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
I actually like a majority of the current cast (except Bobby Moynihan and Seth Meyers), and really don't blame them for the lion's share of what's wrong with the show in its current state. It's Lorne Michaels' inability to hire worthwhile writers, because he has no idea anymore about what's actually funny. I have to imagine he's almost completely hands-off with regard to 30 Rock, because the level of funny on that show just seems way over his head.
I caught myself thinking during one of the commercial breaks tonight "I wonder when the final episode will be. Five years from now? Ten years from now? Will Lorne ever leave (again) and turn it over to someone else (again)?"
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 April 2009 06:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Gillie (sp? eh..) sketch was really bleak
― bear, bear, bear, Sunday, 12 April 2009 06:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I've warmed to some of Wiig's characters that I initially hated, but I can't ever see that happening with Gillie/Gilly/whatever.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 April 2009 06:40 (fifteen years ago) link
That Jon Bovi sketch is like something an eighth grader comes up with on the back on the school bus.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
don't know why, but i like gillie.
― mizzell, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I picture a late-night writers' meeting where in one room you've got Sudekis cracking himself up with lines like "I'm an Indian on a silk-pony I don't ride" while in the next room, a circle of interns piss their pants as Kristen Wiig wears an afro wig and goes "What? What?"
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Didn't see this week's Gilly sketch, but the one with Beyonce was fucking hysterical.
― maybe u should tell that to your laughing vagina (HI DERE), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Sunday, April 12, 2009 12:42 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
wow this is retarded
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Jon Bovi is seriously the hackiest premise. It's like something you do to amuse yourself when no one else is around. Watching those two guys totally go for broke on that sketch makes me a little sad.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:33 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost, yeah that is about the stupidest fucking thing I've ever read.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
this is otm. zac effron even just attempting the same facial tic/reaction jokes was awful b/c of how amazing wiig is at it
― johnny crunch, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost An even better idea would be giving all those casts their OWN TV shows where they can develop audiences and hone skills!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Not to mention that 2 our of 4 of the shows Jordan mentions are actually making episodes, and only 1 out of those 2 is funny.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
all of those shows are funny u crazee
― Mr. Que, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I support J0rdan's idea but only if it uses the casts of ER and Law & Order.
― maybe u should tell that to your laughing vagina (HI DERE), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Normally I fuck with J0rdan, but wtf is he talking about here? Dumbest idea ever.
― display names have been changed to protect the innocent (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
i enjoyed the gilly and jon bovi sketches but mainly because i love will forte and want him to be in every single sketch
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
not to mention the fact that it wasn't like Rogen or Rudd or Carell were hot shit on the show when they hosted in the past anyway xpost
― brewer and what (some dude), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
― maybe u should tell that to your laughing vagina (HI DERE), Monday, April 13, 2009 12:30 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
same here. don't like the idea of it becoming a running thing, though.
― brewer and what (some dude), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Agreed.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link
can't wait for the gilly movie
― brocktune (jeff), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link