February 2009 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
what a valuable and original post, dr. morbius
― harry s tfuman (and what), Friday, 20 February 2009 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Dwayne Johnson just came out on SNL, amirite
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 March 2009 04:43 (fifteen years ago) link
It's a skit, Magruver.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 8 March 2009 05:50 (fifteen years ago) link
At only about 30 mins in, enjoyed the opening monologue bit, the Macgruber sketches, and 'The Rock Obama'.
As far as I'm concerned, this ep is a success.
Still, I wish they focused more on the writing. Any of these guys can pull off decent comic material, but as everybody from Damon Wayans on has said for the past 10+ years that the writing is key to the show.
― kingfish, Sunday, 8 March 2009 07:58 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, tonight felt like the slump was ending. lots of simple but funny bits that didn't drag on forever.
― WEREWOLF CONGRESS (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 8 March 2009 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Has it died?
SNL will not die until NBC becomes an all-infomercial channel. At which time it will show infomercials selling SNL-nostalgia compilation DVDs, featuring Eddie Murphy in the last throes of his decline, as host.
― Aimless, Sunday, 8 March 2009 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I think Dwayne Johnson acting effeminate has been a running gag through his acting career. Pretty good show last night though, especially that silly lighthouse sketch. It looked like the cast did not expect to have that much water dumped on them.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 8 March 2009 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
"The Rock Obama" was the best thing about last night, because it's a FACT Rahm actually dreams these things.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 March 2009 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
when did dwayne johnson start being billed as just dwayne johnson?
― ⓔⓥⓞⓞ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 8 March 2009 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Southland Tales are serious movie
― ⓔⓥⓞⓞ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 8 March 2009 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
man Bill Hader is the shit these days. it was great to see him go all the way with that Malkovich impression after he just teased it very briefly in a sketch when Malkovich was actually hosting, and the Dateline guy is becoming a good recurring sketch.
― Goons have finally discovered this thread! Hello goons! (some dude), Sunday, 15 March 2009 05:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, his Keith Morrison impersonation is golden.
I'm so glad we got both a Brian Fellow's Safari Planet AND an Astronaut Jones sketch tonight. On top of that, Tracy's monologue was crazy funny.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 March 2009 05:40 (fifteen years ago) link
UPPITY CALF!
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 March 2009 05:41 (fifteen years ago) link
HOUSTON, WE HAVE A DOG
― NYSE:JAH (get bent), Sunday, 15 March 2009 08:17 (fifteen years ago) link
"this movie is for anyone who has ever been told... he won't find a jetpack."
― NYSE:JAH (get bent), Sunday, 15 March 2009 08:33 (fifteen years ago) link
i saw about 60 secs, how the fuck does anyone find Tracy Morgan funny?
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 15 March 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
they watch more than 60 seconds?
― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, 15 March 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
durn tootin
― NYSE:JAH (get bent), Sunday, 15 March 2009 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link
zac efron has zinged himself pretty hard so far! i might actually have liked him for it, if it wasnt for that fucking jacket he's wearing
― banned like this (k3vin k.), Sunday, 12 April 2009 03:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I seriously hope they're not trying to turn that "Gilley" (sp?) sketch into a recurring thing for Kristen Wiig. AWFUL
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 April 2009 04:19 (fifteen years ago) link
this jon bovi thing is going on foreverrrrrrr
― banned like this (k3vin k.), Sunday, 12 April 2009 04:23 (fifteen years ago) link
this show is horrible
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 12 April 2009 04:25 (fifteen years ago) link
This ep is shaping up to be really terrible. The bar that doesn't card sketch began well, but the writers obviously didn't know how to flesh it out and turned it into an Eliott Spitzer commercial WTF.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 April 2009 04:26 (fifteen years ago) link
i have that exact chair zac efron is sitting on
― banned like this (k3vin k.), Sunday, 12 April 2009 04:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I wish they would give Casey more weird/oddball characters, I really liked that silly running soldier sketch.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 12 April 2009 05:23 (fifteen years ago) link
the post-monologue sketches were two wiig returning characters. i think her impression of kathy lee is funny but centering the whole sketch around BO was awful and the gilly sketch is fucking horrifying on all levels. stopped watching after weekend update but then there was a high school musical gag? unngh
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 12 April 2009 05:38 (fifteen years ago) link
tell me what yall think of this— i think first episode next season they should hand it over to the apatow/jody hill conglomerate. no host, but every skit is rudd, rogen, cera, hill, MCBRIDE, carrell, ferrell, segel etc etc. it would be funnier than every episode of the last 3 years combined
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 12 April 2009 05:39 (fifteen years ago) link
bill hader can stay on for that episode
i think they need to fire this cast and writers and have a guest cast for every show - the office cast one week, 30 rock cast the next week, bring back the arrested development cast around the time the movie comes on, curb your enthusiasm ppl when the show starts up again
real talk no challops the college humor show on mtv is a funnier sketch comedy show than snl atm
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 12 April 2009 05:42 (fifteen years ago) link
a combined human giant/lonely island episode would be fire imo
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 12 April 2009 05:43 (fifteen years ago) link
give an episode to 77 - ethan is a veteran sketch comedy writer, all you gotta do is replace puppets w/ humans
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 12 April 2009 05:46 (fifteen years ago) link
THIS IS THE WORST SNL FANFIC I'VE EVER READ IN MY LIFE NO STAMP OF APPROVAL
― A B C, Sunday, 12 April 2009 05:58 (fifteen years ago) link
i like the whole cast except for casey wilson but the writers must be like i don't even know. so bad. then again a lonely island/human giant ep sounds like a waking nightmare to me
― A B C, Sunday, 12 April 2009 06:00 (fifteen years ago) link
kristen wiig's kathie lee makes me lmbo way too much and i basically dont even remember what kathie lee gifford acts like