^^^^ yes
― maybe u should tell that to your laughing vagina (HI DERE), Monday, 13 April 2009 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Man, I can't believe I have this much to say about SNL (lol I'm old and don't go out on Saturday nights anymore).
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Monday, 13 April 2009 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost: although I love MacGruber
im 20 and watch snl basically every weekend even tho i think it's awful right now cuz sketch comedy is the greatest
― the sultan of ban (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 April 2009 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Most any sketch in the history of SNL which features taxidermy/fake animals is serious LOLZ.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 April 2009 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i would be happy if forte did a tim calhoun bit every week
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 13 April 2009 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
^ hyperbole
I love MacGruber too, but I think we're in the minority xxxxp.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 April 2009 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.hulu.com/watch/1752/saturday-night-live-macgruber-2
― maybe u should tell that to your laughing vagina (HI DERE), Monday, 13 April 2009 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link
haha macgruber works because it lasts 20 seconds. a lot of snl sketches would work if they were 20 seconds.
― iatee, Monday, 13 April 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
The only time in history when Jeremy Piven was ever funny? xp
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 April 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Bobby Moynihan won me over in that wedding reception sketch (in the Hugh Laurie episode) where he just said "WHAT" and dropped the microphone on the floor.
Ha, me too -- this is the most OTM of various OTM Jaymcisms on this thread
― nabisco, Monday, 13 April 2009 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean I actually kept rewinding and rewatching that bit and laughing over and over each time
― nabisco, Monday, 13 April 2009 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Jason Sudekis was really funny as both Bret Michaels and the astronaut in the love triangle. The astronaut character really cracked me up.
― earlnash, Monday, 13 April 2009 23:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't know, the sad thing is, I actually like all of these people and can't really vote on one over the others. The featured players are weak, but that's expected, they're green as hell. But I genuinely feel this current cast is one of the better ones, but the writing is just as weak and inconsistent as it usually is.
So true!
― Nhex, Monday, 13 April 2009 23:48 (fifteen years ago) link
^ you can't really vote for darrell hammond? darrell hammond's name is listed right there. he still does work on the show, although sparingly. remember darrell hammond? youtube him or check the website i'm not lying he's still on the show
― attitude in spades (tremendoid), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 00:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Hammond's gimmick now is so old hat, it's cheap pop - he comes out, does the Bill Clinton or whatever, and disappears. It works enough for them to keep bringing him back over and over again, I can't fault him for that - gotta admit I still like him. Part of it probably is that I don't see him that much.
Plus his bizarre appearances in serious roles like in Law and Order and Damages (this) make me appreciate him a little more, I guess...
― Nhex, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 00:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I hate hate hate Kristen Wiig. She's one of improvers who seem to equate annoying and repetitious "characters" with funny. God, she sucks.
Kristen Wiig reminds me of naturally unfunny, though mechanically sound, improv performers who have enough classes and experience under the belt to not embarrass themselves, but they're still not easily humorous.
And then there are some performers who can wring hilarity out of the dullest of moments simply because they know the right expression, rhythm, tone and delivery to bring; and they do it without much thought and hesitation. Wiig is the antithesis of that.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Best: Kristen Wiig, Kenan ThompsonWorst: Darrell Hammond
Best of newbies: Bobby MoynihanWorst of newbies: Michaela Watkins
I don't understand how people can waste their breath complaining about "Gilly" when we have "Bitch Please" to contend with.
― lindseykai, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 01:26 (fifteen years ago) link
"Bitch please" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gilly any day of the week.
― display names have been changed to protect the innocent (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 01:39 (fifteen years ago) link
The problem I have with the cast now, speaking generally, is that they're all so average - they aren't would-be stars. The possible exception to this is Bill Hader but everybody else is run of the mill.
Wiig is the aforementioned Average Improv Performer, Sandberg has Jimmy Fallon's problem of laughing at your own joke cuteness; Armisen, Meyers and Forte are a log-jam of the same type of comic, Sudekis is just there.
I don't think all of them are awful, they just don't seem - and here's the cutesy irony - polished and "ready for prime time." They all seem like young, future SNL performers who have yet arrive and need more work.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 01:42 (fifteen years ago) link
ok i just checked that 'bitch please' stuff on hulu, and it's like, there was a woman, once, named gilda radner...
― goole, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 01:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Exactly. Like a watered-down, one-note Lisa Loopner.
― lindseykai, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 02:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Wiig, no contest. Wow, you made a monster face. For ten minutes, or what feels like it.
― Matos W.K., Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Wiig is fun so long as whoever the new girl is who does HODA KOTBE is in the skit with her...kind of like she's the Jimmy Fallon to (whoever plays Hoda in the Today Show skits)'s Horatio Sanz.
PS don't read this post if u hate Horatio Sanz
― bread will never maybe attack your brain again (nickalicious), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:44 (fifteen years ago) link
it's not SNL, but Will Forte is great just for this:
― Simon H., Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:52 (fifteen years ago) link
If Kenan wins this I will be mad at all of you for like a week.
― nabisco, Monday, April 13, 2009 4:39 PM (Yesterday)
please name one thing he is good at, not including his work with nickelodeon
― europeen handball (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:12 (fifteen years ago) link
also i agree completely with dan on gilly. her dance is pretty obvious and dumb but it kills me
― europeen handball (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:13 (fifteen years ago) link
please name one thing he is good at, not including his work with nickelodeon― europeen handball (k3vin k.), Tuesday, April 14, 2009 11:12 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― europeen handball (k3vin k.), Tuesday, April 14, 2009 11:12 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Kenan is like the Kevin Nealon of this cast, always there to matter-of-factly point out an incredulous situation.
Also, Jean K. Jean. zut alors!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Sudekis is like the post-Maxim magazine version of Bill Murray
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Wiig, no contest. Wow, you made a monster face. For ten minutes, or what feels like it.― Matos W.K., Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Matos W.K., Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
WTF - watching her do 17 different rapidfire faces for Kathie Lee is like a comedy force of nature.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:47 (fifteen years ago) link
for me this really comes down to Hammond's stiff impressions that pride accuracy over hilarity, or the fact that Seth Meyers is kind of a one trick pony with the bait-and-switch
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:48 (fifteen years ago) link
"Or as I like to call it, the bait-and-switch."
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 04:12 (fifteen years ago) link
It's like a way overwrought attempt at being a comedy force of nature.
― Matos W.K., Wednesday, 15 April 2009 04:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I used to loathe Samberg, but he won me over with the Digital Shorts. I also like Kenan & Kristin & I don't know the rest, so I won't vote.
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 04:31 (fifteen years ago) link
2/3 of digital shorts = terrible, 1/3 of digital shorts = awesomely lolz
I'm happy to live with that ratio over 80% mildly amusing.
― ^ THIS IS WHY (I DIED), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 05:13 (fifteen years ago) link
lmao @ lazy horse mattress
― iatee, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 05:16 (fifteen years ago) link
how you could vote for seth meyers, he's never in a sketch
― the sultan of ban (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 05:21 (fifteen years ago) link
neither is darrell hammond, grow some balls whiney
after taking hammond and meyers out of the equation, it's will forte all the way.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 05:32 (fifteen years ago) link
haderwiigsudekissambergthompsonarmisonfortehammond/meyers who arent in sketches
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 05:34 (fifteen years ago) link
love forte for tim calhoun and tim calhoun alone
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 11:50 (fifteen years ago) link
It believe it is actually impossible now - for societal reasons - for a Saturday Night Live performer to be funny in the way that we want them to be funny.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
im SBing everyone itt if kenan does not win this
― the great wallogina (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link
i will never understand ilx's kenan hate.
― we be to rap what ki be to s1oc (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 23:29 (fifteen years ago) link
If Kenan Thompson doesn't have dirt on Loren Michaels I would be surprised.
Srsly, pull random person off the street and have him shout this guy's lines in the same manner, it will be funnier.
― Hadrian VIII, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Whiney OTM, Kenan is pretty funny. Far from the best on the cast, but also far from the worst. Jean K. Jean is great, the Scared Straight skits usually make me lol, and for some reason that I still can't explain - the "FIX IT!" guy really cracked me up.
― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 01:02 (fifteen years ago) link
the "FIX IT!" guy really cracked me up
OTM
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 01:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Thinking about those Scared Straight skits and the "FIX IT" guy, Kenan really seems to crack up the other cast members when he gets a little carried away. I remember one skit where Samberg and Hader got the uncontrollable giggles, kinda adds to Kenan's charms for me.
― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 01:17 (fifteen years ago) link